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I am doing an experiment to break a plateau. I had 1400 calories today, will drop down to 800 tomorrow, then stay around 1000 the rest of the week. We'll see what happens!

Yay lost 4 pounds this week!!

vacation this week......all I did was workout, I did 2 spin classes in one day.ROAR

So far a great week! Down 3 pounds!!

So it's just been a week since post-op but how much did u guys lose in the first week cos it feels like i an stuck on 10lbs and the scale wouldn't move any more

An extra week of vacation?? Yes please!!!

Well it's almost Monday...luckily it's a short week.

One week!!!! Aghhh!

3 days post-op on liquids diet for a week and already lost 7 lbs

Tomorrow we head for home, but despite being on vacation I lost 2 pounds this week. I'm very happy.

Now in a size 4!! <3

It has hit me today, as I sit in my chair at work that I don't have my belly sticking out to where it would hit the desk. Oh and I can cross my legs more comfortably. It amazes me just how much I have loss in inches vs actual pounds, I have lost 24 lbs all together. But I believe in inches all over about 3 inches. I am noticing more energy and have pep to my step. My skin is a lot clearer. My watch band is shorter by 3 notches. the little things are what I am noticing. When I bend over I don't feel out of breath or I am going to fall over ( weeble wobble). 

I am having a hard time with my sweet tooth, it is very hard to not want to get some ice cream or chocolate. Candy I can do without. I have no craving really for that, just chocolate and ice cream. I have gone as far as taking Popsicle and putting them in my mixer with almond milk and making like ice cream with that/ sometimes I have added un-flavored protein powder. 

I feel better everyday. The energy is great to have with having younger kids and being able to have the energy to keep up. 😃

Now that I'm in maintenance mode, I'm getting a into a routine for my meals. Every day, I start out with 8-16 ounces of water, and then a proffee, which I have come to look forward to even the night before. My proffees are simply a black coffee with a protein powder added. There are three products that I cycle through: Premier Vanilla, Orgain Vanilla, and Dymatize Vanilla.

For second breakfast on workdays, I will have a low-fat yogurt with two tablespoons of PBFit and two teaspoons of no sugar added dried cherries. I will have ingested 35-45 grams of protein at this point between the two breakfasts, with 250-285 calories, and about 20 carbs.

For second breakfast on non-workdays, I will prepare two servings of plain, instant oatmeal with a tablespoon of an olive oil-based spread. This means I will have had 34 grams of protein, 365 calories, and 38 carbs. Non-workdays are when I am being very active with training sessions, so I allow myself more carbohydrate fuel.

Snacks on any day are always mixed nuts, even when I am travelling. I will have 0.2 cups of a blend that I make myself. It consists of dry roasted peanuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, pistachios, and Brazil nuts. This is 5 grams of protein, 163 calories, and 7 carbs.

Breakfast and snacks have been the easiest to nail down. Lunch and dinner have more variables, and I prepare enough for leftovers. I concentrate on protein first, and then add vegetables. Typically tempeh, tofu, or Field Roast products with roasted or sautéed vegetables. Today, I will be eating leftovers from last night. Two ounces of tempeh with four ounces of roasted vegetables that consist of red and yellow sweet peppers, sweet potatoes, small purple potatoes, zucchini, and carrots. I will add a tablespoon of olive oil-based spread, break up 3 walnuts to sprinkle of top, and garnish with two tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese. This particular meal will be 19 grams of protein, 377 calories, and 28 grams of carbs. Bear in mind that I do eat more carbs when I am not working, and I focus on ingesting healthy carbs instead of breads/crackers/chips/crisps.

It's a helluva journey and I'm thankful to be on it!

Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.

I haven't been able to advance my diet past purees. Everything I eat other than tofu makes me choke and feels like trying to swallow rocks. They warned me it would get worse before it gets better, so lets hope this is all normal. I have my follow up on Monday so we'll see. Living on shakes and soup again is not fun. I had enough of them the first time!! LOL 

Ok so 1 week and 1 day away from the rest of my life!! Thank u GOD and continue to walk with US..

So this past Friday made 3 months smoke free for me!! I'm looking forward to the new healthier me. Appt 5 of 6 is in 2wks!!!

hey, no, i havent gotten it removed but i'm really tempted, i'm giving it one more chance. im just getting over the flu right now. but i will have a few good days out of the week then ill get nauseous 2-3 days a week, i just feel like its made me more depressed than happy, it sucks but maybe when i get over the sickness ill feel better and if not ill get it removed

heyy, my first week sucked soooo bad, i had nausea the whole week, one day it was so bad i had to go to the ER, not fun! >.< so a week after (the friday after, aug 7th) i saw my surgeron and he gave me a better nausea med. soo it made me better for two weeks, and then friday night..the 21st..i ate something way to early..i feel so stupid..it was cheetos..ugh how stupid i know. but a few mins after eating some, i got sick so bad. i didnt have a PB though. saturday, i dry heaved like about 5 times (i did this one day in my first week too yet i had a barium swallow and everything was in place) but it made me feel better for awhile. ive felt sick for 5 days now(feeling a tiny bit better) i have this weird feeling in my throat that wont go away...i just want it gone and feel better again...

it's okay, been pretty busy since school has been out and getting ready for graduation

im kinda in pain right now, oh! i have to get my gallblader out which is why im having pain now...was in the hospital 3 weekends ago and they found gallstones had very sevre pain that night...but that stinks although, you're doing great right now, dont give up!!!!!

i love tripp too. i have one corset that actually fits altogether i have 3, a dress i want to fit into, now the skirt, tripp street skinny and capris but i also want to and definitely need to lose more weight, nowhere near my mini goal at all. i have not bought anything from torrid but i always wanted to and thank you, goodluck to you too (:

Def can tell the difference in lifting and not. I am down 2 lbs not lifting. I seem to lose more when I do lift... So time to step back up lifting this week, I only did one day last week. Bad Tina. THe band is a tool you have to work with it.

Relaxing while forgetting about a crazy work week. Ahhhh don't you just love Friday nights...

Mr. at a client site, the Kid at school.  FINALLY!  After 2+ weeks I finally have the house to myself! #yay

I broke 150 lbs today!!!!

150 lbs has been my wall for the past 15 years.  I've dieted down to the low 150s 3 times only to regain what I lost and more. 

I am now officially 149.7 lbs as of this morning.  Yay me!