marypups

I went shopping today because I desperately needed pants that fit. I wasn't sure what would fit so I tried on 16's and they were too big. Then I tried on 14's and they were kinda loose. I thought just for jiggles I'd try on some 12's and they fit! I was so shocked I actually broke down crying in the changing room. I have always been good at keeping my emotions locked down tight, but in there at that moment, I totally lost it and started bawling and LOUD. The changing room attendant knocked on the door and asked if I was ok. It took me awhile, but I managed to get the words out that I was ok and that I had found out I was a smaller size than I thought I was. I'M sure she thought I had lost my ever loving mind, but for me, this is a monumental thing. I had been an overweight kid and an obese adult, my entire life! The size I put on and zipped up, I NEVER had been that size. The closest I had to being that size was a size 11 juniors in 4th grade, so here I am, over 30yrs later and I am finally smaller than I was in 4th grade. It was monumental. I also discovered why it's important to check the price tag before falling in love with a pair of pants because $115 for a pair of pants I probably won't get more than a couple months wear out of was just too much, so I had to put them back. Broke my heart, but I did go on to find other 12's and some 14's that worked and I am officially not plus sized anymore. I can shop in the regular section with all the cute clothes!❤️ From 32/34 and some 36 down to a size 12 in less than a year...all I can say is wow! Thanks RNY for giving me a life I didn't know was attainable!

These are good. Seems super easy to add the flax or chia seeds to yogurt, also, since i eat a lot of that. Thanks, guys!

Please post the recipe!!
Thanks!

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A few months ago I saw an ad somewhere (not sure where) for a high Protein, low carb brownie mix. I ordered it and then forgot about it. Last week I found the mix and made the brownies, which were surprisingly high in protein and low in everything bad. I think it was mostly chocolate Protein powder and you add egg and coconut oil and then bake. They were so delicious--like the mythical perfect food. I decided to freeze them individually and take one out every morning, reheat and have as Breakfast with coffee. So, so good! But now I am almost out of them and I have thrown out the packaging and I cannot for the life of me figure out where I got them. I order from lots of places--Amazon, ebay, etc. so I looked through my old orders on my usual suspects and I just can't see it. I tried googling Protein Brownie mix and I can't find it. It was in a heavy duty plastic bag-like container. You get one batch out of the mix.
If anyone knows anything about high protein brownie mixes that might fit the bill, I would be ever so grateful. If not, I may try to spend the rest of my life re-creating the perfect protein brownie.
This is the saddest thing ever!!!!
Mary

I go to buffets more often than I like because there are a couple my kids really like and it seems unfair not to allow them to go. I bought little plastic 4 ounce containers with tops (you can get a pack of 500 or so for $5) and I keep some in my purse with me when I go. I fill my plate once, eat some food off it (Protein and veggies) and surreptitiously put the leftovers in the little containers to take home. That way I have at least one more meal (sometimes two) for the price. No one has ever said anything to me about it.

I go to buffets more often than I like because there are a couple my kids really like and it seems unfair not to allow them to go. I bought little plastic 4 ounce containers with tops (you can get a pack of 500 or so for $5) and I keep some in my purse with me when I go. I fill my plate once, eat some food off it (Protein and veggies) and surreptitiously put the leftovers in the little containers to take home. That way I have at least one more meal (sometimes two) for the price. No one has ever said anything to me about it.

I really like the smiley face! You look happy, ha ha.

I'm doing well but am frustrated by the last few months of loss. I keep losing but so, so slowly now. I started at 265 and am at 190, so a loss of 75 pounds. I'd really like to lose another 30. I had a long stall a few months back and started tracking again. I'd gotten sloppy I think. Now, I'm trying to up my Protein to speed up the loss. But I feel great! I've started running after a long time away and it feels amazing.
Mary

I know you don't need a snack in a two hour movie, and I often go to the movies and do without. But sometimes I want to snack on something when my kids have a big vat of popcorn. So, I bring some spicy roasted chickpeas in a small bag to have something of my own to snack on. I'd rather have those than to start eating all the popcorn.

I'm doing well but am frustrated by the last few months of loss. I keep losing but so, so slowly now. I started at 265 and am at 190, so a loss of 75 pounds. I'd really like to lose another 30. I had a long stall a few months back and started tracking again. I'd gotten sloppy I think. Now, I'm trying to up my Protein to speed up the loss. But I feel great! I've started running after a long time away and it feels amazing.
Mary

I had surgery on a Thursday and was back in the office Monday. I have a desk job and went home a bit early that Monday afternoon to take a nap. The rest of the week was fine, though, and I worked all week, including some long days.

Seriously look at Mexico. I paid $4500 and that included travel. The amount you are quoting is ridiculous. Treatment in Mexico (assuming you do your research) is wonderful and the surgeons are highly skilled.

I liked having my own robe and pajama bottoms. And I watched a lot of shows on my Ipad. I don't think I really needed or used anything else.

I liked having my own robe and pajama bottoms. And I watched a lot of shows on my Ipad. I don't think I really needed or used anything else.

This happened to me too--stalled for about two months. I started tracking again, and upped my Protein from 60 to 80 or more. I did start losing again. I think I'd starting snacking too often, and the tracking helped.

Seriously look at Mexico. I paid $4500 and that included travel. The amount you are quoting is ridiculous. Treatment in Mexico (assuming you do your research) is wonderful and the surgeons are highly skilled.

I just wanted to tell you all that I've been tracking more carefully and have started losing again. Feeling really great! I could see now that I was snacking too much--nothing bad, but too often. Tracking is sort of magical for keeping you on the right path. Thanks to everyone!

So, three wonderful things happened today:
1) I weighed myself and had lost 4-5 pounds.
2) I discussed this with my husband and he told me that, about two weeks ago, he had adjusted the scale and added five pounds to it--because it was set to below zero as a starting weight. This was around the time I woke up and had found that I had gained 5 pounds in a day. It seems clear now that I did not actually gain five pounds, but it just looked like that because of the scale adjustment. It took me several weeks to lose those five pounds again. Which means my starting weight was higher than I thought, most likely, given the scale was set to five pounds minus zero, but I've also probably lost a few more pounds than I thought. All in all, it's clear that I was not stuck for a full two months. But I am definitely losing more slowly than most, and I am ok with that as long as I am losing something
3) Best of all, I read CowgirlJane's post and re-committed myself to tracking and staying on course. Thanks for the support, folks! This forum is great.

I just wanted to tell you all that I've been tracking more carefully and have started losing again. Feeling really great! I could see now that I was snacking too much--nothing bad, but too often. Tracking is sort of magical for keeping you on the right path. Thanks to everyone!

I was sleeved over 18 months ago. My husband didn't think I needed WLS. In fact, he shared with me that my decision to have WLS diminished his respect for me, because he had always thought of me as an incredibly strong person and he felt that having WLS was me "giving up". A lot of his perspective was my own fault. I had lost and regained many times since we were together. Every time I regained, I always had some excuse: an injury, an illness, recovering from surgery, etc. The problem is, I always milked those excuses for far longer than necessary and I took full advantage of them. Meanwhile, he bought into them. So where I *knew* that my regain was 99% to do with my own failures, he thought it was 99% legit.
Also, I was a secret binge eater and I went out of my way to hide a lot of my eating from him. I would eat big fast food lunches, then bring the evidence back to work with me to throw in the trash. Or I would take trash straight out to the bin in the garage instead of putting it in the kitchen garbage where he might see it.
So I did a really good job of tricking him into thinking I had a better handle on my eating and my weight than I really did. Which meant he didn't see how much I truly struggled with it, both mentally and physically.
By the time I had my VSG, I knew myself well enough to know that it was the right decision. But it has taken me losing all my excess weight and maintaining it for 6+ months for my husband to catch on.
We had a great talk at dinner on Saturday night. I had completed my 8 mile run for my half marathon training and was rewarding myself with a date night of dinner and a movie. While I was on the treadmill, doing my run, I had watched a couple more episodes of My 600 Pound Life. I was discussing the episodes with my husband and we got into the talk we always get into when discussing that show... how do people let it get that bad. We talked about how spouses and parents are "enablers" and how Dr. Nowzaradan always berates them for that, but in real life, what choice do they really have? It's easy to be on the outside looking in and say "well he should just stop buying sweets for her" or "well she should stop cooking him two dinners a night" or whatever. But when you are inside that reality, caring for someone you love and wanting to keep them happy, it's easy to see how they end up in those roles. My husband confessed that had I continued on that trajectory, he doesn't think he would have had the strength to try to intervene. Plus he might not have even realized how bad it had gotten until it was much too late. As it is, he says he looks at pictures of me now at my highest weight and he can't believe it. He doesn't ever remember seeing me that big. He sees those pictures and thinks "how did I ever let her get that big?" And since he never consciously registered how big I was and how much damage I was doing to my health, he can't truly say that he wouldn't have let it keep getting worse without realizing it.
He then went on to say that he'd like to think *I* would never have let it get that out of control. And my response was, "I'd like to think I'd never let it get as far as it did, but I did!" I told him I probably would have made many more valiant attempts to lose weight. I probably would have gone through many more cycles of losing and regaining. But eventually the cycle was going to have to break in one direction or the other. Either I was going to lose the weight for good and keep it off or I was going to keep packing on the pounds and give up on losing. Without surgery, the latter was the FAR more likely scenario. Eventually I really would have had a chronic excuse, like a bad knee or back or hip and I would give up entirely.
We came away from the dinner with me finally feeling like he understood why I'd had the surgery. Why it really was the best decision for our future. And even though it took him a while this time, once again he understands that I am always right.

Seriously look at Mexico. I paid $4500 and that included travel. The amount you are quoting is ridiculous. Treatment in Mexico (assuming you do your research) is wonderful and the surgeons are highly skilled.

So, three wonderful things happened today:
1) I weighed myself and had lost 4-5 pounds.
2) I discussed this with my husband and he told me that, about two weeks ago, he had adjusted the scale and added five pounds to it--because it was set to below zero as a starting weight. This was around the time I woke up and had found that I had gained 5 pounds in a day. It seems clear now that I did not actually gain five pounds, but it just looked like that because of the scale adjustment. It took me several weeks to lose those five pounds again. Which means my starting weight was higher than I thought, most likely, given the scale was set to five pounds minus zero, but I've also probably lost a few more pounds than I thought. All in all, it's clear that I was not stuck for a full two months. But I am definitely losing more slowly than most, and I am ok with that as long as I am losing something
3) Best of all, I read CowgirlJane's post and re-committed myself to tracking and staying on course. Thanks for the support, folks! This forum is great.

So, three wonderful things happened today:
1) I weighed myself and had lost 4-5 pounds.
2) I discussed this with my husband and he told me that, about two weeks ago, he had adjusted the scale and added five pounds to it--because it was set to below zero as a starting weight. This was around the time I woke up and had found that I had gained 5 pounds in a day. It seems clear now that I did not actually gain five pounds, but it just looked like that because of the scale adjustment. It took me several weeks to lose those five pounds again. Which means my starting weight was higher than I thought, most likely, given the scale was set to five pounds minus zero, but I've also probably lost a few more pounds than I thought. All in all, it's clear that I was not stuck for a full two months. But I am definitely losing more slowly than most, and I am ok with that as long as I am losing something
3) Best of all, I read CowgirlJane's post and re-committed myself to tracking and staying on course. Thanks for the support, folks! This forum is great.

So, three wonderful things happened today:
1) I weighed myself and had lost 4-5 pounds.
2) I discussed this with my husband and he told me that, about two weeks ago, he had adjusted the scale and added five pounds to it--because it was set to below zero as a starting weight. This was around the time I woke up and had found that I had gained 5 pounds in a day. It seems clear now that I did not actually gain five pounds, but it just looked like that because of the scale adjustment. It took me several weeks to lose those five pounds again. Which means my starting weight was higher than I thought, most likely, given the scale was set to five pounds minus zero, but I've also probably lost a few more pounds than I thought. All in all, it's clear that I was not stuck for a full two months. But I am definitely losing more slowly than most, and I am ok with that as long as I am losing something
3) Best of all, I read CowgirlJane's post and re-committed myself to tracking and staying on course. Thanks for the support, folks! This forum is great.

So, three wonderful things happened today:
1) I weighed myself and had lost 4-5 pounds.
2) I discussed this with my husband and he told me that, about two weeks ago, he had adjusted the scale and added five pounds to it--because it was set to below zero as a starting weight. This was around the time I woke up and had found that I had gained 5 pounds in a day. It seems clear now that I did not actually gain five pounds, but it just looked like that because of the scale adjustment. It took me several weeks to lose those five pounds again. Which means my starting weight was higher than I thought, most likely, given the scale was set to five pounds minus zero, but I've also probably lost a few more pounds than I thought. All in all, it's clear that I was not stuck for a full two months. But I am definitely losing more slowly than most, and I am ok with that as long as I am losing something
3) Best of all, I read CowgirlJane's post and re-committed myself to tracking and staying on course. Thanks for the support, folks! This forum is great.