I finally made the thread for those of us who are scheduled for May 15th. It'll be fun to hear how all of us are doing during our journeys. Feel free to share!

There are many of us on pre-ops now and some have a few days. Just about a week left!!! How awesome and exciting it is! ?

Dont forget to FOLLOW the thread!

2 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Hey ladies, it has been awhile since i been speaking with all of you. I'm getting noticed of my weight loss and I just smile and nod with a modest thank you. Be glad when I'm able to cross my legs. I'm actually walking really well and just weighed myself scale said 340 I am down from 379 my surgery weight and 14 from my last weigh in on june 6. Hope all is well. I always read the post in this thread. I miss and love you ladies.

We miss you bunchs @Sweet as peaches. Congrats on the great weight loss. That is nice that people are noticing. Have you been dancing with your daughter?

5 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Hey ladies, it has been awhile since i been speaking with all of you. I'm getting noticed of my weight loss and I just smile and nod with a modest thank you. Be glad when I'm able to cross my legs. I'm actually walking really well and just weighed myself scale said 340 I am down from 379 my surgery weight and 14 from my last weigh in on june 6. Hope all is well. I always read the post in this thread. I miss and love you ladies.

So awesome Sweets!!!!! I miss you too, but thank you so much for your updates. Very inspiring and I'm very happy for you. ?????

I'm am so fired up now. I watched a documentary on netflix. I love those things. Well, it's a new one that I know of, called WHAT THE HEALTH!? This just confirms my reasons for a plant based diet. I've thought to keep my chicken and shrimp on the menu, but I'm not going to anymore. Husband says he's been on board with me for plant based a few months ago. I still incorporate as much as I can, but have the "got to get your protein" notion in my head. So thus, the meats and eggs. I want to give up all dairy though, that means my favorite, cheese!!! So, I might consider once every quarter for a cheesy dish, or slowly eliminate cheese. I've already replaced cow milk with almond milk, but my husband reintroduced it back to the kids during my recovery phase, now I've got to take it back out.

Besides all that, this documentary shares the science and physiology of how human bodies are made, work, etc. Also shares how diabetes is actually formed. It blew me away!!!! I don't want to give it all away here, please watch the video if you can. It touches on different industries, the government's roles, the association of diet and diabetes/cancer, and wonderful stories of people going plant based and what it has done for their bodies in just a short time of their lives. It's amazing. Hope y'all can watch it. Be inspired!!!

Focused on water today. Did great. Ate only about 550 calories though. Got to find a balance I guess.

The water intake is crucial for us during these summer days. I feel like I need to focus more of that than eating right now.
So, if you were hungry and thirsty at the same time. Which is more important? Drink or eat?

Drinking is more important because I feel horrible when thirsty

9 hours ago, Newme17 said:

I'm am so fired up now. I watched a documentary on netflix. I love those things. Well, it's a new one that I know of, called WHAT THE HEALTH!? This just confirms my reasons for a plant based diet. I've thought to keep my chicken and shrimp on the menu, but I'm not going to anymore. Husband says he's been on board with me for plant based a few months ago. I still incorporate as much as I can, but have the "got to get your protein" notion in my head. So thus, the meats and eggs. I want to give up all dairy though, that means my favorite, cheese!!! So, I might consider once every quarter for a cheesy dish, or slowly eliminate cheese. I've already replaced cow milk with almond milk, but my husband reintroduced it back to the kids during my recovery phase, now I've got to take it back out.

Besides all that, this documentary shares the science and physiology of how human bodies are made, work, etc. Also shares how diabetes is actually formed. It blew me away!!!! I don't want to give it all away here, please watch the video if you can. It touches on different industries, the government's roles, the association of diet and diabetes/cancer, and wonderful stories of people going plant based and what it has done for their bodies in just a short time of their lives. It's amazing. Hope y'all can watch it. Be inspired!!!

I love to watch those documentaries also. That is one of the reasons I have my own chickens now. I watched one about how they raise chickens and it made me sick. I wont buy eggs in the store now.

I don't see myself going completely plant based, but I will definitely check it out. I always like to keep an open mind.

31 minutes ago, Apple1 said:

I love to watch those documentaries also. That is one of the reasons I have my own chickens now. I watched one about how they raise chickens and it made me sick. I wont buy eggs in the store now.

I don't see myself going completely plant based, but I will definitely check it out. I always like to keep an open mind.

Yes, the raising of them is really sad, with cows and pigs too. Im planning not buying eggs anyway. We'll see if my husband is truly going plant based with me, without his eggs. ?

14 hours ago, Apple1 said:

We miss you bunchs @Sweet as peaches. Congrats on the great weight loss. That is nice that people are noticing. Have you been dancing with your daughter?

Honestly, haven't been much dancing but i have been speeding up my walking. And pushing myself with the walking. Will probably dance on the weekends.

34 minutes ago, Newme17 said:

Yes, the raising of them is really sad, with cows and pigs too. Im planning not buying eggs anyway. We'll see if my husband is truly going plant based with me, without his eggs. ?

That could explain why the world is having so much trouble with obesity. Back in the 70's and 80's, people would dance the weight off and be skinnier than ever nowadays the chickens and beef and pork are so filled with hormones that the size is triple from the way it used to be.

1 hour ago, Sweet as peaches said:

That could explain why the world is having so much trouble with obesity. Back in the 70's and 80's, people would dance the weight off and be skinnier than ever nowadays the chickens and beef and pork are so filled with hormones that the size is triple from the way it used to be.

Indeed they are. The documentary touches base on the antibiotics and hormones given to the animals. It's a very sad epidemic. Did you know that during WWII, the Nazis took away the farm animals from the farmers for their troops in hungary, I think. Left the families without meat. They had to rely on plant based meals. Three years of that, obesity went down and illness went down. When the war was over and the farmers resumed animals products in their diets, sickness and obesity went back up. I'll need to find the study to post a link.

3 hours ago, Newme17 said:

Indeed they are. The documentary touches base on the antibiotics and hormones given to the animals. It's a very sad epidemic. Did you know that during WWII, the Nazis took away the farm animals from the farmers for their troops in hungary, I think. Left the families without meat. They had to rely on plant based meals. Three years of that, obesity went down and illness went down. When the war was over and the farmers resumed animals products in their diets, sickness and obesity went back up. I'll need to find the study to post a link.

It surely is sad watching these changes occur in our society.

I am only one person. Wish there was something I can do. Just switching diets isn't going to help much for the society. Mine was all for physical reasons but now there are other reasons why I'm doing it. All I can do is help educate with proof. My proof will need to start with myself. I'm glad my bloodwork appt is coming up. I can definitely start there.

Well y'all, I made a big mistake today. I wore my largest shirt that I've had forever. It was a security shirt, if I may say. It's that time of the month and I just wasn't feeling like I lost any weight. (Dumb hormones) so I wore the shirt. Sure, I was comfortable all day until I got to my workout. I stood in front of the closet mirror and saw the old me (in the shirt). Started second guessing any progress and what not. Did my workout. Took a shower and yelled to my husband "I will never wear that shirt ever again!" ? Now as I'm sitting here on my bed, eating fresh cherries (yum), thinking how I better get my behind to the store and get some properly fitted clothes, all so that I won't play mind games with myself anymore.

What is up with me. I ate some trail mix for lunch. but I ate it too fast....now I'm paying for it. Feel so gross. My fault, I seem to be letting myself get super hungry...which the doc told me not to do. I've got to change up my timing somehow I guess. I get so busy at work or home and just don't think about eating until it's too late.

21 hours ago, Newme17 said:

Well y'all, I made a big mistake today. I wore my largest shirt that I've had forever. It was a security shirt, if I may say. It's that time of the month and I just wasn't feeling like I lost any weight. (Dumb hormones) so I wore the shirt. Sure, I was comfortable all day until I got to my workout. I stood in front of the closet mirror and saw the old me (in the shirt). Started second guessing any progress and what not. Did my workout. Took a shower and yelled to my husband "I will never wear that shirt ever again!" ? Now as I'm sitting here on my bed, eating fresh cherries (yum), thinking how I better get my behind to the store and get some properly fitted clothes, all so that I won't play mind games with myself anymore.

I do that to myself sometimes. I stand in front of the mirror criticizing everything that is still wrong with me..? We need to stop. We are changing both inside and out and we are worthy!! Sometimes our brains just don't see the physical changes yet.

You are challenging yourself with the mudder event, that is nothing short of awesome.