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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from imadethelist in Worst "compliment" you have gotten since surgery   
    I just read through allllll of these and they were hysterical!
    I just finished my six month diet doc and I'm approved and waiting to schedule my sleeve.
    For the last six months I've been eating healthy at work, and I've been going walking and trying to prepare and portion and not eat and drink together etc. I've lost about 30lbs.
    I work in an office with about 20 others..and most of us are in our 20's. Everyone likes to go out for drinks and we often get fast good because it's a 24/7 agency.
    A coworker was going to go out for Wendy's and everyone was making their lists of what they wanted. Someone asked me what I wanted and before I could say "no, thank you," another girl WHO IS TINY TINY TINY spoke for me and said something along the lines of "she's been eating rabbit food for the last month--I don't think she wants anything." Granted, she was being funny/joking, and we have a great work relationship, in my opinion.
    But WHAT?
    Annnnnddd why is this tiny little princess snot paying attention to my carrot sticks anyways!!?
    I politely said my food was in the fridge and that I was okay, thanked them anyway.
    I'm NEVER speechless and in that moment I literally had no words. My mouth probably dropped.
    And this and precisely this is why I'm not telling a soul at work about my surgery.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from Aliyah14 in Overweight! Including Progress Pics   
    Also---girl. I wish I had your bum! Hubs hopes mine doesn't shrink. I wouldn't mind missing some of it, but my bum and my hair are my favorite areas to accentuate...I'm terrified of losing both lol
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from GBLady41 in And So It Begins   
    Woohoo! You got the ball rolling. I know all of those sessions, classes, and everything else will seem daunting and overwhelming but just have patience and you will get through it . I have one more diet documentation in a week (I've had 5 so far) and then I get to submit for approval and then hopefully schedule. I am beyond excited/nervous/scared.
    Just keep yourself positive and you'll do just fine . Good luck
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from MrsSugarbabe in Anyone else have a diva sleeve?   
    My surgeon has three different phases. First week clears, second week full, weeks 3/4/5 puréed, week six is intro to new foods.
    I met with the nurse practitioner on Tuesday. She said I was doing well, checked out my incisions, asked about my Vitamins, said I *could* take Miralax if I wanted to keep things moving. Then we scheduled a 3 month follow up.
    I asked about my calories, because while I'm getting my 60-75g of Protein and drinking enough Water to drown myself, I'm still only getting like 600 calories MAX and it says to get 800. Like 85 percent of my protien is coming from shakes right now...which I guess I should be trying to wean out slowly.
    The first two weeks I was super fatigued but I adjusted. I just don't know how to up my calories and keep my carbs below 20g (personal goal). Maybe it's because of the puréed stage and limited snacking abilities. But...I'm afraid to snack, because grazing and binging combined got me here. And now I feel "okay."
    I don't WANT to up my calories because I'm okay. I get the rationale behind it, starvation mode, "what about maintenance?", "strive for normalcy" blah blah blah. But it's too soon! my baby belly doesn't want to be pushed a ton, and my brain is still adjusting.
    I had the FIRST "regret" thought today because my husband, out of sincere concern, not backhandedness, said, "are you sure you're eating enough?"...he's also getting sleeved in June, so I think he will get it later on, but I truly feel like I AM eating enough. Right now, I can't even imagine adding in another shake or tuna or puréed something or other. I have a system and it feels like it's working.
    I looked at the guidelines for later stages and it says 12-1500 calories per day after 6 months. WHAT.
    Funny thing? I've had this packet of info since day one. I read it a thousand times pre-op, obsessed about reading on here, reaalllly researched. On the flip side, on the losers bench, all of it seems so brand new and foreign.
    I truly truly feel for you on this.
    I just hope that 5 months from now I feel and look as beautiful and content as you.
    I know everyone says listen to your nut and doc..but I'm with you on this. They aren't in my body, my head. They haven't had the surgery and they won't feel my "new normal." I'm trying super hard to trust my team, but I kinda wanna trust my diva sleeve until diva sleeve proves herself unreliable lol
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from jm726 in scared I wont feel full   
    Fluffy, I felt the same way! I'm 17 days post op now, and I had puréed turkey for an early Easter dinner with my fam today. I had it pretty watered down with the broth. I measured out 4oz, thinking that id have no problems because I can take down 5oz of yogurt. Not the case. I ate about 1.4oz over the course of 25-30 minutes. Everyone else had easily cleaned their plate, but I couldn't get through the 4oz to save my life.
    I took it really slow and easy because I didn't wanna get sick or be in pain, but I definitely felt pressure telling me I was full. Kind of like food will come up my esophagus if I would have kept going.
    You'll feel it, you guys. I thought for sure my surgeon didn't make it small enough or I broke my guts open. I even questioned if he did anything at all once or twice. But sure enough--it's working.
    Good luck! Hang in there and stay the course per your dr and nutrionist. Trust them and yourself!
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from jm726 in scared I wont feel full   
    Thank GOD for this question seriously.
    I've been asking in all of the forums I've participated in just because I fear that since I can drink without issue that I'll be able to eat without issue. I am praying that this is not the case, and after reading this, it feels as though it isn't.
    Whew.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from Kimberly Bouche-Perez in March 2015 Surgery!   
    My surgery is march 3!! I'm meeting with the surgeon to sign final consents tmw. And he will probably tell me to start the liquid diet. I'm scared of that too! But it's gonna be worth it
    I hope everyone's surgery is successful and that we all come out okay.
    Cause I am legit terrified lol
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from CanyonBaby in Apparently I'm uncomfortable with attention   
    Girl. Same here.
    I didn't tell anyone at work about surgery, just took personal time for a hernia repair and an ulcer--that I didn't have, but didn't want to be criticized or questioned.
    A few years before surgery the manager of my mental health group home job was super into me. (Even at 295 pounds.) he was my husbands friend and was going to be in our wedding!! Anyway, he started texting me about work at first---and then it went into a "leave him for me" conversation. Not kidding you. It was a long and tumultuous conversation because I LOVED the attention of being wanted by two men, and my husband has always been super stable, calm, confident and this other guy is a trainwreck, impulsive, wreckless. I felt like I was in a movie.
    Long story short, I got away from my cold feet about being married, and I am happily married now to my husband and I didn't cheat and wasn't a ho-bag. I just cut ties, got a new job, processed why I liked that attention with my therapist, and all was well.
    NOW as I've been losing, there's a dude at my new job--who is absolutely wonderful--in his own stable relationship long term..but we have always given each other the "side eye" since I started and are always aware what the other one is doing. Kind of like my work husband. But it is was entirely innocent--he doesn't even have my number, I have never been out for drinks with him even when other coworkers go out..I realized I needed to keep boundaries when I worked with my therapist way back when the first incident ended. So I've kept boundaries with this guy, even though he is super innocently interested me as a human being/we are very similar in how we handle our cases, etc. He would be a great friend--but I blurred those lines once before in the last, so I'm armed with that awareness now.
    But the SIDE EYES are getting more frequent. It's almost like I feel the sexual tension. And another person at work brought it up so now I'm terrified that I'm in some way doing something to lead him on---even though we are both in happy relationships.
    HE hasn't attempted to make any moves (he's really not that guy) but people are paying so much more attention to me even though I haven't done anything different.
    I HATE the attention.
    I was walking to my car last week from Walmart in a not so good neighborhood around 11p because I had to run and get something late, and some random dude cat called me and said "hey yo ma!" I have never in my entire life been so scared.
    60 pounds ago, I wouldn't have thought twice to cuss him out and go into how it's not okay to come at a girl in the parking lot like that. Now--he could have picked me up and thrown me in his trunk.
    Being smaller, losing my armor. In some ways, it makes me paranoid.
    Good luck. Call the cops. Carry mace and always wear shoes you can run in. That's my plan.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from CanyonBaby in Apparently I'm uncomfortable with attention   
    Girl. Same here.
    I didn't tell anyone at work about surgery, just took personal time for a hernia repair and an ulcer--that I didn't have, but didn't want to be criticized or questioned.
    A few years before surgery the manager of my mental health group home job was super into me. (Even at 295 pounds.) he was my husbands friend and was going to be in our wedding!! Anyway, he started texting me about work at first---and then it went into a "leave him for me" conversation. Not kidding you. It was a long and tumultuous conversation because I LOVED the attention of being wanted by two men, and my husband has always been super stable, calm, confident and this other guy is a trainwreck, impulsive, wreckless. I felt like I was in a movie.
    Long story short, I got away from my cold feet about being married, and I am happily married now to my husband and I didn't cheat and wasn't a ho-bag. I just cut ties, got a new job, processed why I liked that attention with my therapist, and all was well.
    NOW as I've been losing, there's a dude at my new job--who is absolutely wonderful--in his own stable relationship long term..but we have always given each other the "side eye" since I started and are always aware what the other one is doing. Kind of like my work husband. But it is was entirely innocent--he doesn't even have my number, I have never been out for drinks with him even when other coworkers go out..I realized I needed to keep boundaries when I worked with my therapist way back when the first incident ended. So I've kept boundaries with this guy, even though he is super innocently interested me as a human being/we are very similar in how we handle our cases, etc. He would be a great friend--but I blurred those lines once before in the last, so I'm armed with that awareness now.
    But the SIDE EYES are getting more frequent. It's almost like I feel the sexual tension. And another person at work brought it up so now I'm terrified that I'm in some way doing something to lead him on---even though we are both in happy relationships.
    HE hasn't attempted to make any moves (he's really not that guy) but people are paying so much more attention to me even though I haven't done anything different.
    I HATE the attention.
    I was walking to my car last week from Walmart in a not so good neighborhood around 11p because I had to run and get something late, and some random dude cat called me and said "hey yo ma!" I have never in my entire life been so scared.
    60 pounds ago, I wouldn't have thought twice to cuss him out and go into how it's not okay to come at a girl in the parking lot like that. Now--he could have picked me up and thrown me in his trunk.
    Being smaller, losing my armor. In some ways, it makes me paranoid.
    Good luck. Call the cops. Carry mace and always wear shoes you can run in. That's my plan.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from LaLa Lady in March 2015 Sleevers   
    I was sleeved on 3/3. The first two days were the worst. The dilaudid medicine they gave me made me so foggy brained that I couldn't make sense of the pain to tell if it was gas or incisional or muscle, etc. When I switched to liquid pain meds it was a little easier and I was more clear headed.
    Day 3-returned to my home. No need for nausea meds--didn't really experience any. Did take some of the narcotic liquid med. started sipping from medicine cups. Got my protien and Water in, just had to remember to sip.
    Somewhere in day 4/5/6-I got over the need for medicine cups and just sip slow. Maintained my Protein and Water each day. Just sippin and sippin. A little tired through out, but not overly fatigued. Walking a lot around the house--doing too much--folding laundry, bending to put the leash on the dog. Walking the dog and balancing not being pulled over or falling on the ice. Feeling absolutely NO restriction with liquids and getting pretty scared that it "didn't work."
    Day 8--so constipated. I had been doing okay with regular BMs with the help of the prescribed stool softeners--but I must not have drank enough water on day 7. So constipated I saw a little blood in my stool! So scary!
    Day 10 (today) I was able to eat 2oz of very puréed chicken and ricotta cheese--felt SO FULL. I had been waiting to feel full! ...then I didn't really like it lol.
    I was so scared I wouldn't feel full/that id broken it before it could work/that something was going to go wrong. Welp, looks like I've got nothing to worry about as far as restriction goes. Now just to figure out how to get 75 grams of Protein in without entirely relying on shakes.
    Good luck everyone! I'm so glad you are all here!!
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from liannatx in Fluid consumption   
    Okay guys..I started back at work and my whirlwind job makes it way difficult to consume liquids and eat because I'm always on the go. I'm sure so many of you can relate.
    I've taken to doing shakes through out the day just because they are easier to transport, I'm able to be less mindful of the size of bites and the number of chews. Probably not the best bc I don't wanna be on shakes indefinitely, but I'm only 4 weeks out so I think shakes are still super normal to use.
    Here's my question:
    I can drink 14 ounces of a shake super fast. I can drink a 16oz water bottle over a series of three slightly spaced "chugs."
    Am I doing anything super harmful to my sleeve? When I eat food, I feel restriction at about a quarter cup (if it's super dense. Maybe a half cup of something like yogurt)
    I don't want my quick drinking to stretch my pouchie poo out.
    On the plus side---I'm meeting my protien and liquid goals daily lol.
    Any thoughts?
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from liannatx in Fluid consumption   
    Okay guys..I started back at work and my whirlwind job makes it way difficult to consume liquids and eat because I'm always on the go. I'm sure so many of you can relate.
    I've taken to doing shakes through out the day just because they are easier to transport, I'm able to be less mindful of the size of bites and the number of chews. Probably not the best bc I don't wanna be on shakes indefinitely, but I'm only 4 weeks out so I think shakes are still super normal to use.
    Here's my question:
    I can drink 14 ounces of a shake super fast. I can drink a 16oz water bottle over a series of three slightly spaced "chugs."
    Am I doing anything super harmful to my sleeve? When I eat food, I feel restriction at about a quarter cup (if it's super dense. Maybe a half cup of something like yogurt)
    I don't want my quick drinking to stretch my pouchie poo out.
    On the plus side---I'm meeting my protien and liquid goals daily lol.
    Any thoughts?
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from liannatx in Fluid consumption   
    Thanks pals.
    I didn't think I was doing anything wrong but I freaked myself out a little bit because my husband said, "babe be careful!" When I drank my Decaf tea pretty quick. He thinks I'm so fragile. It was cute at first. Now i wish he'd relax a little bit lol.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from BLERDgirl in Not losing any more weight?   
    How did this turn into a "BLERDgirl bash" ?
    I personally think that blerdgirl is very helpful in clarifying information and providing appropriate feedback.
    If you don't want to hear "follow your manual" or other peoples direct experience, maybe a forum isn't the place to ask questions.
    There are great great resources on this site. Some of the posters have been the reason I haven't had major freak outs.
    I'm only 4 weeks out. By no means am I an expert, and luckily I have had no major complications at all. (I will admit that pooping was hard at first). Half the reason I think this experience hasn't been the roller coaster of emotional melt downs is because I look here first, be rational, and accept the advise given from the experts.
    I know that everyone has different personalities and that they can clash, but if you take a step back,you will realize that no one here is trying to sabotage you and are truly just trying to give honest to goodness feedback and advice.
    My advice (again, I'm a newbie) is to stick to your plan, ensure you are getting your Protein and Water in, add in some exercise when you feel comfortable and consult with your nut. Use your team as much as you can. That's what they are paid for. And if you don't feel like they are accessible in the moment, come here and take heart knowing that everyone here wants you to be successful as you can be and they are here to support you through it.
  15. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from CanyonBaby in Apparently I'm uncomfortable with attention   
    Girl. Same here.
    I didn't tell anyone at work about surgery, just took personal time for a hernia repair and an ulcer--that I didn't have, but didn't want to be criticized or questioned.
    A few years before surgery the manager of my mental health group home job was super into me. (Even at 295 pounds.) he was my husbands friend and was going to be in our wedding!! Anyway, he started texting me about work at first---and then it went into a "leave him for me" conversation. Not kidding you. It was a long and tumultuous conversation because I LOVED the attention of being wanted by two men, and my husband has always been super stable, calm, confident and this other guy is a trainwreck, impulsive, wreckless. I felt like I was in a movie.
    Long story short, I got away from my cold feet about being married, and I am happily married now to my husband and I didn't cheat and wasn't a ho-bag. I just cut ties, got a new job, processed why I liked that attention with my therapist, and all was well.
    NOW as I've been losing, there's a dude at my new job--who is absolutely wonderful--in his own stable relationship long term..but we have always given each other the "side eye" since I started and are always aware what the other one is doing. Kind of like my work husband. But it is was entirely innocent--he doesn't even have my number, I have never been out for drinks with him even when other coworkers go out..I realized I needed to keep boundaries when I worked with my therapist way back when the first incident ended. So I've kept boundaries with this guy, even though he is super innocently interested me as a human being/we are very similar in how we handle our cases, etc. He would be a great friend--but I blurred those lines once before in the last, so I'm armed with that awareness now.
    But the SIDE EYES are getting more frequent. It's almost like I feel the sexual tension. And another person at work brought it up so now I'm terrified that I'm in some way doing something to lead him on---even though we are both in happy relationships.
    HE hasn't attempted to make any moves (he's really not that guy) but people are paying so much more attention to me even though I haven't done anything different.
    I HATE the attention.
    I was walking to my car last week from Walmart in a not so good neighborhood around 11p because I had to run and get something late, and some random dude cat called me and said "hey yo ma!" I have never in my entire life been so scared.
    60 pounds ago, I wouldn't have thought twice to cuss him out and go into how it's not okay to come at a girl in the parking lot like that. Now--he could have picked me up and thrown me in his trunk.
    Being smaller, losing my armor. In some ways, it makes me paranoid.
    Good luck. Call the cops. Carry mace and always wear shoes you can run in. That's my plan.
  16. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from BLERDgirl in Not losing any more weight?   
    How did this turn into a "BLERDgirl bash" ?
    I personally think that blerdgirl is very helpful in clarifying information and providing appropriate feedback.
    If you don't want to hear "follow your manual" or other peoples direct experience, maybe a forum isn't the place to ask questions.
    There are great great resources on this site. Some of the posters have been the reason I haven't had major freak outs.
    I'm only 4 weeks out. By no means am I an expert, and luckily I have had no major complications at all. (I will admit that pooping was hard at first). Half the reason I think this experience hasn't been the roller coaster of emotional melt downs is because I look here first, be rational, and accept the advise given from the experts.
    I know that everyone has different personalities and that they can clash, but if you take a step back,you will realize that no one here is trying to sabotage you and are truly just trying to give honest to goodness feedback and advice.
    My advice (again, I'm a newbie) is to stick to your plan, ensure you are getting your Protein and Water in, add in some exercise when you feel comfortable and consult with your nut. Use your team as much as you can. That's what they are paid for. And if you don't feel like they are accessible in the moment, come here and take heart knowing that everyone here wants you to be successful as you can be and they are here to support you through it.
  17. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from CanyonBaby in Apparently I'm uncomfortable with attention   
    Girl. Same here.
    I didn't tell anyone at work about surgery, just took personal time for a hernia repair and an ulcer--that I didn't have, but didn't want to be criticized or questioned.
    A few years before surgery the manager of my mental health group home job was super into me. (Even at 295 pounds.) he was my husbands friend and was going to be in our wedding!! Anyway, he started texting me about work at first---and then it went into a "leave him for me" conversation. Not kidding you. It was a long and tumultuous conversation because I LOVED the attention of being wanted by two men, and my husband has always been super stable, calm, confident and this other guy is a trainwreck, impulsive, wreckless. I felt like I was in a movie.
    Long story short, I got away from my cold feet about being married, and I am happily married now to my husband and I didn't cheat and wasn't a ho-bag. I just cut ties, got a new job, processed why I liked that attention with my therapist, and all was well.
    NOW as I've been losing, there's a dude at my new job--who is absolutely wonderful--in his own stable relationship long term..but we have always given each other the "side eye" since I started and are always aware what the other one is doing. Kind of like my work husband. But it is was entirely innocent--he doesn't even have my number, I have never been out for drinks with him even when other coworkers go out..I realized I needed to keep boundaries when I worked with my therapist way back when the first incident ended. So I've kept boundaries with this guy, even though he is super innocently interested me as a human being/we are very similar in how we handle our cases, etc. He would be a great friend--but I blurred those lines once before in the last, so I'm armed with that awareness now.
    But the SIDE EYES are getting more frequent. It's almost like I feel the sexual tension. And another person at work brought it up so now I'm terrified that I'm in some way doing something to lead him on---even though we are both in happy relationships.
    HE hasn't attempted to make any moves (he's really not that guy) but people are paying so much more attention to me even though I haven't done anything different.
    I HATE the attention.
    I was walking to my car last week from Walmart in a not so good neighborhood around 11p because I had to run and get something late, and some random dude cat called me and said "hey yo ma!" I have never in my entire life been so scared.
    60 pounds ago, I wouldn't have thought twice to cuss him out and go into how it's not okay to come at a girl in the parking lot like that. Now--he could have picked me up and thrown me in his trunk.
    Being smaller, losing my armor. In some ways, it makes me paranoid.
    Good luck. Call the cops. Carry mace and always wear shoes you can run in. That's my plan.
  18. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from BLERDgirl in Not losing any more weight?   
    How did this turn into a "BLERDgirl bash" ?
    I personally think that blerdgirl is very helpful in clarifying information and providing appropriate feedback.
    If you don't want to hear "follow your manual" or other peoples direct experience, maybe a forum isn't the place to ask questions.
    There are great great resources on this site. Some of the posters have been the reason I haven't had major freak outs.
    I'm only 4 weeks out. By no means am I an expert, and luckily I have had no major complications at all. (I will admit that pooping was hard at first). Half the reason I think this experience hasn't been the roller coaster of emotional melt downs is because I look here first, be rational, and accept the advise given from the experts.
    I know that everyone has different personalities and that they can clash, but if you take a step back,you will realize that no one here is trying to sabotage you and are truly just trying to give honest to goodness feedback and advice.
    My advice (again, I'm a newbie) is to stick to your plan, ensure you are getting your Protein and Water in, add in some exercise when you feel comfortable and consult with your nut. Use your team as much as you can. That's what they are paid for. And if you don't feel like they are accessible in the moment, come here and take heart knowing that everyone here wants you to be successful as you can be and they are here to support you through it.
  19. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from BLERDgirl in Not losing any more weight?   
    How did this turn into a "BLERDgirl bash" ?
    I personally think that blerdgirl is very helpful in clarifying information and providing appropriate feedback.
    If you don't want to hear "follow your manual" or other peoples direct experience, maybe a forum isn't the place to ask questions.
    There are great great resources on this site. Some of the posters have been the reason I haven't had major freak outs.
    I'm only 4 weeks out. By no means am I an expert, and luckily I have had no major complications at all. (I will admit that pooping was hard at first). Half the reason I think this experience hasn't been the roller coaster of emotional melt downs is because I look here first, be rational, and accept the advise given from the experts.
    I know that everyone has different personalities and that they can clash, but if you take a step back,you will realize that no one here is trying to sabotage you and are truly just trying to give honest to goodness feedback and advice.
    My advice (again, I'm a newbie) is to stick to your plan, ensure you are getting your Protein and Water in, add in some exercise when you feel comfortable and consult with your nut. Use your team as much as you can. That's what they are paid for. And if you don't feel like they are accessible in the moment, come here and take heart knowing that everyone here wants you to be successful as you can be and they are here to support you through it.
  20. Like
    Grateful_Love got a reaction from CanyonBaby in Apparently I'm uncomfortable with attention   
    Girl. Same here.
    I didn't tell anyone at work about surgery, just took personal time for a hernia repair and an ulcer--that I didn't have, but didn't want to be criticized or questioned.
    A few years before surgery the manager of my mental health group home job was super into me. (Even at 295 pounds.) he was my husbands friend and was going to be in our wedding!! Anyway, he started texting me about work at first---and then it went into a "leave him for me" conversation. Not kidding you. It was a long and tumultuous conversation because I LOVED the attention of being wanted by two men, and my husband has always been super stable, calm, confident and this other guy is a trainwreck, impulsive, wreckless. I felt like I was in a movie.
    Long story short, I got away from my cold feet about being married, and I am happily married now to my husband and I didn't cheat and wasn't a ho-bag. I just cut ties, got a new job, processed why I liked that attention with my therapist, and all was well.
    NOW as I've been losing, there's a dude at my new job--who is absolutely wonderful--in his own stable relationship long term..but we have always given each other the "side eye" since I started and are always aware what the other one is doing. Kind of like my work husband. But it is was entirely innocent--he doesn't even have my number, I have never been out for drinks with him even when other coworkers go out..I realized I needed to keep boundaries when I worked with my therapist way back when the first incident ended. So I've kept boundaries with this guy, even though he is super innocently interested me as a human being/we are very similar in how we handle our cases, etc. He would be a great friend--but I blurred those lines once before in the last, so I'm armed with that awareness now.
    But the SIDE EYES are getting more frequent. It's almost like I feel the sexual tension. And another person at work brought it up so now I'm terrified that I'm in some way doing something to lead him on---even though we are both in happy relationships.
    HE hasn't attempted to make any moves (he's really not that guy) but people are paying so much more attention to me even though I haven't done anything different.
    I HATE the attention.
    I was walking to my car last week from Walmart in a not so good neighborhood around 11p because I had to run and get something late, and some random dude cat called me and said "hey yo ma!" I have never in my entire life been so scared.
    60 pounds ago, I wouldn't have thought twice to cuss him out and go into how it's not okay to come at a girl in the parking lot like that. Now--he could have picked me up and thrown me in his trunk.
    Being smaller, losing my armor. In some ways, it makes me paranoid.
    Good luck. Call the cops. Carry mace and always wear shoes you can run in. That's my plan.
  21. Like
    Grateful_Love reacted to BLERDgirl in Not losing any more weight?   
    Really? It seems to me that everybody here had an opinion. In fact that's what I thought we were here for. As to my confusion with her statements it was because her initial post made it seem as if she was not getting her Protein in at all. It was not questioning her program. However if you have a specific comment or question for me, please feel free to direct it to me and not "me too" on a discussion I had with another poster.
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    Grateful_Love reacted to LipstickLady in "picky eaters" - my pet peeve   
    And then they cry bully when you don't tell them what they want to hear.
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from Elode in First day back to work   
    So, I had three glorious weeks off from my mobile/desk job. (I'm a crisis counselor and sometimes we make house calls, a lot of times it's taking phone calls.)
    Today is my first day back. I'm getting ready for work now. I've got two lean shakes from GNC, a scrambled egg in a baby tupperware container, a sugar free Jello and 4 bottles of Water. I know I've over packed. But I'll just leave whatever I don't get through at work for the week and bring more Protein Shakes as needed.
    I didn't tell anyone I was having weight loss surgery--just a hernia repair and ulcer correction. I'm down about 20 pounds but I don't see it anywhere. If anyone notices I'm just gonna chalk it up to being on a liquid diet and not say much.
    It's a 10 hour shift. (First of 5 for this stretch). I have been struggling with the afternoon sleepies, but I'm hopeful to get through it okay.
    I hope no one is suicidal or homicidal and that it doesn't rain.
    Wish me luck!
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from Aliyah14 in Overweight! Including Progress Pics   
    Also---girl. I wish I had your bum! Hubs hopes mine doesn't shrink. I wouldn't mind missing some of it, but my bum and my hair are my favorite areas to accentuate...I'm terrified of losing both lol
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    Grateful_Love got a reaction from Healthy_life2 in Overweight! Including Progress Pics   
    Yay!!!! Congrats!! You look like a million bucks! And you have no signs of a Tummy Tuck other than a gorgeous FLAT stomach!!

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