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my doc told me not to touch them til they were ready to fall off
i wasn't allowed a shower til the 2nd day PO
during the shower, it gradually got looser - but i wasn't supposed to pull it off
after a couple days, shower, they were "peeling"
i helped them along
good luck
speedy recovery
kathy

So true. A lifelong goal.

What is your back up plan when you want to eat but aren't hungry? Can you pick up some knitting? Paint your nails? Go for a walk? I like to brush my teeth and rinse with listerine or pop in a listerine strip if I am out.

Grazing is not good, trust me, I know. I'm guilty of it myself. When you do graze, are you making good choices? Protein, no carbs? eggs, cheese, Jerky, almonds...

Catch it now before you gain 5, 10, 25 pounds. You can, you just have to choose to do so.

Can you share the SS casserole recipe please?

In my book, there is no such thing as a cheat. It's all a choice. You can make good choices, or you can make bad choices. You can choose to follow your plan or not.
It's all up to you!
And I love spaghetti squash.

Back to the young girl. When I was her age I was active, basketball team, volley ball, soft ball, girl scouts..... I was getting heavier and heavier. I was sent to diet doctors, doctors, WW, put on pills, predigested Protein, every diet program that came out. I was ostracized, lonely, bullied...... I continued gaining weight becoming an obese adult with health issues, emotional issues and physical damage. As an adult I found a dr who dug deeper, did full panel testing for thyroid disease and found out I had Hoshimoto. I later developed Graves disease. I was tested as a child but the full, complete panel wasn't done so it wasn't found and went untreated. I often think that if it was found as a child, I wouldn't have lived as a fat pre-teen, teenager and unhealthy adult. Your friend asked you because she trusts you. Please find out if the complete testing for thyroid diseases and other possible disorders was done. Alex is right, the child should know she is going to Drs to ensure her wellness, not about her weight. Thank you for helping this child and supporting her mother. I wish all of you the best.

You can't drink because of a medication you are taking.
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Trying to figure it all out. What I can have, can't have, exercise, pain, .....

Bresh mint infused Water -so good

I majorly dilute them

Congratulations !!!⭐! You've worked hard and it paid off!

I'm so sorry for the lose of your son. All of our experiences, good and bad, teach us how we respond to stressful situations. The good news is we can use tools to work on our perspective. Maybe you can visualize yourself when you reach goal. What would you look like, what activities will you be doing..... Your trying to better your health and quality of life and yes, a lot of us are overweight because we overeat, find exercising painful, have compounding health issues.... But surgery is a physical tool to support the journey to physical and emotional wellness. All the best to you.

Uhmmmmm. Ok. You're right.
AHAHAAAHAHAAAAAA!! (Y'all. I'm dying here but I am totally going to behave.)

Wow!!!!!⭐!

Great story. I was picked on by kids my age growing up and teased for being bigger, and it can all really add up to demolish your self-esteem...and then weirdly, we end up becoming what they say we are. It just starts a vicious cycle that it is tremendously hard to get out of. We're doing it, though! You've achieved a lot, congratulations. I can't wait to join the ranks of those who've reached their goals, after suffering for so long.

I really don't remember a point in my life where I started gaining weight. I was always bigger with the sentence "she'll grow out of this chubby phase soon" whispered above my head.
Getting into high school I remember having to look for a desk that I could fit into easily, problem was, some classrooms only had older desks and I was left with my gut taking up most of my table.
You would think I would do something, recognize that this wasn't okay. But I was confident, and very social, I had earned a fantastic network of friends. But just friends. I made it to 18 before I had anything close to a real boyfriend. I didn't feel like I deserved more then just one night of a guys attention, I didn't how wrong I was.
The only people that ever really bullied me were my own grandparents, with traditional my figure was the butt of the rude and hurtful joke, and constant scrutiny. Even to go as far as me telling them I was going intertubbing with friends only to have my grandfather literally grab my stomach fat and say "good thing you have your own tube"
I didn't speak to them for over a year after that.
My mom and father were both over weight, my father was fairly active and my mother worked a lot.
Fast food and quick diner dinners and take out was the daily norm for us. Causing food to be what brought us together. The best way I can put it is where other peoples family's went on walks or hikes, or maybe they snowboarded. The could have liked to go hunting! But my family would literally drive for an hour just to go get f*+king doughnuts.
(That I miss dearly)
My mom decided to have Bariatric sleeve surgery and had amazing success, one night about 6 months post op he tried her hardest to ask me if I wanted to have the surgery too without hurting my feeling.
I immediately said yes and we filled out an application that night
June 25th 2015. Surgery day.
I felt more prepaid then most others in the room looked. I had a first hand play by play that I had my mom tell me everything was going to be fine.
I don't remember much after changing into the hospital robe, I remember waking up my mom was there, drinking her Protein Shake, like always. I was in pain, it felt like someone had drug me around by my hands and had dislocated my shoulders from my arms.
Every time I swallowed I felt a sharp pain. But soon the pain meds started to help and within three hours I was up and walking, I crunched happily on ice and eventually some apple juice that I swear was made from what ever kind of apple eve ate cause damn.
By the 4th day I wanted food, SOMETHING TO CHEW I had been put on a 14day liquid diet pre op.
And we all know how post op goes so I was stuck with the soft stuff, best thing I've found is a no flavor Protein powder, I have one that has 30mg protein per table spoon, I'd mix a table spoon with some baby food and have it for dinner around week 3. Week 4 I had some sliced turkey brest and part of a piece of orange (not a good plan)
Slowly I re introduced foods and started becoming more active and seeing the lbs fall off.
Today I am 176lbs. I feel happy and beautiful and healthy and I can't wait to see how much farther I'll go!

Good for you. Good attitude too. I'm glad you're doing well.

Wow. Perhaps your boss asked someone to send you something nice and that someone was unaware of what you were going to do?

Can I ask you this, Do you believe in God? The reason I said this because I was you, our story sounds the same except my son passed 2months before his second birthday. I was so afraid of having this surgery, I too said what if I die, I too love food, I too suffered with high blood, diabetes and arthritis in my knees, but ,I never ever had surgery a day in my life , never been put to sleep, heck I never broken a bone, so imagine how I was feeling, just like you. But when I stepped out and allowed God to step in and trust him fully with my life my worries begin to fade away. I can say I never gave fear a second thought on that operating table on September 14, 2016 yes last month I had the RNY surgery. Think of your health , have strength and put your power into play , fear not. You just put it all in Gods hands . you will do just fine
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Bubba says

Bubba says

You are correct! Stay true to yourself

After all this I think I need a sturgeon!

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