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this made me laugh out loud!!! Love it!

They are good! I tracked on mfp and honestly, they were no wear near as bad as I was expecting!

Last night I went to the movies and the only thing open was maccas So I a 10 pack of chicken mcbites (don't know if USA has them, they are about 1/4 a size of a nugget. Took me a good 45 mins & had no problems!

Ahhh perfect! That's really good to know I'll talk to PCP tomorrow just to be safe! Thanks for your help!

Yep! Everything in tact - surgery went as planned & no dramas at all with it (easy mushies, easy liquids, walking, no pain meds etc)

So this morning, I'm at my local market with my little stall set up - all is good in the world! Then BAM, insane chest pain and both collarbones are screaming at me! So i get up and walk around thinking its just the gas pain everyone is talking about (I'm almost 3 weeks out, no pain or drama until now). After 30mins of walking around (super slow), can't hold a sentence - can't breathe- extremely shallow and wow it hurts! Collarbone pain gone. Make a few calls to my doctor friends, told to go to ED right now. In ED, start to get better (awkward when i was reading out my phone number - 0 breath 4 breath 1 breath lol) saw doc, saw another doc, took liquid panadol, get pushed to chest X-rays - all clear! What the! This was 12 hours ago, can still feel the pain! No where near as bad, but its there! I have to go back straight away if any more dramas and they will do a scan incase its a clot Has anyone else had anything like this? My BP and O2 levels were fine as well, I've stopped my daily clexane shots (to avoid blood clots) and still taking somac (anti reflux meds).

I take kiddy multi v - vit c & fish oil! They are chewable and really nice - probably cos they are covered in sugar. I eat them at 3pm when I feel like i'll go on a rampage if I don't get a sugar hit! Its a win win!

i was walking around in hospital with my Pj's and wheeling my drip around! so from day 1 move as much as u can

u guys are so lucky insurance will pay for you! In aus we don't have that option unless we pay a mint (around $200 a month) for really high up private health cover, then we are still out of pocket at least 9k. If we self pay we are up for about 20k (I paid) ouch. ok sorry rant over.

I've just had the surgery 2 weeks ago, and so far so good! The way I looked at it was, been there done that! Yes i could loose the weight on my own, I have in the past but this is a long term assistance tool not my usual diet and exercise until someone invites me to dinner or drinks thing. So far no problems with the food, i find I still want to eat the rubbish not so much in a head hunger way just if i see it I want it, and if its ok in my 2 week thing, yep sweet ill have it. But I'm happy with only a tiny amount (for example its taken me a week to eat 1/2 a tub of low fat moose). 1 or 2 tiny teaspoons and I've had my hit! (3 weeks ago me would not stop at a teaspoon) Don't get me wrong, I could easily polish off the whole tub even at 2 weeks out, but I don't find I need to or want to. I have no idea about long term, hoping it works out ok. But I have accepted that it won't just fall off me because I went in with the lower BMI and already quite fit also, my BMI was 38 day of surgery, but when i decided to have the surgery it was 34 - I just got a bit crazy in the lead up to surgery. Also I'm 5'7

this pickle thing is hilarious!! How random!

i was craving Jaffas and freckles (don't know if USA has these... chocolates) a week out, I found the only way was to have one! And I did. Bad Kat. But I sucked on it until it melted, got my hit and I've been fine ever since!

even adding a bit of sugar free cordial to your Water should make a massive difference! Its made me double my intake

Called my dietition this morning, she said not to worry about amounts of sugar etc ( with the exception of pureeing a mars bar) because we aren't getting the proper amount of calories anyway, if it was 1200 cals + 60g of sugar itd be a problem - but as is it's really nothing to worry about as we still need to function day to day Thanks for the Optifast tip - ill have a look for something lower in sugar once I run out

Hmmmm I'd do both to be honest. Cardio while awesome for the heart, gets the blood flow happening & is great for the weight loss, just make sure u mix it up (which is partly why c25k is so awesome with its stop starts) Weight lifting, also great because the more muscle u have = the more fat u burn Target heart zones are annoying, yes when u push past a certain level u go into the fitness zone but that's still great! If u think about it cardio = fat burn so if your in either zone it's fine. I'd stick to the c25k, it gets results & ull be running 5k like its nothing within a few months. As you get fitter your heart rate will drop while u excercise as well as everyday (this bits annoying) and you will sit within fat burn more often. Any excercise is good, but just mix it up as much as possible otherwise your body gets used to it and u don't have as many results Good luck!