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WOW! You are amazing.

lemon pepper or garlic pepper seasonings. THE BEST!

Saw one online yesterday. Dry roast squash with a bit of EVOO and fresh sage. Use a Naan or flatbread as a pizza type crust. Mixt honey and chipotle with adobo sauce. Smear on bread. Top with roasted squash, good parm or romano cheese and fresh sage minced. Bake through to warm ingredients. Sounds delish and I want to try…

Points for your funny shirt. So yes. @weinerdog

Homemade meatball and an egg sandwich with cheddar cheese, cajun seasoning and frank's red hot sauce.

and salad and apples and everything else. I have been very luck and have no foods I can't eat (1 year from surgery). I was eating salad, chewed well, withing 6 weeks from surgery. I was eating hummus as soon as i could do pureed. There are no foods you can't eat with bypass, just foods you need to eat in moderation. Good…

Steel Cut oats are heartier, earthier and chewier than the rolled variety. I began eating them after watching an episode of Good Eats with Alton Brown where he explained the nutritional difference. To be short, steel cut are less processed therefore have more fiber. Like the difference between using raw potatoes to make…

Hufflepuff. Some fan fiction claims Molly Weasley was Hufflepuff too. As Molly is my favorite character, i am proud to wear the yellow and black.

My surgery date was 8/1/12. I'm a year in and have lost 94 lbs. My highest weight was 272, I am currently 178. I have only lost 3 lbs in the last 90 days. My 1 year appointment is at the begining of September. I've been using this site nearly from surgery date. I find it helpful. I am concerned that I'm not progressing the…

Count the victory. Why deny yourself that? CONGRATULATIONS!

The first week or so after surgery is all about watching a clock with medicine cups of fluid in front of you. It works out okay. As for the pain, I was completely off pain meds by 2nd day home. You sleep alot becasue you are healing, not the pain. You're gonna do great!

Thanks...i was really hoping to be down 100 lbs by the first year. But I feel great and look great.

Most good sushi restuarants around me (RI/MA) will make any roll naruto style if you ask. Sometimes the waiter doesn't know the word "naryto" so I'll say no rice and cucumber instead of seaweed. That usually gets me what I want. Hope you are successful next time you order sushi! :)

sashimi and naruto rolls (no rice with cucumber instead of nori wrapper) are the way to go as soon as you have the go ahead to eat raw vegetables. Chew well and enjoy. i was having these 6 weeks after surgery. No better source of low fat protein in mt opinion. In fact I'll eat it for breakfast...but I'm weird.

So good for you...my surgiversry is tomorrow. August 1st...1 year. it's going to be great! best thing I ever did.

One of my major reasons for the WLS was to look for a new job. No-one at work knows about my surgery, except for my boyfriend. I only told him after we started dating. It's hard to keep that information from your boyfriend. :) I swore him to secrecy when telling him and said no-one at work knows. not even my closest…

The shaming itself doesn't work to encourage weight loss

In Hangzhou China, saw a large black possibly Newfoundland-type dog in the trunk of a VW sedan on a very very busy city street driving in traffic. The trunk was up and jammed open in some way I could not tell at the speed I was traveling. China is full of weird sights, most of the food variety...but this was pretty awesome.

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Gentle or Hatha yoga. Specifically the Pigeon poses and C pose work wonders for me. The discomfort is extreme while in the pose, but the relief is heavenly.

So here are my two cents. When I'm at the gym sometimes I laugh to myself, regularly I sing out loud to myself, often I sob uncontrollably to myself, occassionally I dance for myself. All of this while on the eliptical or treadmill or nautilus machines, and sometimes in a group ex class. Maybe people are pointing and…

Old Weight Watchers standard thinking was 20lbs = 1 dress size. For me it has been anywhere between 10lbs and 30lbs and I need to shop. That being said I went from wearing size 18 jeans to size 14...skipping 16 entirely. So you can wear too-big clothes awhile. My new rule is if I can pull off my jeans without unbuttoning…

The bad stuff? If I eat a lot of sugar I get a "drunk" feeling. I still don't handle alcohol consumption well and a 1/2 a cocktail is all it takes for me to be very drunk. I've had 2 episodes since my surgery August 1st where I ate something or too much of something and the pain was undescribable. i wanted to vomit, but…

soy sauce and gatorade...anything that claims to help your electrolytes is FULL of salt.

Pre-bypass surgery I took probiotics when i had the opposite of not pooping problem due to extreme stress and clinical depression. They worked amazingly well. i bought at vitamin store, not drugstore and they were not cheap. When i was trying to be frugal I'd switch to drugstore or increase my yogurt consumption but did…

Interested to find out myself. I am 10 months post op and pooping doesn't happen regularly. If probiotics help with that and increase weight loss...that would be AWESOME.

Thanks everyone...so exciting!

I'm leasing a 2013 Nissan Sentra SL...I LOVE IT! It's redesigned this year and it has lots and lots of features. Also, Nissan is running a big incentive sale right now. If you are looking at Infiniti's...take a look at the Nissans. Same cars, same engineers, many of same features, smaller price tags.

Dave Matthews Band...music is boring and the fans are rabid. All day every day at work it all DMB talk. "Are you going to concert X?" " Do you want to travel 200 miles to see concert Y?"...BLAH!

I really like: "Not all that wander are lost" I think it is a Tolkein quote.