We are beginning week 6! We count surgery week as week 1 so everyone should be completing their 5th week of their brand new tummy!

I've been traveling a lot the last few weeks and it is a HUGE eye opener to how little I can eat now. I survived a buffet by having a few bites of some different things, and paid for far too much money for meals that I couldn't take home leftovers and it looks like I didn't eat a thing off the plate. I think one of the hard things for me is that a plate of food comes and it looks so good and I want to devour it! I get slightly depressed I'll only get to enjoy a few bites. Yet after about 1/4 cup I'm stuffed and full and push the plate away and don't want another bite, which is AWESOME!! I'm assuming the odd depression right when the plate comes out will pass. At least when I'm at home I can box the left overs right away and then it might not seem so bad. I never thought much about the money being saved on food, but holy cow its gotta be a ton.

So I'm curious... how many are sticking to super low carb, vs those who are just watching calories/letting restriction do its job.

How many are working out a ton and how many are waiting?

Whats your favorite meal at this point?

And I'd like to continue habsi's question; what pills/multivitamins is everyone taking daily?

devint I loved your idea for putting up averages etc!! I've added mine and included those who weighed in last week. Hopefully we can get everyone to weigh in Monday or Tuesday next week and see our numbers skyrocket!

We are beginning week 6! We count surgery week as week 1 so everyone should be completing their 5th week of their brand new tummy!

I've been traveling a lot the last few weeks and it is a HUGE eye opener to how little I can eat now. I survived a buffet by having a few bites of some different things, and paid for far too much money for meals that I couldn't take home leftovers and it looks like I didn't eat a thing off the plate. I think one of the hard things for me is that a plate of food comes and it looks so good and I want to devour it! I get slightly depressed I'll only get to enjoy a few bites. Yet after about 1/4 cup I'm stuffed and full and push the plate away and don't want another bite, which is AWESOME!! I'm assuming the odd depression right when the plate comes out will pass. At least when I'm at home I can box the left overs right away and then it might not seem so bad. I never thought much about the money being saved on food, but holy cow its gotta be a ton.

So I'm curious... how many are sticking to super low carb, vs those who are just watching calories/letting restriction do its job.

How many are working out a ton and how many are waiting?

Whats your favorite meal at this point?

And I'd like to continue habsi's question; what pills/multivitamins is everyone taking daily?

devint I loved your idea for putting up averages etc!! I've added mine and included those who weighed in last week. Hopefully we can get everyone to weigh in Monday or Tuesday next week and see our numbers skyrocket!

Current WEIGHT LOST - 660!!

Average of those who did this weeks weigh in - 26lbs

Sorry the formatting didn't stay... The numbers are SW CW Weight Lost

alxmak1021 289 270 19

devint 288 254 34

WhoKnows 252 233 19

Nicci829 318 298 20

kungfuaaron 296 266.6 29.4

par1959 344 298 46

habsi 240 213.6 26.4

mrsfitzpatrick 350 313 37

hrhlaurie 250 230 20

tiredtwinmommy 183 163 20

cnilson 250 222 28

Krystal0528 290 263 27

bella328i 278 250 28

Monte0828 204 181.4 22.6

SingleMom33 261 238 23

lylabelle 260 235.6 24.4

I checked signatures to try to get updated numbers of these.

jajmj 13

Sh3iz 300 279 21

DsmCasey 360 320 40

DonnaM75 284 253.5 30.5

LookingforMe 256 236 20

Skinnyana 225 211 14

SlimDownThick 256 234 22

barbcute 235 217 18

TaylorR 358 330 28

TXGALINAR 284 253.5 30.5

Anybody thinking of doing lipocavitation?

They do Cool Sculpting (http://www.coolsculpting.com) around here which looks to be similar. The lady at the spa place thinks highly of it but I know she is biased. I have really not considered any of those body things at this time but I been thinking more about my face. Losing the weight is making a few of my smile lines (I don't have wrinkles!) a bit more prominent.

Eversince i lost the weight, my skin legs of course i loosen...and so we now see that i have HUGE varicose veins. So this week i had taken an appointment to get ride of them. When i got there the dr refuse to perform the injections, he checked my veins with ultrasound or something and saw that i had a vasculary problem starting around the pelvic area...so now he refers me to the hospital for surgery. Just another example of the saying , when the water level of a river lowers, thats when you can start seeing the rocks.

Oh Niquee. That is more than a bit unsettling! You are going to have to keep us informed!

I am very sorry to hear that!

It should be fine, the problem is just that in the public system this will take a long time before they get to my turn...

Mine to!!! Im shuffling side to side all the time!! My tail bone hurts!!!

Got on the scale this morning and I have gained 3 lbs, I have no idea why

Edited February 18, 201511 yr by 4andcounting

I love quest bars to much sigh

Same. I have had to stop buying them. I did buy some of the quest vanilla protein powder. I have added it to a few things to make them "better bads"

I wish my mouth and my tummy liked the same things. Most of the time they agree but this afternoon.....

What an awful month...its my worse so dar, gain 2lbs, lose 2lbs....bottom line i am up to my old tricks, not moving and munching all the time... Need a chocolate fix everyday..chrome does not work.

So i am a bit freaking out. Either it´s seasonal depression and beach therapy will fix me up, or i need a good pyschologist to fix my eating habits and living habits and learn how to desl better with stress and such.

I am so tires of having to improve all the time in all the fields of my life.

Be a better mom, be a better wife, be healthier, be a better employee, be a better person.....well fuck why is it never good enough for anybody, everytime i improve the quest for more just continues.

You know if youn put a frog in a pot of water and then turn on the heat. It will stay in the boiling water and cook there. But if you try to put a frog straignt in boiling water, its never gonna let you.

I dont know what i am talking about, i am just in a pissy mood....vacation starts wenesday...it better be all i hope it will be

Do you ever get your stomach fill with what seem foam...or your own saliva that turned into foam, and you just gotta get rid of it because notihing else will go in..,i notice this happens a lot when i have not eaten enough...as if my stomack was chewing up all this time on spin cycle and its just foaming away whatever liquid is in there...producing gaz.

I had to take ovol this morning

I think that's called the slimes? I've never experienced it but others on this board have.

I too need to breakup with quest bars.... Great source of protein , but not to have all the time

I had a month where I didn't drop weight... I didn't gain, but in this game not losing feels like gaining because our " honeymoon " period is almost over! I started slipping back into bad habits ... I went back and looked at my pre surgery pics ..129 pounds ago, and that gave me the kick in the ass I really needed again

We all got the way we were because of crap in our heads... We need to continue working on that stuff every day to be successful... It will always be a struggle for me !

Happy Easter! How is everyone doing? It is so quiet here these days.

~Suzzann