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I went and bought a snap up granny housecoat to put over the gown to walk the halls...

http://blog.emergencyoutdoors.com/home-remedies-the-many-medicinal-uses-of-vinegar/ I saw several things when googling vinegar about wound healing... hum....

Congratulations, and glad you are loving it! Can't wait to love mine!

I never heard about red or purple, whats the problem with that.

My doctor said it is most likely to happen between days 7 and 10, but can happen months after. I think, it is til the stomach has healed... maybe some of these other folks will have better answers.

That is a motivator to workout!

Best of wishes! October 16th here at Northside Hospital.

Go for the pickles! My doctor said it is ok to add caffiene back. I chose to quit 2.5 months before the surgery. Took me a couple of weeks and the headaches were awful. I'd keep a diet soda in a cooler with a screw on lid and take a sip if I could not take it anymore and then not take another unless needed. A little hair of the dog. I switched to decaf diet coke at the time. Three weeks ago I quit carbonated drinks and that about killed me. I was an addict, drinking probably 7 diet cokes a day. I do feel my appetite is a little less after quitting carbonation. I have personally decided that I can do decaf tea and decaf coffee at home, and if I am in a restaurant or over the road and I choose caffiene, ok... I do not want to ever return to the point if I don't have it the next day my head is splitting off my body. I also wonder if I had quit diet coke and carbonation years ago would diets have been more successful. Guess I'll never know because I'm scheduled in a couple of weeks and I'm going forward with this.

I remember buying them years ago, with the thought... maybe this kid will end up liking yogurt. She does, but no longer the kind with m&m's. She eats low-fat yogurt almost daily. Even if you are fanatical and feed a kid everything healthy, the daycare, school and teachers, church, clubs, everyone else is going to give them stuff that isn't. My father was diagnosed with pre-diabeties when I was 8 or so and we only had healthy stuff in our house. My mother fussed at me for everything I ate. Do you really want another piece of meat? When I started getting allowance it was for my stash of contraband. When I went to other friends houses, I literally binged. I started my first diet at 12 years old to get a trampoline. I was 130, and lost 20 lbs and got the trampoline. I starved myself, and it has been a lifetime of binging and dieting since. When my daughters Dad left she went from being skinny to chunky overnight. I never pushed her toward a diet. She also went on her first diet when she w 11/12 and she lost from 172 to 125 during that summer and now at 17 she is about 150 (she is 5'7). She walks daily. She pushed herself. I hope by working it out on her own she doesn't end up like I did. She's drinking my shakes, she likes trying stuff. She eats a lot of fruit. She also gets what she wants at restaurants, takes a few bites and brings it home and eats on it for the next few days. Now I will say I NUTTED up when she was little about green ketchup, purple ketchup and pink butter. I refused to buy it but the ex bought it and we had a refrigerator full of the crap. That was my pet peeve

My doctor said dumping is possible with the sleeve.

I have to say that if I had made this decision with my ex-husband it would have probably been the end of the marriage... but since I didn't do it then another woman was the cause. Stayed the first time, he left me for the next one. I don't always believe in til death do us part. I look back and I was crazy to stay the first time. But, to lay that aside and apply it to this topic. When I would diet, he would diet and get on board for whatever, low-fat, diet pills, low-carb and of course we joined the gym. After a few weeks or a month he would go back to his ways and yes I wanted him as a team-mate but when I realized I was on my own I wanted it for me. He would sabatoge me every way he could. He would want to go out to eat, I'd order healthy, he would want me to skip the gym.... he would call me fanatical, he would say I had tunnelvision and that I neglected the family. This is my daughter's father. I am soooo glad that "til death do he part" did not keep me tied to that jerk. When I lost weight he said my clothes looked slutty, and they did not - I've always been a pretty modest person. We went through this several times over a 9 year marriage. Two years before the split I was down to 160 lbs and he had an affair with a girl over 400 lbs (not saying she was bad because of her weight, I'm pointing out he had a fetish and did NOT want me thin). I stayed for my daughter, I gained a 100 lbs and I was miserable. He then starting having an affair with a woman 20 years older than him, bigger than me that looked like a man... left me and married her. Four years later he left her for another woman, then left that one and married another one. Sometimes relationships aren't meant to be. We shouldn't enter them lightly, but we shouldn't stay for the abuse if the mistake was getting married in the first place. I believe in marriage, and happily ever after and now I am with a great man and I am so thankful I'm not stuck with that other jerk. My daughter has said over and over she was glad he left and didn't think she could have handled being raised by him. She was 6 when he left. His views drive her nuts (he preaches religion and right and wrong but still screws around like an alley cat), and when she used to go for a weekend she'd want to be brought back early, last time he refused to bring her back... now she refuses to go and he picks her up for dinner twice a year (he lives 2 hours away). This surgery can split up relationships. There are many posts about that on here. It changes the person so much, inside and out the other person may not can handle the person changing, or the changed person can not longer stay with the other person. I think this is one of the reasons therapy is a big part of that process. I also believe in love and if BOTH parties were truly in love with the inner soul of the other person and totally committed to the relationship, the relationship with weather all storms, this included. I thought my ex loved me, he didn't love me... glad he gave me a chance at a better life without him.

My "skinny" husband started dating me at the point I had lost weight, but not all the weight and told me he loved me even if I gained all of it back plus some... and I did, and he does. He eats whatever he wants and loves to cook and blames himself for me gaining and wanting the surgery, although he is supportive. I've told him, it is my fault... not his. We've also talked about him feeding him, me feeding me and my daugher (17) feeding herself after my Pre-Op starts in a couple of days. Everyone is responsible for their own food needs. My daughter wants to eat healthy and been drinking the shakes - but even if she became my partner and wanted to do the Pre-Op diet with me, I am still in this by myself and can't blame anyone for any slips I make. I also don't want the diet police to move in on me. Think of how you'd feel if he starts monitoring everything you are eating.

Pre-Op or Post-Op? Curious....

I knew my mother would be a problem and was going to wait til close to the surgery, like a couple of weeks maybe. I kept talking about a guy at work that just had the surgery, and she finally asked when I was having it. It was like ripping off a bandaid. I've talked openly since then with her, and sometimes she says change the subject that surgery upsets her. She's also told my cousin that she thinks it is unnecessary. It is about fear. She is my mother and I can't leave her out, although I thought about it. I know I want her there when it happens. She even said that she can't drive the interstate, and she mentioned a week ago that she would see if she could get there by taking back roads... (not really possible). I told her that she was going with us. Surgery is 3:30 pm and my husband will bring her home after. I even included my cousin, because having him there will make her more comfortable - he's the type that tells jokes and brings laughter into situations. In your situation I might wait a little longer to tell her, but I would give her enough time to make arrangements to be part of it in the end. Just my opinion.

I quit 5 1/2 years ago, and I had to go to the Pulmonologist the other day for clearance. I had done the breathing tests, and chest x-ray a week before. I got scared out of my head about that chest x-ray. It was clear, thank goodness! I used to cough all the time. I had to be on antibiotics 3 or 4 times a year... had a few bouts with pneumonia. All that is gone now. It is worth it!

My rings in my early 20's were I 5 and I think they are now a 9. I also have huge calves and cankles! URGH. I have a skinny picture from age 20 where my calves look great and hoping they will again.

That stuff is great, so far I've thrown it in a shake (only 1 tsp, because it was too strong to me with 2) and fed to my husband on a cracker to see if he could tell it wasn't peanut butter... he ate it right up.

Too cool! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing!

I had dinner with a former co-worker (from about 12 years ago). We had talked on facebook, and I knew she had lost her job after 17 years (a couple of years before) and I knew she had gained weight. My husband and I went to dinner at her house and she was a lot bigger than I imagined. Last time I saw her she was probably 225, maybe 250... she was probably 450. She couldn't hardly walk, she could barely stand, and she said getting a job at this point wasn't going to happen for her because she can barely leave the house. The worse part is when she was walking us out and her sock slipped on her foot and she had to ask her husband to fix it, and he grunted. Yep, he grunted. I took her out to lunch a few weeks later, with another old co-worker and we had to make sure the restaurant had a ramp of some sort not a step up off the curb. She wasn't able to wear the seat belt and the car dinged, and dinged until we fastened it behind her. I really felt horrible for her, to the point of hurting on the inside. Then I started thinking about myself, and I'm wanting to retire early... and I have a very physical job - what is going to happen to me when I quit working? Will I end up bedridden? Seeing her, brought out fear in me. She is trying to get disability, she has some severe back issues that led to her losing her job. I think her hubby would run if he could, he didn't seem very caring or compassionate and I knew this couple when they started dating and was at their wedding. Seeing her brought out a panic inside myself. I actually started another diet, that I couldn't follow... the past couple of years I can diet a few weeks lose 10 pounds, then get stuck and poof, 10 pounds are back on. Then one day at work, a guy I work with, met me outside in the parking lot, grinning from ear to ear asking me if I could keep a secret. He told me he was having gastric bypass and the first thing I said is... oh, that is so dangerous! He said, they do it laparscopically now and he was planning on returning to work in 10 days, and I said you are kidding. I started researching immediately and was planning on the RNY until I went to the seminar and then I swapped plans. I talked to my husband and decided that I was going for it, and if the doors opened I would walk right through. My appt with my PCP was end of May, a few days after my conversation with the co-worker. My appt with the endocronologist was a week later, and he sent me to the NUT and Psychiatrist. I went on vacation right after those first appts and started thinking of all I could do next year when we go back. (The endocronologist had made the comment that I would be 100 lbs smaller in a year.) I can go up the stairs without being totally out of breath and hurting (was having bad foot pain). I can climb all the lighthouses (I climbed one, and the old people were going up faster than me... I was the slowest one there). I can horseback ride. I can kayak. I can grow older feeling younger than I do now.

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Congratulations!

I love love love the Ninja, also have the to go cups!

I did everyone of them too! Ali broke me out in a rash. I did low-fat in the 90's. I did Atkins the first time in the 80's in Highschool. Although I will say Atkins was probably the closest I ever got to getting it right. Look at what they are leaning us towards, lower carbs for life and sugar is evil. I did Atkins for 1 1/2 years and kept the weight off even longer and didn't really gain it all back when I started the next round a few years later. I had a room-mate at the time, that kept telling me I was going to die from eating a lot of Protein and avoiding carbs and that I would not lose weight. She gave me the challenge I needed to lose a bunch of weight and prove her wrong. It became expensive because she'd get up in the middle of the night and eat all my cheese! I've done the cabbage Soup thing, I've done the clinic thing with low-carb and weight ins, Jenny Craig, Nutri-System twice.... However, I never did Weight Watchers, ever. In the 90's I had a friend of a friend get thin really fast and made her tell me how, and she was doing low-fat - however, she was going to a "diet doctor". I signed right on up, got thyroid pills, and diet pills and lost a good bit of weight. The doctor was arrested at some point, and I heard not long ago that the friend of a friend has been a prescription drug addict ever sense, lost her job, husband, kids... Four years ago I bought a bodybugg, after watching Biggest Loser and did great with it... when I wore it. I am putting it back on the day I start the liquid diet. Something about wearing it on my arm keeps me honest and logging everything I put in my mouth... I also like seeing how many calories I'm burning and my steps. I will go out of the way to get more steps while wearing it. I put it on during the summer, but with my job and sweating it makes my arm itch... but I'll be fine once I put it back on. It has cooled off and if I wear it next summer when my arm is smaller it won't be such a headache. I love having it on at the gym, because it will even track how many calories burned per minute. It breaks it down into moderate activity (at about 4 -6 calories a minute) and vigorous calories (over 7 calories a minute). I find myself fighting to get the vigorous calories. My NUT did advise me to never go on a diet again. Follow the program, keep the basic principles, even if you treat yourself... but live it and resist going on any diets. Make this the way of life you will live from here on out. I'm the kind of person that is on it or off of it. I would go months, sometimes even years and decide to take a day off - and poof, I was gaining and off again.

I start 14 days next Wednesday, can't wait... NOT! I told my co-workers to be prepared next week, it probably wasn't gonna be pretty. I'll probably be ill and snappy for a couple of days. Phase one to a new life...