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Welcome to the losers bench! now be prepared for your incredible journey. . . it's going to shock you every now and then but for the better not the worst. . . there may be times you'll wish you never did this but hey it's done and your going to eventually love it! Getting used to it is the key and being patient and loving yourself and your successes is what it's all about. . . get better soon, keep on walking sipping and enjoy your new you! good luck!!!!

Wow, like they said above, call the nutritionist or doctor. . . i'm 17 months out and still struggle with 1 cup of food. . . 3/4 cups for me is best, but 1 cup is painfully uncomfortable. . .

First off, sorry to hear about your loss. . . Yes, if you can tolerate baby food go for it. . . just watch the calories and the carbs. The Proteins are good in there. . . Don't worry, this will pass soon. . . right now everything seems miserable, but take it from someone who knows. . . it does get better. . . good luck!

Yup, when i was 2 weeks out i had lost 20 lbs and at 7 weeks out i had lost 53lb. . . all together now at 17months i've lost 150 lbs. . . and now i'm stablized and am between 5 lbs either way. . won't go down anymore. . . but that is ok, cause i'm happy with myself and am happy with how i look. . . .it's tons better then 350lbs!!!! at least now i can breath!

bert, i will be 2 years out and i definately push my limit. I can comfortably eat 1/2 a cup of food without any problems. after that if i shove in more i feel pain and discomfort, like you used to feel at christmas dinner or something. . . just like i'm feeling right now. . . i had 1 cup of fideo noodles and hamburger meat sauce. . . ugh, i shouldn't have done that! but hell it was good!!!!

Wow, you can really tell! Keep up the excellant work!

It's funny, but since I'm out almost 2 years now, I have learned to "eyeball" my portions. I'm at the point that if it's more then 1/2 - 1 cup I just can't do it. . . you will learn how to eyeball the portions, just measure for now. . and you will come to find out when your really done eating. just don't make it hurt, that is not pleasant. . . don't you start to slime? Good luck!

GOOD FOR YOU COOPS!!!! Maybe hubbie needs to be shipped back! What did he have to say for himself after you showed him that they fit?? Men! I'm proud of you COOPS!!!!! (doing the happy dance for Coops!) I'm still too shy (not confident) to shop in a store. I won't do it. . I still order out of the catalogue from Roamans or Lane Bryant. (dumb huh?)

Good for you Diva, I love the "majority of that is booty" . . . I was commenting to a guy who mention how much weight i had lost, I told him thanks and that i would love to lose at least 30 more lbs especially off the hind end. . . he just looked at me like a deer in the headlights and said "Honey, don't you know most of us like major Junk in the Trunk" . . . . I busted out laughing so hard and told him he had just made my day!!!

Hi, KellyL sorry but i beg to differ with you. . . even when I was a 350 lb woman, I didn't want my man big. . . to me they have to be fit and not jiggly, and now that I'm more fit after losing 150 lbs, they better be fit too. . . sorry, just me as a woman who doesn't like bigger men.

Wow that is terrible. Like the previous emails, hugs to you. . .I'm sorry that happened to you as well. . .but you know what (and I know this will probably go all over everyone else, but whatever) I have taught my kids and I myself know that there really isn't such a thing as best friends. . . there are aquaintances but that is it. . . my dad taught me as i taught the kids and as i"ll tell you. . . . " In this world friends have many, but beware, when your friends become your foe, out to the world your secrets go". . . .he taught me many things about people and how hateful and spiteful they can be, and how to be cautious about how you handle them . . this person was definately NOT your friend. . . apparently she used you as her own crutch for some odd reason. . and now that you want to improve on yourself she became more spiteful and vandictive then before . . I wouldn't even worry about her and her well being. . . you sound like a nice person with a good caring heart, but with the surgery and all you will have other things to concentrate yourself on, I'm glad she can do it the "right" way. . . I'm glad you did the proper way! Good luck and sorry if i offended anyone but that is me. . .

LOL Thats sooooo funny! :lol: I understand how you feel. . . my OB/GYN whom I've been seeing for the past 6 years who is my high risk doctor as well. . .saw me for the first time since surgery. . (I had lost 150 lbs by then) his comments where "LOOK AT YOU! " WOW YOU LOOK GREAT! then he did my exam which he has done every 6 months and he asked me about something he "noticed" He asked how long have you had this???? I told him it's been there for the past 30 years. . . he said "Uh, funny I never noticed it before" I told him that maybe I was too fat for him to have noticed before. . . he got the message and apologized. . .

BINGO!!!! You hit the nail right smack dab on the head! Your a threat to them. . keep doing good, keep losing and when they see you aren't going to listen to their discourgements they'll stop. Good luck! Your doing great by the way!!!

Lakelady, that is my question as well. . .if you have gastric bypass, then your inners are reorganized? So how would that work???? interesting. . .

I believe most of us went through this. . imagine this. . . for years you are accustomed to eating and drinking anyway you want, pigging out at buffets or whatever. . . then we decide to get surgery to help us loose this weight and even though we research our butts off, then we have the surgery going from eating likes piggies to not being able to even drink a good swallow of Water. . . and the restriction is like something we've never experienced before in our lives. . . it's like we have to relearn everything called eating and drinking. . . don't worry Eddie, it does get better, your only out 3 weeks and your tummy is still really swollen, just sip away the best you can and eat popsicles, sf jellos, sips of gatoraid, crystal lite, etc. . . don't stress about it. . . your not going to die of starvation that's for sure. . . your going to be ok. . . I'm out almost 2 years now and can handle almost everything again. . . I promise it gets better, just don't baby yourself over it ok? But if your skin is really dry and your lips are chapped and you feel like you have constant cotton mouth, by all means head over to the ER and see what they can do for you! Good luck

ALRIGHT!!! You go girl!!!! (happy dancing with you):whoo:

Sorry ya'll I'm out almost 2 years and have never lost the hunger thing. But i've learned to fight it. to actually live with it. . .i've tried the PPI things, that didn't work, I tried drinking water and fluids instead of eating. . only works for a short period. . .what does help is eating dense proteins once you can. . . i still have my shakes before bed (love my shakes) and for breakfast i have 2 eggs, for lunch tuna, 1oz cheese and 0.23oz of beef stick, then for my afternoon snack which is my ride home from work i have 1 oz of cheese or pork rinds, and then some sort of protein for dinner along with cheese or more pork rinds. Then at bedtime a protein shake. Yes, I'm on adkins I know but i seem to have evened out and can't loose no more so i'm trying to diet now to help myself out.

Well I was ticking along "thinking" I looked pretty darn good. . I'm 6 feet tall, very large boned and weigh 200lbs and wear 16/18 . . not too bad huh. . . UNTIL!!!! my daughter took a picture of me this past weekend. . I looked at it and couldn't believe how "hugh" I really am. . I was really disqusted with myself. . I couldn't believe it. . . I just stared at that picture. . . so now I'm on Adkins diet totaling maybe 5 carbs a day. . . UGH. . . life sucks I can't imagine how bad I must have looked 150 lbs heavier if I look this way now!

girdle or spandex tights.

Hi, I'm not sure you want to hear from an old foogy like me, I'm almost 2 years out and let me tell you what it sounds like your feeling is separation anxiety. I think most of us have gone through this at some point of our journey. Yes, you will be able to eat pizza and burgers again but not til your in the maintainence portion of your weight loss or until you learn what your body can handle or can't handle. For example I would love to eat a burger (I haven't had a take out burger in 2 years! ) but not because I can't, it's because #1. I know it's a waste of money cause i'll never finish the whole thing, amd #2. bread. lettuce and I don't get along at all, so for me that is a big waste. . . so I just don't bother. You will get back to normal eventually. . but be prepared to relearn everything there is about eating and drinking stuff. . . I promise you that it will get easier with time and that you must be patient. . . don't expect to come out of surgery a thin model that takes time too. . . Rome wasn't built in a day either. . . patience my friend and love for yourself is the key. . . rejoice with each success and be kind to your body. . don't expect to loose as others do, you may go faster or you may go slower, just be happy you are loosing. . your going to do ok. . . and honey you may not have your biological family with you, but you have your cyber family with you. . .take your computer and as soon as you can, get onto the forum and chatter to us. . . tell us about your experiences, your cute doctor, your fears, that weird feeling when you try to drink something the first time. . . you know just talk to us. . we are hear for you. . . good luck! Your going to do fine!

Well, I took out a loan. . . yes it's the price of a small new car, but it's worth the money. . . best investment I ever did. . . good luck!

Thank you everyone! Yes, yesterday I still felt like i had been hit by a bus, but functionable. . today i'm good. . . just please be careful. . . autumnLily, it's 2.6 in Canada/Europe conversion. . .

That took me a long time to get over too. . . I'm almost 2 years out and still find it tough to throw out food. . . but i do it, just get up and do it. . . . it's tough and always will be but together we'll get through this. . . apple-saucy, my mom was from the "waste not want not" club . . . you don't finish whats on your plate, you don't get the next meal. . . . ugh memories

Please be careful about this one all. . . yesterday i was at work just caring on like normal and all of a sudden I felt very very drunk and like i was going to pass out. . . then i got so very sweaty that i literally soaked my uniform clothes. . . i don't remember much of anything after that but got home somehow, my hubbie took one look at me and right away took my blood sugar. . . 47 !!!! He said all i was doing was going in and out of conscienousness. . . after the blood sugar was stablized i tried to rethink (which is really hard to do) what i all ate over the day, plain bagel for breakfast, 4 oz of macaroni salad for lunch, pork rinds for snack. . . good enough for me. . . but apparently not good enough for the blood sugar. . . . be careful ya'll spread out the food and have snacks and from now on I'm carrying a glucose drink with me just in case. . . .

Well my dear friend, life is a bowl of cherries and all your left with is the pits. . . lol. . . no seriously now, what i do is this Take it one day at a time. . . . my old addage of "this too shall pass" is what comforts me. . since you have 400 papers to mark within 14 day or so, if you can squeeze in 25 - 28 of those per day everyday you'll be done with the time alloted. . . depending on the age of the kids, they should understand your crunch time and should be able to assist you with things, like household duties and entertaining themselves. . . hubbie will need the help, but not every single minute of your day, get him comfy with whatever it is, have the urinal or bedpan nearby for him to reach, his pain pills, Snacks, fluids, etc and he should understand as well. . . life is a funny thing but sometimes we have to do what we have to do. . . you'll be ok, and let me tell you that chocolate bar will NOT help you through this, (coffee will ) your smarts and know how and organizational skill is what will get you through this. . . . good luck! You'll be fine!