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I think this will be the last of the charcuterie boards I will be making for a while as this is the last of the cheese and meats from last week's delivery. Grilled up some shrimp on the BBQ and made up a plate of "caprese salad" sans basil as the grocery was out of it (but is it really caprese without basil??? lol) Anyhoo, I ate one skewer of shrimp, one tomato-cheese slice, some blue cheese, some asiago cheese, 7 crackers & bit of fig jam: 508 calories (and 6oz of rosé before hand, +125 calories)

Mr. asked me what I wanted for Mother's Day earlier this week. So I said I'd like a charcuterie board. I should have been more specific that I meant the actual wooden board, cuz the top pic below was delivered to me yesterday afternoon. LOL. So now, I am addicted to making little charcuterie spreads on a slate cheese plate I already own. It feels like I'm doing arts and crafts! 🤣 Luckily the fam loves charcuterie as much as I do so I can just keep making them over and over until my stash runs out. The bottom two pics below are shots of the two we already polished off from yesterday. #yum. P.S. Unfortunately I failed to measure and keep track of what I ate, so I'm going to guess I ate like 500 worth of charcuterie calories. #superYUM

Cottage cheese, blueberries, raspberries, dates, pumpkin seeds, black pepper and cayenne. Gonna plop down on the couch and plan to eat it all as I watch Grey's Anatomy: 227 calories

Tonite's dinner was a CORN-extravaganza. Clockwise from top: Grilled corn on the cob, Jalepeno & Cheddar Corn Bread, Corn Donut-Fritters with maple bacon cream cheese filling, Corn Dogs & a Corn succotash/cole slaw type of salad. I had about 1/4 cup of the slaw, 1/2 a grilled corn on cob, and 1/3 cup-ish of the corn bread. Estimating 300 calories.

@GreenTealael that balloon topper is adorable...did you make it or did you buy it like that??!?!? Also the amount of frosting you have between the two layers of cake is ca-ray-zeee, lol. HBD, BF! @Starwarsandcupcakes is that cornucopia of food your food for an entire day, or just during work hours???

I don't know if its WLS surgery-related or overall-weight-loss related, or food-type-consumption-related, or what, but I do notice that I just don't sleep much anymore. I probably get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night (uninterrupted though, which is different from pre-wls when I would get up every couple hours to pee). And I'm totally fine in terms of energy and alertness when I'm awake...if anything I even lean towards more energy than not. I'm not complaining or anything...it's just interesting to note, I guess P.S. I'm 2.5 years post-op.

So all this ring talk has inspired me to get my engagement & wedding rings resized. My fingers got too chub about 4-5 years before surgery, and then around 3-4 months AFTER surgery, they fit again (yay!). But by the time I reached goal though, they became way too big (boo!) Its weird because I even tried on rings that I had in high school that fit back then and they are too big on me now, even though I weigh about the same today as I did then. Weird. Googled how to figure out my ring size, and apparently I'm a size 5.5 now. I think my engagement/wedding rings are currently a size 7? Now I'm excited to get them resized...or maybe re-designed???

Not sure what your budget is or what you consider bank-breaking...but I swear by my Apple Watch. Not just as a fitness tracker, but for everything else too.

Honestly, I have no idea when figs are in season, lol. I'm in Ontario, so not even sure its grown here. I just buy the whenever they have them in Costco (but yeah, I loooooove figs, raw AND roasted, YUM. but not so much when they are dried...)

Have to ask: what is the pink-ish stuff that i covering the the roll at the bottom of the pic????

Finally got around to unmolding the creme caramel I made yesterday but then someone took a slice before I got a chance to take a pic of the thing (p.s. we call it “Leche Flan”). I had like 1/2 tbsp like bite cuz i felt like any more and I’d dump. It was pretty delicious if you like creamy, silky, sweet, decadent, rich stuff. Its not something one would have alot of at once though, lol:

OK...you are going to have to explain this to us! What's the diff between restriction and fullness?

Gathered together a bunch of stuff that needed to be used up and came up with.... FANCY TOAST. 😉 Ricotta mixed with preserved lemon & juice on toasted french bread slices, topped with truffle roasted figs and drizzled with honey...oh and some toasted walnuts on top. I ate one toast: 184 calories.

I adding cayenne and hot sauces to my food once I past the liquid phase. The first time I think was around 3 weeks when I put tobasco on my eggs. No issues.

Sunday afternoon baking of my fave cookies of all time: Amaretti Cookies! This batch was made with 1/2 cup real sugar and 3/4 cup swerve. I ate two cookies: 53 calories for both of ‘em. P.S. I also made a small creme caramel with the leftover egg yolks. Its still setting in the fridge, so haven’t turned it out yet to take a pic of it in all its syrupy glory. Can’t wait! 😂

I lost lots (lots! we are talking CARPETS of hair in on my bathroom floor) from months 3-6-ish. Started seeing all the little itty biitty chicken hairs sticking up around 8-9 months, i think...I am now 2.5 years out and and all those little chicken hairs are pretty much the same length as the rest of my hair, which is about shoulder length now. I already had pretty thin hair pre-op, so losing the hair was pretty noticeable. Now, i want to say its actually thicker looking than it was pre-op, but that may just be wishful thinking, lol. But its much, much better my hair loss phase for sure.

Ok, this caught my attention...do you happen to know the reasoning for this?

I didn't lose any weight before surgery (well, except for 11 lbs during my 2 week pre-op liquid diet...does that count?) I had a BMI of 43 at the beginning of my pre-op diet. I'm BMI 20 today.

BBQ Pork Skewers Ate about 3/4 of 1 skewer: guessing 200 calories (+ 141 cals for an espresso martini drank while I was bbq-ing 😎)

I did not stall at all. There may have been a couple days in a row that I didn't lose weight here and there, but every week, I logged a loss.

Yeah, strength training will only help so much as you can re-fill the skin with muscle. Unless you can create some muscle in the equivalent volume of your lost fat, you will most likely have flappiness up in there. P.S. Mine are pretty flappy, but mostly only noticeable when I'm wearing short shorts that squeeze everything out, lol.

Couple new ones from yesterday: Roller skating and traversing the monkey bars!

OOTD to the park on a gorgeous afternoon...Its been 35+ years since I’ve done either of these activities. I still got it, baby. 😎