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One thing you will learn quickly is that there is such a HUGE variation of instructions given to post-oppers. With that said, I was having decaf in my protein shakes as soon as I got home, and drinking good-ole-regular coffee by 1 month.

+ 1 I'd add: vacation someplace hot where you can wear a bikini with your smaller bod (pending pandemic restrictions) new wedding ring/engagement ring (to fit your smaller fingers)...and if you don't have one to replace, just get one anyway! Or any other piece of sparkly thing tattoo (i've already decided that I'm going to get one once the parlours open up! mid-life crisis, anyone??? lol) hair extensions (to add fullness to your weight-loss related hair thinning) fancy new underwear/lingerie that you have no intention of actually wearing for very long LOLOLOLzzzz

With the conversion, its most likely much cheaper. 48K USD == 61K CAD, and yeah, there is no way it would cost that much here. Wait times in Ontario are about 9-12 months from referral to surgery date (other provinces are much, much longer), but yeah, that's if you are getting it covered via provincial insurance. Private pay is essentially immediate i believe...i chatted with someone who was self-pay and pretty much set her own surgery date. She was from B.C. though and travelled to Ontario to get it done, I can't remember the reason why. May be worth looking into....

Once I got over 160-ish lbs years ago, I stopped feeling comfortable admitting my weight (...as i gained up to 235 lbs). At around 4 months post-op, when people started noticing I was losing weight, I would answer the "how much have you lost" question, but felt slightly embarrassed about it. As I got further and further away from 235 lbs, that slight embarrassment turned into FULL ON full-of-myself-confidence; so much so that I have been known to pull out a "before" picture of me in my underwear in all my obese glory to prove to them, yes, I was that fat. BFF waxed philosophical way back and I said that the level of comfort I have to show pics of my bigger self is cuz I no longer identify with big me, so I can look at those pics and not feel bad. I think she's right.

“Smoked”? Do u have one of those cool smoking things I see on cooking shows all the time?!?

Nah, not weird, just an alternative response. I'm the same way, if someone asks me how many lbs, I tell them. And if they ask how it was done, I say I ate way less than I used to. After that, I started getting annoyed, so I changed the subject. Almost nobody asks or comments about weight loss anymore though, its old news.

That's awesome. You get to spend a crappy Covid winter in a warm place! Are you there for the long haul?

Ok. I dont want to offend in any way, but technically WLS is elective surgery. But even with that said, the decision is up to the hospital (and maybe even your state?) to perform elective surgeries. If the facility and surgeon deem it safe to perform, then it is safe to perform! If it wasn’t, then they wouldn’t. I hope any decision you make to go thru (or not) with the surgery is based on your own feelings on the matter, and NOT from some judgy-mcJudger who slaps on a “selfish” label and presumes to know better than your surgical team/hospital. Good Luck! ❤️

duuuuuddddeeeeeee... You look phenomenal!!!!! Your waist is teeny-tiny! And your BOOBS!!!!! Holy smokes. Those are some nice boobs. I think I may want to take a bite out of them. They'd be an awfully nice dinner, methinks. lol. with @GreenTealael's ass for dessert. SOooooooooooooooooo amazing!

@ChubRub: are you still in florida?

Daaaaammmmmnnnnnnnnnn. You look like that without exercising??? I get the weight loss due to caloric deficit, but the overall firmness AND those quads need some explaining, pls! Blessed with good genes, you are. lol. Lookin' FAB.

I don't drink diet soda, but I do drink carbonated water. Alot of it. Though sometimes I add a couple drops of sugar free "water enhancers" so I suppose technically it could be considered diet soda? P.S. Full disclosure though: Not that I've never had ANY diet coke at all. In the past 2+ years since surgery, I probably had the equivalent of maybe 3-4 cans total.

*waits in anticipation*

Same here. I never thought of myself as so very big until I saw the rare picture of myself, and even then I'm was all, nah, that's not me. I would often bump into walls when turning corners because I didn't think I needed to give myself more clearance! Immediately after weight loss phase it became the opposite and I would think I was bigger than I actually was...like I wouldn't try to squeeze between the wall and the back of chair around the dinner table cuz I thought I wouldn't fit (but duh, I totally have lots of room). I'd like to say I'm totally used to my current size now, but there are still times when I laugh at the thought of getting myself into a tiny looking pair of pants (spoiler alert: I can). This non-believing doesn't happen as often as it used to, so I figure in time it will be a non-issue altogether.

So after almost a full week of a diet consisting solely of pecan butter tarts, raw carrots and espresso martinis (don’t judge me!) I finally felt legitimately hungry today and fixed myself some real food! It helped that I went for a longer than normal run on an empty stomach. Came back home around 3pm and felt hungrier than I can remember feeling for a loooooong time. Todays very satisfying meal consisted of various leftovers found in the fridge: cold steak, cold steamed broccoli, cold mushroom sauce, cold sautéed onions and 1/2 a piece of cold bacon. Yeah, I didn’t even bother to heat it up cuz i knew i was going to eat it all, and that it would take a while. So yeah, 232 calories, ate it all over roughly 1.5 hours (while I was watching Wonder Woman 1984, natch): ...am already looking forward to dinnertime!

ok, i opened the page in Safari (vs.Chrome) and it played fine. HUGE, but fine, lol. P.S. Love the demo lolololololzzzz... the thumbs up in end...😂

Neither doc nor myself set any weekly/monthly goals. Weight loss rates vary from week to week, and the overall rate slows down the further out/smaller you get. So adhering to a fixed number of lbs lost every week over time may be difficult at best. Doc did say that if I were to lose 60% of my excess weight (based on ideal weight/BMI of 25) then he would consider it a successful outcome. For my starting BMI of 43, this calculated to mean a 60lbs loss == successful outcome (which btw, would have had me at 175 lbs, at a BMI of 32...still in "obese" category). He also said if I were to reach this milestone within year, he would be happy. He was happy. P.S. I'm BMI 21 today.

lol is it just me or is everyone seeing a blank screen with just the sound of zippers opening and closing??

Since you don't want to waste the shakes you already spent money on, you can try mod-ing them a bit: add more water blend with lots ice add a tsp or two of instant decaf coffee crystals (my personal fave) PB2 powder, sugar-free instant hot chocolate (never tried, but read good reviews) blend with a few berries freeze and eat like ice cream/popsicle

You definitely can and SHOULD!

I think when properly fitted, they are pretty challenging to manoeuvre in and out of... @GreenTealael and @Darktowerdream had them...any input ladies?

There is a poop/pee hole in mine (which is why Mr loves it so...lololzzz). So i used this to pee. I pulled mine to the side to make sure it didn’t get wet...though im sure i had accidents. But i never used it to poop though. Im one of those can-only-poop-at-home-naked-on-toilet-and-take-shower-immediately-afterwards people...so I never tried..but the thought of getting some poop material on it and walking around at work would gross me out.. further, my faja was not as tight as it should’ve been (i was very unsuccessful finding one in my size that was NOT $300), so taking mine off and on was quite easy. p.s. I didn’t wear it very often (due to loose fit) only when my other garments were in the wash.

Meant to write more yesterday but got distracted. So let me properly pay due to your wicked results (lol): Skin on your abdomen is nice and pulled tight! And your waistline is super defined...nice work doc! And did he even cut u a new belly button?? Cuz it looks original to me. Your boobs honestly look fab in both ur before and afters in ur bra...but I suppose the money shot would be a topless after pic in all its gravity-defying glory. Very happy that u are happy and that you are on the super-fast track to recovery! p.s. don’t forget to stay on top of the poop

Wow the changes are dramatic! Sooooooo happy for you! Yay to being a good healer! And a good-looker! A nice fitted faja makes you look and feel even MORE fabulous. My Mr. has a bit of a fondness of me in mine (faja fetish, anyone? Lolololzsss) Get more than one if u can! also, gentle reminder to stay on top of the pooping ❤️ P.S. Think its time to start a plastics before an after thread!!! I heart before and after threads.

Mark me down as another semi-immediate coffee drinker. I have had one 500ml thermos of black coffee every morning since 1 month op. I would sometimes have a smaller second (or third!) cup later in the day/night (but not always). I heart coffee.