Madam Reverie

You can wear your knickers - don't worry. Just your bra will have to be removed. If you tell them, they'll be cool about it.

Very very groovy

That, is much awesomeness. Many many congratulations

Remind me why you're going to be this birds bridesmaid again? For the life of me, I can't fathom it. @Frederic. I think I love you.

LOL no problem. I guess most people hit their limit for the BS at different junctures!

Okay, I'm a fairy patient kind of girl. If i see someone in need, I will duly assist in any way possible. That is my nature. However, there are limits to this... Something is really getting on my proverbial mammary glands and I just have to put it out there... Before I 'go to town' on someone.... What am I referring to? The indomitable, self-indulgent, totally out of proportion whinging on this website. What kind of whinging, I hear you cry?! Well, it's not the general and often valid complaints, concerns and outpourings of confusion related to WLS. Which, lets face, it, we all have for time to time... Or even the posts that deviate from being WLS related and are either observations on life or genuine cries for help. It's the 'OMG, I ate some fresh air!!!!! <swing your head back whilst placing your wrist on your forehead in a swooning fashion> 'I am going to have to flagellate myself for the rest of my natural born life because I ate a cracker with cheese spread on it!' 'I ate a mouthful of cream-cheese frosting, I hate myself' - then cue the over-exaggerated 'depression' and attention-seeking mewing because someone, in a 'moment of madness' <raises an eyebrow> didn't reach for a Protein shake or Quest bar. Now, before I get lambasted for not being 'sympathetic' and being told in a lofty and self-righteous way that 'not everyone is as strong as other people and they just need some gentle encouragement'.. What I am going to say to that right now and up front is 'BALLS!' So someone ate something with 15g of carbs, 11g of sugar and little protein. SO WHAT?!!! If you're clever enough to work out that these aren't good nutritional ratios, then you're smart enough to know that you shouldn't be eating it. So get some perspective, be objective, dust yourself off and carry on. Don't take up my visual space with your whinges that do no more than to advertise your bordering on infantile attention seeking ways... If you make a habit of making bad food choices when you know the nutritional values - then frankly, you're an idiot. If you're having serious addiction issues - then that's a WHOLE different ball game and there's not a person on the planet that won't do all they can (within the limits of this medium and geography) to help. Just to those who want to curry sympathy and 'collect' platitudinous pats on the back for being self-indulgent whinge-bags - over very little - all I have to say is just hope I don't come across those particular posts. The response won't be pretty..... And for the smug ones who are undoubtedly going to say 'Well, you don't have to read them.. You can just skip past them..tra-la-la-la' I say BALLS to that too. Attention seekers have a habit of making their topic titles sound very 'life or death'. Having the concept of 'duty of care' bashed into my head for years, I feel obliged to read them. But no sooner do I get to the second sentence, I discover its been written by 'one of those types' and the rage subsequently builds... So my rant to 'those types' and in summary is; Do, please, and before I turn green, shut up!!! <and relax...>

Urrgh.. I really detest people like that. Head up, shoulders back and carry on, darlin'. These people are just leaves off a fall tree, blowing away in the breeze. You, will be left basking in the sunshine, my sweet x

Take away all the legal ramifications - there is one overarching personal issue to determine. Do you want your surgery to almost define you in the eyes of others? Irrespective of how far and wide your images are distributed, if people recognise you from them, that will be what they associate you with - your surgery. All the questions, enquiries, reactions (good and bad), recommendation requests, etc. If you're happy to be an advocate and a walking advertisement for the procedure and the surgical system who supported you through this - and wouldn't mind the attention and better still, you get paid - go ahead. However, the reality of it is (and this would get to me), would be the fear that I would be defined by it for an unknown length of time. I am Revs. I am more than my surgery. I would not want my other attributes eclipsed by a personal and private decision I took to improve my health. Particularly not for the financial gain, irrespective of how grateful I am for their services, of the medical establishment I paid a considerable amount of money to perform said service. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Keep your head in the game. Appease her every whim and whilst doing so, document EVERYTHING she has or hasn't done, has or hasn't said and the times and dates she did or didn't do them. The full nine yards. As soon as you get what you need, you write a deposition to the complaints department. In fact, I would go so far as to assert that if there are more people less 'together' than you, charged to be under her care, that you personally fear for their safety as she's clearly not fit for purpose (I would mention that she appears high) and grossly unprofessional. You had me at 'shoulda paid your phone bill'. I'dve hit the freakin' roof at that. But as has been stated. Hold your counsel until such time as you can let rip. My sympathies are with you.

What a wonderful feeling that must have been. I have never in my life worn shorts - or a tank top. I wonder if I'll ever garner the courage for that.... Probably not (being a linen trouser, hide me away in billowy fabric kinda girl), but I'd certainly settle for 'normal'. Way to go

Good advice. The sticking point is, sadly, that you just can't legislate for people who want to have an argument! Mohammad to the mountain/Horses to Water and all that good stuff....

'I always end up in the drive-through' Simples. JUST DONT DRIVE THERE!!!!

Love her. Its just her fear talking.

Well, it might certainly kill the efficacy of the tablets.. Either that, or it'll kill my stomach and leave me talking down the big white telephone to God! Shame, as a hot whiskey would go down a treat right now!

Cant, chick. I'm on whacking amounts of antibiotics. Boo!

I can get dizzy if I haven't drunk enough Water... I have to be mindful of that...

What. In. The. World. No, really. As I'm sick and feeling rather putrid, I shall say but this. Please, everyone, read the definition of the word 'Fear' in a dictionary. Understand what it is. Recognise how it can present itself. Have compassion - on both sides of the fence. I shall now return to my duvet, electric blanket and warmed cup of milk. And before anyone asks; no, there's no bleedin' Protein powder in it

And this is EXACTLY why I told my mother the sum total of bugger all about my surgery. Mothers are old. They're bored. They have nothing left of interest to discuss within their own lives... So they start vicariously using their kids lives as a topic of interest. My mother did this to me once before in a very different context. I warned her most sternly - 'do it again and I will tell you nothing personal about my life from this point onwards'. Guess what - she did it again. Subsequently, I tell her very very little. Its quite sad, because it has ruined our relationship. But it was her choice. I gave her options. I gave her the consequences of her actions. She made her choice. She now has to live with it.

Just thought I'd send out a bit of Irish cheer to one and all on this special day! May your Guinness be cold, your bacon boiled and your white pudding hot! x

Just in case any of you were wondering what hair loss looks like post surgery and wanted to evaluate the level of loss for yourselves? (Obviously this is with the caveat that everyone is different; people have different hair types, nutrient intake, etc.) Here is a picture of what came out of my head after washing my hair this evening. This does not include what additionally came out after combing it, either. I wash my hair every other day and obviously, brush it in between. My hair is fine, but there is (or should I say, 'was') a lot of it. My hair loss started at 3.5 months and started falling at a pace at 4 months. I am now 5 months and 19 days out and this is average loss every time I wash my hair. What a joy!

It has been suggested that a complete reduction in eating those horrible processed carbohydrates has an impact on the amount of headaches we get.... I have to say I concur.. (being a migraine sufferer) I have had very few since being sleeved. Long may it continue - for all of us!

Have you tried eating? I am 16 months out and have lost about 90 lbs. Whenever I thought I was losing hair I would eat. Not enough to put on weight but enough to stabilise for a week or two. It worked great. I never lost a significant amount of hair that I noticed. My apologies if I'm being, well, a bit stupid here.. But is that a genuine suggestion?

I have a simple response to all of it... Your friend. This thread. It is beautifully applicable to every one at every time and in every situation. Wanna know what is it? It is this. 'Yo! DUDE!!!!!!' That is all

lol well, aren't we all an attractive bunch?!

I am truly happy for you, honey. I await the same sense of relief xx