gamergirl

I posted a very simple blackened salmon recipe here if you'd like to try it: http://sleevers.wordpress.com/category/recipes/

Somebody was gettin' sum.

don't talk to me about pedicures. I need one SO bad I have no nail polish on about an inch at the base! It's hot in Texas and I can't wear sandals until I get one so I'm wearing covered shoes. Ugh. hey, but at the end of two weeks? PARIS!! It will so be worth the rush right now.

We're 4-5 weeks out. I started the gummies the first week. I use vitafusion b complex, and I've only been doing 1 gummy a day. That one gummy allegedly has 500% of your B-Complex requirements so I haven't bothered with anything else on a routine basis.

We're talking vitamin B complex gummies and I don't seem to have a problem. Every once in a while my husband makes me take a sub-lingual, but really I can't tell a difference on those days. I think the gummies work.

I'm at five weeks today and wish I was going crusing next week! The only concern I would have for me is exhaustion. But we like to do a lot of shore expeditions which you may or may not be planning. The food would not a problem for me right now. It's not like you can eat enough to do any serious damage anyway.

So sorry to hear. Sending you warm hugs and positive thoughts.

The first week is tough to get liquids in. Every sip hurts. I likened it to having an elephant sitting on my chest. Yes it get better. Hang in there.

So I've been measuring hips, waist, and bust. I'm stalled and I'm not losing inches in those three locations either. But somehow, I can wear smaller size clothes than before. I have NO idea how that works except to think I'm losing weight somewhere other than those three places and that makes clothes fit differently. It's really not very logical and I have no way to explain it. Sounds like you may be going through that as well?

Yeah pretty much on schedule! I think most if us have a totally down day a week or two into surgery. I blogged about it and I knew nothing was really wrong, but I just felt depressed. People tell us it's all the estrogen that's stored in our fat that's being released that makes us weepy. My husband had it a day or two before I did where he was just really irritable. Just know that this is normal, it will pass, and all you have to do is gut through it. ((Hugs))

So just like our foot size varies from others, our stomach sizes vary. My husbands stomach is bigger than mine. When they take out 85% of a big stomach, what's left is bigger than 85% of a small stomach, right? Sleeved on the same day as me, he can reliably hold 4 oz of solid Protein at a time, I can reliably hold 2 oz of solid protein at a time. We are only 5 weeks out, but it's very predictable. I suggest for those of who who wonder about their stomach capacity, don't worry about yogurt, Soup, liquid, saltines, bread, etc. Test it by eating dense protein and you will know for sure.

I'm early out so a bit limited but I'm snacking on cottage cheese (the little portable 4 oz cups from break stones), Greek yogurt, and babybels which seem to do okay with no refrigeration for a few days. Occasionally I've done a quest protein bar. These help me hit my protein goals too

I love your thought process here. I've had to do that with toxic friendships in the past. I've had to ask myself if those friendships made me happy and whether they brought out the best in me. I also love what you said about being gentle and kind to yourself. Great ideas.

Three years from now, will you look back and regret not having done it? If your answer to that is yes then you have your answer for whether or not what you're doing it right.

I was looking at this thread and as your picture came up, my husband walked in, saw it, and said, "who's that guy holding his d&&k?" Dude, a little cropping....

I was looking at this thread and as your picture came up, my husband walked in, saw it, and said, "who's that guy holding this d&&k?" Dude, a little cropping....

woo hoo! i need to take more pics of what I eat. It's quite comical how little we can have isn't it?

My son called for his daily chat, a time I really look forward to. He says, "How was your day?" Well I've had a lovely day. I got to go into the office, work with a team of 6 very smart people, we all got some great thinking and work done. I was able to join them in the lunch I ordered for us, and I've extremely been productive all day. What were the first words out of my mouth in response to my son's question? "Well, I'm still stalled." WTH?? That's all I can think of to tell him about my day?? So he's a very insightful smarty-pants and he says to me, "Mom it was one thing to rely on the scale when you could say 'oh maybe I should cut down a bit tomorrow' and use the scale to monitor and adjust your eating habits. But really, what role does the scale play in your life now??" For a change, I was speechless. Well he wasn't about to stop there. He carries on saying, "Maybe you should ask yourself if it's healthy to let what you see on a scale determine your feelings of success for the day? After all you're doing what you need to, and you told me you were going to focus on process vs. the outcome. Would anything change in your process if you just threw away the scale for 3 months?" No of course it wouldn't but can i throw away the scale for 3 months? I cannot. Why? Because maybe I'm sick in the head and I associate my self-worth with success or failure at pounds lost. Not what I do to succeed, but whether the scale says I've lost weight today. Unlike a lot of people here, over the last few years i could NOT lose weight. I could control my calories, my cardio-vascular health, what I put in my mouth, but I couldn't control my weight. Yet I continued to judge myself by my ability to lose weight. Not by my ability to do what was healthy, but whether or not I could lose weight. I may have been sleeved, but apparently that way of judging myself still persists. So really, if we are eating our protein, drinking our water, and exercising to the degree that we can, what role does or should the scale play in our lives when we're trying to lose weight? Should we not focus on the process, monitor the crap out of the protein and water and calories, and let the scale go off on a long hike to TImbuktoo? And can we do that? Why not?