highfunctioningfatman

It is refreshing to see some admit that THEY screwed up. You didn't blame anyone, say that you cheated or say that you couldn't help yourself. So truly, thank you and good luck!

It depends on if you want to do any shopping. We had $300 set aside and only spent $60 on a necklace for my wife.

60 pounds.

You look awesome!

Very cool! Keep up the good work!

We don't have the money to reward with stuff either and that is ok. What we do is set mini goals and rewards together. We are quite sexually adventurous and active so all of the rewards revolve around sex. So far it has been different positions or locations. I hit 250 today and there was a little reward but 249 is 20% of my total weight gone and there is something extra planned for that. By my wife and I both planning and setting the "rewards" we are both just as eager and excited for me to reach the next goal.

I still love food but I look at it much differently than from before. I went to Wendy's yesterday and the menu didn't quite look the same. I saw carb, carb, hell no!, carb, maybe if I changed that... Foods got us all here one way or another and my choices dictate my success.

What about getting the dental work done in Mexico while you are there? Dental is much cheaper down there. Do the dental on Monday and surgery Tuesday. I know that the team that I worked with would have no problem with helping out a patient for something like that.

I have that same problem with my phone. I type it up in email and copy and paste it here. I still can't see it but it posts correctly.

When I'm pooping I'm losing. When I'm not pooping the scale doesn't want to move.

Stress can be tough! Mom died in 2002, 20 pounds. My son was born in 2009 and he had multiple problems, my wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer a month after, 30 pounds. My wife had a brain tumor this year, no weight gain but suddenly I had a blood pressure problem. When she was in the hospital I went to my doctor because I was feeling bad he prescribed a blood pressure med and made me promise to take it before leaving the pharmacy and call him in the morning to make sure that I was alive. My blood pressure was 222/111.

Travel was fine. The only thing was difficult was finding sugar free drinks in the airport. I finally found vitamin water zero in San Diego so I bought 2 of them. In San Francisco I found a "diner" that had chicken noodle soup. I asked for just the broth and they were good with that.

On the topic of tipping. A buddy and I were in a Dennys in Portland Oregon about 10 years ago. The service was fantastic! About halfway through our meal the waitress says that her shift is over and asked if we wanted anything else before she left. We tipped her $10 each. The waitress afterwards was horrible and smelled of pot. When I signed for the bill she asked if I was going to put a tip on the ticket. I pulled a nickel out of my pocket and asked her for change. When she came back I put 2 pennies down and said this is more than enough for your service and walked out. She was screaming and cussing at me and followed us to my truck. As I was leaving she tried to open my door and kicked the bed. I called for the management the next day to complain. She had already been fired.

I personally didn't take anything special to the hospital other than my wife. Day 1 surgery Day 2 recovery Day 3 return from Mexico Day 4 Walmart kicked my ass but soup broth in a travel coffee mug was heaven Day 5 intensive Walmart and Safeway shopping Day 6 busy around the house, smoked chicken, bbq and made-up a nice dinner for 12 friends and family members Day 7 was crawling the walls and trying not to start working on projects in my garage Day 8 salmon fishing on the Rogue River Day 9 back to work! Your results may vary. My piece of crap bed went bye bye 2 weeks after surgery. IT was replaced with a sleep number bed. Ahhhhh Best advice? Research. That and don't cheat!

Here is a planned thanksgiving "hack". Sugar-free lime Jello doesn't have much of a lime flavor but it is a pretty green. We experimented with adding mint extract and you would never know that it was lime to start. We are going to layer jello, sf cool.whip, jello, sf cool whip, jello and sf cool whip topped with a great local super low sugar chocolate that will be grated on top.

Here is a planned thanksgiving "hack". Sugar-free lime jello doesn't have much of a lime flavor but it is a pretty green. We experimented with adding mint extract and you would never know that it was lime to start. We are going to layer jello, sf cool.whip, jello, sf cool whip, jello and sf cool whip topped with a great local super low sugar chocolate that will be grated on top.

We love Thanksgiving! It is our favorite holiday. We always do at least three turkeys. We typically have 12 to 20 people in our 1300 sqft house and we love it. I always take the entire week off and I spend a couple of days before prepping the minor stuff. Yes I will have some turkey but I will also have a couple of things that have always been family traditions.

I hated my old scale. It was a super fancy pile of crap. I was soooo tired of it and what it represents. I took it out about a month pre op and shot the thing to pieces with a .357. Mentally that was exactly what I needed at that point. Just before my pre-op diet I was teaching a defensive driving class. I was talking about using backup cameras. I was stressing the importance of using mirrors and The Back-up Camera together as tools. I always stressed that a mechanic doesn't use just a screwdriver, he has an entire box of tools. That is when it hit me right between the eyes that I needed a scale. I don't hate the scale anymore. There are days that I don't like what is happening but I know that the number on the scale is just that. A number. It doesn't define me. Keep up the work you guys, we'll all get there if we do!

After losing 60 pounds I finally had someone this week who hadn't seen me in awhile go "damn you lost weight!". I just came back from the grocery store and I ran into a patient, he immediately asked if I had lost weight. I wasn't looking for validation but I had literally said to my wife and my boss (who had vsg) that I was disappointed that nobody except people who know about my surgery have said anything about my weight. I'm no longer disappointed! It encouraged me to look at my food journal and realize that I was making some mistakes. Those mistakes weren't bad choices, they were too little protein and calories.

I wish that I was losing weight in my top half as well as you are! My arms are now quite small and any flex has the muscles defined. My calfs look amazing. My thighs could lose just a little. My stomach and chest need to go though! I've got moobs, yep, man boobies and that just ain't right! I know that my "kegerator" won't ever be a six pack without lots of work and plastic surgery but the built-in personal flotation device has got to go!

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I get it. Congratulations! http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/379379-biggest-nsv-yet-3?hl=%2Bbiggest+%2Bnsv+%2Byet#entry4290213

Yoga pants are a gift from above!Please, no pictures of you in them... @@QueenOfTheTamazons Consignment stores are where it's at! You can try different brands and styles and spend little money or great clothes. Me in them? Absolutely not! The "gift" is to men that find the feminine form beautiful. I just so happen to be one of those men.

I use a small journal. I have my most common foods written down on the back pages so it is easy for me to add the details to my entries. I look up the details on myfitnesspal. Also each weekend I do measurements and they are in there as well. It is much better than any app that I found.

We went to a dinner last Saturday with some friends that don't know about my surgery. They need a Peruvian dish that had chicken and walnuts in some sort of a paste that was over rice. It was no big deal that all I ate was the chicken and walnut combo. Nobody said a thing about me not eating the rice.