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We will do traditional turkey, mashed potatoes, broccoli and homemade noodles, stove top stuffing this year since that's what my daughter likes, I prefer my homemade but oh well, dinner rolls, birthday cake as today is my hubby's birthday and Thurs is my daughter's, we will also have pumpkin pie and maybe a chocolate pudding pie. Ugh I'll need to be really careful too. The cucumbers look good.

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That's awesome @@lorri716! I was having some internet issues was not able login in sooner. Hope you guys had a great thanksgiving???? i did really good ate most Protein (pork ribs without the bbq sauce).

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Just dropping by to see how your doing. Hope you had a great weekend. I decided yesterday to come to my sisters overnight (a 3 hr trip), just to get away for a day. They all seem to think I look so different lol. I still see me. I guess someday it'll all catch up and I'll see what everyone else sees.

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Hi I like your posts. I have similar questions and issues. My thanksgiving went well eating turkey a little mashed potatoes and dressing with cranberry sauce but mostly i had turkey. I made mini cherry pies helps everyone with Portion Control. My favorite snack i cant be without are sugar free popsicles microwaved into a yummy slush!!

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@@Rdsegobia - you have a great attitude and I share your thoughts about this being seeing food as "fuel" only.

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Good morning, I been doing good. I survived the holiday ????????. In the last two weeks I lost 3 lbs, which is awesome!! My son left this morning to college and my daughter goes back to classes tomorrow and I came back to work today. I really did not log the food I ate last week, however I was very careful in the food I chose.. Protein first.

I really enjoyed the time with all of my kids and hubby at home.

I started back on my routine this Morning - eating at my times (Breakfast at 7:00am) snack at 10:30am and I will have lunch at 12:30pm and dinner will be around 6pm (which is always a Premier Protein shake). I'm happy to hear your holiday was great too! You know the comment you say about your sister that is able to notice a different on how you look, well sometimes I feel that way.. People tells me that they could see the weight loss, however there are some days that I don't see a big difference and other days I do, weird right????. Hope your day is awesome????????

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@@rln52 thank you, we could give ourselves support here. You are more than welcome to stay in contact with us. How far are you? When was your surgery date?

@@thenewandbestme You know I do the exact same thing with my popcicles- I put them in the microwave for 15seconds and had my slushy???? now everyone at the house does that too.

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@@cindi gant by the time you notice Christmas will be here and I'm sure you will be in onederland!! It feels amazing to say that✌️ keep it up!!

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@@jane13 thank you, I'm a very positive person! I always try to look at the bright side of every situation and like I mention to others we could give each other support here and would love to hear from you in this journey! Please share ideas, or things that are working for you. When was your surgery? Wish you all the success????????

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Here is something to contemplate, lets not give up on our goal..post-260556-14489032756455_thumb.jpg

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My surgery date was 8-10-15 it was a Monday. I was 194lbs that day today's weight 155. But my high preop weight was 211. I worried I would gain for this past week but I lost 2.8 lbs. I did eat some carbs just not too many. I have been lucky i can tolerate most everything I eat but I am very cautious. I eat mostly turkey or chicken. I did eat a pork tamale. I wonder if mixing up my food choices helped I usually only loose 1 to 2 lbs per week. Happy to hear everyone is doing well. Love wearing small sizes too! Now I think about what to wear I have so many choices. I still wear some of my 1X and 2X stuff but they look very big. Now wearing size 14 pants and large or Xl tops. I feel good!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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