Globetrotter

Therapy can give us the strength to stand up to the bullies in our lives, whether they are doctors, ourselves, or husbands. It is not uncommon for abuse victims to have disproportionate responses to everyone except their abuser, since they are not "allowed" to get angry at the abuser, they instead get angry at everyone else.

I tried bread the other day for the first time since surgery. It was fresh and warm and stretchy and GROSS. It tasted like raw flour and I know this was my taste buds not the fault of the bread.

Sparkly you ROCK! Let me be the first to say, wahooooo! It really did something to my spirit when I went from fat to obese, like it took away my hope. There was still hope in me when I was fat, hope that I could turn things around. The O word hurts and I am thrilled for you that you have put it behind you! You are faithfully using your tool, congratulations to you!!!!

It has been so long since I've participated in fashion that I have no idea what looks good and is in style for someone with wide hips. Thoughts? Suggestions? In high school, the last time I was fit and trim, I remember loving skirts, I don't think I wore pants except maybe one pair of jeans that I occasionally borrowed from a friend. But that was in the nineties and I don't think grunge would really suit me now! Although, I did see recently in a fashion mag that it is making a kind of comeback, lol lol.

I've heard that lightweights lose at a slower rate.

Update: I am now wearing those pants and they are quite comfortable. Am looking forward to them looking terrible again - terrible because they are too baggy!!

I just discovered flavored & roasted almonds online at drugstore.com. I'm sure other online locations sell them but I use drugstore because they deliver to APO addresses. Wasabi, Toffee, salt&vinegar!! I can't wait to eat these (it's my TOTM too).

Okay, I hit the motherload!! I went to drugstore.com and typed in almonds. Planter's brand has a whole line called "flavor grove" of roasted and flavored almonds; chili lime, olive oil & sea salt, cracked black pepper onion & garlic, sign me up!! Then Blue Diamond brand has some dessert ones, I'm getting natural oven roasted almonds-butter toffee!!!!!!!! I looked at the nutritional value, I thought if they taste that good they must be loaded with secret bad for you ingredients and have off the charts calories. Nope!! Better protein and potassium in a 1 ounce serving than half a banana, about 100 calories - wahoo!! And one ounce is about 28 nuts, that's a lot of nuts!! I think I could eat 10.

For a Balkan flavor a little white pepper, red pepper, tarragon, salt, & lemon juice would be good.

I wish I could get my hands on some garlicky hummus, I wouldn't even need the cracker!

I knit while watching tv/movies, it was automatic before to eat while staring at the screen so I give my hands something to do. I also drink strongly flavored (decaf) tea, that way I get to taste something and give my mouth something to do. If you want carbless (darn near) carbs to satisfy the carb monster that won't make you feel guilty, go to "theworldaccordingtoeggface" blog, she has amazing recipes for protein cakes and crustless quiches and protein ice cream, not to mention a list of 50 things to do instead of snacking!!

Er, seriously? Isn't that like a salty greasy fried snack? And aren't they puffed full of air? How many constitutes a serving?

A snack that is: 1)relatively high in Protein 2)relatively low in calorie and carbs 3)not beef Jerky or cheese and 4)can be ordered online. Ideas? Anybody? People have already given me SF hard candy ideas, and I'm going to look up almonds to see which package is best.

I'm a heavyweight too so I get how awesome this feels, yay! For my body it is nearly 40 pounds between sizes, when I go from a 24 to an 18, a mere 4 sizes smaller, I will have lost over 100 pounds.:001_huh:

I keep hearing how we are such lightweights post-op so I have come up with a drink for us - The Tiny Tini - it's a martini but just a shot glass worth. Use an itty bitty aperetif glass and instead of olives, use capers!

I know! Thank goodness!! That would, uh, help things.

Excellent ideas, I had totally forgotten about almonds! Peanut brittle? Oh yeah, I could suck on one piece for a long time!

Yeah, that's not nice! Tell them to go fork themselves. And BTW, I have a great big stomach, even when I was thin my tummy was rounded, so plastics will most likely be needed eventually! I've often thought I should just buy my pants from maternity stores so that they would fit in the legs AND the stomach. And Diva - consider yourself lucky to be a hipless wonder, especially as you get slim - that body type is who all the clothes are made for! I was born in the wrong era, my body would prefer to wear peasanty clothes circa 16th century: a boned bodice to hoist the girls and support the back, plenty of skirts that turn hips into an asset and underneath it all, a great big shirt that doubles as pyjamas! For the span of human history the womanly shape has been celebrated until this last century. Fashion, apart from the decade of the 1950's, has not been kind to the womanly figure since WWI.

Aha!! See!! at 275 I couldn't pour myself into 22's, I was still a 24. At 264.4 I am only just now comfortably in 22's. I think even after all is said and done I am still going to need to go to a tailor to take in the small of the back in shirts, the waist in pants, and all sleeves and lengths shortened!

I'm 7 weeks out and I can moderately chug beverages, eat raw vegetables (just a little I'm testing), and take regular size bites. I had a 32 bougie. If I eat plain high protein like chicken or steak and chew thoroughly I can get in about 3-4 ounces.

I am 7 weeks out and suddenly this week I have been having knife-in-the-uterus, drop you to your knees cramps that come out of nowhere,last 5 seconds, and go away. I had a normalish period in the normalish time when it would happen the cycle following surgery. I should be having it here pretty soon but these cramps are unreal and unlike anything I've experienced before. Long painful cramps that had me popping ibuprofen 24/7 the first 3 days of my period are what I'm used to, not this ninja-attack style. Plus, I don't know what I will do when I have to take ibuprofen, when can we start taking that again after surgery? I'm waiting on my surgeon's response on that one. In the mean time, oowwwwwwwwww.

nah, that would be the case if we were talking french fries but sugarless candy I'm not afraid of.

My hair was already thin from PCOS, I am 7 weeks out and just this morning in the shower I realized that there was hair in my hands after running them through my hair while rinsing out conditioner. Is there nothing we can do to prevent this? To be perfectly frank, it is the thin hair that always "gives away" wls folks that I have heretofor spotted. If I wear a kerchief people will think I have cancer! If I wear a wig, it would be super super obvious, unless I start incorporating wigs and pieces before the thinning gets noticeable ... hmm, maybe that's what I will have to do. But it's really hot here, a wig would be miserable. I'm taking coQ10 vitamins and trying to keep my protein intake high, is there anything else we can do?:lol0:

I'm feeling the urge to nibble. I knit in the evenings to give my hands something to do but at work I don't want to get into any bad habits - snack foods are everywhere. Does anybody know of some good candies that sleevers can suck on without too much guilt? I'm assuming sugarless/sugar free and I figure if it is a hard candy then it will last longer in my mouth and give my tongue something to do. You might be thinking, gum! But gum is frowned upon in my workplace. A hard candy wouldn't be so obvious. So if anybody has any ideas on hard candies with negligible calories and no sugar, please let me know!

A French peasant, to be exact, seeing as I've got that somewhere in my family ... I started this journey wearing a snug 24 at 294 pounds day of surgery. I could lose 100 pounds, and barely be in an 18/20!! How is that fair!?!?!! Even when I was skinny in high school my hips were proportionally enormous, size 5 waist, size 6 legs, size 10 hips. So I see people here on the forum talking about having only begun to lose and already they are down 3 sizes, and I turn into a Yosemite Sam of jealousy - frickinfrackenflipersnappingodblessamerica! 100 freakin' pounds off my body and only down three sizes. I figured this out because the last time I weighed 190 something I was in an 18 at old navy. Of course, with vanity sizing these days - due to our nationally expanding waistline - makes your size number meaningless anyway. The measurements that got me into a size 8 in high school would today make me a size four so, who knows. Bah Humbug!!