Slimming Down Steve

I guess it's easier to throw out a little protein in the foam than to have to drink it. Yuck. Thanks.

I find it very strange how 2 different surgeon's tell their patients to follow different directions after surgery. Thank you all for your concerns. [emoji106] Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

I forgot to add that I'm now my lowest weight since I was 16yrs old. High w 302, Normal w 287, pre-surgery w 239, and Ideal w 165. And 6 days post-op at 219. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

My surgeon said he leaves the hole between the new stomach and the first connection bigger than normal and has never had a leak. And only 2 times had a strictures that were easily repaired. He told me around a week out try some very easily chewed foods very little at a time to see what I can handle, and to give at least 2hrs apart from each other with water in between. I STRAIT UP TOLD HIM WHEN WE FIRST MEET THAT I DONT EAT ANYTHING LIKE BABY FOOD EVEN MASHED POTATOES. He told me that he has other patients that don't like their food this way and he will have me be the blender. I will skip a stage and be very careful. I am planning on getting another slice around noonish. Thank you for your concern though. [emoji106] Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

I thought about that too. I'm wanting meat, it's always been my staple as far as food go. I woke up dreaming about a salted ham. I chewed the hell out of each bite. It was emulsified before I swallowed and took around 10 minutes to eat 1 slice. No grumbling from my gut some of the horse pills I have to swallow were bigger than the bites. And it was great. This body craves meat and always has. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you and I now consider this forum dead. Thank you everyone!!!! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

I would like to to thank everyone who has responded so far and who may still respond! This is a great community of everyday people who have come together to better themselves. We all carry emotional baggage we have to work through. I would like to put this to bed once and for good. I sent a certified letter to my mother Stating that is is not my family and never really has been except through blood. That I am going on with my life, that she has no rights to me or anything I own, she isn't welcome at my home or on my property, and further more she is not to ever contact me through the USPS, UPS, FedEx, or any other carriers. Is not to try to contact my by phone, VOIP, or any other digital means. Have fun in your life, cause I know I will. Then I printed my name, signed my name and dated the letter. Went out to the post office and sent it certified mail yesterday afternoon. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

She's very good at playing a victim. So I wouldn't ever lay a hand on her. I would be the one going to jail. I was sitting here remembering as a kid how out of nowheres in front of my aunts or her female friends she would kick me in the nads and start laughing. This went on till I was around 12 every now and then, never knew when. Could be weeks apart or months apart. When she did it in front of my friend, I pinned her to the wall and told her I would strip her of skin the next time. She stopped. But not before calling the cops and filling a police report on me abusing her with tears in her eyes. My friend was the only reason I didn't go to a boy's Ranch. Even one of her friends testifying that she has kicked me multiple times in front of her. The case was dismissed with the judge telling her that she was never to kick me there again. That wasn't discipline. That was it.

Thanks. And many hugs to you back.

No, I wish she was on drugs, that might explain alot then.

I told her to get out and don't come back. She didn't like it that she was evicted. She asked were should I go now. I told her that hell might take her in, otherwise I don't care. My wife thanked me after she was gone. Thing is we never invited her to the house in the first place. She just shows up.

Technically I'm use to being treated worse than dirt to my mother and the other women in the family. It was just that I hadn't even told or talked to mommy dearest in over 3 weeks. Never told her about the surgery coming up. For some reason why I can't fathom but my wife let her know I was in surgery. She didn't even ask my wife what happened or why I'm having surgery. My wife just came out with he's having a gastric bypass. That's when my wife realized that she messed up telling mother. So she cut off the text and my mother blew up my phone with multiple text cussing me and her. She deleted all my text so I wouldn't see them. It's just a fucked up situation!

The girls are like a gang of bullies, one jumps then they all do. Viper's. No dementia just venom. When she was up when Florida got the last bad hurricane. We were sitting in the living room and she had to open her mouth. She said you have done decent for a shot of cum that I almost aborted.

Thank you, I'll give it a try.

I do have genepro just been slowly adding it to my coffee while stirring constantly, otherwise it cakes up.

If it makes you feel any better I have been using the liquid hydrocodone/Tylenol mix at night right before bed. Helps me not feel when I shift my body and would otherwise wake up. Still feels like a fire at times under my left front bottom rib. Seems worse at night.

Glad you are feeling somewhat better. I haven't had much luck on getting in more than 64oz water in a 24hr period. I've only gotten in around 30 grams of protein a day. Farting pretty much constantly. Still haven't taken a bowel movement since the morning of 12/31/19. Don't think I'm constipated, just don't think anything is there to eliminate. All protein drinks are gross to me right now, even unflavored. So I drove to Walmart and bought a few cans of broccoli and cheese soup and a few cans of cooked shrimp. I put the can of soup, can of shrimp drained, 1 scoop of whey protein Isolate unflavored powder, and 1.5 cans of unsweetened almond milk in the blender. Turned it on the smoothie setting. It came out super creamy. Poured 6--2oz sealable bowls and put away 5 in the fridge. Heated the other in the microwave for a minute. Taste great, didn't even notice the shrimp in the soup. The soup was completely smooth with nothing to strain out. I'm going to get in 2oz in every 2hrs till 10pm that should give me 52 grams of protein today. The most so far.

So where do you live in TN. I live in a little unincorporated town above Crossville TN called GRIMSLEY.

Brenda Bell, oh she might not of been the perfect role model but wow that body was put together nice. She was my neighbor and was around 7 yrs older than me. Brenda would invite me over for steamed crab every Saturday with her family. Those were the best days remembering back. She actually had a brand new Iroc with 350hp in 1984 and she couldn't get it to do donuts in the snow. So I showed her how at age 10. I ripped those donuts out in the snow. She said how do you know how to do donuts. Up there you do what you have to to survive like many other city's. You do things that you call yourself an idiot later in life for. I was a major idiot.

Thank you for the many helpful replys. It just blew me away coming in out of nowheres. The night before in the hospital she texted me saying that the family were all eating crab cakes and chicken wings. With me growing up in Maryland and missing real clump crab cakes she did that to try to hurt me as well. She didn't know that I had no appetite. My wife said when I get to eating semi normally then we will get some crab meat overnighted and make the crab cakes. My wife Betty is a good woman. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you for the support everyone. It just blew me away. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

My kids and our bed Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

I have done well without her in my life up to know. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app

My wife and neighbor just blocked her on FB and phones. I blocked both of her numbers and then deleted them also. The numbers are still showing blocked. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using BariatricPal mobile app