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You look supermodel tall and trim 😍

They are definitely not tight anymore.

Hope you got the job 🤞🏼

Looking goooooood! Btw, belt is like for person twice your size....

5'2", ♀️ 9½ m PO, maintaining 113.8 lbs (this morning) Yesterday, Sun Aug 11th: Ate all my meals out yesterday, so all measurements are estimates. Totally over-stuffed myself at brunch (had to endure some chest pain for about an hour); grazed on junk all afternoon, and basically drank my dinner. Was a fun day though, despite my oh-so-not-nutritious-food-intake, and the minor hangover-ish feelings I have this morning. Menu: 8:00 am: chicken broth -- 8 cals 12:30 pm: ¼ cup spinach + ⅛ tbsp balsamic vinaigrette + ⅔ meatball + ⅛ grilled yellow pepper + 1 slice bacon + 2 oz grilled chicken (dark meat) + 4 oz grilled sirloin + ⅛ slice grilled pineapple -- 353 cals 2:00-5:00 pm: 1 oatmeal chocolate chip cookie + 100g chicharron + 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar -- 685 cals 5:00-11:00 pm: 1 vodka caesar + 1½ glasses red wine + 2 gin & sodas -- 349 cals Totals: 1395 cals, 108g Protein, 47g NET carbs, 55g fat Exercise: 6km of alternating 1km run then 1 km walk (1 hr) Strength Training: Arms (15 mins) Strength Training: Butt & Core (15 mins) Multiple running cannonballs into the pool (all afternoon long...lol)

O.M.G i loooove your swimsuit!! Where did u get it? (And you look awesome!)

Ok, i’ll keep it in (i do it already anyway)...was just thinking it was too much info and didn’t want to scare people off with my “anal-ity” lol.

Heading out to the BFF's Mr's bday brunch, its an AYCE (Brazilian) steakhouse so we are all preparing to get into meat comas then hang out by their pool for the rest of the afternoon:

5'2", ♀️ 9½ m PO, maintaining 114.4 lbs today Yesterday, Sat Aug 10th: Wasn't feeling too great when I got up, spent the entire morning and the first part of the afternoon veg-ing the couch on my laptop and watching tv. Decided to drag myself off the couch to go for a run/walk after the sad attempt at eating my first meal, and felt sooooooo much better afterwards. Endorphins are my friend! Going to leave out most of the amounts of specific food items going forward...makes it easier to read: Menu: 2:30 pm: ** ate ¼ of this ** salad w/ vinaigrette + prosciutto + 2 eggs fried in butter + walnuts -- 425 cals 4:00 pm: black coffee -- 4 cals 4:30 pm: 4% cottage cheese + blueberries + pumpkin seeds + 75g avocado -- 302 cals 6:30 pm: ** ate the rest of the 2:30pm meal ** 8:00 pm: ½ cup garlic roasted peanuts + 3oz chicharron -- 440 cals 8:30 pm: protein shake + decaf coffee crystals + Benefibre -- 120 cals Totals: 1291 cals, 106g Protein, 21g NET carbs, 84g fat Exercise: 6km of alternating 1km run then 1 km walk (1 hr)

Oooh, so excited for you! Can't wait to see more results pics ...and you look pretty fresh for someone who just spent 5 days in a hospital ♥️ I'm scheduled for an arm lift in December (will be 14 months post op by then).

Awesome swim top choice: your skinny waist and boobs are all ka-pow!

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Yay! Even if you just post PROTEIN SHAKES x 3, that would be something, lol Also, eating in the first month is def new and challenging...just do the best you can for now (and check in with your team ♥️) I barely ate anything my first month as well.

Mr & the Kid had a gelato craving after dinner so we all quickly popped out to get some, and this is what I wore (p.s. no gelato for me...I brought along peanuts and chicharron in my purse instead). ...and yeah, I acknowledge my skirt is on the big side. It's hanging a little too low and ends up showing too much of my pasty-coloured stomach. You can see from the pic that my stomach never sees the sun 😜. Am going to attempt to remedy that next week when we go on vacay and I wear a.....bikini (*gasps*).

That's too funny. I was supposed to be in Quebec all last week, but came back early, and I actually thought about you being in town too...isn't that weird?

Any level of participation is great ♥️

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@Screwballski : You are my Spirit Animal !!!! ♥️ You have articulated aspects of my own experience and it is amazingly comforting to read. Thank you. ♥️

5'2", ♀️ 9m PO, maintaining Friday August 9th - 115.7 lbs Finally got a higher calorie day in yesterday to post (had few surprise friends drop by in the afternoon and then stay until late into the evening). This menu probably comes at an excellent time, given the discussion above about more varied menu representations. Full disclosure though, I had a dumping episode (definitely from the moon cake) after the 1:45pm snack with friends. On the bright side, the poop was 4 days coming, but on the non-so-bright side, I had to lay down for for an hour or so afterwards to recuperate. Stayed up extra late last night so I could digest my food before going to bed (to avoid the middle of the night reflux) and my stomach doesn't feel so very great today. 10:00 am: 1 cup chicken broth -- 8 cals 12:30 pm: salad + 73g stewed pork loin + 1 fried egg + 1tbsp crispy onions -- 250 cals 1:45 pm: 250ml CoolWay fudge chocolate chip frozen dessert + 1 fl oz pumpkin seeds + ½ moon cake + 8 wheat thins + 45g peppercorn paté -- 705 cals 5:15 pm: 127g 4% cottage cheese + ½ fl oz pumpkin seeds + 78g blueberries + 61g strawberries + ¼ tsp pepper -- 202 cals 7:45 pm: salad + 44g bbq pork ribs + 45g stewed pork loin + 13g parmesan cheese -- 231 cals 11:05 pm: 38g prosciutto + 21g salami + 30g cheddar cheese + 35g peppercorn pate + 26g cherries + 38g walnuts -- 80 cals Totals: 2084 cals, 136g Protein, 113g NET carbs, 124g fat Irrational me is all planning to even out the 113g of net carbs, btw. Exercise: 2km run (10 min) Strength training - Arms (15 mins) Zumba (1hr)

Yeah, this happens occasionally for me post weight-loss-mode...usually because I feel sick or icky or overly full from something (and i've had a few of these types of days in a row lately ) First, congrats! Your side profile says you are under your goal weight! Are you still looking to stay weight loss mode?

THIS.

@FluffyChix I think any information is good information? But I see what you mean, both of us actually seem to be posting "off-centre" menus (I just skimmed through the whole thing when I wrote my last post) It would be nice to see others' menus as well for a more rounded view...(you and I seem to be hogging this thread!)

More irrational answers! (and some rational ones too... ) Rational Me: I'm not interested in achieving any more weight loss goals, because YES, I am liking how I am looking and feeing (If anything, I now have exercise goals, which is likely hampering my calorie increase attempts, but that's another story...). I don't particularly want to go lower on the scale, but I have accepted that until I get into a real groove which lasts longer than 3½ weeks, weight loss (and most likely weight gain later on) is going to be an occupational hazard. My current weight is still nicely in the middle of the normal range so a few pounds up or down isn't going to kill me. Irrational Me: I fully admit to being wary of carbs. Specifically bread products, pasta, rice, to some extent root veggies and added sugar. Hence the shirataki and the no added sugar vinaigrettes. For now, I am choosing to stay low carb. I do, however, have the occasional breaded product (buffalo cauliflower! crackers on the charcuterie board! chicken wings! cake!) or high sugar item (ice cream! fruit! bbq sauce on my chicken wings!). And when I do, I often attempt a "correction" the next day by watching/limiting my carb intake (which I am supposed to counteract with increasing my fats - not always successful). Though as I type this, 💡 I'm not even sure that averaging out carb intake over a period of time has the same effect as limiting carbs to a certain level daily... LOL...i'm going to have to do a bit of research after I post this. Again, this is the irrational me talking, and I'm fully aware I will not implode and could probably benefit from eating a sandwich (as my "concerned" friends and family say both to my face and behind my back 🙄). Rational Me, again: I went back looking at what I've posted on this thread so far and looks like I started this thread around the same time that my average cals dropped from around 1500-ish to 1000-ish, so my daily menu's do look pretty diet-y. I haven't gone out/had people over as much these past couple weeks and it shows. I tend to eat less when I'm at home and fixing food for myself. Though I rely on the fact that everything will even out because I know there will be indulge days...like yesterday (which I'll post later), and tomorrow (it's BFF's Mr's bday and we are going to a rodizio restaurant (i.e., AYCE Brazilian Steakhouse) #yum #almostAsGoodAsKoreanBBQ I read this article and the study it references waaaay back. The one ray of hope here is Rudy Pauls. He was the sole person in the study who ended up getting WLS and his metabolism slow down was markedly less than the others. At the time I read these, I researched other papers and I recall a paper or two discussing how WLS patients' metabolisms returned to normal levels for their eventual size after the initial (and expected) drop. Now this is all hearsay on my part right now, because I don't have the links to these alleged papers, but if I get can get into research mode later, I'll try to dig em up. (I need to be in the proper mindset to read these papers cuz man, sometimes I go cross-eyed trying to keep up with all the notations) Nope ❤️

^^^ This. I didn't actually believe that this was a thing, but it totally is. Just one month of 10-15 mins of arm exercises every day during the July challenge, and there is a noticeable diff in the amount of arm sag showing. Suffice it to say, I am still doing the exercises, and added butt and ab ones into the mix. The other posters above are right though: that weight loss is much, much more affected by food intake than exercise. The exercise and building muscle does help though, plus it makes you heart healthy AND FIRM (lol).

Yeah, I feel pretty effing awesome. 😎...still have some bumps to iron out, but all in all, awesome. Man, I hope so!