GreenTealael

Great post !!! I forgot to mention i also avoided ginger tea for the same reason. Thanks for the reminder that medicinal teas are indeed medicine and should never be taken without proper knowledge of use/interactions. I forget that I know this stuff but other people may not.

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I agree with the sentiments of doing it without prior motivation. Not making it a chore but a lifestyle choice. If you can still "O" that is a good sign , keep working at it and look up those social experiments where couples commit to intimacy for a certain period and the effects it as on their relationship on a whole.

Vitamin water zero xxx is pretty good (subjectively speaking)

Amazing!

Thanks a mil!

I feel for you that Alabama heat is oppressive. Up and down stairs can help, sitting and standing constantly, kneeling to standing etc. But YouTube is going to be a great resource.

I bought the same DVDs in he dollar store!

Finally a thread I was made for...Lol ALL of them, (Literally ALL I drink a lot of tea) I stayed away from caffeinated and peppermint in the beginning but then I returned to them soon after. I love Good Earth Matcha Maker , Celestial seasonings Red Zinger, Tazo Passion, Harney & Son's Green tea with coconut, Bigelow plantation mint (sketchy name), teavana youthberry , English Earl Greys, ceremonial matcha,etc ... I need tea to be extremely hot almost boiling when I drink it,

Try Pep talking to yourself in the mirror, seriously. Remind yourself why you are doing it. "Ok, body I need you to hit ketosis/ketogenesis so that the fat around my liver disappears making surgery safer, we can do this!" It works, every time I was hungry preop I did this ( I was even required to do the preop diet but I was scared so I did it anyways)

please take your vitamin supplements, some deficiency show up immediately and are temporary havoc and some show up later and ruin your life. Looking good!

Oh I trust my body, I don't trust bread and pasta in my body... I can live without it

I'm totally here for "whine down to the weekend" Body dysmorphia is just f-ing ridiculous. I was just looking at a picture of my now smaller self thinking "my what larger hands and feet you now have" I'm like here we go again...

Determined to make it to goal... I had a bunch of vacations and shenanigans that I need to make up for lol

I NEVER had restriction with yogurt though... I just stopped at the measured amount. Now I need to backtrack

The scale (or being prisoner to it) can make you miserable if you let it. If it causes anxiety you can always take a break from it. I plateau for a month at a time, I can't imagine weighing every day to confirm this...

9 months post op 80 lbs down

Alpha Bravo Team COMMANDO!!! Congrats

I love the visual ! People forget just how much our intake is reduced when we portion small sizes. It looks like we are purposely eating less. But this tells a different story!

Paleo turkey wraps Ground turkey spices avocado lettuce so good I ate it all

Hand rolled Salmon avocado sushi rolls Pouched salmon fresh avocado lime juice hempseeds braggs liquid aminos Three meals

That's not a personal trainer, that's a friend...

You are going to be surprised how fast it goes and how necessary it is to make lasting changes like giving up sugar, carbonate beverages, caffeine, and smoking. Or organizing your house and family to not sabotage progress after surgery.

If you have not gained you are maintaining. Go back to basics immediately. Remove any complex foods that you didn't eat at stage 4 (the stage when you first started eating real foods again) make all super clean and simple. I was stuck for a month, did it (plus increased my water seriously and stopped eating after 9pm) and im finally losing again.

I don't usually rant but I can't help it this time, This Saturday someone older ,whom I respect , approached me to try to pry information out of me on if I had WLS. First I'm super private about all aspects of my life so the fact that I didn't tell them should be a hint that I didn't want to have the conversation. Second this person is Morbidly Obese and battling diabetes etc and could benefit from this surgery but I say nothing as it is not my place to play prophet for WLS. Third they tried to counsel me on weight loss now and what not to do, i.e. Not to lose anymore weight, don't understand why I did it, etc... HOW DO YOU EVEN DEAL WITH THIS?!??