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These types/styles of tankini are all over Target and Walmart for even lower I think? Plus you get the added fun of trying it on in front of their trick changing room mirrors from hell! ha!

I woulda done the hugs one, but in light of your subject, it kinda looks like Emoji man is tryin' to coppafeel.

I saw her every month for six months. And I couldn't miss a month or the insurance 6-month clock would reset to zero. So don't miss an appointment, even if you have a gain! I also took a seminar. And now post-op, I still see her every month because she facilitates the local support group I attend. I love her. She is so real and down to earth and provides a touchstone and accountability for me. And she works within my comfort zone for foods. I encourage you to find a bariatric RD whom you trust and with whom you can build a solid "forever" relationship with!

Beauty! Eh?!!

OMG! Dooo eeet nowwww!!!! So dang good. Dry your wings really well with paper towels and season the heck out of them. So good!

I swear it's gonna happen!! Your meals sound great!! But I would maybe only do TRE (time restricted eating, as long as you make sure you can get enough meals in!!!). Like a 16:8... Your stall will break. You are doing so great!!!

Hold. Me. That sounds Ahhhhhhh-may-zing!!!

Ok, great thread! I'll play! Lateral choices are what shore me up all the dang. time! I'm at the point where truly my life is about 90-95% Best and 3-8% Better and about 2% Good. I haven't gone "hog wild" eat the whole candy bar thing since before surgery. Hallelujah. The angels sang. Bad - A whole order or BWW Wings with Fried Cheese Curds and Fried Mushrooms Good - Having 2 wing flats, and 2 curds and 1 mushrrom with celery and blue cheese Better - Air Frying the wings at home and tossing with a zero calorie sauce to keep it lower fat. Air frying broccoli and cauliflower and making Grk Yogurt Ranch Dip. Best - Air Frying chicken breasts with a mustard garlic coating. Making a great salad with a few pumpkin seeds and reduced fat feta with some zero calorie dressing and a little avocado. __________________________________ Bad - Wasting an entire day on YouTube vids and FB and BP (sorry to say wasting, not really wasting...but losing myself in it) Good - I have yet to establish metrics for this parameter Better - Ditto Best - *sniff* Purgatory. Pure. And. Simple.

I just don't know? The only way to know is to cut em out for a few days and see? ((hugs)) Don't be afraid of leafy greens and low glycemic veggies like broccoli and cauliflower and asparagus!! Eat salads with very low cal dressing. Eat a little avocado. How much are you eating per meal? Quantity (volume in a measuring cup).

Dayum! Forgot to say that Imma need that recipe, please!!

I'm not saying you live a joyless life. But please don't squander this time by being easy on yourself? Please don't. I wouldn't say anything if you were following your path and the weight was just flying off. But you are telling me, that weight loss is lagging. And I'm telling you, that now is the time to knuckle down and get the rest of it off. The last 20 lbs is brutal or at least in my experience in WLS. ((hugs)) Drop ANYTHING that doesn't facilitate your goal. You will have a lifetime in maintenance to cycle in "treats."

I’ll try to post more tomorrow, but honestly? If you still require 1 shake + 1 bar in order to get ur protein, u r premature in doing IF. Right? But many have issues losing with protein bars. More later!!

What are you eating on your feast days and fasting days. We need more information hon.

It will definitely be "someday". No maybes about it girl!!!

Here's another visual. The different categories are in different colors.

Ohhhhhh the stealthy BBL!!!! Of course! Mas pain! Mas pleasure "in the end." hehe I'm afraid I'm just gonna have to get a tat on my wrinkled bum as a qualifier to everyone, "Abandon all hope." bahaha! The one advantage to the girls recon, is that they are still standing up straight and proud only now they are really pretty "large and in charge" cuz the rest of me shrinky dinked while they did not. LOL. You will be brilliant with Mama! I've no doubt about it! Just remember to breathe and be yourself. She will love you!!! Woooohooo can NOT wait for a report! Well the vacays will come in time. Yay on weekend get aways!!! Wow on Iceland! Will you stay in an ice hotel and eat fermented shark and drink slivovitz (sp?). Why Iceland? Oh FYI, successful 20:4 IF completed, thankyouvermuch.

Oh wow!!! So many great things happening for you (except lack of miles and points--hehe)!! Oh snap! Now I'm nervous for you about Mama's visit! You will do great obviously, but still--what a nail biter! Will eating your nails stop an IF? *snort* I love that it's beginning to feel "real" to you and that his friends have accepted you and are now assimilating you into their life. Assimilate!!!! What's a BBL? Breast and Bottle Lift? I'm betting it's a Breast and Brachioplasty Lift? I can tell you that I've had the double mastectomy and 3 reconstructions. They were so very very painful and exhausting. And took me by storm. It's taken years to be able to get to the point where I can exercise normally now. I know your experience will be quite a bit easier and more concise with 1 surgery, but you have a pretty good amount of edema in your chest area, back, side boobs, and arms. But yeah on the donor fat. That's muy importante!!! (Oh my on the thigh lift. I want one so bad. Never will happen though for many reasons. *sniff*) Girl! Your walking is off the chain fabulous!!!! I'm very impressed and it's so good for you! Get a cute purse so you can tuck cute shoes into it! Where is vaca? And will you travel with BF as your vaca boo?

Yes. I am. That's why I continue to post these YT and articles. I know @GreenTealael is as well. I am interested in the autophagy and stem cell promotion. As well as the actuation of SIRTUAN gene activation along with the emerging science relative to longevity, aging, and reversal of certain diseases.

I hope everyone will come back and answer!!! For me, I was at 8 months. That's when I started this thread. So you can go read about the journey. I had no issues getting all my fluids in, and no probs getting all my protein in from food. That's the key in my opinion. Wait till that is super easy. Wait till your losses from surgery are diminishing. Wait till hunger kicks up. Wait till you start eating more at meals (inappropriately). This is something you do "in addition to" your tool and making good po dietary and lifestyle choices.

More food for IF thought. The guy is an MD and he treats his patients with a fasting and keto diet. And they make great points throughout, but listen around the 1:00mark. A very seminal point!! It's about the importance of sleep and how it affects cortisol and what cortisol does to insulin elevation (ie weight loss) and how long cortisol remains elevated as a result of a poor night's sleep. It makes you hungrier and you preferentially crave carbs and about eating late at night!!!!! Like billy badass carbs. It lasts for 2 days! Wooooo! WOW!!!! ?

I miss you. I miss kibitzing with you and @GreenTealael! *sniff* (the world is a much more sparse and scary place without our daily chats)

Yes on Veganism = Bad (Most Likely); the caveat is, that there is a qualifier. That qualifier is "Unless it's carefully constructed and observed." LOL! I'm sorry you are struggling getting into keto. You know, maybe look up The Resetters, Dr. Mindy Pelz on YouTube and FB. She talks alot about resetting the female metabolism (especially if you are pre-menopause), and she has a plan that is ketobiotic, but it addresses the week leading up to Auntie Flo and how you progesterone load for that week using things like sweet potatoes, and other things that build progesterone. You actually eat more carbs during that week. And it's helping turn a lot of women's lives and weight loss around. So the keep for me with weekends like the one coming up is planning. I'm a planner, now. And I find comfort in the planning. Like I know our friends want to stop for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. I just don't hardly do that anymore unless those meals are all very slim type of meals. But I know these are gonna be extravagant places and only one really counts tomorrow. So I'm gonna maybe just have a poached egg and sauteed spinach for breakfast with tons of coffee. Then I might eat a bite of Mr. F.s grits or a bite of his biscuit and gravy. Something I know I can easily do. Then lunch is bbq and I will eat my fill of that cuz they don't add sugar. And it won't take much. Dinner is a hamburger from this joint in Arkansas and I've got no probs doing a lettuce wrap. No need for fries cuz I know what they taste like and they make me feel awful. And tons of iced tea! So I know the day won't be bad. Then I just apply those same metrics to Saturday and Sunday. The reality is I will still come back a couple pounds up. But I shouldn't have too much issue going into my M-W fast next week. *score* And it's IF for the win!!!! Also you are doing WONDERFULLY!!!!! It's ok to take a week off. Just keep flexing and building your fasting muscle hon!!!

Anyone still here except me? I'm fasting today--will do an 18:6 with an FMD type of diet. Have a big weekend coming up of LOTS o'meals! Ugh. LOL. I happened on this YT of a couple of braniacs talking about diet diversity and IF. Chris Masterjohn is a PhD in nutrition and teaches at some big uni--can't remember. And Siim, you know is pretty braniac as well. I've followed Chris' stuff for years especially at Weston A. Price Foundation. See what you think?

I'm sorry you have had such emotional upheaval in your life. ((hugs)) But with all due respect, you and I both know that your reply is steeping in a very large, very hot, steaming cup of rationalization. ((hugs)) Life happens. That's the bottom line. Our resources get taxed. We become emotionally, spiritually, and possibly nutritionally "overdrawn." But here's where the logic error happens: If A>C, and B>C, then A+B>C By this logic, NO ONE would ever maintain their weight loss from WLS because we would all succumb to the stress and inevitably revert to recidivism and the old behaviors that caused us to get fat in the first place. But the reality is that although it often feels like a Herculean task, we CAN change our bodies, minds, spirits and become empowered for those times when we are beset with LIFE. Right? So A+B is not always > than C. But it doesn't happen passively. And as I said above, WLS isn't a passive experience (unless you want to eat and lose as much as you're gonna lose from the surgery alone, then after 3-5 years when life intrudes and diet fatigue takes root, and the poor habits of a lifetime begin again, you just passively allow the regain to occur. We all must devote as much or more time to doing the head work on our inner fat brain. Cuz seriously. Once we have a fat brain, we always have a fat brain. We're simply travel in and out of remission. Right? It's understanding THAT premise, and embracing it, that allows me to work on making deeply ingrained changes in my thinking, emotions, behaviors, with food and in minding those things, it truly allows me to refill my spirit and recharge my mind and energy stores. But we first must START by accepting the premise and stop the rationalizing. Glad you've lost the 2# it's a great start and can't help but give motivation!!!! Woooot!!! WTG!!! Keep doing what you're now doing and you will see how quickly you can regain control and lose the extra fat!!!! Yay!!!

I think you have to ask yourself, what will change with a 2nd surgery? How will YOU treat the tool differently? You are expecting the same outcome from a re-sleeve. I think that's an inaccurate premise. Re-surgery does not carry the same risk/reward return as a virgin surgery: the weight loss is MUCH slower/harder, there is usually LESS weight loss from it, and a 2nd surgery carries significant risks for complication. The surgery is only a tool. Much like a hammer, it won't drive in a nail unless YOU pick it up, use it properly and repetitively apply forceful action to it over time. Our surgeries require our cooperation and repetitive attention to the details over time. It's not magic bean surgery, a free ride, or a passive experience. IMHO, 27lbs is a very do-able amount of weight to lose. You might even be surprised by how much restriction your still have if you go back to the basics you observed right after surgery when you got your forever diet. By not only changing the quantities you eat at each meal, and by ditching the sugar, carbs, and booze, you will reformat your ghrelin, insulin, leptin, PPY receptors. By changing the foods you feed your gut, you can also change the foods you crave. I'm 15months out. I can tell you, if I feed my gut crap carbs for only 1 meal to 24 hours and add a bunch of fat to that (i.e. pizza, high satiety high carb high caloric meal, I will begin craving another meal of just that composition: pasta, pot pie, dumplings, gumbo with rice, hell, anything with rice. But, if I remain consistent with my food and protein, fats, carbs, my cravings and hunger diminish and I actually crave "clean" nutrient dense food. You should also give IF and EF a try, cuz it too will help reprogram your hunger response. I'd also look into counseling and going back to a support group. You can stop it at 27lbs and reverse this! You can do it!