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Oh Dang, I just saw an advert,on cable TV for another, must not have really tempted me because I never made a note of their e- mail address. Have done that before, don't know why but must be equivilent to the ball of -String too short to Use.

Tried an An Quest Vanilla Caramel bar, oh it tasted almost Wickedly Sickened sweet, did fill me up temporarilymvThe once or twice I tried even a mini-nibble of a sugar- containing item, had to Spit out, the Thrill Is Gone & I wonder that I used to eat that stuff!

Maui- I say Wowee! Those are 2 great objectives @ ypease and I'm hoping you make it all the. way!!

And Good Healthyvthoughts are being sent your way along with my prayers. Much ? love and for each of you! Bonnie Chance mes Ami!

I too was always a Plump Princess, even from birth. I had under control, I was big yes but exercised, was a player of sports, basketnall, softball and neighborhood baseball. I was stable around 230, then suddenly I ballooned to 365+ and was on Phenteramine, team I broke out in fat.Was told I probably had a couple years to live if I were lucky. And suddenly I never stood if I could sit because it hurt my 2 artificial knees so badly, I was short of breath, couldn't climb steps, that turned to don't sit v if you can lays down and why bother with anything if I was on the slick glide path to mortality. I heard about Bariatric Surgery, oh I thought it would be only for Chickee babies who were 20s and 30s. But my Red-head stubbornness kicked in, Wasn't I just as good as them? Shoot I have lived longer than them, and so I said DON'T COUNT ME OUT! Yeah I am a Greandma, but I won't be a fat one anymore, didn't want my grandbabies ashamed of me but even mote I DIDNT WANT TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF. If it killed me having surgery , so be it. Everyone expected I would blow up, family already deciding my pissessoonscamong them. Am I sorry for it? Well yes and no, I am glad I had a good surgery, I started malfunctioning, and my recovery has not been picture perfect, but I still believe it can be ! I am a cock-eyed optimist and I shall not be a loser, Wasn't born for that and why week to be average when you can be Outstanding. So I chug chug toward the finish line like a brave little jalopy?, scratches, dings, lost a fender skirt somewhere, don't know for certain whether the chassis and engine will hold up, but I am worth more than thec$250 local guys charge such things like me. As long as I keep moving , them and the repossessers cannot hook a cable to ME!

Well I do celebrate my weight loss, ready to tumble over into overweight from straight obesity. My PCP is going to delete morbid obesity from my post- visit summery if I have to stand over him with a pointed stick. It has not an easy struggle, I have the BMR of a seasick sea slug, my skin tone has gone pfft, I have wrinkles on each side of my lips , I think I look like a scrawny French bulldog. And Tomkitten, bless his devious little mind, found an ad in one of our newspapers, either the MOUNT VERNON NEWS or the COKUMBUS DISPATCH, came to where I was at waving the paper. " Look Mom, some lady is adverising French bulldog puppies for $750, and YOU thought YOU were worthless!. Back when I was expecting him I got brown patches of pregnancy over my cheeks, told they would get better after I delivered WRONG WRONG WRONG! And nowv that I have lost weight, have cheekbones, they look more prominent. Still could be the Native American blood Daddy's side denies having any of. Well people are paying more attention to me now, remember Obese people are ignored, just like we are ignored we will slink off to a cave somewhere. Well I am having people ask if I have been abused, are those healing bruises on my cheeks? Well the last person who tried yo belittle me died 7 years ago the 4th of this month; if I try to tell them they are leftovers from pregnancy, they look at me, they look st Tomkitten, and then they shake their heads. One lady even pressed into my hand, a business card from our local battered woman shelter. Told her I really don't need it. Nobody will ever lay a hand on me in that manner, this I do promise! If they suspect my Tomkitten that way, isn't going,to happen. He would have to cook his own meals, a toaster , blender and microwave only go so far, the laundry TINKER BELL will go on sabbatical, and he does. ❤clean clothes. So since my poor little brown spots are of General Concern, I will be visiting our local dermatologist, Dr Kathleen something, she just relocated her practice here, I want to say it's Thompson but I think I'm miss-remembering. Okay I looked it up, her last name is Rogers, her picture doesn't do her justice, everybody has a bad day, and they chose hers for Picture DAY. When she talks and appears more lively she is pretty pleasant to look at! And I am down to a size 18, but you can see my collarbones, I have a turtle neck, if you would hug me you can feel my ribs, and a worse facet of this WLS? I now sit on my rear pelvic,bones because my lovely tushie fat pad is gone forever. I just will take my egg crate support pillow wherever I go. TK had a fit when I bought it, but it has justified the expense over and over. BABY AIN'T GOT NO BACK NO'MORE! Poor Sir MIX A LOTs he is gone depression meds, he doesn't have ME to sing about ANY LONGER!??

Well good for you gabybab- what I did- my jeans and pants also getting pretty loose so bought inch-wide non- roll elastic from w-mart and ran it through the waistband, a little more wear that way of my 20s, that will have until I can afford 18s and less. I had dropped from 4x-5x down to 3x, then when my PICC line was d/cd the end of February, I dropped 30 pounds ka- thunk, never was in 22-24, went down to 20s. Actually bought 3 pair of leggings in size 19 junior, before this last time of weight-dropping I would not have had the "guts" to wear them, my legs looked that much like a fat sausage, now I have definition and shapliness starting to show. Shoot I KNEW I WAS CUTE, I just kept it hidden for many years. Don't know who I will finally resemble, have gone through looking like relatives, dead ones- the other day I looked in the mirror and saw my maternal grandmother Cora's face. Now even with post- menopausal shrinkage, I'm still 5ft8in, Grandma Cora wouldn't have made 5ft4in unless she stood on a stool or tried to stand tippy-toes. Oh well as long as I don't resemble a cattle thief or embezzler, I'm cool! Never had my picture on the wall of local Post Office, and at 73 I doubt I ever will! When I had to go to my County Courthouse to pick up a copy of Late Lamented and my Marriage licence , it was the first time I had been there since our application 44 and a half years before. This proves either I lived a felony- free existence or I am duller than dishwater. Suspect it might be the latter!???

Yeah I just took a Ducolax pill, been Mirilaxing, alas my colon has. left the building and headed for Myrtle Beach without inviting ME. Please bowels WORK, I am not craving a Milk and Molasses,enema THAT BADLY!

you can't please everyone so you got to please yourself---curses be upon this Chinese- engineered Smartphone, it is not Smart just an electronic bully, said things never keyed in.

sure they probably meant 242, if you can drop 109 pounds in under a week, I definitely had the WRONG SURGERY! Taken me 10 months to lose down to where I am now, and at least One doctor, my PCP, thinks I dropped too much too quickly. Yeah the self-said man who used dance around the exam room singing " Obesity gonna Kill You" at every time I showed up in his office. Now he tells me I was only supposed to 70% excess body weight, gosh I NEVER KNEW he had set me a quota, anyhow I have lost 68.3% and he is panicking. Some days you please everyone so you gotta please yourself. With a salute to Eric Hillard(known as Ricky) Nelson, gone too soon and oh the Musical Gap since his passing! I wasn't as much an Elvis freak as I was for Ricky Nelson.

My bet is that it is! When you read labels it can be a shocker. What you always thought was Good For You isn't. That's why making items yourself is superior, you can control seasonings, and especially. sodium content. Did you even figure out why we have such horrid levels in commercial foods? It is so they will stay shelf- stable plus like carbohydrates we learned to ❤ them as babies or Toddlers, by the time kids start school their tastebuds are all screwed up, that's why they waste so much food in school lunchrooms, they are looking for Fritos, Potato chips, pretzels and soda pop. They same stuff we, as parents, fed them as a reward . Billy stop banging your sister' s head against the wall and we'll go to Micky D's. Do you want,to stop at Dairy Queen for ice cream after? Oh yeah, I was as bad as everyone else, but you get desperate to lower the screaming noise level to a muttered quieter level. And you do your best to keep them from annihilating each other! Isn't that being a GOOD PARENT?

Yeah, found that out for myself, in the infinite stupidity my local Wal-Mart deleted Musselmans unsweetened applesauce off their shelves. I said to ME -Frustr8 old girl you used to like jars of cinnamon Applesauce back beyond. Looked them over, picked one with less than 16 calories, remembered there is 18 calories in a teaspoon of "over refined. & bad for you "white sugar so rationalized may still be Okay. One teaspoon and I spit it out in the trash. So cloyingly sweet I could not stand it, if Tomkitten will eat it, fine, otherwise it's going to be dumped out and I'll send the jar with the recycle stuff Might as well like a spoonful of honey!!

Going there Today, may get some, your advice has been very good in the past!

Bought hair-skin- nail formula from Wal-Mart. Has it worked? Don't know but WM got a little richer, oh well I haven't had any bad effects beside a sourish stomach pouch so I take a small amount of something food-wise .

Do you suspect you might be fighting. low sodium with the Blood Loss? Just Pondering!

Happens More Often than People Know About. Another Frustr8Tale- I had a friend who married a guy, set out to change everything about him, he didn't eat the way she thought he should, drove the wrong style vehicle, didn't dress in a manner she liked, oh the list went on and on, and she bragged to us, her peers exactly what she planned to do. 2 years later she filed for Divorce. Her excuse that she gave the presiding Judge hearing this case." Judge he's Just Not the Man That I Married!" ,, ,Hmmn, I WONDER WHY?

Some Very Very Good Options!???

Well I know my physical center of BALANCE has changed since I lost from tummy but most of all from my Big Backside, this baby used to have so much going on back there, only Sir Mix-A-Lot would truly appreciate. Retort you hear often in my Area, the Midwest of the U.S. Boy I wish I had that Swing on my Back Porch! Well folks, I learned at an early age One Must Think Ahead or One Falls Behind! So I turned and said Oh no you don't, it's nearly totally broken down! Left him standing with his mouth. hanging Wide Open, next tome He won't want to have a " Battle of Wits" with somebody fully locked and loaded, will HE????

Do it slow, do it steady, and you will finally after a while get in BALANCE, fancy medical way,of stating THAT is homeostasis This leads to me telling a story, many things do, you know! I accomplied Late Lamented's Mama to her Doctor, wasn't I a sweet D-I-L? At any rate Doctor comes into the room, asking his usual cheery question, " Well how are WE feeling today?" Mama-in laws response: "I've got the MISERIES!" Doctor- "Hmmm I have never treated anyone for MISERIES, what does that entail?" ME To restate it in Medical terms, "an ill- defined state of non- homeostasis currently." Doctor:" Ah Ha, now that makes sense to me, perhaps I have advice for THAT! " LOL?

Not to sound mean but I think we have a " Puke Switch" that seems to get stuck,in the ON position.??

Well we all are built differently, makes the World ? a less boring. It,makes Our Pain Thresholds different, stands to reason, doesn't it?

Hey you might just be correct, I am having some thyroid issues at the same time, my medical entourage is at " We'll watch and see how fast your nodules grow!" they have said they are "cold" now , but I am starting to wonder. Had a relative shave hers all off, didn't regrow, but she's on Late Lamenteds side of the Family Tree, my own never did that trick.

I can't comprehend it all, not first time I have heard of Joey Chestnut, may he never have Bariatric Surgery, it would rupture all surgical work and it would be a one-way ticket to DEATH CITY!

Seems A lot of people have trouble at first with tomato containing things, maybe the acid. makes things wo4s3_ At any rate, if you can tolerate it early in your recovery, then Good For YOU!❤

Now that does sound so much fun, we se3m to have an active,bunch in my Area doing it all along our Kokosing River biking/ walking Trail.