Fiddleman

Nooooo waaaaay....

After getting better at squats over last couple days, I almost think there is more of an endorphin rush from properly deep executed squats then runners high. Great euphoria after squeezing the happy juice by dipping low a couple dozen times. Love it! Puts a smile on my face. Now I am doing these every hour or so to give my butt a break from the chair and also to free the endorphins for a much less fatiguing rest of the day. I am now a squat junkie as bad as that sounds. Lol. Yeah, baby, shoot me up with some of that. Try them out for yourself!

You are probably right. I am sure SWAT team chasing would get me to the top faster. Lol. I don't want to do a formal race yet. Need to practice and get good at it first!! In the past when I was obese, 3 - 5 flights would be enough. Now I think I could make it up 50-100, but need to start somewhere. It looks like a really good sweat fest when watching someone do it on TV.

Has anyone climbed stairs in tall building or has an aspiration to? I am thinking about trying a skyscraper in downtown Seattle. Is it legal to enter any building that has an open stairwell and do this? Does not need to be the tallest building, but would it not be fun to scale the Columbia building? Sounds really challenging and fun, especially if a group gets together to do it.

There are lots of online places to buy Nectar from including Amazon, mybariatricpantry.com as well as a few others. My WLS Center also sells it in their store. I have seen Syntrax for sale in Vitamin Shoppe, but not in GNC. As for peanut butter, there is a wonderful product named PB2. It is dehydrated and has 1/3 the calories and fat as regular peanut butter. I have seen it for sale in lots of places. One suggestion is to mix Nectar chocolate truffle with butterscotch dry pudding and pb2. Add low fat silk or nonfat milk. It is yummy and is like a reeces pieces flavor or snickers.

Good picks! Both are very attractive (Catharine Zeta-Jones and Scarlett Johansen). Salma is pretty hot too. I liked her is Grown Ups (sorry, I lmao @ Adam Sandler movies). However, I have always had secret crushes on Scarlett Johansson growing up.

How about a combination of ideal body type and brains? With WLS, we can do this as most of us have developed cognitive processing abilities from over compensating in that area most of our lives. Or would there always be balance where increasing vanity will decrease intelligence and logical reasoning. I would hope not!

You are right. I should have put him on the list. The younger version, not the crypt guy he is now. Lol.

That's cool. You can turn your body into any shape with the right diet, supplementation and training. Keep your eye on your goals and you will get there!

I have been taking the chocolate super Omega 3 for a couple days. Taste is like drinking vegetable oil. Bleh. There is a hint of chocolate. I hope to see some results after a couple weeks of this. Good thing is cross fit is not slowing me down yet, so supplements must be helping out. On a related note at my month 9 followup on Tuesday this week, the doctor confirmed use of IBUprofin 800 mg up to 2400 mg a day would be safe and that I should try and take PPI with it. It is really interesting how the doctors can be so different in their support for NSAID after surgery. Considering that doctor responses lie all over the spectrum, I would definitely go with the recommendation of your doctor, to make you feel more at ease and to be safe (according to the doctor).

Super !! Where did you go hiking in Hawaii? I like hiking on Kauai on the Alaka'i Swamp trail, Nepali Coast trail and sleeping giant trail.

For the guys - would you rather be superman, batman, hulk, Thor, captain america, gladiator (aka Russell crow) or spartan ( from "300" movie) and why? For the gals- what body type would you like to see in your guy or potential guy? Mine would be Thor. Not huge, but incredible strength and agility. He was still awesome as a mere mortal after powers got stripped.

It is a fairly minor inconvenience to pay for the benefits of the sleeve. It also forces you to eat low sugar / low fat and slower. For me, I succinctly rember it occurring after eating some ham from a diner that was too fatty at month 2. It caused about 30 minutes of "why did I eat that ham." However, it is easy to trigger also a related issue with the vagus nerve if you overeat or eat too fast. For me, this forced me to eat slower when getting used to dense proteins. However, eating slow is something I need to continue to work on even if there are no longer negative physical reactions from eating too fast.

No, cannot say I do. There are 105,000 employees and each team operates in their own little ecosystem. I will look that name up in the employee directory tomorrow and see how many vertical and horizontal degrees of separation there are from my position.

I got this probably 6 times post op from either eating something too early ( for me) or eating something too fast. It is quite an experience and feels slightly disorientating with the blood rushing out of the head, ears ringing, fading to black, sweating, shaky, etc. It does not happen any more. It occurred most from month 2 to month 5. I am month 9 now.

Syntrax Nectar and Unjury powders are usually the popular ones here on VST. If you are like me and really get into cookie dough, oreos and chocolate, the Nectar Sweet product line will be your treat for every one of those 9 days. It can be mixed with milk or water. If you are more of a fruity person, there are also a ton of Nectar Fruit flavors to choose from starting with banana and ending with naval peach. There is a lot of variety so try their sample pack out. I like that they mix really well in those blender cups and the consistency is fairly decent. Good luck!

Cool, is this the model they are always demoing at Costco?

Sorry in advanced for my frank and blunt response, but that sucks. Your doctor has no right to make disparaging remarks nor remarks that are not going to encourage you. You have done well and do not let this doctor's careless flap of the mouth ruin your success.