mousecat88

CVS (and I'm sure other places) sell sugar-free york peppermint patties that I've found are perfect. The serving size is 3, but if you only have 1 it's fine.

I still don't put deodorant ON the incision line and it's been 6 weeks. I put deodorant all around it. I also JUST shaved on the incision line for the first time last night. I was just doing my lower armpit and had a few long stragglers around the scar line. I put some deodorant on a few days post-op and it burned so I just avoid that area for now.

CVS (and I'm sure other places) sell sugar-free york peppermint patties that I've found are perfect. The serving size is 3, but if you only have 1 it's fine.

I'm liking the flatness (and wrinkle-free!) aspect of mine too
My stretch marks were on my hips and they seem to have been excised.
However.
There seems to be some skin discolouration that I guess was previously hidden in the crease where my torso and thigh connect. Now that all the skin there got stretched out, it is now easily visible. I'm hoping exposure to some light/sun/air will even out the skin tone there eventually...
Btw, I now have an even greater appreciation of your ability to go dancing for 3 hours so soon after your surgery a couple weeks back! I am 2 weeks PO tomorrow and I am still slightly hunched over AND I was so pooped from merely walking around the block earlier that I feel asleep on the couch afterwards. You've got super healing powers.

Patience. I had a 2.5 month stall 3 months out. Then it started up again. I don't believe in any magic dietary change to restart weight loss during a stall. It'll happen if you stick to the plan.

i think that made it worse. LOL

The "low-carb" pastas I've seen in grocery stores never actually seem to be low carb. Very weird. I haven't seen Zeroodles in store - I get them off Amazon. The shiratake stuff weirds me out since it's m o i s t. lolol.



Ugh yeah, I know. I'm going to finish what I have an put it on the BAN list.

The bread I usually eat is actually pumpernickel or thin rye so it's already under 20g of carbs. It's not the carb count I am concerned with since I am still at where my dietitian says I should be... it just... takes up space in my stomach and now I am eating like NO Protein. There is no happy medium! lol. I think I just need it to be a treat if I go to a restaurant or something. I never used to eat toast pre-op but now I am droollllinggg thinking about it.

Have you tried lentil Pasta? I get sick from regular pasta, but I buy lentil fettuccine Zeroodles and it is really good and super filling. Nom nom.

I am not in weight-loss mode anymore. I've long reached my goal weight so.. no concern about a stall. Even with 4 slices of bread I'm only at about 100g of carbs a day, which is what my dietitian says I should be at. But I shouldn't eat ONLY bread.

I avoided eating any carbs for so long but finally started eating whole grain bread about 5 weeks ago. I was scared to start eating carbs because they were my "vice" and I didn't want to get "re-addicted" to them. But now all I friggin' eat is bread! Yesterday I had two slices of bread with Peanut Butter and cream cheese, and two slices of bread with butter, and some lentil Pasta. That's it. I eat a lot of bread every day in lieu of veggies or meat or anything else. It started with me making those toad in the hole things (eggs in a basket), but now I just toast bread and put some kind of spread on it. My mind cravvvess bread. I am not gaining any weight, but I am also eating basically nothing else besides bread or whole wheat crackers so it's not exactly nutritionally balanced. This is exactly what I thought would happen!
I think I need to finish out the loaves of bread I have and put it back on my "NEVER AGAIN" foods list since I just can't seem to control myself. I am like a pigeon. Do you guys have any foods you know you can tolerate but are just not eating ever again for the same reason?

I like how flat my stomach is, but I am really upset as to how prominent my stretch marks are. They aren't any more prominent than they were prior because I had really really thick stretch marks ever since I was a kid, basically, and they all got pulled down from the TT. I was hoping they'd all be cut away, but that is impossible. Eh. Vanity. All the ones below the belly button are gone, but all the ones from up high got stretched down.

Girl. I am stealing your leg pic to show my surgeon as to what I want mine to look like next year when he does my Excess skin removal. LOL.

I like how flat my stomach is, but I am really upset as to how prominent my stretch marks are. They aren't any more prominent than they were prior because I had really really thick stretch marks ever since I was a kid, basically, and they all got pulled down from the TT. I was hoping they'd all be cut away, but that is impossible. Eh. Vanity. All the ones below the belly button are gone, but all the ones from up high got stretched down.

I like how flat my stomach is, but I am really upset as to how prominent my stretch marks are. They aren't any more prominent than they were prior because I had really really thick stretch marks ever since I was a kid, basically, and they all got pulled down from the TT. I was hoping they'd all be cut away, but that is impossible. Eh. Vanity. All the ones below the belly button are gone, but all the ones from up high got stretched down.

Girl. I am stealing your leg pic to show my surgeon as to what I want mine to look like next year when he does my Excess skin removal. LOL.

Girl. I am stealing your leg pic to show my surgeon as to what I want mine to look like next year when he does my Excess skin removal. LOL.

My surgery was approved by my insurance within 3 business days. My BMI was 50, though. I didn't have many medical issues either. Extremely mild sleep apnea that did not require a CPAP... that was it. I have BCBS.

I like how flat my stomach is, but I am really upset as to how prominent my stretch marks are. They aren't any more prominent than they were prior because I had really really thick stretch marks ever since I was a kid, basically, and they all got pulled down from the TT. I was hoping they'd all be cut away, but that is impossible. Eh. Vanity. All the ones below the belly button are gone, but all the ones from up high got stretched down.

Girl. I am stealing your leg pic to show my surgeon as to what I want mine to look like next year when he does my Excess skin removal. LOL.

Patience. I had a 2.5 month stall 3 months out. Then it started up again. I don't believe in any magic dietary change to restart weight loss during a stall. It'll happen if you stick to the plan.

Patience. I had a 2.5 month stall 3 months out. Then it started up again. I don't believe in any magic dietary change to restart weight loss during a stall. It'll happen if you stick to the plan.

Girl. I am stealing your leg pic to show my surgeon as to what I want mine to look like next year when he does my Excess skin removal. LOL.

Some BEFORE and AFTER / IN PROGRESS pics of my left arm and abdomen!
P.S. Sorry no B&A boob pics, but I did some measurements and it looks like I went from a 30B/28C to a 30D (mind you I am still swollen so this is likely to get smaller)
*image-specific comments are include with the pics below...

i think that made it worse. LOL

i think that made it worse. LOL