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Today's OOTD
I am in love with these cheap ass leggings from Walmart..... I think they are like $5. They fit high on the waist and does not roll down. Super soft.....

Not going to lie.... i do miss my band sometimes. But the sleeve is doing great.... today 137lbs.... that's a 36.5 lbs loss since Aug.

Yes.... she was my "other half".... and everyone calls me Chris.... but my name is Christina.... so.... she became Tina.

Wholly "a complete nother man" Batman! That's amazing and FABULOUS!!!! AM I YELLING? CUZ I FEEL LIKE I AM!!!! What an inspiration! Love the new look. Muy guapo! Debonaire! Sophisticated and LOVE the color. Very Tommy!

So I’ve officially lost 205lbs since last year and down to 294.4. Getting plastics in august!

Okay so I PROMISE soon I’ll have time to properly respond to everyone.
y’all look FABULOUS.
simply. Fabulous

I’ve got a couple more OOTD, coz I haven’t posted in 2-3 days and now I’m at work with a slooooooow internet.

first pic is from Christmas Eve and next is from this afternoon as I was getting dressed for work.
I posted myself in this dress 3 months ago and it’s MUCH looser now.

yes, I’m at GW, but will weigh again after Jan 1st to see what adjusting I need to do.

Good morning beautiful ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday on my lunch I went shopping for new pants (work and jeans). That was frustrating. Anyone else have the problem all the sizes are too big? I’m only a size 6/ small but everything was at least 2 sizes too big. I finally found a pair of size 6 Nine West skinny jeans. That’s what I’m wearing today with my new Christmas boots. It’s supposed to start snowing soon and not stop till tomorrow afternoon. It’s going to be a really cold couple of days. I hope you all have a great day everyone. It’s off to work I go.

[emoji322][emoji322]Happy Holidays everyone [emoji322][emoji322]
We are out of town post Christmas but had to come here to get my daily dose of OOTD!

You guys all look awesome!! I wouldn't even know where to start!! Wish I could like pictures ×100!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji176][emoji176]

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Congratulations ms.sss!!!

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Good luck!!!!!!! So happy and excited for you!![emoji322][emoji253][emoji175]

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

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[emoji322][emoji322]Happy Holidays everyone [emoji322][emoji322]
We are out of town post Christmas but had to come here to get my daily dose of OOTD!

You guys all look awesome!! I wouldn't even know where to start!! Wish I could like pictures ×100!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji176][emoji176]

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[emoji322][emoji322]Happy Holidays everyone [emoji322][emoji322]
We are out of town post Christmas but had to come here to get my daily dose of OOTD!

You guys all look awesome!! I wouldn't even know where to start!! Wish I could like pictures ×100!![emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji108][emoji176][emoji176]

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Outpatiênt çhic 😅
I knew I would NOT see super flaming hot PA so this is how i looked for routine testing
Bye Felicia

Ok.... so I use to have a lot of pictures on here.... before, during and after when i had the band... but i hid them and now i can't figure out how to open them....
Anyway, Here is my Before, Before pic. Blue shirt, 232lbs. It was my first dr. visit pic. Swim suit is at my very best before having Tina removed 143lbs. That was taken in the summer of 2016.
The burnt orange sweater is today..... I weight less now than in the swim suit..... Today 137lbs.

Before and after Christmas dinner

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I won’t go into details, I did once on this sight. Suffice it to say, it took me four years to get my surgery. It was an emotional roller coaster and I won’t lie there were many tears of frustration.
The two years prior to my surgery, I lost 35 pounds on my own with diet and exercise. Since my surgery in August 2019, I have lost another 64 pounds. Most of that from the four weeks on a liquid diet before and after my surgery.
Maybe because it took so long, really appreciate the wonder this surgery has brought to my life. I always considered my inability to lose weight and keep it off my biggest failure in life. For the first time in my life, I feel like I will not only lose the weight but be able to maintain the weight loss.
Where exercise was always a challenge, it had just become part of my daily life now and I have finally come to realize what huge portions of food I had been eating.
I am trying to lose one more pound by the end of the year because if I do, will go into 2020, a hundred pounds lighter than my heaviest weight!

Please, please, PLEASE rethink this one!!!! In my honest opinion, I've yet to see anyone use them successfully without suffering what I term "lion-i-zation". Where your features distort to an animal-like muzzle look and that includes when Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox did it.
Think of Meg Ryan...ugggg. Fillers are f**k!

We are all different. I was instructed when I have a food that I added and it did that to me, I was supposed to go back 1-2 stages for a day or two until the inflammation resided. Then try to progress again with ONPLAN foods.
Carrots (raw) are NOT part of the puree stage. Well-steamed carrots? Would be ok to puree, BUT when you cook carrots to that point, they have a crap ton of available sugar in them and may spike your blood sugar and since you are a bypass pt. you might have an episode of dumping with sufficient quantity.
So a better choice would be butternut squash, canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling), or even a bit of well-cooked sweet potato. Or even better, roasted smashed cauliflower.
Glad you feel better today.

I second everything @FluffyChix said.
Know your stages and what foods are allowed in those stages. It's not meant to torture you. It's meant to allow your body to heal.

Not only does the gentlemen have great taste in clothing... He has even better taste in his ladies! Mrs. Dtrain is a most beautiful and stunning woman. Her smile and demeanor reflect pride, adoration and care for her man. As do you for her. What a new lease on life you have been given. Wishing you many many happy years together. Hubs and I Celebrate our 25th vow renewal and silver anniversary gala on the mainline next spring. Fun! Thank you so much for sharing this. Priceless. By the way, know any fine gentleman for some of our fabulous single ladies here?

Reading all current literature, it appears that your case is what typically happens about 50% of the time. There isn't a lot of data as to why, because everone is different, but logically it would seem many people go into "maintenance mode" (eating an amount to sustain current weight) long before they should. So first the weight stops coming off, then people slowly go above maintenance mode, and the weight starts creeping back up.
Alcohol is pure calories, and mixing a drink is double calories. A lot of people for example drink things like vodka and cranberry and think it is "low cal". Nothing could be further from the truth. Bar cranberry juice is like drinking raw sugar.
so might I recommend, stop drinking your calories, and then drop to 1000 cal total per day (like the diet you probably had which worked for you) and crush your weight back down over 2 months. Then watch your maintenance mode, to make sure it isn't to many cal's per day.
Best of luck !

Heres the Christmas Eve meal i had at my house. I made lasagna too..... way too much lasagna. I did one small pan of ground turkey and zucchini for me and 4 huge pans the traditional way for the rest of my family. Took me 3 hours 😕 They took care of the rest of the cooking. Just like thanksgiving I stuck to the lighter foods, and avoided Desserts. Christmas day ... well thats a different story.


Zucchini Lasagna: It was my first time making it this way and I loved it! Didnt miss the Pasta too much.

This is exactly how I felt while waking up this morning lol