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I honestly wouldn't worry about not meeting mom right now. That's BIG BIG stuff--especially if he's an only child and has been burned before with women trying to get close too fast. Or alternately, he could be Chandler Bing with intimacy issues. Maybe HE's the crazy one and the other chicks are just normal? Only you will know when/if he hits your personal limits for following the plan. You know? I think there's no harm right now in just being FBs or FWBs. But if you are just FB/FWB status, I'd probably have bigger boundaries/hoops he has to jump through and greater cool-factor going down. Cuz I def wouldn't want to be putting it on the line begging him to love me and being unprotected. I def wouldn't want to appear desperate. And, not saying you appear that way cuz I've no idea how cool you are being nor what your boundaries are. I just think dating today is forking difficult and my hat's off to you! (And I'm seriously asking myself right now WTF was I thinking doing AMAW/CAMAW right now? ROFLMBO! Serious second thoughts. I want to sacrifice a 5oz box of baby spinach to the gastro gods right now. LOL)

LOL, it hurts. That's how you know you need to slow down or change the temp of the liquids. You'll soon learn your own pace! Congrats on your surgery!

Wowza!

Holy fork! Is that you in your avi or your daughter? No way do you look 52. I call shenanigans!

Yeah, some days I have a slight aversion to cold things too. I have to sip much much slower than with room temp/warmer liquids.

Jazz hands!

I'd just drink tons of water, decaf warm tea, decaf warm coffee, SF jello, SF popsicles, broth, protein water and be done with the day! But I'm just some shmoe on the internet and am not a doc!!!! That's just what I personally did for my clear liquid days. My doc would not let me have juice in any form.

Dayum. I was the opposite. About 3 weeks out I realized a poo wasn't always a poo. After much intervention I delivered Rosemary's Baby in solid poo-form (complete with arms, legs, and devils horns).

Yay on Phase2!!! Congrats on getting to chew! We chewing! It's highly underrated! Here you go! Just mix it all up and if needed, you can blend it--although I never did--I just chewed to smithereens!

AMAW/CAMAW DAY 2 Begins Today!!!!! Wooooohooooooo! Don't Cheat! Eat Meat! Who's on board for a run with AMAW/CAMAW? I'd like to say it was smooth sailing yesterday. But I hit rough water last night and barely made it through choppy waters. Shhhh don't tell Mr. F. but I licked every piece of his al dente broccoli that I put on his plate. kserrynotserry... But I'm feeling strong this morning even though the scale only moved down 0.2lbs. I'll still take that as a Day 1 win! How was your first day for committed clean eating? Any hiccups or temptations? What's the plan for today? My personal calorie goal is gonna be about 700cals/day. Carbs = 9g (5%)+extra carbs from whole psyllium husks Protein = 79g (45%) Fat = 39g (50%) The rules for AMAW/CAMAW are on page 1 - first post!!! Come play along! I'm gonna try to hold off on food until around 2pm. Projected Menu: B/MS/L = black decaff + black green tea 2nd L = egg salad on a cheese shingle AS = bone broth with shrimp and sesame oil D = 2 psylli grilled chicken, cheese, avo tacos Projected Totals: 689 cals; 69g protein; 34g fat; 12g carbs; 2g psyllium fiber; 10g non psylli carbs

OK, going for a 16:8 today! Wooohooooo! Anyone IFing the fork out of Monday? It's Day 2 of AMAW/CAMAW. Barely made it by the skin of my teeth. LOL. I have one more coffee before I have to engage my aspirin bottle in constructive endeavors. Will one of you (or many) entertain me? Subjects sure to make me laugh: anything potty related, nose humor, innocent stuff about sex (d**k pics with d**k Van Dyke and Oscar Meyer), updates on your bad selves or good selves, kids antics, dating/singles antics, cardio chat, food chat, the Guys' Room, I wanta say the Ladies Room, but that just makes me sad and want to shake my head...SO. MUCH. droopy boobs. PCOS. period chatter!

Welcome! Jump right in and post a lot!

Jazz hands! Back at cha little missy!!!! And there is NO FORKIN' WAY that your hot hubby J will ever be mistaken for Daddy--unlike someone something I can't won't comment on. hehehehe!

Yes! Yes! A million, beeeelion times yes! Now where's my danged ol' sf gummy bears for the class? *snerk*

I wish I knew! I only use my mobile for responding to posts that come into my email...for updates in my signature line and in my profile and ticker, I use my desktop computer. But if you are on your mobile device and go to your menu icon in the upper right hand of your phone and click on it then >>Account>>Account Settings>>Settings Area>>Signature You can add things into a footer and change a bunch of stuff! I can't find where you change your Ticker though.

Congrats on the loss and on catching it at 20 pounds! Come join us over in the AMAW/CAMAW thread! https://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/421182-amawcamaw-lets-do-this-thang/?do=getNewComment

Congrats girlie! It's exciting and exhausting all at the same time. But so dang worth it!!!! Hope you like him/her!

Your back pain is likely caused from the surgery. If it's right at your sternum where your esophagus and tum meet, then it's likely surgical pain. You get rid of that by taking liquid tylenol per the package instructions. If it's so bad, then I added in Tramadol with the liquid tylenol and it got rid of it very quickly. The pain radiates from deep in your chest straight through to your back.

Oh crap! It's the juice. Literally!!! Stop the mother truckin juicing. It can make normie's tums get a case of the trots!

Ouch, sorry for the change in tastes! So the important thing to also know about protein is that: jello is not a good/complete source of protein, neither is bone broth (for the record), or stock, or soup broth/bouillon. Here is a thread with a few tips for getting your protein in as a newbie.

Sorry about your issues. You don't have a filled out profile so we can't see much about your surgery or when you had it or results...makes answering you pretty impossible.

Wow well having 13 kids and an absent hubs is certainly anxiety inducing!!! Also about the anxiety, maybe call the doc and go get a physical/all your blood drawn. It could very well be a vitamin/mineral deficiency at 2 years. Not sayin' it is...but it could be. Also, drink LOTS of water--like north of 100oz per day at least! Try to drop the crap carbs (at least a little at a time), and so agree with everything that @skinnylife said!!! Start that logging again and tracking stuff! You can do it!!!!

Yeah, pretty norms for this early out. Sorry you're having probs. I would use pads or panty liners for a while. You might also switch up your protein. The gurgles get better. The other stuff is just part of figuring out your new tum and it healing. And oh...NEVER. EVER. EVER. Never trust a fart!

Did anyone else do AMAW/CAMAW Day 1 with me? If so, how'd it go? I did fine until last evening. The desire for veggies was really hard at the evening meal. I should have just made the danged ol' psylli wraps and had my tacos. Then I woulda been fine. Instead I was lazy and just had leftover grilled chicken and an ounce of avo. I felt "less than." LOL! Scale only moved 0.2lbs. A lot of work for little scale love.

I guess it's just "what you know". Not that I'm a saint...solid mid-hedonist here...but we've been LC for so dang long that it's just become "how we eat"--low carb that is. But we do have carb escalation lol that happens then we have to check ourselves at the door--hence this AMAW/CAMAW week.