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Are you getting in enough fluids? Are you exercising or at least walking, preferrably in the fresh air? Are you getting enough sleep? And most,of all, are you following your doctor,and his staff and their instructionsas to diet? If you're doing all this then don't sweat the small stuff. A stall just means your body is regrouping itself to make another weight loss. Its all good at the end of the day so Relax and go with the flow! Most of us have been there and had the same fears.

Yep, sure is, you'll find out we are not like sleek sportscars but more like old jalopies, we stop and start and stop again going down the Weight Road. But we all do make it to our destination, seems like,it takes forever but when we look back , you'll see it is all for the Good.

Now Khaos and Naiad , you both get better, we're all waiting to have good things about your recoveries. Every Day, Every Way , you will get better, stronger, in less discomfort and you will be so have for this TOOL. to help you lose weight. Prayers and Happy Hugs to You!

Oh Khaos honey I am so sorry but salute you for becoming strong. You are still a work in progress but you are going forward into the future with your head held high. Many of us had similar stories, opted for food as our only friend, but we have also got strong.There are better days ahead and we will be a part of them now. Sending love and Good wishes to you today!

Yes but the bad thing, yes it can stop regurg but you never will be able to vomit again, if you accidently ingest something poisonous, you die . It is a 2-edged sword like many other things in life. A surgeon in my locale has been doing it for years, like the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead, When it's good it's very very good, When it's bad it's horrid.

I would guess yours will be Smooth as Silk by now. If not, you know you did yourself the best thing . You dropped a habit of 5 years and you deserve a big hug for that! Well really you deserve a salute but my right shoulder hurts too much to do a snappy one. Had surgery on it April 4th, my ortho went in to remove the hardware he had placed 9 years and 2 months ago when I severely broke my humerus and needed it surgically repaired. Since it already was an open instead of laproscopic incision, he decided to look around at the surroundings in my shoulder. That's okay, I told him at my pre-surg appointment " Do what you need to , because I know I need repaired!" Well he did take me at my word, instead of subjecting me to another surgery within a few months, he went ahead and repaired my rotator cuff. I am really glad within me he diff do THAT but it does remain painful. Most often by 3-4 weeks he has patients in PT and doing Wall walking, where you have your fingers climb up the wall. Not me, I am still on pendulum swings and circles, since I went through all that therapy after the initial fracture I have all my therapy papers to refer to. And since I am older, he wants to make sure everything has reknitted well before attempting shoulder level and above. Okay with me, cause that stinker is SORE, know that is the pain reason. Simply removing the hardware I would merely have a tender incision now. Who would have thought with my weight loss the harware would have become less stable and start rocking in there? Don't think of being fat in there. Anyway before the right arm flared up we had discussed repairing the Left. I had favored the right, So I did many extra things left- handed, and wore it down also. So we were on a "Watch and observe- but soon Repair" basis there, like this autumn after I hit my year bariatric recovery date. He has a peckish sense of humor, well I do too . Got a twinkle in his eye, said "Well how soon can I play with your OTHER shoulder?" Told him not for a while, you play TOO Rough! Stoll have to take pain meds, but don't make a habit of Norco, that reserved for when I CANNOT SLEEP, it's tylenol, ice or heat packs, arm propped on a pillow but many times sleeping sitting up in the recliner. Oh it's nothing more than others have suffered, they all Got better so I will too Today I go for more testing, takes a fair amount of maintainance as you get my age, and I swear everything that gets done comes with a " By The Way". When having an MRI to check the status of my thoracic aortic aneurysm, Thank God not enlarging, they discover I have renal cysts, not all that uncommon as one ages, then when I had a cat scan of my neck to rule out bad things happening there, an throud nodule, just smaller than operating size, further testing showed I have mutiple litter ones in the right lobe also. Not sure where we go next on that! I have gotten a huskier voice , is it pressure on the nerves and vocal cords from the thyroid nodule, too many years of GERD irritating it? or could it be something else? At least my carotid arteries are pretty good but when I had my endoscopy the 12th of this month, I have had 11, quite a story there, anesthesia at OSU got all "het up" about my noticable heart murmer, enough that they faxed my PCP, now I have cardiac retesting at 1 today. And I can't sleep because of shoulder pain, got maybe 3'4 hours of sleep so I'm posting on here. But you know, with all this, I am so much better off than I was before my Bariatric Surgery, at least I have made many specialist friends, so all these things will be addressed, I won't go in at Stage3' Stage4 levels where nothing can get done. And I am over 130 pounds smaller than my High Weight, dropped multiple sizes, smaller than I was 40+ years ago when I warms having babies. Don't recognize myself in the mirror, starting to look like Dead smaller relatives that I never knew I resembled. If it wasn't for getting a little wrinkled I would celebrate my Fat Shell cracking and falling away. I am about ready to go into 18s, I started at 28-30W, ? the varied styles as I get smaller, no longer have look for the largest sizes or go buy sweats from the Mens Department. Had jeans fall off the other day, luckily I didn't have my old Granny Panties on, had to invest in belts and I don't look when wear them like a sack of wheat with a rope tied in the middle. Oh things aren't perfect yet but so much better than once they were! Not under a death sentence anymore, believe I'll hang around for some more years! And I will be hoping to hear good things from you Too!

AlteredReality -You are now gorgeous- had a faint idea what you might look like but you surpassed it. All I can say is WOW!

Nut not Butt, got enough of that already!

Surely hope so, you know , Food Addiction is a tough but to crack.

And I did the longest Liver Shrink I could, the entire month of August, see I knew I had NASH when Dr Needleman could feel Liver Margin when he examined my right subcostal area, lost 15 pounds at 72 but my liver was smooth, sleek and healthy at surgery time, that made the diet worthwhile for me!

As Minnie Pearl would say : H O W D Y! Did you know her real name was Sarah Ophelia Cannon and she was a very quiet lady in everyday life. Like many of the greats on the Grand Old Oprey, gone too soon. The younger generation only has records to remember them by, I saw and heard the real thing. My Uncle Clair once won a Little Jimmy Dickens- lookal8ke contest, Jimmy said he looked more like him than he himself did!

Min3 is 3 months, 6 months and then if things check out perfect, yearly the rest of your thinned- down life! I was getting weekly blood draws while I had my PICC line and was on TPN, so they used the appropriate ones to satisfy the quota. Mine were drawn at the hospital?

My local Goodwill is upgrading and remodeling, going to have a drive- through lane like fast food. Got about 5 Styrofoam totes from when I was getting TPN supplies weekly, full of 5X, 4s and 3s, going to drop them off next week, if they sell the totes later, so be it!

And pictures can be worth a Thousand Words, document, document and then repeat.

Note to Self: You are not too old It is not too late if not not now, when? You need It You want it You know you do deserve it so let's go for it, Baby!

Remember Sasha, No one else is YOU ; that is your Greatest Superpower!

Hope you don't learn to HATE it, your taste buds go weird post surgery, some stuff eases oversweet, others bitter or just disgusting.

Wanna See, Wanna See! Sounds like even the raccoons are bigger and stronger in Texas.⭐

Well Jon it's a week, are you feeling weak or strong as a bill or somewhere in between?

So so proud of you for doing that!

SilverOctober keep thinking Good Thoughts towards me! I got recently diagnosed with thyroid nodules, big one on the left, just belie surgical intervention size and multiple small ones in the right. Saw PCP last Thursday , he asked how were they doing at fixing and finding out things? He should know, he sent me for all the stuff thus far, he has the reports. Well Friday I go to see my ENT, I my horseness and husky voice due to the thyroid lump leaning on the nerve to the larnyx, is it a left-over from the years of GERD or something else? Dr Suzie is very smart, I'm sure she'll help me get to the bottom of this. Is the next step a endicrinologist, a cereal surgeon or what? Must confess I'm not certain of the next stages.

Stir Genepro or another protein powder into everything you can? That ??is a hard hard question to answer. I feel like I'm a protein with occasional sides of veggies myself. Don't you feel like screaming YOU CANT GET BLOOD FROM A TURNIP! , cause I sure do!

Thought I was hungry, made myself a baby bowl of wheaties and honey bunchs of oats. OMG, I was eating slow and easy, all the sudden nausea and I think I am going to puke it up. I hate to deprecate my Run but I almost never puked in my prior-to- surgery life, now 4 to 7 times a week. And it is often mild , low-seasoned items, makes no sense! And (sniff) thought Tuesday would be a Terrific day?Only thing I hate more than nausea is the actual puking and upper chest wall pain. ???

And I bet you're pretty awesome yourself, glad it worked out for YOU!

I did but honestly the needles are such a small gauge and so short they are not so bad to do. I remembered to switch sides of my tummy so one didn't get so sore, my belly was still so high I didn't have trouble finding a new location. Got good enough after 2 weeks I told my nurse " Ought to rent me out to one of the Drug-Houses, cause I am pretty good at this". But the other posters are correct ,,, if every surgeon requires them, if yours does, please believe he/she has assessed your individual case & feels you would benefit from them. I probably got mine because I am old as dirt(73) and because of arthritis a non- energetic Gym Rat.