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I tried on spanx last weekend for the first time. I was always too big for them before. They are okay if you want light control, but they don't offer firm control in my opinion. They definitely don't shape as well as Maidenform and some other brands. Even the light control thigh shapers I have from maidenform do a better job controlling than spanx, and my firm control are out of the world.

i have been trying to think of something to give up for weeks. I have already given everything up so I dunno.

A lot of people are food addicts to cope with some kind of trauma. When the food is taken away, they turn to other things. I don't think the correlation is just WLS and new addictions. It is underlying issues that are not resolved and the absence of food.

About 26 hours. I just had to be able to drink and eat a little off my tray to be allowed to leave. Have you asked for different pain meds?

They have to pay co-pays in Illinois. They are small like $3 but enough to stop people from abusing things.

I had them before surgery. They are gross. They stink and no matter what you do to them, I can still smell how they smell when you open the bag. Zucchini noodles are far superior and cheaper.

You lost almost 10% of your total weight in a few weeks. Most people (men are the annoying exception) don't drop 30-50lbs in the first month. They drop 10-20, then keep dropping steadily each month with lots of stalls in between. The idea is to keep losing over several months and it all ads up, 10lbs a month in a 6 months time is 60lbs.

What was your start weight? What is your goal weight? If you are close to goal, weight loss slows down a lot.

Yeah, everything now has stretch and there is a lot of vanity sizing, which makes shopping annoying because sizes vary by brand. That is why I pulled these old jeans out that have no stretch and I know were tight when I was a size 18 before as my control. It isn't about the clothing sizing. My body is definitely just different. My waist was never this defined when I was an 18 before, I was always very proportionate, but never hourglass. Now I am definitely leaning towards hourglass. I had assumed before I started losing weight that at this weight I was be a 22/24. Since I started losing weight I haven't been a 22 or a 24. I went from a 28, to a 24 for about 3 weeks to a 20, now 18. This weight in the past I would have definitely been in 22/24. I am heavier on the scale, but physically I am a lot smaller and more compact than in the past, and I carry my weight a little different also. I'm going to end up with a better more shapely body in my late 30s than my late teens.

There is a difference between having a glass of wine with dinner to compliment the meal and downing a whole bottle of 2 buck chuck from Trader Joes just so you can fall asleep at night. While I think mild alcoholism is a dumb term. The bar for what makes you an alcoholic from a medical standpoint is too low, too black and white and too linear. I would say the thing to be watch for especially if you are young, and even more if you are single is that once you start socializing and dating, it is easy for calories to creep in. This happened to me at the tail end of last year. Started dating, going out more and it was hard to track and estimate calories from restaurants without nutritional value. It is too easy to start enjoyying your weight loss and pick up bad habits you didn't have before.

I remember when flying used to be a real pleasure. It has sucked since 9/11 and only got worse after the recession.

I quit drinking before surgery long before, in an effort to lose weight on my own. I still have no interest. When I go out I drink Water with lime and tip very well. I only know one person personally that had WLS. They never drank before surgery. They were a homebody and felt unattractive. Fast forward to them being down 100lbs. They feel better, more confident, going out several times a week. Lots of drinking. I think that is how some people become alcoholics. Other people who have not done the emotional work, need alcohol as a replacement coping drug because they dont have food.

I watched someone I know die a slow miserable death because their intestines were nicked during a surgery for something else. It let to complications and part of their intestines dying. They ended up with a bag and over the course of a year slowly starved to death. All the medical interventions just extended their life but it was a painful terrible life. I would never take the chance of someone cutting my intestines because if it goes wrong and you live it is a fate worse than death. That is my life experience and my opinion. Long term they end up the same. Everyone does not dump. Everyone does not dump a year or 2 out if they dump in the beginning. Your body can adjust to malaborption. If those are a deciding factor in choosing the bypass it is a real role of the dice that you will have these tools for the time you want or at all. I have an associate that had the bypass at over 2 years out, no dumping at all. Eats anything they want and is regaining. Never hit goal. It can happen to anyone regardless of surgery type. Meeting goal and maintaining more about the person than the procedure. I'm glad the sleeves exists because the bypass terrified me and I would still be almost 400 lbs if that was the only option for WLS, because there is no way I would let someone cut my healthy intestines. My doctor said because I was young, active and motivated. The sleeve was a good choice for me. He only suggests the sleeve for older or immobile people. Also as a single person sleeve was less risky with an easy recovery. I was able to take care of myself day 2, drive on day 3.

Awesome. At 6 months I feel like normal, just smaller appetite.

Can they refer you to a therapist? Also, talk to your nutritionist about your food goals with pregnancy.

@@LipstickLady I had my teeth professionally whitened recently so I have been drinking everything (coffee, tea) out a straw . Straw drinking is the life!!! I missed it, I love it. It is the best.

When i was on my preop diet I binged watched the whole series start to finish like 2 times. It was the only thing I could watch that would keep my mind off food and eating. I watched it all day while I worked, and in the evenings, if I didn't watch Fat Doctor I don't think I could have made it through the pre-op diet.

I wore a size 16 at 170 also. I could squeeze into size 14 guess jeans if I didn't eat and laid on the bed to fasten them. At this rate I am guessing I will be a 10 or a 12 at 170lbs.

I definitely have more weight in my arms and more back fat than I did then. I still carry most of my weight in my thighs hips, lower stomach area. These old jeans were my control test about my size, to prove to myself I am really an 18. When I shop now since I won't wear used clothes and I am still losing, I buy cheap clothes that are mostly cut small on the china scale. I'm not wearing 18W, I am wearing 18 juniors to 16s. I can go even smaller with nice brands at Nordstrom or Saks. I spent hours last week trying on clothes all over town trying to make sure I was really an 18 at this weight. Even with my arms being huge I am smaller on top and can wear 14/16, with the exception of my boobs in some things because I went from a DD to a G because my band went down and my boobs did not. I am looking at my DEXA scan for my bones I had last week and I am at the top of the chart of bones density. I still don't know if that is enough to account for the weight difference.

That's what.....1 in 400 chances of dying from the surgery itself?? Those are pretty phenomenal numbers. I was surprised at one point to see his partner operating over an open GB without a mask though. Seemed a little less than sanitary... They explained that in a few episodes. Basically since they are operating on the intestines, it isn't a sterile environment anyway. Once they cut the intestines, bye bye sterile operating room. Especially back when they were doing open surgeries. I think by the time they switch to laprscopic, they always wear masks. Also, they tailor the death chances to the patient. Most of them were told 1 in 50, to 1 in 200 depending on the status of their health. When they go over the release forms they explain the chances to them. By the time I decided to have surgery I had decided it would be better to just die fast in surgery, than to keep killing myself slowly with food. I felt I had nothing to lose.

When I was approved, I called them about something else, and I asked if I was approved, and they told me, that was at a week or less than a week, and within a few days the letter came in the mail. The Dr office took another 2 weeks or so to call me and me I was approved.

It really is better to be prepared. I was not prepared I was so shocked. I believe I was watching while I was doing pre-op testing and I was crushed. He was so sick though before. So many of the people they operated on are in such terrible health, it is amazing that they have so few deaths.

@@tappingmom I heard that before, and I didn't believe it. I thought it was all vanity sizing but if I can wear something with no stretch from 22 years ago that is a size 18. I am willing to believe that bones might be heavier than when I was in college.These used to always sit tight on my hips and they don't now and I am a easily 40-60lbs heavier than when I purchased them.

I have lost almost 100lbs since surgery which sounds like a lot but I am still fat. At the bottom end of plus sizes instead of pushing the limit at the top. I know this is some peoples starting points and they feel huge at this weight, but for me this is the smallest I have been in 20 years. The weight I am at right now, I haven't been this range since the 90s. I have had a hard time accepting that I wear a size 18, I keep taking my measurements and comparing them to the size charts on various websites to confirm that my measurements are really a size 18, they are and on some sites they are a 16. My issue has been, in the past at this weight I wore a 22/24. So I have been assuming the issue was vanity sizing. I have one pair of old jeans from college that had some sentimental value (they were really expensive and I had to save up for them) and I have kept them all these years, even though I purged all my old clothes. So tonight, I tried them on. They fit, they fit comfortably, and I don't even have on proper undergarments or shape wear, I am just in lounge wear. When I wore a size 18 before I weighed about 200/210, I am 266 as of today. I'm also not wearing an 18W I am wearing an 18 misses, I can wear a 16W depending on the store. Clothing sizes are driving me absolutely nuts. If I keep going to my goal weight I have no idea what size I will end up. Older body? Heavy bones from lugging fat? More muscle? I don't even understand this clothing math.

@@JamieLogical i totally agree with that, but people claim they have no restriction and that isn't the case. No one is going to have the restriction they have at 2 months, for the duration of their life. The stomach don't stretch back to the size of a football. The average capacity of a human stomach is 3 cups, with the maximum capacity being 8-16 cups Even if a sleever goes from one cup capacity to 2 cup capacity, that isn't a normal stomach and it isn't even close to the stomach size of a long term binge eater. That is also eating to CAPACITY, not eating until satisfied or until goals are met, which we should all be learning to eat to goals not till stuffed. WLS is supposed to be more than just physical restrictions, it is supposed to change how people relate to and view food. If people that don't get to that point, the whole thing is useless, because you can eat around any sleeve/pouch/band if you want to. If people don't make that connection, they don't remain long term successful. My doctor made this point very clear to me before surgery, that the sleeve is just a tool not a magic bullet. It is like bypass patients that depend on malabsorption to control their calories for them, but then when their body adjust to it, they start gaining.