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Congratulations on the 8 months, the loss and the upcoming wedding. How nice to be at such a healthier place to join your life with someone else's! :rose:

Try the Fage Brand (get 2%) and buy the plain. Then mix in a little sugar-free pudding mix (the little blue boxes of dry jello powder, any flavor you like) and sprinkle a little in. YUM!

You look great, what a difference! Funny how we thought that hiding behind a huge tent of clothing was flattering...I used to hate it if anything 'clingy' and would opt for bigger and looser...just trying to hide the flab. Ugh!

Yep, I love this place for that reason also. I regularly attend support groups offered through my surgeon but have only met ONE other sleever. There are lots of RNY's and bands but the sleeve is too new. This place has been BETTER than a real support group because we are all sleevers. I also didn't want to talk to my family and friends ALL the time and BORE them to tears with all of my surgery stuff so I started a blog and have met a whole entire group of wonderful people on a similar journey. I love it. (My blog link is in my signature line.)

I didn't have a pre-op diet. Just clears 24 hours before surgery. It was totally fine no liver-shrinking stuff, etc. Now of course I wished I had done a pre-op diet just because I would be THAT much farther along in the game. But since it wasn't required I didn't bother. I had enough of liquids post-op, lol.

That is really cool Sarah! And you look fab in pink...love it! Your doggies are pretty darn cute too. Can you imagine picking up BOTH of them and carrying them around with you ...it would be exhuasting!

That is wonderful news! I'm sorry you have had such a horrible time, I can only imagine how hard this has been. I'm glad things are looking better and better for you and hopefully soon this will all be a hazy memory because you will be out living life to the fullest!

Since I hear lots of raving about Click Protein powder I decided to order some from Amazon. I am sadly not in love with it. I think I ordered Espresso Mocha and vanilla Latte, and they both are dissapointing. I have made them into Protein shakes using plain milk, plain Water and I've also tried almond milk. They are passable, just not wow. And I am also not happy with carb count or caffeine content. (That is strictly my fault, as I didn't research them very much!) I've been drinking decaf coffee and gave up plain (unsweet tea) due to caffeine content, so why the heck did I order Protein Powder with caffeine. Ugh. I tried mixing some in my Fage yogurt and it was just awful. I choked it down because I didn't want to waste my precious yogurt. Other than making a shake, does anyone have any ideas? I'm going to check out Eggface for some recipe ideas. If you love Click, please share with me what you do with it. Thanks!

WOW! You look amazing!! I'm sure it was a tough decision to go from band to sleeve, but I have never heard anyone who has done it say anything bad about the sleeve!

Congratulations!!! She is absolutely beautiful, I am so happy for you!

That was the ONLY way that I could see new videos was Friday Night Videos...lol. We lived in a very rural area and my parents were not keen on getting a satelite dish in their yard (cable was not an option) and so we had about 4 channels and sadly MTV was not one of them. Hey no fair that you got color yearbooks. I guess that probably goes back to the rural living in a small town...no extra $$ to pay for color printing!

Welcome! You sound like you have done your research and the pre-op stuff will really help get your mind and body in the right frame of mind. I didn't have to do a pre-op and wish that I had because I would be that much farther in the game. But I did have to complete 6 months of nutritional visits which were incredibly helpful. Like someone else said I was devastated when I found out that I couldn't have surgery "immediately" but now after having gone through the whole process, I am SO thankful that I had that time to get my head in the right place and I really get why the insurance companies require so much from us. Best of luck to you! This is definitely the right place to get all your questions answered and to find that support that we all need!

Woo hoo! THAT is so exciting! And 3 from Onederland to boot...that is all worth celebrating!!

Lowest weight I have been in at least 11 years!!! SN..............Starting Wt........Current.......Goal.......Lbs to Goal Mommy2Girls.....215.................210............197............13

WOW! Fantastic pictures and I hope it helped raise your spirits. As I get closer and closer to a normal BMI and start looking better and better, I need to remember how far I've come. Photos do that for me...remind me of where I have been and where I want to be. Thanks for sharing with us!

That is really really really cool and so amazing!!! I'm SO happy for you!!!

Hubby and I are both sleeved, although not at the same time. It worked out well for us but it was more due to insurance hoop jumping and a couple of other factors that were out of our control as to why we weren't sleeved together. (Me Oct. 2010 - Him Mar. 2011) I say it worked well because I was the research hound, although HE was the driving force behind me researching the sleeve, but I learned as much as possible, did all the pre-op stuff learned about the post-op diet, etc. and at the time when I had my sleeve he was working a VERY time consuming project for work (in fact he had a total of 5 days off in about a 6 month time span, I joked that it was too bad he had to have surgery to get a week off from work) and he had very LITTLE time to commit to research and learning about the sleeve. So I did all the research, hopped on the table first and then when it was his turn I was sort of the old pro (so to speak) so it really worked well for us. Now that he is a few months sleeved and doing well, we are getting better about sharing meals and eating the same foods. I highly recommend spouses who BOTH need to lose a significant amount of weight to do this journey together, just not exactly at the same time. I think even 2 or 3 weeks separation would be about enough time.

Okay I have never had pork rinds in my life...what part of the pig are they exactly? Just curious...I've always steered clear because they just (to me!) sound gross. lol.

Oooh best of luck with your travel, surgery and healing. Please keep us posted!

WOW! Amazing transformation!!! Thanks for the warning about the "naked man boobs" ha! That gave me a much needed laugh tonight. And can I just say that while I have no desire to be a man at any point in my life, but that I am just a teensy bit jealous that the men get to have hair to COVER their scars! NO FAIR!

Awesome!! You look great! Thanks for sharing...

You look radiant Sarah! I am so happy that you had a trip of a lifetime and weren't limited by the size of your body. You look fantastic and yay to moving down on the scale. I just got back from a week long vacation and weighed the same as I did before I left and the same as the last 3 freaking weeks! Aaargh! Could you send some magic-break-the-stall-fairy-dust my way? Thanks!

Stall suck!!! They happen all the time to most everyone at some point. There is no point at getting furious about it, just keep doing what your surgeon's plan is for you and eventually your weight will drop.

I was told I could have it "flat" if I wanted to, but there is really not much fun or joy in that (to me anyway!) So I quit cold turkey last Sept. and haven't touched the stuff since. For me it wasn't hard to do so I guess I wasn't a die hard addict to diet soda, I was a once a day type of diet soda drinker. Speaking of drinking, I also haven't touched alcohol since being sleeved and I have found that wasn't hard to do either. I guess it just depends on what works for you within your surgeon's guidelines. Good luck!

Absolutely amazing! You are doing SO WELL! And looking fantastic...I am SO happy for you!