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Pain after a year. - Has anyone else had this happen? I went running last night, new for me, and woke up this morning and all day with terrible pain directly under my breast bone where my stomach is. H...

Flu and don't feel like eating - So I have the flu. I don't feel like eating anything. Advise? Am I going to be in big trouble for not getting in my protein? I am almost 6 months post op. 

Met my end of the year goal! - My goal by the end of 2013 was to be out of the 160's. I did it! 159! Now for the last 29 lbs so I can be at GOAL!  I am 5 months out, I hope I can get there soon. 

Help with my husband who is Newley sleeved. - My husband was just sleeved on December 26th. He has had a very different experience than I had. He has been vomiting several times before leaving the hospital and he says he is...

I actually heard someone say.. - My husband is having VSG surgery tomorrow afternoon, my 17 yr old daughters surgery will be in the next few months and I am 5 months post op. We all have been working very hard ...

How did you decide your "goal" - When propel ask me what my goal weight is, I have no idea! I don't know how to answer this question, even when my doctor asks me. I don't know what I will look or feel like at 1...

I don't understand - Why is it that I can eat the same things since surgery and all of a student it makes me sick? (1/4 of Wendy's chili)  4 months out 

Omg! I went shopping. - I needed work clothes. So we went shopping. I wasn't sure of my size, I just knew my size 10 were getting big. I tried 8 and they fit, then I tried 6, just to see...they fit too...

I have no clothes to wear! - I have nothing hardly at all that fits! 1 pair of jeans... That's about it. I tried on most things I have and nothing fit. I decided to wear a red dress and add a belt. I got a ...

Taken 11-20-13. CW. 165.8. TWL 62 lbs

Prom dress shopping and reality. -   Today I took my daughter prom dress shopping. She looked beautiful in several of the dresses, but on the way home she said she doesn't think she will go to prom this year but ...

Feeling defeated and a failure - I am 17 weeks out and having a very hard time, much harder that it has been. I have lost 58 lbs so far. But I haven't lost anything in weeks. I go up 2 lbs and down 3 then back ...

Do you adjust your eating when you have a virus? - Just curious. I seem to have a bit of a stomach bug today. When you are feeling like this do you adjust your diet in any special way? I am not hungry at this point, but know I h...

Work weight loss challenge... I can't play:( - For the first time in my life I am now being excluded from a weight loss challenge at work because I am loosing too much and they don't want to play with me! ------ I'm thilled ...

I'm struggling with breakfast. - I have searched the archive for breakfast ideas, but  they all seem to lead back to eggs... I hate eggs. I have been doing a shake for breakfast since I started which is ok, but...

Turning 40 tommorow - Tomorrow I will be turning 40. Everyone keeps telling me how everything goes down hill and falls apart after 40.... I feel better than I have in years! I am 3.5 months out and l...

Food variety - I am getting bored. I am sorta stuck. I feel like I am eating the same things all the time to get my protein in. Any suggestions? I am basically living in chicken and turkey.

With flu season approaching... - With flu season approaching, I am just wondering how catching the flu or other stomach bugs affect us now that we are sleeved? I know it it very important to get fluid and prote...

Strange feeling in my stomach - This is going to sound stupid... But I have to ask. I have a strange sensation in my stomach. It doesn't feel like hunger use to. It hurts. I don't know how to explain it. I have...

Half gone!! - I am 11 weeks out and have officially lost 1/2 of my goal weight!!!!

Do you have times you don't feel like eating? - I'm 11 weeks post-op. I just haven't felt well today. Everything seems to make my stomach turn. I couldn't finish my breakfast shake, tuna for lunch made me sick feeling and fis...

Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.. My favorite time of - I really am missing pumpkin things.. pumpkin bread, donuts, pumpkin roll (can you see the pattern?). I know it isn't good for me, obviously it played a BIG part in getting me to...

I snuck onto my doctors scale today... - I took my daughter to see our PCP today, and snuck onto the scale. They said I was the first to be excited to step into the scale. 179.2! I am 10 weeks out, my starting weight w...