Globetrotter

ah, gotcha! These new phones are supposed to be smart ...? Stupid autocorrect makes my texts look schizophrenic =). I think my recommendation would be increasingly meaty broths, specifically using (red) meat. If you can lull your stomach into complacentcy by hiding the meat in a very liquid broth, and then slowly make the broths richer and meatier, eventually you could be nibbling on something like very moist crock pot pot roast. Also, organic yogurt is always a good thing, rectifies any imbalances you may have of the good gut critters =)

I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for clarification on, you are 5 months out and not eating solids yet? So, how would doing mushies and shakes be any different than what you are doing? Or are you trying to say that you have done solids, but would like a "reset" and so are going back on liquids?

I agree, crossfit is intense, I might even go further than Blackberry and say to put in a solid 6 months of gently increasing exercise before attempting crossfit. When I was able to put in a jogging mile on the treadmill without thinking twice about it I knew I was ready for CF.

Any time Coops! It's not a race, it's a journey =)

There is that moment when you go from being pleasantly tipsy to hideously sickly drunk and suddenly it's, "stop the world, I want to get off!" That's how I feel when I eat ice cream now, just physically miserable.

heehee Blackberry, you were definitely an inspiration, along with a non-op friend of mine that has lost 50 lbs thus far from a combo of Crossfit & Weight Watchers, she is a Crossfit junkie and enthusiastically updates on Facebook regularly.

That's some great info kczar, thanks!

If you are nauseated after working out you are dehydrated.

So what are you eating these days? I'm 2 months "older" than you, approaching my 2 yr sleeviversary, and I am STILL 40 lbs from goal =(.

It is so cool to see all these old school names from two years ago when I first joined and was about to be sleeved, OregonDaisy, MiniMe! It is depressing though that I am coming up on my 2 year surgiversary and I have yet to even get to surgeon's goal, truly depressing =(. I exercise consistently 3-6x per week, cardio and resistance, and have done so ever since surgery yet I am still fat. 5'3" 173. I got down to 164 around New Year's due to some major gallbladder attacks and then have regained since. I am so sad to not have achieved goal yet. I exercise constantly and eat between 800-1200 calories a day. I take a PPI, I take a multivit. I keep my carbs below 50 and sugars below 20. =( =( =(

If it is available to you, hugs and kisses! Seriously, physical contact releases calming chemicals into the bloodstream and a good hug, platonic or otherwise, or some nice kissing really helps! And even if there are no candidates around for either of these, hug a teddybear or put a few drops of essential oils on a hot wet washcloth and press it to your face as you inhale slowly. =)

There is a Natural Foods here, whose parent company is Vitamin Shoppe, and they do carry a variety of powders but not Click unfortunately. I know it is irrational but I just prefer to make my purchases in a store when I can, rather than online. Same goes for those Quest protein bars Eggface is always raving about, I can only find them online.

I do Crossfit 3x a week and it is bru-tal, but awesome! The 2nd day after a workout is the most painful, and that's the day I'm doing it again, so I'm continuously sore but in a good way It is SO satisfying to strain and sweat and gasp and feel my muscles burn now, because it is earned authentically, and not felt merely because I stood up from a chair or tried to walk up a flight of stairs =(. At last night's Crossfit I flipped tractor tired end over end, squatted endlessly with a barbell across my shoulders, did cartwheels, did handstands, and even attempted a one-handed handstand. At my heaviest it was a workout just getting strapped into an airplane seat =)

I love my Click! I never use it as my sole source of protein in a protein shake though, since it only has 15 grams of protein per serving and a serving is TWO scoops. If I did a full 2 scoops I would be bouncing off the walls from all that caffeine! Usually I make a chocolate protein shake and then do half of one scoop of Click to give my shake a more adult complext flavor rather than the flat chocolate. Haven't tried the Vanilla Latte flavor yet, just wish Click was easier to find, I can only purchase it online from one or two vendors, the only time I found it in a store was one special GNC in downtown San Francisco.

This inspired me to look up other loaf recipes, I found a recipe for meatloaf topped with sriracha glazed bacon, so I subbed turkey for ground beef and made them in a muffin tin, voila! tiny yummy protein packages!

Absolutely Coops, just put pen to paper and write whatever comes into your head, at first it may just be a baby babble of words or phrases but it will eventual coalesce into thoughts and opinions and emotions. I'm going through some stuff right now too, have had a pretty bad 2 weeks of it, so I really need to do some writing this weekend. I'm a huge advocate for talk therapy, this is a person whose profession and whose sole purpose is listening! Everyone could benefit from that.

Love across the pond Coops!! I really think that your exhaustion, weight stalls and gains, even a small portion of your back pain, are ripple effect impacts from the death of your student. Our minds and feelings have an incredible impact on our bodies, and vice versa, none of our parts exist in a vacuum. Have you considered seeing a counselor regularly? And I would have told that STUPID STROPPY COW that the only reason she wasn't getting punched in the effing face was because she wasn't worth the trouble!!

I'm still here, but I had the flu for a week and was laid low, I took to my bed for about four days of to-the-bone exhaustion but am feeling loads better now. Getting back to crossfit is going to hurt no doubt, but I'm kinda looking forward to it BTW, don't know how sick any of you have been since getting sleeved but this was the straight up legit no-foolin' influenza FLU and let me tell ya, it is a whole different ball of wax getting sick after the sleeve! Whatever "appetite" I claim to have utterly disappeared and it was all I could do to force a single protein shot down my throat as my "meal" for an entire day and that no doubt made it worse.

I have glasses for astigmatism, that are so light people regularly think I'm wearing them for cosmetic reasons with just glass in the lenses! I only need them when my eyes are very tired after a long day of computer/book work. Then suddenly around March I noticed one of my eyes doesn't seem to be a strong as the other, that I am favoring one side of my head and turning toward things like a bird and that my glasses don't really help and I have headaches. I need to see an optometrist. But, what on earth about rapid massive weight loss could affect vision?!?!?!?!!

I wonder if there is something about us Sumer of 2010 sleevers that has made us all super slow losers. I will have my 2 yr surgiversary on 14 July 2012 which is only 2 months away and I am 20 lbs away from surgeon's goal, 40 lbs from personal.

Well it wears off, that's for sure. I was like this from about month 3 post-op to month 10. I am now 20 months post op and just about nothing genuinely turns me on =(

I have a full coverage bra in a 36DD and it fully covers, no quadra boob or bubbling! And the band could definitely be more snug, I have a few bras in 34, but I started this journey in an overflowing uncomfortable 44G and I'm wondering if after all is said and done and maybe some plastics, if I might get as small as a 34C!

Thanx for trying to see the hopeful Lissa but sadly I just finished TOM (yes I'm female lol) and so should be at my least water-retaining. My pants are just that mere suggestion of too snug that isn't visible to others but that I can feel. Also, in photographs my cheekbones and jawline are just a suggestion of a shadow fuller than they were, something only my eye would see, but all of this is confirmation (to me) that the horror on the scale is in fact real gain =,C =,C. This makes me very very sad. In the first part of January I got within 14 lbs of surgeon's goal, and it was a modest goal! Now I am 23 lbs away from surgeon's goal - I'm still effing huge and fat and it's just not EFFING FAIR.

The good news: I lifted, pushed and flipped an enormous big-rig tire end over end down a field! And I'm swinging kettle bells and doing this thing called a Turkish Get-Up. The bad news: I got on the scale 2 days ago and I am NEARLY NINE POUNDS up from my all time low achieved in early January. I am devastated. 2 or 3 pounds can be explained away by our "bounce" range, but not 9 pounds, that's real gain. Since the old lie about muscle weighing more than fat we used to tell ourselves is just a myth, I am devastated. I average between 700-1100 calories, depending on how much I work out, keep my carbs lower than 40, take my Vitamins and work out 5 days a week. IT'S NOT EFFING FAIR.

Crossfit update: I have had 6 classes so far, they are Mon-Wed-Fri from 8-9pm. Friday we practiced squat thrusts with medicine balls; one on the floor between you legs, the other held in your hands. We squatted down keeping shins vertical until our bottoms touched the ball, then stood up with enough momentum to throw the other ball in the air high enough to hit a certain point on the wall. We did a LOT of these. Also, sumo squats with the ball and slanted pull ups on the rings, feet resting on the ground. The bad news: I got on the scale 2 days ago and I am NEARLY NINE POUNDS up from my all time low achieved in early January. I am devastated. 2 or 3 pounds can be explained away by our "bounce" range, but not 9 pounds, that's real gain. Since the old lie about muscle weighing more than fat we used to tell ourselves is just a myth, I am devastated. I average between 700-1100 calories, depending on how much I work out, keep my carbs lower than 40, take my vitamins and work out 5 days a week. IT'S NOT EFFING FAIR.