Love the pics from both of you, it give me that added boost and motivation.

 I was like that when I was a week out too. :-)

Congrats on your new journey in life.

It does get better, I lover sleeping on stomach too, I think that started back around 3 weeks out.

Take care.

...and I am still alive and down 24 pounds. Still can't sleep on my stomach but I'm getting incrementally better each day. I went shopping for an external hard drive at 5 days post-op and that was a mistake because I felt miserable before I could even leave the store.

I'm doing well with my vitamins and liquids but the gas is still getting me and I'm finding it hard to adjust to the fact that the few times I get hungry, the hunger pangs are actually painful.

Anyway, just wanted to update you all on my progress. I'll be sucking on Gas-X strips and watching Lifetime Movies until next time....

Hey Lee.............I think a whole lot of us have been taking a break from the board,on vacation, busy or otherwise occupied over the summer....(self included).  I'm glad you and Becca made it back stateside safe and in one piece.  Looking forward to seeing all the great pics when you get them up.

JJ

I'm holding myself accountable for several high cal, high carb, high sodium days.  No "bad" foodsin excess.  My usual eating whats convenient instead of what I should have eaten.  So much for low carb and a weight loss mindset.  I'm planning on going out for Mexican today but it will be all within reason.  Tomorrow I knock the carbs back down.  Today I will have ome carb indulgence and not a platter of them. 

Some tome ago I learned to create my own agenda because the accepted school of thought does not aid my obesity control objectives.  I have to eat more fat to loose weight but a lifetime of being phobic of dietary fat hinders this.  Like anything else related to a life long succesful change I need to figure out how to do this in a way that I enjoy.  We don't stick with what we don't like very well and I have not been able to aquire a taste for fat in most foods I regularly eat. 

I do however want to reach my personally selected ideal weight while being as healty ans strong as I can be.  That means finding a way to work the fats in so I can stop teetering on the edge or just above a normal bmi and find my way to mid range.  Doctors say I eat fine & metabolically I likely "can't" loose any more.  We all know that's not true.  I wi**** were than no famine or starvation could exist in the world. 

Holding my feet to th fire.  Staying accountable to me.