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no one warned me...
so thinking I was going to look extra spiffy on Christmas day I bought myself a cute little sweater dress and some control top hose. The day was miserable once I started eating. I felt like every snacked bite was getting stuck and when we sat down to dinner, even eating a portion of food half the size of normal made me…
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Rant! cold weather running clothes shopping.
OMG I just had an eye opening experience at a sporting goods store... I went shopping with the intention of finding a sports bra and running pants. If you have ever been obese or morbidly obese you get use to finding clothes on your own because sales clerks can be evil. Often without even asking how they can help they will…
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NSV Today I'm overweight!
I just wanted to share my joy. Today when I jumped on the scale I was hoping for 175 (my Halloween goal) but instead I got 173.8 which means my BMI is finally in the overweight category. I'm so excited about knowing that my first "normal" weight goal is less than 30 pounds away that I'm tempted to have my ticker count down…
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surpise NSV
So last night my husband takes our annual family picture down and just stares at it for a while, then asks me to look at him, then eventually asks me to join him in the other room and to look in the mirror and basically acts a little weird for 5 minutes while he is comparing me in our family pic to me now. He eventually…
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NSV surprise
So I went to do a little shopping for some new clothes, I'm very comfortable in my 16 shorts and jeans but all my work clothes are 22's and frankly they look horrible on me now. I grabbed a couple of 16 slacks to try on, they fit great and then bought a size 14 to mark my next goal. I decided to try on the 14s when I got…
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Hernia Q
So mid way through July while on vacation I got this strange pain in my side right at one of my incision points that met all the criteria/symptoms for a hernia. I know from my own mother's experience with hernias that if it wasn't big or bad enough to operate on yet the doctor would just tell me to rest and let it have a…
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trying not to judge...
I went out to eat with some old friends yesterday at a sushi bar, I ordered 2 tuna nijiri (for the non sushi lovers that the raw tuna on rice) and an order of chicken kabobs, thinking they would be small and I could eat them if the tuna didn't settle well. I'm only 5 weeks out, so after 1 1/2 tuna and a nibble of carrot…
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count down begins today.
Day 1: Liver shrinking liquid diet started when I woke up this morning, yeah me (sarcasm) I keep telling myself it won't be all that bad but in truth I'm looking at my pantry and I'm really thankful my husband said he would cook for him and the girls for the next few weeks. Pre op blood work etc is on the 3rd. I'm already…
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motivation
So tomorrow is my surgery, and to get myself motivated I dug around in the back of my closet looking for something too small. I found an old pair of jeans that looked brand new that somehow had not been sent to goodwill. I recalled putting them on a couple of years ago and not getting them over my thighs, I'm not sure why…
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have a surgery date need advice
They have set my surgery date May 15th, and thus I have a 2 week long liquid liver shrinking diet to look forward to very soon. I was wondering if any of you who have done the liquid pre surgery diet have any advice on how to get through it or things they found that make it bearable?
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cold all the time?
so this may be a stupid question but has anyone had problems staying warm as you lose the the weight? I've noticed for the past three months that I'm cold all the time even when my thin friends and family are normally warm. The house was 77 over the weekend and they were all hot and when my husband turned on the air I…
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Help, chlorine skin
I'm in the pool 5 times a week and while I have been able to protect my hair for the most part with a swim cap my skin always smells like chlorine now. I can cover it up with perfumed soaps but once the soap smell is gone you can still smell the underlying chlorine; can anyone recommend something to get the chlorine out of…
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ready to say hi again
So I've been on mfp before and lost about 22 pounds before I hit my classic stall or worse yo yo gain. I'm back again and now that I've lost enough weight to attribute it to my diet and not just water weight I thought I would say Hello again. Truth is between my endocrinologist, nutritionist, fitness trainer, cardiologist…
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just got Kinect
I just got a Kinect and was wondering if the exercise games were worth the money and do they require lots of extra's like the wii exercise games?
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lossing motivation
I've noticed in the last couple weeks (since I have lost access to a scale) I've also lost motivation to be on target with my diet goals, I'm good all day and over eat at dinner. I had access to a very good doctor's scale and did weigh in once a week, it felt great to see results or just to know I hadn't gained anything.…
