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Work them into your plan, nuts are a superfood, they're full of good fats that are good for your heart! You're well and truly at goal now anyway arent you? You dont need to overly restrict healthy foods. Nuts are great, everyone should eat them (apart from the allergic of course!)

hahaha, look at all those tests, I love it! Congratulations!

Oh boy, drop the bomb and then nick off with the last word? OK, you can have it. You can assume that nothing so awful has ever happened to me if it makes you feel justified. And of course, you know for a fact that nobody else posting here has ever been through anything like what you've had to endure. Goodbye cruel world!

I was just instructed to eat till satisfied, and to adjust fills according to how my weight loss was going. Like you say, some days were higher calorie than others. But throughout my weightloss I would have averaged about 1500 calories a day, and now I'd eat about 1500 to 1800 as I dont hold back quite so much on a few indulgences now and then, like a glass of wine, or some chocolate after dinner etc. I run an hour a day though, so do burn off quite a few doing that.

I was like this for simply ages, I thought I was the only person in the banded world loose in the morning and tight at night. It suited me quite well as I believe in a good Breakfast, but then again, at night is when I eat most of my vegies and Protein so it sort of wasnt ideal. But over time, it has passed, I'm much more typically tightish in the morning and more able to eat a decent dinner these days. I just wish I was blocked shut for an hour or two at about 3 to 5pm!

Hehehe, I'm pretty sure different as we do it, neither American nor Australian doctors would recommend a bucket of hot chips at your kids basketball and a huge vanilla slice (delicious concoctions of choux pastry and vanilla custard) as your entire day's intake - I kid you not. Ugh. I feel sick. I cant even think of any dinner. Boy it was good though. Luckily, that's a maybe once in an entire YEAR day's eating for me. Oh, I had about four cups of coffee as well and might as well finish it off with a wine. Stupid thing is, because it very high calorie but very low volume I'll probably have lost weight tomorrow!

I've seen frusterated rather than frustrated more than once too. There's a few more that I just can't think of right now that have left me quite dumbfounded too, such obvious common words to be misspelled. I guess my colour, neighbour, favour, grey etc look pretty weird too though. I hate the spellcheck on MS Word becuase its all American and you just dont realise how many things we spell differently here. We have to add SO many words to the dictionary! And my 12 year old has just shown me how to change it, d'oh.

It varies month to month for me.

Oh, Lulu, some people just cant face reality. I think rather than get upset with them, we should all chip in and buy them Lane Bryant vouches for Christmas. They're gonna need them. Good for you Ceredad. You wont get any arguments from me. Course, we're all crazy and obsessed and have forgotten what it was like to be fat.

Ack, it drives me NUTS too. I have a friend on another forum whom I also know in real life. She always types cloths for clothes. I smack her about the head everytime I see her.

Dont people just love to dramatize? This is really pretty stupid, considering its a very short, very safe, very uncomplicated procedure. There is always a small risk with anaesthetic but its very very tiny. The operation itself is not very dangerous, there's no disconnecting your heart and lungs, or taking a kidney or a section of your bowel for example! I dont know why people dont worry about the risk of dying when they have a baby, that's possible too but they dont spend their entire pregnancy worrying about it! Well, most people dont. Relax, the risk of remaining obese is MUCH greater than the risk of dying of the anaesthetic or the surgery which are absolutely miniscule.

Ugh, no. I had to have an unfill a month ago after I flew whilst I had my period. I've never had any effect from flying before. You really ARE in a spot of bother, about all you can do is stick with liquids, and any calorie filled liquid you can find - milk, orange juice, anything like that. Yogurt might be OK, I actually block up really easily on yogurt for some strange reason. You wont starve to death in four days even if you only get down coffee and Water, but that isnt going to be pleasant. I hope you're not actually phyiscally hungry at the same time! Hang in there!

It makes sense though, becuase the clitoris is much more than just the bit you can see, it has branches that extend down, and perhaps some people's can be stimulated through the vagina? depending on personal anatomy, everyone's built slightly differently. I have a funny story about vibrators. We didnt even order any, about three weeks ago we got a slip in the mail box saying there was a parcel at the post office that we had to go and collect as we werent home when it was delivered. I go over to the local post office and the lady comes out with this huge box, really heavy. Plastered all over the side of the box was a huge lable SASSY VIBES. I just about died of embarrassment and the PO lady had a smirk on her face, it was obvious they'd all been having a joke at this big box of vibrators. We never ordered anthing, I protested. Oh, yeah, suuuuuuuuuure you didnt say the post office staff, lol. Truly we didnt, but we opened it anyway (as you do, of course). It was all gift wrapped, couldnt see any of the items but the invoice had stuff like Big Bertha and Tonsil Tickler and a whole lot of books about "pleasures for one", roflmao!!!! Doug was all for opening them all then and there, but I said no, how embarrassing will it be if they figure it out and we've opened it all. Sure enough, a few days later someone rings, there's two Hutchinson's on their records (that's where our bullet came from) an they sent it to the wrong one, could we send it back marked Return to Sender. Trouble is I have to go BACK to the PO with the big Sassy Vibes box! Who dares me to say to the post office lady "oh, this one didnt work, I need the mega power kickstart model"?

Lol, sometimes i dont realise I must sound strange A dummy is a pacifier, you know what a baby has. Hence when someone throws a fit in a really immature way over nothing much at all, simply out of pique and bad temper because she didnt get what she wanted, we say she spat the dummy, just like a toddler would do getting ready for a big tantrum (tanty). What else do we say.....hmmmm..... chuck a wobbly, crack the sads..... that's all I can think of right now. Pretty much sums up what's happened here I think.

No doubt about it, losing weight without exercise (and therefore losing your muscle) will worsen loose skin. I have been pretty pleased with how lightly I got out of this but I will say I only average 40 to 50 grams of Protein a day and I dont have loose skin. They dont tell you to do protein first or to get any particular amount of protein in Australia - so that would tend to suggest to me that EXERCISE is the most important factor. I get most of my exercise with running, I just do some basic bodyweight stuff like pushups and tricep dips for toning, as I really dislike working with weights. Its been enough, I have plenty of visible muscle tone! And running has well and truly taken care of my lower body, my legs are like steel and my stomach is flat. But I still do have *some* loose skin, my boobs are wrecked and I have a really saggy bum. I think the only way to prevent loose skin after weight loss is to not lose any weight. Other than that its down to luck and genetics.

Eating too much will probably make you PB but you know when you're doing that, to PB from eating too much means you would have to eat past your body's signals to stop, it doesnt just happen unexpectedly. Its usually too big a bite, or not chewing properly that does it. And it can happen with your first bite but by the time it registered, you've eaten two or three more bites and you're in trouble. I've found by far the most effective tactic to avoid PBing is not so much ridiculously tiny bites or chewing till your teeth fall it, its waiting in between bites to make sure one has gone down right before you take another! Like put your fork down and wait. Lots of tiny bites chewed well one right after another will cause me to PB or have discomfort just as much as a big badly chewed one.

I'm so intrigued by this because I like to look like I've made an effort but I really loathe a full face of makeup. Its that sunlight look. You can put your makeup on and it looks OK inside and then you see it in sunlight and its just so obvious and layered on thick and it looks truly awful. I much prefer bare faces, only my bare face needs some help. My main problem though is that I have dark undereye circles and slight redness around the nose and chin. So I definitely need light foundation. And that's what tends to look ugly out in the daylight, although mineral stuff is good. So if you wear a light foundation, does that "cover up" the eyeliner so that you need to go over it with a pencil anyway? Lol Susan, I've actually dreamed of losing all my hair and having an excuse to just wear a wig everyday. My hair is the biggest pain in the bum you could imagine. My latest is to have a shower and do it at night , then sleep on it to squash the frizz out so I dont have to bother in the morning.

Yeah, its so much easier if you love what you're doing. I really WANT to run. It takes no willpower to do it. I always had a desire to do it, I've always been pretty athletic and liked sport and exercise so I had it a bit easier than someone who didnt grow up active and good at sports. But I've learned to love it more as I got fit becuase to go out for a run now doesnt hurt, it doesnt feel band, its not pushing myself along the pavement with my lungs about to burst, my heart beating right out of my chest and my head about to explode. Quite honestly, a run to me feels like a pleasant walk would to the next person, if the weather's lovely, I"m somewhere where I want to see the scenery etc, I'll think hmmm lets go out for a nice run the way someone might think a stroll sounds like a good idea. Its easy, it makes me feel good, etc. That comes with real fitness. The challenge of training for longer races or trying to better a personal best, the fun and atmosphere of race day, the feeling of truly being a "runner" all work for me too. Unfortunately, not everybody finds something they love that much. And in that situation I still say its MUCH easier to force yourself to do something for 45 minutes than it is to control your eating for the rest of your life. If I had a choice between going on a diet or exercising to lose weight (unfortunately it takes both!) I'd choose exercise every time. You just do it and its over with. Dieting is all day every day forever.

I didnt vote because its not that I cant handle milk. But milk often makes me nauseous now since surgery. I never ever would drink a glass of milk, ergh. But since surgery, a cappucino or latte often makes me feel slightly sick. But its entirely possible that its not the milk, but the strong espresso used to make it. I handle instant and regular brewed coffee with a dash of cold milk just fine but every now and then a milkier one will make me nauseous.

I didnt need anything apart from the post anaesthetic effect (and I'm pretty sure I got some morphine in the IV post surgery). But once I was off the IV I never took anything, I really wasnt in any pain.

they'll band from BMI 30 in Australia.

Its really quite the most spectacular dummy spit I've seen here in a while. Since we're attacking ideas, not people, I find the idea of someone claiming to have the life experience of a 50 year old whilst actually behaving like a 5 year old quite intriguing. As I do the idea of someone throwing a tanty because people DARE to assume they can understand anything about her circumstances whilst at the same time she presumes to know what it is like for someone else to be pregnant or what it is like to be fifty years old. Pot, kettle anyone? What a shame this thread turned so nasty. There's a lot of good advice in here, but I have a feeling none of it will be taken on board.

Here's my stomach, again, this pic keeps getting posted everywhere. I hate posting pics, I feel like a show off but I know that it really did help me, I wanted to know these things, so anyone tired of seeing my midsection, just dont look. You cant really see so much in the picture, but the scarring and the port are visible, but not obviously neon LOOK AT ME, I'M A SCAR AND A WEIRD LUMP visible. The port is just a vague lump the scar has lost its colour and is not too obvious, but I figure I've got a huge brown birthmark on my right thigh, that nothing could ever cover, I've got various lumps, scars, freckles and moles all over the rest of me, what does a little scar on my tummy matter?

Its a risk with any weight loss and also the stones arent always cholesterol based, you can get Calcium based ones from too much Protein. Or just because, some people are just prone to them. Hope you're feeling lots better.

My healthy weight range is 63 to 79kg. I'd been 78kg for a long time as an adult, and I knew I was still a bit too fat at that. I'd gotten down to 72 once or twice and knew that was better but that I could still afford to be leaner. So I set 70kg as a goal, and I got there, and a little bit below, but I always had a kind of secret desire to be about 65. I really have struggled to go below 68 to 69 though, I think I"m done. It was never ever discussed with my doc, they just want to see you get out of the danger zone. The nutritionist told me I'd never be able to do that, that it wasnt a realistic goal. So in short, I could remember being this weight or that and knew how I felt and that having felt fat all my life, lower down in my healthy weight range would be good for me.