Hi Sharyn! Good to hear from you WOW, close to emergency surgery!! Good thing you had it done now. Yup, a positive effect from the surgery - tighter pouch. Who would have thought it?? I hope that my pouch tightens up again when I have ps. I'm shooting for the week of November 20 or 27th. Sharyn, hope you feel better soon! Remember to take it easy and rest. I know that I was tired for some time after my hernia surgery. God Bless! Hugs, Lucy

Good morning Pam. OK, here goes my Sunday: Large coffee with Hazelnut-flavored coffee creamer - 0 nutrition B - Mocha Java AchievOne drink - 20 g protein L - ate out - chopped salad with 2 slices lo fat Lorraine cheese and 2 small slices of Ciabatta bread- 20 g protein D - 4 turkey meatballs with tomato and cucumber salad - 18 g protein 1 Thomas wheat lo fat english muffin with 1 tsp brummels and brown spead - 6 g protein S - gala apple sprinkled with cinnamon and splenda - 1 tsp peanut butter. Vitamins and lots of water too. Exercised - 30 minutes on the Tony Little Gazelle Rider and started 5 minutes on the elliptical - boy that was hard! Total exercise time: 35 minutes! Pretty good for a Sunday, I would say... I like the scrambled poopies statement. How funny is that? I would have cracked up if I was there! Hope he's doing better soon. Your Sunday's eating looks delicious! I'm afraid to eat like that, thinking I would gain... Have a wonderful day Pam! Love ya Pam! Lucy

thanks theresa. thanks to ps i am under my surgeon's goal and need to take off 5 for my personal goal.

good news lucy - i do feel tighter. i can't quite eat as much. or i'm too tired to eat more. surgery was longer than planned. took awhole hr for the hernia. dr said i was close to needung emergency surgery and couldn't belive i wasn' in more pain.

YEAH!!!! That's so awesome Lucy!!!! You are doing great! Wow, you are going to be at goal any second now! It is kind of scary to think about maintenance isn't it? I totally freaked when I hit goal and realized that I needed to figure out how to stay put. It was such a mind twister for me.... all this time, my sucess was measured by the numbers going down on the scale. BUT at goal you can't measure success that way anymore. So it's like re-learning the definition of success. When I was watching the numbers drop on the scale, I felt in control - empowered. I've had to re-work all of this in mind. NOW, since my goal is to stay between 125-130.... I am learning to feel empowered and in control by watching my scale fluctuate between these numbers..... I see it get up to 128 and I adjust to bring it back to 125... and i just keep doing it over and over again. So now, I'm learning to feel success and empowerment in that. This makes me feel in control and i need that so badly where the weight is concerned. That "being in control" thing is what is driving my desire to get back to the basics and the protein train again. I don't want to give myself too much lattitude and get lost along the way!!! Geez...what am i doing....writing a book on your post!?! I just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! (all that other stuff was about understanding your fears about maintenance) Love ya Luce.... Pam