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Oh and I almost forgot!! Kelli, way to go, glad the stall has broken for you.

First of all Aww Dean, you are so sweet I agree you are all great women, and I am happy to come and visit and hear how well and positive you all are, even when life is giving us a few slaps to the face. Lissa I agree it is your friends issue. You know what is going on with her. I am sure a bit of the green eyed monster came out. We do start to treat ourselves better once we start to like what we see on the outside and feel more confidence. It only follows that we also expect others to treat us with the same respect. Unfortunately we do sometimes loose friends in the process, some of these were the best for us in the first place. It is really horrible feeling, this I know quite well, but hopefully in the end we are in a happier place for it....man that sounds all zen-y *shakes head*

Yay I will be at the Domain!! Let's do it peeps!

And as a way of not becoming a statistic. I just joined up to do the Mothers Day Classic Fun Run...4 km run. Fingers crossed I will be able to run by then.... Who else wants to join in for a good cause....you can walk it too

Sueco, I know the feeling about being concerned about finding myself back where I was. Overweight and unhappy etc and really having no way back to here. Having maintained my weight now for close to 7 months it is still a struggle, I gave myself an upper limit and have to stay underw that, if I get close to it, I spend a few days watching what I eat and work out harder. Our journeys dont end when we get to goal....it is a life struggle. But I am positive our generation of weightloss people understand the changes we are makiing not only to our bodies but our lives, and the statistics will change in the next 10 years.

Hey Mini Me, good to see you. The first thing they gave me at the hospital to consume was an icy pole, so I think you should be fine with that. But just watch the sugar in them, you can always make ice blocks with low cal cordial and suck on those to help get fluids in. Did you have a nutritionist doctors, order for eatting post sugery? They would be best placed comment. However based on the advise I was given from my doctor, all of those should be fine 7 days post op, thin brothy Soup. I never did Protein shakes, hated them so cant really comment on the consuming of them. You can try mixing the Water up with low cal cordial as well, it helped me get the water down at first as water felt hard on the stomach, but amazingly flavouring the water it didnt feel as bad. I also drank tea...lots and lots of green tea. Good luck with your recovery, you will do great. And those canula's hurt like a buggery, they tried me a couple of times as well....ouch!!! I feel for you

Dean, sounds like you have inspired a revolution in here and at home I am off to the physio again tommorow, and am going to see if I can get back into running. I miss it so much, not that I have ever run a full 5k yet, 2 k was the max i got to in one stint. Was doing 8-10k with a mix of running/walking before the universe told me to stop.!

I was thinking about this the other day, and almost thought of posting a similar thread, but never got around to doing it. A little while ago, I used to look at myself in the mirror and think I had gotten skinny, I am and was wearing sizes that I always thought was good sized skinny (for me and it is different for everyone else). I am not sure where my mind changed, but now I look and see an fat person.While I am not in the normal range for BMI, I am curvy and I like that, I am tone and would be close if not in a normal range, cept for all this damn skin. The skin I feel is making me see a fat person it hides the muscles I work so hard for...grrr and bulges out in places it shouldnt. I am at a weight that I can easily maintain with my lifestyle (ie no more loosing but not putting it back), and have been here for over 6 months ( with christmas, celebrations, over eatting, injuries etc occuring during this time). I believe there will come a time when you will find your normal. I dont know that I have an answer but I do know that I experience it too...

Me too So relate to all that...just hope I dont put back on half the weight I lost. Way to go Deano!!!! Welcome to the overweight club! SwiftKate, congrats you are doing awesome and as Dean pointed out, almost at half way!

Mine too...I now weirdly like Country music, was originally a rock chick through and through....now I got some room for country twang

I am with Cheri! Shoes, specifically boots for me. Now I have normal sized calves, I cant stop buying the damn things. And the saddest thing is since I broke my ankle at the beginning of the year I have barely been able to wear them (as most a heels and that dont go so well at the moment). I also like to cook, keep feeding everyone...I live alone so there is always way too much food. My workmates mainly benefit from this over cooking. One could argue that I moved to alcohol, as I mostly want to drink rather than eat when things get bad, but am a lush at 3 drinks...so not really happening there either. Never been able to get into the coffee thing at all...

This is hard I had found, pre-surgery that most of my friends had moved on from me in life, started having families etc. Now I am well and truly recovered, and looking pretty darn good (for me anyway ) I am looking to meet new people. I have tried joining work out groups, looked at Meet up groups for things that I am interested in. I am looking at taking some adult learning classes at a local community college etc. Still havent met a really great group of people yet but i gotta keep trying. Add to that I am also single and looking for a partner, which is even harder! So I am looking for a wingman/wingwoman and a partner lol.....apply within lol

Amen!!

I think so. As you progress, life seems easier and you dont worry so much about the amount you are consuming to the extent of counting everything. But then you get this umm nice lil reminder. It is definitely not something one sets out to do.

Getting back on the throwing up subject I woke up from surgery throwing up...so awesome! Then didnt really throw up until like 9 months out when i had a stomach virus. Nowadays I wouldnt call it throwing up, like we would have pre-surgery, it is more sliming...just a whole lot of slime...yea it is pretty. And yes in almost every occasion, a carbonated drink as been involved, my drink of choice is champagne...and its not everytime I drink champagne, but as others have said it is best to drink or eat, never the 2. In my case, sometimes I am just dumb and enjoying being with people and forget BTW I am saving so much money on alcohol lol, i can do more than one, usually 3 before I feel it now. I get drunk quick and sober up even quicker, usually if I go out, have a few drinks, feel the drunk sensation, then by the time i get home I am sober again.

OregonDaisy, I know what you are talking about and was worried I was failing. Sam situation, out with friends having dinner with a drink or a few and then eatting. Tho I dont force myself to throw up, my body does. I have a few times lately had to excuse myself and "throw up/slime up". I guess I need to be more aware when this is happening, but I am more interested in the people

I get it hehehe 3000 calories does seem forever ago, I know I could probably get near there nowadays but it would incredibly hard and include alot of alcohol...but i would sick as a dog for the next few days...errr no thanks.

In case I havent said it before, my name is Karen It has been 18 months since my last 3000 calorie binge... MiniMe, I dont use fitness sorry.

Amen!

Yep, it has been my experience. I conceptually get it, but dont understand it. It is one reasons I have become the person I am, that they are/were interested in. I am no different afterwards as i was before I told them but still i am. One can hope that one day I will find someone I can be honest with. Missmeow, anyone can become a fattie, whether you have been skinny all your life, or been fighting it your life. Actually I (well we are) am less likely to ever be a fattie again.

This is such an interesting conversation. Why lie? What is a lie? I have generally, with most people immediately in my life (family, close to moderate friends, work collegues) I have been honest with, they all know about the surgery. If I run into people in the street, ie my mum said something to a lady in a store about me loosing 150 pounds, and she was life how. The surgery was not something i wanted to get into, so I said watching my food and exercise, both true, I worked my butt off, but obviously the sleeve helps with the food. I have been dating and occasionally some guy will notice the small amount of food i consume and ask about it. I was initially honest about loosing the weight, but then the guys were never to be seen again...so now I just say I eat very little, do the whole 6 small meals a day...also not entirely a lie just not the whole story. When one sticks around long enough I will be honest with them about t he whole thing... But really everyone is different, I judge who I tell what based on how I am feeling and how well I know the person. Just my 2c.

I love the idea of the Vet forum and was excited to see it. You see most people move away from the forum after the surgerversary etc, but the journey we all started still continues. Some of us are still trying to loose, some are trying to maintain, some are moving onto the emotional/ life changes that now happen. These are different to what people are concerned about when we are first sleeved. I dont post much on the normal boards anymore, pretty much here and the aussie section but check almost every day. I hope this forum may help people continue to come and realise that there is still more to be learnt.

AngieP and KelBel, I believe it is quite common to feel exhaustion on the 3rd week, YOu are usually going back to work and doing more, but still eatting very little. Best I can say is give yourself time to recover, drink Water, dont rush back into life full force. If you can try consume some more Protein. Liss, definitely!! From recollection the "capacity" of my stomach felt like it changed. At around 6 months and then around 11 months. It has been pretty stable since then. It still is tempormental at times but it probably was before I just never knew it, now I am more aware. I would say now on a good day I can consume around 1500 cals easily, on a bad day (ie stressful days,, party days etc) it can go over 2000, mainly cause of grazing.

It sucks Well it does at the moment. Seems like I finally got to a place where I like myself, like what I see in the mirror, but cant seem to find anyone that is worth my time or wants to take the time to get to know me. Nowadays most guys I meet just want to sleep with me, getting kinda disheartening that that is all they are looking, seems I could be a freaky stalker or a mass murderer and t hey dont care . An I am not interested if that is all you care about. This is not a reflection of all guys, but definitely the guys that classify themselves as available that I am meeting. Hopefully someone will prove me wrong, til then I guess I will just have fun with my new body lol

Also got good news today....my ankle is no longer broken!! Bye bye moon boot and hello sexy winter boots lol BTW Welcome to Kazbah and Aussie!!