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If you can dedicate yourself to a good Water program I would not be surprised if your success increased. I add lemon juice (pure, no sugar or additives) & liquid Stevia to my Water & I enjoy it. About 10 years ago I was a poor water drinker, I remember talking to my Curves instructor not believing it was possible to enjoy water, I felt like it was the hardest thing to do. I would keep a post a note in a noticeable place and have 8 lines. Each time I finished the 8 oz glass I would mark off a line and get encouraged. Now I drink out of a 27 oz bottle and I plug away at it. Yes, it is harder w/ my small stomach but I KNOW it helps me lose weight.

For me, I had to walk 6 days a weeks to get my weight loss going & now I do 4 days of water aerobics, 2 days walking and a day of rest. Without that, for me I don't lose much, plus I need better muscle mass to increase my ability to burn my food.

Lastly......I personally would never juice. I believe that It would pour out the insulin into my system & my body would store fat.

Oopsie, one more thing, are you familiar with intervals during exersise? You can google it and really learn how it helps your body, basically it is...while walking go at regular speed for say 1 minute, then 80% of your capacity for 30 seconds, 100% for 15 seconds. You do this over & over for about 15 minutes and the technique is well known to cause the body to burn more calories. You will really want to google this if you are not familiar or maybe you use to do it and sort of forgot (that's what I do, I can be big time forgetful).

This is a ton of info, lots you may already have done or are doing. Of course, the most important thing right now is having the PAP & getting some answers.

I recently did the bootcamp that I learned about from this site and it helped me out a great deal. If you want to read about it search for "boot camp anyone" under the search forum area on this site..

I am glad you are on this site. I certainly don' have all the answers, I just wanted to share my "program" with you. Too many changes all at once can be SO overwhelming, but you already know that cause when we have the surgery BOOM, we have so much to change.....you are a sweet person, I can tell by your replys. Keep going forward. Big hug to you. (sorry my post is so long)

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I'm going to buy some lemon and limes tomorrow to put in my Water. Good idea!!

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Yeah, if I don't dress up my Water somehow, I'll never get through it and my tummy is only banded, not tiny yet!! I feel the water pain!!

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Yeah' date=' if I don't dress up my Water somehow, I'll never get through it and my tummy is only banded, not tiny yet!! I feel the Water pain!![/quote']

Kristina when is your revision surgery?

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Kristina when is your revision surgery?

May 11th... Or 69 days if you're counting... Which I'm totally not... ;)

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I'm going to buy some lemon and limes tomorrow to put in my Water. Good idea!!

I get the Save Mart brand, presqueezed. I use 27 oz Water, 1 shot glass of lemon & four vial drops of stevia, not 4 drops, it has like an eye dropper dispenser and I use what I can squeeze into the vial....4 times. Yep, I can get addicted to anything, lol. I think most of my friends think it is too sweet, just thought I would give you my recipe, then you can go up or down. Hope you like it.

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Ah that's exciting!! I was sleeved May 15th last year

May sleevers rock ;)

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I get the Save Mart brand' date=' presqueezed. I use 27 oz Water, 1 shot glass of lemon & four vial drops of stevia, not 4 drops, it has like an eye dropper dispenser and I use what I can squeeze into the vial....4 times. Yep, I can get addicted to anything, lol. I think most of my friends think it is too sweet, just thought I would give you my recipe, then you can go up or down. Hope you like it.[/quote']

Thank you!

I'm excited to start getting my Water in and actually like it hehe

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I get the Save Mart brand' date=' presqueezed. I use 27 oz Water, 1 shot glass of lemon & four vial drops of stevia, not 4 drops, it has like an eye dropper dispenser and I use what I can squeeze into the vial....4 times. Yep, I can get addicted to anything, lol. I think most of my friends think it is too sweet, just thought I would give you my recipe, then you can go up or down. Hope you like it.[/quote']

Sounds like a yummy guilt free lemonade! :)

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Ah that's exciting!! I was sleeved May 15th last year

May sleevers rock ;)

I tend to agree, we sure do!!! Excited to officially join the club!! :)

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Ah that's exciting!! I was sleeved May 15th last year

May sleevers rock ;)

Love your new profile pic by the way! You are stunning my dear!!!

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Thank you! :)

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Thank you! :)

Not on topic at all but aw you have a new icon picture, you're too pretty! lol

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Not on topic at all but aw you have a new icon picture' date=' you're too pretty! lol[/quote']

Yes I feel weird without my lil finger avi hehe

Thank you very much!

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I don't expect anyone to respond because it won't happen and because you don't know how to respond you won't respond."

I understood perfectly, your expectation was that no one would respond...so why post? I am truly sorry you are having such a hard time...I was trying to encouage you to continue to seek medical help as it seems you have tried everything else...good luck to you.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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