Hi to us who've made it!! Officially post op and feeling great!

Will the blonde box dye be ok?

Are you adding color or taking it out?

If I was you just call a salon and ask for a master hair dressing I'm sure they will know what is best they handle everything. I have stopped dying my hair and cut it from my butt to my jawline as of today so I can manage the hair loss and also not have to worry about the color treatments as much, Almost forgot I had jet black hair. Good lucK

@@Zzzombrie

Thank you for the info and encouragement. I continue to eat 5 small meals where one meal might be some yogurt and cottage cheese. I am in a stall at 200 pounds. I keep wondering if my body is on hold or I'm having a mental fear of being below 200. It's the weight I've reach before and then gone back up.

In any event, I'm going going up and listening to what I need. My downfall is rice crackers---I eat a few at a meal to get some crunch. I may have to give them up. I like them to much. Not a lot of calories but I eat too many.

Best to everyone! I appreciate the support from this group! And need it.

So it's kinda been a bummer of a week I lost some weight and since I'm trying really hard to lose 30 lbs by November I felt like I was doing so GOOD I only had one more pound to lose til September the average of 10 lbs a month. So I've been working out with my trainer and doing really great on my eating and then 3 days again boom up 4 lbs. I tried not to stress said oh its water weight no big deal. Cut out ALL the sodium in my diet. This morning up 2 lbs from that. So upsetting to the point I wanted to say forget it, I'm putting the scale away for the week and just going to focus but man it is really a downer.

I made goal ???? I am now a 127 lb girl. My goal was 130 those last few lbs were hanging on forever. So here's some of my advice the scale is a liar. When I wasn't losing I really was.. I was dropping sizes, one week my body was all weird looking the next it was evening out all my saggy areas. So I believe I'm entering the body image phase. Like who am I? I look weird deflated..has my nose always been this big or was it buried under my old chubby cheeks? If one more person says wow April you've lost a whole person I'm throat punching them..It's such a mental game..anyways I rewarded myself by buying jeans you know the kind that has the measurements I'm a 26 x27 not a 17,16,15,14, etc so keep up the great work it will come off and let's try and keep our minds strong )

Put the scale away.. You will do it! @ Veronica page

Edited August 26, 201510 yr by Aprilhoffman78

@@Aprilhoffman78 - AMAZING!! Good for you!

I'm hovering around the 157lb mark. My personal goal is 145 and I'll work away at it until I get there! I'm feeling fantastic and looking decent so I'm content and happy. It'll feel very strange one day to NOT need to lose any weight!

@@Veronica Page - I so admire your transparency and courage to be REAL. Don't give up! We are all cheering for you! You can do it and you've come so far!

Edited August 26, 201510 yr by mduffield

@@Aprilhoffman78 wow your progress is great and I'm so happy for you having lost all that weight and hit goal is such a small amount of time. I love buy jeans when I've lost some weight great reward!@@mduffield Thanks for the encouragement, I'm trying not to even focus on it this journey has just been so long and hard already that after years of messing up and regaining ect. I just want to win for once. I'll push through. Venting here helps cause no one else in my life understands what its like to work so hard and not always have it go my way! have a GREAT week guys and you are all my strength!

I completely agree with you, no one understands. Stay strong! Try eatting something out of the norm to throw your body off, that always seemed to help me. I would eat triscuit n squeeze cheese and crab dip then a breakfast burrito and steak for dinner just random things.

so I don't know about you ladies but my monthly cycles were really off and CRAZY heavy so I called my surgeon and he told me since I was having rapid weight loss to go see my ob/gyn and get the depo shot to hold off my periods until I was almost at goal and my body would regulate again. So I went today and I have pcos which is not uncommon but she is like hey you are just bleeding to bleed you are not able to ever get pregnant again cause your uterus is twice the normal size ect ect ect. Great, awesome, oh that explains the slow weight loss and who knows what else...good thing is I did get my shot and shouldn't get my monthly anymore. Ugh just annoying!

Edited September 2, 201510 yr by Veronica Page

Had to share my weekend happiness. 9mo post op - sitting 5lbs under surgeons goal. Enjoyed celebrating 6yrs of marriage with my husband and just feeling normal sized and pretty! It's a very new feeling - couldn't be happier with my Vsg journey and my choice to walk this path. So incredibly proud of everyone here, doing the hard work to gain personal success! Keep it up!

Congrats and you look so beautiful. I'm happy for you and your progress. I'm getting offline for a lil while cause I'm not losing and I'm thinking I just need to stop thinking about it for awhile! GREAT job everyone!

@@Veronica Page

Stick with us. This is the time we need each other the most.

The honeymoon is over for me, it is harder and I can eat more, have more hunger.

Stay off the scale.

Having lost 100 lbs 20 yrs ago, I know I can lose it BUT can I keep it off?@&^%&*%!!!!!!

I am allowing a few sliders to creep in and that is bad news. Got rid of the crackers tonight and Back off sugar.

And I did lose inches even tho I didn't lose pounds.

It's a lifetime challenge but the rewards are so worth it!

ok just jumping on the thread to say I lost my 100 lbs and I'm thrilled. It has been really hard lately with all the stress but I still stick to the program and work the heck out of it! I hope everyone is doing well and I'm cheering for everyone daily !

Great job Veronica!