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You can try Milk of Magnesia 1X per day, and a stool softener, because the longer it doesn't happen the harder it is

Can't possibly be a stall. A stall is no movement of pounds or inches in over 4 weeks. Your fine. Relax and live your life.

Photos!! Or, how I found out I was huge!! I suppose I need to do before and after, so that I can visit "her" to remind me where I was.

It is not just the loss of weight that is the goal...But how you feel...Do you feel better with some weight off? Are you able to do more things? Are you sleeping better and happier with your life in general?
These are amazing goals and worth it all in my books.....No other diet or program has ever given me this much energy or spunk.....If it takes me 2 years..FINE..that is the way it is..Took me almost 3 decades to get as big as I was..Through every diet I could think of....
Now for the first time I know I am succeeding. I look at things differently now.....There is no panic....I use my tool and my body will respond!

I read the book on my kindle and was very impressed - I can never know too much when it comes to this surgery. There were things that I learned from the book that weren't anywhere else.

Laura Ven and Lipstick Lady - if I should ask, 5 days post-op if I can have cheez whiz and crackers, please feel free to bash the hell out of me, and I would not even require that you be nice about it!!

No! You are not alone I have doubts every other day, and on the days I don't have doubts, someone else in my life has them. What I have found, is that when I talk to the other people having doubts, I end up reassuring myself that i'm doing the right thing.

I too am having surgery on the 30th, and yes, I get nervous. I know that after I have this surgery (well, after the first 2 wks post-op) I will not regret it. This will be the best thing we have ever done for ourselves.

Laura Ven and Lipstick Lady - if I should ask, 5 days post-op if I can have cheez whiz and crackers, please feel free to bash the hell out of me, and I would not even require that you be nice about it!!

It is really the "new" you because you just do not look like the same person. I hope you don't feel offended by that, but you really don't look like your "before" at all. Wow! what a transformation!!

But look how far you have come!!!

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

There was one lady here last year that did...
She said it was ok, her doctor didn't tell her not too. She said she did it and was fine.
I don't know what happened to her though she had some kind of complication and hasn't been back.

Laura Ven and Lipstick Lady - if I should ask, 5 days post-op if I can have cheez whiz and crackers, please feel free to bash the hell out of me, and I would not even require that you be nice about it!!

Laura Ven and Lipstick Lady - if I should ask, 5 days post-op if I can have cheez whiz and crackers, please feel free to bash the hell out of me, and I would not even require that you be nice about it!!

It is really the "new" you because you just do not look like the same person. I hope you don't feel offended by that, but you really don't look like your "before" at all. Wow! what a transformation!!

ha,ha,ha,ha, I thought you meant your favorite song by the band Journey!!!

I hate those skinny squealing beotches too!! Since I am an adult woman - I have no patience for those things!!

Why don't you settle in the middle at 165, I mean you are 5'11", and unless you plan on walking the runways, 165-175 would give you good lee-way.

Wow!! what a difference 5 mos. makes. You look wonderful

It is really the "new" you because you just do not look like the same person. I hope you don't feel offended by that, but you really don't look like your "before" at all. Wow! what a transformation!!