Happy 2 years to me! Weight this am: 142.6. (edited in some paragraphs!)

Been to school just now with your post. Thank you for taking the time and effort to chart your successful course. Read and appreciated.

Jo, Congrats on 2 !!!!

Great post......should be archived !!!

You already know how I feel about you and your accomplishments !

frisco

Great post!!!  And so glad to see you on the main VSG board. 

You look great.  I love your post-op approach.  Perfect for me to read as I'm scheduled for surgery in 2 weeks.

Keep enjoying the life you've worked for!

Wonderful post. Congratulations on your success and common sense approach to all of this. You are a role model and inspiration to others.

thank you.

gail

I'm so happy for you!  You are a fighter, educator and an inspiration.  You have definitely utilized your tool.  Hope all is well with you.  Take care!

congrats!! Awesome Job!! 

What does a day in your stomach look like? what foods and snacks do you eat??

Thanks!

My days are pretty much this, though they change bfast, snack, lunch, snack.. snack for the road, dinner, snack.. I cook enough to have plenty of leftovers to munch on through the week, well stocked fridge, pantry & freezer means just a 1x week groc run for fresh veggies.

Up at 5am (I work 10hr days, and commute another hr in total a day).. coffee x 2-3, black w. sweetener.. then fried egg over easy w/ leftover meat, some veggies, cheese.. sometimes on a bran crisp, sometimes just plain. Some mornings are my fav bfast- egg over easy, bacon & avocado slices with sliced tomatoes on a crisp with a little mayo. Sometimes just a big glop of plain Fage Total, full fat, or 0% with cream cheese blended in, with some berries/marcona almonds on top.

Snack: baked Quest bar.. we have an oven at work, I use it.. I have a Quest a day through the week usually, they bake up nice.

Lunch- meat, leftovers from dinner mostly.. or 1/2 low-carb tortilla stuffed with meat/cheese and some veggies (that and the crisp are the only two "grains" I eat- I like them, and appreciate the fiber..) Some weeks we live off a rotisserie chicken for lunches and bfast egg add-ins, other times I make a huge pot roast or a bunch of fish. 

Snack: cheese/bran crisp.. or oil roasted kale chips, or veggies (been on a sweet pepper kick).. or eggplant protein "bread" pudding.. or nothing, depending on my hunger.. sometimes lunch leftovers if I don't finish my meat.. usually veggies and some meat or a hb egg though.

Snacks for the road- I have baggies of sliced up veggies I munch during my commute.. peppers currently, before that- cauliflower.

Dinner: meat/veg (usually 2-3 kinds w/ dinner)/fats.. pesto/mozz stuffed stuffed chicken thighs, fish & veggies, macnut crusted=yum, if I want a light dinner- shrimp ****tail/veggies. Been making lots of squash- spag, butternut.. also rutabaga rocks, good chips when you slice thin and roast.

Dessert/late night snack- whatever I'm in the mood for, if I'm nibbly.. 1/2 protein bar or piece of dark chocolate (when I'm in a candy mood- not often) or avocado choc pudding, or eggplant bread pudding with whipped coconut milk & berries on top.. sweetened Fage, berries.. leftover veggies, or nothing. 

On my really nibbly days, I have free foods to go to anytime I want- veggies, shirataki noodles.. 

edited to add: this sounds like a ton of food, but as you all know- the portions are tiny! My full fat foods still keep me well within, or under (as needed) what I need to maintain. The veggie snacks are the way I get more into my daily diet since I am so restricted when I eat meat first.. I may make 2-3 diff kinds with dinner a night for variety, but I only get a couple bites down with my meal.. they get nibbled later as in-between meals.

Brillant!!

You are amazing, wise, strong and and beautiful.  This is a great post and so many people will be inspired by it.  Congratulations on the first two years beautifully done.

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

I have to say, since I was self-pay- this forum and those that came before were my source of a lot of information and support in the beginning. Everyone here deserves and should take full advantage of the information here, it is a gold-mine for those that are willing to read, learn and apply the parts that fit to their own needs. Search out information elsewhere too, read a lot.. learn a lot.. as the information will help you the further out you get.

Either way, we all need to be open to change our lives/tastes/behaviours- it's not as simple as just having our stomach sizes reduced- that works for a little while- but won't work for the long-haul. That changing is the hard part.