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@@cogal - I still have strange tummy rumbles. Oh well, I'm much smaller, healthier and energitic. A few strange sounds don't bother me much, and they occasionally crack me up.

@@samararousse - I don't think this is a given. Many people do change old negative habits for new positive ones. But not always. I will take advantage of the relative anonymity of the web and just say initially, I was really into sex. It was fun and novel. Being much lighter and in much better shape in my 50's it was more abundant and not as strenuous. Things have calmed down now. I am in committed relationship...oh heck sex is probably still my new favorite addiction, but at least it is with the right person.

@@bayougirlmrsc - good exlination of slider food, and good way of handling these buffets. I was wondering. I am so Scotch/Irish in my heritage, I have a tough time just paying full price knowing I will only eat 1/4 of the average American.

Really? I feel your pain. I run several and it seems to be getting a little worse every day. I have yet to figure out why. One of these days these idiots will figure out that "this is anonymous" to a point. At some point, future employers, attorneys, and the NSA can all track it back to them. Well, F them if they can't take the joke. I keep a nice file of those I don't want to ever see in my profession. I will give grace if they are under 25, but if they are older, well dang, they really should have known better.

If I got engaged to someone and he hadn't told me he had had such a life-changing surgery, I would re-evaluate whether I really knew him at all. How long does it take you to provide your credit report to them? At some point before pulling the trigger and making everything legal I would ask for a credit report when I gave them mine. And usually before I get too into someone, I do criminal background/civil action background report. Why? Because I'm the NSA? No. It's because I have kids and a life and a career. If you don't you are an idiot IMHO. It doesn't mean you don't love them, it's just self protection. It is cheap and easy. And who knows, you might find something very positive.* *One lady I met had two patents, one of which was in the Smithsonian, but she thought it would be intimidating to mention. I thought it was very COOL. Made for a very nice dinner conversation. I love Google.

NOTE: I was just checking to see if the filters cleared that out. THAT WAS A TEST...if it was true, you would believe it, it is not, so don't.

Congrats on your persistence and vision. I hope it pays off the way in the way you want. But with your energy, I suspect it will. BTW, I am eating two pounds of bacon a day after my surgery.

Good luck. I wish I had done this when I was your age. But heck, I'm glad I did it.

Dungeons and Dragons...great "nerd" fun. @@milpreve, this is where you start making your transition. You don't have to be that person you were. And you have a great tool to help you make the switch.

lunch? Tuna and or greek yogurt. Big beliver in the scale and MFP.

Congrats on this side of the losers bench. When you start getting over to discussion of issues outside of WLS, everyone's opinion here is what it is. If you follow the program and you lose what I would expect you can lose, you will find you social circle will change. If it is for the good or ill, well that is up to you and how you utilize the new opportunities. WARNING: In 27-57 days you may experience some strange feelings known as a hormone dump. Not everyone does, I sure as heck did. This means an increase in libido and other things. If you are planning, do NOT make any life changing decisions during this three to four month phase. Please post in the powder room for more female perspective, but while I enjoyed my time there, I would not want to make it a lifetime preoccupation.

@@acm21_ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21426373 http://www.attn.com/stories/9894/when-to-use-painkillers-or-marijuana Two most interesting articles I have found. My SO has horrible knee pain, so that's what got my attention about this.

Big claim, big proof required. Since pleurisy is usually viral, how close were they? I talked to the Harvard scientist who did the "popcorn" lung study. He was appalled by the media's mishandling of his study. It wasn't even close to his results. But they want to sell newspapers and general assignment reporters are not always scientifically literate. Too often when they are their editors are not. Not the best place to get health advice.

I don't mean to scare anyone. Vaping is far and away a better choice than cigs, by every medical study I've read (and I keep an eye out for them). I would rather every cigarette smoker in the world switched to vaping based on the science available right now. However, it is *not* risk free, and no one should claim that it is. You are inhaling a foreign substance into your lungs, and it puts you at a higher risk for pulmonary complications. The risk is miniscule compared to cigarettes, and is even smaller than the risk of living in a large city, but there *IS* a risk. I don't mean to scare anyone. Vaping is far and away a better choice than cigs, by every medical study I've read (and I keep an eye out for them). I would rather every cigarette smoker in the world switched to vaping based on the science available right now. However, it is *not* risk free, and no one should claim that it is. You are inhaling a foreign substance into your lungs, and it puts you at a higher risk for pulmonary complications. The risk is miniscule compared to cigarettes, and is even smaller than the risk of living in a large city, but there *IS* a risk. There's a risk in swimming at the beach, but it's still hard to get a good parking space. There's a risk in driving my car to work everyday, but I'm here. There's a risk in everything you do. You are both correct and I impressed with your perspectives. The British Health Authority said quitting tobacco with vaping is 95% safer, but they could not guarantee 0 risks. No one can. My biggest concerns are the batteries catching fire.

It depends. When I was doing online dating I always offered to let people I liked to Google me, but I warned them that some of the pictures they would find on the web were dated but the one's on the web site were recent. Some noticed the wieght loss and would ask how...until I got to know them, my answer was "I eat less and move more." But after I had been dating my SO for a few weeks and realized this was going somewhere, I just told her why I eat so little. She was glad to know it and we have been splitting Entrees ever since.

I found no problem with stomach irritation vaping before and post surgery. Only caveat I can think of is the flavor. A menthol or strong mint might be a problem. So take serious stock of what is it doing to your stomach now, because it will be magnified post surgery. The smoking ban is the same as that on coffee, it irritates the stomach and makes healing longer and more difficult. The whole goal for the first month is to heal the staple line and gradually add in food to restart your system. Don't want to create internal stress by lifting too much et al. Congrats on getting down to 0.

Yeah, and your poor wife. No more snoring, how is she supposed to live with the quiet at night? Except now you are probably like an insatiable teen. You know at some point women do get weary.

OCD? The correct order is CDO

Guilty Pleasure- taking a mid day nap in bed with the fan overhead whirling and no one is home...because I can. No one should ever be guilty for a nap. Ever I love to put on headphones and air guitar

@@CHM - may I suggest you start evaluating yours self weekly and not daily? We (and you know who you are) can be too hard on ourselves in our daily self talk. Weekly goals and targets seems to work better for me. There are those days. And look this week, I have been off in la-la land thanks to a virus. And I know I'm sick, but I was still beating myself up for not getting enough Protein. ;-/ Life and events happen, sometimes you need to do forest management instead of inspecting trees.

@@Reason to Believe - we are all the same...in that we are all different. It was nearly 10 horrible days for me. But apparently my bod wasn't getting rid of them for a reason, needed it to heal I guess. Oh what a relief when everything down there starts working normally again.

@@scampbell33 - My NUT actually encouraged me to start adding some berries, or banana, or steel cut oatmeal when I was 3 months in because I was hitting the gym hard and starting to to run again. I think I had the same fear this might be a gateway drug to more carbs. Thankfully no it wasn't.

@@anniebanana - do the math, half of the population IS below average. And to be charitable, not everyone has research skills either.

@@reachbree - I remember coming home all excited to start losing wieght...sigh, I gained I think 8 f****** pounds while I was gone (it was all IV Fluid and everything I was drinking) but it finally clicked and it happens usually in such a way you don't notice until your pants fall off. Stay on program, walk stay off the scale for 10 days. It will be hard, may have to have your guy hide it for you. Physics will catch up to biology sooner or later. Good luck, you can do it.

I've mentioned this before, but I have a cabinet just for "crap" food my kids want. It is 15 steps away from where I do kitchen prep. I put a table in the way to keep me from grazing. I can't make people like what I like, but I can make it difficult or at least not easy for me to access.