Lisa R.

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3 months out pictures -  Updated my "during" photo album.  I had a friend at work take this picture with her camera (she has a really nice, expensive camera) and she just sent it to me.  I opened it and a...

Having a funeral.... - For my hair...... This sucks!  It falls out all day and my hair is really really long.  So i am covered in hair.  It's so sad. I knew it was going to happen, but you always t...

Out of the mouth of babes! - Since I have been back to school teaching this week I have been asked probably 15 times by 15 students "Have you changed your hair?" Actually adults ask me that questions too.  ...

Soul-sucking WITCH!!! - Today I woke up and weighed (Monday is weigh in day) and I was 186.  I have not been in the 180's since college about 1992.   Awesome, I feel GREAT! Put on my size 12 pants, the...

my skinny jeans are now my fat jeans - So, this past weekend I was in San Diego so I took jeans, I took a pair of size 12, they have been my "skinny" jeans for years, you know that pair you keep and hope to fit into som...

My journey continues... - So, my knee got MRI'd yesterday and I will have results tomorrow.  AND best of all it feels much better, I could even go to the gym, but until I get results that say it is all A-OK...

THANK YOU! -  I wrote a big old negative post last night venting all my emotions about being in a stall, not being able to eat like I used to and just over all wishing I had never had this surg...

I hate to post this - But I feel like I have to.  I am having a really hard couple of days....I am very unhappy with my decision to have surgery.  I have never been this unhappy about my decision.  I am...

Is this an NSV or an insult? - I'm a teacher.  I had surgery May 2nd 2011 and then by June 2nd we were out of school.  I had lost 22 lbs but no one seemed to really notice. Yesterday we went back for a leader...

Grouchy pouchy - I am suffering with grouchy pouchy.  In that past week it seems like nothing makes my pouch not hurt!  I take 2 or 3 bits of something and I am just done!  I am working hard each d...

Chew or Swallow? - Do you chew or swallow your vitamins?  I am 3 months out and I HATE chewable vitamins, they just taste nasty, but I can take pills fine, so today I took my multi-vitamin whole.  So...

Does ANYONE understand hypothyroidism? - On the journey to get WLS we found that I had hypothyroidism.  I got the lads down, your numbers should be like 0.5 and mine was 7 so not THAT high, but bad enough to need medicati...

Tore up tummy -  I somehow tore up my pouch.  It just doesn't feel right and when I eat I can't finish anything. I think I just need to give my pouch a rest and let whatever I did to it heal.  ...

Fat head - Want to really understand the push for protein and the horrible effects on carbs in our bodies, then watch this movie. You can steam it on Netflix. I don't agree with the who...

Fat, sick and nearly dead - it's a movie I found on Netfix and you can stream it, so I did. Give it a look if you have Netfix and the time, it is over 2 hours long.  It is about a guy that does a juice fas...

A few concerns - First, for anyone who might have read and remembers, I am suffering from a slight knee injury that took place sometime on July 4 or 5th.  Since I have really no clue what happen I ...

NSV at the doctor - Some of you might has read my post earlier today about my jacked up knee, It is all swollen so I went to the doctor.   First, I got weighed and for the first time in YEARS at th...

Encouragement please! - So, since about week 2 I have been exercising at least 3xs a week and later out 5 to 6 days a week for almost an hour a day. On July 5th my knee started to act up, I don't know ...

I wish.... -  I wish... I could have an IV in my arm so I could get in all my water everyday and not think about it there was a cream that you could put on your loose skin that would firm...

It finally happened to me too -  Ah, yet another post about stalls!  Who needs it RIGHT!  But, I just wanted to say that I have hit my first one 10 weeks out.  Have not lost anything in a week.  It is very upsett...

Need side 14/16 or 18 pants? - I have out grown, or undergrown, all my size 18, 16 and 14 jeans and pants.  I am 5 foot 8 so they are pretty long, so if you are short they won't really work for you. Does anyo...

Signs/Symptoms of Vitamin deficencies? -  What are the signs?   I have a really sore knee, right at the joint.  I did a 5 mile run/walk on the 4th of July but it didn't bother me then, it just keeps getting worse and i...

Dear 200 pounds, - Dear 200 lbs, WE ARE THROUGH!!!  I am tired of you and your unhealthy and destructive ways.  I have tried for years to rid myself of you, but your hold was too tight.  You broug...