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Bill,
My condolences on the passing of your father in such a tragic manner.
Don
Last week: 186.8
This week: 186.4
Last week was C-O-L-D! 
Forecast this week is for it to be warmer. TX has been hammered by the flu this year. Wild swings in the weather is not helping.
Pats going to another SB. Fingers crossed that for the historical perspective if not for the win Minnesota gets in for the NFC.
This week likely to be a tough week. Looking at taking my "baby girl" to the vet one last time. 
17 years is a Hell of a run for a dog but she has developed renal issues to go along with her liver problem. Saturday going to Waco for a reunion of sorts of a lot of OH people from the old Texas Forum. Partly for catching up and for remembering a former Texas OH'er who passed on.
Go do your thing!
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 
I am checking in even though I can't weigh myself. I am away from my home. It has been a bad week. Very bad. My father died unexpectedly Friday morning, leaving me and my brother to find a way to care for our semi invalid mother. We were able to find a very small (10 residents counting Mom) personal care home close to their home. It is a bit more of a drive for me, but it is close enough that her friends will be able to continue visiting her easily. And they are already.
I guess this is where I should write "life happened", which is bariatric code for "I started eating bad food and not caring about my body because of stress".
Let me tell you about "life happening" and stress. Stress is finding your 83 year old father on the front porch of your childhood home dead by his own hand. Stress is having to climb over his body and tell your mother about it a few minutes later while police officers and EMTs are hovering over your shoulder. I am two days out from that now. Am I eating right? Not quite, but most of that is because I am not home. As near as I can tell, I am still within the 80/20 guidelines set down by my bariatric team.
Anyway, I am not posting this for sympathy. I am posting this to tell you **** happens, life sucks, and it is our choice how to respond. I will freely admit that I am sucking down his wine stash way more than I should at the end of the day as I sit here alone with my ghosts in the Civil War era house I grew up in. There are lots of them. But beyond that wine, they will not beat me.
I've already given away two cakes brought by the house by some of the ladies from their church. I still have four packages of bread, two packages of bagels, and a whole tray of stuffed shells to deal with, but I am giving them to my skinny brother. I will eat the meat and cheese they brought and stay on plan as much as a I can. I've worked too hard to screw it up now. And I can't see it getting much worse than this. I suppose it can, but right now I can't see it.
197.6 Last week
198.1 Today
Food: c
Water: C
Vitamins: A
Exercise: D
I really need to get back with the program and consistently track. I hit 200 yesterday morning. Mindful eating, low salt,
and a dump this morning got me back under. I hope this is an eye opener as I know I have goten derailed this Winter.
I hope I can find things to keep me busy, as I have been furoughed by the knuckleheads in DC!
Good week to all!
-b0b
318.6, making progress, not as much as I should but better than I was.
Not as focused this week as I was to start the year. Playoff football and food is my immediate challenge. Working on self-awareness about relationships and stress. I'm 43, staring to see my parents move from old to elderly. Lost my grandmother last month and my other one is not far behind. Watching them move from elderly to hospice is hard.
I remembered that I weighed in at 301 at the end of Oct before going to see an old friend that I could wouldn't mind being more than a friend. Weighed in at 327 at the new year. Amazing how my avoidance of relationships can lead to stress/sabatage/weight gain.
Have a great week guys!
5'10" Male : Consult Weight 428 1/16/14 : Pre-op m1 -3, m2 -12, m3 0, m4 -27 : SW 386 : m1 -25, m2 -22 m3 -15 4 -12: LW 278 CW 320 : Total Loss 108
Last week: 188.0
This week: 186.8
John and Bill - sounds like y'all have your hands full with parental caretaking. Dread that day when it comes with my mother.
82much - kudos to your buddy on his retirement! 30+ years is a great run. 
Our City Secretary retired Friday after 21 years with the City. New Secretary is former Court Clerk. Intelligent young woman with a good heart. Best part is that our last smoking employee is gone. We're fixing to come up to at least the 1990's with no smoking in the building. Not formalized but will before long if I have any thing to say.
Y'all have a Great Week! It is going to be colder than a witch's mammary gland in a brass metallic mammary gland containment device this week here.
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!!
On a mini vacation near the islands of Lake Erie. No scales at the cottage:). Yesterday morning was 197.6
food c
water d
vitamins a
exercise? Unless you count getting up to put a new three stooges dvd in the player as movement :) yes, no wives on this trip
John, I feel for you we have begun to look for a place for my parents Moms dementia is getting where it is becoming dangerous and 8 hours a day of home health aids is just not cutting it Ages 87 and almost 92
a side note to Brian, spending the weekend with my buddy *****tired last Friday after 33 years with Westlake PD
Good week to all
I was 272 last week. I am still 272 this week. I am seriously beginning to think I've reached the end of the weight loss line here. My weight has plateaued, bobbling back and forth between 272-275 for the past couple of months. I am fine with that. I am as lean as one could expect, excepting my flap of course. I'll be discussing options with my surgeon. I am not vain, but it would make things a little more comfortable to have it gone.
I anticipate taking an RMR test next month. I've been pushing for that so I can determine a more accurate calorie count than what tables and charts show. Maybe they will turn out to be accurate, but I am somewhat atypical in a lot of things. Why would this be any different? In any case, it should help me avoid any regain as long as I do my part.
Exercise beyond daily moving about the property and working in my shop has been very low. It has been "break your ears off" cold here for weeks. It may be that inactivity has helped my slowdown. I was easily burning 3000 calories a week in exercise and work around the property during the warmer months.
John, I can really feel for the things you are dealing with regarding your parents. I am there too. My Mom is descending into Alzheimer's at an increasing rate, and my Dad is killing himself trying to take care of her. I am making my third visit this week to try and help them out some, as much as they will accept.
337.6: High weight Dec '13
311.3: Surgery day 1/16/14
191.8: 1st Surgiversary
199.2: 2nd Surgiversary
201.6: 3rd Surgiversary
214.0 Last Weigh in
214.0: CW
Food: C
Water: B+
Vitamins: A
Exercise: B+
1st week of 2018 travel in the books. Practiced more mindful eating than anything else. Got to the gym three times as well. I feel pretty good about the week, I could do better with food choices so that's the goal in the next few weeks.
Taking a week out of traveling to Florida to spend in Michigan with my parents. My mom is starting hospice this week, so there is of course lots of stress there. I've known this was coming for a while, so my mind is in the right place. My dad eats like **** anyway, so hopefully I can help support him and myself a little bit this week. I start that crappy drive in a couple hours before the snow starts falling.
Have a great week everyone.
Get a big(er) wife (?) 
Seriously, the only thing I can think of here might be a weight belt like SCUBA divers use? I don't know how much weight is on them, though, since I'm not one ... 
Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
HW/461 LW/251 GW/189 CW/274 (yep, a DS semi-failure - it happens :-( )
