sweetness2005

for me it is funny because i have so many dif sizes in my closet that every time i pull some thing out to put on i dont look at the size i just but it on and then take it right back off and put it my "give away" pile... It is great to beable to go get new clothes know that they will never be in the "some day" section of the closet again rather in the "give away" pile...

i would like to give you my story and make it as short as i can. So my biggest was 274lbs. On my own with 1200 cal and 6 days of killing my self at the gym i went down to 214lbs then i gained most of it back and then went on the HCG diet did great went from 245lbs to 185lbs in 4 months then lost my job and filled my time with junk food and got back up to 255lbs. All the while still going to the gym here and there. to add to all this my thyroid is not my friend. I have had trouble keeping my levels normal even on meds. So now since my surgery on Oct 31 11 i am down to 197lbs. Feel great and have a co worker that is much younger (11 years) that wanted me to train her so she could lose the lbs. So i took on that challange and have since had two other people join our group. I think that this is what gives me the motivation. Seeing her lose the lbs and inches each week makes me push my self to do better and work harder. Maybe if you could find a work out partner this would help give you the motivation needed, I know that we are always setting small goals at the gym such as a little more weight or just 5 more crunches or just 10 more min of cardio. Those little goals make all the dif. I wish you the best of luck and just know we are all here to listen and chime in when you ask.

thank you

well it has been a bit since i was on here last.. I am so happy to say that i am now at 197lbs. I have been so busy that i have just not had the time to post. I have started my own work out group and am training 3 other ladies that need to work out. This is giving me the motivation to get off by but and work out 4 days a week and make sure that i am eating better. You really cant tell some one to eat this and that and then sit next to them and eat crap..lol I am down 57lbs since my surgery on Oct 31. I hope to be at goal of 150 to 145 by my one year mark.

I told my PCP before i went i asked her to do all my labs and make sure i would be ok for surgery, My dr was great she told me that she would look into the dr that was in mexico and look in to the location and if she found any thing she would let me know. I have seen her several times since for medications and what not she is so happy for me and loves seeing the scale move (down) just as much as i do.

I had mine done there and things went great. I was up walking around the night after my surgery. The only thing that i had trouble with was the stuff they clean the floors with killed my allergies. It is very stong and made it hard for me to breath.

just to share i was sleeved on 10-31 and had lost 34 lbs at thanksgiving. I hit a 2 week stall and now i am down 43lbs so i think that will happen to us all for diff about of time and at diff stages. I think one one my problems in my thyroid is and has always been a very big problem i take my meds and things still get out of control. good luck and try to not be so hard on your self.

well i no longer have my gallbladder had that removed 17 years ago. i did talk with my doc and she sent me for a ct with contrast and every thing came back great so i guess maybe i did some thing to it and just dont know what i did. So thank you for all your feed back.

thank you i think maybe i will check in with my doc and see what she had to say..

i am almost 2 months post op and was wanting to know when every one talks about shoulder pain is it all the time or only when you move it? My pain is not all day long it is more like when i try and sleep on it and when i reach up. This has been going on for a few weeks. I have no temp and no other symptoms. Can some tell me what they think.. Thanks

Well to tell you the truth i am not sure, they did not tell me that i had one but i think that they did. Because i never get them and there was not reason for me to get one other than that. So make sure you take the antibiotics they give you. I was unable to swallow them so long story short the only one that ended my UTI was the one they gave me in mexico. I wish you the best of luck...You will do great...

Hello I had my surgery done with Dr. Almanza on 10-31-11 and every thing went fine while i was there. However i did get a horible UTI when i got home. So make sure you sip sip sip and sip some more. But i live in washington so i just went to the DMV and got my enhancement for my ID and it worked just fine. Good luck. See you on the other side..I will make soom for you on the losers bench...

welcome you will get so much help with almost any thing from here...

well as we all think...Is it only me?...I think that is why this site is so great we are all learning together and some one out here is in the same boat.

well i wa taking the sub lig ones and since i had my surgery in mexico no one really told me how often to take them, But as of now i am not to take it any more.

So went and had my labs done be taking all my vit just as i was told to and well now i have to stop taking my B12. My levels are over 1999 meaning that is as high as the test goes.. I was only taking that vit like 3 times a week.. So now i am worried about this. Any one have this problem other than me?

I wish i could help you i tried it all from baby oil to peanut butter...Yest peanut butter.. Some one told me that would work however my tape was like supper clue it took 4 weeks for it to come off. After like week 3 i was able to just start picking at it and it was working.

glad to hear you are doing well......Maken room....

i love the pure protein bars i get from wal mart they have 20gm pro and 2g sugar.

have you had your iron checked? low iron could cause this as well.

thank you for that idea i will give it a try

i am not sure i can ask him. But the even with out that you are still getting in more cal and protien because of the greek yogurt.

its alittle thick because of the yogurt but its not that bad. it just takes me 45 min to drink it.

Hello so here i am 5 weeks out and am really having a hard time with my protien and cal intake. So i went to my old personal trainer knowing that he had the answer for me. This is what he has me doing and it is not that bad and great in protien and higher in cal. in a blender 1/4 scoop protien power 1/4 banana 1 tea spoon peanut butter and greek yogurt. you can add a little bit of water and ice this adds up to about 300 cal and is about 30 grams of protien. I am doing this 2 to 3 times a day.

I am only out 4 weeks but one of the things i noticed is that if i eat to fast i get that air that causes me to belch.. So one of the things that you may want to try is bite chew chew chew and while doing that put you spoon down and then go on to the next bite. It takes me about 15 to 20 min to eat a 3 oz yogurt in the morning. So that is the ony thing i can recomend. I can not eat eggs they made me sick. I can do yogurt cottage cheesse and chillie and things such as that. Good luck i hope things get better for you.