Rainbow_Warrior

My wife had sleep apnoea too. She's had the CPAP machine for about 15 months. The success of her two courses of the gastric balloon has meant a weight loss from 126kg to 89kg [278 pounds to 198 pounds] so far has meant that the sleep apnoea is now past tense. Her review is about 8-9 days away. In the first week or two of the CPAP machine, she went through a lot of 'tweaking' until she was comfortable with it. But she stuck with it and started having refreshing, solid sleep. I urge you to stick with it. The results tend to strongly justify the initial feeling of discomfort and change.

Your printed pages are NOT exactly like mine but they have a lot of similarity. Thanks for sharing.

About 10-11 days of clear liquids ... clear soups, protein shakes, non-lumpy vegetable juices, clear fruit juices etc. That was not too bad. It went well. Now in second week of two weeks of purees. I'm pureeing everything in the blender ... 50g-70g chicken breast pieces or fresh fish or rare roast beef or refried beans or canned fish. To make these easy to blend and to eat, I add 50mL-100mL of egg whites to the blender. No problems judging the relative "runny-ness" of anything yet. I also have a lot of pouches of yoghurt and I round out some days with pouches of high grade baby/toddler food. (The latter are brilliant these days ... NOT like the salty, shitty canned and bottled baby foods of the 1950s and 1960s. My review with the surgeon, the psychologist, the counsellor and the dietitian is next Monday. I am very likely to go back onto small serves of regular foods ... but foods with a higher per unit protein concentration. I am looking forward to scrambled eggs, poached eggs, 50g-70g chicken breast pieces that have not been through a blender. Other meats too. Drained baked beans minus that sugary sweet tomato muck. I am also ready for my half cup of steel cut oats for breakfast. I'll probably steam smaller amounts of the veges I used to eat (minus the hot chips/french-fries). I could even puree them while hot and make a nice vege sauce for my meats. My taste buds have changed and I will, in the future, I suspect, want to be way less of a dairy consumer. I like unsweetened almond milk in my coffee or mixed in protein shakes or whey drinks these days. I have lots more thoughts on how I'll be in six months time.

Nice evasive solution. As a male, I guess I could have a few of the smaller, stronger zip-loc bags in my pocket. My wife, a gastric balloon patient keeps a couple of flatpack chinese-takeaway containers and a plastic cover-bag down the side of her larger shoulder bag when she goes out with friends to restaurants. "Oooh, I overestimated what I could eat tonight. That big lunch was too much," is one of her comments as she packs her uneaten food away. "I'll finish this tomorrow!" she adds.

Take lots of those pouches of yoghurt and lots of bottles of drinking water. Also, start checking out mix-up cup soups with no lumps (or nearly no lumps). Flavoured tea-bags that you like. Have your cover story ready ... you've had surgery involving trying to stop irritable bowel and intestinal problems that have been upsetting you for some time. Make sure that you talk to your husband and kids and tell them that you will do all the discussing of your different xmas food and drink consumption, NOT THEM. Be firm. If there's a leak of info, it'll likely be one of them. - - - - - Or, on the other hand, just prepare yourself to call them together and make the announcement ... "come out". Tell them that it's your decision for your future health and longevity and that you are doing your best to change your body and your health risks. Politely tell them that you don't expect that they'll all agree with your solution ... that it's now a fact of life and that you are moving forward. Suggest clearly, that if they have negative thoughts or a desire to give you advice, you are not welcoming it as you're trusting the choice you have made.

1. If you have MS Word or Apple Pages, open one of them. 2. Set your page to LANDSCAPE. 3. (Optional) Choose a coloured background. 4. Drag photos from the file manager onto the WORD page or PAGES page. 5. Using only a single corner of each photo resize each to fit an appropriate height and width. (Trying to get them all the same height is usually best.) 6. Add any appropriate text. 7. Save your document. 8. (Optionally) take a screen shot of it. 9. Upload to Bariatric Pal. HERE'S THE ONE I MADE ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO BEFORE SURGERY.

Wow. Are you allowed to eat hot greasy foods on commuter buses in the USA? It's a rare thing in Australia that you can eat on a bus. Usually water only. No food, no juice, no soft drinks or soda drinks. (The companies don't like extra cleaning expense.)

May I suggest, in the interests of your wallet (and its fast depletion), that you buy one snug-fitting pair of slacks for now and a set of braces/suspenders? Much smarter when you're likely dropping two to five pounds [i.e. 1 to 2.2 kilograms] per week.

Did you, perchance, mean to say, "absorption issue"?

Did you mean "nutritional deficiencies" perhaps?

At the bottom of the response panel (right here on your computer or app), there is a paper clip symbol which invites you to upload pictures or files. Use your mouse or finger to activate it then upload the appropriate pic/pix from your gallery. I have attached a pic to show you.

That is wrong. I upload pics from my desktop computer at work and my personal laptops to Bariatric Pal regularly. In fact, in the seven weeks, I have uploaded between 35 and 40 pics, images and diagrams.

Exactly. It's normally handed over at one of the clinic or surgeon visits. And I got a separate set of reminders from the private hospital too.

We don't have Halloween or Thanksgiving in Australia. We do have Melbourne Cup Day (first Tuesday in November, from 11:30am to 3:45pm, two-thirds of the country shuts down for the world's richest thoroughbred race (now in its 157th running in 8 days time). One state, Victoria, shuts down for a public holiday for the whole day. And the third Thursday in November is usually the opening of the test cricket season. Cricket is way bigger than baseball as it's played across India, Pakistan, England, the Caribbean, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Dubal, the UAE, the Netherlands, Scotland, Wales, Canada ... and several more places. Unlike baseball which has nine innings over a few hours, test cricket matches are FIVE DAYS (10:30am to 6:00pm) to judge which team can outplay and outlast the other.

This is not 100% 'set in stone' but, with most surgeons/clinics, you stop eating between 9pm and midnight the evening before your operation. Don't rely on me/us here on BariatricPal, though ... call the clinic/receptionist/hospital. Make sure!

I just labelled this screen capture to help you and others. Instructions are now a comment to two above here.

This is where to find it. Bump the bottom of your video/youtube screen with your mouse, your finger or your trackpad gesture and these features are there. I have labelled them for you.

Regular (or skim) milk simmered until the water content falls ... i.e. 'evaporates'. Some companies can it or put it in tetra packs.

No. Companies pay Facebook to use algorithms to find them customers via the things they talk about. (I have seen three documentaries about this evil practice.) Those companies can then have targeted ads placed on Facebook where you are reading your feed from your FB friends. You can also have what I have already described ... companies making cold calls at the front door, via Facebook or via FB notifications offering goods and services.

Excellent analogies. Well said.

So, while you people "offshore from Australia" are enjoying our WEIGHT LOSS and HEALTH television, I thought you might like SBS's "The Obesity Myth" from September 2017. Enjoy! The Obesity Myth Part 1 Battling the Biology www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1036488771874 The Obesity Myth Part 2 Eating Your Feelings www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1039923779969 The Obesity Myth Part 3 A Series Of Complications www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1039923779970

Or you can watch it on your smartphone on the URL as a browser page video ... which is how I posted it. I set it so that there was no geoblock.

It was captioned. You maybe set the CC [closed captions] button to off.

They are captioned. Unless you're hard of hearing, you won't need the captions. Except for the bogans and rednecks, we speak great English in this country.

No ... Weblock works on killing ads and pop-ups almost everywhere except FaceBook. AdBlockPlus works on the laptop with TrendMicro Security ... again, the FaceBook algorithm can slip through. Example: I said one day in February 2016 on my Facebook feed that I was pissed off be new electricity charges. Within five hours two electricity retailer reps had been to my front door canvassing for my change of business. And within 24 hours, I had been messaged/emailed by five others. That's the 5h1t that pisses me off.