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Have you ever taken a class in meditation? It could help build that character of mindfulness.

I know that being transgender, I haven't had any issues but I haven't had my hormone injections since before I went to the hospital. I plan to resume that treatment this week. But I haven't felt any pangs of regret or anything like that.

Maybe so. Using BMI as a range, a healthy weight range for you (assuming an age of 40) is roughly 45.9 kgs - 62.0 kgs and according to you, you're at 112.49 kg, meaning you have about 50.49 kg to go to meet the top of the range for a healthy weight. Whereas, my weight being 139 kg right now and my healthy weight range being 54.7 kgs - 74.0 kgs, I have to lose 65 kg to reach the top range of my healthy weight category. So, you're closer to a finish line than I am!

"Virtual kidnapping"? You mean you didn't sign up of your own free will? You were seized in the middle of the night and forced to sign up for BariatricPal against your will? ... Or do you mean you didn't read the terms & conditions and now, you're upset by the very rules you didn't read?

What is your starting point that you have "only lost 9 pounds since the surgery" is a bad thing? According to your profile, you had surgery 14 days ago (by my rough count). From my understanding, if you have more to lose, your numbers might be larger. For example, my pre-operative weight was 144.69 kg (319 pounds) fully clothed. Being almost one week out, my current weight is 139 kg (306 pounds) naked. So, I guess the question is, what are your numbers?

Why would you want to? Diet soda is awful! It's better to drink something with some nutritional value, such as chocolate milk or 100% fruit juice.

I'm newly post op and I must say, there is a curve to acclimate my eating habits. For example, I'm looking at a bowl of cream of chicken soup that I will, in all likelihood, have to dump out tonight because I made too much. I could probably work on this for the next day or two.

With the mask thing, are you using a humidifier with your unit? In Colorado, I get a humidifier with my unit by default.

Yeah, that was pretty weird. Like, if you didn't want them, why get so many?

Yeah, I'm noticing that mine isn't as bad either but it is definitely still there.

I know the feeling. On Tuesday, when I woke up in the post-op recovery area (for some reason, they called it PACU), I had a hard time remaining awake, probably due to the anaesthesia they gave me. Fortunately, they didn't need to cath me, which I am eternally grateful for because I've done the catheter thing before and I'm not a fan. That, and the hospital bed was killing my back too. In fact, I notice that I'm experiencing a bit more back pain now than normal, but I think that is due to healing going on around that area. The beds they use are crap and I was so glad to get home where I have a memory foam mattress! I know for a fact that I couldn't lose weight by diet and exercise alone. I've tried all of those things and failed but I think the problem was my weight reached a point where it wasn't possible to do those things well. I think if I can get my weight down, I can abate the sleep apnea and plantar fasciitis and go deeper into my workouts, which will turbocharge my metabolism.

Yeah, I have a nearly full bottle of Tylenol 3 that I left the hospital with and so far, I haven't needed to touch it except for once or twice.

So, I was walking down 28th street in Boulder after having to throw some money into the bank and in order to get to the bus stop to get back to Longmont, I passed by a McDonald's. There was a lady sitting on the patio telling me to come over to her. I said that I don't have time because I didn't (though if I did, I am not going to spend it in the sun). She then told me she had a bag full of big Macs she wanted to give me and holding back the rage anyone on a liquid diet feels, I again said no. So she then said "but they are hot and juicy", to which my response was "DON'T TEMPT ME!"... And for as loud as I said it, I'm actually surprised I didn't curse. Even though I have a newfound appreciation for solid food since I've been drinking my meals, I'm not going to eat garbage! Since Sunday, my weight is down 6,6 kilos (or 14.5 lbs) and if I want a burger, I'm going to make myself one using healthy ingredients.

So, I'm thinking it might be a great idea to integrate Nokia Health (which is formerly Withings) with BariatricPal. Nokia Health produces a number of smart devices including wi-fi scales that automatically synchronize your weight to the cloud. There is documentation for how to use the API on Nokia's website.

Yeah, my program told me to stay away from steak too. Actually, I was told that I should stay away from beef, veal, and pork. When I met with the nutritionist that works with the programme, she said that it is because it is a very dense protein and even in the "Diet for Life" section, it reads "Slowly advance to tender chicken, turkey, pork and beef".

It's a joke I made to a friend when I was on a pre-op liquid diet.

I know that certain surgeon's practices will give you a discount code to use with Bariatric Advantage, even. My surgeon's practice gives me a 15% discount on orders made using the code.

Yeah, it's surprisingly YMMV. I mean, the individual aspect is a given but the surgeons each having their own timeline as to when they start someone on full liquids, puréed, soft food and diet for life is fascinating. I spoke with a nurse at my surgeon's office today and she told me that as long as I am able to tolerate full liquids, that I should be able to move to a puréed diet. Since I hurled my Carnation Instant Breakfast (yeah, they make you drink that cr@p on the liquid diet), I guess it's going to take me a few more days before I can handle puréed food.

I've noticed that too. It is... distinctive, so I don't confuse the forums with Facebook, so on that front, it does work. However, I'd like to have a better notification sound too.

So, I had my surgery on Tuesday with surgeons in Fort Collins, attending the medical weight loss classes in Fort Collins, having the surgery at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins and I'll be returning to Fort Collins to do my follow-up appointment on September 11th. Normally, I wouldn't be ticked about that... but the same system that manages Poudre Valley Hospital and my surgeon's practice (University of Colorado Health or UCHealth) just opened Long's Peak Hospital in the town I live in, Longmont. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem. Longmont is growing so naturally, it may make sense for us to have a second hospital, especially with it being so close to communities in Weld County. Also, considering how yuppie Longmont is starting to become, it's natural that we're going to be getting one of those "birthing centres" too. ... If not for the fact that they offer Bariatric Surgery too. Now, I'm kinda pissed off that I couldn't have my surgery done here in town. Oh well, at least it got done.

I know that the practice I went to told out-of-towners that they would need to remain in Fort Collins a few days before surgery to sort out the formalities.

Considering that things like sleep apnea contribute to clinical depression (not to mention the dramatically screwed up way that our society talks about and deals with people of size).

Personally, I think the mobile app should have a similar layout to that of the forums. Like, when you login, you'd see the forums you would normally see if you signed on the website. Not to mention features like editing the details of your surgery on your profile. I know I'm teaching myself Objective-C and Swift now, but if I wrote this app, I'd be dreadfully ashamed of myself. It's so slapped together!

I'd love to. I have TestFlight on my iPhone already.

One thing I've been noticing is that the app for BariatricPal is awful. It has very limited functionality and doesn't even keep you signed in. Also, I noticed that when people use emojis on the mobile app, they get turned into non-parsed BBCode on the web version of the forums. Why is this?