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^^This. You will be more than likely (if not definitely) be able to eat all the food you ate before surgery eventually.

...and here is the OOTD after a shower. It's laundry day and I put on a pair of Mr's shorts for the time being as mine were all in the laundry room. The shorts are probably 3 or 4 sizes too big for me. Excellent example of how ill-fitted clothes can be less flattering than properly fitted ones.

The OOTD for this morning as I was out and about doing a bunch of errands, then my run, and then some strength training. MInd you I had a hoodie on for the errands and the first 2 km of the run. All sweaty in this pic, but did not actually feel hot (As an aside I find this really weird: I will notice that I am dripping in sweat when I run but I still feel kind of cool and feel fine wearing a hoodie/sweater. I will take it off eventually though, not because I'm hot, but because the sweater is getting wet...anyone experience this odd sweaty-but-cold thing too? )

5'2" Female Maintaining 9m post-op July 24: 719 calories, 35g NET carbs, 38g fat, 60g protein. Went to a food festival tonite, so meal #3 is estimated amounts - I eyeballed everything. 1) coffee + stevia sweetener (2 cals) 2) Salad with 3oz avocado + 2 of grilled chicken (246 cals) 3) 3 GIANT oysters + 3 oz grilled chicken kabob + 1/4 corn on the cob + 2 tbsp brownie with frosting + probably .5 tbsp of added sugar in the kabob marinade (471 cals)

^^^ Agreed.

Day 24 Toned and Sleek Arm Challenges done. Plus a 5k walk-run at noon today. 20 squats, 20 side leg lifts each leg, 20 back leg lifts each leg done. #iHateButtExercises. Beauty: Yeah, I seem to be posting a lot of food pics lately, but went to a street food festival tonite and ordered these beauties: BBQ'd oysters on a half shell the size of my OPEN HAND. #yum #yum #yum

@AngieBear...your haircut is adorbs. I love it and the colour even more

smokin' hot. you are a literal hourglass.

I used to take Clearlax (aka Miralax) everyday to keep me going. But since I stated adding chia pudding into my diet every other day or so, I will only take the Clearlax if/when I haven't gone by the 3rd day, which has been maybe 2 or 3 times in the past 2 months. Although, I have also increased the amount of fat I eat in the past two months, so that probably helps the poops coming too...

Started out at 235. My surgeon said I can safely expect to get to 160-170 by my one year anniversary. Pleasantly surprised us both when I got to the mid 160's at my 3 month post op checkup. I had picked an ultimate personal goal of 120, for the only reason that it was in the middle-ish of the healthy BMI range for my height. I got to 127 at 7 months, and decided to stop as I felt I was getting to small. Am at 9 months post op today and weighed in at 116.2 this morning. Long story short, once you are on your "forever diet" I suspect our bodies decide what a realistic weight will be.

Your clothes are killing me. I love the colours ♥️

Wow...so french-countryside-picturesque

*sigh* me neither. i went shopping for a pair a while back when there was thread discussing them (can't remember which one) and couldn't find a pair that I liked on me. still looking though...

Day 23 Toned and Sleek Arm Challenges done. Also did a 7.5km walk/run this morning. ❌ I was just reading the goals I posted I would do this month and was reminded that I pledged to do some butt exercises every day this month...and I totally did not do any. Oopsies. So I guess I have to do some butt exercises now.... Smile: Here is my attempt of this on my salad. I clearly have too much time on my hands.

I have 2 each of the short and long leg lengths of these. They aren't technically high waisted, but I seem to have long-ish torso, so they end up high waisted on me....so if you are long torso-ed too, bonus! They don't so much squeeze you in (which makes them super comfortable to wear all day long), but more smooths everything out so you don't see panty-lines or little flab bumps. And they are relatively cheap https://www.jockey.com/catalog?department=women&category=underwear&style=slipshort

Loving this fashion show we are getting from Brazil ♥️

yeah, Canadians seem to want to complicate spelling, lol Tip: I only seem to find these at NO FRILLS or LOBLAWS grocery stores (despite what Google says). I like them also because they are sweetened with Stevia vs.. Sucralose.

5'2" Female Maintaining 8.5m post-op July 22: 388 calories, 30g carbs, 19.5g fat, 37.4g protein. Alrighty, so I knew I was going out to an all-you-can-eat (self-cooking) Korean BBQ for dinner tonite, so I basically saved my day's calories for this meal...which sort of backfired as I didn't eat as many calories as I anticipated I would. (All amounts are approximate as I didn't have a scale on me ) 1: coffee + stevia sweetener (2 cals) 2: 1 oz grilled shrimp + 1 oz grilled chicken + 2oz Kalbi (short ribs) + 1oz grilled pork loin + 1oz grilled pork belly + 1 tbsp kimchi + probably 2 tbsp of added sugar in the various meat marinades (386 cals) (btw, got all this food in over a 2.5hour period.)

Day 22 Toned and Sleek Arm Challenges done. Did not go out for my daily walk/run that I planned to do after dinner as it's raining pretty hard out right now...AND I've changed into my pj's so I'm done for the night. lol Orange: This is my latest thing-du-jour: Water enhancers. A good portion of my daily water quota has been sparkling water with a squirt of this stuff. I also have other flavours, but this one is my favourite.

@KarenLR75 ^^^ this is a very good idea. Hope the swim lifts a little of your funk. Hang in there, Thrusday is a mere 3 days away and pre-op will be over. ♥️

whoa. you look super trim! (and it looks like you are shrinking out of your shorts )

That's awesome for you and hubs Keep it up ♥️

K, I'll go first. Will try keep this first post simple: 5'2" Female Maintaining 8.5m post-op 1: Coffee + stevia sweetener (2 cals) 2: Salad (greens, roasted red pepper, cucumber) + 2oz pork & beef burger + vinaigrette (230 cals) 3: Chia pudding + pumpkin seeds + almond butter (161 cals) 4: Salad (greens, avocado) + 1oz pork & beef burger, vinaigrette (285 cals) 5: 2oz grilled chicken + 1.5 oz steak (140 cals) This was what I ate yesterday. Today's menu is a protein shake and whatever I end up eating at a dinner date with friends tonite, and I don't know what that will end up being yet, lol) Also...this is what I would say is a lower-calorie day for me (the burger I was working on was crazy filling!)

oops. didn't realize I put this in the VSG area..yes, everyone can play ♥️

Ok, I started one...let's see if sticks: