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The patch is great. It covers all the Vitamins in the right amounts. It costs about $20 for the month. Stress free and easy.
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The patch is great. It covers all the Vitamins in the right amounts. It costs about $20 for the month. Stress free and easy.
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It's not about a chicken nugget or a pizza it about readiness and emotional wellness. Not everyone is fully prepared before this change. Sad because it's so dangerous.
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Thank you for sharing I have to have the band removed too. Did they see the severity when you had the endoscopy. I see my dr on Monday to get surgery date. I am scared and excited. Mostly scared. I guess thats normal. Good health to you.
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The patch is great. It covers all the Vitamins in the right amounts. It costs about $20 for the month. Stress free and easy.
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The patch is great. It covers all the Vitamins in the right amounts. It costs about $20 for the month. Stress free and easy.
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I just had sleeve surgery one week ago today. In the last 3 weeks I've lost 15 lbs. Being 57 I had to decide to continue to be unhealthy in all aspects or to try to change the things I can. I can't change my thyroid but I can try to change my physical life, physical health and emotional wellness. It is a very hard, very scary decision. It got to the point where doing nothing was scarier. Hang in there.
Cathy
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I am 57 post menopausal, graves disease and Hoshimoto. I was told I could and would lose but it might be a little slower. Slow and steady wins the race. Good luck
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Walking frequent short walks really helps the gas and prevents complications
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No women no cry. Bob Marley
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Can you share the pudding recipe and carb count please Sent from my VS986 using the BariatricPal App

I use the patch. Its great
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You need to be safe. I'm glad they are being careful-good doctors. Good luck
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I was told 2 weeks. Planning my trip to Starbucks for my flat white ☕.
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You need to be safe. I'm glad they are being careful-good doctors. Good luck
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Trust me I went back and forth emotionally right up to and including being prepped for surgery☺. I was on an emotional roller coaster but in this moments when I was straight with myself, I knew I had to do it and the reasons why. I'm still dealing with emotions. I also decided to tell only certain people and I told those people that I would tell the people I wanted to and asked them to respect my privacy. I'm glad I made that decision. I was pressured to tell other people but it was about them Not me.. This is about me. I know it's going to be a long, windy road for all of us. I have faith that its the right road. Hang in there.
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@@HopefulInVirginia - I've been obese since birth.
My pediatrician put me on a diet when I was in the 4th grade.
I was always teased in school, called "Big Boy" or "Big Man" by strangers. I can feel the judgement whenever I meet someone. No matter how gregarious, funny, personable, intelligent, witty or whatever I try to be, the word "fat" is almost always the first way someone would describe me to someone else.
And then let's talk about moving through crowds, trying to will my body to be smaller to fit between people at concerts, how uncomfortable seats are in stadiums or music venues and how they leave bruises on my thighs, or bus seats, or airplane seats, or booths at restaurants, or not being able to find clothes at normal stores, or any of a thousand daily reminders that I'm morbidly obese.
Four Decades of that.
Diets never work, exercise can only do so much when you get so big. It's an awful Catch-22.
And now.. there's hope. There's real hope. I see myself making progress EVERY MORNING. I look in the mirror and I see Myself in there - fuzzy, undefined, mostly obscured, but I'm there. I'm in there encouraging myself to keep going. To use this tool I've given myself and to embrace the person I've always thought deep down that I was.
Be Proud of taking this step. This is seizing control of your own life and health in the best way available to you. Someone thinks you're taking an easy way out? Well that someone doesn't know the decades of mental anguish that being obese puts you through. They can't appreciate your pain and never will. What they think is inconsequential.
I'm not even a week post-op and I know this is the best decision I've ever made. I'm a 40 year old man and I get teary-eyed when I think about who I'm going to become in the next year, of what I'll be able to do, of how I'll feel about myself. That joy is a thousand times more potent than the snide remarks of some ignorant twat.

Soooooooooo some people just will never, ever, ever, ever, get it. This is the time in our lives where we are finally investing in ourselves, our physical and emotional health and our quality of life. We don't have the energy to take care of ourselves and invest our emotions in people not supportive of our Quest. Kick him out of the space your allowing him to rent in your head and fill it with the visual of a healthy, happy future you. Best wishes to you.
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You need to be safe. I'm glad they are being careful-good doctors. Good luck
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Soooooooooo some people just will never, ever, ever, ever, get it. This is the time in our lives where we are finally investing in ourselves, our physical and emotional health and our quality of life. We don't have the energy to take care of ourselves and invest our emotions in people not supportive of our Quest. Kick him out of the space your allowing him to rent in your head and fill it with the visual of a healthy, happy future you. Best wishes to you.
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I called the insurance myself. It took me 2 days and different people. In the end I got a lovely woman who looked into everything and called me back. I was approved and had all the details. I suggest you write down questions before you call, write down the name of the people you speak to and take notes. Good luck.
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I am 57 post menopausal, graves disease and Hoshimoto. I was told I could and would lose but it might be a little slower. Slow and steady wins the race. Good luck
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I am 57 post menopausal, graves disease and Hoshimoto. I was told I could and would lose but it might be a little slower. Slow and steady wins the race. Good luck
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@@shaylady08
It doesn't have anything to do with surgery. I have an associate, downgraded from friend, that is really in their feelings over my weight loss. They don't even know I had surgery but they did have surgery, and weren't that successful and it is like my success is a slap in the face to them. And it is mainly that I have been able to achieve something they have not, and I am not even done or a success yet in my mind. They keep shading me over and over in every way possible.
Some people will never be happy for you and it has nothing to do with you, just with their own issues and insecurities.

Soooooooooo some people just will never, ever, ever, ever, get it. This is the time in our lives where we are finally investing in ourselves, our physical and emotional health and our quality of life. We don't have the energy to take care of ourselves and invest our emotions in people not supportive of our Quest. Kick him out of the space your allowing him to rent in your head and fill it with the visual of a healthy, happy future you. Best wishes to you.
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