Hi everyone

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Ellis - I did all right at the wedding but since Monday was a holiday our Weight Watchers was closed. HOWEVER, I did buy a new pair of pants (in itself a miracle) in a size 14!!!!

I am trying something new to help with the weight loss. It`s called Yerba Maté. When I get home (I`m at school right now) I will be able to provide more details.

Ciao for now all!

Ooo, sounds mysterious, T!

OK, Soozie, I'm thinking about you right now... you are getting sleepy... I am going to count from 10 to 1... when I say, "1," you will wake up and be... perky.

Everything's so-so here. Had two vegan days, then two non-vegan days (which weren't healthy days!). On again, off again. Better than the slump I was in a week ago, though. Today is vegan day and it's going pretty well. One day at a time, right?

AR

Teufelchen
Yerba Mate is a great balancing tea. It is very healthy for you. I don't know how it ties into weight loss, but it does support good health. Let us know if it makes a difference..I didn't notice that, but other things that made me feel better...maybe I will go drag that out and make some!!

I have stalled, I am not going to hit my goal for Halloween, but I am still focused on what I am doing, and have some room for me to work at my own pace here. Although I am thinking of doing phase 1 (SBD) again, that was very motivating.

Glad to see everyone is doing so well, it is inspiring!!

rb

Hey RB, good for you for keeping at it even if you think you won't make the H-goal.

Had a vegan day yesterday.

Wishing you all well,
AR

So this week I did 4 days vegan and 3 days veggie. Monday and Tuesday I ate junk food. Thought that would throw me for the week, but it didn't. The two vegan days after that saved me. I'm down half a pound.

Hmm, four pounds in two weeks to make the Halloween goal... probably not, but I'm still gonna try.

AR

Hi girls...
I'm back. Feeling pretty well considering what they did to me!

and Aqua...your hypnosis worked...I now have perky "C"s...really!

wow, what a difference...people keep saying that they can see my face, or my neck , or my shoulders, or how much smaller I look in general. I'm wrapped tightly in a wide ace bandage right now so they're pushed down even more than they will be but, wow, they sit really high! Can't wait to heal and start buying sexy bras! and all of my t shirts are four inches longer than they were.

the surgeon removed almost five pounds of tissue...yeah, that's right, all along it was just tissue stuffed in those bras...sorry, couldn't resist...

that five includes chub removed from my sides so my sides are actually flat under my arms...no extra boobage spilling over there...and I threw a bunch of gnarly, stretched out, over worn, over washed, bras in the trash today...saved some nicer ones for the give away pile.

I see the surgeon on Tuesday and then can remove this bandage and take a shower...please, I can't wait, I've been washing my armpits with baby wipes...

I'm having very minimal pain...more like discomfort. and I am happy.
It will be so nice to exercise with these little cuties. I'm really renewed in my motivation to lose weight and get my body healthy.

nothing like having your pendulous boobs banished and two spritely ones attached to the front of your chest to get you excited about exercise and inspired to shrink the gut...it is a bit pronounced now (the belly) but, only for the moment. can't wait to do crunches and work those abs...now that they're out of the shadows...even without a bra on...

I took more before pictures just before surgery and after I see the surgeon on Tuesday I'll take some afters in the same outfit as the befores...sorry, I didn't do nudes...but, you'll get the whole picture, believe me...and now that I do own a digital camera it won't be a problem to post them on my website and you'll all get to ogle, stare, and ooh and ahh at my new bosom...
love,
Lil Boobie Soozie

Oh and even though they removed five pounds of flesh I did not show a loss right away...I was up a bit...all of the swelling and all of the fluid they pumped in during surgery and during the next 24 hours when they kept me on IV fluids and were encouraging me to drink alot...so, I weighed 176 this morning...a pound less than my last weigh-in here and a half of a pound less than my lowest in a long, long, time...

So, even though Halloween is only 12 days away I'm going to stick with my last goal of 169 by the 31st...maybe some of this weight is still fluid retention...but, even if I don't get to 169 at this point every pound down is taking me into territory that I haven't seen for awhile and that's exciting...okay, I'll try to shut up now...

Love,
the New Barbie version of Soozie
(you know, the one with the smaller hoo-haas...)

highest 196+
current weight 176
goal for 10-31 169
long term goal 136-146?

Glad your surgery went well Soozie-you sound really happy with the results

Thats so great Sooz! Glad you're back! Good luck at the doc tomorrow!

I'm ready to start the week off right. Well maybe we won't count today. I went to Shreveport over the weekend and ate like you would not believe. It was sooooo good. But that was it. A final fling. I went for my lunch walk today after skipping all exercise last week. So I hope I can keep it up the rest of the week. I probably won't make my Halloween goal. But I'm really going to try to lose something, anything, by then. Good luck this week everyone! Oh, and if you're wonderin' - I didn't win nuttin' at the casinos but i really had a good time

Hey Amy, I meant to tell you she's all talk, my DP that is, she DID NOT HIDE the Halloween candy and I've helped myself to more of it. My sister and my niece came to visit me yesterday and I almost sent it all home with them but, then I didn't want to make DP to angry...though, if she does something like that again...buys alot of chocolate, I will give it away.
love, soozie
gotta get ready, going for acupuncture and man, do I need it.

SOOZIE!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! Perky Cs!!!!!!! Glad to see you here....and NOT hanging around!!!! Your excitement is contagious! I found myself thinking, "I want to do that too!" while reading your post!!!

Yay! Soozie's back! Say good by to the W and hello to the oo.

Two healthy vegetarian days (those have been scarce lately) and one super healthy vegan day to report. Yay.

AR

Phooey- went to ww last night and discovered that I gained 1.5lb since thanksgiving weekend!

I am trying to get back OP this week and back to exercising more.

It's ok mauvaisroux. I don't know what Thanksgiving is like in Canada but I'll be lucky if I only gain 1.5 pounds! hehe Good luck this week!

Yeah, Mauvais. Just thank God we're not Americans. Amy, you girls probably pack on at least five pounds during YOUR Thanksgiving, don't you?