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Hosting my family on Sunday for a pre-Easter get together. I'm making steak, per request. This will be the first time I've seen my brother since my surgery 9 weeks ago, and the first time I've eaten in front of most of my family. At least I am hosting, so I can run around cleaning and cooking and not look unsettled. This is also my first time cooking for a large group since surgery. I went to go buy steaks and I stood there in amazement at the size of them (Ribeyes & New York Strip specifically) . I used to eat one of those, a whole one! I'm looking forward to having normal traditions and getting over the fear that I don't fit into holidays when food is involved.

Today, so joyful. Tomorrow - on a flight to a small pacific island for 7 uninterrupted days of scuba diving - no mobiles, no internet. Scuba is MUCH harder when one is obese - you need so much more lead weights around your waist just to make that damned fat sink, plus I was less fit, fatty tissue uses that air faster, etc. This photo - me diving 5 years ago in NZ just as I started to regain weight following my lapband failure. I am smaller than this now, and in the warm pacific water this diving trip should be paradise - interspersed with fishing, and then eating fresh fish and crab meals when on land! THIS - the miserable idea of being too fat to ever do it again safely - was my main motivator to get things sorted, See y’all in a week! As we say in New Zealand Maori - Kia kaha, everyone. Stay strong.

Call it what you like...I don't need a product that is made of filtered water to be spelled out for me. If you feel better saying "Drink" it's its all good.

Its the whole near region, but most intense at the big incision. It feels like nerve pain to me? But I'm a bit surprised by this development. Oh, and I never actually bruised!

Sounds like it's going to be a great time. I hope you have fun, and make sure you don't drive yourself too crazy running around making the day perfect.

It also depends on where those carbs are coming from too - vegetables, fruits, grains, sugars, etc.

What great motivation! Enjoy it!!! And Congrats!!

Thank you for sharing

I peeled mine off after a week because I was having an allergic reaction to the glue. The incisions were fine. In fact, they look much better than the irritated areas from the bandages!

Haven't been here for a while.. So let me catch you all up. As you all know I lost my band in March. Still hanging around 150... but I do need to get to the gym. Still in the 4-6 size jeans... I quit my job in Houma and moved to Madison, Ms. Wasn't expecting to get a job so quick. Went on Three interviews on a Friday and got Three job offers. So I took the best one for me.