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@GreenTealael love the colour red on you ? @Winchell so great to wear dresses, yes? can't wait to see you in more !!

@chayarg : actually, I'm pretty impressed by YOU and your dedicated efforts to get back on track after so long after your surgery ❤️ . It ain't easy, but here you are posting your menus and working your way down. I was 235 lbs two weeks before surgery.

Warning: This is a long Read. Hey peeps, Feels like its been a while since I've posted on here...I think because alot of my initial apprehension/anxiety/fear of navigating maintenance has basically disappeared. I feel way more confident and secure that I've got this in the bag, so long a I keep up with my "good" habits, i.e., tracking my food, weighing daily, take my vites, drink my water, getting in some exercise. Background reminder: I am almost 15 months post op from sleeve surgery, and I've been in maintenance now for about 7 months. I stopped weight loss mode at 127 lbs, and weighed in 115.4 lbs this morning. Prior to the PS recovery stage I am currently in, I finally figured out that with my normal activity level (5km run daily + 15 mins strength training), my maintenance calories average about 1800-2000 a day. My activity level for the past month however has been virtually null (save the last few days when I started walking 5km day, with the occasional short distance run in there somewhere), and my calorie intake has greatly varied day to day (MFP tells me I roughly averaged 1500 a day for the past month) and this combo has me maintaining 115 lbs. Though I think the lack of exercise/strength training is starting to show on my body parts. My thighs are looking soft, the muscles in my arms and shoulders look less defined, my butt is actually looking saggier! How much this is related to the PS swelling or repositioning, I dunno. I am told I will not see my what my post-plastics final body for another several months. In any case, I am ACHING to be able to run like the wind again and work on some body toning. Regarding food choices, I still stay away from bread, pasta &rice. I have the occasional sugar-laden mixed drink (which I often pay for with dumpings), and my chocolate and desserts intake has probably quadrupled (again, which I often pay for with dumpings). Regarding dumpings, I notice I am more likely to get more severe symptoms if there is nothing else in my stomach, which, when I am drinking or having dessert, is often the case. I can definitely eat alot more in terms of volume than 6 months ago. Though my capacity is inconsistent in that there are days I can eat lots, and other days when I don't...and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. I continue to believe that I am all that and a bag of chips, and my confidence in myself and what I do is filtering into my life in strange ways. I am so much less angry and annoyed. I have way more patience with others and feel like I am less judge-y. I am not harsh on myself anymore, which makes me less harsh on others, I guess. I no longer really care what (non-essential) people think of me, nor do I feel the need to be liked and appreciated by them. On the flip side of this lack of concern, I am fine with "cutting the fat" from my life so to say, meaning that I recognize which relationships or interactions are worth working on and maintaining, and which ones I just step to side from. I am quite comfortable with silences now. All in all, I'm feeling pretty great, and quite happy where I find myself these days. Ok, I didn't mean for this post to be so long and oh-so-reflective, lol. Just wanted to give a how-I-am-doing-in-maintenance update. How are the other maintainers out there (new and old) doing? Would love to hear from you guys ❤️

Isn't your silicone tape re-useable?

Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / 114.5 lbs (weight on Tuesday morning) ---------------------------------------- Oopsies, realized I didn't post Monday's menu. So here is both Monday and Tuesday (yesterday): ---------------------------------------- Monday, Jan. 13 9:30am - 1 skinny green tea latte 1:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + 1 snack can tomato & onion tuna + 1 tbsp mayonnaise 3:30pm - 1 skinny green tea latte + 1/3 cup chia pudding + 1/2 tbsp almond butter + 1 fl oz pumpkin seeds + 2 oz dark chocolate + 1 oz candied ginger + 10 banana chips + 1 cup popcorn 7:30pm - 1 skinny green tea latte + salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + 4 oz korean spicy chicken w/ shitake mushrooms 10:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + 6 green seedless grapes + 3.5 oz grilled chicken Totals: 1325 cals - 82g Protein - 101g NET carbs - 55g fat ---------------------------------------- Yesterday, Tuesday, Jan. 14 9:30am - 1 black coffee w/ stevia + 1 skinny green tea latte + 1 Vanilla Almond KIND Bar 2:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + 6 green grapes + 3.5 oz pan fried chicken 5:30pm - 1 black coffee w/ stevia + 1 Blonde American Misto w/ Soy w/ sugar-free vanilla shot + 1 sugar-free Russel Stover chocolate + 2 oz chicharron 8:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + jalepeno + 2 oz smoked gouda + bbq korean mushrooms + 1 chopped egg + 1 avocado + 3.5 oz pan fried chicken + 1/3 cup spicy cashews 12:30am - peppermint tea w/ stevia + 1/2 a regular praline chocolate + 1 sugar-free mini Reese's peanut butter cup Totals: 1936 cals - 123g Protein - 64g NET carbs - 124g fat ----------------------------------------

I'm surprised your team does not know any sleevers who dump (my doc told me there was a chance I could still dump when I told him one of the reasons I wanted sleeve was that I didn't want to dump)! It may not be as big a percentage of the RNY-ers (don't know much about the other surgeries out there, though), but I know I'm not the only sleever on here that dumps. And yeah, you are lucky

Everyone will react differently. With that said my first ever dumping was about 1.5 months post op from drinking like less than 1 fl oz of some lemon sake/soju drink. Edited to add: oh and I'm a sleeve

@MarvelGirl25 : I think you need to host a Ted Talk and school us on international cuisine.

While one can definitely ask someone else to behave a certain way or speak in a certain way, its up to that person to decide if they will. You can only truly manage yourself and your own reactions. If you don't like what someone has to say, block them.

That's highly likely, smoking weed tends to bring out the munchies in people (especially pot with high THC counts), and for those who have trouble ignoring the munchies, its a slippery slope.

Today's first salad of the day, I put it in the new salad bowl Mr. got me and it looks especially delicious, no? It's like an OOTD for salad, LOL. Salad greens + vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + grapes + 2.5 oz chicken. Ate it all. 155 calories.

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Weird, this is the second marijuana-related thread I've come across just today, LOL. Anyway, I've used CBD oil for sleep and/or relaxation once in while...maybe like once a month, or every two months, so not very often. Seems to work fine for me...no high, no hunger, no stomach issues.

@jayali: what kind of surgery did you have? Also, another poster ( @Arabesque ) was asking about "stomach stretching" on another thread...just linking her up to this thread as an FYI...

I like this one.

Too much sugar

It's funny because I seem not to mind showing my bare boob on here, but I think I'm a little shy to wear those teeny-weeny triangle bikini tops in public, LOL. The tan crochet one with the string bikini type top in my basket is already making me nervous...

Reading this made me hungry. Looks like Instant Pot beef stew is on the menu tonite....

Too Late. I got rid of it yesterday, LOL. I hate keeping food that no one will eat.

I'm from Canada, and I got mine from the govertment-operated website which, at the time I bought it, was the only place we can get it legally up here, unless it's doctor prescribed...which mine isn't. Unless you get some word-of-mouth recommendations from people in your state, you may have to do some trial and error, which may get expensive though... Is yours prescribed? Can you ask your doctor for recommendations? P.S. I've tried the non-flavoured oil as well. I am NOT a fan. P.P.S. Also make sure you look at the percentage of CBD in any product...this may be why your first one didn't work?

During weight loss phase I didn't eat any fruit, save for one time early on that I ate like 2 tsp of my mom's fruit salad and had a serious dumping episode. Once in maintenance, blueberries are my go-to fruit. I will also have other berries, and I may have a 1/4 of an apple or like 5-10 grapes in my salads sometimes as well. Very rarely anything else.

^^ This. Even if its just around your kitchen, get up and do it every hour, without fail. It may hurt and you may not want to, but do it anyway. You should be seeing your doc soon for a follow-up, yes? Make sure to bring it up with them. ❤️

Can you get CBD oil? No sugar, and depending on what the manufacturer uses as base oil, calories would range from 5-20 calories per dropperful. I have a peppermint CBD oil spray, which I've used sporadically for relaxation/sleep and more recently for post-plastics pain management, and it does not make me stoned, nor hungry, nor sick to my stomach. Edited to add: Also, I would stay away from smoking in the early days as it hampers healing. Though ideally, just stay away from smoking at all ❤️

I had ass pain from sitting in the early months as well. If you can stand it, do some squats and other butt exercises to put some padding back on. It may take a while, but I think it works. I started doing them semi-regulary starting Feb 2019, and then full-on-regularly since Aug 2019. I no longer have sitting-ass pain (and while my butt still looks pan-cakey, its less so than before, LOL). P.S. I HATE squats, but I do them anyway.

... I want that held-together feeling back that my steri-stips gave me too!!! Man, so much conflicting information. I wish there was a standard everyone can agree on . K, new decision: I'm going to wait until the weekend, and if I'm still scabby & pink AND the achiness hasn't gone away, then I'm going to try the silicone sheets for 2 days and see if that makes me feel better...