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My wedding ring - A few weeks after surgery I wrote about reaching the goal of once again being able to put my wedding ring on again. Here it is. It is made of what is c...

Goals for the New Year - All health related. 1. Reach my goal weight of 189 lbs 2. Adopt eating and exercise habits to maintain the weight. 3. Continue the process of ending my remaining heel and ...

Does success breed success? - I'm talking about weight loss of course. I read posts during the holidays about some people struggling with the temptations they've faced with huge amounts of sugary, starchy and f...

Do you ever wonder what people say about you? - I was at a gathering tonight and a friend introduced me to his wife and sisters.  His wife told me how good I looked. I hadn't seen her in more than a year and have lost more than ...

Trading "good" compulsions for the "bad" - What got me through the holidays was to treat food as fuel and not recreation.  I try as much as possible to WRITE DOWN what I will eat during a day each morning...  BEFORE I eat i...

I went to see my son in a movie? - Chili again?  Yes.  Once again, my wife wanted to see a movie about an hour after work, so I grabbed a small Wendy's chili on the road for the second night in a row. Here's how th...

Maybe something I ate? - I just posted a couple days ago about being irregular. Be careful for what you wish for. I have been having "the runs" since this morning.  My abdomen feels a bit queasy. I haven't...

Shoveled again - I shoveled snow from the drive again today. Twice! Once in the morning, and then again when I got home from work.  It's great being able to do that with a shovel instead of a snowb...

I hate to see food wasted! - This morning  was preparing my breakfast, and I noticed that the refrigerator is stuffed with holiday leftovers.  A huge ham.. cookies.. stuffing.. mashed potatoes.. In fact, there...

Monday morning weigh in. - I lost two pounds during Christmas week. The scale read 268 when I stepped on today. I'm actually farther along that I expected to be. When I had my surgery in September, I set a m...

What I ate today. - I got to eat some of the leftovers that I didn't sample on Christmas day. B - 2 oz dark turkey meat S - 12 g of unroasted almonds L - Lemon Meringue Protein Smoothie (from...

Carry one of these around all day! - Each one of these bags of blacktop patch weighs 80 lbs.  That's how much extra weight I'm still carrying around each day.  Since losing weight, the pain in my knees...

Crazy Christmas - I ate high protein..low carb foods all day so I could  enjoy Christmas dinner.  I worked today.  When I got home I was tired and hungry.  The first thing I put on my plate was some...

Holiday eating plan - I find that even though I'm in the honeymoon phase of my WLS... it's easier for me to survive the usually "big eating" holidays like Christmas by laying out a menu for myself ahead...

My weight loss journey - If you look at my "signature" in blue text below my ticker, you'll notice that I spell out my various weight loss "milestones".  The ticker I use only lists how much more weight ...

Thinner wrists - It's something I usually don't notice. But today I had to remove another link from my watch band today.  Just two years ago when I got the watch for a Christmas, I had to special o...

Made my list. Checked it twice. - I'm one of these people who tend to get things done by making a written list of tasks.  Here's the list I had for myself during my vacation last week: To do MONDA...

Switching to Benefiber - I take 1 tsp of Metamucil each day for regularity, but don't like the extra carbs. So I compared it to Benefiber. I went to the websites for each product and retrieved the nutri...

Less than a week before Christmas and I lost 7 lbs - Exactly three months (13 weeks) post op, I weigh 270 pounds today. I lost seven pounds last week. I lost 53 pounds since surgery "Just" 81 to go..

These are a few of my favorite things. - I used to look forward to coming home from work and stuffing my face. Now I look forward to going out of the house and going places.. I look forward to my weekly step onto the s...

"Fat Like Me" - I was only "not obese" two times in my life. And it was long enough to know that thin people are treated better by others. Between my junior and senior year in high school, I s...

Hey! Where'd my butt go? - My pants keep falling down! Even when I tighten my belt. I got a glimpse of my butt in the mirror after my shower and it's disappeared.  Oh well. weight loss is weight loss. I'll t...