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I was given some Garden of Life Perfect food Raw, Organic Green Super Food powder. http://www.drugstore.com/garden-of-life-perfect-food-raw-organic-green-super-food-powder/qxp239492 I am liking it pretty good. Tastes more vegetably than amazing grass.

What a pile! I emptied my closet several times. Each time I left a few shirts for "dirty jobs". I eventually had to replace them. I don't want to look ridiculous even when changing the oil.

Ask her how much she charges for therapy. Tell her you are willing to pay her according to her degree level in psychology. If she says she doesn't have a degree tell her you assumed she did since she seemed to know more than you know about what makes you depressed.

Hello and welcome!!

The internet is infested with tiny minded, decorum devoid, psuedo intellectuals whose main interest is to bask in the illusionary light of their self deluded power at the expense of anyone but their own loathsome sub-humanness. Lotta jerks.

The amazing thing is that our sleeve journeys seem to plow up hidden weaknesses and hinderances. So in the end we are healthier emotionally and physically. Way to go, Goldy!

The fellow has the destiny of being proven wrong. You will make sure his destiny is fulfilled.

I went through a phase where I was appalled by the face-stuffing swine in my family and elsewhere. The feeling was eerily similar to the revulsion of watching the gorilla eat his vomit, something that seems to happen every time I look into his area at the zoo. It passed. I've learned to co-exist.

I am about to give you a horrible visual. No disrespect or offence intended toward anyone. I am sorry for this picture. It displays the consequences of blind hatred and the disgraceful underbelly of humanity. The heartless monsters of the Third Reich put multitudes in labor camps. They were fed low calorie diets and worked to death. Have you seen the pictures? See any fat ones? Skeletons with skin. The ones in the picture were liberated and returned to health. Many before them died. Never again. Our bodies are all pretty much the same. It is impossible,... impossible, to eat like we do on the sleeve when we follow directions and not lose the fat. It is all a question of time. Slower is better, not worse. The ideal is losing the fat and keeping the muscle and health. Hence, Protein first, Water, and Vitamins. The most frequent questions on this forum concern time. The problem is not with the sleeve or our bodies. The problem is lack of understanding of how the body works and plain old impatience. I lost slowly at times and quickly at times. I added my losses up and divided by the number of days passed. I then had an average daily loss. It was over 1/2 a pound a day at first but went down as time went on. The important thing is....it was going down over time. I reached my goal and passed it. You will too. Again, sorry for the picture.

6 months for me. Medical Mutual.

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbliving/a/Is-Your-Low-Carb-Diet-Giving-You-Bad-Breath.htm Ketosis can give you bad breath. I have fasted often in the past and know this to be true. It seems you are early on. When you get into a bigger variety of foods in future phases it should alleviate the problem.

Seriously, if you can pm me the names I will keep my eye peeled and I may be able to do something. I promise not to send Luca...he sleeps with the fishes anyway.

Who are deese mutts? I'll send Luca...

Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?! Dennis: Ah, now we see the deprivation inherent in the system! Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up! Dennis: Oh! Come and see the deprivation inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being deprived! Arthur: Bloody Peasant! Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway! I promise you it shall improve. Once again you will sup in restrained abandon. But you must be patient and bring me ....a shrubbery. Something nice but not too expensive.

I have noticed the same things. This forum has one of the best scrips I have ever seen. I like the reply box functionality and the way the whole thing is laid out. The traffic here is huge. The only beef I have is with the slow loading ads but I understand that profit must be made. Glitches happen. Many lines of code go into putting this stuff up. I have faith that they will get the bugs out.

Many of us have trouble with the speed at which the body operates. Many sleevers have registered frustration after the operation because of stalling and even gaining weight....temporarily. My contention is that the body does not concern itself with time, only with function. Consider the following examples of adjustment time: Eyes dilating, food digesting, elimination, hair growth, muscle growth, cell replacement, aging, birth, death, etc....you get the picture. The body has it's own timing and gives no thought to it's inconvenience. It's timing can change on it's own and sometimes be changed by us but many processes are beyond our control. We like speed. No one goes out to purposefully buy a slow car or computer. We would like to lose weight fast after sleeving. You can do all of the right things and it can still be slower than you desire. Let's face it, our bodies are doing OK, it's our brains that need to slow down. We are not our machines, we are much more complex. Complexity means it takes time to get things done. Honest scientists will admit that there are many things about our body that are yet unknown. We have to have faith in our bodies. To all of the newly sleeved folks who are thinking you are a failure because you haven't lost weight immediately after sleeving or even gained. Slow down and breath. You can't speed up your body by worrying. Stress holds fat on, you know that. Do the right things, relax, and let your body do the work....on it's own time.

I think weight stalls and gains immediately after surgery can sometimes be because you are not getting enough calories. I know that sounds contrary to logic but many folks have experienced this. Your body holds on to weight, thinking you are starving. I didn't start losing in earnest until I got into mushy and regular food stage. When I got more calories and Protein, the body gave up the stored fat. Lack of Water is also a contributer and lack of fiber/constipation, all solvable as you let your sleeve heal and progress into "normal" eating. Sleeveworld can be a reverse reality. Lose weight by eating more. Don't sweat the early stages.

I think our train arrives at our destination before we wake up and realize it. Suggestion: Find a store with non-crabby staff and preferably in a non-busy time of day. Try on many different types of clothes with different sizes that are in the ballpark of what you think you are. Take your time, look in the mirror, get the picture. Dig the new you. I've tried on sizes that I knew were too small only to find out that they weren't...now.

I think it is more difficult to get the new body image into your head if it seems to you that you were always overweight. I was dreadfully skinny in my youth. I was embarrassed to wear the tank tops required for the basketball team because of exposing my bony shoulders. To me, I am just going back to the original model. I think you must adjust to the fact that your body is just a part of you, not the whole. Your body is the vehicle that gives expression to your spirit, emotions, and mind. They are all connected but not the same. To me, I traded the dump truck I was driving for the spiffy sports car I was in before the load came on. Some of you need to grasp that your new ride is showing up. It's healthier, faster, and sleeker. Enjoy the ride!

The favorite comment from my youth in Iowa... Picture it: an impressionable boy is distrurbed by the Cuban missle crisis. President Kennedy is demanding Kruschev remove the missles from Cuba. My parents were certain that some were aimed at the John Deere tractor factory in nearby Waterloo. Ed Sullivan had shown the now famous video of what a nuclear blast looks like from the inside, the buildings flying into nothingness, 1000 mph winds. The nighmares were frequent. My school staged nuclear war drills. We were instructed to get under our little desks and cover our heads. No, we didn't have lead desks. Then came my favorite stupidism: "If you see a bright flash don't look at it!" Although Iowa was rated near the top in education quality of all the states at the time, I was instilled with the unshakeable feeling that my instructors were morons. I guess fear can bring on futile gestures, "Do something, even if it does nothing."

arrrrrrgh! :o

I know a guy that peed on an electric fence. One small ray of light shone through that day.

That eating close to bedtime, or naptime for that matter, can cause problems. The sleeve will bring it up to the back of my throat and jerk me out of a sound sleep. At times I have taken a breath in at the wrong time when it was happening and coughed extensively trying to clear it up. I would like to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix but don't want to die like he did.

@ Sidney Susan Laura is pretty cool but I don't think it would work. My wife is from hillbilly stock and would eventually give Laura a shotgun facial.

The second poster talked about the sleeve causing cancer. The sleeve has been known to cause hotness, at least my wife thinks so.