Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww....you're doing a remarkable job, rocco!

I am still heavily relying on protein shakes to get my protein in. And I feel like I will be doing that for a long time. I did have some tri tip steak last weekend and it was the first steak I had had since surgery, but I was only able to handle about 3 maybe 4 ounces and it went down okay. I just had to chew the heck out of it, but thank god, it was so much better than chicken and fish, which I am completely sick of.

Exercising has been my down fall I didn't think that it would be this hard to get it in with all the time that my dsaughter and I were at the pool since surgery I think that I have been there twice. what i did is took up kickboxing my friend had me try a class with her the first on was free and then my daughter decied she wanted to do kidratee so the owner gave me a deal that i could not pass up he said that if i do the kick boxking then he would let my daughter do the kideratee for free what a way to get me of mu butt i just love it they have been great with me and let me go at my passe since i am just learning the one thing that is amazing is that I can do it I can kick and I can do the streaches and my knees don't hurt Nicki

I can eat just about anything I want, although some foods are tolerated better than others. I'm eating an average of 1100 calories/day, with 30% or less attributed to fat and 60-90 g. of protein. I don't do well with beef, venison or egg beaters. I LOVE Hood Light Cottage Cheese with Cherries and Pineapple, and I still do a protein drink every morning (8 oz skim milk with a SF CIB and a scoop of EAS powder). Sometimes I'll have a CIB at night too. I will have a starch with my lunch and/or dinner, but rarely will I have one by itself or with breakfast. Highest: 260 Day of Surgery: 236 Today: 179 Goal: 130 Was about a size 22 when I started this journey, now a 14 to 16.

I agree about this board being dead. I check it out regularly, but there's never anything new. I will try to post more often too. So I just got back from a week in Mexico. We stayed at an all-inclusive resort. I thought I did pretty well with the food and alcohol, but I gained 2 1/2 pounds. I'm hoping that it is mostly water retention as I couldn't get much water in. (It was purified, but it tasted different.) I did drink, and I ate, but I didn't drink a lot, and I ate fish mostly. I also walked the beach a couple of times, went to the gym and did pool aerobics twice. My husband and I danced into the night at the disco on 4 different evenings. These are all activities that I have never done in the past, plus what I ate all week, I think I would have eaten in a couple of days in the past. Same with the alcohol. So 2 1/2 pounds isn't necessarily a big gain for a week on vacation, but I still find it discouraging. I so want to reach my goal before the "honeymoon period" wears off. I feel like I lost 2 weeks (last week and this week -hopefully just one- that I will need to spend taking off the extra pounds) on my weight loss journey.