gmanbat

I think woman did that in the sixties...no wait it was meet your husband at the door wrapped in cellophane...hehehehehe Husband: "What,...leftovers again?" gmanbat...I think we watched the same movie That was in a movie? I thought I stole it from Joan Rivers. Coulda been both.

http://www.bellplantation.com/recipes Here's some good ones. If you do some of them let us know how they turned out?

Good for you, Hanna! Hope your bug bugs out before the day. I don't think it will stop you if it hangs around, though. Keep the happy going!

I am not sure what I will wear but since my loss I have not been asked to play Santa.

I think woman did that in the sixties...no wait it was meet your husband at the door wrapped in cellophane...hehehehehe Husband: "What,...leftovers again?"

Great job, Gitter! Ladies, we love ya but..... Not.... From the new deputy in these parts:

That is extremely clever! As the new host of this forum area I truly appreciate the civility shown thus far. Thank you, folks!

Wow! What an inspiration! You look great! What an example you are of taking care of business. Well executed plan and the results speak for themselves. Newbies take note, dig this!

Hoorah! That's a good choice in a meal. Fish and sweet potatoes are super good.

i was on prednisone while on chemo for prostate cancer. That combined with Lupron, (a testosterone killer), caused me to gain 50+ pounds very quickly. I topped out at 340. and was weak and sickly. I chose the sleeve gastronomy because I didn't want the malabsorbtion that comes with the gastric bypass, which my wife got. I figured I needed every bit of nutrition I could get to keep the cancer away. I commited myself to a life of extreme athletic activity which I have stayed with even though I am 64. Your doctors know best of course. The sleeve worked out very well with me and my wife is doing wonderful with the gastric bypass.

What a change, good work! You look beautiful and the look on your face seems to indicate that you feel pretty good about it. You should!

I lost all of my hair during chemo, this was nothing like that. It just got a bit thin. Now at nearly 2 years out it appears to be thickening a little, my soft waves are coming back. Maybe that Fabio look is still within reach.

The squeaky hinge gets oiled. Keep bugging them. You'll eventually find someone with sense, they are rare but they still exist. Wife and I both had severe apnea. Both dumped it with WLS.

From an old timer who is coming up on two years out, has lost all of his excess and then some, and is as happy as a peach with results, it sounds like you are doing good. The farther out I got after the first few months, the slower it went down. I decided at several points that the drop was over only to discover that it went on despite my not weighing myself. Weight loss is a smaller part of this. Getting muscles in shape and getting healthy are higher priorities. These are the things that assure the permanence of your losing.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! From To A Louse by Robert Burns. In this poem the narrator notices an upper class lady in church, with a louse that is roving, unnoticed by her, around in her bonnet. The poet chastises the louse for not realising how important his host is, and then reflects that, to a louse, we are all equal prey, and that we would be disabused of our pretensions if we were to see ourselves through each other's eyes. Through her eyes you are oblivious of the danger of wasting away, through your eyes she is a well intentioned but uninformed, alarmist buttinski. I think you have it right but that is through my eyes.

My surgeon wanted me to get the bypass, like my wife did. I heard the gold standard argument. I am a surviving cancer dude. I did not want the malabsorption, I need all the nutrients I can get. What doc couldn't see was the fire in my heart to beat the crap out of fat. I had already determined to be an athlete for the rest of my life, not just temporarily get in shape. So far the sleeve has been a perfect fit.

There are scary stories about the bypass, too. My wife has a bypass and is doing well but she is a pretty close rule follower and we have a mutual nagging policy in place. Reading stories is not as good as listening to your doctors who are closer to your condition. There are scary stories about lottery winners destroying themselves. If you win and don't want to take the risk, message gmanbat....I can help!

I was told I was ok before I even started, by a nurse at the hospital! I was morbidly obese but she thought I looked ok. Good thing I didn't go by esthetics, health trumps all. Stop where your body needs you to, not where self-appointed fashion gurus advise.

Asking why she is concerned,.... good idea. Now she is on the defensive. The reason for her inquisition is a bigger problem than the reason for your weight loss.

That is a very good article! Muscle fights fat in ways just recently being found. Diet without exercise is like taking a knife to a gun fight.