Fat Pat no more

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What a transformation. You look great.

Hey game girl how much EPO are you supposed to take?

Awe my life's story right here. Written for me by all of you.

Good work.

Congrats you look great. ????

Just try to hang in there it gets better.

51 here hoping to get sleeved in October so ready for better health. And I must say new clothes.

Call dr office or nut

Glad she's alright. I've been watching for an update.

My hair still falls out. I might have to start wearing hats once I get sleeved but I still doing it.

My cousin sent me the pic on the left and I was mortified!! But I put it next to me today: sleeved November 7' date=' 2012 at 277.. Today 173 and feeling fantastic!!!!![/quote']

Wow great work

I'm 51 too. Hope to get approval the end of next month.

I have hypothyroid too and my hair falling out was one of the symptoms

Caffeine has been linked to Calcium being pulled from bone. I read this somewhere.

My des office says liquid is liquid. Protein Drinks soup/broth Water unsweetened caffeine free tea. Diluted juice it all counts as liquid.

Hang in there I haven't been sleeved yet but "they" keep saying it gets better. Try flavored liquids and sip sip don't drink to fast. I'm trying(without much progress). To do this now. I like to drink fast and eat fast so I'm working on it be4 surgery. Just keep up the work ur doing. Try to get fluids in if u can. From what I read on here it really makes a difference. I know it helps me now so I no it'll help po I'm gonna pray for u. ????????????

Ok I had to get up and look at mine. It says 190# so I had bumped it up from 175#. I now weigh 219.6 # as of this morning. My HW 242# when I started this journey back in May I was 238#. I started high Protein low carb smaller portions and almost no sweets in July. But if I see something I want I eat it just smaller amounts. That said I still don't have insurance approval yet. But I want my next set to have the correct wt and hope its 145# or less. That's what my first one said 34 years ago.

Fat pictures but the main thing is 5 grandchildren. I want better health. I'm 51 years old cant run and play no more. And I hate it when little kids 3 or 4 years old get in trouble because they say " She's fat or Why's she so fat". They are just saying what they see.

Diet Pepsi and Diet Dr Pepper = pure pleasure. This I'll miss.

Welcome Natalie. Joints for this wild ride where you from

And he can be a baby when he's sick. But then I knew that BEFOR I married him.

WARNING-- since I had the sleeve (2 months ago) my emotions have been so out-of-wack and have been so up and down in my relationship of 17 years. If you aren't happy now' date=' good luck!! This emotional rollercoaster is no joke, and I wish you the best of luck. Hope your husband jumps on the band wagon with you, cause you will need the emotional support... I love my man... but he was supposed to try to loose weight with me, now I know I've got 1 up on him, as I cant eat ****, but he eats so much n seems to never stop... I look at his stomach and it seems to get bigger by the day. I don't love him any less for that, but I need him healthy so we can be happy together!! I agree with another post-- men are like children.... hard headed... babies!! Good Luck!![/quote']

I relate to this. My husband and I have been married for 34 yrs I love him now more than ever. He's a lot more over wt than I. It seems like now that I trying to have this surgery he is eating more than ever and he's a big eater. He supports my surgery and I love him even more for it. But I do wish he would try to improve his health too. But no matter what we r in this together. 34 years a go we said I do and if I ran every time it got hard I wouldn't have lasted 1 year. It was for better or worse we've had a enough of the worse so I'm working on the rest being better. I'm not asking for or wanting reasons to or not to myself I love this man and I have my faults too. Which he by the way has put up with for over 30 years too. I'm just gonna try and set a better example for him and pray for him even more than I already do.

Praise The Lord

Well I had my first follow up since surgery with my surgeon yesterday and it seems I have an infection in my left side...that's why my stomach is all swollen and lopsided...looks like an alien. So' date=' they put me on clindamycin which i have to crush and eat the powder...OMG can you say nasty????????? I called the pharmacy and asked them if they have a liquid form of it and they said yes, course it's for kids so I'll have to take a much bigger dose. But anything is better than swallowing the powder which makes me gag! Anyway, no fever or anything like that so that's good and then I'll see him again next week.

Still doing good on liquids, could be a little better, but hey least they're staying down now and absolutely no reflux!

btw, as a side note, I lost back down to 145 so that's good too.[/quote']

Hey I'm glad you are better. My what you've been thru. I think you are a strong person and I will pray for your complete recovery. Hang in there

The Drs offic said they(Medicare ) could take up to thirty days to approve me even the