Carrie's Journey

I did. $17,500 and worth every penny!

I agree...I can eat way more crap food than the food I'm supposed to be eating. Your stomach is definitely not pre-surgery size. Try eating some chicken tomorrow, and I bet you'll be full off a small portion. Have a bad day and then get back on it tomorrow. We all have them!

Thank u!

I just got this suit from Kohl's. It has "ruching" on the front so it hides my tummy flab (and stretch marks). The little skirt bottom was a separate piece that I loved. It hides more stretch marks and loose upper thigh skin.

Just in case you're curious, my surgeon's office (Dr. Cirangle of San Francisco) said at my stage, celery is A-ok. Just chew thoroughly.

Nothing compares to the schedule of a school counselor! And I like dealing with a bunch of stuff (college and career counseling in addition to personal/social).

I'm a school counselor in CA, but my grad program was dual: school counseling and marriage and family therapy. I don't ever want to do private practice though.

You will. It all happened in the first 6 months. I'm at 8 1/2 months and can't seem to lose any more. Which is fine...if I am maintain here I will be very happy. But I'd like to lose a few more to have a good range (135-140). It's MUCH harder now.

I was bmi 32 and now have a bmi of 23 (140 lbs at 5'5"). Best $17,000 I've ever spent!

It probably would. I think the cream was for lower carbs, but milk would be lower calories... I could eat this every night as a dessert and be happy.

I'm totally making that this weekend! Hopefully it's not a trigger for me and I'll want the whole batch. We'll see...

Yes - I LOVE this stuff. 3 eggs 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup cottage cheese (I sometimes use more) 2/3 cup Splenda sugar substitute (granular) 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 tsp cinnamon (I add a little All Spice) Directions: Whisk together all ingredients except cottage cheese until well blended. Stir in cottage cheese. Pour into a greased 1.5 quart casserole dish and bake at 350 for 75 min. or until top is lighly browned. Around halfway through, I gently stir so the cottage cheese doesn't settle at the bottom. Eat warm or cold.

Hunger sucks. I really hoped surgery would just take it all away! I feel very normal now, which is good, but it's hard realizing I'll continue to have a lifelong battle with food.

Mine was 2 1/2 hrs but he also fixed a hiatal hernia. I made my husband go home at 2am when I saw how uncomfortable he was trying to sleep. Went home a few hours later.

Nuts are a total slider food for me...I swear I can eat the same amount now as before surgery. I'm 8 months out or so, and pretty much at goal, and my hunger has been a little out of control lately. It's the damn trigger foods. Once again I need to cut out the carbs/sugar. My Snacks are celery and pb or laughing cow cheese, Greek yogurt, boiled eggs (I'm lazy and buy them perfectly boiled and packaged at Costco), string cheese, lunch meat...all already mentioned. I just made cottage cheese "rice pudding" that is pretty good. I have a couple bites when hunger strikes.

I think that Stevia tends to make yogurt taste bitter but let us know how it turns out. I just mixed in some Mio drops and that worked pretty well. You can also mix Crystal Lite or sugar free jello powder.

I haven't had one in 4 months or so and I'm 8 months out...my OB said its normal but I should tell her if it goes on for another few months. I've been on the pill too. I may discontinue the pill for a little bit just to see if it normalizes.

My c-section was FAR worse than vsg. Vsg was such an easy recovery for me. I took the lortab for a few days, then didnt need it. Nausea meds definitely worked. And I didn't have any leak tests.

My husband is wondering when all the sex is going to happen. Lol. My excuse for not wanting to have sex very often before was because I was fat and felt so unattractive. Now that I'm a normal BMI, I think my husband was under the impression that I'd be making up for all that lost time. Poor guy. Now I feel saggy with deflated boobs. So this part didnt change for me, which makes me sad. Overall, I'm happy I had the surgery but being skinny doesn't solve every problem.

Coconut cashew and pb&j...but now I'll have to try cinnamon roll. I wish more places carried them. My GNC sells just a few flavors.