kellym1220

I had my mom (81 yo) visiting for Thanksgiving. It was very low key, my sister, my son, my mom and me. If it could have ended with that day. I probably would have been fine, but since she drove up from Miami and spent 5 days...well...I gained 3.3 pounds and today I finally lost weight below the 225 I was at on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving! YAY! We ate out (I tried to steer it toward seafood), we ate leftovers and TOO MUCH CHEESE! And crackers, meats and nuts...little "snacky" things. (Plus eggnog...I made mine with a vanilla Protein Shake, egg yolks and spices, but the brandy...ah. the brandy!)
For Christmas, it will just be my son and me, and I will NOT have all of the Snacks. There will be a special meal (Prime Rib) and I have mashed cauliflower, but will be making mashed potatoes too.

I found that I was over doing the Iron, which caused Constipation. Once I lowered my dose (currently at 0), my constipation issues mostly went away!

You look amazing! We had the same surgeon and I hope I can get to where you are! I had a friend who did just what you are planning...she moved to Asheville, NC and is LOVING her new life! Good luck with whatever you choose!

It gets better on day 3. You might want to try a different shake (unless your surgeon tells you what shake to use). I used Premier Protein shakes primarily and also had Swanson Bone Broth and Jello.

You look amazing! We had the same surgeon and I hope I can get to where you are! I had a friend who did just what you are planning...she moved to Asheville, NC and is LOVING her new life! Good luck with whatever you choose!

You look amazing! We had the same surgeon and I hope I can get to where you are! I had a friend who did just what you are planning...she moved to Asheville, NC and is LOVING her new life! Good luck with whatever you choose!

This is almost my EXACT same story!! Snacking, tasting, drinking...up 3 pounds! I actually opened a bottle of good champagne (a splurge for me) and no one else wanted any!! So I DRANK THE WHOLE BOTTLE! (Luckily this was after dinner and close to bedtime!) I made a Protein Shake sugar free eggnog and had one of those with brandy and then, since my mom is still visiting, continued the food fest through today. I plan on being as good as I can today (we are getting lobster and stone crab for lunch and having homemade turkey Soup for dinner) and hopping back on the wagon tomorrow! No snacking today!

This is almost my EXACT same story!! Snacking, tasting, drinking...up 3 pounds! I actually opened a bottle of good champagne (a splurge for me) and no one else wanted any!! So I DRANK THE WHOLE BOTTLE! (Luckily this was after dinner and close to bedtime!) I made a Protein Shake sugar free eggnog and had one of those with brandy and then, since my mom is still visiting, continued the food fest through today. I plan on being as good as I can today (we are getting lobster and stone crab for lunch and having homemade turkey Soup for dinner) and hopping back on the wagon tomorrow! No snacking today!

This is almost my EXACT same story!! Snacking, tasting, drinking...up 3 pounds! I actually opened a bottle of good champagne (a splurge for me) and no one else wanted any!! So I DRANK THE WHOLE BOTTLE! (Luckily this was after dinner and close to bedtime!) I made a Protein Shake sugar free eggnog and had one of those with brandy and then, since my mom is still visiting, continued the food fest through today. I plan on being as good as I can today (we are getting lobster and stone crab for lunch and having homemade turkey Soup for dinner) and hopping back on the wagon tomorrow! No snacking today!

It's soooo hard not to compare yourself to others! But I weigh less now than I did in 2017 (when I started using myfitnesspal so that makes me happy! In fact, this may be pretty close to the lowest I've been since then, and I feel way more confident about maintaining this weight loss. I looked back and I am one pound away from the lowest I've been over the past three years and that was in in October 2018 (and I was probably on HCG, which I think totally screwed up my metabolism!) Anyway, 60 pounds is amazing, it's 20% of your body weight, which I think helps put it in perspective!
Take care and keep drinking that water!

Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone can be with someone they love, even if it's by phone or Zoom.

Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone can be with someone they love, even if it's by phone or Zoom.

Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone can be with someone they love, even if it's by phone or Zoom.

Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone can be with someone they love, even if it's by phone or Zoom.

Well thanks to you all, and an Amazon Black Friday sale, I actually weigh myself TWICE each morning now! I haven't been able to hook my scale to bluetooth (either of them....grrrrr) but I will ask my son to figure it out tomorrow. I have a Fitbit scale and the Renphro and they are weighing consistently, although this morning the Renphro was 0.1 favorable, so that's the weight I went with!! LOL

Well thanks to you all, and an Amazon Black Friday sale, I actually weigh myself TWICE each morning now! I haven't been able to hook my scale to bluetooth (either of them....grrrrr) but I will ask my son to figure it out tomorrow. I have a Fitbit scale and the Renphro and they are weighing consistently, although this morning the Renphro was 0.1 favorable, so that's the weight I went with!! LOL

I'm not sure if there is a correlation, but I was getting very concerned about the dark circles under my eyes. I was having my follow up with my PCP and asked her to check my Vitamin levels and apparently I had been overdoing it on the Iron (I bought the BariatricPal Multivitamin ONE with 45mg of Iron). So I stopped taking that one every day (especially since too much iron = constipation) and now my dark circles are gone (and so is the constipation!) I am meeting with my doctor on Thursday (my PCP not my surgeon) and I am going to ask how much Iron I should be taking so I can hopefully get this right!

I went through my clothes yesterday and got rid of everything, including jeans, that were too big! It felt amazing! I still have clothes in 16 (slightly too big) and 14 slightly too small...but I'll get there and the 16's will go too!

I went through my clothes yesterday and got rid of everything, including jeans, that were too big! It felt amazing! I still have clothes in 16 (slightly too big) and 14 slightly too small...but I'll get there and the 16's will go too!

I went through my clothes yesterday and got rid of everything, including jeans, that were too big! It felt amazing! I still have clothes in 16 (slightly too big) and 14 slightly too small...but I'll get there and the 16's will go too!

So glad to hear it! Constipation can be a b*tch! I started taking Colace nightly. That will definitely help. Then it turned out I was taking too much Iron (I'm almost 4 months out) and once I stopped, that situation resolved! (Yay)
Good luck! I'm 57 and I wish I had done this YEARS ago!!

Every morning, after peeing, naked! I know that if I let it go, I will stop weighing and that's when the pounds creep up! I don't let it get to me (although I have been known to crawl back in bed until I have to pee again)!

Every morning, after peeing, naked! I know that if I let it go, I will stop weighing and that's when the pounds creep up! I don't let it get to me (although I have been known to crawl back in bed until I have to pee again)!

Every morning, after peeing, naked! I know that if I let it go, I will stop weighing and that's when the pounds creep up! I don't let it get to me (although I have been known to crawl back in bed until I have to pee again)!

Every morning, after peeing, naked! I know that if I let it go, I will stop weighing and that's when the pounds creep up! I don't let it get to me (although I have been known to crawl back in bed until I have to pee again)!