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Hey... now that I've lost 171 pounds, I have lost - Someone pointed out the math to me over the weekend... I have now lost more than I weigh!  How cool/geeky is that?! Audrey

NSV - from no stairs to 5 miles - When I first met my boyfriend, I weighed about 280.  It was about 2 months after my RNY.  On our first "date" (we were only friends then but we didn't know what was in store for us...

Flat Out Puked! - I apologize in advance for yucky-ness, and it seems like these days I only post when I hit a goal or have a horrible reaction to food, LOL.... but anyway... Pouchy has always li...

I don't dump, but.... - ...I would swear I got damn close to it last night while eating hummus with red peppers.  Just goes to show you, when you think you have everything figured out... Pouchy fights bac...

Um... err... uh... goal? OMG GOAL!!!! - I kinda sorta weighed myself on vacation and noted I had lost a bunch of weight... but Monday is my official weigh-in day, and so when I hopped on the scale this morning, I weighed...

Back from Spain! Europe travel tips... - Just back from a week in Spain and first of all.... I am down nearly another 10 pounds in a week!  Amazing what happens when you walk, hike and bike across the Spanish countryside....

Normal feels weird.... - More than once in the past few weeks, I have been just walking along (in a store for example) and it suddenly hits me... no one is looking at me because I am super-morbidly obese a...

RNY and international travel questions... - I am going to Spain in two weeks.  I will be there for a week in Girona, about an hour outside Barcelona.  Looking for some wisdom on.... 1. Travel in Spain with RNY... food cho...

NSV and a concern - Hi all, Mentioned a few weeks ago that I started biking with my boyfriend.  Today for example we went about 10 miles.  I am very proud of myself for keeping up with him as he no...

Medicare will now cover sleeve - This showed up in my email at work today... http://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/details/nca-decision-memo.aspx?NCAId=258&fromdb=true Audrey

Trying again with pics: One-derland and NSV - I posted this last week, the pics didn't work, and I forgot to fix it.  So I have a few minutes now and I will try again. First the NSV... I biked Chicago's lakefront with my bo...

One-der-land and NSV - 1. I entered the lovely world of One-Der-Land this morning.  I weighed 199.  That's 141 pounds down.  I am nearly speechless with joy. 2. I biked 14 miles on Chicago's lakefront...

Heat-related NSV! - The bad news... it's currently 95 degrees in suburban Chicago and my AC crapped out. The good news... I am currently wearing an XL bathing suit I found in a drawer!  And when I ...

NSV - Gardening? - Couldn't help but notice yesterday that as I dug up weeds, tilled, manured and prepped for planting, it was about a thousand times easier. Anyone else noticing yard work, garden...

30 pounds from goal... surreal.... - As you can see by my signature, I weighed this morning and found myself 30 pounds away from goal. It seems unreal.  I feel like I just had the surgery yesterday. I also know ...

New yummy protein drink? - Was at Whole Foods today, found FRS "healthy protein" drink.... a bit high in sugar for my liking (11g per bottle), but 25g whey protein, 7g fiber and the orange cream didn't taste...

How many of you are unrecognizable now? (questiona - I ask because my dad walked right by me today when meeting me at my kids' bowling league, as did my best friend's husband.... apparently having (barely) squeezed into size 20 jeans...

Thyroid (kind of OT) - My daughter, who has a history of psych issues, just got a thyroid panel done.  Her free T4 was .7.  Her TSH was 3.1, which is normal according to the reference ranges on the lab s...

It gets better I promise! - Yesterday I had to leave lunch briefly to go puke up some foamies after eating a green pepper a little too quickly without chewing properly. That's when I realized.... I hadn't ...

100 pounds down, with progress pics! - Gonna try to post some progress pictures here... the first one is at my high weight of 340-ish.  This was the first full body picture I had seen of myself in years, and it left me ...

Life saver....please read! - So I've been feeling rundown lately, sleepy, tired, worn out.... thought it was vitamins, thought it wasn't eating enough, not eating the right things, RNY-related nausea, etc.  Tr...

I can feel my stomach/pouch working! - I know this sounds weird, but sometimes in the beginning, and especially now a few months later, I can actually feel my pouch and valves contracting and releasing food into my inte...