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Jacob!!!!! So glad to see ya, Guy!!! So glad to hear it went well. I knew you could climb that mountain! You rock

Thanks so much for the info and support! We're all in it together, right?!?

I understand I really need to give up the vape for the surgery and I will,, but the marijuana is medically necessary. I use them under my pain docs orders instead of opiates (which my body does not metabolize) and I know I won't be able to go off it. My pain doc would kill me.

How long did you have to be off coffee???? Please Lord, NO!!! How will I live without coffee?

I have no idea of how long this takes because I'm waiting myself, but I know prayers and mine are going up for you right now!!!

I'm waiting too! As hard as it is, remember that God has the timing in His hand and if you can wait, and prepare yourself emotionally, mentally and spiritually you will rock this journey!!!!

Glad I checked out this thread -- THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!!

You are rocking this thing!!!!! Put up pictures!!!

I just started on this journey and the first thing I did was was to buy some smaller clothing and hang them up so that I can see them at any time as a positive reinforcement for me!!! I can't wait until I can get into them (and look good). I'm looking forward to not laying down on the bed to zip my pants

WOW, YOU LOOK FABULOUS!!!!

Wow you look absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!! CONGRATS ON ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!!

I have a serious question... Does anyone here use medical marijuana? I use it due to great pain after a broken neck in 1990. I don't smoke it, I bake it into foods and infuse coconut oil, so I don't have an anesthesia problem, but I'm worried my doc will restrict it on general principal. I also am wondering how to broach the subject with my doc. Any help out there? Did anyone utilize it prior to and following their procedure?

I hail from Rio Rancho, New Mexico!

Thanks XYZ. I was very honestly not wanting to create a stir, I really wanted to know if others felt supported and edified. Believe me, I understand that there are jerks in the world, but I am in a place right now where I want to set myself up for success, not agitation.

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.

I actually think that's a riot!!! Why can't you have it? Is it the carbonation?

While I understand that Veronique, you would certainly think that "normal" people wouldn't be talking about blowing peoples heads off with a 9 mm!!!! Childish....

Well, I've been on a couple of the forums, but darn, there's a lot of attitude here. I get the whole hormonal thing, and Lord knows, the hunger thing, but I need support - not serious negativity!!!

I just joined this site yesterday and I was surfing the forums, and I couldn't help recognizing all of the fighting...is this normal? My doctor recommended this site as a source of support as I start this journey, but I'm not so sure. Is this site always so negative?

I don't have a date yet. I am at the very beginning of this journey and, of course, I will have to deal with Humana. I would appreciate an experienced member who has already been there so they can, perhaps, give me an idea of what is to come! Thank you for your answer and support!

Hi! I'm new to the RNY process and I would love an experienced pal who will be willing to take this journey with me. I am a 55 year old Christian woman who, in 1991, had her stomach stapled and am now going through the revision process with RNY. I am a disabled American who has an a long and hard road to haul. I am an emotional eater who is now in the process of being "someone else" so that I can find the woman inside who has been silenced by Mike & Ikes! Is anyone available?

PRAYING FOR YOU TODAY JACOB!!! YOU GOT THIS!!!!!

Wait, you only ate the M&Ms and french fries? A fun size M&M and 10 french fries??? It just doesn't seem like that much of a fall off the cliff. However I do think that you need to look at the situation from an emotional eater standpoint, if you keep it up you could have a problem. Have you read the books that are suggested here on the site? I just ordered them from Amazon and I'm hoping they helping to deal with my emotional eating quandary prior to my revision surgery. I hope to get to appoint one day where food is no longer my comfort, my friend, my Confessor, or my lover! You hang in there my friend you didn't eat that much and you don't have to beat yourself up over it! I would kill for the days that I can only eat a fun size M&M again. I have days where I would eat the whole bag right now and we're talking that big bag sucker! So smile, put it behind you, and start to deal with the demons that cause you to turn towards food. I'm afraid it's the same demon that many many many of us have and if it was easy to defeat him we wouldn't be here would we! Sent from my SM-G930T using BariatricPal mobile app

You could always make your weed edibles for six weeks 3 weeks before the surgery in three weeks after. I'm also on medical cannabis, but I can't stand to smoke it! However I do smoke an e-cigarette, and I think I'm in trouble! Lol Sent from my SM-G930T using BariatricPal mobile app