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And nausea still rears its Ugly Little Head for me and I am 8.5 months out from my RNY. Maybe my tummy will be more sensitive the rest of my life, but it's Okay, I would rather be a little queasy and 200 than a Cast-Iron digestion and approaching 400. Back then the only times I bubbled over was when I tried to eat myself into oblivion, believed if I didn't eat everything I saw somebody else might get IT, and that is a SAD SAD WAY TO THINK! Nothing tastes as good as Smaller Feels! Love and a Hug from Frustr8 in Ohio!

Try infusing your water with Citrus slices or something else. One of my Bari-pals swore by cucumber slices, another Springs of Mint. I have always found RoomTemperture Waters were sent by Satan, so I iced or chilled them.

And please celebrate for ME, I am about ready to go to ONEderland, yeah me that started out Obese, Sad and 365+ pounds, I remember how triumphant I felt to break out of 300-How Much Did You Say? into Twoferland and putting a "1" in front of my weight will be Glorious! I am Glad I Didn't Give up on Me!?

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Yeah I just got a survey from Mount Carmel East in Columbus, I had an MRI there on Feburary 5th. Hello? It took you 90 days to decide you needed MY FEEDBACK? Oh what the hey, I'll fill it out, send it back, maybe they were having a lonely day when they reached out!

Well if those shakes were made perfect you would want to stay on them forever and not move on to other foods! Maybe they are made to become obsolete.

Be kind and loving to yourself, YOU still need that body To Live In!

Hematologists are smart people, may they find out you're recovering from a minor- league infection and things will still continue going forward!

Well chocolate does come from a PLANT; this makes it a SALAD!

I am and was an RNY Bypass, surgery-weight was 319. At 8.5 months I am approaching Onederland, if last weight correct, within 12 pounds, with my blips and bumps, feared I would NEVER make it. But I am on the brink and. will never go back to what I was before. No food tastes so good as feeling smaller feels. I keep "undergrowing" my clothing. only thing that still fits from last summer are my sandals, and they are almost too wide. Your feet don't sprawl out so much with less weight pushing down on them. I tell my son my face looks like a train wreck on the B&O, he says it is not, and besides everything is AMTRAK anyway. I have almost Native American cheekbones, who would have thought they were lurking under my Moon-shaped Face? Sorry Aunt Minnie for all your denials, but there is Too Much Evidence in the Family Pictures, there a few Indians in Our Family Woodpile! Not everybody sent back to England and Europe for Wives! At least I have more rights to be here than the Average Settler did. I'm not wrong and Still Buckeye strong!?❤?

My biggest surgical Worry? That I would wake up to find out my Surgeon had backed out and refused to do my surgery. First thing I did when I was put in my Post- Surgery Room? Flipped my gown up to my chest to make sure I had my 6 little slits, actually I had 7, I had forgotten he also uses the navel as a portal. I hurt so subtly I was concerned very much! All was well then, the blips and bumps in my recovery came much later!

Love love love your post! These are things I want for myself!

Loved those Leg Pumpers, my calves do tend to ache, at 73 it does happen, but they felt so good while lessening my chances of throwing a clot from inactivity!

A thought for us all! Where do I see me 5 years from now? I see myself no longer looking at price tags or size markers! Stay Strong Grow Healthy, Live Live Life To The Best of Your Abilities!

If that is the Tooth fairy, send her over to my house! She still owes me money from when I had my teeth extacted. ?❤ And a weird FYI , the dentist will not return your teeth after an extraction! They are considered to be a BIOHAZARD, of all things and I assume they cremate them or something similar. Too bad , I would have liked to have the one that absessed and left me looking like a chipmunk for a while. Would have to put in a jar, that way I could shake it every once in a blue moon and say " Now who won that arguement!"

And you were not put on earth to be boring or give up. There is only one You and you were born for success.!

You like buttered bread, well I did too. Baked a lot of bread myself, was good enough I could easily sold it, had I wanted. Even had branchedto artisan breads for more challenge. Then i had bariatric surgery, lost most of my inate desire for bread and rolls . A while back Tomkitten,my son, asked for Ham Salad on toast, and oh it did look and smell lovely! So yours truly decided to cut one up into teen tiny pieces,i had heard if you toasted it , it would not ball up in your new renovated tummy. Oh Sweetheart, within 15 minutes I was in Misery city Hurting, puking, crying my eyes out, that was something I will not do Again! And it was no more than 1/8th sandwich. Have not had anything made with wheat flours again, cake, bread, cookies, pie, it just ain't worth the grief your body will put YOU through. Oh things do change a lot! The good News, after years of trying every diet known to Modern Man and a few I suspect my doctors dreamed up to torture me, I have and still am losing weight. I have lost 150 pounds since my highest weight, oh I WAS a Big Girl, 104 since my surgery nearly 8 1/2 years ago.

I just tapped on the top right of your profile page, you should have at least follower- ME!

Well I had half a bottle of caramel protein shake, told myself I needed the protein it contained. Made decaf Constant Comment and poured it in . Tasted like cheap Chai Tea you might get at the $1 store, wish I had made myself some decaf coffee, would have tasted better!

True, Stay Strong in the continuing battle! Make those "stones" turn into tiny pebbles, I believe YOU CAN DO IT!

And FYI, I am now 8 months and 11 days since surgery, by this time, The Good Times Should Be Rolling!

Don't know how, Precious Pouch still has me brow-beaten, still retaining her egg-shaped figure, won't stretch or accept anything she doesn't like. I get the feeling she is like a Tupperware container with a pinhole at the bottom which is the stoma. No motility, feels like she drains by gravity instead. Do the sever nerves when you receive surgery ? If so, how long does it take for them to regenerate? These are questions nobody has given me definite answers to! Stop patting me on the head like Bowser the dog,tell me how proud you are of my weight loss, give me answers , not placebos and not benign neglect. I promise to stop my whine when you supply what I need! Rant temporary concluded!✊?

Are you listening Alex? Mousecat 88 may just have a good idea there!

And I must speak up for my Strawberry Ensure High Protein, to me it tastes exactly like Starwberry Quik. A little pricey but. Roy my dietician gave me coupons for $3 off on one, last week there was a $5 off on 2 and you also can download them off of their app/website. I don't taste that fakey evaporated milk taste so many seem to have. And they also have a clear form, both fruit punch and blueberry- pomegranate flavors. A little lower protein content. but still within tolerable levels. And it is Ohio-made!??

But it is still So Worth it, Right? The longer things last the more Human Nature says " Chuck it All! I am so tired of doing this! Maybe a little cheat won't matter in the long run!" Do you agree our motto must still be Eternal Vigilance? Just don't get complacent, this may be a life-long thing. Like other addicts, and we were once Food Addicts, we can't let our guard down.