caramel premier is so so sweet - IN MY OPINION!!

wait for the cookies & cream - now that's a cool flavour and of course i got it at sam's in the states!!

thanks for your input... i attended a meet n greet this past spring and the guy was just trying to sell me on the celebrate brand i'm sure!!

I'm 6+ years out... was at an amazing Meet n Greet in Barrie this past spring. Had a vendor there pushing Celebrate products.. vitamins, etc. I asked him about this and what the difference was between this pill and the prenatal i was told to take many years ago. He questioned me as to why i'm taking a prenatal?? I said this is what my clinic told me to take. I had surgery at St Joe's in Hamilton. My blood work is good with what i take now.. but if i can lessen my pills that would be great! Have they changed the required vitamin intake and suggested this Celebrate product?? Apparently it covers more than just the prenatal vitamin.. i BELIEVE (not really sure)... it also includes Vitamin D and a few others... can someone clarify this please!!!!

CONGRATS TO YOU!! purging is amazing... i used to have a closet full of all kinds of sizes... of course, kept all the clothes... one day i'm gonna get back to this size... then i did and i missed wearing the clothes! you'll find or should find that 2nd hand stores.. Value Village, Talize, etc will be your best friend. They were and still are today!! I couldn't afford to buy new clothes for a week... was ridiculous and i got some great buys!!

good luck and have fun!!

PS.. i always hated bra shopping and still do!! ugggggh!! altho now they are prettier bras but still.. hate it!

ahhh... i didn't lose any hair... my hair got thinner... i no longer shave my armpits... and the hair on my legs is sparce (and i'm italian with dark hair!).... i took biotin before surgery and every day ever since and i'm 6+ years out! good luck!

Yep.. sure do miss the oldies.... we had a super bunch.. way back when!!! .. now i'm aging myself!!

When you see the scale go up a few pounds it's easy to panic. A few pounds emotionally feels like a ton. You wonder if you will ever be able to get off that extra weight, as if you were David facing the Giant. You feel guilty for how you've eaten or for skipping exercise. Then, almost without a thought, you surrender. You tell yourself you messed up, so you might as well give up. Let the Giant win. That's why you gain weight. You see, it's not the few pounds that is the problem. They can be lost. It's the giving up -- the "all or nothing" thinking -- that is the real problem.

Try being honest with yourself. It's time to get out your sling shot and poke holes in this lie you are telling yourself -- the lie about not being able to take off a few pounds. Your problem isn't the few pounds you've gained; it's not your body. Your problem is in your mind. You start playing an old tape in your head and believe it, even when it's not true. You tell yourself you can't say no to chocolate. You are too tired to exercise. You don't have time to cook. All lies. Really. Eliminate "I can't" from your vocabulary. As surely as David knocked down that big menace, you CAN knock off a few pounds -- if you will stop telling yourself you can't do it. Act on the facts, not on your feelings. You CAN take action to drop the pounds no matter what you're feeling. This new way of being will take some practice, but you will get better at it over time.

Here's how to act on facts, not feelings, to defeat the Giant:

1) Take aim. Figure out what your target weight is and make a little chart to track your progress -- and then use it! (If you're like me, you'll be tempted to skip this step, but that's the old tape. This time, don't skip what seems silly or useless -- that's a lie.)

2) Use your tool. David had a great sling shot to use and a nice sized stone, I bet. You have your tool, too -- your weight loss surgery.

Follow all of your surgeon's guidelines (yes, dig out the papers you were given at orientation or call and ask for a new set to be mailed to you -- and then read them every day for a week).

And at meal time, try chewing forever, and not drinking with meals, and eating dense proteins to fill you up.

3) Feel your feelings and do it anyway. David must have been terrified, but he didn't let that stop him. He bravely walked out into the open and faced the Giant.

You can face your powerful foe, too -- your negativity. Feel your feelings: anger, fear, sadness, deprivation, defiance, shame, disappointment, whatever they are ... and then do the next right thing anyway. Don't let your feelings dictate your actions today.

Be like David

Like the people David was defending, your life is depending on you. Your hopes and dreams need you to protect them. Your health and productivity need you to stand up for them. When David stepped out, he had no guarantee he would win. He took a leap of faith and acted. He felt the fear and did it anyway. It's your turn. Treat your emotions as clues. The best solution for emotional eating is for you to become an ace detective. Treat your emotions as intriguing mysteries to be solved, not pains to be numbed. Your long-term weight loss depends on it. By calling your emotions "clues" instead of "crises" you can discover your emotional-eating triggers and develop an action strategy (like journaling or calling a friend) instead of a reaction response (yelling at your family or indulging in an unhealthy food to get rid of your strong emotion). For today, treat your emotions as clues. Instead of reacting to your emotions, take a look at them individually and ask yourself, "What is this emotion trying to tell me?"

Keep your eye on the prize... and keep doing what you do.. i stopped and now have to deal with a regain!!!

We didn't gain weight overnight and we won't lose it that way either. How many times have we went on some fad diet, lost weight rapidly only to regain it plus a few bonus pounds in the process of our way back up the scale. Slow and steady wins the race. It is true. The tragedy is that most people never even get in the race. Many of those that do hope that success comes easily and rapidly. When it doesn't, they drop out of the race, give up and throw in the towel, before it really begins. What they don't realize is that the decision to be unstoppable is never made just once. It is a choice every single day, made sometimes multiple times throughout the day by the choices we make. Do we exercise, do we eat this or that? It is all a choice that moves us forward, stay the same or backwards in our quest for weight loss. Whether you've had weight loss surgery or losing weight on your own or a diet program, setbacks are inevitable. In fact, they are proof that we are doing something. Sometimes the greatest lessons come from a challenge. Those lessons in doing something different in our healthy lifestyle path takes us one step closer to achieving our weight loss goals and maintenance. When we focus on learning a lesson from a slip up or setback, and stay the course, reaching our weight loss goal will happen. It is important to remind ourselves that failure is an incident or event, not a person. Just because you slipped up once in a day, the entire day, week, etc., YOU are NOT a failure. If you don't achieve your weight loss anticipated in a certain period of time, does that make you a failure? If you make an unhealthy choice in eating or skip exercise, does that make you a failure. Of course not....Absolutely not! Failure does not characterize who you are. It is simply an incident that happens in your life at times. When you continue to move forward, despite difficult experiences, you have already won. Commit to find the gift in any setback. Tell yourself that you will never, never, never quit. If you don't give up, you cannot fail. Not only will you achieve your weight loss goals, but the combination of your commitment, courage, and belief in yourself will rise as the greatest victory of all. Never, ever quit. Success is in consistency and persistence. Success is in each one of us.

When i left the hamilton centre after my 5 year check up.. they told me what my caloric intake should be... between 1000-1200 calories... and to still maintain my protein of 60g-90g. of course, all along no one ever wanted to talk calories.. i think this is a learning curve for the centres as well as ourselves. i'm glad they're compiling something that our family doctor's can refer too and yes.. mostof them don't have a lot of experience with WLS patients.

thanks again!!

and take care of you!

CONGRATS TO YOU!!!!