BlondePatriotInCDA

Great way to look at it, thank you - I'll keep telling myself this, especially since I only have two months until my 18 month check in and don't think I'll "make goal" before my clinic visit.

You're looking fantastic! I lost my brother recently, its never easy, I'm sorry you lost your grandmother. Take care of yourself, it sometimes becomes a second thought and sometimes a third after we lose a loved one. My thoughts are with you.

Its most definitely a win! Sorry you were at first over whelmed, but take it as the wonderful win that it is.

Congratulations! A very momentous occasion worth celebrating. 😁

Ohh, I've been contemplating getting a helix piercing... Glad you mentioned this!

I feel someone noticing is so much better than just seeing the scale drop! Congrats!

Lol it feels wonderful! Thank you! You've made your goal weight and then some, definitely reason to feel proud and to celebrate! Great job!

Wow, you had me tearing up. You've come so far and through so much. You have great reasons to be proud of yourself.

Welcome! You've got this! Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. You've made a great decision for the rest of a healthy new life! 🤗

As of today I'm officially considered "normal" weight! Finally I'm no longer obese or overweight: Result BMI = 24.9 kg/m2 (Normal) 161718.525303540UnderweightNormalOverweightObesityBMI = 24.9 Healthy BMI range: 18.5 kg/m2 - 25 kg/m2 Healthy weight for the height: 107.8 lbs - 145.6 lbs BMI Prime: 1 Ponderal Index: 15.3 kg/m3 <Happy dance>

😂 Yeah I completely understand this! I can't find a comfortable sleeping position anymore - everything rubs bones upon bones and everything aches! Extra pillows in strategic places helps! What I don't understand is I didn't have this problem before when I weighed 108! BBF (before being fat)!

Thank you for your questions. My dieticians said anymore protein and bodies can't process it so it ends up being a waste unless I'm a hard core body builder / marathon runner athlete. They balked about going up even 100 calories...plus protein doesn't register as feeling full for me, it never has long term. I can drink a 26gram protein drink and nothing. Whereas carbs fill me up, so its a constant battle..or it was... It was agreed that I should start Glp-1's. I've been using this tool for the last few months and all I can say for me they're amazing. The constant mind food harassment has stopped! I no longer feel hungry all the time unless its nearing meal time. Plus my scale is finally showing downward progress - 20lbs+! Again, thank you for asking and your kind words.

I hope your day gets better soon! I completely understand where you're at, I've been in the same slump for a few weeks 😖 I'm hoping its the colder darker days doing it. You've been doing great, so just know its one day..you got it down!

Thank you MSpretty.

We all walk our own paths and have our own experiences. I'm glad for you that YOU haven't had my experiences. Unfortunately, the women I've know would agree with me. I didn't say all women..and your response is what I was referring to. Immediately saying I'm the problem instead of possibly seeing each of us having our own experiences and opinions. I was sharing my personal opinions and feel no one should be accused of "being the problem" for sharing. I believe we all need to be tolerant and understand we all experience life differently. I've been tolerant and just moved on when others miss perceived my shyness as arrogant, but I'm still entitled to my perceptions of how I'm treated without others attacking me.

I have a few female friends (2), but I get along with men better and always have. I have up until recently always worked in a male dominated field. I find most women (not all) to be too emotional, catty, cliquish and backstabbing for me. I am not an demonstrative emotional talkative person with others, other than with my family and husband. So, I'm told I come across as arrogant (its actually being shy and not emo and of course women take me as being bitchy instead of seeing the real me). So I completely understand where you're coming from!

I completely agree, its not just the weight that's changed.

I do like the Iceland brand (sells to n the U.S. too) Including their "yogurt" cheese!

My question to you is why would you want too? The whole point of having WLS is to make us healthier by losing the weight AND keeping it off! What's to keep people from going down that slippery slope once again if we could eat as much as we once did? Enjoy the portion restrictions as a way to maintain a healthier lifestyle!

You've heard "cottage cheese" a lot, for me its been "Greek yogurt"! Between the dieticians and this forum I'm up to my eyeballs in hearing it! Every single time I spoke with the dieticians they mentioned it..you'd think they owned stock in Fage! I only use it as a replacement for sour cream since it tastes like sour cream and not yogurt to me since it has that sour cream bitter sour taste. I do like the pineapple " cottage cheese" although I keep it to a minimum... what with pineapple having lots of sugars!

You're braver than I am, kudos!

Welcome "home" enjoy Montana, beautiful country!

Thank you!!! I really appreciate it.

Wow, I seem to have a good portion of those symptoms, especially "was snapping at everyone and I had a general unwell feeling and I started to get back pain" Then my blood pressure dropped low. Along with extreme fatigue and hair loss. I have all of the above. Thank you for sharing, I think I need to bring this up when I go in for my check up. Thank you! I really hope you start to get better soon!

"I digress, at some point in the convo, they were both giving their opinions on "how could someone let it get so bad" Overweight/obese/fat people are the only group of people unfortunately its still okay to discriminate against and not curb non-PC hurtful language without repercussions from others. If they were to insert any other descriptive into comments about someone the word police would come down hard on them! People like this feel their personal attacks are justified because most people see it as a condition that they did to themselves. They don't see it for what it is.; hurtful hate judgemental talk.