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I haven’t been here for awhile. A couple of years after my surgery, I thought I was good and didn’t need any help from anyone anymore. Boy was I wrong! I lost 100 pounds. In the past 2 years 45 pounds has creeped back on. Now I’m back and ready to focus on losing (again). Any tips to reboot my system? Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated!

I haven’t been here for awhile. A couple of years after my surgery, I thought I was good and didn’t need any help from anyone anymore. Boy was I wrong! I lost 100 pounds. In the past 2 years 45 pounds has creeped back on. Now I’m back and ready to focus on losing (again). Any tips to reboot my system? Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

I was sleeved in July and HAD PCOS for years and years. Since my surgery (and 95 pounds lost), my doc said it looks like PCOS is gone. My periods are regular. No more cystic acne. I haven't taken metformin or spirolactone since July!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Folding laundry and realizing those jeans you're holding are actually yours ...but they look so small!

Your undies start drooping in the rear like a baby in desperate need of a diaper change!

1. You can wrap the bath towel around you and it covers all of you !
2. You are comfortable crossing legs.
3. Your clothes are all baggy on you !
4. I can fit my hand around my wrist.
5. You look at yourself in the full body mirror and feel good.
6. You start taking pictures of your whole self and not just your upper body.

When you take the plane and actually feel comfortable in coach!

Fun thread. You know you lost weight when
You have to get new shoes because they are to wide for the feet.

We did a " What's for breakfast" so while I'm prepping for dinner tonight I figured why not get some ideas from others. I have always loved cooking. I come from a big Italian family on one side and a down home country cooking grandmother on the other so I had no choice but to learn to cook. One of my few fears I had about having the surgery was that I would no longer be able to cook like I'm use to. The first few months after surgery I couldn't due to the recovery and dietary limitations but now that I'm fully healed and am "one" with my sleeve I'm back and better than ever. Cooking is even more fun for me now because I get to experiment and make recipes that are still delicious but have a healthy spin on them. As an example, tonight I have a new turkey marinade I'm trying out. I have included the marinade for those who might want to try it. I switched the vegetable oil out for olive oil, I used Splenda brown sugar apposed to the real and lite soy sauce. We will have roasted beets & Brussel spouts with a Asian side salad. I roast my vegetable with light olive oil and I will make my own Asian dressing. This whole dinner is really simple, it's high in Protein and gives you plenty of veggies. It doesn't have to cost a fortune to eat healthy. I may have spent 15 bucks on the whole meal. This will make two meals for my family of 4. So what do you eat for dinner? Any favorite recipes? If you have pictures share! I'm a picture girl! I'm also a fan of recipes that don't require me to leave the country to find. Simplicity is my friend.

Funny, my girlfriend and I were talking about husbands today. We decided marriage should be similar to cell phone contracts! You have a husband for 2 years. At that time you can decide to upgrade to a newer model or keep the one you have. But after the 2 years, you can upgrade at any time. ????

I'm 11 weeks out. I keep thinking I see a thinness, but my husband says he can't tell. But I'm ok with thinning hair to be healthy and skinny. Plus, I've heard that it's temporary and as time goes on, your hair will become thicker.

Lol! I don't know why this made me laugh! We have a secret "bald babes" society here. You can call us the major B's! Ha! I'm totally kidding you can tell your friend to calm it on down you won't be sporting a "2007 Britney" hair style. Yes, like the girls said above you will more than likely lose some hair but I seriously doubt you will be bald. What you should do is get a bald cap, don't see her for awhile and then put it on a freak her out!!!

Ok these may just be mine but I've found two negatives from losing a large amount of weight. I've discovered both of these while taking a bath (figured I may as well set the scene) 1) My once plump butt is boney, and I'm talking sit down to shave my legs and it hurts boney. I feel like my skinny friends really dropped the ball on not telling me this! I'm going to have to seriously rethink my friendships since it's blatantly obviously they care nothing about my well being. 2) The weirdest one, shaving my underarms! It's like someone came and built the Grand Canyon under my arms! WTH happened under there?!! I swear if it were any deeper I would be shaving my lungs!! So odd! I have to literally pull contortionist moves to get everything shaved properly. Isn't November no shave month?! I think I'm going to join the men on that one because this shaving is for the birds!! I know you guys have some you could share too! Maybe give a girl a heads up before I forgo bathing all together. I would include pictures but Alex would probably frown on that so use your imagination

Along these lines, I had to register my bat wings as lethal weapons! They slap me when showering while soaping up - ridiculous ????

Funny, my girlfriend and I were talking about husbands today. We decided marriage should be similar to cell phone contracts! You have a husband for 2 years. At that time you can decide to upgrade to a newer model or keep the one you have. But after the 2 years, you can upgrade at any time. ????

Funny, my girlfriend and I were talking about husbands today. We decided marriage should be similar to cell phone contracts! You have a husband for 2 years. At that time you can decide to upgrade to a newer model or keep the one you have. But after the 2 years, you can upgrade at any time. ????