KindaFamiliar

I've lost the desire to eat... And to cook... I'm an ex-chef tho, so that may have some bearing on my lack of desire to cook... And once again, I find myself agreeing with @@BLERDgirl You'll find other things to do with the kids... Who knows, you may end up changing their lives for the better as you're changing yours...

As a recovering Jehovah's Witness, I'm pretty much of the 'Bah Humbug' side of town. However, after being a department store Santa for a few years running, I've made a bit of a tradition of wearing my Santa suit (adapted for the Australian summer) to work on the last day before Christmas. If I remember, I'll grab a pic or two and post them...

No hunger since op in late February...

What a positive post... Thanx for sharing... Don't worry too much about what others are losing... It's all about percentages... As an example, I've lost just over 200 lbs in just under ten months... Now that's a LOT of weight to drop, but it's only about 66% of my way to 'goal'... (So we're actually running at about the same percentage..) Not that I'm complaining of course... Well done to you on your accomplishments thus far... You should be well pleased...

@@JustWatchMe What a cracker of a story... Thank you for allowing us to enjoy it with you.. And congrats on being cute and stuff....

Congratulations mate!! You're taking off on what is a fantastic voyage... I'm just over 9 months post-op and still feel the same as you do now... Without the cloudiness and pain!!! Well done and welcome...

Thanx all for your kind words and advice. After sitting at 2.4kg (5.3 pounds) from the milestone of 100kg (220 pounds) lost for the past few days, I've now decided to put the scales away for a while.. I've just read another post by someone who is in a similar situation - Seemingly stalling at the most unfortunate of times... It's reassuring that it's not a personal thing between the universe and me.. Oh well... The celebratory tattoo will have to wait a little longer...

What a great job you're doing... Congrats to you!!!

That was a possibility when I was sleeved... Even as I was laying on the slab the surgeon was reminding me that there were no guarantees that I'd be sleeved... But I was...

Hahahaha.. Thanx all... You've made me feel so much better... Or something.. Anyway, I'm sure I'll go back to normal once I've kicked this milestone's arse.. So... Enough about me... Tell me about you...

As I've posted on a number of occasions, I've not been one to 'weigh in' on a regular basis. In fact, up until about a week ago, I'd only checked on my numerical progress on three or four occasions in the nine months since my sleeving. Each time I checked, I was pleased with my progress. At no time did I ever feel that I'd failed or that I was doing poorly. Even now, I'm more than happy with my progress and am in no way regretting the choice I made. However... Something happened last week that I can't explain. For some reason, I became someone I thought I'd never become. Someone I'd not been able to understand.. Someone completely foreign to me... Last week, I became a scale watcher!!! There, I've said it... It's out there now and I can't take it back.. Won't take it back!! Ladies and gentleman, my name is Jason and I now weigh myself EVERY DAY!!! Now, I'm hoping that it's just a passing phase.. I'm hoping that once I pass the milestone that I'm fast coming up on (it's a pretty major milestone), I'll go back to the cool, calm, rational quarterly weigh in kinda guy that I was up until last week. I'm hoping that the insatiable desire to know my weight (or at least the weight I've lost) will be quenched upon the passing of this mark.. Alas, that's all yet to be decided.. For now it seems I must resign myself to the daily (or twice daily) check ins to which I've recently become accustomed. Here endeth my rant... Thanx for your time... KindaFamiliar

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Greetings all... In Australia, November 25 is White Ribbon Day. This is a day to draw attention to Australia's campaign to prevent men's violence against women. Unfortunately, this issue is global. In my profile pic is a copy of the White Ribbon Day oath. It's an oath I take every year. And now, I'm imploring you to do likewise. Take it for your own wives... Your daughters... Your sisters... Take it with your sons... Take it privately or publicly, on the White Ribbon Day website (http://www.whiteribbon.org.au/day?gclid=CMyu5NmurMkCFZeWvQodG-gNDA) ... Please gents, take the oath.. Women's safety is a men's issue. Stand up... Speak out... Please.. Thank you for your time..

Absolutely zero complications here... No post-op pain... No infections... No hair loss... I'm exactly nine months out today and am down 165 pounds (210 from my heaviest weight)... 100 more to go but I'll get there... And so will you... Good luck with it all... You've come to the right place...

You'll love it... Keep me posted with your progress... And if you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to flick me a message...

No worries!! I was sleeved back in Feb this year... It's just the best thing!! I'm not surprised you're looking forward to it...

Hahaha... I was just celebrating with you!!! My surgery was delayed twice... Once for financial reasons and once because I was nearly dead and stuff... So I know what a fast approaching date feels like!!!

Woooohooooo indeed!!!

Dietician? What's your beef with dietician? The Oxford Dictionary not good enough for you? http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dietician

My 'like' on the above post was for the "I did Fireball whiskey" line... Carry on...

All your body's energy is going into healing, not into doing... Keep up your fluids, keep up your Protein... The fatigue will pass... **EDIT - Apologies for the repeating.. I was half way thru my ost and work got in the way...**

So you take six weeks or so off... It's not like you're planning on gorging yourself... Just relaxing your rules a little... Give it a crack... And if it's not working for you then try something else... You're a young, healthy woman... You're now in a position to experiment to some degree, especially knowing that you have all the right tools (mental and physical) to get yourself back on track if and when you need to... You're a smart kid... You'll sort your s**t out...

Stay off the smokes!! But you know that... Stay off the drink if it's going to make you smoke...(I'll not say 'stay off the drink' because I have a drink on occasion myself..) Stop snacking... Stop 'trying' to lose weight and, for a while, just be... I know this seems like an overly simple reply to what is a complex post, but sometimes, if things are put simply, they can seem much less like big issues... Good luck with it all @@Elode See.. Deep down I do give a s**t...

I concur... My stomach was (and still can be) a noisy little bastard... And as far as that 'feeling' goes, I also had a weird feeling for the first few weeks after surgery... It wasn't pain... It wasn't hunger... It was like an empty feeling... But not really... It's VERY hard to explain... But I had it... So if that's anything like what you're feeling, just relax..

Great work!! You gotta be happy with that...