LipstickLady

Don't tell anyone you don't want to tell. I didn't. My parents, my husband and kids, my BFFs and a few of my team members. I would say less than a dozen people know and I'm good with that. It's your business, no one else's. Do what works for you.

It would be an awesome dip, too. I am thinking about stuffing mini red peppers with it for the crunch.

I agree that it's cultural, not that it makes it better. My husband, who is not fat at all, went to get his pants altered. The Korean woman who was doing it patted him on the belly and said, "You get fatter, your pants get shorter. You need to stop eating the Cookies." I would have DIED.

Oh em gee! Can you make me one of those? I am all tingly just thinking about it.

I would say yes!! Ask your doctor. I wasn't cleared for heavy exercise for 6 weeks.

WOOOOOOOOT!! That's so exciting!! Are you floating around with glee???

I don't miss: Breaking into a case of lip sweat from walking briskly from one side of a building to another. Breathing heavy at the top of the steps. Being self conscious about what I put in my grocery cart. Holding in all my stuff when I step on the scale so I can see the number. Telling the dressing room lady that I need a different size even if it's bigger. Having to roll over to my knees and push myself up off the floor. Having to use the ladder to get out of the pool.

I love them. I buy the chocolate in bulk at Sam's but I prefer the rich dark chocolate they only sell in 4 packs at Walmart. For the calories and protein, they are a perfect meal and if you throw them in the blender with ice and a scoop of powdered non fat milk and a banana? HEAVEN!!!

My thighs have always been big, even at a size 2, they were larger than most because if genetics and soccer. Now that I am losing weight, my thighs resemble melting candle wax. It's actually kind of amusing although I do hope the skin catches up with the weight loss, even a little. Instead of chub rub, I now have flap slap when I do martial arts. I can actually hear them slapping together when I do spinning kicks. GROSSSSSSSS!!!!

Eggs were one of the only foods that worked for me and I struggled with foods. I do tolerate over easy eggs better than scrambled.

I had my first salad at 3.5 months out. It was a chopped salad from Panera (steak and blue cheese) and it was so freaking good!!! OH EM GEE!! I never realized how much I would miss a stinking salad until I finally had one. I can eat a lot more of it than I thought, too, so it made me nervous at first. As soon as I ate the roast beef on it, I was full. DELISH!! My kids prefer chopped salad so that's what we are making at home now, too!

I am finding lots of foods my Sleevilla will tolerate but not many that sit there and make everything feel all peaceful and happily satisfied except beans and crab. Is it humanly possible to just eat these two things? (Not really serious, but kind of.) What foods make your sleeve happiest? I know my tolerance will grow, but I seem to be stuck in the soft food stage.

Just, please...keep your pants on!

I am almost 4 months out and eating 600-800 calories a day. I can't imagine eating that much.

NO!! Do not buy Zicam or Airborne without explicit permission. They are natural supplements and the high zinc content could mess up your blood clotting or whatnot.

I was sick as a dog when I had my surgery. My doctor gave me permission to take Tylenol cold right up until the morning of the surgery. Coughing SUCKED hairy balls afterwards, but the nurse was good with it because she said it cleared my lungs after anesthesia faster. Call your doctor, give him/her a head's up and see what they say! As long as you don't have a fever, you should be fine. Oh! I was on the rag, too.

Jeez, Loiuse, people! I would marry every single one of you! :wub:

A large gnarly mass was found on my liver during surgery so they removed it. So, did I have two surgeries? I think?

Oh my... My husband has lots of middle school comments to make about protein shakes. You know, if you shake it hard enough, protein shoots out, yada yada yada...

No worries! I heard nothing but crickets for my first 60-65.

Beautiful! Your eyes are gorgeous.

WOW!! You all are so sweet. What a great way to wake up! :wub: (Phew! Maybe this will wash the images of the nekky tie pics out of my mind's eye.)

Jeez, people! Can you warn a girl before posting nekky glamour shots? I just shot protein shake out my nose and NOT in a sexual way.

I'm all for eating foods I enjoy, just not whatever, whenever. I hope I will always track the good and the "bad". I picked sleeve over gastric so that I could live a normal life, so as not to be as severly limited, but I am very concious of th fact that I will always have to be aware. Everything in moderation... Just not yet.