Congrats!

Thanks for the feedback. It is time to find a new snack.

O.K. most days. Sometimes I "forget" I have had WLS and fall back into bad habits but for the most days I staying true to what needs to be done.

My nemisis at work was lemon sandwich cookies. It's not the kind of cookies I could find just anywhere so when they would put them out I would lose my mind. I would go in the public dining room where they were and get about four after checking on the sly to see who may have saw me and eat two publicly then scurry to my cubicle and eat the rest in private.  Then I would go back just before shift change (about 2:20 unless I had to be somewhere else) and do the same thing. Before I would leave for the day at 4:30 history would repeat itself but this time I would get a few more to take home with me.

Now when the lemon cookies are out I get one and leave the dining room. I may go back at the end of the day and get one more. I make a promise to myself not to get more than two a day now.

The massive amount of cookies are gone and so is the guilt from over eating and the "secret thrill" that I would get from feeling that I was getting away with something that no one but I knew about AND IT FEELS GREAT!

173

174 no loss but no gain either 

Best wishes and hope all goes well.

oops, 175

Don't just look at weight loss, look at your NSV too and keep them in the front of your mind:

 I LOVE the fact that I can paint my own toes BECUASE my stomach is not in the way like it used to be.

I LOVE the fact that that I am no longer fearful of climbing a flight of stairs BECUASE I don't panic thinking I am going to have a heart attack on them.

I LOVE the fact that I don't have to ask for a seat belt extender when I fly.

AND...

I LOVE the fact that I found a birthmark on my thigh that I had'nt seen in years and forgot about BECAUSE it's no longer hidden by my stomach.    

I turn music up and sometimes I dance to it. I'm an "old school jams" girl so it is always moving me.

Or I will watch a comedy that tends not to be politically correct like Role Models, Lets Go to Prison, Tropic Thunder or Undercover Brother; movies of that nature because they are just plan funny and I can't stop laughing.

The Chief supervisor I have at my job acts as if he has never done our job before (he started out at the same job as I have) and will not lift a finger to help. We are short staffed and like a lot of people we are doing more with less and he is oblivious to it all.  I have walked by his office and seen him cleaning his nails, reading a book and standing by his window and looking out of it. A couple of weeks ago I went by his office and found him reading the Good News Bible while we are reenacting the scene from the Ten Commandments where they are trying to turn straw into bricks! I am glad that he likes the Bible but on work time out in the open where he knows the stressors we have.  CLOSE THE DOOR, GOD WOULD NOT MIND IF YOU READ IT IN PRIVATE AT WORK OR ON YOUR TIME AT HOME.  I have NEVER heard him ask if he could be of some help to any of us and others have commented on it too. On day last week a couple of us threatened to go into his office and look out the window with him.
 
We were having a difficult day at work and me being me I went him and asked him to help with something that was not difficult but would take him some time to do. He flat out said NO before I could get the request all the way out. Then he said "I have not done it in so long I don't know if I could." I caught myself putting my hand on my hips and almost said "MF you wrote the damn procedure!" but I did not feel like getting fired that day.  

Thanks for the fest Bette, I had been holding on to that for a while! 

I usually can't eat in the morning so I will have a protein shake. My favorite is cookie's and cream flavored powder from CVS with 1 cup milk and 1/2 teaspoon of Almond Joy flavored liquid coffee creamer. That creamer is a "limited edition" so I know I will miss this in my shake! 

I really need this! current 176 goal 165