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So the OR e-mail me today for my surgery time. Tomorrow at 10:30am!!!!

Good thing only have 1 birthday a year

See, for me, this is key. Dr. Matthew Weiner talks about it so succinctly in this video. It's about what naturally happens to our tools as time goes by. And it scares the hell outta me. Cuz you know, it's gonna happen to the biggest majority of us. Our tools will mature and we will be able to eat more. So I kinda look on this time, the WLM, honeymoon period time where we DO have a good amount of restriction (or most of us do) as a time when we MUST try to change the way we relate to food and the kinds of food we choose. Cuz if you choose the right foods often enough, our body does come to preferentially want the better for us foods. So we have to use our time to the utmost so we don't end up screwed. Face down in birthday cake 24/7/365. Cuz those types of shenanigans got me all the way to the Obesity Ball. And I don't wanna attend another one...right?

Im still the same person I was 100lbs ago. I want to eat the same foods I just hope the sleeve will keep the portion control in check which it has.

Brent dont beat yourself up go back to your program and stay away from the cake for sure lol we all have pit falls its not the pit fall that matters it is what you do to avoid the pit fall in the future stay positive and keep working to the goal we all take side streets that do not always work out best for us stay positive and remember you got this we all love to give our advise to admit our failures or screw ups is always the hardest i know i have many failures in the backseat however will power is riding shotgun today (not saying it does not get in the back of the truck and hide sometimes)

I had RNY on Feb 5, 2019. My hair loss started mid May and ended about mid July. I already had thin, fine hair to begin with so the loss was very noticeable (to me at least). Now here I am in October, 80 pounds down, and my hair is growing back! The pictures are of my bangs because it’s so noticeable there, but I have inch long hair all over my head. It makes my cowlick more obvious so I’ve been wearing a lot of ponytails to try to control it. My hair looks pretty awful with the little hairs standing straight up all over, but I’m thrilled it’s growing!

My surgery is scheduled for October 10th. My husband is set to deploy to Afghanistan on October 21st from Williamsburg VA and we lived in Pennsylvania. My daughter and I were supposed to go down to see him one last time and Flying isn’t an option, so I’m wondering if anyone made a long drive post op? It’s a 6 hour drive. If I wear compression socks, stop once every hour to get out of the car and walk and rotate my ankles and roll my feet as we drive, I’m hoping blood clots won’t be an issue. Again, I’m just wondering if anyone else traveled a far distance post op and if so, what was your experience.

Terrific! So happy for you!

It happens

I took my time switching to the puree stage. My doctor said it was fine. He'd rather I took my time switching rather than jumping into the next phase too quickly.