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Wine makes nice holiday gifts and will get it out of your sight! Your gain has added to your stress levels as well. Getting back to basics will not be easy but think of how good it will feel in the end. Unfortunately this is a life long marathon we signed up for. You can win this race!
Karin
I take the same cheques. How many mg of Vit C do you take with it?
If you take calcium carbonate with vitamin C it turns into calcium citrate by the chemicals reacting together. I take Viactive and an orange flavored chewable vitamin C...very tasty. Tri
I had my surgery in 2009 and just realized that although I've been taking calcium citrate I also take the calcium carbonate chewies. Does anyone know if the 500 mg that I get from the chewies am I absorbing all of that?
Hi Karen,
congrats on your WL!! I had three types of skin removal. First time my tummy without muscle work, and it scarred horribly (bad surgeon). The second one was done with muscle work and it work great. That was five years ago and the scars are almost invisible. I paid via Care Credit, which my doctor set up for me. It's a low interest credit card. First surgery was 10K second one was 8K.
This summer I had a thigh lift and excess skin on my back removed $16K same payment plan. Legs have scars on inner thigh and into groin area; they are already lightening up. Back scar looks even lighter. I understand the arms are tough. Scars will be visible. Thigh scars can be hidden easier, I think.
Be sure you have a GOOD plastic surgeon. There are a lot of surgeons out there that are experts in face lifts, but know nothing about skin removal. The second surgeon I used specializes in bariatric body sculpting, so he gets it.
Good luck
JA
Regain happens to almost everyone! Alcohol is full of sugar, and sugar makes the scale go up. I cannot drink wine at all; I get totally drunk and cannot remember a thing after two glasses. I've never been much of a drinker anyway, so it's not a problem for me to avoid it. Try just removing the alcohol from your diet and I'll bet the scale will go down.
This is not an easy journey. I hate when people indicate that it is the easy way out, because if they walked a mile in our shoes, they'd see that was not true.
Hang in. You're on a good path because you've recognized there's an issue. Now just tackle it 
Good luck!
JA
This is such great advice! Thank you so much! My undertaking thyroid keeps me very tired so I sleep and feel sluggish ask the time. I will definitely file this plan!
Thank you so much for the encouragement! I have to get over food being a source of comfort. Emotional eating had a very strong hold on me.
