gmanbat

Looking fine!!! I predict the compliments will keep on comin'!

I've dated Verty. She's quite a cut up.

If you don't mind old school your local library should have books by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, and other Olympians.

File that one with Nigerian widow of a billionaire who wants your bank numbers to transfer money to the US. Idiots around here are calling pretending to be Microsoft and having gullible folks type stuff on their computers to "remove a virus". Scam, scram, thank you maam.

Proudgrammy is one of the brightest souls on this forum. Bright in wit and spirit. Her good cheer is a balm for the stings of the nasty bees that fly in here at times.

The big question is: What are you prepared for? Most people know little about this surgery and what people don't understand they fear. Fear causes adverse reactions. You can't expect people not to be people. If you have the tolerance and patience to endure backlash and don't demand support you will be OK telling all. Because people lash out at what they don't understand does not mean they don't love you. Can your love hang on to them while they work you over? How well do you handle disappointment because you expected better out of your loved ones?

Regardless of my feelings and out of respect for Alex and the Verticle Sleeve Talk forum I will not pervert this thread posted in the FITNESS AND EXERCISE FORUM into a useless political exchange by defending my source. **Gman walks away, noting that discretion is the better part of valor**

The pre-op was the worst part for me. Seemed impossible. Like cutting down cutting down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!

If it isn't fun we likely won't stay at it. Imagination must be engaged to change the way we move and put good stress on the muscles and heart/lungs while not boring the mind into an apathetic stupor. I have found hard work very rewarding, it has replaced my running uphill with weights. My muscles and heart/lungs are hanging in there. The weak link is my back,(spine), and joints. There is the place where my 64 years demand to be recognized.

My prayers for you. Be strong.

On the button, Cheri. You summed it up nicely. I would elablorate that if you sit on your butt and don't excercise it will get bigger along with the rest of you.

Dr. Michel M. Murr, MD The doctor that my doctor remembered from here/

Hence the admonition not to drink with meals or some time afterward, something that I have difficulty following. The food needs all the time it can get in the stomach with the tsunami washing it down.

1. Show me the research. 2. Wrong 3.a.subjective, b. who made you a psychiatric diagnostician? 4. So you are the AMA and have investigated my doctor? Then again, you can trust internet music content forumites to be very intelligent:

The common science is that calorie deficits take off weight. Metabolisms modify that fact but in the long run it works out. Exercise builds muscle which burn calories. Exercise is an essential thing in my estimation. Water, exercise, vitamins, small portions of good food, ...you can't lose.... meaning you will lose.

Bulking without storing. Tough for me at this point. The work I have been doing, shoveling and wheelbarrowing dirt all day in the heat of a Florida summer, has been a workout times 10. Recovery is slow at my age so the muscles are hard as rocks but not getting much bigger. The protein intake is maxed but it only absorbs so much at a time. Guys my age don't bulk as much due to lessened testosterone anyway so I am resigned to having a Bruce Lee body under a cascading loose skin coat. I'm happy anyway. It's great to be in this kind of shape. Never wanted to be a GQ model or make big bucks endorsing protein powder anyway.

YES! ..not so much.

You could call the Cleveland Clinic and ask for a referral. Also: http://www.healthgrades.com/bariatric-surgery-directory/fl-florida/tampa

She looks too big for the RC seats I've seen. Most rides have a test seat outside of the ride so you don't have to wait in line only to get embarrased. I excluded myself from rides for years, not now of course. Very sad.

Exercise is essential for losing fat, lifelong exercise. Adopting a lifestyle of activity is like hiring a bodyguard against fat.

Yes, most certainly. Sorry you are having problems. You and doc can sort this out. You sugar level is more important than a perfect pre-op diet.

Nearly everyone goes through that, Shellbell333, including myself. If you look at my signature below you will see that the fat eventually came off. The body doesn't care about your schedule, it's complex systems start and stop weight loss for an equally complex variety of reasons. Do the right things, it will come off. Discouragement adds stress, stress slows weight loss. Relax and enjoy the journey.

In the graveyard of failed diet attempts you will see on the tombstones, "Here lies the dream, destroyed by discouragement from unrealistic expectations". The sleeve will not drop you off at Slimbodyville. Weight loss and maintenance are a part of a life long journey. The sleeve is a vehicle. If you stay on, stay awake with hands on the steering wheel,and follow the traffic rules you will pass through many milestones of victorious overcoming. If you think you have arrived and let go of the wheel and go to sleep you will wake up one day back where you began...and perhaps worse. I encourage everyone new to the sleeve to visit the veterans forum. There you will find that the real value of the sleeve is the help it provides years out. It is a powerful tool but not invincible. Veterans struggle to maintain and regain ground. Knowledge and the correct attitude is just as important 3 years out as 3 days out. How many times have you lost weight, even reached goal, only to gain it back? Diligence is the price of freedom. This isn't magic, it's war.

You must be married. Wives are very proficient at duplicate messages.

This surgery and the subsequent body change certainly is an exercise for the psyche as well as the body. I found myself dumping emotional garbage along with the excess fat. I found that if I don't allow myself to be victimized by the neuroses of others I became freer to love them, being on a firmer psychological footing. I became a person I liked to be around. I allowed love to come to me, from God and the ones I had blocked out. There is much more to us than we can imagine. We have a lifetime ahead to explore ourselves and the new realities we are discovering.