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We are jalopies instead of a race car on the Bonneville Salt Flats. We go chugging along, have a temporary misfite, that's your stall, start up again, chug chug, and there we go again over and over until we reach our goal and the finish line. But our engine keeps on when the fancy car has burned itself out and have to be scrapped. So be a jalopy?cause it's a good thing to be!

Try as you may, there are some people that don't understand. What you have to settle in your own mind is: Is it your fault really or merely a fault in them?

Oh that is rough, when you have worked so hard, to make it there. I am so sorry.

Is everybody's tummies flattening out? I thought mine would just flatten down, and it is smaller, but it looks like a balloon someone let. the air out of, kind of stretched in places and blobby. Oh well I never expected to be a bikini model at my age anyway!

Every day, in every way, we can only get better, a journey of a thousand steps starts with just one. And you will love seeing the person you always felt you were start to emerge. And if you don't rule the world, you at least own your little corner of it! Congratulations on all of it!

Looks like fats and oils of an average Smerican, one can only hope they are polyunsaturated, right?

And all you latest ones are within a week of each other, it will be interesting to follow along with all of you. May everything go smoothly for all of you!

Glad you finally got a satisfactory answer to this,

Flatulence is very common, sometimes I feel like Toot Toot the little Tugboat, honking my Rump Horn!

Yes we can and Will! 2919 is going to bring good things forward for us All.

And the way things are turning out for me , I should keep a gastroenterologist stuffed in my back pocket at all times. I also had to undergo a sleep study which confirmed my Sleep Apnea, thought it would be positive, there is an heredity component, Daddy was diagnosed with it a couple years before his death. So Uncle Snuffly, my C-Pap machine and I started "Steady Dating"

Never heard of them, so I guess I'll follow along.

Wonderful--- now keep on with your losses! Let's see what 2019 brings for you! Guys, as a rule, lose quicker than we women do.

And I think female nurses would be better than Male doctors and nurses with hands the size of Ham Jocks. Ye-ouch Folks!

Positive family members or negative& you were determined to prove them wrong?

And I think I shall purchase a scale in January, instead of it telling ME my mistakes maybe now it will compliment ME. Then I will be able to know whether I am stalling or not, I am apprehensive my TPN is Stalling me Out. 1430 calories a day scares me when I was much below that by mouth prior. An expert said I should continue to lose 1-3 pounds weekly, perhaps so but I am 73 with the Basal Metabolism of a Sick Sea Snail, that's why prior to surgery. even with exercise I wasn't losing. Ah, no crying in my milk, it's skim and full of water already, Just kick back mentally and say "Que Sera, Sera",

Good luck with the eggs, that's a victory I have yet to acheive.

And if you don't experience THAT lets hope you acheive something equally good!

I hope to look at Me as "Formerly Fat" and one Sleek Sensation. Even if it takes the rest of my life, and I hope it doesn't take THAT LONG, I hope to make my goal sooner. Big Mama will turn into Cute for My Age, was originally planning on Cute Chickie-Baby but realize now that might be beyond my grasp. I will rock every drop of weight loss with all I have and trust I shall end up where I should be!

Aim yourself in Life a little more gently, you're not a pork Tenderloin that needs to be beaten and flattened out. Take good and kind care of yourself, you are only issued One Body & it is supposed to last you a Lifetime!

And if you have the sense God gave a Gopher, you Learn by pain not to do THAT again!?

Thank you BarbaraH, it's just a matter of time until they find the thing that helps cure me. Life may have tried to break my wings, that's okay for I have claws, I'll hold on with them until the answer comes.

Things are seldom as scary, complicated, painful or terrible as you have built them up in your mind to be. DON'T SWEAT SMALL STUFF, and breaking newsflash,99% of life is composed of Small Stuff. I'm old as Dirt and I do know these things.

Back in the day, we used to have baby feeding bowls you put hot water into the bottom of. Shame they don't seem to make them anymore, I think they would be perfect.?

Don't be nervous all it does is tie you up in "nots" Step up to your finish line, take a deep breath, and then hop over!