CowgirlJane

I ordered low.carb bake mix from.netrition. add vanilla prot.powder and.make delic pancakes.

Would love to.meet u someday.. But leave that gun at home..lol

I plan to try dating again in January. I have a new approach planned.

U look great Daisy. I tried 3 dating sites and my ranking: OKCupid POF Match Match seemed like all guys MY age range 49- wanted only younger women.

My notions about the pain etc are way different than reality. I can sit and walk fine. I spent few hundred more on first class to be more comfy. I have wheelchair assistance arranged so I don't have to stand forever going thru customs. The big challenge is moving slow to not risk complications. The tight garments help protect fascia. This photo was me when I had more drains tucked in fanny pack. I am down to 3 now.

I plan to resume dating in Dec or Jan after fully recovered from plastics. My grown son has a theory of friends that finding someone with compatible life and interests and lifestyles is key. Maybe that person isn't the "one" but someone from his circle might just be...

I am in Mexico recovering from major surgery. My dear friend has been here helping and supporting me. She is a gifted and natural caretaker and has cna experience and speaks some Spanish. She is interested in making someincome helping others recovering from Medical Tourism procedures. She lives between cabos and la paz Mexico so it cost me 400 to fly her to Monterrey. Wondering if anybody has ideas how to connect her with cabos based medical tourism as an assistant to solo travelers

I bought a black robe of a very nice fabric. If it weren't for the drains tucked inside it is practically evening wear. Good thing cuz I w e a r it to breakfast every morning at the hotel. Tomorrow I s travel day. I feel some anxiety over it.

Happy Sleeveversary!!!! so glad for you and others who stick around!

i bought quest protein bars for my mexico trip and pretty much ate them all before i left. my nut warned me that the road to hell is paved with protien bars and other candy like health foods. My appetite skyrocketed post surgery - i am told because the body needs the food for healing, I have stayed eating very healthy foods, but I swear double quantity. between that and fluid, I am afraid to step on the scale when I get home. So, my recovery has been easier then expected, no complications and as bet I can tell I am going to have good results. For some reason, right at this moment I am regretting it. I dont think it has anything to do with the surgery, I think it is something else I am not fully able to feel yet. I think it relates to my real fear... the big one I have so far put off frankly... the "WHAT NEXT" question. My nonrelationship of 15 years is officially ended, I have a part-time /FWB type boyfriend, a career I am bored with, tons of great friends and yet not really that best friend, love my horses... though. Not sure that ride ride ride is really the answer to life's problems. Beats the crap out of looking for it at the bottom of a bottle or a box of Oreos, but, nontheless, does not really seem to make for a full life. I feel like I sorta missed out on so much being hugely obese for so long, I don't feel like I need to make up for all that, but there is a little grief over it. I know I am lucky to have good health, a good job, physical attractiveness etc - but, its like I am all dressed up with no place to go. melocoly day for alot of us I gues

I would like to talk to you about all thiswhen you are in a state of mind that is more comfortable. I spent alot of my life beating the crap out of myelf over my weight and it got me to 332 at some point. i would like to assure you that hanging in the 150s 160s, good lord, even the 200s beats the heck out of the 300s. I do at times wonder if a little self acceptance of just the way things are and moving on and enjoying life little isn't a good thing at times.

si, Dr S Once I am back to my laptop I will do more of a writeup but I highly recommend. I did enough consults and talked to PS patients to understand pros and cons of various options.

I woke up dreaming of Breakfast this morning..lol. Big day yday at the mall. Walked super slow and sat alot but still wore me out so I slept like the dead and awoke starving..lol I love travel and everytime I go somewhere I just relish it and love doing ordinary things. A month ago I wanted to move to NYC after visiting mostly due to fashion. The shoes at the upscale mall here in monterrey were shoegasmic and now I think I could live here..Haha. Seattle is awesome but is outdoorsy oriented almost rejecting the concept of fashion over comfort. Yes I too love my REI gear BUT Love going blingy places too, which Seattle is NOT. Globe send me the addy of that bookstore coffee shop and I'll be there (with booties, tights and most likely a sweater dress). Brown, I will soon be living alone out in the country, down a dead end country dark street. Small dog is early warning systm, big huge dog lets you know wr mean it and nothing like the sound of a shotgun being "readied" to get the attention of a would be intruder that cant take a hint. I am NOT a violent person in spite of my silliness above but house and home should be a safe place.

Must say you all talking about lipo pain is helping me get ovet my disappointment. I thought he could lipo out fat and give me a j lo butt. ..Haha. He informed me that what looked like fat was skin and didnt have enough to even consider lipo. What he did do was take a little fat off some of the.removed skin and gave me a mini fat xfer to my cheeks. I dont need a facelift but i do have that deep crease on side of my mouth that comes from massive weight loss. Fat transfers to face tend to disappear over 3-18 months but would give me idea if it was worth doing with the longer lasting injectables later. Ok at first I regretted the chipmunk cheeks but now a week later and the swelling is down, wow, I do look younger. I am thrilled with it. I do also have matching small bruises on my face. MY cover story is I was in a knife fight in Mexico...but you should see the other guy.

Must say you all talking about lipo pain is helping me get ovet my disappointment. I thought he could lipo out fat and give me a j lo butt. ..Haha. He informed me that what looked like fat was skin and didnt have enough to even consider lipo. What he did do was take a little fat off some of the.removed skin and gave me a mini fat xfer to my cheeks. I dont need a facelift but i do have that deep crease on side of my mouth that comes from massive weight loss. Fat transfers to face tend to disappear over 3-18 months but would give me idea if it was worth doing with the longer lasting injectables later. Ok at first I regretted the chipmunk cheeks but now a week later and the swelling is down, wow, I do look younger. I am thrilled with it. I do also have matching small bruises on my face. MY cover story is I was in a knife fight in Mexico...but you should see the other guy.

I am feeling pretty good. overdid it yday by being upright too many hours but otherwise my biggest issue is stir crazy and tight undies. my "random thoughts" post on vets forum gives you a pretty good idea of the.current state of the union. And I fear my "afters' may disapoint. I did not go for huge implants like so many women do. I wanted to stay with athletic body type proportions.

i reread this whole thread and the obvious hit me kristie - maybe you ARE at goal. i found myself comparing to other women who are in the 22-23 BMI range thinking.... I cound stand to lose another 10-15 myself. My dear friend sat down with me and really gave me a loving talk about that and the reasons those are such destructive thoughts. I dont want to give you a lecture, but you are a freaking size 8! You look amazing. Why does it really matter whether you are at some number set for a population....based on some criteria none of us even understand. Formerly obese have larger blood vessels, I suspect denser bones and a whole lotta other differences from "normies". It strikes me that there is a point where it just makes sense to call it a huge freaking victory and focus on maintaining! We undertook this journey to save our lives, improve our health, allow ourselves to be physcially and emotionally comfortable in the world, and to look hot.... seems to me you have made goal by any rational criteria.

Bean u always make me laugh. I'd confess to being a witch if it would get me out of this thing. Mine is special, a lovely capri length long panty affair with a drop crotch for using the potty. Since doc claims I am cleared for intimate activities at 4 weeks but am sentenced to six weeks in the torture garmet, i have come to suspect other reasons for the sexy crotchless panty..haha. Anyhoo, garment two they call a bra but that is thhe most ridiculous term for a straightjacet that goes just past the elbows on the sleeves and overlaps with the lovely long undies around the midsection. Where those two overlap, my stars, I think the actual bones of my ribs are moved when it is fastened. When I am set free daily for a shower I feel my rib expanding to their former width. The garments are marked "med" which is my size but I suggested that perhaps they gave me a toddler medium by mistake..haha I was afraid about the arm drains coming out. the arm area is more sensitve and I visualized passing out. It stung a little, but really wasn't bad at all.... and then to be free of them..woo hoo!!! I can put my bathrobe on without fear of catching the buggers. I no longer get stares in public when the little tubes sneak out of my sleeves... I am sure i have frightened a few small children.... halloween is early this year,,,haha I dont have a cat with me, but my dear friend has proven herself willing to be a real help. Do you think asking her to put puncture wounds in my drains with her teeth might be asking just a leeetttllle bit too much???

No Lipo.. I wanted to have fat deferred to my butt but who would guess that i dont have enough fat to do that!?! Different recovery then sleeve. Not terribly painful but I think I described the discomforts... movement restricted and compression garments from hell. Sleeve wasnt that painful either, but so hard to get Water in those early days. Very different experiences.

Best advice frim my nut... Eat till absence of hunger.. "full" is not a goal to be striven for. Over time this will become easier if you keep practicing it. This is why I get snotty about the "how much can you cram in your sleeve?" threads.. Wtf? Eat until no longer hungry..... Who needs to know how much they can cram in? planning on competing in one of those contests? My remark is not a slam to any of you...just a reality check about why we did this wls in the first place.

oh an body scars like from TT tend to heal GREAT. arms and thighs are very dicey.the skin is way different and the tension on it is different - the cuts are like the wrong way on a grain of wood if that makes sense what i was also gonna say is i got scolded for posting "scary drain and a little blood on the garment" photos on the private FB page that this surgeon's fans run. I was scaring the preops...WTF??? You get fileted like a salmon and dont expect drains and a drop of blood. I decided that the woman who runs that fanclub is a bit of a loon. She had her plastics years ago and still posts many times a day... she also plays with premie dolls and other things i personally find bizarro. I appreicate the info, the little troupe she leads -totally unofficial, not surgeon sponsored - really helped me be ready for this adventure, but I am pretty sick of them. Many had surgery 2 years ago and give advice that is contradictory or outdated. They act like patient coordinators and truth is that many of the people that see him do NOT rely on them for info. Anyway, I suspect that some people who used to weigh 500# still have serious emotional issues.... and I suspectmany of them find themselve long term OBSESSED with plastics or other miracles to fix their problems.

so frustrated... long post went poof into cyber space. anyway, scar care is a subject like the body wraps.... all these believers but really little evidence. here is my conclusion #1is genetics. some people ketoid or otherwise scar badly #2 following after care instruction. scars can be widened by doing too much too soon. Dr Sauceda told me of a patient - 3 weeks post op having sex with her boyfriend on grass. the abrasion of the grassopened up her upper body lifft - 360 all around the chest and back area. she got a huge nasty infection and now has a scar that needs surgical repair. just an example... but people do lots of little things that widen and stretch the incision site - usually after the stitches are out but before it is fully stable #3 surgical skill combined with patient request and patient condition can lead to really really tight incisions that just open up wide.. Dr S is less aggressive then some as far as pulling really tight. I felt that it was worth the tradeoffs - fewer complications, he can do more in one procedure versus 3 surgeries in trade for say slightly less tight results. i can talk more about that later but i cried with joy at what he did with my thighs... and no long scar down to the knee. i could have had much "better" results with an aggressive thigh lift but getting "good enough" and better then most 49 year old thighs and the scar hidden by a bikini just thrilled me. trade offs Now, the rest of it gets kinda questionable. some swear by vitE other surgeons say it makes scars worse. The silicone sheets are the only proven method and Dr S recommends but most of hispatients find them way too much hassle. One surgeon I read was convinced that it wasn't even WHAT you but on them, it is the massaging that treats the scars. I am not far enough out yet to be doing scar treatment but I am telling you - it seems to beone of those voodoo subjects - lots of contradictory claims.

my surgeon told me that many men can lose excess weight by basically giving up beer and chips (this is NOT the case for all and I don't mean this as a dig at the many very successful male sleevers as they have worked hard to transform themselves too) BUT for most women, especially over 40, especially especially post menopausal - wow, its just really really hard. This is one of the reasons I focus so much on fitness and muscle mass because although exercise does not burn that many calories, it sure does change the way the body metabolizes and helps a little with increasing the day to day burn rate so to speak.

also, its just hard to get the last few pounds off! I had to "mix things up" change workout routine etc...

I like eggface's site and used to cook stuff from there... but my overall interest in food is much declined so I tend to avoid "foodies" I love the protein cocoa that someone - was it laura ven?? recommended. I make protein coffees using syntrax nectar but if there is a recipe i should try -point me to it. I just dont like browsing food porn..haha....