Kate M

241.8 prime rib for Christmas dinner. How can one person gain 2 pounds in one day! Oh well, back on the bike and turn that wine back into water!

Darn! I can't do it from the mobile app. The video is on YouTube and is called "VSG-Ten reasons not to have VSG Surgery". Put that in the YouTube search bar and it should pop right up. There's a guy in headphones talking.

Let's see if this works. You might have to copy and paste the rule in your browser

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If you must, then say you are having your gall bladder out. Personally I would try to educate them and tell the truth. Have you seen the YouTube "top 10 reasons not to have WLS?" It's actually not what it sounds like. It's intelligent responses to all those naysayers.

239.6!!! Finally broke that stall!!

I keep telling my husband about all the information I have gained by joining BP. It has occurred to me that maybe a forum for our partners and families might help them as we travel down this road together. How many of you think your family would participate?

We store estrogen in our fat. Obese women have heavier periods because of all that estrogen. Your lighter periods are normal. I'm a women's health NP fwiw

Kate M 242.4. Lot's of parties, etc this week, plus I think I'm at a plateau. I'm still pre-op so I didn't expect huge success. I'm just glad I'm not gaining.

I've been wondering whatever happened

242.8

Look at you butt!! You are doing fabulous!!!

You know what they say about pictures

Your docs aren't keeping up with the research. Tells ng women they need annual Pap smears is a real cash cow

Good questions! HPV is the #1 most prevalent STD. Some strains cause genital warts, some cause dysplasia. If you get infected with one of the "high risk" strains, you are at increased risk for dysplasia. If we have more than one sexual partner in our lifetime, it's pretty likely that we've been exposed to one or many of the strains. The goal of the vaccines is to prevent the infection in the first place, so the best age group to give it to is adolescents (hopefully before they become sexually active). They started with girls, then (duh) recommended it for boys a few years later. That's who they studied for safety and efficacy. They haven't studied it's use in adults. Remember when we used to be told to be sure and have a Pap smear every year? That was to try and catch dysplasia (caused by HPV) before it advanced. Depending on your result, you were probably told to repeat it in 6 months and most of the time your next Pap smear would be normal. That was because of a low grade HPV infection that our immune systems fought off. Now there's a test for HPV and it's recommended for woman age 30 along with a Pap smear. If both are normal, you are good to go for 3 years!

OK gotta' chime in here. I'm a Woman's Health NP and spent most of my career caring for women, doing cervical cancer screening and prevention. Not bragging, just letting you all know I have the creds to address this. You are absolutely correct in saying your year of healthy eating has "cured" your dysplasia. Well, not exactly, but what has happened is your body is now able to devote some energy to fighting the virus that caused your dysplsia - the HPV virus. Chances are we've all had at least 1 of the more than 100 strains of HPV out there. Some of us got lucky and got one of the less aggressive ones. Some got one of the more virulent strains that cause high grade dysplasia and cervical cancer. Like all viruses, we need our immune system to be healthy in order to fight off the negative effects of a virus. (Ever get a simple cold but because of stress, it knocked you on your ass?) Stress comes in many different forms, and being obese is a HUGE stressor on which your body has to expend a lot of its resources fighting. Congrats to you for taking this step towards good health. A pretty major NSV, wouldn't you say? By the way, if you have kids, get them vaccinated against HPV. Girls AND boys ( it takes two to tango!)

Kate M 244 Thanksgiving morning. Not weighing myself again til next Friday

When paying out of pocket you should be able to negotiate a lower fee. I work in health care and I know for a fact that they don't get paid the full amount they charge when they bill a patient's insurance. Ask what insurance normally pays and offer that amount in cash at the time of the visit. Ask for a prompt cash payment discount. Next is to find someone in the office that you can call with questions.

Dr. Trivedi's office only gave me 2 NUT to choose from. One had a 3 month wait time and the other was the doc I moaned about here a few weeks back. I finally went and found my own. She's an RD and CDE. Besides my nutrition counseling, for the cost of the same visit, she met me at the local Hannaford and walked around pointing out the pros and cons of all sorts of things I didn't know about. If you are going to Dr Trivedi I highly recommend Marianne Romano. She's in the SEFCU building on Washington Ave.

Oops, that was last week. Today is 245.2. Down 2 more. Let's hope it is all liver fat!

247.2

I just tried the Yoplait Greek 100 Apple pie flavor! Awesome!!!!!

I think the Atkins French Vanilla tastes like a vanilla frappacino. Put it in a blender with ice

247.2 today! Yay! Saw my NUT the day before the first weigh in for this challenge and she put me on 1000 cal,100gr protein and 100gr carbs daily until my surgery to help shrink my fatty liver.

Hurray! I was wondering about that just the other day!