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So not being able to ride yet is killing me. I'm pain free, but once in a while while in the car and hitting a bump I get some pain (damn fat moving around), so I'm staying off the bike for a while.
What do you ride?
Are you a garage monkey like me? Can't leave well enough alone?
Here is my 2012 Road Glide. 2/1 exhaust, HD Air cleaner and cams I just installed a few weeks ago. Sounds mean with a lumpy idle now and pulls like a train.

Yes. Ecko, EKG and stress test all in the same day. Other than being out of breath, it was easy.
They did tell you it was a timed 5k, right?
Just kidding...
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Y'all are gonna do fine.
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Plenty of people have gotten very sick and ended up in the hospital from eating the wrong foods too quickly.
I'm glad that YOUR doc has laid out a plan that works well for YOU. However, attempting to debunk other members opinions (which they formed from their doc's), by simply offering a different opinion (based off of what your doc told you), really doesn't work. Until some long term studies have been completed, we are all really guessing.
Pick a doc you are comfortable with and follow their rules.
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Me too! Today is a rough day so far. I have 5 more days of my 14 day Optifast liquid diet and I think I could eat three times my body weight right now....even the thought of just some veggies makes me salivate....lol. A few more days, a few more days and hopefully my tummy wont be hurting with hungry anymore.....lol Still though I refuse to give in to cheating because I want success more than anything! Cant wait for Thursday to get here! Best of luck to you!

I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy that says after a lil sum'in sum'in that he enjoys his workouts and walks much better.

Who got really bent out of shape?

Wow. Some of you are really bent out of shape because I made the decision to not buy a product I could not stand to drink. I felt it was in my best interest to choose a pre-op diet I felt I could adhere to. My liver was perfect and my surgery and recovery flawless and painless. I am not saying anything negative about Dr. Kim, I am sharing my opinion. I personally am on a budget. Why pay all that money for something I couldn't drink? NOt to mention that the office staff was very hard to get ahold of. It wasn't until JUne that I changed and it for many reasons it WAS the best decision for me. I hope you all make the best decisions for you and have the success and joy that i do even without BARIESSENTIALS....

Not fair!!! go get'um funkee
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Ladies, before y'all start telling the OP that he needs new friends, you have to remember that men and women communicate differently. This is the means by which a lot of men tell each other they care. The more cr@p they give, the more they actually care. What you are witnessing in the above dialog is actually a very healthy, albeit sophamoric conversation between caring friends.
Llyod nailed the response.

I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy that says after a lil sum'in sum'in that he enjoys his workouts and walks much better.

Mine started going at the 6 month mark. I thought I was all clear. Getting in excess of recommended Protein, taking Biotin, Calcium, Multi-Vitamin, had my calories up to about 1,500.
Nope
It didn't come out in clumps. It was a thinning thing. Wash my hair and my hands were fuzzy. My hair was always very short, but thick enough you couldn't really see my scalp. When seeing the scalp was obvious, I set the shaver to #1 and buzzed it off.
Never saw another hair after that.
It's all back now, so, it all worked out.

What size drink is that? The calories, carbs and fat appear to be thru the roof.
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417 in June
322 today
Fun times
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Sorry to hear this. I personally was more afraid of going the rest of my life without living than I was of a minuscule chance of not making it through surgery.

417 in June
322 today
Fun times
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Plenty of people have gotten very sick and ended up in the hospital from eating the wrong foods too quickly.
I'm glad that YOUR doc has laid out a plan that works well for YOU. However, attempting to debunk other members opinions (which they formed from their doc's), by simply offering a different opinion (based off of what your doc told you), really doesn't work. Until some long term studies have been completed, we are all really guessing.
Pick a doc you are comfortable with and follow their rules.
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Plenty of people have gotten very sick and ended up in the hospital from eating the wrong foods too quickly.
I'm glad that YOUR doc has laid out a plan that works well for YOU. However, attempting to debunk other members opinions (which they formed from their doc's), by simply offering a different opinion (based off of what your doc told you), really doesn't work. Until some long term studies have been completed, we are all really guessing.
Pick a doc you are comfortable with and follow their rules.
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yes!!!! if i sit in the car for more than 30 mins i become all squirmy lol

Is it me, or is that kind of a crappy prize?

Neil, I would like to agree with your sentiment about not obsessing, but I disagree with alot of your other assertions. There seems to be a theme to this thread that eating healthy equates to being "terrified of food". That's just not true. Some of us have turned a corner and decided that we want to be healthier individuals. The sleeve will make us lighter, not healthier. Eating less of the same junk that got us here will only make us slimmer unhealthy individuals. And yes, I do believe that eating junk is what got us here, not failing at diets. That was just a bump on the road to surgery. You would have never had those failed diets had you not made poor food decisions in the first place (and by "you" I mean all of us, of course...not singling you out).
And also let me say for the record, I am no veteran, but neither are you (now I mean you, Neil). You're feeling good right now because the sleeve will not allow you to eat much. Down the line that will change. For some the increase in hunger and appetite is drastic. If you continue to oblige your every whim and craving you may end up right back where you started if the restriction relaxes. There are plenty of people here with food addictions, and the advice you're giving them is incredibly irresponsible. It borders on enabling.
You obviously "know yourself"....but you don't know everyone else here.
Just my opinion.

Good post. I think people forget that there are a lot of ways to burn calories that don't involve going to the gym.

Billyvmom I kind of don't understand? You have been sleeved but you binged on chinese food? How is this possible I can barely eat 2-4 oz at a time and then am full for hours.
Stay away from that garbage, eat Protein, journal your food, get out of the house: go for a walk. Have things ready to do instead of eat, I know you have heard it before but it works!!

Have the "right" foods on hand at all times, ready to eat, simple, etc. You can do it. You went through too much to graze on bad foods.
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