Globetrotter

Wow, somebody else who is going to SF, not to Mexico! =) Are you going with LapSF? I'm heading to the city in a few weeks too.

Wow, is that woman threatened by you or what!! She is simply terrified of you having a pretty face AND a fit body, simply terrified! What a pathetic person. What a BravoIndiaTangoCharlieHotel (there's a swear word in there!)

Dr. Jossart,

I am on an oral contraceptive. I do not smoke. Many sleevers here on the forum have commented that they had to be on anti-clotting medications immediately after the surgery, as clotting can be an issue. Clotting is already an issue for someone on OC. Would someone on an OC need to cessate prior to surgery, or after surgery? The OC I am on is Yasmin.

I don't know what issues I may or may not have with a romantic partner and how much I eat because I haven't been sleeved yet. However, I do already have some anxiety about reactions to the changes in me. Whenever I have managed to lose weight before in my life, my female friends have been ... less than supportive, shall we say. In fact, I never had straight female friends until I became obese. Until I took myself out of competition women were regularly cruel to me, I have to prepare myself for the possibility of the same happening again. Maybe women in their late 20s and early 30s won't be as cruel as women in their early 20s were.

Jachut - hmm, do you blend the flips or just stir? Do you break the yolk? Do you think it would work with unflavored Protein powder mixed in? Is it best to drink them super cold? I'm not sleeved yet but I started this thread because just the idea of those sticky sweet jelly bullets ... *shudder*

I haven't been sleeved yet and this kind of news scares me. I'm so sorry you're in pain. Could it maybe be scar tissue? I am curious, both if the incidences you gave as examples, had you felt full yet when the pain happened? Maybe you were eating past your full point and didn't realize it? would warm compresses on your throat help?

I'm looking forward to having a small chest, mind you, small to me is like a C cup!=) All the cute bras are for B cups and that built in shelf bra in tank tops is a joke if you are a C or better. I've heard they can now take the fat from other parts of your body and use it for breast implants/reconstructions. That would be awesome, the best of both worlds, Lipo and a lift! =)

pureed chicken? ! Barf-o-rama lol!! I hadn't thought of blending up real foods, I was just thinking of the Protein Shakes, and ways to keep them from being grainy, which I've heard is a problem. I think I'm going to buy or make from scratch quarts of chicken broth, Tomato Soup, veg. broth etc., freeze them and then heat up portions with unflavored Protein Powder mixed in. It sounds better to me than all these jelly sweet Protein bullets and grainy shakes.< /p>

It's strange and no doubt there are deeply psychological something or others involved but, one of the things I am looking forward to after the surgery is in fact, food. I long for the day when I will be able to fully appreciate the artistry of food, rather than the volume. Also being able to participate in foodie culture and not have it be any kind of concern that I'm not getting my "money's worth" because I "must have" volumes of food. There is a sushi place in San Francisco that does these "perfect bite" spoons - a miso Soup spoon artfully loaded with the perfect amalgam of flavors and textures. I will be able to fully appreciate that, mind body and spirit now, rather than just mind and tongue while intending to hork down a giant plate of tempura and Soup and and and ...

Maybe I read the dining section of the New York Times too much! lol, They always have these incredible pictures of food from la ti da restaurants; just yesterday there was a picture of a single egg yolk in a shallow bowl, with a foam of something surrounding it, and a tiny trail of grains. Just right!! :lol0:

Eloquentblue - four sizes, wow! I don't know how that could go unnoticed, but I don't know what sizes you are in. My highest was a 28 and only my Mother noticed when I went down to a 22. It's more noticeable in the smaller sizes I think. But still, if your coworkers are mostly female, they may be panicking or jealous of your success and don't know how to be happy for your success.

I'm still pre-op, I asked my surgeon in our initial consult how many VSG's he had done and he said 900, sounds good to me!

I'm still pre-op but I've been "nesting" too, in preparation for post-op. I had bought a wand emulsifier for my Mother for Christmas and that thing is so handy and quick I might just have to "borrow" it long term, lol! It makes everything silky in like 5 seconds and you don't have to dirty an extra cup or anything. I bought hers at Sur la Table for like $20 bucks.

Hey everybody,

Any personal experience with Prolab whey Protein, chocolate flavored? I can get stuff sent to me through drugstore.com or Amazon but the PX carries a lot of Protein stuff, soldiers love their muscle-building technology. =)

So the stuff we have at the PX are enormous tubs of this Prolab chocolate powder. The nutrition guide said something like 28 g protein per serving (wow!), 4 carbs, and I think the overall cal was like 160.

So I wanted to know if anybody has tried this stuff, did you like it, was it good, gross, etc. I was going to try it now but remembered all the cautions from people that flavors you may like pre-op you may find disgusting post-op. Any help would be great, thank you!!:lol0:

If I could go back in time and educate my younger self about this surgery, if it had existed then as a WLS, I would have done it. If I could have done this at 19 when I was sliding inexorably toward obesity, I would have. I could have saved myself a decade of grief and misery. I am now championing it to my friends who are still trapped in the self-recriminating stage of, "it's my fault/if I only had willpower", friends who "only" have 75 lbs to lose. If you can see what your future holds, and have the power to change it for the better, do it!

Oooh, I wanna see the pics too! They come up as red X's, can you post them in an album? Seeing results from someone of similar stats would help me believe this is all going to be a reality, congratulations!!

This psychologist sounds like a thin person who has never known the struggle.

Daaaang! I would love to see loss like that once I come over to the sleeved side! Are numbers like that more typical of people coming from higher weights? Do women lose like that? I'm coming from approx 280 lbs. and am female.

How did she even know about your panic attacks? Is she the official therapist from your insurance or can you pick another? I was told during my psych eval that it was not a pass/fail situation and would not affect my ability to get the surgery. Rather, that it was so the surgeon's team would have a more complete picture of me so they could better tailor their efforts during my recovery.

There was a lot of talk about this on lapbandtalk too over the years. I dont like the idea of feeling like a child, eating of childrens crockery and using childrens cutlery.

But I have white dinnerware that you can buy piece by piece, which we have because we chip so many bowls and mugs in this house! We've always eaten off salad plates, as I dont want to encourage my kids to see enormous huge plates of food as normal. Truth is, today's salad plate is the size of what was a normal dinner plate when I was a child. Anyway, so I've got this dinnerware and you can buy ANYthing, square plates, bowls, big plates, small plates, gravy boats, salt and pepper shakers, bug mugs, little mugs, you name it. So I have plenty of small bowls and plates and the whole family just uses them, so like I mentioned, i'm hopefully encouraging the kids not to be overeaters.

Eating IS visual, I feel ridiculous with like half a cup of food on a whole huge plate and I often feel self conscious when eating out, when it seems like I've eaten NONE of my huge portion.

lol - exactly Jachut, that is why I had said on a thread once that the silver lining for us is that now those teensy portions at fancy french restaurants will seem just right to us now and a single sushi looks like a meal! :mad0:

I have this really cool book full of stories and recipes that were collected by the WPA across the country during the Depression. It's fascinating to see how people ate and what they considered a treat! No wonder we have a national weight problem, prior to the 1960's a roasted chicken or steaks at the dinner table were real treats. Soda pop had to be got at specific venues, you couldn't just have gallons of it at home. Even the fast food wasn't as bad; I saw a report on the food network about the fat content of the original mcdonalds hamburger and fries and it was like a tenth of what it is today.

I don't know that I would be able to bring myself to eat this, but if anybody is tired of sweet Jello you could always make aspic, which is basically a meat jello. It was popular in America until WWII. I guess it would be a great way to get Protein in but .... meat jello ....

Exactly Xandria1, I like the idea of small utensils and plate, but I don't want to feel like a child. I wonder if we should take something from the fact that all these antique plates are so small, no wonder they weren't obese, portion control! Plus, this is an aside, but have you ever noticed the old Coke-Cola signs? the glasses were always so tiny, not the gallon guzzlers typical today.

Until I can afford laser, I like the nair gel that you spread on and then scrape off using a razor-shaped scraper thing. Works well and I only need to do it once every 3 weeks. As for the upper lip, Nair aloe vera for the face once a month, the chin - a magnifying glass and fine tweezers, and the brows, only tweezers provide the right amount of control. I prefer a smooth lady-bits area but my BF likes things a little more wild so ... c'est la vie. =)

I've read a lot here at VST about the VSG docs in Mexico and the great reviews they've been getting. If I had a different situation I might have seriously considered them. I'm attempting to get sleeved during RnR though, and thus want one as close as possible to my home, plus like I said, this Doc is world class and I feel comfortable with him.

I sacrificed for a year and a half. I don't have children to pay for so I was able to save everything I made. No spending of any kind except for a magasine every month and the occasional candy bar. My wardrobe consists of one week's worth of clothing and four pairs of shoes. Every nickel got saved, I spent the very bare minimum. Now I can have the surgery I want, with the surgeon I want, in the city I want. Worth it!!