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Praying for you from across the pond

At least fruit have good carbs, maybe nuts/seeds, even though they are high in calories they have good fats in them. I try to limit my fruit still to 1-2 pieces a day.

You know Meggie I understand you so well. Food was such a big part of my life (and still is in a way). I did mourn food, big time! A few saturday nights after all the excitement of surgery I cried, because I couldn't enjoy food with my family. We have a saturday night routine, where the girls and my husband make homemade pizza and we sit and eat pizza and watch one of our favourite TV programmes, it's called Casualty, the ENglish version of E.R (my husband and I are both doctors and we love any programmes to do with medicine). I was mourning food, i felt so sad, I literally had to go to my room while they ate and I sobbed my eyes out as if someone had died!! 9 months out, I can enjoy saturday night pizza with my family, only now I have 1 piece now as opposed to 5-6 pieces and I love it, I love being and feeling normal, and as some model (probably an anorexic one) said, nothing tastes as good as skinny feel (not that I'm skinny-yet)! I know you'll love your sleeve, and remember, when you want food so badly that you will be able to enjoy all your favourite foods eventually, only in "normal" amounts!! Good luck

I knew before I had my surgery that I would never have that problem (I wish I did!) of losing too much or too fast, sigh...I'm not complaining though, I' m very happy where I am

Thanks for sharing your story-I especially love how you would've bottled the londoners accent to take home if you could! I can relate to you not wanting to leave the children and the fear of something happening, I have a 12 and 10 year old, and my baby was only 8 months old when I had my surgery last year!!

Coops you are so sweet, thank you! Feeling much better now! You know I've been out in the lovely weather sunbathing, and I jut a rash/sunburn allergy blistery type of thing all over my arms!! So annoying! Hope all is well with you

OK so I ate quite a few peanut M&M's (used to be my favourites), maybe about 2 handsfull (easter treat to my children!) about 15 min later felt really ill, nauseous, tachicardic, dizzy,threw up, quite a bit of watery chocolate and then just gastric fluid, but it felt horrendous, what I would describe as dumping, now still feel tachycardic and really dizzy so I had to come to lay in bed. I have a headache now as well, please think twice before indulging on your kids easter eggs

I don't really eat sweets that much,if I have a few sweets, maybe 3 or 4 I'm fine. A few weeks ago I was making a cake and just trying the mix and whipped cream had the same effect, not as bad as today though. I was just looking at the pack to see how much approx I had, it was prob about 60 gr (the small pack has 45 gr) so it was quite a bit.

Thanks for sharing, it looks interesting, I will def read it through when I have more time

Well done Irene!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet you feel fantastic!!!! Hope you have a lovely Easter!!

I haven't lived with a WLS person, and have never even met anybody who has had WLS, but never ever has any negative thoughts or feelings crossed my mind (apart from feeling a bit guilty on all the money spent) and I never once had the what have i done to myself feeling or regret. But just as you said I did to a LOT of research in getting ready for my surgery, maybe it's that, or maybe it's just a personality thing?

Hi Bookleen, I'm in a similar situation as you. My BMI is 27.1, and I've hardly lost any weight in the last 4 months. I too discussed w my surgeon and he said the same as Coops just said above, it's not about BMI it's where you feel comfortable. I still want to lose around 10 lbs but I know I have to start working at it again, at the moemnt I eat and drink anything I want, I so excercise quite a lot, I think thats the only reason I haven't put on any weight. I could've written that post myself you know, I need to tidy up my act too and strat losing again before my 1 year anniversary. How far out are you exactly? Good luck, to all of us

Good luck with the acid, I had to sleep in an upright position from early on in all 3 pregnancies and it sucks You and sprout are looking gorgeous!

When I was post op I would have some yoghurt and then take my medicine, I have an issue taking painkillers on an empty stomach

I'm almost 9 months out and will be having beef (we'll have a barbeque weather permiting) and salad, lettuce, tomatoes,cucumbers and boiled egg (my favourite salad lately) Happy Easter to you all!

I orser exactly the same from Starbucks!

Mine broke and I haven't had scales for at least 6 months, the best thing I could've done was not buying new ones, so I don't stress too much over stalls!

Well done Coops!!! Yep change your ticker (I did ) I sent you a PM on FB asking about your app but now I know!! When is your next appointment? Oh and I noticed on your photos on FB that your trousers are really baggy, treat yourself to some new ones to go and see R.W.

I used to be a 38 D, now am a 34 B and I still have weight to lose. I'm planning to have TT and small implants, and I mean small (a full C maybe) All my friends who have had boob jobs (at least 10 of them have them) warned me not to get them to big, they say it's uncomfortable, and I should know, I had a breast lift and reduction about 8 yrs ago (medical reasons I had hyperplasia of the gland, so even though I was thin my boobs were big and painful) Now they just look HORRIBLE, tiny, saggy,droopy sacs

All this will pass crosswind, you'll be able to eat without obsessing in due time. You should write a book, the main protagonist being your stomach

Thanks for sharing mini-me, even though we know this by now it's reassuring to read it! My surgeon said not to worry about my BMI, when I said mine wasn't normal yet he said not to worry, his isn't "normal" either, and I can tell you that he is not fat at ALL, quite good looking and fit actually

First of all CONGRATULATIONS!!! I can imagine it is scary, especially because you haven't planned but a baby is a blessing, the best thing in the world that can happen to you! You'll be fine, and you'll look lovely with a cute little baby bump, not a huge mass of blubber like I did with my last baby, which apart from not being a pretty sight is unhealthy for mum and baby.

I'm so happy for you Meggie, it's so important that your husband supports you! My husband has been very supportive as well, even though I'm sure at some point he was sick of me going on and on about surgery, and on the internet all the time reading stories, watching videos on you tube etc. I wish you the best of luck and you're gonna love your sleeve!

Ok, so after a lot of brainstorming I decided to change my goal. My weight hasn't been moving for the last 2 months, I changed quite a few things dietwise and exercise wise and still nothing. I feel under a lot of pressure and stressed because the weight isn't coming off. I am fine with my body now, (except my tummy but I'm getting that fixed in december) So I had a chat with my husband and my best friend and they both said something that makes a lot of sense :MAybe this is the weight my body feels comfortable. My nutritionist had said that I would stop losing weight when my body felt comfortable, but I completely forgot about that. So I'm 9 lbs away from my new target ( which was what my surgeon set for me in the first place) I feel a bit frustrated because I probably won't reach the "normal" BMI, I aim now to go down to a BMI of around 25 which still is slightly overweight I just think that I am so happy with the way I look now, I feel so healthy, I exercise loads and I'm loving it, I run around the park with my 1 year old without feeling like I'm gonna die, but the numbers on the scales depress me, so I'm gonna ignore them when I get to my new target. I'm going to continue with my eating and exercise plan when I get to new goal, but I'm not gonna stress about numbers anymore. Does this make any sense or am I just finding excuses? I promise I won't take it as bad criticism if you tell me what I don't want to hear, but your feedback is really important to me. This forum is a lifeline to me, I don't think I would have achieved what I have if it wasn't for all of you, thank you! PS:Trying to attach pics from my42 bday,hope it workseven though there are none where you can see my body, i'll take new ones whhen I lose 9 more lbs