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Kathleen, Wow! How wonderful. I wish the best for you both. I just read your post about the "shotgun" wedding and him sending you the invite. Great stuff !!! I will be thinking about you both and praying for your dear hubby on the 12th. Congratulations on how well you have done yourself too !

I don't ever regret having surgery. However I don't really encourage my friends and co-workers to have it because none of them seem willing to put the work in. I feel like they would be blaming me for the hard times and since this is a change for forever I don't want that responsibility. Maybe I'm not giving them enough credit.

Everytime I have re-ordered NOW I have gotten the best price at Netrition dot com. Best price is a 10 lb bag so it lasts me a long time. My family laughed at how big it is.

If you have Winco where you live they sell it in their bulk bins. My preference though is NOW brand which I buy from Netrition online. It's light and fluffy and mixes easily in anything.

I have some days when I just seem to need more food. Just stick to the healthy stuff and you should be fine.

Ooops sorry, didn't see your question until now. No, I didn't know about the epidural beforehand as far as I recall. It seems so long ago now. I think maybe Dr Q told me the day of surgery but I'm not sure.

I agree with talking to your surgeon if possible. Maybe he is not aware that the NUT's advice is perhaps different than he would like. Maybe no one else has inquired. I do know that a lot of NUTs don't seem to know what the H they are talking about.

I couldn't drink cold plain Water for 10 weeks. Sample just a bit and then take it slow if you can drink it. Some people never have a problem. For me even a sip was painful and felt "hard". Adding just a little flavor somehow softens it.

If it weren't for this Forum and others I would not have been confident enough to go through with surgery. I still have not met (to my knowledge) another person IRL who had this surgery. The information and opinions of other Forum users have been invaluable.

I think a lot more PCPs are accepting of it now then you might think. When I had surgery I didnt have a PCP but my husband was telling his Dr about my surgery and he was all for it. I just got a PCP last month and his only question was why Mexico and then how much was the price difference.

Seriously, the best thing you can do is not compare your weightloss to others here. I did that too much for my own good. I have always lost slower than others and you just cant compare with people that have a lot more to lose or are younger or fitter or whatever. Just do your own best. I still love this Forum but I quit calculating how long it took this or that person to lose how much. Congratualtions, I think you are doing great!!!

LOL I bought some shorts and when I was putting away the laundry I couldnt figure out who they belonged to. My granddaughters are still little kids and I'm the only woman in the house. It just didnt seem like those could be the same navy blue shorts I had bought and worn that week. I figured they had shrunk but they still fit. I used to be able to eyeball clothes to know if they would fit- now I'm not even close.

Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Very inspirational.

Funny I said for years- why cant you do the diet without the surgery!! Never did get an answer but back then I never found this Forum (if it existed) and never found one of the diet plans. Soooo of course this is purely MY OPINION. I think physically you might be able to do it but it would be pretty close to impossible to continue mentally for very long. Well even physically it would be real hard when you get hungry. Believe me, the fact that I CAN NOT eat more has been a saving grace many times when something tasted really good. Also I never got hungry until last week (over 6 months out) and so far that only happened 3 times. However just portion control and eating healthy which is essentially what we do works wonders. Theres a post somewhere that lists a LOT of different after surgery diets/instructions. If you need more info let me know.

As much as you can without causing pain or aches. Everyone is different, do what you can.