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I also didn't give a rat's ass. If you have stock in the rat's ass industry I suggest you divest. People are giving them a lot less these days.

Wow! What are the folks around you saying?

If you tell or you don't tell you are OK. There are about an equal number of people here on both sides I think. Some change their mind and switch to telling. Some tell just close friends and relatives. Then there are characters like me who tell folks for fun just to watch them struggle. It's the mean little boy in me.

Just leave out the surgery part. Tell em what you eat, how often, vitamins, water, etc. You are not lying just giving an incomplete picture. Pretend like you're in the government.

You hit the little arrow, choose My Settings, on the page that comes up you scroll down, hopefully you will see what is in the picture where I have typed "your hippy uncle". Another forumite can't find it either. Maybe I'm privileged.

I know just how you feel. I was worried about losing my image as an old looking, heavy breathing, jolly fat guy. Now I am a not so old looking, easy breathing, happy but not jolly skinny guy. Image, meh. I always hated playing Santa anyway, and I hated being asked.

I think catheters were invented for interrogating spies.

You showed it who's boss!

http://www.duodenals.../procedure.html Interesting article on the switch. Dr. Hess was metioned in the article. He didn't do my operation but he was, (now retired), one of the doctors at Bowling Green, Ohio, Wood County Hospital, a Center of Excellence, and the first to do the procedure. I got my sleeve there from Dr. Peter Lalor. http://www.duodenals...s_brochure.html

Wow, you've been through it! If anything the sleeve is effective. If you did well with the band odds are that you will do great with the sleeve.

Note to self: Cancel the homeless shelter. Do volunteer work at the hospital stess echo lab.

What a good idea! Do me a favor. Stay on this forum even after you get to goal. We need clear thinkers around here. I can't carry the whole load. (kidding)

Hang on, Elaine. This is just one part of your life. There are many more factors that define your worth. Don't let the past oppress you. There is a giant rising up in you. You will get past your past. There is good reason to believe you will beat this. You are mad. Good. Turn the anger on fat itself, not you as a person. Love you, hate fat. You will find a new life soon. Make it happen. Don't take no.

Vertical sleeve is to dieting what Bruce Lee is to a fistfight.

Looking back and moving forward you are kicking it! Good work!

Most of my pass out feeling times were from lack of water. Be sure to keep that up.

(African cornmeal mush) Known as ugali in Kenya and Tanzania, this starchy, polenta-like side dish goes by different names in sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi and Zambia it is called nsima or nshima. The South African name for it is pap or mealie pap. (pronounced pop). When I lived in South Africa, my family and I could not ask for a pop if who we were asking was not used to Americans. "You want mush?" "Why?" I'd like to see an international pop or sody chart. Iowa's apparent switch to pop must be the result of tourists, corn fields you know. Speaking of Africa, do coconuts migrate?

Well, us Iowans have an inward sense that we have the superior grasp on just about everything including how to say sody. Folks think we are just about corn and pigs and nothing to do but we bask in our own greatness to occupy our time.

You're 5 feet tall, 180 pounds, 35 BMI, and lost 7 pounds on a 10 day liquid diet, right? I predict...65-70 pounds. That'll be 20 dollars. Kidding.

Good work!

Wow! If you had squealed on a gangster at your heaviest you could safely live anywhere now, no witness protection. Good work!!!

WW is great for many. For guys like me it's like driving up a steep, icy road. Lotta spinning, eventually going backward. Sharing was great in the commune but for losing fat it was like p****** on a forest fire.

Peoples ain't bad, especially if they are chewing peppermint gum.

It's a good thing I am typing instead of talking, pretty hard with my mouth hanging open! Wow! Congratualtions!