kchristian

I thought I was the only one! My tailbone hurts so bad. By the end of the work day I have shooting pains in my rear end.

Thanks everybody. It just planted this little seed in my brain and of course I'm the type of person who is going to Water that seed by dwelling on it. And hey - she might think I look "gaunt" because let's see - I'm exhausted 24/7 (blood work next week for 6 mo follow up). I can sleep 9 hours without waking up and be pooped the next day. I take all my Vitamins, get all my water + some, and get all my Protein, so I don't know what the heck is going on with me. I have a 2 year old (enough said), plus 2 teenage step daughters (18 & 17), one of whom is pregnant and the other likes to get caught smoking pot. Soooo.....yeah.... Also - my collar bone is starting to show a lot. I thought that was a GOOD THING! HI COLLARBONE! OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU - FEEL FREE TO POKE OUT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! (shoulder blades, ribs, pelvis - you are welcome to join the party any time)

So in my latest visit to my NUT last week, she made this comment that I LOOK like someone who has lost weight too fast, that I'm sort of gaunt looking. WHAT THE CRAP?! Then she said "well, maybe it's just because I haven't seen you this skinny before". So of course now I'm staring at myself constantly, thinking that I look like a skeleton in the face who's skin is literally sliding off of it. Yeah, disgusting I know. I'm completely paranoid! I don't want to look like a 90 year old deathly ill woman! Part of me is like "give me some fat back!" I'm using every firming/toning lotion, cream I can find. Has anybody else felt they look like this or had someone tell them this? I thought I looked pretty darn good! My face does look a little hollow to me, but I've been staring at my fat face for 10 years now, so the difference is a little spooky.

this happened to me with soup too in the full liquid stage. It was horrible and felt like I had swallowed a rock that was just sitting there at the top of my stomach/throat. It was painful and just plain sucky. I think it took about 2 hours of me walking around and not drinking anything else for it to go away. But lesson learned, I made sure I paid attention to everything I swallowed after that! and chewed my soup LOL I really hope you feel better by now.

That's awesome!! congrats! We won't talk about how little I weighed in 1996...too depressing lol!!

on May 14 of this year. I'm so excited too because my hubby is having the surgery 12/11/13! He saw what I went through and how I'm doing and decided it was best for him too

So happy to step on the scale this morning and POOF! 199.2lbs! I took a picture and texted it to my hubby I was so excited! Glad to join all of you that are there and encourage those that aren't yet, that you totally can be! I'm down 81.4lbs total. Now, time to get to work on those other 49.2

Space heaters have become my friends!

I wonder if u are getting enough salt. Try squatting down for a minute and then stand up. If u get lightheaded and ur vision blacks out a bit... then eat something like chicken broth or something really salty. It happens to me a lot and that always seems to help. Get in some G2 Gatorade too. Electrolytes could be low. I was lightheaded for months.

quick question - are you eating anything like Atkins Bars? or anything with sugar alcohols in them? I was losing fine, then I started adding in an Atkins Bar a day or even 1/2 of one, and my weight stalled out for almost 3 weeks. I finally realized maybe it was the Atkins - so I cut them out, and holy crap did the weight start falling off again! So maybe if you are doing any bar supplements or something like that, give them up for a week and see how it goes?

My doc put me on a 6 month script for actigall starting right after surgery to prevent this mess! I am surprised to see how many docs don't!

If the worst thing I do all day is weigh myself like 3 times a day, then that is a DARN GOOD DAY!

My name is Kim, and I'm a scale addict

I wanted to say that I didn't mean the psych stuff in general is a joke! I was talking specifically about the crap that they put in my personal report that was wrong. They had this part about the "abuse" I'd suffered in my childhood. Um, there was no abuse in my childhood. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what the guy was talking about because it sounded like he'd mixed up someone else's interview with mine. Oh, and don't get me started on that 1000 question test. Yeah, I've definitely been on the cover of a magazine 6 times in the past year - absolutely! I just knew they were 100% wrong about me. So I fought & won. I am totally for counseling, I've been seeing counselors on and off for 13 years now - they've definitely helped me work through a ton of issues and I plan on continuing my counseling now because there are things that I've noticed post op that I didn't know about pre op Best of luck to you! I don't think anybody should just jump into this surgery and while having to wait almost 8 months wasn't fun and got annoying at times, I tried to make the best of it and learn about myself and why I ate like I did, etc - so in the end it was a good thing!

you guys made me cry! LOL! But seriously - yes I have been SKINNY SKINNY before. I was around 135-140 all throughout high school and into college. I did put on some pounds my first few years of college, but I remember "putting" on those pounds got me up to a size 9 "OH THE HORROR!" It wasn't until I had my first child that I really put on some weight and got up to 240 when I delivered him. He passed away 4 months later and that was when I really quit giving a crap about almost everything. The next few years I maybe put on 25 or so more pounds on and off - I've been on a diet my entire life it feels like. When I met my husband was when I really got up to my absolute worst weight ever - 299! I got on the scale that morning and about fainted out of horror and disgust at myself. I started right then exercising and cutting out crap my from my diet and dropped 20 lbs over the next 3 months, then me and my husband started a formal, doctor supervised low carb diet and that's when I got down to 200 about 9 months later. You would think that weighing all these different weights over the years, that i'd be used to the "various" me's, but nope! lol