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Fage 0 1 cup with 1 scoop Unjury strawberry soebet Protein Powder. Mix. Makes 2 servings. Fage has 23g Protein and unjury 21 I believe. These would taste great as a Popsicle too.

Thank you! Always nice to hear

This talk makes me worry a little. I already have a man that is a little too big and a little too rough at times. I'm hoping I don't get any smaller in there, or we may have a problem. I already warned him when I get home we need to be having lazy sex for a bit. He agreed to try. Fingers crossed.

I'm 5'3" and I was shooting for 138. If I o below, I go below, but I will be happy at 138

Happy 6 month Surgiversary everyone! I'm down 90 lbs so far. Still have 28 to go. Here's to the next 6 months and making goal!

Almost 6 months out. My husband took a picture of me today and I was like WOW is that me. The other picture is from the night before surgery. Down 89lbs.

I love that dressing!

I live in Bothell. I wasn't sure if they would welcome people at support groups if you didn't have surgery with them. I had mine in TJ.

I'm from Bothell. I had my sleeve done Nov 5 th 2012 by Fernando Garcia in Tijuana. I'm down 76 lbs. I have about 40 to go.

I am going to him this Monday. I will let you know how it goes.

This is a little rant.
I went to my doctor 1 week out for the routine post-surgery check. She was talking about my daughter's wedding, and she said, "you are going to look so good for her wedding!" I replied, "what do you mean? I look really good now!"
I am a beautiful girl (my husband tells me this everyday!). I was before the surgery. I am now after surgery - over 50 lbs lighter. I realize that I look "better". I do. But this surgery isn't a guaranteed fix to everyone's self esteem. If you had really low self esteem before surgery, losing weight may or may not fix it. If all of your self esteem issues were related to your weight, then maybe it will. If you have been skinny before and had low self esteem issues then...chances are you will have self esteem issues after your weight loss. Unless you work on fixing them!
At my heaviest, I always knew skinny girls that I had more confidence than.
You are beautiful, too! In all honesty....this forum is loaded with beautiful girls at all sizes. No matter where you are in the weight loss journey, embrace who you are at this moment and take a minute to feel beautiful and amazing. Don't wait until all the weight is off before you start loving yourself. Do it now.
That is all.

This was me... I could not eat more than 300 or 400 calories in a day when I was just going on solids. It took me months to get to 500 and I am just now at 800 at 7 months out! If i eat solid Protein only, I cant eat that much. I hear a lot about the starvation mode, etc. but so far its been working for me. My metabolism is so slow that if I ate that much, I would gain for sure. At least thats what happened on Weight Watchers.

Greek yogurt also tastes pretty good with a lot of the Syntrax nectar fruit flavors. I don't like the strawberry unjury by itself as a shake, but it really is good with fage.

Fage 0 with strawberry unjury. It's good. I made eggplant Parmesan on purée stage. Not a lot of Protein though. Also used the unflavored Syntrax mix. Now I Mix it in a latte in the AM.
At the beginning, I used the Yes whey Protein Shots to get my 60 grams minimum. U have to get them online though. The New Whey ones you find in the store are a bad source and they are really gross.

No. Gray hair is caused by children and husbands.

One of my main frustrations with my body after I lost all the weight was the way I looked in a T-shirt. Yeah I could get an XL and drape it over my self and hide my tummy but thats no fun. I wasn't an Extra Large person anymore so why should I be doomed to still wear clothes that are too big for me. Im still only 35 days post op from my extended Tummy Tuck and still swollen, but am VERY pleased with the way I look in a T-Shirt now. And get this - Its a MEDIUM! I never thought in a million years I would ever be wearing a medium ANYTHING. Once I pack on a bit of muscle and a 6 pack I will be unstoppable with this shirt on. Watch out ladies. lol
$5,800 + Lots and Lots of Pain = Price for Extended Tummy Tuck. Looking Super in a Superman Medium T-Shirt = Priceless.
P.S.
YES the extended tummy tuck is worth it!

Good. I'm glad it's not just me. If I make ground turkey into taco meat, I can eat 1.5 oz at a time. But never 2 of any meat.

Sleeved Nov 7th down 48lbs since surgery 55lbs total since preop.I was stalled at 173ish for 4 weeks.The scale has been consistently 170-171 for 4 days so I would say the stall is broken and I hope to say good bye and good riddance to the 170s this month:) Here is a current pic taken on March 2nd 2013.

Down 60 lbs. look sloppy in all my clothes because they are loose. and hair is starting to go too ;(
But woohoo to weightloss !!
Congrats everyone !
( amazing sunshynie ;p)

Garcia is great. There are people here from both companies and everyone seems happy. I went with successfully slimmer which is a branch of a lighter me and while my coordinator wasn't here, janese from a lighter me took me in like I was one of hers. Very nice lady.

I have liked Dr Garcia's Facebook page. It looks like he has started doing the single incision for the sleeve. You should check that out.

I will not miss not having any pics of myself with my kids because I don't like to take them myself and my fiancé is tired of me telling him to delete them, so he doesn't take them anymore.
I will not miss it taking forever to get up off the floor when I play with the Chillins.
I will not miss sex with the lights off
I will not miss bein the only fat girl at work listening to all the skinny chicks talk about how fat they are.
I will not miss wondering how long it will be before I develop diabetes like so many in my family.

I was all la la la until I got to the hospital and they started putting the IV in then I freaked out a bit. Like WTH am I doing having surgery in Mexico?! But things went so fast after that I didn't have a chance to freak out more and leave.
When I first decided to do surgery though, I lost my appetite for two weeks, I was so nervous. It is all worth it though. If you can make it through the pre op diet, you can make it through the lifestyle change. Have faith, you will do well.

Yeah. Right.
Posting in such flippant and malicious way on thread titled fatalities... Insensitive.
And btw, a "worst nightmare" is not my transportation stopping McD's on the way to the Border. It's dying. Complications. Leaks. Infection. Not being here for my family.
Amanda Rae