gmanbat

Egg drop soup. The Chinese are food geniuses.

From another forum. Good answer.

Find a friend with an AR-15 or a 12 gauge.. Take a case out to the country and blow the shnizzel out of them. I always get over things when I can hold a ritual of destruction. It worked for cigs. I drew the line at romantic obsessions, though. :ph34r:

I don't know anyone who has from the sleeve. I know one person who had a gastric bypass who managed to put it all back on. A little harder with the sleeve, it doesn't stretch much.

People that advocate "only natural" don't take into account that humans have creative brains and are capable of modifying body and behavior. Natural taken to extreme would mean that we would be reading each other by butt sniffing like doggies rather than language.

Man, don't swallow that stuf!! Talk about malabsorption!

nat·u·ral /ˈnaCHərəl/ Adjective Existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind. Toilet paper is not natural. Wipe with leaves. Niether is tooth paste. Let em rot. Natural does not equal better.

My urologist and lead doctor on my prostate cancer treatment was a major cheerleader for cancer. Even when treatment showed vast improvement he only gave me 2 years to live, (that was in 2009). My cheerful attitude seemed to bother him and he did his best to turn me depressed. I can still remember his Bela Lugosi face telling me that cancer was sure to kill me. He was not in favor of my WLS either saying it was "too hard on the body". I thought, "What do you care, Dracula, a fat corpse or a skinny one, what's the difference to you?" God knows my check-out time.

You can have pedigree papers to attest to the high grade of hog you have but the thing is still a pig. An educated jerk is still a jerk and jerkisms will come out of it's mouth. Also, education in one area does not cover ignorance in another. Your medical people are showing no more smarts than the common yokel on the streets.

Post op I wouldn't even look at a 20 oz bottle of Water. I could not get it down in 4 days. A pill cup full looked like Lake Superior to me. Consult your doc but to me this is not out of the ordinary. And about that crack from AmyinOrlando about why men don't have babies. I am GmanbatInZephyrhills and I agree with you. We had only one kid, and not because it was too hard for her.

Thanks, Carol!! Your input is very needed and welcome! In case you are not aware, we have a veterans forum now as well, http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/forum/352-gastric-sleeve-veterans-forum-new-forum/

I have found that the negativity of others only causes me distress when I am unsure of myself. If I have done my research and know what I know, I can listen to their negativity, analyze it for any possible merit, and quickly consign it to the trash can of my concerns. As Tigerbell observed, negativity is often about the self interest of the negator and not about the welfare of the negatee. You will run into many flavors of poo-pooers on your journey. We have the "I know everything" folks who think that since they know nothing about weight loss surgery it must be something to fight against because it challenges their lofty delusion. There are the "easy way out" morons who demand you to take a "natural" approach to weight loss, never defining "natural" with any consistency, logic, or self-application. Then we have the "position holders" who don't want you to become the slim, attractive gal because they lose their contrasting position as the "cute one". You be true to you, let the doofuses waller in their doof.

I have reached my goal and am in top shape. I am above average in strength and endurance for a man of 64 years as attested to by the 20-30 year olds I work with shoveling dirt and wheelbarrowing in the hot and humid Florida summer. If I try on clothes now I am making sure they are not too big instead of making sure they are not too small. I am set in cement on my resolve to remain in shape and train like an athlete for the rest of my life. The fat shall never make a comeback. Weight obsession took up a great deal of my attention. It demanded and received it because of the health drain that it was on me physically and emotionally. The enemy has been conquered but my body requires a garrison to be situated to guard against an insurrection. Peace is only sustained through diligent observation. I will continue to observe my exercise and diet but not obsess. I don't obsess about brushing my teeth but I do it several times a day. My time on this forum is also a part of that diligence. Isn't freedom what we are wanting through all of this? Free to move with ease, free to breath normally, free to wear what we want, free to look attractive, freedom from self-consciousness, free to have confidence, and most of all, freedom from obsession about weight. Now we can go about life's other aspects: love, God, family, work, fun, fulfillment of dreams,... exploring our hidden potentials and turning them into actuated realities. We can fill up the space formerly occupied by weight obsession with life itself. So in the end weight loss is not an end in itself, it is one leg of a journey to the goal of freedom to live out our humanity to the maximum.

It was rather a serious matter. Not everything can be hearts and flowers. No normal person likes a fight but at times, fight we must. To me, this is normally a light-hearted forum. Lots of love goes out here. Sometimes support can be messy. Don't you guys have family? This was a disaster. I will stay. I've been in battles before when all the wimps cleared out from behind me. Not a good feeling.

I am used to reading typos, I figured it was gum. Either that our you had one heck of a hunger attack! I think the gum will pass.

Doc Luna needs to be saved from himself. One of his conquests could go all fatal attraction on him and turn the rooster into a hen. Boyfriends and husbands could also wreck the party.

Not you, the nurse probably organizes snipe hunts. :ph34r:

The taco that blew up a liver. Unless there was nitro in the hot sauce I wouldn't worry.

It takes food 3 hours tops to leave the stomach. This must be an amazing doc. Sounds like a crock.

Wow, you are way too tough on yourself. Your liver will be fine. Just do well the next 4 days. Eating a soft taco is better than fainting. You were likely low on electrolytes.

The cutie pie doc better avoid prison. Those monster bubbas will give him a graduate course in what it feels like to be taken advantage of.

Ya, I'm sorry for my rampant scepticism as well.

I gave you a like...1/2 for bravery and 1/2 for looking fabulous!

It was very difficult the first month. It got better as time went on. I was told just to do the best you can and not worry.

I cannot relate to being taken advantage of by someone in a position of power. It could be because I am automatically sceptical and somewhat antagonistic to folks who appear to hold power. That includes teachers, doctors, politicians, you name it. Any sexual advance on me would be only be successful despite their power. It would also get me dissected by my wife.