missmeow

If people weighed themselves monthly instead of daily, there wouldn't be any "stalls" (I know, I know, docs say to weigh in, but what I am trying to say is that stalls aren't stalls when looked at in the bigger picture)

Where did you have your surgery? I am so sorry you have had so many complications.

When you are short and/or have less to lose, you lose slower. I'm in your same club (hobbit sized) and I think you are doing great. Maybe instead of focusing on eating less, or eating more low calorie fake foods, exercise more and boost your metabolism. It might be enough to kick your system into losing. Think about it this way, you're about 20lbs from your goal in 5 months. That's 10lbs a month! This is good!!!

Is it better to have basic or standard?

I think you look adorable and pretty in your picture. If you are going into the surgery thinking that skinny is going to solve all of your problems, then you are going to be in a world of hurt later on because being skinny does not solve your problems or make your life perfect. It just means you're skinny. Making changes for yourself now does not negate or preclude you from loving yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. Come to that point and the rest will be so much easier.

Trader Joe's has the best thick jerky. Nice and chewy, not dry or shoe leathery. Plus you can get organic beef. YUM. Krave is another brand. It's more like a shreded style? It's super easy to eat. I do not like Jack Link's, Oberto, or the other grocery store brand I cannot think of the name right now.

I have contacted three surgeons so far in my search for a surgeon. The first office charges a $210 program fee that has to be paid upfront before they do their group meeting and get you started. They were unable to tell me exactly how much the surgery would cost with my insruace. They also said that I won't get to meet the surgeon until I have been approved for the surgey through my insurance. The second office has taken over a month to contact me. They charge a $2500 program fee. This is supposedly one of the most reputable surgeons in the area. This fee is on top of the surgery cost. They did not say when I could meet the surgeon. The third office wasn't covered by my insurance. So my out of pocket maximum is $10k. That is almost the same as self-pay. I guess I figure if I am going to spend that much I may as well have purchased the surgery yesterday, kwim? My questions are: 1) Is it normal to not meet the doctor before you start the program? I feel my decision to go to a certain surgeon is going to be based upon my MEETING them and seeing who and what they are. 2) Is it normal for such a range of program fees? $2500 on top of the costs of surgery seems excessive to me. I am getting really disappointed because I want the surgery but I feel as though I am viewed as a fattie with a fattie wallet and it just reeks of fatsploitation. I want to feel as though I am actually a person and not just chattel in the money farm. And I DO NOT WANT to go to that scam 1-800-get-thin. Any surgeon associated with that is off my list automatically.

No, because if it is about your health than the scales really make no difference. What makes the difference is the change in your diet and upping your exercise.

I don't get wooden spoon?

Christina Ricci has been very open about having anorexia. She looked better with more weight. I wonder if she had a reduction because her boobs used to be HUGE.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stool-color/AN00772 Lol, I always thought high Protein diets will do it but maybe not. Talk to your doctor but I remember my cousin having green turds and no one thought anything about it.

Yeah, I think people do the greatest service when they are honest. Being thin is not the greatest thing ever. Yes, it can help open doors. But at the end of the day, you are still you, with the same problems, the same insecurities, etc. just in a smaller body. People have to have a realistic view of what goes into it before making the decision.

Personally, I would never have had that done awake. I think that is bullshit medicine at its best. I had an endoscopy 10 years ago. Knocked me out for 10 minutes, didn't remember a thing and went home about an hour or so later. They did not put me under general, it's more of a zombie drug. Your experience sounds horrific, IMO.

Well, now you know who is watching your back! That guy was so perturbed that you were being replaced, he just went for it. How awesome you have a great friend and that you have completely transformed yourself

Most of the time people who say rude things can't take it when the tables are turned. Maybe start commenting on her weight too. Tell her she looks like a shriveled up prune face and ask her if she is sick. Maybe she will shut up then. I think a lot of fat folks are so used to having abuse heaped on them and taking it that it becomes very hard to stand up to people. Personally, I wouldn't tolerate that kind of belittling. I'm totally crampy today, can't you tell?

If you're still in big girl sizes, lane bryant has 5 for $25 right now with an additional coupon for $25 off of $75.

I guess I am old fashioned and think of surgery of the last ditch option for people who are morbidly obese. A BMI of 32 is just over obese. Unless you have a serious illness or physical impairment keeping you from exercising, I would try cognitive behavioral therapy and workouts before getting 80% of my stomach removed. 40lbs would probably put you into a healthy weight range and I think it is doable. Most of the people here have 100 or more to lose.

I don't know that wanting to chew is so much head hunger as much as it is phyisiology. The only time we drink our food is as infants, so drinking a pure liquid diet certainly is going to throw your body and brain into a tailspin. I guess I think of head hunger as compulsive eating when not hungry because you "think" you need to eat when you do not.

I don't see anything wrong with a gym that caters to plus-sized clientele. When/if they lose weight, they can go to a "normal" gym where they will fit in. Fat people are discriminated against. It is not enabling to seek out people who are in similar situations as you and who understand where you are coming from. That is why everyone is here, right? No one wants to go someplace and be stared at or pointed fingers at or made comments at. People want to go to the gym and exercise and maybe get some nutritional advice. We have men's gyms and women's gyms built around the premise that being around similar people is less distracting and/or more comfortable. Obese people getting into fitness have special needs to consider in their exercise routines are larger sizes that just are not considered by your typical gym rat trainer. Meeting these needs in a supportive environment is a good thing. A lot of people, thin or fat, will avoid the gym just because of the meat market, holier than thou atmospheres at some gyms. It only takes one bad experience to turn some people off for life. If fat people can get the equipment and the fitness programs they need in a manner that will keep them coming back and keep them at their healthiest, then more power to them. And I contest the idea that the only reason a fat person works out is to get thin. You can work out regularly and not get thin. I know several people who are fat and work out all the time for their health. They just like to eat and have crappy metabolisms. They're in better shape than most people. ETA: I don't particularly like the tone or stereotyping of thin people in the article, which might also be what is turning people off.

Canada has a new gym, Body Exchange, that caters exclusively to plus-sized women. They even go so far as to ban skinny people because they “bring down morale” of the overweight clients. Some say it’s a great way for overweight people to feel comfortable enough to exercise, but it’s really reverse discrimination at its finest. Touting themselves as the “only fitness and adventure company exclusive to a plus-size clientele” Body Exchange offers fit camps and personal training that combine strength training with cardio workouts in a “welcoming and supportive environment.” As founder and CEO Louise Green told TheProvince.com, it’s a ”safe haven.” Safe haven from skinny people, it appears. Green said that they strive for plus-sized groups where people feel they are with peers: Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish. People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn’t a model that offered camaraderie. I used to walk into fitness classes where nobody would even say ‘Hi.’ This has got to be fun or it’s not going to work. So skinny people are rude and unfriendly? As one client, Lisa Schaffer, put it, in other gyms there were “tiny little Lululemon people running around.” At a size 22, she didn’t feel she was represented. Body Exchange clients are screened over the phone, and those who don’t fit the plus-size criteria are not accepted and told to go elsewhere, according to Green: The presence of that person in our program will bring down morale. The presence of that person? Isn’t that just outright discrimination? Like any other gym would be able to screen and ban obese people because they didn’t fit in or they might be too distracting? Come on. I certainly understand that people like to work out with like-bodied peers sometimes. And no one wants to feel judged or discriminated against because of their size-especially at the gym where we are often at our most vulnerable and unclothed state. But to go so far as to ban skinny people is just wrong. In addition to stereotyping that skinny people are just “tiny Lululemons” who are rude and distracting and serious morale suckers, what happens when these women lose weight? Are they kicked out of the program and told they are then too thin to come back? And what about the instructors? Are they also only allowed to be fat? This brings up a lot of questions, but mostly, it just reeks of reverse discrimination. And we’re never going to win the body wars if we continue to divide ourselves and pit one group against another. Read more: http://blisstree.com/live/obesity/canadian-gym-wrongly-bans-skinny-people-because-they-bring-down-morale-721/#ixzz1yZJjFwT0

Maybe less food=less poop?

I get these for lunch sometime! They're yummy.

Not sleeved, but I would figure a bra BAND size for every 20lbs or so. I think that at a 46G now, with a month to surgery, would be safe buying one replacement bra in your current size and by three in the next three band sizes down. So a 44G, 42G, and 40G, which would probably take you anywhere between 60-80lbs of loss. I was wearing a *tight* 44H about 40lbs ago and am in a loose (wearing it on the smallest hook) 42H right now. I can wear a 40H comfortably in the band but the cups are just a hair too small, so maybe 5 or 10lbs more will get me into a perfect 40H. So that would be about 50lbs for 3 bra sizes. I don't lose too much boob when losing weight, it comes off my back first and lose in the boobs proportionally. But some people are opposite and lose breast first and back later. Just keep in mind when you go down a band size, even if the cup is the same letter, it is actually a cup smaller. So a 40H=42G=44E/DDD, etc.

Just order the sushi filling on a small salad. I do this all the time. I love spicy tuna rolls but rice kind of...slows down the works if you catch my drift. Many places will already have this as an option but you can always special order. Sashimi is the actual cuts of fish so if you order that you will get slices. If you like it with the mix-ins and chopped up ask for the filling. Usually you get about a 1/2 cup of filling on a small bed of lettuce.

Doesn't transferred fat eventually get reabsorbed?