Frustr8

Do hope your Liver decides to settle down, fly right and function well. Please keep US updated no matter what!???

I wonder if you could substitute liquid blue. agave -- honey seems like concentrated sugars to ME but YMYC!

And Welcome also from Me, Red-headed, one- half the size I used to be, if I tell you I am now in the 180s you probably figure out how BIG I used to be. Anyway I'm 5 days past my 1st year Surgiversity, thrilled with my size Now, I can see my GOAL in sight of 175, and, ah yes I AM 73 YEARS young, so had my RNY at 72 and will turn 74 on December 26th. So if you need inspiration or ANYTHING I'm usually close to my Smartphone and love chatting and helping where I can. I really have learned SO MUCH since I joined Bariatric Pal. And my favorite protein shake is Ensure High Protein in ? Strawberry, it honestly reminds me of Nestle Strawberry Quik. No nasty after taste, not all that expensive, get mine from my local Wal-Mart.

A lot of people yearn for salty- and- or savory things. Like most things in life, you got to do what's good for you, we all got to make our own kind of ? music!

Yep that's why I am a 17/19 on my way to a 15. I was a DD before surgery time, now I am barely a B. One of the first posters here said she was channeling Elle Woods, well my Inner Tomboy is resurfacing after 50+ years. Told my orthopaedic surgeon in Early Days I was an Obese sporty tomboy, he said "That's impossible!"--- Well Well Well Just look at ME Now! I am even returning to some exercises, okay* Even if I am 73* it makes me feel BETTER and PROUDER that I once again can do it without huffing-puffing- and doing myself an Injury! I'm not an Senior Olympic contender but at least, I'm back in the game!??And it's NOT TOO LATE FOR ME!

And remember I Am the Non- Omeprazole Kid--- It NEVER was gastroprotective for ME!

And Lauren, I'm praying? you make it! My Surgery weight was 319, at 1 year 5 days? I am 182, so still on My Way to My Goal of 175!

I can eat the small Activia Greek yogurt cups but the full-size tubs are TOO MUCH at a time. Precious Pouch must be VERY PETITE to not hold THAT MUCH!

Yeah I bought some sugar free pudding cups, don't know if it's the preservatives and what- not but might as well toss them in the. trash bin, because I can't stand how they taste. Made myself some low- cal rice pudding; found a recipe, did it MYSELF but forgot how rice fills and expands in my pouch, and 2 teaspoonful= Misery! Funny but tapioca doesn't have the same effect, should have cooked that up instead!

May the ensuing Days bring you moments of great elation as you travel your own road to your goals.

I'll know I have made it to Heaven. when there are No Cortisone Shots and No More Surgeries. And there I will have gotten rid of my ?limp, pain and sorrowful ?times.??

Didn't know anyone in the Keystone State did Those- usually hear from posters in North Carolina and St Louis Mo.

So Happy for YOU, We Are Saving a Place Just Your Size Over Here on the " Losers Bench" . So Come on down when You're Ready!

If we're not supposed to raid the refrigerator for Midnight Snacks; why is there ALWAYS a light on in there?

And like my Helpful motto/ thoughts App PLEASE WAIT TO CRITICIZE ME UNTIL YOU ARE PERFECT YOURSELF.

And I'll help too, Lord Knows , Having achieved 73 years on this earth I'm just brimming with knowledge and advice. After all I've been to Life's Circus frequently and I haven't just fallen off the Turnip Truck. So try us, we all are Good Listeners and have had varied Life Experiences.??

Well Lynda , you and I are like " watched pots" our doctors seem to be sitting back and watching to see if we " Boil Over" or do something else significant. And my numbers also at this point are still Okay, not World-Class but Okay.

And I am Happy Happy Happy to hear?you are getting better. I had something in that vein when I was 8 or 9 years old. See I was jumping rope at recess when I swallowed a Big Fat Cinnamon Jawbreaker I had hid from my parents and Mrs Jennings, my Third Grade teacher, because all 3 were against me having any sugar candies. Had to prevail upon the School Nurse's mercy, although I didn't confess what I did. Made my Mama come pick ME up and it had been her Week to provide the Alter Flowers at ⛪ church. But Boy oh Boy, I Hurt & Hurt Bad!

And the fact that people can't just snap their fingers to lose their weight DOES NOT MEAN that they are trying. I can testify,i tried every diet out there including some I believe my doctors imagined out of spite. Ate much less food, exercised, had deleted junk foods and sodas already, starved myself I cried myself to sleep at night, malnourished so bady that it was a wonder I didn't die of the imbalances instead of Frank OBESITY. Meanwhile my naturally thin and better BMI cousins are eating like Longshoremen who didn't know if there would EVER be Another Food Shipment! Took Bypass surgery to help reset me and my BMR. And now I look pretty fine for My Age but naked, you can see the ravages Obesity did upon MY BODY. And I did ask my doctors if Plastic Surgery could be in my Future. The response was trifold--- 1. Am I really That Vain? 2. I am Too Old (73) 3. No Surgeon in or approaching His Right Mind who lift a finger to help ME because I AM AN IRON-CLAD SURGICAL RISK! But Never say I was obese from lack of Dietary Commitment or Compliance--- I LIVED IT AND I KNOW BETTER, So Help Me GOD!

If you really want to talk of the glories of the World-Wide Web, please arrange to download me a helping of food, I have yet to find the proper App for that one on my Android phone- even if it has An Top of The Line "Oreo Program already installed!??

Let me tell you a story- it at least marginally fits. I am asthmatic, seems like almost all colds move down to my lungs & there they seem to take up residence. So often my PCP writes me a "script" for Capmist, has dextomorphin and other goodies in it. Problem is also I am very arthritic, have been since 25, yep You Read it right- I am one of the minority who had Early Onset, not so much from obesity but my mild Ehlers-Danlos gives my collagen nothing" to write home about" At the time I mention PCP was giving me Capmist, it helps thin mucus so I can breath better. Sound Okay?, well it wasn't! At the same time my Arthritis was flaring, my orthopaedic surgeon advised Ibuprofen, an NSAID, Dr Ortho says " You're a BIG GIRL- Take 4 every 4-6 hours" so Frustr8 is compliant to the INTH Degree. What nobody considered, let alone ME, is while CapmisT was cheerfully stripping the mucus from my lungs, it ALSO was destroying my gastric mucus layer. So down goes the Advil ( ibuprofen) , and it starts chomping on my stomach lining. And I didn't realize that WAS A DANGER, the next thing I knew , I was in Epigastric misery, so I took ME off to the gastroenterologist who confirmed after his diagnostic EGD that I was the UNWILLING OWNER of Hector, my baby but still valid Ulcer. So if you are visiting more than one doctor in a short,period of time that they know what each other are prescribing, don't emulate Me and end up in a Miserable state. I went into Bariatrics already diagnosed with Hector and gastritis from This Little Adventure. And My Lovelies, I had the Pain I wished my Enemies had instead of ME! Forwarned/ Forarmed, Okay?

And @ John's Hendren, I hope the rest of August got better and that you're into a Super September.

I was a Bad Little girl the other day- TOMKITTEN asked me to make him a Cinnamon Strudel, Okay I can do that! Well when got,it all finished , baked and out of the oven Bad Little ME cut a sample, honestly about 1/8 inch, told Myself" You'll Be Just Fine"-- Oh No I wasn't- sat down in my recliner- and Suddenly Precious Pouch woke from her internal slumbering and I was off to PukeCity, and I spent a good 1/2 hour doing just THAT , when she had emptied out the strudel she wasn't satisfied to just relax, nope I started "Dry-Heaving" until she satisfied herself I WOULDN'T Do it Again! And iof course, I'm not a new recruit anymore, I Knew Better, but Children IT JUST ISN'T WORTH THE ?ACHE,AND SORROW! Do as I SAY, not as I DID!

And mine seem now always to immediately precede EMESIS. so instead of a minor nuisance it's an "OMG'--- please--- NOT NOW!"

Shoe size just marginal but I lost from a D width to a B, so that's a NSV for ME!