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Fanny Adams

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  1. Fanny Adams

    Your food plan of choice.

    I'm with Jachut and others - healthy balanced diet in moderate to small portions. I don't eat a lot of bread, white rice or pasta but I don't avoid it altogether either. Mostly, I eat meat and fresh veges, lots of salad for lunch, and a small portion of whatever's going for dinner. I do avoid fried food and junk and am fairly strict about that but not 100%. I don't know how people that aim for 1/4 cup a meal can cope - I eat at least a cup for lunch and dinner!
  2. Fanny Adams

    Meals

    Sounds fabulous! Can't wait to try it!
  3. The "no drinking" rule is mostly so that you don't wash the food through your band quickly and end up hungry again soon afterwards. Having a glass of wine with dinner on occasion shouldn't be a problem, but if you find yourself snacking when you get home because you are hungry again, you should probably rethink drinking with meals. Also, as you get good restriction, you may find that drinking anything while eating is actually difficult - I am finding this now. I tend to have a little sip of Water just after a meal to wash my mouth out, but drinking anything more than that can lead to PBing :drool: All things in moderation is the name of the game! One of the benefits that I have found is that my tolerances for alcohol have GREATLY reduced. One or two glasses of wine over the full course of the evening is the most I can manage now without getting really tipsy, whereas previously I could easily knock off the bottle on my own - yay for cheap highs! Be really really careful in a "drinking session with the girlfriends" though - the alcohol does hit you much faster and you can easily overdo it before you realise it. The LAST thing you need is to end up with your head in the toilet bowl throwing up; that is a HUGE no-no! I had a glass of wine on Xmas Day, which was 2 weeks after surgery.
  4. Fanny Adams

    Meals

    Jachut, let me add my voice to that request - I'd love the recipe too!
  5. Fanny Adams

    4 sleeps until my op!

    Congrats, Simba and welcome to Bandland! Good luck on your journey :thumbup:
  6. Some people are good at following the rules and don't have these issues; others *waves hand* have that streak of futile rebellion and like to push the envelope. All I can say is slow down and work on listening to your body. When you get those signals, don't ignore them and try to push on further - it will only lead to pain and nausea. If you know after 2 or 3 bites that it isn't sitting well, stop for a few minutes, then eat something else. Try every thing but take small bites, chew chew CHEW, and wait between eat bite to see how you react to it. I think the process of really listening to your body is the most important lesson of all. I'm still relatively new and I'm still working on this, but if I take things slowly and carefully, I can eat just about anything. When I stop listening, though, and try to eat just that little bit too quickly, forget to chew properly or stubbornly try to keep eating when my body says stop, that's when I run into trouble.
  7. Ahahaha!! Are you sure your friend's friend's friend didn't wake up in a strange hotel, in a bath full of ice and missing a kidney? LOL!
  8. I don't want to beat you up for making silly mistakes, coz I know I've made my share too, so I'll just quote some of your words back at you: "My body has been trying to tell me to stop!" "over the past week, I have had stomachaches. I generally ignored the problem." "I was full after about a quarter of the way thru. But it tasted so good...I ate it. All of it." "After about three bites I noticed it wasn't doing down well. " Your body and band are trying their best to let you know what's going on. Your head is playing mind games with you and fighting to keep the old addictions and comforts going. You have to break that! I know it's hard to give up the old eating habits, but the only way you'll succeed is to learn to LISTEN to your body when it gives you these signals. Chances are you're probably thinking "tell me something I DON'T know!" right now and wondering how repeating the obvious could help. Well maybe it won't but I can also add a trick I used to try to break that cycle: Tell your head you'll "come back to it later". When your body is saying "stop" but your head wants "more more more!", it can be really hard to walk away from or throw out the remaining half of a portion, even when you KNOW you don't really want it or need it. Instead, wrap up the remainder and put it away and tell yourself "If I still want that in half an hour (or an hour), I can come back to it", then go do something totally distracting (walk, play a game, start the washing, whatever). If you're anything like me, anytime I tell myself "NO I CAN'T HAVE THAT", I obsess over it and it becomes the "one thing I can't live without", but if I trick myself into not triggering that "oh my god, I am DENYING myself something, WAAAHHH!" feeling, the desire goes away. Most of the time, I forget to come back to it because I really wasn't hungry any more and when I find it in the fridge hours later, it isn't very appealing at all, so then I can summon the willpower to chuck it where it belongs - in the bin. On the few occasions when I've still been hungry when I came back and the item was still appealing, at least I've managed to get through that without pain and nausea, so that's better than the alternative. PS: Sorry but couldn't let it go without at least this much of a nag... You DO know that pizza and Jack in the Box are not good choices, don't you? I hope to goodness that you are at least several months post-op and not making those choices in your post-op healing phase :wub:
  9. Fanny Adams

    Self Fill

    Holy crap, $1000 a fill??? I'm fully self-pay in Aus and my doc charges $150. Medicare does give a rebate on that ($105) so it only actually costs me $45, but I'd still be happy to pay the full $150 compared to $1000. That's highway robbery!
  10. Fanny Adams

    Forclosed homes

    The way you put it, the only safe and conservative way to get big ticket items like a house is to save up and pay cash for them or to try to buy a house where you could still afford the repayments when living on a disability pension or similar. Seriously, who lives like that? There are some things where risk is inevitable and responsible people take care to limit their choices in those things so as to minimise the risk (eg insurance, savings), but it is impossible to elimimate them altogether and still have anything like a reasonable lifestyle. For those people who have taken all reasonable precautions and have had their lives crash and burn due to things beyond their control, like the housing market tanking at an unforeseen rate, I have the utmost sympathy. I don't know if that is what you intended, but your comments come across as saying that anyone who has gone into a mortgage at all has been foolishly irresponsible and deserves whatever happens - and I'm not surprised that people are finding that attitude offensive.
  11. Fanny Adams

    Tell us about your summer NSVs

    This is a winter NSV, not a summer one, coz I'm on the upside down half of the world, hehe, but it gave me a thrill. I WOWED my brother at bridge on Sunday. We play bridge every 2nd week, so he has been watching my progress and has been very supportive and complimentary all the way through. However, on Saturday, I went shopping for the first time since the operation (huge sale on at one of my favourite shops) and I bought a heap of stuff. I knew it was nice and I looked good but I truly wasn't expecting his reaction when I walked into the bridge club. His jaw dropped and he was just about speechless for ages - just kept saying "WOW!! You're looking so GOOD!!" Talk about an ego boost! I think it was a combination of a really cute outfit in a colour that really suited me and wearing clothes that actually fitted nicely instead of hanging off all loose and sloppy. In case anyone is interested, the outfit was a pale pink long sleeved t-shirt with a built-in mock white blouse beneath (collar and cuffs), straightleg blue jeans and black boots. They were in an AUS size 18, which is 14 in US sizes, so I was doubly stoked about that bit, having come down from an AUS size 24-26 (US 20-22). Yay for sweetheart brothers!
  12. Thanks Rastis! :frown: I think it is fairly slow but it is steady and I'm just below the average loss in my December Merry Losers group. I was so close to my 2nd major milestone (under 100kg) last Monday, that I could almost taste it but the scales were mean to me and wouldn't give me that 0.3 before I had to fly back to site. Oh well, I'm sure it will be there waiting for me when I get home and you might hear the screams of delight from where you live . All in all, I have been stoked with this process - I'm right on track for where I should be in my 18 month plan and confident that I'll make goal. PS: You're doing really well yourself, Rastis! I know you've had a couple of hiccups but it looks like those numbers are on their way down again - well done!!
  13. Fanny Adams

    I've got an Op date!

    Some suggestions for making the Optiyuck palatable: Add a generous teaspoon of coffee and sweetener such as Equal - ice coffee milkshake! Add a generous splash any "diet" brand of icecream topping - strawberry or caramel milkshakes! It is hard to stick to but it really does give you a good kickstart to the loss. Good luck! PS: Don't panic if at about 2-3 weeks post-op, the scales stop moving down or worse start going up and down about 3-5lbs for a couple of weeks. This happens to many many of us and it is perfectly normal, even if it seems impossible given the tiny amounts you will be eating at that stage of the post-op diet (full liquids/mushies). It seems to be a combination of some of the initial loss being Water loss and your body is just balancing that out, possible increased sodium intake if you are having a lot of canned Soups, and the "starvation mode" theory that says that your body will hang on to everything it has if you stop feeding it. If it happens, just hang in there and continue with your plan - you will find the stall only lasts a couple of weeks and the loss starts again. It is just really disconcerting when you are not expecting it - believe me, I know that one from experience!
  14. Hi lellow, another Dr Watson patient here, banded last December and have never regretted it for a single second. It's truly an amazing feeling to be free from the hunger daemons, who have ruled our lives for so long. Dr Watson is very straightforward and very helpful and accommodating - I'm sure you can't go wrong to go with him. Be prepared for it to be a slow process - this isn't gastric bypass surgery and the weight doesn't just fall off overnight. However, it does work if you stick to the guidelines at least most of the time. My advice would be to take it slowly and carefully, don't try to too much restriction and rapid weight loss, concentrate instead on changing your eating and exercising habits and the losses will come. I think in the long run, that is a healthier approach and has fewer complications (I am convinced that most of the vomiting, slippage and erosion problems we read about come from people trying to be too tight so they can lose faster.)
  15. Fanny Adams

    Yeast Infections

    "So far so good, but I just finished my antibiotics." That sounds like your cause, right there. Going on a course of antibiotics is almost guaranteed to lead to thrush for me. :tongue_smilie: Google "antibiotics thrush", I'll bet you find a number of medical articles that support that link too.
  16. I think even given the unscientific manner of collecting these stats, the results are still thought-provoking - of the 48 people who have answered the poll, only 9 were 13 or older.
  17. Fanny Adams

    Yeast Infections

    I haven't had the problem in several years but I used to suffer from it often. Some things that helped me: Put a cup of vinegar into a warm bath and soak for a while. If you're really sore and inflamed, it might sting a bit getting in but it soothes the itch enormously and brings the inflamation down. The other trick is slathering plain natural yoghurt on yourself before you go to bed - wear a pair of old undies that you don't mind staining, then shower thoroughly in the morning - no soap!! Avoid using soap down there - lots and lots of flushing with water does the job just as well. The aim of all of these is to change your pH levels - fungus likes an alkaline environment, you need to change it to slightly acidic to kill off the growth.
  18. Fanny Adams

    I hate it when people post just to post.....

    They make posts out of cheese now?
  19. Fanny Adams

    6 MONTHS! Progress Poll

    Bah!! I rested on my laurels for the month of June...boo me! On 1st June, I was at 47lb down and all excited because the weight was starting to move quickly, so what did I do? Promptly stopped going to the gym every night and slacked off entirely! The result? Here I am on 1 July and only 4lb down in the whole month, GRR!!! Serves me damn right - I going back to the gym tonight!!!
  20. Fanny Adams

    Fluffy ... wtf FLUFFY??

    Okay, I've come across this word in a couple of threads now and I've figured out that it is some kind of euphemism for fat, but what the ??? FLUFFY? You guys are kidding me, right? Some people actually think it is a kinder way of referring to themselves? :drool: I don't think I could think of a more silly, demeaning and undignified way to term myself, if I sat and thought about it for a week! I've heard people rant against categorising yourself as a BBW, where were they when the fluffy word was coined. Fluffy is a name for a pet rabbit, not a person! ARGH!!!
  21. Australia Now the Fattest Nation Oh dear. *sighs*
  22. Fanny Adams

    Quick! Cover letter help!

    Yeah, the wedge-tail is one of the biggest eagles in the world. That one is only young though, and hasn't gotten her full wingspan yet :redface: They get darker as they get older and lose that gorgeous colouring to become more uniform dark brown. PS: Sorry about the pic size - I resized them in Photobucket but it doesn't seem to have taken effect. It could be just my cache, but I've tried clearing that and I'm still getting the ginormous pics :smile:
  23. Fanny Adams

    Quick! Cover letter help!

    I think you've got a great chance at the job - it looks like they wrote their criteria with you in mind! I can relate to your love of crocs and snakes, etc. I work in the Kimberleys, which is the far northern part of Western Australia, and prior to that was working in the Northern Territory, in some of the most remote land on earth. I don't work with animals or birds at all, but I take every opportunity I can to see what's out here - salt Water crocodiles, snakes and lots of different eagles and kites. You might enjoy these pics I took of the Wedge-tailed Eagles in one of the National Parks in the NT a couple of years back: And an Osprey: Ooooh and some croc pics from NT too:
  24. Fanny Adams

    Quick! Cover letter help!

    Excellent job! I like the way you have addressed their points, stated what benefits you can bring to their organisation and listed your qualifications in reference to their needs. I would agree with vegwannabe, in that you could make it a little stronger by changing the "I will"s to "I do". The only other suggestion I would add is changing the "I was supported with a graduate teaching assistantship" line to "I supported myself with a ...". The way you have it now, it sounds like the university supported you by giving you the job as some form of charity. Good luck with your application - the job sounds like a real blast (lousy money, but VERY interesting and a lot of fun!)

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