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Thanks for the info Tiffy. BTW CONGRATS!!!! I hadn't seen yet!!!

That's pretty much what I'm doing too. I'm a few pounds shy of 50 total now and I plan on buying myself a 40th anniversay Disney World Dooney & Burke wallet. At 75 lbs down I'm going to get the purse that matches. At 100 who knows LOL we'll see what I'm really wanting when I get closer I think at 25 lbs down I just bought myself one new bra at Walmart.

Is Dayquil or Nyquil not an option for us?

So i haven't updated since I joined... SN.......................Starting Wt.........Current.......Goal.......Lbs to Goal DisneyAddict...........288.....................272..........258.............14 Holy Carp! I think I can actually make that!! That's INSANE!

I also heard it's harder to get you off the breathing machines when you're coming out of surgery. I think that was what made me quit pre-surgery. I've been smoking again for a few weeks now but we're going to be quitting again soon. I just had a hard time there handling the no smoking AND barely eating. For yall that have quit again post surgery, how do you handle the mouth craving? You know wanting to snack & stuff post op?

That's happened to me in the last few days! You know how glass doors are like the worst possible reflection of you? I noticed myself in our back glass doors and was like "hunh... you're not being too mean to me anymore. I'm not looking half bad..wish my arms would catch up though".

When you go outside to get the mail and one neighbor (whom you haven't seen since before your surgery) comes outside, waves like normal then says "Hey you're skinnier!! What happened to you?" (at only 36 lbs lost). Then while you're standing in the driveway chatting with him, your across the street neighbor (another you havent seen since before surgery) comes home and you see him looking at you...and again... for the triple take! LOL I have to say standing out in the driveway around "get home thirty" every 30 lbs or so may become my new favorite hobbY!

What amazes me is that Universal didn't give much thought (or care to?) to the size factor. You'd think with them competing directly with the Disney Parks they'd want to at least try to pace them and it's widely known how Pooh-sized Friendly they are. Not smart Universal.

Ok so I was sleeved 1/25. I haven't lost any weight in about 2.5 almost 3 weeks now!! It's driving me nuts because I know I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm tracking everything. I'm getting plenty of protein.. my carbs (except for like 1 day?) have been under 50...I'm getting as many calories as I can stomach (I'm averaging 600-700... my fat is WAY low. I'm exercising too. I don't know what else to do. It's frustrating as all hell and I feel like "ok is this IT?? Did I just amputate part of my body for nothing??" I mean it's always been hard for me to continue on the right path w/o some sort of... positive anything. That's why I was never able to stick w/ diets in the past. The only thing keeping me sticking to this is knowing that if I don't I'm going to eff up my stomach. I mean... I've even started smoking again it's that bad. I feel terrible about it. Thanks for letting me whine. I just thought that if I were able to continue doing what I'm supposed to be doing that something would happen..anything.

Reread Diva's suggestions. I did and I was able to kick that stall loose. I've been paying attention to getting good fats in and trying to get my calories up. Now I'm trying to pay attention to getting Fiber in and I'm trying like mad to get my water up too.

I've officially retired a pair of my Big Dog pajama pants forever. These have been my "uniform" for years. PJ pants & tent like tshirt. One of my favorite pair of pj pants were literally falling off of me yesterday. ALSO! I no longer have my spongebob square ass. I used to have a square-ish ridge of fat above my butt but below my lower back... like where a thin person would have a slope. There's no obvious "block" of fat there anymore!!! I've never been able to get rid of that!!

I have some pajama pants from Big Dogs I don't want to throw away. My husband suggested for my flannel BD pants we cut them up and turn them into burp cloths for baby. So we're going to do that. I don't know what to do with the plain cotton knit pants though? Any ideas? This is the last time I'll be able to wear this particular pair I'm wearing because I've got Coppertone Baby thing going on lol. Have yall done anything to repurpose any of your favorite old clothes? I'd love suggestions!

Same here Tiffy except mine wasn't tied to PMS. I was in full throttle evil bitch mode for about 3 weeks straight a week after my surgery. My husband said the same thing to me too. About 6/7 weeks out now I'm a lot more calm. Next week I'm supposed to start and so far haven't had any of my usual PMS kick in (extremely tired/lazy, carb attacks, wanting to eat anything thatd stand still...etc) but the week isn't over yet

God no! There's no way I could've walked out of there that night I was SO doped up. I really needed that over night stay. I didn't get released until about 5pm the next day but it took so long for paperwork, I wasn't released til close to 9/10. That extra time was so helpful.

Listen don't worry about it. At my heaviest (during a WDW trip... I shot up to 314 in the last year) I was in the.. 290s? and a size 26/28 and I had no problems with rides. (I'm a Disney travel agent so believe me when I say I know the parks & all things Disney like the back of my hand). There were a few I felt like a sausage stuffed in there (Mission Space comes to mind) but I did fit fine AND SAFELY. Disney Cast Members aren't crass like some of the other theme park workers. If they thought someone might have a problem, they would be discreet about it as not to embarass you. But trust me... nobody's even given me a second glance while I was in line. A tip though!! When you get onto a ride car that has a seat belt, pull it all the way out before sitting down so you can buckle in comfortably THEN tighten it. If you have any questions in specific please let me know. You will get a ton of walking so I suggest either sneakers or crocs (with socks..tacky I know but when I did crocs my joints didn't hurt as bad) and see which works best. Also take a cooling foot lotion for your feet/ankles & swelling and a cream like maybe... sports cream for your knees and anything else that may hurt. My dh & I both were rather large our last trip and we didn't care that we smelled like a Rolling Stones Tour Bus...we had a good time! ENJOY YOURSELF! I'm here if you want to PM me w/ questions

I've done that too minus the hot sauce lol. When did yall do canned spinach? I was thinking about it last night and it seemed to fit all the requirements? Canned....soft... no skin... no seeds...

I'll be able to start soft solids soon. YAY! There've been a few things I've been curious about. I looked at my nut's plan and it's not very clear so I looked at the Northwest Obesity Plan...still not clear. When were yall able to have: Cereal (like cheerios) slices of cheese or cheese sticks VEGETABLES! I'm craving veggies so badly. I would love some squash or zucchini or mushrooms or something... esp carrots.. carrots would be good too. Fruit? Aside from bananas what kind of fruit did yall start off on? Is there anything else yall started introducing during the soft solids stage that hasn't even entered my mind yet? Anything that's a definite "don't even think about it yet"?

Yep I'm still having bad cravings. We slipped up this time last week (a pack took us 2 days) and over the weekend (same). Slippery slope and I swear it's got it's hooks back in me. UGH

Hi guys I just got back from having Breakfast with my BFF. My first time out at a restaurant. We went to Le Peep. I asked for the kids menu and it was pitiful. It was all crap food. Stuff that now that I'm highly aware is awful and I wouldn't want to feed it to my kids. I noticed the same thing at HEB when I was still in the liquids stage... I made the comment to my mother in law how awful everything was so WTF are you supposed to feed kids? juice is horrible..you might as well give a kid a coke since it's about the same. My question is...sleevers with (young) kids... what are yall feeding your kids? 2nd part of my question is... how do we TEACH our kids healthy habits (not following our poorly chosen original footsteps) yet WITHOUT transfering our own.... *thinking for the right term* new mentality towards food into UNHEALTHY weight/image ideas into our kids? I've thought of this often. A lot of my food hang ups before were because of my mom's ever present dieting & exercise & just unhealthy thought towards body. My senior year, at 5 ft 6 I weighed 170 and wore a size 12. I was smokin hot (looking back on it & my senior pic). My mom was always like "big women can look nice too" in that... finger wagging sort of tone. Umm I wasn't big back then? Anyhow.. I basically am curious how yall are handling all of this with the kiddos. I don't want to do what my mom did to me and raise me with a piss poor idea of body/eating/dieting/etc (especially since kids now seem to be SO touched by it according to articles & such)... but I don't want them to make the poor choices I did. I feel myself growing judgemental of food in general..portions...etc because I feel this awareness now and realize how much of an effing piglet I was before that didn't care about the little white label. I do now... I don't want to lead my kids astray in EITHER direction.. into obesity OR into unhealthy idea of body.

Maybe he was referring to FRESH tomatos because of the seeds? I know my drs plan has me avoiding seeds for awhile. Like the others, I haven't had a problem with tomato things either. In fact, once I hit the full liquid stage tomato soup is the only thing I wanted to fool with. I've been on a PPI since I came home so maybe that's why I haven't had a problem? Normally, pre surgery, tomato based things (ok who am I kidding.. lol EVERYTHING) gave me heartburn/acid. Maybe you need a different or stronger PPI if it's not working for you? Good luck!

Chilo, I believe you that the food in England isn't great either.. lol I've got a few British recipes that I lovvvee... sticky toffee pudding anyone? LOL I might as well inject the fat straight into my veins Especially someone who has girls, teen girls at that, how do you manage to keep them "sane" as far as their bodies? Is England as bad or getting as bad as America where it's all about "skinny" and young girls are feeling that pressure? A crappy kids menu at a restaurant I can understand but I'm still appalled at the items in grocery stores. Why is it that now...in 2011... people are so obese (portion sizing aside) compared to say the 50s? Are the basic ingredients in products we buy in the grocery store THAT different now? Also, I don't GET how in the blue hell restaurants can pump so much extra fat & calories into something you can make at home with the same types of ingredients? Dawn, I was being facetious about the cokes to juice comment. Since having the sleeve, I've always figured splitting an adult entree w/ kiddos is the way to go. Let me be clear... I don't have any kiddos yet but DH & I are planning on getting our adoption ball rolling VERY soon. We plan on adopting from Korea I'm one of those people who over thinks about things since I've never done this before. Butterfly, I have a sister who is a doctor as well and is raising her boys vegetarian. There's a lot of problems with that (that I see personally). Those kids are... 11 & 8 or 9 and both have moobs. Little boys shouldn't have moobs. Julia, have you noticed a change in your youngest's weight since swearing off all those bad items at home?

LOL Lemme at her Kidding. You know my sister doesn't even know about my surgery. We all decided not to tell her because of how she is. She's never been tall & skinny mind you... she's about like me... but she's got a piss poor attitude and would be totally judgemental about it...but only because she doesn't have the sack to do something about her own weight. Good luck on Thursday and I hope your mom has her eyes (and mind) opened. Let us know how it goes ok?

. 1. I didn't *want* anything. The simple thought of chicken or beef broth just turned my stomach and made me want to urp. All I wanted was Water... a little Jello but not really. Mainly just water. This was while I was on clears obviously. Towards the last couple days of clears I was starting to come around. 2. I felt NO pain after surgery. The drugs were GOOD lol. Other than that? Nah... I was just sore around my middle like someone had beat & kicked the you know what out of me. Then again, the girl that came out of surgery after me was moaning and belly aching like an effing banshee. I thought it was a bit much but whatever. I even asked the nurse "was I THAT BAD??" LOL She said "no you were a good girl" 3. I'm only a month out now. I've had head hunger. I'm walking around right now thinking I'm hungry... I may very well BE hungry... but I just ate an hour ago. I can wait. I'm having water. I don't want to overeat or eat things I'm not supposed to because I'm terrified of "springing a leak" and waking up dead. There's a definite difference in this and regular dieting. Regular dieting, if you cheat or something you're not gonna have serious consequences in the beginning. After awhile it kind of becomes apart of the scenery really? Of who you are...and it's easier I think. 4. There were a few days when it got really hard for me and I thought WTF have I done? Now.. not so much. I'm happy that I'm losing weight and I'm getting healthier and starting to get my life back. I'm looking forward to things I haven't done in 10 years! I think the first couple of weeks are impossible because you're stuck on liquids and all you want is food.. or drink.. or coke.. or whatever your poison is. I had a few breakdowns. This too shall pass because.... 5. Eventually.. slowly but surely I'm sure by normal food you mean food that isn't a liquid? My theory is I want to do what my brain has been trying to tell me all my life. Eat right and healthy 99% of the time so once in a while you can have "once in awhile" foods. That's my goal. To be able to live a normal life like a normal person who has never had a weight problem and someone who has never been obsessed with food.

You know.. as long as your husband is 100000% behind you and willing to help you and see you through the highs and lows of this surgery.. honey that's all you need imo. Your mom & sister don't have to live your life or in your skin. Your husband shares your life so he sees your daily struggles. Someone who has always been tall & thin, in my opinion, has absolutely ZERO business giving anyone ANY opinion of theirs regarding WLS EVER. No shape form or fashion... never having DEALT with obesity or even a few extra pounds completely exempts someone from saying "no don't do it" or "it's an easy way out" BAH!.. I'm sorry but that's my opinion. You didn't mention anything about your mom except that she's against it? Listen... it's gonna be you & your husband for the long haul yes? If you feel this is what you need to do to take your life back by the balls and be HEALTHY so you can sit in that rocking chair with your husband yelling at your grandkids to quit covering the dog in squeezy cheese... then whatever. Everyone else can go suck a big fat effing toad. Do whatcha gotta do doll. It's YOUR life & your mortality.

Same here!