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I have a turkey neck as well! Lots of wobbly bits other places, but those I can hide under clothes. I have a neck lift on my wish list. I'm curious about recovery time, if I can sneak that procedure in without much time off traveling? I only notice when I take selfies. I need to learn to work my angles better!

Yes, all this! I admit, I don't feel like a fit into most of the the rest of the board any more. For me, the losing phase was straight forward. Maximize protein while minimizing calories, get lots of fluid in. Simple, done! Maintenance is a whole new thing. There is no clear path. I feel like I'm predominantly going it alone, except for the few who have gathered on this thread, and a couple of others.

I'm just trying to find where I can maintain. I have this fantasy where I have no off limits foods, and I can maintain. We'll see!

It sounds like everyone had a good holiday! I love @sideeye opportunistic atheist. I will also happily appropriate any culture's food and make it part of my tradition, see Xmas eve tamales for example! As a tangent on that topic. I've been going to a friend's Passover Seder for years. I don't know if I don't dig Passover food, or it's just a family of mediocre cooks, but it's kinda sad what I look forward to most is roasted carrots every year My holiday was good. Tamales for Xmas eve were delicious, as expected. My uncle's smoked prime rib blows every prime rib I've ever had out of the water, including my own! I had a very protein centric Xmas meal. Smoked Ahi Belly, Poke and Prime Rib mostly. Unlike me, as I'm a total carb wh*re! One gripe though, no leftover were sent home! WTH! There was plenty of food left to distribute.

Any new news @GreenTealael? My new boo is out of state, so I'm living vicariously!

I wonder if it is an insurance coverage issue? If it was just your OB's opinion, I'd be changing OB's

You have lost 32 lbs in 6 weeks. Seems like it is working to me

Unfortunately not on the menu for me this week

Oh, I love the Peking duck idea! You can have Del Frisco's any night of the year. Booo, Mr. F's friends!

There's always next year!

Nooooo .... the negativity is CindyLooWho, not the "voices of reason" ....

I'm also the same person who will eat a convenience store hot dog, and a $75 steak ... the same day. So I easily slide between low brow and high brow

Etiam et mihi!

One of my favorite anecdotes is when a a good looking colleague of mine says in a great southern drawl .... "Girl, you look amazing, you must have lost 30 lbs!" I said, "Yeah, something like that" It was actually 75 lbs at that point Most people have no idea how much others really weigh!

YES .... exactly!

Should have gotten my hair cut short years ago. Wouldn't have needed WLS!

I've been doing pretty strict IF for the last two weeks, I think? I don't know, since my second to last work trip whenever the h*ll that was! I've really been doing it because I've been super busy. Work is insane right now. I've had mornings full of conference calls, can't eat if you're stuck on the phone for hours on end. Then week long meeting, and I just skipped breakfast. Then weekends have been busy with errands, chores and parties, no eating until midday, or even dinner sometimes. Boom, easy IF! Scale is continuing to tick downward. Maybe it's IF? Maybe it's still my honeymoon period? Maybe it's my restriction? Not sure, but whatever it is, I'll take it!

That's great feedback. Gold star for you!

Don't be too hard on yourself. We all have those days. The important thing is it doesn't become everyday. Sometime we just have to get things out of our system. A while back ago I was visiting a city that has a restaurant with some of my favorite food in the world. I ordered delivery to my hotel and ate it for the next two days. I didn't eat because I was hungry, I ate because it was delicious and I wanted to keep eating it. But I got it out of my system, and I don't even feel guilty about it because it had no overall effect on my weight loss.

Premier Protein's situation isn't comparable. PP had 26.8 and 28.3 grams of protein vs. the 30 grams advertised. In the lawsuit against Genepro claimed they had only 10 grams when they advertised 30, and Genepro didn't dispute that claim.

What's everyone up to today and tomorrow? Tonight our Xmas eve tradition is about half the family gathers and we have a casual dinner of tamales. Easy and yummy. We are not Mexican, but native Southern Californians, so are doing the cultural appropriation thing. I made individual flans for tonight. We will talk about going to midnight mass, but then never actually go (soo late, long day, early morning ) Tomorrow I head over to my mom's house in the morning. I make a traditional Xmas Nutmeg and Sherry cake for breakfast. We will open presents, listen to Xmas music, have mimosas, eat leftover tamales. Usually my aunt and uncle will be staying at my mom's but this year they aren't coming down, so it will just be the two of us. (I'm my mom's only child). We'll make my mom's assigned side together (Festive Onions, yum!). She doesn't know it yet, but she is going to help me make apple pie. peeling and coring all those apples is a b*tch . It'll be a dutch apple pie, because I don't have the pastry skills @Sosewsue61 has! I made pecan pie this morning. I always do one new dessert. I was going to do individual Zabaglione Tarts, as I fell in love with Zabalione in Rome. But the custard came out pretty wine-y. So I may have to go out and buy more eggs for a redo. I think I will cook the alcohol out of the wine this time. So it'll have the marsala flavor, without the alcohol burn. Then it will be Xmas dinner at my aunt's house. My uncle makes delicious smoked Prime Rib, so that is serious yum. But, can I be petty for a second? I like the traditional sides I serve when I do Prime Rib better, potatoes au gratin, creamed spinach, corn casserole, glazed carrots and most importantly, Yorkshire pudding. There is no Prime Rib without Yorkshire Pudding! I'm not sure what her sides will be, but I know there won't be most of those Ok, everyone else ... spill!

I think that's a good idea, it's just a fine line to not be "that person" and be overbearing or preachy. I'm always afraid of crossing that line. I'm with O&D though. I've had expensive water, and store brand water, and it's all just water to me.

Did you try the same brand you liked in the past? Eggnog has gone down hill, most just taste like sweet milk now days . There are only two brands locally I even bother with. Of course the grocery stores I've been in lately don't carry those brands .... sigh .... no eggnog for me this year ....

That's is such an awesome feeling! Congrats!

So much to catch up on! Laxative tea question .... like @ElectricBoogaloo ... I'm not regular, but never constipated, if that makes sense. I go irregularly, sometimes a few days in a row, then sometimes twice in a week. But I never feel uncomfortable even if it has been days. My first laxative I ever took was mag citrate to clear me out before WLS! That was not fun, so I'm good with my irregular self. As I've mentioned, I have an ex who's a GI. When I had too much to drink one night I worked up the nerve to ask him if going only twice a week was a problem. He assured me that as long as it's not a change, and I don't have any discomfort, it's fine, and what's normal for me. I do think that slow motility (his term) is connected to weight gain. I think foods sit around longer in me, and more calories get absorbed vs. someone who cycles food in/out in 12 hrs. That's just my theory though. Google tells me nothing conclusive on the topic