MacMadame

I completely concur. I could not believe that some insurance companies would consider me qualified for surgery when my BMI dropped below 40. If you are short, the BMI calculation doesn't really work. I had 70% body fat according to my scale! I was over 200 lb. and I couldn't bend over to tie my shoes. It also doesn't work well for tall people. Mr. Mac is tall and his BMI makes him a "lightweight" but he's got all his weight in his stomach and most people thought he was fatter than I was with my 41 BMI.

I remember feeling fat at 110 lb. Granted, I was about 4' 11", but still... I'm 118 now and only 2 inches taller and I am TINY.

Fatty Fights Back: I'm a Mermaid!

And I did! 12 out of 24 in my age group, 204 out of 407 (who finished) overall. Fatty Fights Back: I'm a Mermaid!

If you think you hate exercise, you aren't doing the right ones. Exercise doesn't have to working out in the gym or using fitness DVDs. It can be anything that makes you move your body. Find something you love to do that's active and do that. Don't think of it as "exercise"; think of it as your new hobby. Some ideas: Swimming, salsa dancing, joining a softball team, walking around the neighborhood, Water aerobics, biking in the park, ice skating, bowling, yoga.

I did a triathlon this weekend and ran a 10:43 pace during the run... that's my fastest yet and it was at the end of the event when I normally run slower than normal. I'm so stoked!

I"m so sorry about your dad. And that airline sucks!

I don't know. I find things like nuts "stick" with me better than other foods. I'm not as hungry again later as I am with a lower fat, carb-based food. If fat activates grhelin, wouldn't I be hungrier after eating higher fat foods?

Plus I didn't travel for my surgery but plenty of people travel to see my doc. Are they dumb because they traveled? I don't think so. He's one of the pioneers of the sleeve with above average stats. So it was worth it to them to travel to see him.

It's great that you got what you wanted but not everyone wants the same thing.

It's the internet. I never take anything at face value here! :thumbup:

My first TOM after surgery was late, but then I was okay. Recently, I've been having breakthrough bleeding and I think my TOM is coming more often. But I don't keep track well enough to be sure. I guess I need to start paying attention. :thumbup:

I gave blood at 7 weeks out and got anemic. I also was having trouble getting in all my water that week and I ended up with a kidney stone. All in the same two day period too so it as fun stuff. :thumbup:

Well, that's something only you can say. What would be the wrong thing for me, might be the wrong thing for you. :thumbup: Just think about what would annoy you and make sure he's clear what those are.

Eh, you have to take what people say online with a grain of salt. You don't know what her doctor really told her, for example.

That doesn't seem like a lot of food. I assume you'll be adding to it since you are very early out. I also think it's a pretty "carby" diet. I know in AUS they don't go for the High Protein, Low Carb diet after WLS like we do, but even if you don't buy into doing it that way, you want to have as much protein as you can whenever you are on a very low calorie diet so that you don't lose as much muscle mass.

I think it depends. I think my early hair loss was caused by hormones and later the whole "shock of the surgery/response to rapid weight loss" hair loss kicked in. Because I'm still losing pretty close to what I was during the worst of my hair loss, but it's slowed down anyway. I think that's because I've released most of the estrogen in my fat and it's not floating around in my system any more.

I try to use the artificial stuff judiciously. There is some recent research that *suggests* that artificial sweeteners may trigger sweet cravings and insulin reactions similar to sugar, but I think they are really just at the beginning stages of understanding how they work and I think the media has really overstated the case against them. For example, there is no proof they make people fat (correlation is not causation) yet the media acts like that is totally proven. I think the jury is still out and, anyway, you have to go by how your own body works on these things.

I didn't do anything Thurs. but Mini-Mac and I went running Friday night and then Sat. I did run drills with my club (hill repeats. ugh.) and then went to the gym with Mini-Mac in the evening. We ran for another 15 min. and then played in the pool. Today I did another triathlon and I completed it really fast. I think I'll have a MOP finish instead of my usual BOP finish!

I got my Nike+ to work again!

I like the automatic media embedding. I can never remember how to do that manually.

And, remember, I did agree that it would be better to have the nutritional info. I just thought it was unreasonable to think that the foods used as examples weren't crazy bad for you. It's like the "crunchberries" case ... reasonable people know crunchberries aren't fruit!

The part I quoted ... which was a quote from Margo G Wootan, not from you. :wink0: I think she was exaggerating to make a point only it just made me roll my eyes and I think it weakened her point.

I try not to be rude to people online, but I'm afraid I was pretty blunt with that one. I understand the philosophy of wanting to figure out how to eat for a lifetime and not go through a period of big deprivation to lose weight faster. I don't necessarily agree with that approach (as I think it has some pitfalls including risking not getting to goal and not giving your body a chance to develop healthier preferences), but I do think a good way to lose weight if you haven't had WLS is to figure out what your maintenance calories would be at the weight you want to be and just starting eating them. But that isn't really what these people are doing. Instead, they are so attached to food that they can't imagine a life without high calorie junk on a regular basis. As I said to that woman: what thin person would eat birthday cake two weeks out from major abdominal surgery when her doctor told her she could risk blowing out her staple line and possible death? Only someone overly attached to food tries to justify such immensely self-destructive behavior. These are the people I was talking about before in the addiction thread who really are addicted to food and are either going to sabotage their weight loss or develop a cross addiction if they don't deal with it.

The video is fascinating to an engineer and gadget freak like me. But I'm still glad my fundus was removed...