Ms skinniness

Gemiidrive: I love everything you posted, it's so true..... Might I suggest making your font color in bold....I had a little difficulty reading it....

Will they give your deposit back? If they will, contact other surgeon's in Mexico and find out what their rates are and then schedule and appointment. Ask to talk with the office manager and perhaps they can accommodate you with a discounted rate for the misunderstanding. Don't be afraid to ask.......

You may not be hungry at all. Stomach acid does mimick hunger. this might be a good time to call your surgeon's office and ask them if they could prescribe or recommend a PPI for you. A PPI is nexium, prilosec, tagamet, etc. Now the craving for sweets is head hunger so this is them time to challenge your head hunger to kick the triggers for sweets. It's not easy but if you start now working on it, you will succeed in the long run.. And your tummy will be growling for a very long time.....LOL

OMG! I hope your jeans you are waiting on aren't too big now! Good job! Keep it up. It is exciting to get new clothes that are so much smaller than before,,,,,

You ask a question, "Do I even want to know?" and the reality of the situation is, that even if you knew, it wouldn't change the horrible experience you went threw. Knowing might even bring on more stress and even nightmares that produces more stress. I like to live in the state of gratitude where I'm thankful that I have my wonderful children, even if they are young adults that are doing well in life, I am in better health now than I have been in the past 26 years, and being skinny is one of the most awesome feeling to have. I didn't really know how my weight had a negative down pull on me. I really didn't have any complications from my procedure, but all along I have a pain in my left side when I am full or have over done things throughout the day. I did have an endoscophy and every thing is normal. I contribute it to scar tissue from where my stomach was pulled out. I'm still gratiful because of all the wonderful things that I can do now and my diabetes is in remission. Yayyyyy! So I truly believe that knowing what happen is not going to be healthy for you. Do continue to share your story with others, it is healing. But I hope you can let the knowing part go. There's really not much you can do to change it. So sorry this has happened to you. So happy your baby has his mommy home!

When your skinny husband disrespects, them him that your not going to be treated like this anymore and leave the room. Don't let him continue on with this bad behavior. Tell him your unhappy with the way he treats you and you want to have some marital therapy. I am so proud of you deciding to do the surgery, it's the best thing you can do for yourself. BTW, you will get another job soon after surgery too. Don't worry about that. Get the surgery and focus on life style changes.......

This is so exciting! Happy to hear your doing well! CONGRATS! HUGS!

I always stick to my surgeon's guidelines. I have talked with people that had complications from eating regular foods in the early phases after the procedure. I also believe it helps us excel in our weight loss too. I does bug me when people don't follow rules provided by his/her surgeon and then complain because they have complications as a result. It's like discarding the knowledge and expertise of the surgeon as if they know better. Go figure. I love my success and I followed the guidelines provided by my surgeons office and have had no complications. NONE! Yayyyyyyyy!

That is so exciting! Can't wait to see and hear about the results! You are going to really rock! Even more than you do now.....

I am a year out and can get less than 1300 calories in, I still have restriction and I love it..... But I can also eat a lot more which really scares me. Sliders are the worst, I can eat a lot of them. I can gain weight if I'm not staying on my plan of protein first, veggies, and little starches. I try to avoid the starches. You are doing just fine. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Work on eating only nutritious foods that are basically protein and veggies.

PDXman that is totally awesome..... I had some chorizo with eggs and a slice of bacon for breakfast and dinner I ate about 2 bites of turkey, 4 bites of ham on half of a sourdough roll with butter. I ate the smaller half. I was totally done. For dessert i had a piece of fudge. Today the fudge will be packed up and sent to my neighbors or thrown in the thrash. I can't have it around anymore. Too tempting...... Back on track today and will be walking it off. Enjoy the remainder of this year.

I totally confess that I reverted to past habits before surgery for the Xmas holiday. I ate fudge and grazed for the past 4 days. I am totally avoiding the scale because I don't think I can handle seeing that I gained a lb. Today I am getting back on track........Here goes.......

I failed my Christmas challenge big time. I still weigh 144 lbs and I did a lot of making fudge for Christmas and have eaten it. My addiction to sugar is killing me. LOL....Now it's time to get back on track with healthy eating habits. I have an appointment with my NUT in January so perhaps that will help me get back on track.

Coops ~ Thank you for the Merry Christmas! I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas too. Can't wait until you have your TT and boob job! I'm curious as to how much weight comes off from the excess skin.... Feliz Navidad!

Yes, you can get a leak 2 weeks after if your not following your doc's directions. My doc had us do an all liquid diet the first 3 weeks so we wouldn't damage our staple line. The 2nd phase was pureed for 3 3 weeks, 3rd phase was soft food for 3 weeks and then what ever we could tolerate. Just keep your diet very simple for the first 3 weeks with liquids and gradually add some yogurt sf, sf pudding, cottage cheese, ect. Like the previous poster stated, if it does happen, then it can be fixed.....But prevention is the eye word here.

Yayyyyyy! I'm so happy for you! CONGRATS!

I get those when I'm in ketoses. Especially in the early stages of the surgery. You are burning fat when in ketoses.

I'm so happy you have decided to go ahead and have this surgery. This is such life changing and saving procedure. I don't believe that in order to have this surgery, one should have to lose at least 100 lbs. I have lost 79 lbs and am totally excited about it. I would do this again. Just the thought of my A1C for my diabetes being in order is fantastic and my daily blood sugar is also where it needs to be. This is a blessing, no meds, no shots, how great is that? Each and every person on this site have differing opinions which doesn't necessarily make the answer right. When I went in for an endoscopy and the doc said if I had a hole, they would have to do surgery, now that scared me because I don't have hardly enough to lose now. After all my BMI is 23 right now. Of course I didn't have a hole and everything was perfect. In fact, my stomach looked like a skinny italian sausage. LOL. I do love my stomach.....This is your decision and I know that you have evaluated the pro's and con's and what could go wrong as we all have. CONGRATS!

These are just fears. What we fear in our minds, seldom come to reality. Face the fear and do it anyway.....You will be totally excited with the results. and btw, you will learn new eating habits that will help you maintain you hot sexy new body!

This is such a wonderful transformation! Congrats!