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Thank god for this forum! I have nothing but men and boy at home to ask these types of questions and we all know how much they hate when we ask them questions like this!

some brazilian sh*t j/k They are thongs really but with a much wider band than the butt floss of usual thongs. Wider band up front as well make them look like almost normal panties from the front.

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When I'm a 14, victoria's secret L fit me just fine. In fact, I'm wearing their XL at a 16/16w. Their hipsters fit really well, last FOREVER, and are worth trying. Just don't go the bikini/thong/tanga route and you should be good.

Thank you so much for posting this! Great article and very informative.

Penman, how did you cook them? We sauté ours very lightly for less than 8-10 minutes in a little butter or peanut oil, on high heat, like stir frying in a wok. Keep tasting them and take them off until the steam has rolled off of them and it tastes "not soggy". If you like cucumber, do it with that, with no need to cook them.

I subscribe to Dr. Sharma’s blog where he is currently talking about weight regain and all the reasons it happens. Today’s topic happened to be about Mental Health and regain. To quote him: We found substantial evidence for the role of mental health factors both in failure to lose adequate amounts of weight or to regain any weight lost. Out of the sixteen studies included in the review, all studies that examined this factor, implicated uncontrolled mental health issues as an important cause of weight regain. These included, binge eating disorder, depression and addictive behaviours (alcohol and drug use)…… Overall, patients with two or more psychiatric conditions were approximately six times more likely to either lose no further weight or regain weight than patients without psychiatric problems. Of course this sent me searching for Eating disorder screens and this is the one I took. NEDA. Thankfully I didn’t have one, but if you do, the news is not all doom and gloom. To quote him again, Interestingly, one study found that completion rates of behavioural modification therapy increased to 91% when performed post-operatively, compared to 14 % when done pre-operatively. So if you’re sleeved and struggling, get thee to a shrink and maximize your chances for success. Link to the study abstract HERE Happy Monday to one and all!

Or reasons why I cannot easily eat out. [(Just posted to my blog at http://sleevers.word...y/restau-rants/) Tell you what, it's gotten so bad, I started a new category called Restau-rants ] So yesterday, my husband brings me back a little hot & sour Soup, and minced chicken in lettuce wraps from a restaurant. Great! I eat 4 oz of soup and then 2 hours later, I devour about 3 oz of the chicken with veggies. I’m a little suspicious about the calories in the soup but I’m feeling good about the minced chicken! Super Protein, tastes good, what’s not to like? In the evening he decides he will make a light version of “Zucchini Alfredo”. I’m very nervous about the half and half, the butter, the parmesan cheese and everything else he’s putting in there. But I tell myself, lunch was healthy minced chicken. What could go wrong? Just to be cautious, I enter my food into myfitness pal. Surprise! The minced chicken from Pei Wei? Had TWICE as many carbs as protein. I kid you not. Minced chicken without sauce, had more carbs than protein, no doubt from the sugar they add to make it taste good. The small 4 oz of soup which was a third of the total serving? Had 127 calories in it. Had I eaten the whole soup in my pre-sleeve days, that’s 381 calories of soup I would have had as an appetizer! In contrast, my husband’s Zuch Alfredo barely has 4 gms of carbs and very little fat because I ate a small, yummy portion over zucchini noodles and it was made from fresh ingredients with no sugar added. When you’re only eating 700 calories and trying to keep carbs to under 40 gms, it doesn’t take much to sabotage your day. I need to enter my food BEFORE I eat it. Really makes me wonder about all those times we THINK we’re eating healthily but the outside world is working against us, to feed us combinations of fat, sugar, and salt that light up our taste buds and ruin our bodies. Enter every bite people, and if you eat out, get the restaurant's nutrition to enter in. Left to myself, I would have entered that as 3 oz of chicken and called it a day.

I've been making cucumber ones too. Sooo yummy with my peanut sauce chicken.

Well I guess the surgery doesn't solve all ills, but I really had hoped it had solved this one. I've been off my Rheumatoid Arthritis medications for 8 weeks and have had no pain whatsoever. I thought it was behind me, that my RA was food-related, and perhaps I had dodged a bullet. Nope. The pain is back. My knees hurt, my thumb hurts (I know that sounds trivial but it's amazing how much we use our thumbs), I'm cold, and I'm easily tired. So back to the meds with my self. Taking the meds would be bad enough, considering they're immunosuppressants. But with the meds dies this fantasy I had about being able to be strong, physical, active, and unconcerned about my hopefully-thin body giving out on me and working against me by hurting itself. And that's the harder part of it for me. I want to love my body. I want to believe it is on "my side", working with me, not against me as it did when I struggled so hard to lose weight. Today, I'm finding it difficult to feel the love. I feel anger, disappointment, and a bit of hopelessness. I realize that every breath I use to complain was a breath that was denied to many today. I realize that I should be grateful that my expected weight-loss will put less of a strain on my body. But I'm not there yet. I'm just angry, and I am sad, and I hurt. And I need to get over it. So that's my work for today. To accept, and move on. Thanks for listening to me. I'm trying not to make a habit of ranting, just been a rough couple of days, accepting that the RA is back.

You know what's funny? Pre-sleeve, 450 would have been okay-ish for one meal but now it's more than half of what we eat all day!

When I started the liquid diet, all I wanted to do for the first 4-5 days was nap. Alone.

I wouldn't say it's a bad light, it's what works for you. My husband refuses to enter anything. He eats Proteins and at the end of the day tells me what he has eaten and I'm supposed to tell him if he was a good boy or not Drives me insane but what can you do? I love him, and he's useless at diarying his food. He could not do what i do. But he is losing weight just fine, partly because I keep him in line and partly because as a result, he's learning what he can and can't do. It's important for me, not only because I am geeky about numbers, but also because honestly, I am not sure WHY I weigh what I do. I wasn't a binger, I wasn't a huge volume eater, and so the only things I can think of are jacked-up metabolism, and confusion about the calories I was consuming, aka, hidden bombs like this one. Unless I track my food, I seem to grossly under-estimate my daily consumption. But that's not true for everyone so I totally get your approach too!

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Thank you guys very much for the support. I got back on the pills and suspect I will have to break down and take the shot today as well. Oh well. Can't have everything I guess. Really appreciate everyone who responded with messages of support. It meant a lot to me.

Sounds like a gall bladder issue with no bile being produced--at lease that's what it is for babies. Hope it's something simpler but it's definitely a symptom to share w your doctor.

I have a lot of very high protein, low carb recipes on my blog, sleevers.wordpress.com. Check it out. They're all very easy and all are sleeve-friendly.

It varies for folks but I stopped pain pills on the second-third day because I too hate the grogginess. You could try skipping a dose and see how you feel.

yeah that part is a mystery to me too. I didn't realize I needed saving. I can't be both, created in God's image, and be, from the moment of my birth, a sinner who needs redemption at the same time. I don't like internal contradictions like that within a system. Good question about what they will talk about! Maybe poverty & charity which was always one of the best things about the Catholic Church? (Charity, they suck at poverty).

I'm telling you, I love this new pope. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-warns-church-find-balance-fail-20305398

Do try it and let me know. I'm hoping my recipes meet mainstream tastes, whatever the heck that means.