mark1733

Hey all. New guy here and wanted to say hi to everyone. I had my surgery in March of this year and just crossed over 100 pounds and feeling great. Looking forward to dropping a few more and hope this site will help me out.

I'm in the group of why didn't I do this 10 years ago? I was so ready to do this that I skipped being nervous. I'm down 100 pounds and happier than I've been in years. Good luck

Hey all. New guy here and wanted to say hi to everyone. I had my surgery in March of this year and just crossed over 100 pounds and feeling great. Looking forward to dropping a few more and hope this site will help me out.

@@mark1733 Wow! Congrats on a great accomplishment! Welcome to BP and hope you find everything you are looking for.

I wish Alex would bring back the chat room.... OMG the words that were written in there.... Nothing was off limits. Now some of us just chat on Yahoo...
Some of the best post are when the men invade or the women invade the "special room".

Just wanted to say hello.... Elode... can i join in on the trouble making?

gotta put hubs on a diet

Hi everyone! I am a newbie to the group. I go the surgeon for my final update appointment on Monday before they submit everything to Aetna. I'm praying it all goes well. I would love to have surgery before the year is over.

Hello,
I'm new here and just finished my 6 month weigh ins with my pcp. All preop test are complete and just waiting on approval from my insurance. I hope everything goes well. ????

Omg, someone help me like what the heck is going on! I praise the lord for this surgery but who would of ever thought I would have these many cravings? Whether it's the Hillshire GO meat commercial to an Olive Garden commercial! Every little thing looks so good to me. Did anyone else feel like this a week after their surgery? I'm 4 days post op btw!

Sleeved August 14th. Down 85 pounds

We have had a terrible terrible ski season in the Pacific Northwest. no snow.... seriously, even in the mountains.
In January we had a pittance at Stevens pass so I got all excited and headed up after a half day of work to an afternoon of skiing. My son is an advanced snowboarder, but i am still skiing the bunny slopes so we parted ways. I have to pick up rental gear whilst he owns (thanks Mom) tuned gear just right for him.
so, I am in a huge hurry to make it to my 1 o clock lesson, and the place was pretty dead on a Thursday afternoon on a crappy snow season day so I decide to multitask, dash into the restroom whilst putting on my snow pants etc. I leaned the skis outside the stall, but was gearing up inside.
I am in there a few minutes when I get this odd feeling. Something is wrong. I look around - everything LOOKS normal. Then I realize what is missing - women's restrooms have sounds... chatty sounds. The sounds of two ladies talking, or a mom with her kids.. you hear voices. always... even on dead midweek day... somebody must walk in. I hear silence. another minute passes as I am gearing up and I start thinking.. I think I need to get out of here.
I take a deep breath, open the door.. and yup.. two guys are at the sink washing up. Out of the corner of my eye I see the urinals with a dude standing there with his back to me, thank goodness - how did I miss this obvious clue - I am in the FREAKING MENS ROOM!
It's not like I can make a quick exit.. oh no, I gotta gather up skis, poles, my gear bag, etc etc.
One of MANY nice things I can say about dudes, they don't freak out about this kind of stuff. They both had the decency to pretend I wasn't there whilst I tried to look as boylike as possible in my form fitting cold weather under armours... crap... they might have seen definately saw my profile in the mirror!
So, during my lesson I tell this story to a young woman as we ride the ski lift up and she says... I almost walked in there too.. at the last minute I saw the sign!
sheesh... see how easy it is to accidently conduct business in the "wrong room"!?!