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The omentum is a kind of tissue mass that joins all your internal organs together, a fatty layer that sort of looks a bit like slimy gladwrap. all your organs dont just float free in there, they are all sort of joined with this membrane. There is some theory around that removing it can help with obesity, but its speculative.

I have a vitamix too and I wouldnt be without it for anything. You SHOULDNT have to puree stuff to be able to eat and I dont have to but with a blender like this, you can easily get in your two fruit, five veg every single day. Without, I still eat fruit and veg in their natural form, but i cant eat as much of them. I know when i start my day with a green smoothie (usually 2 different fruits and spinach or kale) than I've already had a good start and if I get 3 more vegies in that day - which is pretty easy, I really dont have to worry that I'm not getting enough. It makes marvellous Soup for lunch too AND cooks it for you!

She's talking 20% BODY weight, rather than 20% excess weight for starters, that's two entirely different things. But either way, she's still talking sh&t. I lost 120% of excess weight, and about 30% of my body weight. Of COURSE you can lose more than 20%, Truly, I think sending patients to nutritionists is a waste of time. Finding a good one, who actually knows something, appears to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Its like personal trainers. What you get most of the time is someone with a back of the cornflake packet qualification who knows only how to blab on about what's currently fashionable in the world of weight loss and acctually knows nothing about treating individuals.

I wore an underwire bra home from the hospital and have done ever since with no discomfort.

I find it a bit different. I'm definitely a sugar eater, I hesitate to say addict, I'm really not sure I believe in that. the only way to kick sugar is willpower, pure and simple. I know my palate will ALWAYS prefer sugary foods. I love them. I dont find it that hard though. I allow myself to indulge (and properly indulge, not this crap about just one cookie) reasonably often. It fits into my calorie allowance, not that I count calories, but I really dont care if I eat a big muffin for Breakfast once a week or so. And then I just say no, the rest of the time. It really does get easier with practice. But I know where you're coming from, in times of stress, I am prone to returning to my standard diet - sugar and caffeine, throughout the day. Perhaps I would detox if I really kicked it, but I havent found it necessary to do that.

I've never had a minute's trouble with my band and teaching. I did my teachign degree late, finishing last year at the age of 42, and this has been my first year teaching. I am teaching grade six at Chelsea Primary School in Melbourne and I absolutely love it. My kids are gorgeous. Being banded has made me popular, lol. They dont know of course, I've never told the kids but they love that their teacher is the "skinny pretty one". They always think my clothes are cool and ask where I got them. I would have gotten on well with kids anyway, but its sort of great to have that with the kids. At least I know they're not laughing at my ass when I turn around to the whiteboard! I have a very well behaved band, I eat anything and everything, just not a lot of it. I've told staff, there's only eight of us teaching there at school anyway, and it's come up naturally in conversation.

Well I had the same experience, only it kicked in for me at a bMI of about 24, and over the course of another year and a half I lost another few pounds to get to where I am now. I do run and exercise a LOT and I think that's your answer. I just dont think you get to a truly low weight without huge dedication to exercise.

No, I dont eat like that and I refuse to. Its not really how we're told to eat in Australia anyway. I consider Protein, vegetables AND wholegrains (small amounts) all equally necessary and i tend to mix things onto my fork. Its stupid. We need protein but there's simply no point getting enough protein if it means you're horribly deficient in say, Iron, or folate or whatever. There's no balance in that and no health benefit.

Social eating IS harder but I still find it enjoyable. I cant figure it either. My band is so steady and reliable and never gives me grief, until I eat out. Even then, I've only once in five years had to leave the table to barf, but I eat VERY little when I eat out. I just seem to tighten right up, despite a glass of wine or two. I'm not consciously nervous or embarrassed and everybody I know knows I have a band. But I still fill up on like 3 mouthfuls when I eat out. On the plus side, I now LOVE fancy restaurants where you get a pea and an alfalfa sprout on a huge white plate and one drop of wine in a fishbowl glass!

I remember one other person on her who had this happen. I'm sorry you have to have another surgery but you're right, this is a small, easily fixable problem and there is nothing wrong with your band. You'll be recovering in no time and the band will start working for you.

Mine really shows, but its not even golfball sized, its quite small. If I press, I can even feel the tubing. Its a small price if you ask me, I agonised over it for a while, and the small amount of loose skin but I dont really care any more. Its hardly freakish, I just dont have a model perfect stomach, but its pretty darn good.

OMG, my cat pees on wet towels too!

Well, long time health wise, I agree with her. The way to long term health and slimness is not starving yourself on a 600 calorie diet. But from what I've read, most sleevers end up eating that well anyway, but during the first year or two the diet is very restricted. I agree with YOU too - listen to your body. I think this is another case of nutritionists who arent exactly professional,dabbling in areas they're not really qualified for. What she's saying is perfectly true for an ordinary person, and even true for a bandster, but not for someone who's been recently sleeved.

My goodness, that is amazing. That is just SO much weight to lose. Its incredible. You should be so very proud of yourself. I'm sure you'll continue to lose down to that fantasy goal.

That's not very usual advice - low carb would be the explanation i'd guess, but even then, you need some of those foods. Believe me, I've just taken the first dose of Picolax in preparation for a colonoscopy tomorrow, and I'm sitting here waiting for all hell to break loose. I have very problematic bowels and I would NEVER give up those fibrous foods. Its just not healthy, end of story.

I peel them, I hate apple skin. Its like fingernails on a blackboard to me, something about the sensation of it on my teeth. I also cant take the first bite out of an apple, i have to slice it up. Otherwise I would happily leave an apple just sitting there even if I were about to die of starvation. But peeled and sliced, when I make the effort, I wonder why the heck I dont eat them more often. They are one of the easier fruits for me once prepared, whereas bananas, ugh, cant swallow them, have to have those in smoothies.

phfffffft!

I was always pear shaped and I went back to having a slim middle, although I didnt know that until after weight loss, lol. Well, really I guess I did, I did go back to my normal shape and I've never had a really big stomach. However, if you've developed a fat middle, there's a good chance you've got muscle separation after your pregancy. I was extremely lucky, I'm tall, but only had 7 or 8lb so I didnt have stretch marks or damaged muscles.

Both really. I still might do something, but if I'd done it two years ago, it would have been for the wrong reasons. I was so, uncomfortable?(not really the right word) with the new me and I had trouble stopping the process of change and getting used to being a new person, if that makes sense. I wanted to keep that exhilarating change and improvement going. That's the wrong reason for having cosmetic surgery but I think a lot of people feel that way following weight loss. Now, I can look objectively, I can see what could be improved, but I am more comfortable with me and know that improving it would be nice, this would look great or that, but I dont need it to make me happy with myself. So it becomes simply a matter of do I want to spend that money on that and for now, its no, I dont. If DH gets a bonus this year, I really MIGHT though. I just had a brazillian (first ever) and can we say "old lady"? Eeeeew, a bit of camouflage is a good thing!

Lol,I cook the dinners pretty much once a week because I make SO much mess when I cook. So on a weekend I just get to it, and afterwards, I have to clean it from top to bottom, usually cupboard fronts, kickboards, floor, stovetop, the lot. I absolutely cannot cook without slopping stuff everywhere. Weekday meals that I actually cook at the time are always super duper simple, something on the barbecue and a tossed salad or basic Pasta. I cannot make anything else without getting it on the ceiling. And hair! Oh my god, my hair!!!! It is absolutely everywhere. People on here talk about losing hair, well technically I never did, never thinned, but I just drop hair everywhere, all the time, two days after the cleaning lady's been, there's big hairballs in the bathrooms, I pull wads of it out of the drains. Oh, and the cat's taken to sh*tting in the shower lately too. Doesnt like getting her bum wet outside in the cold.

I had no comorbidities when I got banded, but it was fear of becoming a person who was that out of shape that made me get banded. I'd gotten to 36 and I was having a nana nap in the afternoons for pete's sake. It really scared me, thinking what my life was going to be like in another 10 years. Not to mention how invisible you become in your 40's when you become just another matronly dowdy overweight mother/worker/wife/general dogsbody who nobody views as an attractive sexual being anymore. That thought scared the living daylights out of me. I'm way too addicted to the limelight to let that happen, lol. I certainly dont feel that way now.

Oh, I hear you. I can cope until I start to clean and then I tend to blow my stack, DH does the same thing. But the trouble is, none of us are tidy by nature. I cant really yell at the kids when I too have to regularly clean out my wardrobe because I shoved stuff in. I am a ruthless thrower outerer - I do not keep clutter. Its the only way i can cope. We just dont have a lot of "stuff". My kids are soooooo bad though. I get the house cleaned once a fortnight now that I've gone back to work, she comes on a Thursday. By the time I get home from work, they've been home from school for an hour and I dont even get to enjoy the result of my $75. It makes me SO MAD! I've tried everything, they have jobs, they dont get pocket money if they dont do them but week after week they do half arsed jobs and dont get paid and they dont even care. Because I dont have cl utter, the mess is usually quickly tidied up, but they do awful stuff like I spend two hours on a sunday night ironing their school uniforms for the week, they have dress pants, dress shirts, a tie, a blazer etc and my daughter has a pinafore and shirt and tie, and I give them to them to put away. Do they hang them up? No. They shove them in overfilled drawers on top of old dirty socks and stupid things that shouldnt be in drawers like football boots (muddy ones). Its just absolute inconsiderate laziness. So come Monday, out them come dressed for school in wrinkled, muddy clothes and then wonder why they get detention for being dirty and unkempt! Then they expect ME to complain to the teachers to get them out of it, sheesh. I jsut cant wait till they all move out. We built our house, once upon a time it was brand new, with mushroom coloured carpet and new furniture, then we had babies and pretty soon the carpet looked like wall to wall pizza. I saw sense, we now have two leather lounge suites in our two living rooms and timber floors through the entire house. I will never have carpet or fabric couches again. At least when there's mess, I can clean it and it doesnt stain. We dont have drapes either, we have timber blinds. Luckily I'm not into country style, lol, my look is very minimalist and modern.

I still have it after a 100lb loss, but much less than I did have My buttocks and the backs of my thighs are dimply, but I can hide most of the dimples in a bikini bottom (fairly full cut). It used to be that even shorts would show a bit of it.

The thing with the elliptical is that you dont even leave the ground. There is NO WAY you can burn that many calories with a workout that doesnt require you even clearing the ground.