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sit in the back so if you fart no one feels/smells it lol. But seriously i do pilates once a week, and i have never seen a funny look or felt displaced, just becuase women are thinner doesnt mean they arent worried there is always something to stress about. we think they are judging us, and actually they are thinking, "i hate my nose, "these pants make my butt look big", "i cant believe i ate all that ice cream" every woman has they dont like about themselves! Go and have a great time!

lol ive been checking myself out too! i was looking at myself and ran into the living room and said honey look i only have one chin!!! :-D

ive been eating beef jerky lately, and i never like it before. Im also eating spoonfuls of peanut butter, and i have hard boiled eggs a few times a week, they are easy to cook a bunch at a time and put in my bag for work.

yeah 2 cookies arent going to kill us. Isnt that why we did this? So we can have a dang cookie when we want to? There is no way i am going to be able to go through my life and not eat cookies lol. We just have a different relationship now. Instead of going steady we date casually :boxing_smiley:

my favorites are thin mints, tagalongs and samoas. Im sure i will eventually have a cookie or too, because i am happy with one cookie. I bought one of those little containers of Honey Teddy grahams, it took me 4 days to even open them and i am probably only eating 4 cookies every few days. I just dont eat them anymore. I have worked hard to curb my cravings and not even sweet little girls peddling the most delicious cookies ever will make me binge :-)

I was a Mt Dew Junkie, i drank mt dew from the time i was in 6th grade (1992) intill 2010. I gave it up cold turkey and lost 50 pounds. Then i found out i had hypothyroid disease, and the pounds kept creeping up so i said screw it and went to pepsi. I could drink 5 cans and 2 20oz a day. when i decided to have surgery i started weening myself off of them. about a month before my surgery i would have a mt dew here or there cause i thought i would never have them again, and i am sticking with that! They are way too much of a trigger!! I think Mt dew and i think cookies cakes candy bars chips. I hope i am strong enough to stay away forever.

Nope i had the same craziness last week, thought i was dying. My doctor told me its kinda like starting your period over again for the first time. Mine lasted a week and then it was over. Atleast next month i will know what to expect.

Well atleast you are eating healthy foods. I think a veggie garden is a great idea! We grow a small one every year. Tomatos cucumbers (try watermelon every year but no luck) i think this year i might branch out and put some green peppers, squash try a few other things if nothing else it will help keep the grocery bill down.

a lot of protein drinks are full of sugar! You need to get the low carb or carb control kind. EAS, Muscle Milk Light, Atkins are all prepackaged that have some sugar but not too bad. The Special K and Slim Fast kind have tons of sugar. They taste ok but not worth the sugar content. If you dont want a shake try the IsoPure plus Zero. It is like a koolaid type flavor. I enjoy it and it has 15 grams of protein for 8oz. you can get them at GNC and RiteAids with GNC.

:smilingface (52): :purplebananna: :not_ripe: YAY!

I wouldnt mind my new addicition being sex,but the poor hubby works 50+ hours a week, i might just kill him :-( Why would that be bad if you were in a safe and healthy relationship? :boxing_smiley:

Please let us know how your appt went!

Yeah i went to the sugar free section and bought 2 of those everlasting suckers. they are huge and when i got a craving for sugar or just to have food in my mouth i would suck on that a little.

So i am 4 weeks out of surgery. Last weekend i started feeling this horrible pain in my back. Couldnt hardly straighten up and all i could do was sit with the heating pad. Finally after 3 days of the pain i call my surgeon. Nothing to do with my surgery, he told me to call my PD. After urine sample we ruled out kidney issues, gall stones, UTI. I was all clear but the pain kept getting worse and worse all i could do was curl up and cry or soak in the bath. Then yesterday mother nature visited me. 2 weeks early! I guess thats why we ruled out PMS because i wasnt due for weeks. I have never had pains like this before and my PD explained that my whole body and hormones were changing and i was basically starting over, all the changes are sending my cycle into a tail spin. Now next month i will atleast know whats wrong if i get such awful back pain. Has anyone else experienced changed in their cycle or PMS?

also the diet for the first month after surgery is really tough!! And i would reccomend trying really hard to go by their diet, they might reschedule the surgery if you havent lost the weight they reccomended. Good Luck i know it is really hard! We all have been through it!

I can only speak for myself and what ive read from others but its a little info. They asked me about my support system, family, they make you fill out a questionare about depression, sucicide, your moods. Do you think you will be able to handle it after surgery, how are your relationships. Do you have an eating disorder. Just basic questions about your life. He did ask me if i was sure i was ready and if i would be able to handle the restrictions after. He told me in the 10 years he had been doing evals only 2 had not been approved. One was completely crazy and one had an eating disorder. After he treated the disorder they went on to have the surgery a year later. Good luck, dont stress about this part too much! It will be done and over with in an hour!

Congrats on your weight loss!!! You have so much to be proud of! I completely understand what it feels like to look in the mirrror and not like what you see, ive only lost 30 pounds so far but im already picking myself apart in the mirror, then i look down and I CAN SEE MY FEET!!! It was my first NSV!!! I am so excited for those Ahhaahaa moments. You have worked hard and now it is time to reap your just rewards! Good luck with the ladies! Hope that is me in 18 months! (excpet the ladies part ahhhaaa)

im on mushies now, its not too bad i can eat a lot of soups cottage cheese, blended up some chili not to bad. it was just exciting to get to eat some form of real food. I am starting on my next stage Wednesday and i can eat REAL FOOD! yay

Inless you get an Xray who really knows what it is doing to your new little tummy, if it has stretched or not? How do you know FOR SURE if you are getting all the vitamins and nutrients we need from the little bit of food we eat inless you get blood work and all your levels are good? Just because it works for someone doesnt mean you should be doing it. It just seems 9 out of 10 docs are saying DONT DRINK, so im not going to chance it, its such a small thing its not worth it.

EAT THE PIZZA :teeth_smile: I mean i would. Eventually after you are healed it will be ok to eat a little pizza. You will be in NYC on vacation. Im sure you will be walking a ton too right? The sleeve is about trying to live you life normally in moderation and small portions. Enjoy your life just dont eat pizza every day! (or once a week) My family is going to Florida to the gulf for the first time in May, im sure i will eat something not as healthy as at home. MODERATION! MODERATION! MODERATION!!

your butt might get smaller but start working on the lunges, squats, run the stairs, that will firm you up so even if you get smaller you will still have a nice size and shape. I am losing my butt too. i sleep on my tummy and my husband curled up to me and propped his leg on my butt, he said "hun you are losing your butt, my leg used to be higher up than this" hhaaahaaa. i love my boobies as much as he does so if they start leaving at an alarming rate i will buy some new ones.

my family brought home pizza the day i came home, they kept looking at me guiltily. i thought it was funny they felt worse about it than i did!

Congrats! i am so excited i hope i make it to a size 9! I will scream on top of the roof top.

I agree 100% Indymom! I think after you are on which ever week the doc says its ok to go to full foods (mine is 7 weeks) it isnt really cheating, its trying to live your life normally. Really who isnt going to eat Snacks or a sweet now and then? Who in this world doesnt have a snack occassionally? (besides my dad its crazy!) i cant imagine going through my whole life never eating a piece of cake or icecream again! its about control, portions and timing. But for those first 2 months you really need to buckle down and try to work on those food demons. Most if not all of us have them, thats how we eventually got to be where we are now!

Part of the no drinking thing is you are washing the nutrients down faster and they arent getting absorbed into your body. It is a hard rule to get used to but worth it We can only eat a little bit of food it is worth it to just not drink so your body is soaking up all it needs. Dont want to get malnutrition.