gmanbat

Anyone at that gym with any class whatsoever will admire your effort and be behind you. The rest don't deserve any attention. When I started out I could barely walk up the stairs. Now I work all day in the Florida sun digging and pushing a wheelbarrow with 20 year olds. A lot of incremental exercise increases went between the 2 extremes. You can do it! With your attitude, you will do it!!!

Ya, I do that. Get 'em before they figure me out.

I avoided any exercise that overly involved the abdominal area. No sit-ups or full push-ups for a year. I took it real easy, didn't work against pain. Otherwise, I exercised like a madman. It made a BIG difference.

Darn! Now I feel bad for capitalizing on your girl fight.

"...getchur bariatric shakes here, Protein bars, gotchur sugar free Chocolates...."

I've lost a red-necked wallaby, (23 pounds), and Lady Gaga, (107 pounds). I really miss the wallaby.

Does anyone really ROTFLMAO? I can imagine a comedian selling his dvd's as reducing aids.

Whew! When I saw the title: I lost 5 wiener dogs! I thought it was another thread about a binge. Poor puppies! Congratulations on the 60 pounds!!!!

Garsh, I feel special!

hmmmmm...I wonder who would be third? :o

My best to you, Alan! :)

For the curious: Now when you have a wound, the wound closes by cells around the margins of the wound, proliferating, in other words, growing and they then migrate from the margins of the wound, down into the base of the wound. They actually follow the electrical gradient, a guy in Aberdeen discovered in the last 5 years or so that the inside of the wound is at a different voltage than the margin, and the cells flow down this electrical gradient, so they know where the base of the wound is. They then unite with their cellular counterparts, and stitch themselves into place. Then they start to contract, contractile filaments which pull the wound closed. So as they do that, they're eliciting a mechanical stress which the itch sensitive nerves will respond to and at the same time, there are various other factors which get released in a healing wound, chemicals which provoke healing in the wound, but also, upregulate the activity of these itch sensitive nerves. So therefore, a wound that's closing up will feel itchy for mechanical and chemical reasons which are precisely the reasons why those nerve cells get stimulated in the first place. So that's the reason. The whole article: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2967/

My gall bladder acted up 2 weeks before my sleeve surgery was scheduled. My doctor reluctantly took it out, he wanted to wait and do it at the same time but the gall bladder was too messed up. So I had the surgeries weeks apart. I was glad to get rid of that pesky gall bladder anyway. It messed up my second honeymoon in a beautiful cabin in the Smoky Mountains. Good riddance! You have a right to your privacy. It is up to you whether you want to put your relatives straight about things and tune up their stinkin' thinkin'. When your body changes you'll have some 'splainin' to do though.

Burn the bridge.

I've considered dating myself in lonely moments but I'm not my type.

I had a date with Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, and Christie Brinkley all in the same night, but was disappointed because Elizabeth Taylor couldn't make it...then I woke up.

If you hit a wall you are going somewhere. Stationary people don't hit walls.

I have both. I'm a year and a half out.

After surgery folks lose varying amounts of weight and some even gain weight. The 8 pounds does not indicate anything bad, your body is adjusting. It will slow down, stop, resume, gain, and lose again on the course of your new journey.

Elvis once shot a TV because Robert Goulet was on and he was mad at Robert Goulet for dating one of his singers. Shoot the TV. If not practical, remind yourself that it is just food, it will still be there when you are skinny.

I have learned in my 64 years to not let what you want stop you from enjoying what you have. When I started on this journey at 340 pounds I wanted washboard abs. Now that I am past goal and 210 pounds I have them. Unfortunately, there is a little fat and the remnants of my deflated beachball stomach skin covering them. Top part, saggy pecs but still not too bad: Bottom part...whoops.. But how about my life? What I can do now... all day... would have literally killed me in 15 minutes before I lost the fat. My prospects of living longer are much brighter. I am a much happier person to be around. I feel like I have come out of a long, dark, foggy nightmare. Will I ever see the six pack? Probably not. Don't have the green to make the plastics scene. Will I enjoy my life anyway. Durn tootin'!! Perfect is out of my reach but pretty darn good looks pretty darn good.

I love sharing the experience of drastic life improvement with my fellow forumites. It is just flat-out exhilarating to defeat defeatism and enjoy life in a new way. Of all the forums I have been on there is more warmth and humanity expressed here by a wide margin. Best piece of advice........be your own BFF

I was working in my niece's yard the other day with my shirt off in the hot Florida sun. My wife, sister-in-law, and my niece walked by. My wife whistled and my niece said, "Hey yard boy, you want to rub tanning lotion on my back?" I said, "That's how Deb got me!". They all laughed. I felt like Matthew McConaughey for a minute.

I don't know if you believe in aversion therapy but if you do this product could help:

http://news.health.com/2013/03/28/gut-bacteria-may-be-key-to-gastric-bypass-effects-study/ Bacteria from the gut of a gastric bypass person has thinning properties. My wife is a gastric bypasss person and is thin. She's my backup in case the fat comes back. However, getting her bacteria into my gut presents logistical problems. If it just involves kissing I'm covered.