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Beef jerky! Oh man you americans HAVE to taste our version of beef jerky! It is called Biltong and it is awesome! I have not tasted beef jerky, but i read online that our biltong tastes way better hiehie so ONE thing that i do have over here So let the biltong eating begin! Thanks for all your tips! Will change my eating up a bit. I love having crackerbread with melted mozzarella, bit salt and pepper on top, try it it is awesome! Dori you are SO lucky about the hair thing. I am still losing hair (cant believe i still have some left on my head). Love you all and good luck for the week ahead! May we all lose 4 pounds!

When last did anyone hear of her? I am worried about her as i dont see her sround here anymore. Mami if you read this, please let me know that you are allright? I worry! I hope you are okay.

This sounds awesome! Thank you so much for replying sparkle. I appreciate it. Going to look into ordering it for myself. Thank you!!

Hi dori i am here! Missing you guys too! Wow you are doing so well lady! Mrs Lulu - DANG! How did you do that?? Share me your golden rules pleeeaase? Still hanging around at 80 pounds lost. I feel like i am last again in a school race! Are you all religious about your daily calories? Are you also at 800 calories per day? Sometimes i go up to 1000 calories per day. And my protein is anything between 40 and 60 if i can manage. Dont have a lot of the stuff that i read about on here that is in america. It is really really tough for me to get in a proper amount of protein ;-( And i am struggling so to get to the gym oh dear goodness. Please share some secrets ladies! I have a little goal to reach by christmas! About 30 pounds to lose until then, how am i gonna manage that?? Want to reach it so so badly. Oi vey.

Just found out from dic's office that i have to do afasting glucose test! I did it before the op and it was ghastly. It is so so so sweet and vile. I am totally flipping out, as i am afraid i am gonna dump seriously on this. I dumped on a piece of pie last week. What is gonna happen with a glass of glucose???? Anyone here who had to do this post-op??? Please help me with advice! I am spinning and freaking out. The doc is also on leave, so the girl can't check with him. But my file indicates that this has to happen now. Oh man!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOO afraid!!!!!!

Question for all you going to the gym. I started going to the gym now, and want to know about a good workout routine. Any tips you have please? I only started out about 3 weeks ago, so I am still quite unfit. When do you do what? I want to incorporate weight training as well as I've read it's actually also good for weight loss, not just the cardio. What does a good exercise plan look like? I only want to go 3 to 4 times a week. Please specify type of exercise and amount time and what when you are doing? I was thinking perhaps: Monday: Cardio - 20 mins Weights - back and biceps Wednesday: Cardio - 20 mins Weights - triceps, shoulders and chest Thursday: Cardio: 40 minutes Weights - legs Please give me tips if this is a good or bad idea. This is nee territory for me so all advice welcome, please! If you dont agree with this plan please tell me, i am a novice! Also tell me why it is not good and then advice on what is please!

You're doing nothing wrong! Almost ALL on this forum had a stall at about 4 weeks out. I promise! When you start losing again, it's gonna go so quick! Dont worry about a thing

Stunning stunning stunning!

Jerz i rhink i am going to refuse it. There has to other ways to test what they need to test, yeah? I cannot go through that again - especially since dumping came into the picture now!

My fitness pal all the way! Wish i started sooner.

Girls! I have to do a glucose test! I am gonna die! I dump bad lately. I remember this test pre-op and i nearly died. What is gonna happen now????? Any if you had it?? Did you dump?? I wanna cry so bad now. ;-(

Quick survey - how much Protein should you get in daily? And on average how much protein do you manage per day? And if you are food logging - at how much protein per day do you find you lose weight fastest? Please reply pleeeaase!

Hi friends Quick question, according to your doc, how much protein should you get in about now daily? And then, how much do you actually manage? I think mine is too little perhaps. My weightloss is very slow now. Lucky if it's a pound a week. How are you doing? I need to know I am going crazy!

Thanks for inspiring me to get help as well! I need it. Having appt with mydoc next week and ask about meds.

My go to breakfast: one boiled egg with 2 crackers with chives flavoured chunky cottage cheese and some mini tomatoes and cucumber. It's the best! Fills me up nicely and is easy on the pouch and packed with protein.

Dori that is so funny about the nurse, hahaha i can just imagine her!

Deaddemmamma what is the latest? How are you hanging on? They think there's another ulcer?? OMG! How are you feeling physically and mentally? Keeping you in my thoughts as well!!

Alaina, i am heartbroken with you, girl. Words escape me now. I am so terribly sorry to hear this. No, it doesnt make sense and life is unfair. I wish you didnt have to go through this. much love and a big hug xxz

Friends! I have a suggestion of us all posting post op pics as we go along, what do you think? Make it a visual diary of our progress and where all of us are on our journey. So come on and post a pic or two! Add a before as well so we can see how far you've come! Imagine then how awesomely healthy us all will look in April next year! Would be really cool to be able to scroll down this visual diary of your journey I will post mine soon, I'm in bed now almost 1 in the morning, and need to take a pic! Hope this takes off ????

Yay!!! This is so so awesome!

Oh shame man! I had the same problems. Just hold out, suddenly at week 7 everything changed. It will get much better! Just focus on the weight going down, those first 2 months is the most rapid weightloss and it is such a good feeling! Then it steadies out and perhaps about 10 pounds per month. So focus on the positive of that! And good luck! I know it is not easy and also disheartening. I got very emotional. Hugs!

I think turn the page was just stating to heed some caution. Which is actually a quite nice thing to do. It can only just help you. Doctors' plans differ indeed, but some of the stuff you mentioned makes red lights go off in my head, after a year of intense research about what we should and shouldnt be eating and doing. Best to be cautious, and i think you should thank her for taking the time to just give you a heads up - seeing that she might have some more experience you know? She was trying to help you. And to be truthful, it does seem - on paper - that it does not fit into the tried and trusted path op post op menu paths - and seeing at it is "unknown territory" this way of eating the chance for failure is bigger - cause it is not following the proven track of success. Maybe you should do some reading on tried and tested progression menus - just to widen your perspective of what is happening in the world of bariatric surgery's proven best diets straight out of surgery.

Oh man mama i am so sorry to hear that. It's terrible. Girls, to be honest i am very worried now about this smoking thing. I smoke. A lot. I stopped for 3 months presurgery and started again about one month post op. I know it is bad and i understand it is especially bad after this op and why.but here's the thing. Smoking is all i got. My life is so terribly terribly shit at work that i feel i am at the brink of a disastrous breakdown. I am doing my all to balance my sanity. Ofcourse you all understand about the stressors and anxiety we have about all kinds of things - including: • missing comfort from food • coping without its "help" • will i succeed • getting foodstuffs right and ready • doing research in eating plans and stuff (i am so frustrated cause all the info i get - 65% we dont have in south africa and i just cant seem to manage to get all my protein ;-((( • trying to amp myself to go gymming and doing exercise. I hate exercise! And i am telling myself i like it and want to do it because it is needed and part of this process - but deep down i still hate it and i want to shout it out so that i can come clean to myself • i have a lot of debt because of all the costs involved and i cannot seem te get out of it plus my parents are struggling a lot financially and i am so worried about them, they are also quite sickly and i am so afraid one of them might die, i will totally be f*cked of something happened to either if them and i dont know how to make it all better their whole situation and where their desperation is taking them and it breaks me to see them struggling like this they are the best parents in the world and dont deserve this life • my mental state is up and down a lot and sometimes it gets really bad and i dont know what to do about it - i'm off my meds since surgery and although we have a good bariatric team here i feel the psych part is totally lacking, i saw the psychiatrist but it was a 30 minute or so talk and he was actually yawning (excusing himself for it, but still keeping on) and when i took a huge knock in hospital after my op because the nurses never gave me a substitution for my meds on time (after i had to harass them for it, like it wasnt even important on their notes or whatever) and obviously i was withdrawing he was just never there to check up on me - although his office is around the corner from the hospital - i mean how come?? Shouldnt that be a concern? i mean just one quick check in? especially seeing that i am a "difficult patient" making scenes in the hospital? I was flipping out and telling them something was wrong but noooo. And no use in going to my doctor (the surgeon) as he is just not one of those people that you can go to with your gripes. He is an excellent surgeon and did an excellent job, but there's not that feeling of connectedness to talk about anything that i am feeling, and my fears and problems i am facing, so that is out. There is just no psych professionals here available to deal with bariatric patients and i feel it is so so so important! •bloody hairloss and acne • stressing about my partner and what i am putting him through. He is sticking it out and supports me all the way, but i know he has his own little issues and am i in someway, through all this crap of mine, making him be worse off?? • and the office politics where i am working oh my goodness that is the worst of all of all! I cannot TAKE it anymore, i'm nit even going to begin to talk about it because it upsets me extremely and it is just unbearable and there is actually nowhere to turn • and what if i get a bloody ulcer from all this smoking???? Cause smoking is all i have now. My few minutes to escape at the office, my moments of silence when i drag myself away from the kitchen and bad food, my comfort when the stress just gets too much. It is all i have now to cope - and gasp horror what will happen if i take that away from myself?? So it is not just to quiet for me. What if taking it away is the straw that breaks this camel's back?? I am scared.

Dont worry, real hunger also returned around month 3 for me. I freaked out as most people dont get hungry after RNY. Was mine broken?? I dont know what it is but i have made peace with it. I dont think it is headhunger - although i do get that still sometime but i can differentiate between it now. I upped my Protein and it helped a lot. Problem was i think i didnt really keep tabs on how much protein i am consuming and got in waay to little. Perhaps the case with you as well?

I am not taking Biotin as i dont know it and i dont think we have it here anyway. So let me just tell you, my hormones are freaking out! Month 4 is terrible and i had the worst acne i've ever had in my life! It is slightly better now at month 5 but still bad. But yeah, basically month 3 and 4 is the worst with hairloss and acne. So ironic, as at last you're getting into the swing of things and feeling better and getting the balance right of the new lifestyle and all the supplements. When will all the craziness stop? I almost dont brush my hair and only wash once a week (man it's dirty), cause whenever i brush and wash it comes out by the handfull ????