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Everything posted by FluffyChix
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OOTD
Loooove! You are adorable!
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Food Before and After Photos
Yum!! Looks beautiful!!
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Vets - How often do you weigh yourself?
Love the "oh crap" level! I'm not a vet--am only 17months out. And I'm still trying to lose those last few pounds to Goal #3 of 130lbs. So I do and will continue to weigh daily. I also pre-plan my food for the day, weigh, measure, and log every bite whenever possible in MFP. If the scale tics up a couple pounds and I can attribute it to some food behavior, then I know that a few days of being "an angel" lol, will make it return to the bottom. I never want to be more than a couple to 5 lbs up from goal weight. I agree that returning to basics and following your forever rules including trying to follow the portion part of it, is the ticket to getting back on plan. It's seldom a result of tool failure. One cup per meal, 3 meals per day, no snacking but if needed an extra mini meal (well-thought out and planned) is doable. Protein forward, limit or eliminate crap carbage.
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Post surgery MENUS?
I tried to get a daily menu thread going a while back, but it never really took off. I'd participate if you ran it. The bad thing is that if you create a new menu thread each day it will quickly fill up the right side bar of recent posts with "Daily Menu" threads and be very very annoying. So it's important to plan it out so it isn't intrusive to those who don't want to be part of the Daily Menu. You know?
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OOTD
You look adorable in them!!! Go cheap!
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OOTD
Love this outfit! You look adorable!
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Six months post-op+ : The Sophomores Thread
((Hugs)) You are a trooper and rockstar with a dynamite ‘tude!!! ?????
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Six months post-op+ : The Sophomores Thread
Derp copied wrong thread
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Had Emergency Surgery Just Now
Yes! It’s really nbd!! Lol but you should see the shopping list: rice, Idaho potato, bananas , apples, sourdough bread, lololol! That’s why I don’t see the 131 “sticking” hahaha!! (But I was extremely grateful to the Poo Fairy for sparing me from the whole RB post surgery experience! ?
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Where will you be 9 months from now?
^^^^love this!!
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Needy worry wart newbie here!
So I had same experience as @GradyCat—nothin much jacked with me except heavy calorie dense foods. My tastes did change in that I now crave healthy, clean, light foods. Still don’t eat many casserole type high cal junk—just don’t want it. Protein drinks did taste sweeter but that was easily handled. I just dilute the clear ones with water or tea and dilute the creamy ones with decaf coffee, decaf teas and Greek yogurt and cultured cottage cheese. NBD. i have a firm philosophy with my self —it’s called “The suck-it-up-buttercup” defense. I went into the surgery with a hardline attitude that I wasn’t gonna allow my new anatomy to make me its little bi*ch. So anytime a food didn’t sit well I’d set it aside for a couple weeks then retry. I can now eat all.the.foods. I knew I wanted to get in, get out and get on with living my best life and didn’t want to get stuck in the attention/seeking loop that is our pre-surgery and post-surgery life. By definition we must focus selfishly on ourselves and I wanted to minimize that phase for the sake of my rl relationships. I wasnt 100%perfect—no one is, but mindset is important and can make a difference to everything even post op food tolerances!!!
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Veteran's Book Club
I think it should be something fun — entertaining. ?
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Six months post-op+ : The Sophomores Thread
Yay!!!! We MISSED you ?
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Had Emergency Surgery Just Now
How I’m doing is great and maybe not so much lol. I’ll start with the great part? I’m down to a new low of 131.6 this morning. Notsogreat is that it almost certainly won’t stick the landing cuz l got here by “foul” means lol. Apparently SOMEONES prayers to the Poo Fairy in this ESTABLISHMENT were too fervent and it’s backfired cuz I can’t turn the spigot off and nothin is stayin put. So it’s dehydration weight loss. ??? Did some tests yesterday and have “homework” to turn in Monday and we’ll know if it’s serious or not next week. Meanwhile I’m back here hangin with potassium pills and Kaopectate. ??? hoping I’m not in a beginning stage of a little infection . My temp is starting to come up a little.
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Had Emergency Surgery Just Now
TY sweetie for asking! How R you doing????!!!!! You are a rockstar handling recovery so well!!!
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International Cuisine
TY will look for it here!
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OOTD
Yeah, I totally get this! I don’t have the same self-loathing as I did when MO. I’m generally very happy with how I feel in my skin most of the time. And feel good and normal when we’re out and about. But seeing pics of myself somehow still loads those old tapes and I see myself with extreme bias. And what’s weird is I would never think about applying those same critical filters to others—even if they were more gentle. Lol guess I’ve still got a lot of headwork left!! How about y’all? Has your BD decreased with your losses and smokin hot outfits?
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Sugar free popsicles
I still love sf pops. I'm a purest so my fave is still the old-fashioned original flavors from Popsicle. Sugar Free of course.
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International Cuisine
Is Noodle & Co a chain? I have never heard of it before!
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Food Before and After Photos
How do you like the Strawberries and Cream? My fave is still Bananas and Cream (especially in coffee and smoothies). But I've wanted to try the strawberry but been afraid! Reviews please. And how much are you able to get down at a sitting? SF Popsicles are pretty heavenly tho...could easily pass on the sf jello and sf pudding tho.
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OOTD
POD-doctor's outfit. So seriously--damn you body dysmorphia. At 133lbs I "feel" thin in my body. You know? Or at least normal. I can now look in the mirror and think I just simply look normal. Right? But when I look at these pics in outfits I used to feel thin in, I think I look heavier than when the jeans were on the tight side. They are now on the loose side of life and I need to go down to an 8 in them. And my waist looks so "thick" (and clearly so do my fluffy thighs). *sigh* Anyone else have this issue even in their super hot outfits?
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OOTD
Adorable!!! Can I be you when I grow up? (Or alternately, can I just lose 15 more pounds and come live in your closet? )
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International Cross-Country Hiking - Diet Issues
Is it a texture thing?
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OOTD
OMG! Girlie! You look adorable and such a cute shape!! Congrats!!!! Have fun!
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Had Emergency Surgery Just Now
Well, I'm back to my low weight! Am 133.4lbs this morning. But my azz may always be big (relatively) and my tum is still puffy and swollen, so I'm thinking I may have 3-4lbs of extra weight on me right now. Waiting breathlessly and impatiently for this to happen. (Even so, I kinda feel like I cheated on the final leg of the weight loss.) Cuz hells, a blind squirrel can find a nut now and then and that's kinda how I think of this surgery. I found a blind nut. Coulda been bad, but turned into a boon to keep my yap shut and not eating! ((Note to @Sosewsue61 *snort* I read this as "Glad you are almost back to you SMALL azz self." and all I can add is that reading comprehension is a highly underrated skill. The struggle is real. LOLOLOLOL!)