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Where are you located? I live in Bennett Valley near the golf course and have been evacuated since Wednesday.

Im thinking you’ve already had surgery- this is a very stressful time, so scary but we all have to be strong and part of that is self care! Don’t eat and if you snack can you make them healthy Snacks? (Ya what’s the point of a healthy snack! )

My surgery was scheduled for the 17th but it’s been canceled....Stay safe [emoji173]️

Where are you located? I live in Bennett Valley near the golf course and have been evacuated since Wednesday.

Im thinking you’ve already had surgery- this is a very stressful time, so scary but we all have to be strong and part of that is self care! Don’t eat and if you snack can you make them healthy Snacks? (Ya what’s the point of a healthy snack! )

My surgery was scheduled for the 17th but it’s been canceled....Stay safe [emoji173]️

Wow!! You look amazing!! Woohoo I can’t wait !!

Where are you located? I live in Bennett Valley near the golf course and have been evacuated since Wednesday.

Im thinking you’ve already had surgery- this is a very stressful time, so scary but we all have to be strong and part of that is self care! Don’t eat and if you snack can you make them healthy Snacks? (Ya what’s the point of a healthy snack! )

My surgery was scheduled for the 17th but it’s been canceled....Stay safe [emoji173]️

And that's why they didn't put you on antibiotics! I'm glad your follow up labs were good. Lots of stuff can cause a bump in a white count (even stress).
Indiscriminate antibiotic use has contributed to a rise in antibiotic resistant superbugs, so gone are the days are just tossing out antibiotics for anything and everything, especially if the patient is asymptomatic.

Here are my 5 months pics...size 6 jeans down from a size 16/18 and a small shirt down from an XL. Still can’t believe this is me sometimes lol

Happy 5 months everyone!!! I weighed myself today and weighed in at 189.8 so I’ve lost about 46 pounds so far. I am pretty proud of that. I haven’t been as active because I’ve also lost another 220 pounds in the form of a my bf. He apparently can’t handle the new me and is not supportive at all and he was in the process of leaving over the past few days which have been pretty difficult. I will try to post a pic later if I feel up it...

The first and last love is to love yourself! Never in a million years did I ever picture myself wearing such dress. I loved it and how I felt in it. Amazing feeling to experience. When your confident in each step, it shows and it attracts so many good things.
One of the most memorable days of my life [emoji813]️
 

I have no regrets at all. I'm in the best shape of my adult life and I am finally living the life that I was meant to live.
All of the hard work and sacrifice is worth it. food is just food, and it isn't worth all the misery that obesity brings with it!

Hi there, thanks for asking- I am alive and my home is still standing but I’ve been evacuated, we’re all surrounded by 22 fires right now. So very sad. I spent a few hours in the clinic yesterday and do have a bronchitis flare up from all the smoke, Im on steroids and antibiotics. Phones and power have been down since Sunday and Medical offices have been swamped with fire victims so I just got ahold of the surgeons office today and they said surgery isn’t canceled but it isn’t necessarily on either- I find out Monday, the day before. I may postpone it for a few weeks because of my lungs and due to not having a place to recover- I’m in a local hotel with my son and two cats!!!
I bet you’re excited 🤗🤗 how are you doing??

I'm a year out and I've only lost 40lbs. But a co-worker who had the bypass told me about the reset, where you start from day one and it will put me back on track. Will try that starting tomorrow. Please pray for me.

@cantseemytoesI've been finding myself emotionally eating as well. Also, I find that when I'm losing weight...like I deserve to eat bad as a reward and that is terrible...I'm working on it. If I lose weight I tell my boyfriend "let's go out and celebrate" like that's sooo bad. I'm in a similar situation to you. Dealing with stress of work, school and relationships have caused me to want to revert back to eating for coping and it's super tough. I can totally relate to you. Someone told me that I should remind myself how much I spent on this surgery and how I felt before the surgery....why do we want to go back to that? I think mind over matter and we just have to be stronger and not let things that hurt us cause us to hurt ourselves by over indulging and eating bad again.

Last week I got some disappointing news and found myself eating some French fries left behind by my family from their dinner. While I wouldn't usually beat myself up about this, I noticed that it was completely connected to my emotions. I wasn't hungry, I wasn't even craving the fries. I was feeling down and automatically reached for the fries.
Today, I found out that one of my kids has been lieing to me, which caused an array of emotions ranging from sadness to anger, and again my mind went to food. I recognized it and didn't feed my emotions, but still, I have discovered that the potention for that pattern still exists inside me and so I had to vent to the only people that could possible understand.

Maybe we are thinking of different types of fasting. I'm talking about the Dave Asprey's Bulletproof method( he considers it fasting as there is no food, just oils and coffee" too may make the mistake of doing low carb and low fat. The high fat coffee is a great way to kick start your high fat day. I've broken every weight loss plateau I've had doing it.

I have a sleeve, and how it feels to me is the food stays in there until I drink a big cup of beverage, and that "washes" the food out. If I don't drink, then 2-4 hours sounds about right.
If I try to drink before 30-40 minutes after I eat, I immediately get too full. If I wait, there seems to be room to drink.
So, what that seems to tell me is some of the food has already left the sleeve within 30-40 minutes.
In an ideal world we will wait a couple hours before drinking so the food has the best chance of getting digestive juices mixed in it.

SW 319
CW 230
GW 160
I'm so excited. It's been 20 years since I've been this small. Yesterday I went on my first shopping trip. I kept gravitating to tge 3xl and it would dawn on me. I'm a size 16 now " GET OUT OF THE PLUS SIZE"! omg never thought I can actually wear things I actually want. Not just look at sizes till I found something. It feels amazing. Went from size 26 jeans and 4xl tops. To size 16 jeans and xl top in just 4 months. Victory! Best decision I've ever made for myself. No regrets.
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I'm right behind you. The 17th. Have to be there at 6:30 am for an 8 am surgery. As hard as one tries to get it off their mind ( movies, reading) it's impossible not to dwell on. It's an anxious time.. anticipatory time... etc etc

I’m nervous, excited, and scared! I have to be there at 7am and surgery is at 9am.

Ugh I'm getting nervous by the day have to be there monday before 6 am my surgery is at 7:30 I'm sooo excited to start my new journey but I know with God on all of us side we will be okay our day is approaching really fast getting anxious by the minute I wanna say congrats for all the October sleevers thats getting sleeved this month/year
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10/15/17
Good Afternoon All,
I've been having trouble not regressing to eat bad things since the Sonoma Wildfires started. I can't eat a lot at a time but I can snack. I'm trying to stay strong but when I get stressed its very hard to do. These fires are scary. We are still in our house but I worry about evacuating myself, my husband and our 3 cats a lot. It makes me want to eat. Any suggestions on willpower?

10 weeks!! Wow! You look great [emoji847][emoji847]

I've found a great book online today that should help you find ways to beat your post-op depression.

I never went into chat rooms or forums -- it wasn't my thing. I was seriously concerned though when I came on here yesterday to a "support forum" and read where someone said if they had a 9 mm gun they would shoot the other person in the head....! I don't believe that the keyboard and anonymity is free reign for people to be abusive. I think that's cowardly!!!

Thank you all for your honest answers and welcoming behavior. I know I'm here for me, and I won't use the excuse that "They're mean so I can't go there" as a reason to fall. I'm in, I'm staying and I'm taking no prisoners, except that emotional eater inside me. I plan on making it this time, no matter what.

A lot of people maybe also left because they simply go on with life.
I stopped posting on boards about WLS long ago and started again when I had my revision. Now I notice again that I'm not really interested anymore in posting a lot. One of the reasons is that I recently started another education so I have other things on my mind but I also notice that I don't have anything constructive to say about a lot of things.
I can understand the need to make snarky comments about certain things (as so many of the vets that left did) - but I don't do it. It's a very destructive thing to do so I rather hold my virtual tongue.
With time it's tiring to read about the same stuff and I feel that what I have to say about certain things is not what people want to hear.