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Hi Blessings, I eat cottage cheese, fat free refried beans, chicken slow baked in Italian dressing, I made cauliflower crust pizza yesterday because I was craving pizza....yummy! Found some great recipes on Pinterest and theworldaccordingtoeggface.com! I love mixing avocados with chicken instead of mayo. I do not know why beef jerky only tastes good.....I haven't had it yet. I did buy Perky Turkey Jerky and that was ok! Would be better than beef for you! It had better stats for nutrition. I also buy pre sliced turkey and reduced fat cheese and do a roll up....also yummy! Flavored turkey might be something you like! Beef jerky has got to be expensive too! Well, I hope this helps! As for the Fitbit......I plan on getting either that or the Nike fitband for my birthday, on Wednesday. I have wanted one for a long time and that was my goal....next birthday! I am also very very close to onderland! We shall see tomorrow! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Newme......you didn't look at that scale yet, did you? Lol! I did! Jeff....WTG....at least you actually signed up! I am all talk! At least my cold/flu is getting better because for four days it was worse or the same! Maybe I can now start to exercise! My thoughts on getting sick.....I was REALLY sick! I was just wondering if I really had the flu OR because I eat so little carbs and calories, that my body had a hard time getting better. I have never been so sick! Happy Saturday night everyone! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I ditto everything mentioned, but I actually lose about 5 pounds one day and then back to the same weight! Weird! I get so excited and then deflated.... I second the water....I was lax and got super plugged....caution! As for exercise.....I envy those who have started! I wanted to start this Monday with C25k and I think that I have the flu.....my body is KilLING me and I feel light headed and woozy. Throat is sore and coughing ip green stuff....lovely! Another road block! And when I came home from work today exhausted, after working late and then going to parent teacher conferences, I didn't want anything to eat....too sick. So I grabbed two tbls of skippy natural just to get in some protein and just wanted to eat popscicles the rest of the night.....well, DH gave me one of those looks and said "isn't eating gobs of peanut butter how you got to where you are?" Ugh! I said I can eat anything as long as I am in my range and today I am way under.....have you seen me lately? My clothes are falling off me and I was just asking him before that if I should put the pants I was wearing into the good will pile.....yes, he said....way too big! Then he said that he was just asking and that he wasn't being meAn.....so I dropped the unfinished spoon into the sink and am in a hot bath.....feels better than PB any day! I want to be better.....waaaaaaa! Sorry for the rant! Here's to making and willing the scale drop dramatically and soon! I am sure a lot of my weight is muscle loss.... Need to get better in all ways to start a regime! Sent from my iPhone using VST

So.....I died today several times.....so impacted! I bought 40 bucks worth of constipation meds and feel better stuff on my way home from work and it worked.....although, my but hurts like crazy! Sorry TMI! MOM....and glycerine suppositories. This is after I take Fiber One, chia seeds, and Citrucil almost daily! Thought that I would have to go to the ER! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Yeah for solid foods.....I have been a wimp with real real food and last night I ate my husbands chili.....YUM! So, I am a magazine addict and used to stand at the checkout and look for the best magazine for the latest diet craze and found myself doing that yesterday.....duh.....I DO not have to do that ANYMORE!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!! I turned my attention instead to a home and garden magazine!!! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Awesome job Blessings! New me......I haven't had new labs done since pre-op. I think that I have that done at three months?? I am not tempted to drink since I will not even take liquid Tylenol for fear of my stomach burning! I am a wimp.....and, thanks for the warning of the bathroom problem after ward.....now I really will stay away! Well, happy 6 weeks! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Great job Jeff on the birthday party self control! I am sure you felt satisfied with the cheese And kielbasa! I think kielbasa would be fine....next time, .just take off the outside covering (skin or stomach or whatever they use....lol). just in case! Sorry your parents are unemotional about your loss.....I am sure they are just in shock. 30 pounds isAWESOME and you rock! I am sure you feel ToNS better and on your way to a great summer of shorts and t shirts!!!! On a side note.....just had a Sugar Free chocolate pudding mixed with one scoop of Double stuffed cookie by Syntrax......something different for breakfast....and it kind of seemed like I was eating brownie batter! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Oh......and my birthday is coming up in March and I am going to get either a Fitbit One or a Nike fuel band.....oh, what to get??????? I think that the fuel band will be more motivating but the Fitbit is more accurate...??? Sent from my iPhone using VST

My parents were always the opposite.....pulling food (popcorn, snacks) out of my hands growing up. And I wasn't fat! I look at childhood photos and I had an athletic build......not bone skinny like my "perfect" cousins whom they compared me to! To this day, they admire my sister in law for her amazing ability to have 6 kids and still run major marathons.....even while 9 weeks preformed! Ugh! She is the opposite of me in their eyes! I have had many food related problems because of them including a bout with bulimia through late high school until I got pregnant with my son at 27. As for the snacks......they are not tempting at all to me......I am trying to stay on the straight and narrow and not give in an inch.....because that will open the flood gates. I also am having fun baking for my kids since before all i would think about was liking the spoon and bowl and having a few chunks of cookie dough......now, making that stuff is pleasurable! i am not obsessed with how and when I will sneak in a large bite! I DO know what you mean about peanut butter.....a little tiny extra while adding it to a Protein shake.....I get skippy natural. I just ran out of PB2. I had bought the skippy to make Peanut Butter protein balls.....and now I put it in my protein shakes.....I need to get to Giant or Weis and get some more PB2! As for gains and stall.....I was in a stall for about a week and a half.....but, thank goodness I am losing again! I go later today for my 6 week post op. I took the day off and thank goodness I did! I teach K and it is no fun anymore! I have 28 students with no help! The numbers are rising and we have less and less help! I really need this day off to recharge and maybe start an exercise routine. I am not really constipated, but I did develop a lovely hemorrhoid..... It hurts so bad! I have been drinking Citrucil everyday to help it. But, I do not feel constipated. I do need more water.....I only get in about 40-60 oz a day! I try so hard but I have been eatingore Popsicles because that is one way for me to get more fluids. I do not count my Protein shake as fluids. I feel like this is my one area of failure! Well, enjoy this day and I will update after my appointment today! Peace and happiness to you! Sent from my iPhone using VST

"Those who are excused from fast or abstinence Besides those outside the age limits, those of unsound mind, the sick, the frail, pregnant or nursing women according to need for meat or nourishment, manual laborers according to need, guests at a meal who cannot excuse themselves without giving great offense or causing enmity and other situations of moral or physical impossibility to observe the penitential discipline." I think that we may fall in this category.....need for meat for nourishment..... What do you think? Sent from my iPhone using VST

Jeff.....good luck on Friday....but I think you will be OK. Storm is supposed to start in the evening!! I am in PA and in the "we are getting gypped" section of the storm! Thanks for the information 2013! I do not think that I am dehydrated......I have one kidney and really have to watch that! My pee is always lemon or almost clear! (Sorry for the description!). I wonder what other issues would be? Congrats on your 20! Congrats to all the others who posted their weight loss as well! We are awesome! Keep going and enjoying this journey! I have lost inches....lots of them as well.....I will post that with my stats next month! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Happy week four everyone!! Starting weight....around 270 Surgery weight.....244 Current weight.....217.5 Total from beginning.....loss of 52.5!!! Total from surgery.......loss of 26.5!!!! I am so happy and feel so much better already! Just need to add exercise and I will be good to go! How is everyone else doing on this week four? Enjoy the day and celebrate every pound! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Well, I made it through a birthday with not even a lick of my daughter's cookies or ice cream! Yahoo! My order of Bariatric Chews came in also.....chocolate and Carmel. Another Yahoo! I feel better already! I hope all of you who are experiencing pain, feel better soon! I have been eating a lot of avocado mixed with Chicken or tuna lately......I am just waiting for the gall bladder attacks to begin.... Avocado is too good though....and so much better than mayo! I hope the pain goes away without another major surgery so soon! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Good luck! You will love being on the losers bench! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Hi all.....happy Three weeks! I am not hungry upon waking and generally not hungry at all and sometimes force myself to eat to get needed protein and calories! BUT.....today I was starving on my start of my journey home from work, and had to stop at Giant anyway for a protein shopping trip and Lofthouse cookies for my daughter's birthday tomorrow and after walking around the store...back and forth because I couldn't find the quinoa and long story short, didn't feel hungry anymore. Got home and had a quarter of a small microwaveable sweet potato and some cottage cheese. My stomach hates food since I switched calcium meds.....I was on the lovely bariatric advantage caramel chews and I went cheap and got citrate chewable wafers from Vitamin world.....never again. Killed my appetite or what I had left of it! They are chalky and sort of like really bad TUMS! I ordered a huge batch and put it on auto delivery for the chews on Sunday.....so, hoping they are here SOON! So daughter's birthday is tomorrow and am so glad that the Lofthouse cookies are not tempting AT ALL! Go me! I guess that is a "NSV"! I will let you know after tomorrow! Lol! ( ps....I have willpower with this sleeve!) Sent from my iPhone using VST

What an inspiration! You look fabulous! This story could've been mine. I am 17 days post op and feel like I never had the surgery.....other than the fact that I eat very little!! I have not vomited things up yet, but came home starving after work and daughter's soccer tonight and ate too fast....a whole 1/4 cup of tuna and cottage cheese (combined)...if that.....and felt horrible! Good luck on your journey.....looking forward to hearing more about it! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I am on my last day of Pureeds today! Soft food tomorrow! I put a lot of Unjury Unflavored into my cream of chicken soup to beef up the protein content. I love cream of chicken over mashed potatoes! Yum! Tastes like pot pie! But, I can only eat a few teaspoons at a time! I am looking forward to a baked sweet potato tomorrow! ( sans the skin). Every stage has been an adventure and I look forward to rocking my sleeve! I have lost 21 pounds since surgery.....44 since my highest at the beginning of my journey! As for potato salad.....it has things in it that we shouldn't eat (raw vegetables). If it doesn't, I would purée it up. I have a great tool for this stage....a wand blender. Great for pureeing soups and other things! Mine is Oyster brand. Love it! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Hi! I am on my last day of Purees today! Soft foods tomorrow, but my favorite go tos for puréed stage was heated fat free refried Beans with cold cottage cheese......took me two hours to eat the first bowl! Another favorite of mine is cream of chicken mixed with unflavored Protein powder (make sure to let it cool to below 140 before putting the powder in it) over top of mashed potatoes.....heaven and super full really quick! So, best to make small amounts and finish throughout the day. You do get super full! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Awesome job! Keep it up!

I am doing very well and feel fantastic! The only problem is that I am only getting in about half of my Water and Protein requirements. Anyone meeting them yet? I struggle with calories.....only about 400 a day, if that! Sent from my iPhone using VST

Hi, I was sleeved the 8th and I have the same feeling until a gas bubble comes up! Also, it may be TMI, but my favorite pose is to get on my knees and forearms with my butt in the air and let the gas rise up my back.......such relief! I also take gas x and the nurse gave me a thumbs up on them! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I am a kindergarten teacher in Pennsylvania.....had my sleeve January 8th. Came home today! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I asked for a sugar free pop and they brought me some sugar free Water ice.....I highly recommend it for getting in fluids and get off your narcotic drugs and you will feel so much better! I an on day 3 and getting discharged and what a difference from yesterday! I threw up so much I thought I was going to die! Good luck! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I had my sleeve yesterday and after my blood pressure dropped too low last night, they took away my iV pain med.....???? After trying some liquid, I have thrown up "really foam and a drop of blood that they said was left over from intubation. They have now given me Tylenol pills. I kept them down.....and am feeling better! I may get to go home tonight, but would prefer to go home tomorrow....what ever will be will be. Oh....they gave me crystal lite, but too sweet. I scored some propel packets from a gastric bypass patient I met in the hall who was going home. Really nice lady! Sent from my iPhone using VST

I am the 8th as well......so much to do before then! I am a teacher so it is pretty hectic! Sent from my iPhone using VST