leeann71

How is it going today, Tuesday fasters? Week 5 fast day 1, up about 6lbs this week. Gained all the weight I lost in like 24 hrs ugh!!! Was in ER all day Sunday with bad kidney stone and dehydration. I finally passed the stone Sunday night, I had 4 IV bags of saline and pain medication. Some reason body doesnt want to let go of some of the fluid. Hopefully with the fast today maybe the scale will move. Drinking pleanty of water I sure dont want anymore stones or the dehydration. Good luck to everyone.

Laura I am on tuesday and thursday, so you are not alone. I will check in with you tomorrow to see how it is going.

I to was in excurciating pain. I did not wake up until I was in my room. The pain was so bad, none of the pain meds were working. I finally got up to walk, but I could barely move. As for the pain meds they were giving them to me in the IV every 30 minutes. It took about 8 hours to finally get it under control. If she is still in pain bother the hell out of the nurses to get her pain under control. And when she is able, get her up to take a few steps at a time. She will feel alot beeter tomorrow.

Wow what a very happy healthy beautiful smile! I can see your happiness all over your face.

Love the picture! Lol

Cindy Talking about what has happened will help. Dont ever keep your emotions bottled up. Honey you can PM me anytime you feel you need a shoulder to cry on. I know sometimes its hard to tell people you dont know how you are feeling, but sometimes strangers are easier to talk to than close family and friends. I am here for you. And yes I do belive in Mediums and I am so happy you got to meet with Terresa Capulto. I would love to meet with her one day. I have so many questions that need to be answered also. I hope she could give you at least a small amount of peace.

Everyone on here are my inspirations. I try and read everthing that everyone of you post. Thank you to each and everyone. I take words from all and put them all together and that is what keeps me going every day. Just knowing that everyone is real and not trying to be something your not, is my influnce not to ever give up. I applaud you all as being a great role model for many of us here on VST.

Cindy, there is no time limit for you to mourn. You take as long as you need. We are here for you. Everyone is different when dealing with losing someone. My Mom has been gone 20 years this past month and I still miss her everyday and I still cry when her birthday, mothersday, christmas all of the holidays when I feel she should still be here with me. Time will heal some of the pain vut not all of it. It's like a piece of your heart is gone and you never get it back.

My heart is breaking for you. I will pray that God will please heal you and your families pain. I am so sorry.

It took awhile say maybe like 6 weeks for me to start getting tje protein in. My stomache could not stand them and I would vomit with just a sip even. If I were you just try to get fluid in, that is really the most important. When I could finally start drinking them I had to let them sit so there was no froth, that would make my stomach nauseated.

I feel the same as you. Even though I have lost almost 70lbs, I just have not seen the difference yet. My body still looks the same just smaller. My stomache is still super streched out with stretch marks from having children. My arms are still big but now saggy and when I wave they continue going even after I stop. What is getting me through this is, not looking in the mirror no more at my body until I hit goal. And then I will figure out just exactly what will need to be done then. You have lost alot of weight so far, you are doing great. Keep your head high and dont worry about your body right now, just keep reminding yourself you are not done yet. Once you are done then worry about what all it is that you want to fix, just not right now.

I have lost almost 70 lbs, I was a 42G now I am a 38G only the band size has gone done so far. My DH declares that I must have been born with boobs lol. When we met I was 15 and weighed 103 lbs and wore a size 34dd. I hope mine get smaller, I have very bad back, shoulder and neck pain from the girls. If not I will be considering a breast reduction forsure.

Im 7 months out. Dr. Kim is a great surgeon. I have lost almost 70lbs so far. His staff is very nice as well. Good luck on your surgery you are in great hands.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your mom. Please what ever you do, at least drink fluids. You dont want to end up in the hospital with dehydration when your mom needs you the most. I pray the Lord puts his healing hands on you and your mom and heals your worried heart, the problems your mom is having in Jesus name I pray Amen.

I am going to follow this thread so I wont forget what they are. Thank you for the info.

Thanks everyone! I am going to the store in the morning and buy some. I have got to find what will work for me. I will try any and everything.

Happy thirdvesary Coops cant wait to see myself three years from now.

Yes that is the one. I am going tomorrow and get some and see how it does. Protien bars are the devils candy, with the chocolate and peanut butter.lol

You will do great. Just remember your will power can be stronger than the head hunger. Also after being sleeved you will notice that food taste completely different. Like any can food like green beans, corn or whatever (to me) it taste like the can and the salt flavor is overpowering. Now chocolate is a different story lol, it taste great before and even better now. I have to stay away from it, it is my crack so to speak lol.

Thats a great idea. Im gonna have to try it. I think I read somewhere about taking some kind of probiotics or diegestive enzimes(sp?).

Does anyone know if our pooping problems ever go away? I take Miralax everyday and I go maybe once a week. That is something I miss. I could always count on going and after the surgery it has never been the same.

I have tried a couple of times to eat one and my stomache just does not like them at all. I use to love Nathans hotdogs with grilled onions not anymore :-(. I miss those hot juicey wienners, so delicious.

Oh yeah and as for the croossover addiction, I dont have one. I just decided to become obnoxious about what to eat,measuring and adding tons of flavor so I wont miss the salt,sugar and fat.

There are some things you can buy at the pharmacy that will help thicken your water. I saw them at HEB grocery store here in Texas. Im sure other pharmacies might carry them, just ask the pharmaciest and they can help you find it. The one I used was a flavorless powder and it made a tremendous difference. I also used propel water, its enhanced with vitamins and minerals and to me it has like maybe an oil in it. It goes down really well without that sharp pain you get from plain water. Good luck I hope this helped you in some way.