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Wow, that is quite a spreadsheet! If you don't mind making a empty copy available, I'd love to download it too.

Asthma is an obstructive lung disease while obesity contributes to a restrictive lung component. If you are removing part of the restrictive process (all the weight on your abdomen pushing up against your lungs making it harder for your to breathe, then your asthma may feel as if it is improving. However, asthma is an internal process. When triggered (environmental, animals, emotions, etc), your muscles around your bronchioles (air passageways in the lungs) tighten and make the passageways much smaller. Ventolin (Salbutamol, Albuterol, the blue inhaler) is required to loosen the muscles tightness on your lungs and make it easier to breathe. So no, reducing your obesity will not make your asthma go away. But it will make it easier for you to breathe in general.

Are you sure it's coming from your gut? To me it seems like you've lost weight and the mask no longer fits you properly and the sound is a large leak.

SparkPeople is quite good and it tracks a lot more vitamins/minerals. I used to use it a few years ago and it worked very well for me.

I looooooooooove my Protein shakes and they have no aftertaste. I get them from a local store called sugar free and More but you can get them online here: http://healthsmartfoods.com/chocorite-protein-shakes.html My absolute favourite is Peanut Butter. French Vanilla, chocolate Fudge Brownie, and Cappuccino are also quite good. A serving has 24g of protein, 5g of fibre, and 3g net carb. Also, 0g of sugar. It mixes very well with Water if you have one of those magic shaker bottles you can get from GNC or any place that sells protein powder: http://i.pgcdn.com/pi/72/81/70/728170488_260.jpg

Just paid the rest of my balance! Everything is a goooooo. Also just found out that my friend and I don't check into the Marriott in Tijuana until 3 pm and we get to San Diego a few hours before so we're going to make a mini vacation out of it and go see the zoo. Never been to San Diego so this will be fun!

I don't know. I have to do it for 4 days starting this Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and surgery on Tuesday.

I'm curious, because I see people blame everything on Obamacare and it just befuddles me. You got sick because of Obamacare? The insurance wouldn't have thought you would have gotten a brain aneurysm if you weren't overweight without Obamacare in place?

I want surgery to make my body hot. Yep! I'm flying into San Diego one week from today and get picked up from there to go to Tijuana for surgery the next day.

Yep, 20 minutes. http://oilpulling.com/oilpullingmethod.htm

I don't know if it will work but I plan to do it when I'm post-op. I used to do oil-pulling before bed (basically you take a tbsp of sesame seed oil, sunflower oil or coconut oil into your mouth and swirl it around for 20 minutes). It helps to whiten your teeth and it really improved my morning breath. I haven't done it for a few weeks but I'm definitely going to do it after post-op if I get bad breath!

I suggest you either find a new PCP or show your current PCP the research sourced by this article I quoted in my blog: http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/blog/2630/entry-6709-100-of-people-with-bmi-30-who-lose-weight-with-diet-and-exercise-gain-it-back-and-more-within-3-years/

Just reading that made me feel very calm. Thank you

Does anyone have the pre-op requirement to lose weight but not to lose more than 4 BMI points of your original weight? I am with Mexico Bariatric Center, my surgeon is Dr. Valenzuela, and that is their requirement. I weighed my highest -285 lbs- when I was approved. 4 BMI lower than that would be 262 lbs. Well today I am 269 lbs and I have 11 whole days left. I have been losing at a rate of 3.8 lbs per week and I'm worried I am going to be under that 262 lbs! I have been following the prescribed pre-op diet exactly. Maybe they shouldn't have made me do 3 weeks of it instead of the regular 2 weeks. Ay yi yi. Maybe I need to eat more calories but at this stage I don't feel that hunger and carb craving any more.

If I had known about it when I still weighed 255 lbs in 2007 (I'm 5'3) and how cheap it was to get it done in Mexico I would have done it then. Of course, I have the luxury now to look back and see exactly how I yo-yoed all the way up to 285 lbs in 2013. It would have been much easier to do this surgery as a student during a summer and not a full time employee.

Thanks, CarryOn7. My mom spent hundreds of dollars on me (the Jenny Craig/Herbal Magic/Weight Watchers) during high school. I have spent thousands of dollars, most recently on the personal training two years ago. I am so done with spending money to get nowhere!

Congrats on your sleeve! I have the same surgeon in 2 weeks. I have a dumb question... when they weigh you do they make you take off your clothes or do you weigh in with your clothes on. Clothes on can be a couple extra pounds on me. lol Also, did you get the food (broth/etc) and Water (is it bottled?) you needed during your stay, included? Or did you have to buy it from the cafeteria? Did you have to buy your own when you moved to the hotel? Just wondering if I need to bring anything like that.

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You're hilarious! I just subscribed to you on youtube. Haven't been sleeved yet but I hope when I do I have such a satisfying bowel movement. lmao

Thank you Triple H!

You look incredible! Wow!

The below quote is from here. Welp. That's depressing. And very accurate for me. My timeline (that I can remember) 2003 - 200 lbs, graduated high school tried Jenny Craig, Weight Watcher's, Herbal Magic, physician-supervised weight loss 2004 - 230 lbs, freshman "15" 2006 - 200 lbs with diet/exercise concurrent with first serious relationship 2006 - 230 lbs, 3 months after end of first serious relationship 2007 - 250 lbs 2008 - 220 lbs with diet and exercise, then started a grueling intensive 3 year program 2009 - 250 lbs 2011 - 275 lbs, graduated from said program, then couldn't find a job for 4 months, did food and retail therapy 2012 - 235 lbs, with personal trainer costing $4000 with diet/exercise 2013 - 285 lbs, highest weight ever at pre-op for vertical gastric sleeve surgery, found out 2 weeks before surgery I am hypothyroid. Time to put an end to this horrific yo-yo dieting. It reinforces in my mind that I'm doing the right thing by having this surgery. No turning back now.

Me too! I'll see you there along with a friend who is also having the surgery but not a member here. There are so many of us that day!

*pre-op diet, that is