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Everything posted by GreenTealael
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Food Before and After Photos
I’d sign up for that newsletter. I was briefly addicted to virgin mojitos and iced tea ?
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Food Before and After Photos
OMG are we all eating the same things? Today I had eggs (egg and cheese on a tortilla) for the first time in a long while. I thing the surreal egg prices of a few months ago turned me off of them.
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Food Before and After Photos
the difference is definitely about the fat content (I believe it was 85/15 but I don’t generally worry about fat content)
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Food Before and After Photos
Semi Homemade mushroom calzone & garlic knots (store bought dough). The calzone wasn’t for me but I had about 5 garlic knots with 3 meatballs from the huge batch I made.
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New to Revision (Sleeve to Bypass) Seeking Advice
I think that if you are doing everything right, watch your sodium and water intake to see if you are retaining fluids. Otherwise just keep going and don’t get discouraged because you could just be in a stall.
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Freezer because I don’t eat butter often enough to need it soft except in March/April then it’s on the counter.
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I'm half the man I used to be before WLS and NSVs on recent holiday
Congratulations!
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So I prepped a mega batch of Turkey meatballs (65) and I’m going to freeze the majority of them for future meals.
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Let's Collect Some Data!
Ok and go with 178 at the 6 month mark, I think that was the right number
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Treating saggy skin on the face
It will depend on a few different things but age is probably the biggest second only to budget. Is your face sagging or is it volume loss? For sagging only surgical methods really work to achieve the lifted tightened look. For volume loss you could use filler. If you’re young enough the non surgical treatments like RF may work to a degree (but not comparable to a facelift) but the older you are the less likely, and no one wants to waste money on things that don’t work. I’m sure you’ve seen a ton of videos but I think these are good at explaining the differences between different procedures. I hope it helps ❤️ BTW I don’t have sagging just loss of volume (thanks to WLS & COVID ?) And I’m doing biostimulators with a pro, manual microneedling at home and I have ALWAYS used retinoids.
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Let's Collect Some Data!
1. Basics: GENDER, AGE, HEIGHT Female 34yr 5’ 3” 2. Total Weight lost in the 6 months BEFORE surgery (if any) 11 3. Weight on DAY OF SURGERY 238 5. Weight at 3 MONTHs POST surgery 199 6. Weight at 6 MONTHs POST surgery 188 or 176 Apparently I kept terrible records of my weight loss probably because I only weighed at doctor’s visit during my losing phase.
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Food Before and After Photos
Mex inspired chicken soup. It was surprisingly good because it had cubed chicken breast so it was way to focus on the protein. I only ate about half.
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What is the added item that makes it only almost pure?
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I am struggling please help
Yes it will get easier but because you are immediately post op and experiencing a complication it may not feel this way. I hope you have a speedy recovery ❤️?
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Long Distance Hiking/vigorous exercise after surgery
You may want to chat with someone like @loridee11 who climbed Kilimanjaro! (I’m still amazed ?)
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New obesity meds in progress
Hahahaha don’t say that or Novo and Lilly may add that to the side effects of GLP-1 meds ?
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Food Before and After Photos
Oh Lordy! Try them for me ? How can I be so hypocritical so fast! I just said I don’t like food anymore a few post ago but any sign of Caribbean (or Indian) food and clearly do like eating ?
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ALMANZA EVIL!
I’m so sorry this happened to you and I’m glad you posted to help everyone else.
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New obesity meds in progress
Wanna see my citations ?
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Food Before and After Photos
Speedy recovery and happy food progression!!!
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2.5 Weeks Post-Op sleeve revision to bypass. A little nervous reading these posts
As long as you are trending in the right direction don’t stress about it. You will do great ❤️
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Food Before and After Photos
I can never tell unless something in the menu gives it away! Griot or any French/patois words -Haitian, “Ackee”-Jamaican and “Doubles”- Trinidadian. But this could be pan Caribbean! edit: I see the blurry “authentic Jamaican” on the sidewalk sign ?
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Save a taco for me ?
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Food Before and After Photos
That sounds like island food! Jamaican or Haitian?
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New obesity meds in progress
For inquiring minds: https://time.com/6284941/mounjaro-weight-loss/ https://time.com/6284941/mounjaro-weight-loss/ https://time.com/6289928/new-weight-loss-drugs-orforglipron-retatrutide-tirzepatide/ https://time.com/6290294/weight-loss-drugs-ozempic-demonization-essay/