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Hey blade thought I lost you? Yeah I agree, it did take me a bit to heal from the surgery to start with and so waiting till I have the skin surgery is definitely my best option!!! Thanks hun!!!

Just needed a break for a bit with everything that's going on on the job front! Still working on smoothing that out. Cheers~

Ugh well I hope it all works out ok!!! I haven't had a great month at work and its been very stressful but keeping hopes that it will be all over soon.

Wow way to go. Glad everything is going well for you.

Wonderful News, I cant believe you are back at work already. I am going back Monday.

Just get your protien in that will help you not be so tired. Also remember you just had major surgery and you ARE NOT SUPERWOMEN LOL.

Oh I have tried the lottery, I feel like i am just wasting my money away cause I never win anything?

my husband has pretty good luck with scratch offs...oh how the BIG lottery win would be so lovely...we can dream...we all have our dreams in the meantime...hi ho, hi ho...it's off to work I go

I feel ya girly!!! I feel the exact same way!!!

Get another "0"??? What do you mean there?

You know, 250, 240, 230.... HAAAA!

Oh ok, I was like a "0"??? Like no weight loss? Who is looking forward to that? Yeah I would like to see another "0" soon too, I have 4 more lbs to 240, so that is exciting!!! I wouldn't mind doing that this week!!!

Right? I just realized that my closet needs a trend overhaul!!! Time to step it up.

LOL, I know what you mean!!! Today I put on one of the pairs of pants that I love to wear cause they are the skinny jeans, and I like the way I feel or felt in them till today, I feel them sagging everywhere I even have to wear a belt with them and they still feel like they are falling off? I am like what the heck???? lol

Amen Sistah!!!

wow, I would have been in the bathroom!!!

I'm going to our required seminar this Monday to discuss transitioning from puréed to solids and I will ask then if there is something wrong with my sleeve. I think I'm ok because I had heartburn something fierce yesterday.

They say that you can still get the heart burn with the sleeve? I haven't had heart burn since I got my bypass, and I am so glad, cause I used to get it bad!!!

@BladeFox, Yeah that is what I am still looking at my "0's" too. I am still debating what my final goal is going to be, cause originally it was to get the 150, but I don't know if that will be too small for my height? I am 5'8" and I don't want to look sick when I get down to that point, so when I get down closer to that point I will see how the final is going to be. Most people tell me I am wasting away now, lol but I know I can't stay at the point I am at now cause I am still in the obese column of the BMI Graph, I am 15lbs away from the overweight part of the graph, and for my height anywhere between 120-160 is the healthy range, so we shall see, 150 will be half of my original weight though that is why I picked that number when I started?

Getting into that overweight category is wonderful!!! I didn't have as much to lose so I hit it pretty quickly but it still felt great. I set my initial goal on the high end of a BMI of 25 but I'll see when I get there if I want to go lower or not. Now that I'm at 49 lost (can't seem to knock off that next pound to say 50) I'm FINALLY starting to get comments about how much weight I've lost. Seems it took everyone a LONG time to start commenting! lol

You're doing great!

@Ginger Snaps, it does feel good to get those comments doesn't it. I think I didn't start getting them till I was around 50lbs down, so don't worry it's just peoples perception of you isn't due to your weight, or they see you everyday, which is good, but wait till you see people that you haven't seen in a while, I have a birthday party for my brother on the 20th and I haven't seen anyone that will be there for probably close to 8+ months, so the last time they saw me I was pre surgery, lol so they aren't going to recognize me now??? lol no they will cause my face still looks the same just I am 1/3 the person I was??? LOL Just keep positive amp up your exercise or change it up a little and you will get that 50!!!

Relief what do you mean cook the veggie burger in a can of soup??? Is it cream of onion or just onion soup?

A can of onion soup. its not creamed. put the burgers in a crock pot poor in the soup and let it simmer for a while. not so long that the burgers break up. it gives them a nice flavor and they will be soft enough to eat. let me know what you think. i guess you can also simmer it in a skillet. but since my were frozen i let them simmer in the crock pot

Thanks Relief, I will try that!!!

Sorry you are in the ER!! I hope it is nothing serious. I couldn't believe it when you said you were going back to work so soon. I just returned to work 12 days post opt and it is exhausting and painful to the muscles on the incision site. I know it gets better every day but when you have to work it is still not fast enough.

Thanks missme, I am still leaking a little but according to my doc he said its fine and as for the fever I must of come down with something??? I am ok, be even better when this fever breaks!!! Lol

CONGRATS

Congrats Pupi!!! It's so strange how stalls happen like that and then all the sudden you have a big weight dump! But you've worked hard for this! Enjoy the feeling of success!

Finally...it took you a minute. Must feel good! Good job Pup!

Thanks girls!!! @BladeFox, it has taken a minute and a half really but I just can't believe it is finally here? 8 months today???? Wow right before the 8 month mark!!! How are you doing?

oh wow!! What a special and exciting day! I look forward to hearing how every thing goes.

Can't wait to see you on the other side.

Wish you the BEST of LUCK. Go get em!

@BigGirlPanties I am telling you, you won't ever eat regular Spaghetti again!!! I was skeptical at first but when I tried it, I was like holy S#%t, this is good, and so easy!! Plus it's good for you, I can't eat pasta at all, it doesn't do well in my tummy so I needed this!! I got mine at Walgreen's, and I have seen it at Walmart too. The person who told me about it got it at Bed, Bath & Beyond? So it's around. Just in case!!!

This is on my to-buy list

I have my coupon for Bed Bath and Beyond ... now to just get over there...it's across town...but thanks!

My hubby's mom/family is in MA... oh that's cute! Was just wondering if it meant something...but it means something to YOU... that's sweet!

Right on!

What part of ma? I'm in western ma near the Springfield area? I like it here cause its where I grew up but I really hate the winters? Yeah the nickname is cute he has called me that since we started dating???? Thanks blade!!!!

Ok pupi, I got sick eating about 2 tsp of my lunch today. It lasted almost 4 hours!!! Called the nurse and she said it was probably reheating the meat and the quinoa, so don't do what I did. I never will again.

Thanks Kendra, I can have that now, just in small portions.

Blade, Sorry to hear that, you know what I cooked up a big pot of chili, and I can reheat that, but i don't know about reheating other things cause it dries out so much from the microwave?

lol thanks blade!!! How are you doing? How did everything go with the job thing?

you ladies inspire me!! I am so excited as my time gets closer. I am still 4+ months out, but I can't wait to be where you are! Keep up the good choices and work ladies you are amazing!

Thanks pinkpolkadot!!! I can't speak for blade, but I know going through this transformation I have found that I want to help others loose the weight, I have instilled the changes in my home too, and my son is only 9 but he is a heavy kid right now and we are working on that so that as he gets older he doesn't go through everything I have growing up and being a heavy kid.

Thanks Odesa, I always have wanted things now instead of being patient and letting things happen they way they are supposed to happen? I need to learn some patience?

Hehe, we all need to learn it. I have to keep reminding myself that it took me 23 years to get to where I was so I'll need more than a few weeks to get back to where I should be. Pretty common sense stuff but I too can be impatient so just say to yourself "Marathon" and not "Sprint"

I will do that!!! Thanks

Wow! That's fantastic!!!

Congrats!

Wow!! that is incredible!! congradulaions

Great field! I see the big rush. Well you tell that body of yours to hurry up and get better so you can move on

Great field! I see the big rush. Well you tell that body of yours to hurry up and get better so you can move on

trust me I am telling it!!! LMAO, I am going home after today and standing under a nice hot shower and just going to let the water run down over me cause I am in so much pain just after 6 hours of being here. I could go home now if he would let me.

Yeah I know what you mean, I wouldn't settle just cause I wasn't loosing. I decided on the bypass because when I was talking to my doctor he was trying to get me to do the sleeve, and he said if I don't loose all the weight and or it didn't work for me I could still go through and have the bypass? So at that point I was like why am I going to put myself through all that and so I just went straight for the final product and got the bypass. I am not going to go through one surgery and then have to have another one cause I couldn't loose all the weight on the first one? That was not my deal. I am very happy with my outcome, not everyone has the same outcome though, so just cause I did doesn't mean anything? I just really stuck to it and got to where I am now and I still stick to it. I have my little slips here and there but the sugar is out of my life forever. I don't mess around with that, I hate how it makes me feel and I don't want to deal with that?

Thanks for that insight. I knew that with the bypass that sugar was out forever for most bypass people and I had tortured myself with the Atkins plan long enough to realize that saying no to certain things is not up my alley. I have to be able to slip without it making me sick, I mean I still get sick with fish, bread and oil, but a finger down the throat seems to do it most times. When I was on Atkins, I gave up sugar and when I got off, I needed it like a crack head. That wasn't the route for me and the bypass wasn't and probably still isn't. I just wish I had the motivation to get all of my weight off like I started off with. I lack motivation. I haven't gained an ounce, but stuck at where I left off due to lack of motivation. I think it will come back when I have had enough, just not there yet and still going through a lot of employment stresses doesn't help either. Can't wait to get my head in the game again!

You will get there, just don't let yourself go back to where you were, cause then the motivation really won't be there? I have been lacking motivation lately too, I don't know why, I don't go to the gym anymore, I don't get out and walk I go home from work and just want to crawl into bed and stay there for the night? Im not depressed or atleast I don't feel it, I just am always tired lately? I don't know what is wrong with me and but I did just go to my thyroid doctor and she upped my meds and that is making me feel wicked hungry the past few days but that is cause the meds are making my matabolism ramp up? I am wondering if that is why I am tired too though? I don't know. Bypass isn't for everyone and the whole sugar thing I am actually happy about cause that was my biggest issue? So now I just don't even bother going near it. I can have a small small bite but nothing bigger?

Blade I am, I am just going to start switching things up a little too, and walk every other day and then on the days I don't walk do weight training and situps and stuff like that!!!

How many days post op?

@sotabee I am 3 months and 1 week post op!

It went really good, they are submitting it to the insurance now. It will take a little while cause you know insurance companies!!!

I am told they don't cover it here at all!! But I am learning there might be loop holes....

Call your insurance company and ask them what the requirements are to have it done!!! If it's a medical necessity they need to cover it. Like what I want done, the skin folds over and I get yeast infections, and sores under the folds so that is why I want it done, and it could become open sores so that would make it a medical necessity. I will say that what I want done is only $4000, so if my insurance were to not pay for it, I would save up the money and pay for it out of pocket!!!

Oh ok???? Never heard of it?

Non-Scale Victories...oops!

LMAO thats a big difference!!!

Congrats! Would you do sleeve again? I am nervous and a bit freaked out

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Congrats! I'm still 2lbs away from the BIG 50, but I've been smaching fruit lately. Just need it for some reason.

You can do it, tomorrow is our 3 month mark, and I will be checking one more time this week just to have my official 3 month weigh in, and I will be doing my measuring too!!! I love doing it, isn't that crazy!!

BigGirlPanties, that is a zoon over the anchor, it's a warrior symbol for new beginnings. The tattoo was a cover-up, I did the dumb mistake of putting someones name on me, dumb dumb, never do that again, and so anyway I got this to represent my new beginnings with my Bypass, my new life with the guy I am engaged to, and forgetting the past!!! I have quite a few also, my whole top of my right arm is covered all the way around, I have a one on my foot, my calf, my ankle, my neck, all across my back, behind my ear, and more to come, I couldn't care if I was covered by the time I am old, I love it, and I will love it forever no matter how wrinkled I get. LOL I never really thought I would get a whole lot of ink but I fell in love the minute that needle hit my back on my first tattto? I have been hooked ever since. My fiance's brother is a tattoo artist so I get them from him?

Sssssouch... Did it hurt? It looks beautiful, good for you!

Nah blade tattoos don't hurt??? Thanks!!!

Your best bet is to go during the week, I work right near it and that is the best time to go? I know saturdays are the worst.

So funny... just finished up a walk with a couple of friends here at work and one of them is going to the Big E this weekend! She was telling me how much fun it is.

Aren't you glad you were able to walk as much as you wanted???

congrats girl..you are rockin it!