Ms skinniness

Hey, it's time to celebrate that flab! Yep, that is beautiful flab! It's better flab than fat! And you rock them clothes! Your healthier and much happier now and that's all that really matters..... Time to look at the flab in a different light......It's better than fatty tissue......

Do you want it to work? It's totally up to you! It will take work, and it will work if you work it. That means following directions from your surgeons, working on issues pertaining to head hunger, and your be alive! Yep alive! Oh and btw, healthier too! You will get skinny and strut yourself! Can you see yourself? I can! You can do this if you chose.......This is the best thing that I have ever done for myself.

From the mouth of babes! So honest and I really like how you handled it. Good job mom and this is a very special NSV to you! Keep it up!

Hey, this sounds more like a good bye letter and that scares me! This is not the end to your journey. If your feeling like there's no hope, then I'm going to tell you your wrong! You hit a bump in the road. The surgery might not be this year, it can be down the road in the near future. This would be a good time to seek some help to help you over the bump. There are ways to do things differently. Please hear me.

I agree with Lissa, this is the best time to seek a therapist to work on body image issues. Look in the mirror and look at your body. Isn't it looking good? Yeah it sucks to have an A cup, but that's ok. You are looking better every day. Start adding butt lifts to build muscle in your gluteus maximus.

He is a big BOOB! He doesn't understand what you going through! I am so happy your doing this for you! Today I found out my husband's cousin is going to get sleeved! So awesome. This is the best decision I have made for myself.

People like that are so stupid! I'd report them to the supervisor and pat myself on the back. Time for some education for these B******! Take a look in the mirror ASAP and notice how beautiful you are! Yes you! This is hard work, and it's better than dying from obesity and health complications. Those people are not worth any of your time! You have to strut yourself and rock that sleeve of yours! You are a success. It's going to take all your energy to focus on a beautiful life ahead of you.

Softer foods are sf pudding, jello, yogurt...... anything that is mushie.

You are doing great! I do have a suggestion for you though. Please put the scale away, hide it in the closest if you must! It is only going to cause you stress. It is very inconsistent. If you haven't measured yourself yet, this would be a good time to do it. That is going to be the best tool for measuring your weight loss. Believe me, your stomach is 85% smaller. You will feel it when you start eating softer and regular foods later on out. CONGRATS!

I am so proud of SLEEVE4ME! She is a big success story! Can't wait to see every one at the meeting in November!

This is a time to take full advantage of your sleeve and try to follow your surgeon's and NUT diet to a T for maximum weight loss. You are only 10 days out and your stomach is still swollen. This is the time to go easy and baby your stomach. Drink some protein drink if you can't resist. At 10 days I was allowed to have sf pudding, yogurt, sf jello, and soups. This helped me lose weight faster and i am very thankful I followed this plan.

Now this is absolutely fabulous! Good job and happy your b/s is normal now! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Keep it up and I look forward to seeing more process in the near future.

CONGRATS! I bet you can feel your collarbone too! Your Grandpa needs to tell you more often how wonderful you are and how proud he is of you! Keep Rockin that Sleeve!

I am totally confused by this. Now, isn't sushi fish? Or was it wrapped with rice? I know that a french fry is a carb. To me, hypoglycemia is when you have really low blood sugar. When I eat I sometimes have sxs listed above when eating very little to no carbs. This freaks me out. Thank you for this info. I think I have to have a more balanced diet and add a few extra carbs to my diet to avoid these sxs.

This weekend I have watched myself get out of control. I am just over 1 year post op and look great. Not down to where my mind thinks I want to be but looking really good and feeling good. I really need to work on my mindset. I know that if there's something that is sweet sitting on the counter, I will eat it, even if I'm not hungry. I have asked my hubby to not buy this stuff because I'm the one that ends up eating it, and yet he still did, and I have trouble telling him no, to buying sugar free cookies. So now I need to work on my mind and stopping thinking about food when I'm not hungry. This is such a struggle for me. It would probably be easier to have surgery on my brain. LOL Anyways, I am freaked out when I read something about our ghrelin hormone coming back and causing us hunger. Need to research this. Thanks for listening, tomorrow I will be on protein drinks to get back to basics. Oh I am a terrible stress eater.

This is so frustrating to be right there and to have this problem that is going to post pone your dream come true. you have to wait. The time will go by fast and you will be sitting next to us on the BIG LOSER'S BENCH really soon!

Looking really good! You go girl!

How about a naked sandwhich with protein, protein, and more protein. I don't eat breads but I will order the insides and enjoy the center. Yum, Yum, Yum.....

I hope you really don't believe that you can live on less fluids. This is really dangerous territory. This is a great time to increase your water intake. Try putting some flavor in it and when you get hungry drink some water because your hunger could actually be mimicking your thrist. Trust eating more and then your body has to work double hard to get all the moisture out of your food. Please start increasing your fluid intake to prevent any kind of dehydration. Also dehydration also can cause kidney damage and your blood thickens and can cause strokes. So Please Drink a lot of fluids. You can change this!

I just received a message from my PCP at Kaiser and he's referred me to a surgeon to remove my gallbladder. I'm confused because I have no pain or sxs. They did an ultra sound and I guess they found some. I'm wondering if there's other treatments that will prevent gallstones or dissolve them?

Thank you everyone. For some reason I'm more afraid about having this surgery than I was about getting sleeved. That means I will have an additional 5 go 6 incision cites. Wow, what is my stomach going to look like, "a shooting range?" LOL

I am very sad to hear they lost their funding. Are there any other options for you?

This is truly an NSV! CONGRATS!

Love it!

Both of you are going to lose a lot of weight and have a healthy beautiful body!