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Jr,
Just don't do it, not this early out.
Now is the time to learn new Eatting habits, after u hit goal then u can on occasion go off and eat some junk food.
The first six months you want to invest in weight loss and changing the habits that created our obesity.
Good luck, think positive and skinny thoughts

Don't know how to reply without getting flamed, so I'm just going to pray for you.
I truly wish you the best on your journey.

To be able to wear any type of boot of my choice
Walk in heals
Rid of knee and back pain
Quit pulling up my jeans and pulling down my shirt when i get out of car
Can get up without make a "ugh" sound
Wear some jeans and actually have my belt show
Be able to groom below and see the results without breaking my damn neck trying to see what was missed!!!

My life..tight sleeves, too may layers, 3x No!!, seatbelts, waterparks, beaches, weddings, parties, photos, being underestimated, self conscious, fat walks in the room first, my fat comes before me, always on my mind, will this still fit -no too tight, another month, another season, another year no change, the dream fades, mommy why do the kids say your fat, make the appointment, walk thru the door. -am I really this big - denial - doc says need sleeve not band -I am that big - thought this blouse hid it - Nut says you can get it all off....all off...don't look better (band) look great...all off. 8/27 please pray for me I'm scared.

Cant wait to wear something nice to sleep instead of a big ass shirt.
I cant wait to dress my age.
Cant wait for my stomach not to hang over my jeans. And always look like a rice sack wearing a belt.
I cant wait to say " damn i look good in that dress"
I cant wait for people to not judge me by my appearence but by my brains and heart

I can't wait to wear a pair of nice-fitting jeans with a belt, and my shirt tucked in!
Looking foward to NOT standing on my daily commute because I'm embarrassed to share a 2-seater.

I can't wait to NOT have sore feet. And sore ankles. And sore knees. And sore hips. And a sore back.

How about going shooping for clothes and falling in love with a piece that they might not have in ur size or that u kno is not in ur size. Or how about running out of air while going up stair 2 or 3 floors. The looks people give u like if u not human or something. Having my relatives always reminding me how fat i am. Ive cryed over that.

Funny... we posted about amusement parks at the same exact time!!! LOL

Not to be indelicate, but I'd love to be able to see my junk without a mirror.

Hey guys... I am going to try to answer all the questions but if I leave anything out let me know...
First off food intake - I average between 400 and 600 calories a day. Yes that number is low but my bloodwork is great and I feel great. I do still struggle to take in as much Protein as I am supposed to.
Typical Foods - I eat a lot of grilled chicken, salad with vinegarette dressings, oven baked bologna, milk, etc. I drink atleast 1 cup of heart healthy fat free milk each day with a tablespoon of nesquick. I think it curbs my sweet tooth.
The rules I swear by - I avoid breads, pastas, and pretty much all grains. Every once in a while I have a bite or two. I also avoid carbonated beverages. I avoid crackers, chips, and Cookies bc they go down way to easy and are too fattening.
Exercise - I do not have an exercise routine. I have 3 kids and I coach softball. I try to stay active during the day either with my dogs (I work with a Pitbull rescue), my kids, or cleaning house. Throughout the day I focus on tightening my muscles, I do counter push ups, work on my posture when sitting, etc.
Loose skin - I have a lip of skin on my stomach that I hate but I have had 3 c-sections so I had it before the weight loss. My arms look fine with no real lose skin to note. The inside top of my thighs look a little lose and wrinkly but not so much that I am uncomfortable in booty shorts. My breasts however are a different story. I weighed 120 when I got prego with my first child and I went from a B cup to an F... After three kids I was a droopy triple D. Now I am a 32 D but they look like tube socks with a tennis ball when I lean over (sorry for the visual!).
I am still steady losing but much more slowly. My surgery date was 03/01/2012 so I have lost 98 pounds now in less than 6 months.
Thanks for all the congrats! I will try to get my before and currents posted tomorrow.

Over the years, there have been many things Doctors have told me that went in one ear and out the other. The above statement is one of them. I really didn't see a problem. Afterall, I wasn't a person who hid in the closet everynight with a bucket of ice cream and 2 bags of chips. Honestly, I really didn't even know what that statement meant.
When I first met my sleeve surgeon, he told me this...and again, it fell on deaf ears. I pretended to hear it, but I knew in my mind that I would do nothing about it. Then I met the nutritionist. The first thing she did was ask me about my most successful weight loss period in the past. I told her I had lost 110 lbs back in 2005-2006. She wanted to know if I had kept any food logs from that time. Luckily (or unluckily) they were all living eternally online on fitday.com. Well, we looked at them together. Over the course of a year I had lost 110 pounds eating about 2200 calories a day. But she pointed out something to me...something that has meant more and more to me the farther out from surgery I get, and the more I learn. I was averaging about 300 grams of carbs a day, and they were not the good carbs. They were not brocolli, asparagus, apples, zuchinni...and so on. They were wheat bread, Protein Bars, Pasta, potatos, more bread....in other words, all processed food and starches.
One thing I remember most about that time period, I was always starving. I thought about food every second of every day. If I didn't eat something every couple of hours I just about fell out. I got shaky, confused and irritable. Wow was I irritable. How I ever convinced my fiance to marry me during that period I will never know. She deserves some sort of a sainthood or something. It's no wonder I couldn't maintain that lifestyle. I eventually gained it all back of course. I also quit logging my food on fitday about the same time the weight started to creep back up. Funny how that happens. At least I wasn't irritable any more.
Somewhere in there with the nurtritionist, things started to click. I finally started to understand what they were talking about. For me, food did not have to be about entertainment. It did not have to be about comfort. I did not need a treat. I did not need to indulge myself "every once in a while". The occasional treat was not going to keep me sane. I needed a new definition of what sane really was. I needed a new definition of what "eating normally" was. Is it "sane" or "normal" to eat something that I know is going to kill me, even in moderation? Just because I see some skinny person eating Whataburger every day, does that mean I deserve to eat it? That I should be able to eat it and still be skinny?
The answer is...no. Food is just fuel. It is not my comfort blanket. It is not my friend, my partner, my crutch or my reward. It has been a one way relationship all my life. I loved food, it never loved me back. Who needs that?
Now I know, I need more than just a weight loss surgery. The sleeve will give me Portion Control, but that is just another obstacle that I can easily get around. Ice cream, sodas and chips are like kryptonite to my sleeve. They will walk right through it. I'm learning that I need to fuel my body with the best fuel I can get. Afterall, I didn't have surgery just to see the scale go down. I did it to feel better, be healthy....and to live. I want to live a long life. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, it will be while jogging 2 miles. I will not die a slow, agonizing death in a hospice bed because I'm too fat to breath or walk, and can't wipe my own butt.
Is it easy? Obviously no. I still have work to do. Maybe I always will. Maybe it will always take effort to live like this. I don't mind. I spent many years not putting any effort at all into my health, and it was way harder than this.
Thanks for listening.

....you load your plate because you're ravenously hungry (it CAN happen;) ), only to take a few bites and declare how full you are and are nauseated by the site of the remaining food....

6. You're only eating 500 cals a day.
7. Sometimes you only eat Soup throughout the day.
8. You're addicted to your scale, and you giggle a little every time you step on it.
9. You ACTUALLY know what the meaning of VSG is.
10. You log your entire life onto MyFitenessPal every day.

Hi. Sleeved on July 4rd overseas. I'm down 30 lbs (no prep op diet - day of surgery 227, last Friday -weighing day: 197!!!) and feeling good except for this lack of energy that's killing me. I've always being a very activate person, now can only think of laying on my couch all day. I do exercise because I love it and find energy anywhere for that! Any suggestions? I take B12, Multivitamins and Biotin. Tomorrow I start Iron and Vitamin C on my nutricionist's advice. Let hope for energy to come and rescue me!!!!

Oopse I see moregan beat me to the tofu noodle idea haha. Now I'm def going to have to go out and buy some because I suddenly have a Pasta craving lol

Be careful to really puree your food at first, and make sure it's moist. tuna was rough on me when I pureed it in the magic bullet. I pulled out the food processor after that.
One of the moistest things and best thing I had was rotisserie chicken. It blended better than canned chicken or home made chicken and it was a lot more moist. I know that there are others like me that had a rough time with food. Everything seemed and sometimes does seem to get stuck from the esophagus into stomach mark. I still can only get about 2 ounces of anything in at a time and I'm 8 weeks. Sometimes I still puree food because it definitely goes in easier, with less pain afterwards.
Best of luck to you.