How about asking what ISN'T sagging! LOL! Let's see.... what is sagging that either myself or others have noticed * Eyelids, I have hoods now making me look kinda mad most of the time. * A little under my chin and neck but I am sure I won't have to worry about that until I hit my 40s. * My boobs, they are flat and sagging below my bra line! * My entire back has saggy and lose skin especially under my bra line and in my armpit area. * My stomach above and below the belly button! * My butt, it is somewhere down my legs! * My upper thighs (and behind knees) * My upper arms (and behind elbows) * oh and this is probably TMI, but my public area has so much extra skin there that I can't shave there anymore without hacking myself up... it is so sad. It needs to be pulled up or something! LOL! So pretty much mylower arms and legs are the only things I am happy with....hahahaha Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney Visit my Live Journal at: livejournal.com/users/magickalmom

Oh Joi... your life is getting so exciting! I am so happy for you!!! Is the whole family ready for the big move?! Oh and the plateu... yeah....go away and stay away you pesty 5 pounds! LOL! Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney Visit my Live Journal at: livejournal.com/users/magickalmom

Hi Jenn, Well my holidays started before most of you... for my faith our "thanksgiving" (Mabon) was last month. So I got to go through it all a bit early. What I did was I threw down a challenge for myself and decided to go crazy and host a dinner party at my house! I sat myself down about 3 weeks before Mabon and got out the old family recipes and tinkered with them on paper, seeing where I could modify them to make them healthy for me to eat. Then I attempted to make it in a smaller batch. If it flopped I tried again, after two tries I would make a decision to scrap it and research a replacement for it. I kept at this and developed my meal plan for the next two weeks. The week of Mabon I got everythign ready and spent the whole day cooking by myself, listeningt o muci, burning some cinnamon incense, and just making it an enjoyable day. By the time everyone was there the house was ready, the food was cooked and warming, my kitchen was clean and I was in such an incrediably great mood! My final menu ended up being: * Smoked Turkey (12 pounds!!!) * Harvest Casserole (made with Sweet Potato & Pumpkin --faux sweet potatoes) * Curried Squash Soup (made with Carnival & Acorn Squash) * Cranberry & Winter Squash Bake (looked like stuffing and everyone thought it was...lol) * Sage & Turkey Gravy * Green Bean Casserole (LF cream of mushroom soup and skim milk make it healthy!) * Mabon Corn Bread (made with sweetened buttermilk) * Black & Green Olives * Cranberries * Spiced Apple Rings * Hot Mulled Cider (with a splash of Cpt. Morgan's Spiced Rum) * Jamie's 3-tier Apple Nut Spiced Cake w/Cinnamon Vanilla Frosting and Coconut & Pecan filling!!! YUM!!!! * Sage Stuffing (regular stove top for hubby, he is addicted!) * Croissants (a friend brought these) * Assorted baked breads (a friend brough these) So as you can see.... making a turkey dinner is possible and it was quite a spread! Splenda is my friend that is for sure! So is foodnetwork! I guess I am a step ahead of most folks, since cooking is a hobby of mine so I might now how to do substitutions a bit better than most, but it is not really something that is hard to learn. Basically, tips and tricks from other cooks help! I never knew that you could use the squash family in so many ways, now I use it A LOT! LOL! One thing that I learned about myself is if I try to deny myself then I end up getting depressed or I do somethign stupid lik over indulge. SO now I do everything in moderation. Yes, I made a 3 tier cake for Mabon but I also made as many substitutions that I could and I made sure that my slices were slender and I only ate enough of the slice to be happy and then I would pass my dish off to my son to fini**** Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney Visit my Live Journal at: livejournal.com/users/magickalmom Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney Visit my Live Journal at: livejournal.com/users/magickalmom

OK, since I asked I will answer first! I am no longer taking the chewable multivit... They just go bad too darn fast so I am now taking centrum weight smart and I am actually having no problems with them. Before surgery the ECGC used to make my flippy but now I don't have a problem with it. I am also still taking a sublingual B-12 but I am looking for one that I can swallow instead, anyone have any suggestions? I also take folic acid, perscription iron (I am iron anemic but I was before surgery, they just raised my doasge now), and Biotin extreme. I am also supposed to be taking calcium but I always forget to take it since I have to take my iron twice a day and I can't take my calcium and iron at the same time so I always end up forgetting my calcium. I am hoping the daily protein drinks and my nightly bowl of cereal and my multivit gives me enough calcium. I no longer have problems with lactose intolerance so getting in my dairy is not a problem anymore! YEAH! I used to take all my vitamins, and my allegra spaced out through four times a day and I still have the nifty container that keeps them all but I seem to space out on taking all of the darn things. So now I am just taking all of them at once at lunchtime on a full stomach. Although I do take my iron in the morning and at lunch. I just always seem to forget my darn calcium. OYE! The only time my labs came back messed up was when my anemia got out of control. I had to go on the patch to control my monthly flow and then go on perscrition iron and now my labs are fine. Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney

Oh Becki.... you are doing AMAZING!!!! You have 4 more inches on me and you are already 20+ lower than me!!! AHHHHH... jealous green eyed monster raging... just kidding. I am not trying to compare myself to anyone! That would put me in the nuthouse for sure! Hahahaha.... I can't even imagine a 2 EVER, even after PS (I will be lucky to be in a 4 after surgery) so I think you are doing wonderful! How much exercising are you doing? When my trainer banned me from the gym I was going wayyy too far... let's see I was doing the elliptical and the treadmill 6 days a week for at least 30-45 minutes, I was running 1 mile every night, I was swimming 3 days a week for an hour, 3 days a week for water aerobics, 5 days a week I was doing Tae Kwon Do, road marching once a week, weights 3 days a week, and doing sit ups and push up every day. Yeah, I was going overboard, all I had time for was school and working out. NUTS, I say, nuts! So now I go to the gym 6 days a week but I only do cardio for 30 minutes and I hit the weights too, 3 days upper body, 3 days lower body. I am trying to do body building per say.... I tried to pick up a 100# weight the other day and realized that I couldn't... it dawned on me how weak I really became. This scared the hell out of me b/c in law enforcement (I plan on attending an academy in the next 6 months... I need to move first) you need to be able to lift a body if you need to, if I can't lift a 100# weight, how am I going to be able to help my partner if they get shot?! So now my new trainer and I are working on a different program to build muscular strength and endurance. So Monday I start the new program and I am back to doing the yucky shakes... according to my nutritionist my protein intake is fine but my trainer feels it is too low since my lean muscle mass is VERY much lacking right now and I am looking to build more! So it is back to getting over 100g a day. ICK! At least I learned the whole adding low carb ice-cream to the shakes to make them thicker and more like a treat instead of medicine! LOL! BTW- love the tatt! I want to go get my new one soon. I should probably go talk to my artist this weekend! Brightest Blessings for a Wonderful Day~ Jamie M. aka Lady Autumn Weight- 257/154/146 BMI- 44.1/26.4/25 Height- 5'4" Total Weight Loss: -103 lbs. Surgery Date- 1/19/05 Visit my OH profile or stop by My Weight Loss Journey Website at: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-LadyAutumnsWLSjourney