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LLL and Kellymom are both in favor of feeding as soon as you can hold the baby because of the very very short half life. I guess I opened myself up to crappy advice eh? Lol

I cannot pump, my body does not respond to the pump at all and my son will not take a bottle. Being EBF is perfectly healthy, they do not NEED more than breastmilk till well after one actually, and we do solids once a day he just much prefers the breast. He's not my first baby, I know what feeding schedule I want him on, my question was simply if anyone had kept BFing after.

Oh that's great news! We are working on cutting back on nursing and adding more food, he is just so stubborn and much much much prefers the breast. I won't have surgery till April probably though so we still have plenty of time.

Amazing!!!

We could also alternate between west and east.

So lets pick a date after the 9th!

JPS and I would! I know for sure! We are (well will be I move the 9th) both in Avndale.

Wow, I don't think she posted asking if she should eat fast food. I love when people have to add their two cents to point out others faults.

Good luck! It'll be amazing!

I worry about that too, I'm scared to NEVER be able to eat normal!!

I have a best friend. We met in 5th grade & are now 25. We are a match made in best friend heaven, perfectly weird complimenting personalities. Since High School we have been on the journey (among others) of being fat together. We would eat constantly, joke about how fat we are. It was our thing, eating was our best social time, nothing is better than mindlessly stuffing your face while having great conversation. When we weren't eating we'd joke about how fat we were & that "tomorrow we'll get skinny" as we stuff another cheeseburger in our mouth. Sure we had our brief periods of "getting skinny", they never lasted. We'd get bored, so we'd eat. We'd get sad, so we'd eat. We'd get drunk, so we'd eat. We'd be social, so we'd eat. Everything in our life came back to food. In September of this year I came to her with the idea of WLS & doing it together. We talked about how AMAZING it'd be to be skinny, but how scary it was, & what a huge life change. The subject was dropped. December rolled around & it was brought up again. Maybe we could do it, a mutual friend had VSG 8 months prior & is already down 100 pounds! WE could lose a 100 pounds, if we just make the sacrifice. It was decided, WLS was what we needed, both individually & together. In 2013 I will undergo the biggest change of my entire life & be lucky enough to do it WITH my best friend. I can't wait to actually see us skinny. (If you'd like to look her up it's JPSnAZ, she a hoot)

I'm actually really bummed...

I personally don't believe it's practical to never have another cookie, or bite of cake, or whatever sweet again. It's setting yourself up for failure, we need to learn moderation.

Mmhhhmmmm

Congrats on making the choice!!! Hopefully it's quick and easy for you!

I guess I should add despite being a fatty I'm still super flexible and rather inhibited, I think the sex becomes "amazing" because your mind lets it, maybe not so much because the sex changed.

I happen to love my fat sex, my husband claims he likes it better than sex he's had with any skinny girls (and its been A LOT), when I told him I had made te choice to sleeve his first reaction was "what if the sex isn't as good!" And he's not a chubby chaser or whatever other witty thing you call guys that are into fat chicks.

Hey Everyone! I'm Chelsea, I'm 25, I'm from Arizona, I'm happily married, I'm a mother of two, I'm very overweight & I've just made the choice to have VSG! I've been heavy my *entire* life & I just recently watched one of my best friends have WLS, in 8 months she has lost just over 100lbs & shown me that I can do it too, some day I can actually be healthy weight. Her journey has lead me here, to get support & (hopefully!!) make friends for the journey I am about to undertake! I am scheduled to go to my first seminar on the 19th of January after my family moves from WV back to AZ, for my insurance I have to do 90 days of surgical preparation! I am hoping to have surgery by May (is that too unrealistic?) & get this show on the road! So that's a quick introduction to me, hopefully I don't sound *too* crazy. What are the best & worst parts of VSG? Is there anything you wish you would have known going into it?

Fishy doesn't make this site look bad. I will admit at first he rubbed me wrong then I thought about long & hard & he IS right. The only thing that stops us from admitting we had surgery is shame, fat person syndrome. We've all spent our entire lives worry about what OTHERS thought about us, it's not different with this. Who cares if you are judged for it, you really think you weren't being judge for being a fat ass? Because honey I guarantee you we ALL were. Everyone judges, for everything. How you look, what you drive, what you wear, your taste in music.. you name it people judge. I say let them judge, who the hell cares, we are making choices to better ourselves to make ourselves healthier & happier! If someone wants to judge me because I used medicine to my advantage to lose weight so I can see my kids grow up, fine let them.

So many issues come with losing weight for me, I am petrified of the impact it could have on my relationship with my husband. I have been married a year as of November to an amazing man, he supports me in every single way & has truly loved me no matter what. Since we met I have gained 80 pounds (& had two children) & not even that has phased him, yet I am afraid to lose weight. I am afraid that even at smaller sizes I will never be comfortable naked in front of him, that I will never stop wondering what he is thinking when he looks at me. I want to believe him when he tells me I'm beautiful not feel like he says it out of obligation. I know it's not healthy, not healthy to feel so uneasy around the person you've committed to spend your life with, & I know it hurts him. Part of this journey for me will be many hours in therapy, there is no point in having surgery & losing large amounts of weight if I can't get to the bottom of why I am like this in the first place. I have to admit I am a little frightened of that also, who knows what is hiding there, in the depths of my mind. I wonder what the key is, to making sure my relationships don't fall apart. Maybe including him? If he is part of it maybe he can change and adjust with me.

I don't yet, my first appt is the 19th, I JUST decided. I have to do a 90 day surgical prep then I should be on my way!

Criticism also scares me, but I think the more we have lost & the further out from surgery we are the less it will be an issue. It'll be easy to tell them nothing about it was easy & we worked our asses off!

I have been somewhat private with my choice to have surgery (I am still pre op) but I think after surgery it will be something I am much more open & forthcoming about. There is another open thread about this right now that has gotten a little out of hand with people opinions about weather you should be 100% honest & open about it or not, so be prepared.