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Are you afraid of your pending surgery? Or is it the fear of success? Try and focus on one day at a time and start writing your feelings down. This helps a lot because you can see why your are depress , excited, sad, and even happy so many time our lives are surrounded by food rather it be a happy occasion, sad or just depression. Find out the source of your eating and stop it, perhaps you can speak with a therapist and if not please write your feelings down we are all here for you and want you to succeed . Good luck my friend and keep us posted on your progress.

I only took off 2 weeks but I could have went back to work in 1 week.

Everything you have completed will transfer to another surgeon stay focus and ensure that your new surgeon is in your insurance requirement good luck your almost there. As my mother say one monkey doesn't stop no show .

LOL thats great keep up the great work and I agree its a task to eat now I have to remind myself. I am still working on drinking all the water requirements but I am almost there. Also have you notices how your tastebuds have changed, things things that I used to love I cant tolerate, anything with cheese in it hurts my stomach as well as pizza sauce, I stick mainly now to tuna fish and chicken only. My coworkers call me skinny now which is amazing, I look forward to getting down to 160, I have had two stalls since surgery but I know that as long as I am getting in my protein I am doing well. I look forward to reading your updates.

Hi I only drink premere protein shakes they have 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar you can buy me at Cisco or SAMs club good luck.

I agree with the above statements it sounds like he is insecure, your health is important for your overall quality of life I would continue on my journey to get healthy with or without him . Good luck .

I agree with mentalistfan when you go for your first seminar they are explaining what type of procedures that are out there and there program requirements they take down your name and insurance information to ensure that your insurance covers the procedure before you proceed that way you will not be wasting your time .Good luck .

I agree with the above statement you are loosing everyone loose weight differently just continue with the protein water and eating properly and the weight will gone off congrats on your choice to be healthy and welcome to the losers bench .

That's normal because you are excited to become the new you congrats on your choice to be healthy.

Congrats to everyone and welcome to the losers bench .

You will get your water in , it is not that hard as long as your drinking water, protein drinks pop sickles and crystal light you will be fine .

Hi I didn't tell anyone at work anything it's none if their business they do know that I have been working on loosing weight since I began my 6 month weight management in August of last year and they believe through my hard work and changes in eating and working out contribute to my weight loss.

You will soon and you will be enjoying life again.

Nothing I am loving my results and the 9 months prepping for surgery allowed me time to deal with my emotional eating, making better eating choices and exercising . This is a wonderful tool and I am loving the new me and can't wait to see where I will be by Xmas, I'm currently saving money to go on a shopping spree for my hard-work .

Tigerlily14 hang in there I agree with the above statements give your body time to heal it can take 8 weeks for your body to heal and the protein shakes and water helps your body heal as far as your incision goes I will discuss this with your doctor I'm sure you will start loosing soon I had 2 stalls and I'm only 8 weeks out , you will get there .

Bugsandpie can you take gasx strips or gasx chewables this help me , try a heating pad also on your pain area and continue to walk , walking helps get the gas out if it's still to painful contact your emergency doctor number for assitance protein shakes helps you heal and font forget about the sugarfree popsickles try send drink as much water and protein shakes . I know after my surgury I never wanted to see sugarfree pudding , soup, jello and broth again. Trust me your having buyers remorse but the surgury is so well worth it you will be feeling better each day trust me each day gets better. And before you know it you will be feeling like a million bucks my friend .

My husband called me tiny lol all if my coworkers say I look great, I feel great and I am smiling more, I even want to buy and wear dresses again .

Any my incision sites healed so well you can't tell I even had surgury.

Michelle TN no complications I was type 2 diabetic and taking 6 shots of insulin a day, high blood pressure and high cholesterol . I was taken all of medications after 3 days. After all the gas came out I felt like a million bucks after 5 days from my surgery. I feel great ,I can't wait to see how much weight I will have lost by Xmas .

Hi personally I would say the bypass because I think you will have a better chance at loosing all the weight you want. You don't mentioned any cormobilities , or history of acid reflex . I started off at 332 pounds and I am down 57 pounds at 8 weeks. Discuss with your surgeon and see what their recommendation is and research both hood luck my friend .

Congrats that's great I'm working on riding my bike again your post inspires me.

Pik I forgot to mention try placing a heating pad over your stomach this also help my gas come out as well as allwd me to sleep better, the heat seems to have help me and after 2 days the gas was gone, good luck my friend and let me know how your doing. By the way welcome to the losers bench.

As you walk you will begin to feel Bette pretty soon you will feel like a million bucks if your fiancé can't find the gasx strips make sure he gets the gasx chewable .

Hi gasx strips and walking helps get the gas out if you continue to do that all the gas should be out within 3 days good luck and congrats on being healthy.

The food journal is excellent, because it allows you to see exactly what you are eating, I use the myfitness pal app that I began as part of my program that was required by my surgeon program and it's awsume.