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I've tried a few, true mineral make up is entirely natural and Revlon and Loreal and the like have ones that are kind of pretend mineral, lol, in that they also contain talc and other chemicals. Truth is, I love the Revlon one! I find real mineral make up very dry and cakey round the eyes (great if you've got no lines probably). But the Revlon one is gorgeous, its so light and looks like no make up. For someone like me who's not a fan of a made up look (unless its for a special occasion) that's perfect. Even complexion but you dont need to draw the rest of your face back on again, which is my complaint with regular foundation, if you wear it, then you HAVE to wear eye make up and lipstick, which I dont generally do on a daily basis.

Biggest factor - its really all that's available here. Very unusual to hear of a bypass, and I certainly dont think at a BMI of 36 I would have been able to get one. Due to the size of my weight problem, I would NEVER have considered something like a bypass, no way was it worth an irreversible change to my body to lose the weight I had to lose. The lapband is pretty simple as far as surgeries go, its reversible, adjustable, I just didnt see it as "drastic" or "dangerous" like many seem to, for my particular problem it seemed sensible. And I must admit, it was very much a cosmetic decision as well as a health one for me. I thought I would be able to eat normally and nobody would need to know and I would have no issues and for the most part that's been the case.

It must be me, but I would refuse to have that sort of accountability to a nutritionist or doctor, it offends me! I am an adult and responsible for my own choices and any type of weight control program which treated me as a child wouldnt get my custom. What are you supposed to do, make perfect choices every day for the rest of your life? I think they need a dose of reality! I bet neither the surgeon or the nutritionist eat perfectly all thetime either. You've lost weight, you've decreased your calories and markedly improved your diet, but you're a human being, not a robot! Sheesh.

Luckily you dont see many fat three year olds yet. I'm not sure. The earlier the better but my guess is that if a child is obese at age 3, then they're going to have a problem for life. Many many people become obese but by far most of them are not obese at 3 years old. Most children eat appropriately if they are fed appropriately and I think with my children, they were at least 10 before their natural body type began to show. I've got 3 kids aged 12, 11 and 5. Eliza it 5 is gorgeously babyishly chubby in that normal healthy way, about average sized. Ewan at 10 was huge as a baby and toddler, a real chubber and is a skinny little kid now. Fraser had a 6 pack at 6 years old and in the last year or two has grown alarmingly big, he's overweight now, and I'm betting he will become obese as an adult. But at 3 you couldnt have foretold that. If a kid is obese at 3 its because they have problems and are probably going to fight obesity for life and it needs more than this type of intervention. Even kids who are fed badly dont usually become fat this early on unless they are severely overfed.

Yep, for sure, at 41. Look, I dont look "perfect". You can tell I've had a couple of babies and lost a fair bit of weight. I'm not the most gorgeous bod on the beach. But nobody has puked yet either. But a bikini actually is more slimming on me than a one piece because I'm a bit long legged/short bodied and the break in the middle and expanse of skin balances me out and it makes my boobs look a LOT better too. But I cant just buy any bikini. It needs to be one cut for a "fuller" figure (at size 10, go figure). But definitely no triangle tops/string sides, ugh.

I had many, but I never reached the restriction many people decide where half a cup of food 3 times a day was right for me. I always ate more. My weight came off pretty steadily, when it started to slow too much it was time for a little fill, but overall, it was slow and steady at a pound a week or a bit less.

Lol, if you tattoo an X eventually it wont be over your port anymore. Hopefully as you lose weight it will be more obvious where it is, I started with a BMI of 36 so there was never any trouble finding mine, doc always got it first go. As you lose fat from your abdomen, it will become much easier to feel and eventually see.

Not so much taste different (well for me anyway) but more that you go off some things. Like pizza still tastes like pizza but when you've eaten it five times and each time was tedious and you had to chew till you nearly fell asleep and it gave you pain and pressue in the chest, and you just didnt really enjoy it that much, the sixth time you'll opt out of pizza. You start to associate certain things with unpleasant experiences and you just dont want them.

Grooming wise, I always looked after myself, hair etc. I went out recently and bought a whole lot of proper running clothes. Not baggy Tshirts and tracksuit pants and not cheap crap from Kmart. Proper stuff, and it makes me feel great and its actually a lot better to run in too.

Yay! Even if it IS a mind thing, the mental side of it is important. I got .2 removed from my 4cc band two months ago because I was unpleasantly tight - not pbing, not in trouble, but not enjoying eating ANYTHING at all and I figured why did I need to be that tight for maintenance. Since then, I've managed not to gain but its been by the skin of my teeth. Who would have believed .2 could make so much difference? I am like a bottomless pit. I'm going back to have .1 put back in next Monday. I just dont like the feeling of not being completely in control that I have with this much capacity. I dont expect to lose, I just think it will control my appetite a little better. A very very very good reminder that yes, I've learned new habits, I eat better, I exercise but I really STILL need that band for portion control. Even though I'm still eating less than a normal person of my size would, I'm struggling not to gain. We just have to accept we cant eat like normal people. We're not weak or failing, we just need to live on less calories than most and its no darn wonder we need a band to achieve that.

I find I can eat spaghetti, but any shaped Pasta like bow ties or penne or rigatone, ugh, lol. I can eat it but it's harder. I dont eat too many pasa dishes that are Protein free - and i try to stay away from creamy sauces too apart from the odd treat if we eat out. Usually we make a good old bolognaise, ground beef, some finely grated zucchini and carrot and lots and lots of tomato sauce so its quite moist. With some parmeson shaved on top, yummy. I tend to go easy on the pasta (probably 1/3 of a cup) and heavier on the sauce. I also LOVE bolognaise sauce on sauteed zucchini ribbons. I actually like it better than pasta.

Dimmie = dim sim. YOu probably call it dim sum. There's the true chinese version and there's the junk food, sitting in the bain marie at the footy club canteen all day made out of lord knows what deep fried version. They're freaking fantastic, lol. But impossible to eat with a lapband. Instant PB, lol.

Gosh, it was so long ago........I think it was as follows 2 days Clear Liquids (surgery day and day after) three weeks liquids, gradually thickening up 2 weeks mushies then onto solids DH got banded in June and only did 2 weeks liquids, same doctor. Pretty standard, I think.

Not usually. The whole point to me is calorie deficit. I might run slightly harder or faster if I snacked but I'm bloody determined and I'm going to finish that 8km anyway so if its slightly harder because I havent eaten, it doesnt really make a difference. Nor do I have anything afterwards unless its mealtime (my usual running time is about 5pm). What's the point of burning off 600 calories and then having a 150 calore Protein shake? At that level of exercise, its tempting to think we're Olympic atheletes, but we're not. We dont need gajillions of grams of protein to recover from an 8km run. When I do really long runs though - like over 12kms, I will take some Endura with me, which is a proper electrolyte repacement drink, not crap like Gatorade. And I might have an energy gel too, which is just glucose. I can feel with those distances that it helps me, that I need the energy and I'm burning off in excess of 1000 calories in those times, so I can afford to have them. I've read and heard thought that people who have skim milk after their session burn much more fat, that its the best recovery food. All that said though, I've never existed on a 800 calorie a day diet, or cut out carbs or anything like that. I've eaten well all the way through, probably about 1500 calories a day on average, including wholegrains, which is plenty to fuel me for normal levels of activity and exercise.

It is a bit confusing. I'm all for no rules and go by feel but that's me, and there's a lot of people out there that would really not be able to handle that. Obviously people's bodies are all different, but the way people talk on here, as if their rules are black and white and the ONLY rules, annoys me a bit, as obviously, that's NOT the case. I mean, I've done no pre op diet, eaten carbs all the way through and never ever been told to focus on Protein. I'm OK, and I've lost weight, so patently, the American way is not the only way. On the other hand, people here lose weight fantastically well so obviously protein first and half cup servings work darn well too. I think there's a few "rules" that have become apparent here over the years though: the pre op diet is for a REASON. Stick to it. Its worth your while. Yes, you will probably cheat. Just get back on the wagon when you do. Most unbanded people way overdo the carbs. You do not need six slices of bread, two cups of Cereal, Pasta and Cookies all in one day. Most people really do need to change their protein/carb ratio. You should not be eating a whole roast chicken three days out from surgery. Follow your routine and take it slowly. It will not kill you. Somewhere around 1000 to 1200 calories a day appears to be ball park for most women. Running an hour a day or going to the gym and lifting does not turn you into an athlete who needs five Protein shakes on top of that. Eat less, move more. It usually works.

Congrats Mac, you seem to have been waiting a long time for this. You'll be a shadow of your former self before you know it!

It will probably pass eventually. Force the Water down and just go with it. Unfortunately my appetite is the same as it ever was, it just takes less at a time to satisfy it.

Lol, I've gotten around this by just obsessing as much as ever over my now (almost nonexistent) faults. Now I worry about my tiny muffin top, my saggy boobs, my old lady ass. I worry about my wrinkles, the bags under my eyes, my grey hairs. It keeps me on my toes, always wanting to improve and believing that once I get those cosmetic fillers, life will be perfect lol. Sigh. then I see a photo or catch a reflection and am blown away. I may not be a supermodel, but sheesh, I look totally and utterly normal. No, better since most 40 year olds I know have had a couple of babies and gone to pot, everyone is overweight these days! There's hardly anyone around my age who looks thin and fit. My problem is I hang with the wrong crowd. Being a university student at 41 means I spend my days with gorgeous 21 year old creatures. I just need to hang around people my own age.

I dont know, I havent experienced anything quite like this, but I have experienced some severe bouts of awful pain when I've eaten something very cold, and it lasts for hours and no over the counter medication even touches it. I guess muscle spasms and the like can be very strong and painful. But noticeable swelling, eek, that's a bit worrying. Still, steroid medication will probably calm it all down and you can only hope it doesnt happen again.

Yes, I've dont this and loved it. Its quite athletic, ordinary Water aerobics is a little, ah, geriatric for my tastes, lol. Plus you dont get sore feet from the bottom of the pool. I had to finish it off with 20 laps of the 50 metre pool just so I felt I'd had a really good session though. It takes a lot of swimming to tire you out as much as a long run and I'm kind of obsessive, unless I"m nearly puking I dont feel like I've done enough.

Wow, that came around quickly. I bet you're excited. good luck with it.

I dont have any problem with it, in fact if I'm eating out, its a guaranteed safe food for me, as is risotto. I dont avoid carbs though, I eat them, so it doesnt derail my diet.

I know! I saw something in a tabloid here with a catty remark beneath the photo. I think probably what happened to her is that although she is an attractive woman, she's "normal" looking, not Hollywood stunning. So she's fallen for the old lose tons of weight, have too much cosmetic surgery, if nature didnt give it to you buy it routine. The pressure probably just got to her. It tends to as you get older (like over 25!) Trouble is, that trick never works, you just end up looking like a freak. Its such a shame. There's nothing wrong with being normal looking, normal sized, in fact it makes you more attractive to most people than Hollywood plastic fantastic. ps: you can barely tell Pamela Anderson and Michael Jackson apart these days.

Staying on a very tough diet for two weeks (and the liquid diet is TOUGH) is nothing like losing 100lb and keepign it off. That's darn near impossible. Anyone can have willpower in short bursts. If you did the liquid diet and then didnt have surgery, its almost a guarantee that you'd regain the weight and then some as fast as lightening. even with the band, you need some willpower. Its easy to not get filled, to not follow your particular rules, to eat slider foods like ice cream and chocolate. And the lapband doesnt make me go out and run every day. Its still hard, but its doable. And its much much harder to put weight on, you're much less likely to regain. Even so, the band can and does fail people, some people dont lose and some lose and then regain. But overall, its a pretty worthwhile tool that will have good benefits for most people. But for the most part it takes personal commitment and determination.

I wore jeans home from the hospital, it wasnt an issue for me. I didnt have much trouble with underwired bras either. My incisions were nicely in the middle away from both braline and waistband - although I've always worn lowish rise jeans. It was nice to take them off and put something comfy on when I got home though, sweatpants and the like will be just what you need.