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Not to go too far off topic ladies, but do you find the compression from the material used in Spanx too restrictive. I'm thinking of getting Spanx for men compression shirts and am concerned that the material will be too irritating on my moobs. From the rants forums, you ladies say you don't mind guys posting here and from the overwhelming number of ladies I'm sure I'll get a constructive response regarding Spanx. Janeane Garofalo use to sing their praises.

@@CanyonBaby Thank you for the advice. It will be a new use for the talcum calamine based "Anti Monkey Butttm" powder I stocked up on. Now I will probably order one shirt and see how it goes.

Don't tell men what you've done until you've really gotten to know them on a deeper level. Telling a man you had wls isnt sexy in their eyes and some may not know how to psychologically digest it. Personally I wouldnt ever tell unless need be

Ouch! Hang in there. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince. I can't imagine how tough dating is and would be. I give you a lot of credit for broaching the subject and handling the less than stellar responses with grace.

Not to go too far off topic ladies, but do you find the compression from the material used in Spanx too restrictive. I'm thinking of getting Spanx for men compression shirts and am concerned that the material will be too irritating on my moobs. From the rants forums, you ladies say you don't mind guys posting here and from the overwhelming number of ladies I'm sure I'll get a constructive response regarding Spanx. Janeane Garofalo use to sing their praises.

Single yogurts, strong cheese, raw pecans, cashews, I keep some organic turkey and roll up with some cream cheese, I found the turkey Jerky low sodium, cottage cheese, I can pretty much live on these items!

As someone who often berated themselves for simple food mistakes I am hoping this WLS will make up for all the times I thought energy bars were healthy. Replacement, made a little mixed nut Peanut Butter sans salt for myself. The more I bother to put on my glasses, the more I find those hidden ingredients: molasses, cottonseed oil, etc. Being that I am only four weeks out of VSG, my Vitamixer has found new life. Otherwise, I would just weigh 4 to 6 oz of unsalted mixed nuts and slowly chew and savor them one at a time.

Good, good, the sympathy ploy. @@Daveo you have now invited men to go post in the ladies forums instead of just trolling them. I see a good topic in the forum about bra sizes heading over there to post now.

I'm a fan of Cacique at Lane Bryant. Ask for an associate experienced in bra fitting. I've lost enough inches that I had to down size my bra recently by one size. The girls are happy once again. Because the balconette style gives me good support, I don't feel the need for a sports bra for the gym; besides those things hurt my shoulders because of the way the straps lay across the neck/shoulder muscles.

food funerals. I would prefer a good old Irish wake instead. Things get said, alcohol is consumed and deceased is bad mouthed as much as they are praised. So here is a toast to my old friend pizza. You were delicious and had so many of the bad ingredients. Sugary sauces, processed wheat, salty pepperoni, and questionable mafia cheese. You will be missed you old sod.

Gentlemen, I am experiencing a slight disconnect between feeling hungry and my stomach feeling full. It sounds like a strange concept, but I have heard other people mention it. My doctor told me the feeling is not unusual and that the conditioning of my stomach feeling full will resolve the hunger issues. Have any of you guys experienced a similar disconnect, and if so, how long did it take? Before surgery I felt that I could compete with Adam Richman's Man Vs. food as to who could eat more. Now I behave myself to avoid exploding my new pouch.

Wow, didn't know they had a card for post weight loss surgery. I've heard the expression that Americans eat with their eyes. Considering how big Europeans are also getting, I can proudly say thank you McDonald's for being such a big success in France.
Back to the topic at hand, I hope that this brain stomach disconnect is just a temporary thing. It seems that gaining back some weight can happen quite easily if you still feel hungry despite feeling full.

I read the mud flaps exchange to my husband too and we both laughed hard enough to bring the teenage son in to find out what was going on. Of course we couldn't explain so that made us laugh all the harder.

I read that to my hubby last night (yea, the title caught my attention) & thought he would fall off the couch. Said he had never heard that term before (which almost made me fall off the couch). I do think the OP was truly sensitive to his girlfriend's feelings though and I certainly give him credit for asking in the best way you possibly could...
Now my hubby says maybe he should join. I strongly suggested he should not LMAO

Wow. What kind of cat is it? A friend of mine has a big Siberian that doesn't seem to know when to stop eating. She and her husband struggle to keep the cat on a calorie restricted diet. Kind of an Atkins diet for diabetic cats. So much for filling up the bowl and taking a weekend trip...cat will somehow manage to down the bowl in one long binge. Kind of like me and fresh baked Cookies.

Gents, Is it really a competition thing? I think men are just a little more regimented. I'm use to following Doctor's and nurse's orders. I am going through the jealousy stage that my first four weeks have been going better for me than for my GF. I've lost more weight in the last few weeks than in her last few months. From observation I am amazed she hasn't popped staples. She can now gulp down a 14 oz Muscle Milk or Lee Labrada shake in one shot. Personally, 8oz and my stomach says "YOU ARE FULL NOW FAT BOY!" I'm doing my best to follow the dieticians directions, but she's on some different frequency. I wish you good luck and successful results.

Wow, didn't know they had a card for post weight loss surgery. I've heard the expression that Americans eat with their eyes. Considering how big Europeans are also getting, I can proudly say thank you McDonald's for being such a big success in France.
Back to the topic at hand, I hope that this brain stomach disconnect is just a temporary thing. It seems that gaining back some weight can happen quite easily if you still feel hungry despite feeling full.

Hola Claudia. Muchas gracias por responder. Creo que es importante compartir con otras personas lo que nos pasa y aprender de experiencias mutuas. No es muy dificil volver a malos habitos y eso es en lo que estoy trabajando. Llego un momento en que podia comer lo que quisiera pero en porciones limitadas y aun asi seguia perdiendo peso pero ahora parece que mi cuerpo se esta resistiendo ynpor el contrario, subí. Ahora estoy empezando a evitar lo que se que no debo comer, a comer mis porciones medidas, tomar mas líquidos y poco a poco reincorporar la ruutina que tenía cuando recien me operé.

I would have done my favorite response: Slowly raise your head up and look into their eyes. Tear up a bit. Ask in a small voice "Why would you say something like that?" Put head back down and don't say another word or look up. This really shuts 'em up except when they are stammering out an apology or lame explanation.

Believe me I know my cat and he was definitely still hungry and he munches bones better then a hyena.

Exactly! it's a big world and I wish I had the good manners to post in Italian as good as you do in English if the situation was reversed.
Last thing we need is a bunch of people looking down their noses and instead of paying attention to what someone is saying, they are critiqued and graded on how well,or not, they say it.
I'm not their teacher or mother. I'm here to offer my experience with WLS....so you can talk to me. I will listen.
I saw 6 patients and their families yesterday....2 were Spanish and needed interpreters,,,,and one family was from India.
The father from India is a big shot engineer that makes our education system look silly.! But if he posted here he would be slammed because he did not use commas in the right place and because of his English spelling....
I can say people from the south have bad grammar...does that mean I won't talk to them? How about Aussies? Are thy to be ignored also? Asians? Those that are dirt poor and have no education?
Perhaps we can institute some sort of questionnaire before we let people join this group of the "Elite"
There...that's my rant. My forum etiquette beef is all the self proclaimed experts trying to make themselves feel better than the next person....I get it...you're wonderful...you're perfect! I bow down to your ivory tower!
Just share your weight loss successes and experiences ( if you have any) with others who come here to glean information.

Didn't hurt at all. Though I did make the mistake of shaving myself the night before surgery. I was only warned about the shaving the day of surgery.That gave me a case of itchy folliculitis after surgery.
I have a bottle of pain meds I didn't have to use. It must be different for everyone cause all the ladies have told me they were miserable. Followed the nurses instructions to the letter and walked off the CO2 gas they inflate your belly with. So I didn't have the fake heart attack or chest pains people so often get after bariatric surgery. The two people my surgeon operated on before me didn't seem to want to get out of bed and kept buzzing the poor nurses. I only got pain meds twice because the nurses noticed that they had skipped my Heparin blood thinner shots.
So if you behave yourself and follow the nurses instructions, they will let you out within 24 hours for good behavior. Otherwise you will have to stay an extra day listening to IV alarms and people whining.
The doctors who popped their heads in to say hello told me the surgery went perfectly...I am now waiting to see their drive-by bills.

Was supposed to go for three months. By my third visit I was the only guy there. It was the opposite of a sausage fest. The only time I spoke I was jumped for making one bad joke about wanting the 85% of my stomach to make Haggis. Besides it having been an out-of-date reference to the 1986 Christopher Lambert / Sean Connery movie Highlander, it was somehow taken as an offensive remark about women eating their placenta. I had to research that leap of logic to even find out that some women do actually freeze and eat their placenta.
On the positive side, I did learn that vertical stripes make you look slimmer and when it is the best time to by off-season clothes at Lane Bryant...which come to think about it I seem to have forgotten though I am still a human clothes rack when shopping with ladies.

Flapjacks...LOL. I know this is an old topic, but it is both as funny as it is informative. Compression shirts sounds good to me. Gee, do a search for Spanx for men and you'll see a lot of skinny male models wearing the stuff. At some point in my weight loss, I am going to have to pose for a torso shot of my moobs while wearing spanx. It might scare small children though
Judging by women's Spanx, there is only so much they can do.

I find it almost impossible to not weigh in every day, usually first thing in the morning and then again after dinner. It's an obsession. I know I should put the scale away someplace inaccessible, I know it's a mental game and I know I'm losing inches, but I still cant get over the impulse to constantly weigh in.