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What a rollercoaster for real!!! Congratulations!! All is well that ends well!! Your pcp and her "boss" will eat their words in a year's time! This is all the motivation you need!!

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🎉🎉 Happy Rebirthday 🎉🎉
🏆 Happy Wife Happy Life 🏆

No, my wife set up the photo shoot as a part of my Rebirth day. I'm a sudden cardiac arrest survivor and was clinically dead for over 5 minutes before I was revived. We Celebrate that day of the cardiac arrest every year. The before picture was taken 2 weeks before my cardiac arrest.

I can see that you are married so I am respectfully asking if this photo shoot is for a department wide calender 😅?

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. We are all dressed for the night and ready for Santa to arrive.

This is the uniform edition of OOTD before and after style. I've been retired for 4.5 years from the police department and I recently did a photo shoot in uniform at my present weight. What made me felt really good was going through the uniform room looking for smaller uniform clothing to fit me. 😊

I am festive AF today. My only regret is not being able to find red sweater tights.

Travel outfit.
    

Heading out for date night on Christmas Eve eve

This is transference. He's afraid YOU will no longer be attracted to him when you get thinner and more conventionally attractive. Pat him on the head and tell him to STFU.

Playing devil's advocate here.
You are under goal weight and according to your nut, have lost 100% of your excess weight.
Why are you depriving yourself of celebrating the holidays with friends? Isn't the goal of WLS is to be able to fully enjoy our lives? You have already established that you can go off plan, have some small gain, and then come back, knuckle down and lose again.
For me, this is exactly where I wanted to be in life. To just live and eat like a normal weight person. I just put guardrails up on a high weight and with logging. But otherwise I just want to enjoy my life, including dinner and drinks during the holidays with friends.
I think it's easy to get hyperfocused on losing weight, and we can lose sight of what the end game is, to be happy, healthy and relaxed in our own skin.

I'm sorry for your struggles!!! ((hugs)) Depression is a b***h!! It sets up not only emotional and behavior barriers for making healthy choices, but it also sets up a physiological cascade of stress hormones whose job it is to keep you alive! And keep you eating! So it activates all the hunger hormones and we eat and eat and eat and we eat the kinda of stuff that will give us a biochemical reward of dopamine and seratonin (feel good hormones), cuz you know...we're depressed. Right? Let's build some neurotransmitters to help!
So the answer is simple and difficult at the same time. You have to dig deep down and find the will and the willpower to say, "Fork this spit! I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore! Today is the day I step out in change! I'm choosing to make a better choice!" Then you take tiny little baby steps to make the next best choice. You don't look forward and you quit looking back. And pretty soon you've racked up days and weeks and months of making the next best choice and you are back on track.
Like @catwoman7 I know absolutely how easy it is to not make the best choice and to have weight quickly pile back on to my body. I'm not metabolically blessed or particularly flexible. And I'm very cautious as I finalize year 2 post op and move into year 3. Cuz I do NOT want weight loss to "just happen". There are things I do to keep my weight in balance:
GOLDEN RULE: When struggling with regain or stalls or a slow down in weight loss rate-thou shalt weigh daily, measure and take a picture monthly, and plan and log everything that you shove down your piehole. Everything. Good and bad. (Oh, I'm talking about you Mr. Pringle and Mr. Lays...I'm talking about you, Ernest and Julio-the Gallo Brothers.)
1. Eat on my Forever Diet Plan given to me by my doctor and RD for as many consecutive days as humanly possible. (Lean dense Protein forward, healthy al dente veggies next, a bit of healthy fat with it, and if I'm still hungry, then either more veggies or a low glycemic serving of fruit.)
2. Absolutely adhere to getting in my Water (100+oz per day) with the 15/45 rule in place. And I water load as well. That's staying well-hydrated all day but 15 mins before a meal I will drink about 3/4 of my full capacity of water, then sip, sip, sip, until I'm very full with water and feel like I can't drink any more. Then I wait 15 mins and eat my next scheduled meal. After that, nothing liquid for 45mins. It works like magic to reduce the amount of hunger, reduce volume eaten at a meal, and help me feel my full signal quicker.
3. Take my supplements.
4. Limit snacking to schedule healthy mini-meals to keep blood sugar balanced. As soon as the rollercoaster of blood sugar stops, I start cutting out between meal Snacks.
5. Get lots of walking in daily.
6. Have stress relieving activities scheduled (4-square breathing, meditation or prayer, group support meetings and clubs/groups you enjoy, hobbies, crafts & coloring by numbers.
7. Watch comedies and laugh. (increases endorphins=feel good hormones)
8. Hug the people you love tightly for 1-3minutes (increases oxytocin and the feel good hormones).
9. Practice self-affirmation in the mirror. Look in a mirror and stand in a super hero pose. See yourself as a hero. Smile. Believe.
10. Get good rest. I mean it. Lights out. Totes dark room. Cool. sleep at least 6 hours or more if you can.
And you get up the next day and make a 1 day PROMISE / Choice to yourself to do it again that day.
(I'm building an online private club with face to face group support meetings that will begin in January if you are interested. It's not instead of BP, but rather in addition to BP for those people who need an accountability partner/group. Let me know if you are interested.)

You are SKINNY!!!!!!...in a very beautiful way!!
I vote YES!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji106][emoji106]

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Absolutely fabulous [emoji175][emoji175][emoji175]

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Welcome and praying all goes well for you tomorrow!!

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Congratulations Sillykitty!!! Very happy you have this wonderful part behind you and continue living your absolutely best life [emoji108][emoji108][emoji175][emoji175][emoji253][emoji253][emoji253]

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I couldn't agree more!!!

A lovely amazing resort with ALL amazing amenities especially......KID'S CLUB!!![emoji28][emoji28][emoji1]

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Can't wait to see!!! Wishing you both safe surgery and speedy recoveries!!![emoji176][emoji176]

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Lol!!!

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Beautiful shot!!!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji8]

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Absolutely fabulous [emoji175][emoji175][emoji175]

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You are SKINNY!!!!!!...in a very beautiful way!!
I vote YES!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji106][emoji106]

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Day 12: I didn't buy myself a flower but does e flowers count? I got that one in spades[emoji1]

Day 13: I did read a few chapters of my kid's book of jokes! Believe it or not, I laughed more at the cheesy "knock Knock" jokes!!! ....I need to get a life![emoji28]

Day 14: I'm not on the major social media sites other than Bariatricpal! Honestly the most positive site I've ever been on so no need to unfollow[emoji176]

Day 15: Definitely did that! Went hiking with BFF yesterday! And when I got to the top of the trail, I realized I was not huffing and puffing like I would have done in the past! A TRUE victory!![emoji119][emoji119][emoji119] That trail had conquered me many a times before! We did it so leisurely like we were walking on a flat land!

Day 16: I should get a nice pair of shoe really! But I need to offload some to charity in order to do that so we'll see if I can find the time.



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