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Not necessarily. Its taken me 18 months to get to 2.5mls. Now as to whether you're eating too much - are you losing weight? If you are then its not too much, simple. If you're not then first you evaluate food choices and if those are good, then you think about a fill.

Central vacuum - we've had it and I wouldnt again. Not great suction from the end of a 20 foot hose, you cant go past something with a good rotating brush/turbo head combo that really cleans your carpets.

Nothing much. I sometimes remember to take a multi, I know I should be taking iron as I'm low but it makes me constipated.

I'd be the first to say low carb diets are nonsense. I just dont get how everyone doesnt realise they trotted out all this crap in the 70's and they STILL havent proven it. How can everyone believe without question all the claims? How can you risk your body with such an extreme diet without KNOWING for sure its not harming you. I brought this up in another thread and was told very smartly that there was all sorts of research supporting high Protein low carb diets and if I cared to see it, he had the hard copies in his office. Yawn. So what? His so called "evidence" was no more reliable than the studies I could point to that say the exact opposite. They dont KNOW is the honest answer. Low fat high carb hasnt worked either, but the reason people are fatter is not because of the recommendation of ths type of diet its becuase people dont move, they eat too much convenience food and they're not bloody complaint with a high carb and low fat diet. They eat high carb HIGH fat diets. I just think use your brain! If low carbing worked, it would have taken off in the 60's and 70's and nobody would be fat. But nobody can LIVE that way for decades on end, its ridiculous. As to the claims that carbs make you hungrier, well I would suggest when you deprive your body of an ENTIRE food group and then allow yourself a little taste, you're going to start an almighty hunger for the thing which you're so lacking. Its not rocket science. Ooh, I've been dying to have that rant, but it really isnt appropriate to bring it up in other places because its not nice to continually argue against what others believe. So I hope everyone can indulge me in my little rant and just agree to disagree with me.

I wouldnt have it personally. If you're not exercising at all, you can make a HUGE change by starting to take exercise seriously. It really and truly is more than half the equation in this battle. I will only consider fills when I know I personally am doing everything I can to keep the weight coming off. And once my fill level gets me to a point that I'm struggling to get in 1200 calories of a wide variety of foods in a day, no more fills, end of story. I will not go lower than that to lose any more weight. Easy to say as I'm already within my healthy range. I'd like to be a bit lower but I can be quite happy right where I am. You really must exercise. I cant emphasise enough how much difference some good vigorous aerobic exercise for an forty minutes to an hour five or six times a week will make.

Hehe, there was a story in the paper this mornign about a Scottish woman who fed her unfaithful husband dog poo in a curry, she had to admit to it in court. I think I'll stay away from casseroles for a while!

Yeah, when you say walk, what do you mean? People's interpretation of walking for exercise is different, but basically if you arent sweating, finding it hard to talk and buggered afterwards then you're not really working hard enough. For many people they have to push harder and run once they get a real power walk under control. Really vigorous exercise makes ALL the difference and five or six days a week over four will make a really big difference too. You'll come to love it, honestly!

Whilst its easy to read your post and think PCOS for sure, if you've had your hormone levels checked, it may be just that you're dark so the hair shows. I'm pretty unhairy, I dont have hair on my thighs (well not visible) or lower abdomen at all, but I do wax my upper lip and my eyebrows, well lets just say nobody will EVER see me with my eyebrows in their natural state.

I was always under the impression that weight loss of more than 2lb per week greatly increases the risk of developing gallstones, either silent or symptomatic ones. This is because of the change in proportion between bile salts and cholesterol in the gallbladder and the fact that low fibre and low fat eating cause the gallbladder to not contract as often as it should and therefore stones can develop. Any diet low in plant/grain foods (and therefore low in fibre) or very low in calories and fat can cause this. Its a major risk after weight loss surgery of course because of the very fast weight loss that often happens. Again, it would seem that moderation is your best defence, moderate calorie restriction, moderate weight loss, a little bit of all foods in moderation, and not too low a fat intake. And lose weight once and lose it for good! If only hey? Most of us are probably host to silent gallstones due to our histories of dieting and regaining constantly.

I dont think it needs a lot of jewellery but then I'm not a beady/jewellery type person. I dont like neck jewellery at all, I admire it on other people but every time I put something around my neck, I feel overdone. I'd probably wear some gold drop earrings and a thin gold bracelet with that and be done. I actually like to accessorise *myself* for these types of things . I love my long nails and I'd go for a beautiful coloured polish, matching toenails, I'd get my hair especially done and I'd spend weeks getting my skin into tip top condition and have a nice golden spray tan for that dress. If you feel all brown and silky and your hand look beautiful you always feel absolutely fantastic.

I think its an individual thing, when you eat what's right with you, you'll lose. There's no point arguing about "starvation mode" if you just plain dont lose weight until you drop below 1000. For me, I can eat 1500 or even more and still lose weight so I do. The more you can eat the better. I know if I add up the foods I know I really need in a day - two fruits, five different vegetables, a serve or two of Protein foods and enough carb/fibre foods to keep me regular I'm up at 1200 to 1500. So that's what I usually do and lucky me, I often have enough leeway for a treat like a glass of wine as well.

I think this issue is more about not being able to imagine yourself "normal". Being a healthy BMI will not be too thin, you just cant imagine it. I think to shoot for the top of your healthy weight range and then tweak it from there is the way to go. When you get there, it depends on body shape, how much muscle you have etc whether you need to go lower or not. Personally, I'm five ft 10 but I need to be low in my healthy weight range not to have plenty to grab.

Time is really what matters - exercise aerobically for say 45 minutes. The actual distance you do increases with your fitness. But I must admit to focussing on distance. That's how I challenge myself. And I'm hard on myself so its nearly always 45 minutes to an hour and a half. On the treadmill I have to play games with myself becuase I like to cover at least 6kms a day (almost 4 miles) preferably 10kms (6 and a bit miles), so I might run 3kms and then do a 4km program otherwise I just get insanely bored. Outside I have my routes that I run regularly all measured out.

1. Was your procedure outpatient or did you stay overnight? Overnight 2. Did you have complications related to surgery? No 3. What you were given for at home pain? How many days did you take it? Nothing, told to take paracetamol if required (which you can get anywhere) but didnt need any post op pain relief at home. 4. Pain after surgery for how many days? oh, 3 maybe? 5. Degree of pain...10 being your arm was cut off and 1 being a paper cut? 2 6. Doctor and state where surgery was done? Mr Crosthwaite, Melbourne, Australia

Really stuck as in sliming stuck, not very often but I am paranoid about it happening. Like I'm on teaching rounds at the moment, and I just though it would be just my luck to have a major episode in a staffroom full of people I dont know. So I took Soup for lunch and I barely ate that. If in doubt I just dont eat. So I think its probably happened as rarely as it has becuase I"m super duper careful about it. A bit uncomfortable stuck, I get that quite a lot, I do tend to suffer from first bite syndrome. But its nothing I cant fix just by putting down the fork for 5 minutes, nobody I was eating with would know it was happening. PBing type stuck, twice in 18 months. If I was having problems with food sticking there is no way on earth I'd have another fill. I just couldnt live with eating always being difficult. But that's just me.

The way I approached it and it worked really well for me, was to just try to start my new life the minute I booked in my surgery. Before that, I'd gotten all my information from here and I thought I'd be denied, having a BMI of 35 and only one comorbidity that wasnt even serious - a bad ankle. I didnt know that its totally different in Australia so I ate like an absolute pig in the month or two before I saw my surgeon, I was actually trying to gain. Isnt it ironic that I gained nothing, lol! Once I saw him, he put my mind at ease that a) he would do the surgery and since he said he would, there'd be no insurance company stuffing around, it doesnt work that way in australia. If the surgeon says its necessary then the insurance company coughs up, end of story - apart from cosmetic surgery. I just cut out the crap, I stopped eating McDonalds three times a week, I stopped trying to gain weight and I just ate sensibly - I didnt go hungry or anything, I wasnt trying to lose weight, I just tried to improve my diet. And I began exercising - consistently and quite intensely, about 3 months before hand. I believe this was absolutely a stroke of genius on my part, lol, the best thing I could possibly have done. I had to use the elliptical and swimming because of my ankle, but I've always been pretty athletic so I built up considerable fitness despite being obese, and I recovered from the surgery in literally one day, and three weeks later I went out for a walk, decided to throw in a few jogging intervals and astounded myself by jogging a full 3kms. I never looked back from there, I worked on my running with enthusiasm and within 6 months could run 8kms or so, and I really truly believe that most of my success and the ease with which I have lost weight is becuase I run between 6 and 10 kms five or six times a week. I really think that starting BEFORE surgery was a great way to go. I was soooo ready for the change, I didnt want to abuse myself further by eating poorly and just gaining more beforehand and I knew if I gave into that last supper syndrome mentality I would hate myself.

Very funny, lol. I dont do it anymore, as Eliza is well and truly toilet trained and I have moved on to a Bachelor of Primary Education (grade school teaching) which I am almost finished. There is a whole world of cloth diapers out there, many online forums, and they are mainly sold online, and via ebay - which is where I sold them. You'd list a couple on ebay and you'd be flooded with orders, I just used to have a photobucket account that I could direct people to with all my fabric choices, and styles that I did. It was terribly terribly time consuming and not very profitable but I loved it, its the only thing I've EVER been able to sew competently and I loved getting the word out there. I had to order all my materials from the States which mean that I'd be charging $20 for a diaper (which is fairly standard pricing believe it or not) and people actually pay it becuase compared to $15 a week on disposables, it works out cheaper in the end. I just loved making them and Eliza couldnt wear everything I made so it was really a hobby that paid for itself. I only have one friend who ever went big time, and she had to get hers made in China in the end, which is a problem because a lot of the people into this sort of thing specifically want products that are made at home by mothers, not mass produced stuff made in sweat shops. So its a bit of a dilemma. I never bought commercial baby wipes, I used to just make wipes out of odd bits of hemp - which is like towelling - and cute print fabrics, and wet them when I wanted to use them, stick a few in a ziploc bag already wet if I was going out. You would be simply amazed at what is out there, there's some huge online retailers that are all based in America. There was a subculture called "hyenas" that "stalked" some of the more popular sites, Made by Mom was incredibly popular, you'd have to go on a waiting list, what they made were truly works of art, I dont think anyone actually put them on their baby's bottoms! Wool covers could go on ebay for $80, but it was just such a FUN way to connect with other like minded people and make a monotonous chore into something that was fun and that you could be proud of. And it really wasnt hard. Its one way to make quite a big difference if you've got a couple of babies ahead of you and its so easy, but people are a bit resistant to it.

I dont use disposable sanitary products either. People always say "oooh YUCK" :speechles but how yuck is thinking of all those things lying around in land fill? Here are some of the diapers I made. Now who would want paper ones compared to these? By the way you dont have to use soakers or other chemicals either. Dry pailing is what you do these days - it doesnt smell half as much as wet pailing and you just do a load on cold with an environmentally friendly detergent every 2 or 3 days when you have a full loads. Its easy as, there's all sorts of cute waterproof bags and stuff you can get now to cart the wet and dirty ones home in, poo goes in the toilet where it belongs and wet flannels are all we used for wipes round here, washed them with the diapers. That's my environemtnal rant over

<p>Just goes to show we can ALL pull our socks up somewhere. </p> <p> </p> <p>I am quite passionate about disposable diapers and how bad they are not only for the environment but for babies' health. I wish nobody would EVER use them, they're evil. Got into some quite passionate debates online about that during the time I was involved in making hemp diapers as a home business. Cant see why in the world an educated person would put plastic, paper and chemicals on a baby's bottom. I buy curly lighbulbs and I recycle.</p> <p> </p> <p>BUT - we forget to turn off said lightbulbs, often have 3 televisions and a computer on, always use the dryer because I can be bothered hanging the washing out and drive around in a big 4WD rather than a smaller more economical car.</p> <p> </p> <p>I dont think any of us could say we cant improve somewhere along the line and Mr Gore is the same as the rest of us. Probably should be a bit more careful though, lol.</p>

I've never been a sweater anyway, unless I'm exercising. So I cant say I've noticed a difference. But I do feel the cold a lot more.

I didnt take any, I should have. But I would do it in a bikini. Show as much skin as possible. Horrify myself into losing weight!

The thing is if someone is malnourished or starved, you want them to build up lean body mass, not just fat. So the idea would be to provide all the building blocks for building lean body mass - rather than just mega calories from crap food. But they would need carbs and fat as well. Your body needs all those things to metabolise any of it efficiently. So they were probably getting a high protein formula dietary food? That would be my guess.

I have found the same thing. I buy low rise jeans too because they look better on me but tending towards pear shaped, lots of trousers and jeans that fit me around the hips have too much room in the waist. I just buy everything low rise, these days you get the choice most places. I actually had a more standard hip to waist ratio when I was overweight.

I think the main issue when you're older is you have less lean body mass because you tend to lose that as you age. So with good emphasis on building muscle, and plenty of cardio as well, you can lose as well as anyone else. I think daily activity is key too. Then again, when you're older often you have less demands on your time from other people - namely kids. You might have the time to cook, shop and exercise that people in their 30's just plain dont have, so you can use that to your advantage. Hopefully when you're older you're way past silly vanity or imagined bodily flaws etc and love yourself for who you are. I'm only 39 but wouldnt go back to being 20 for anything in the world. I think a good respect for yourself and a realistic vision of what you want to achieve make the process far more successful.

<p>I can drink after I run with no problems, but both Saturday and Sunday I went out for a run at about 6pm and finished getting dinner ready when I got home (it had been in the oven). I ate no solid dinner either night, ended up having soup in the end because I just couldnt get it down. Exercise definitely makes me tighter, kills my appetite too.</p> With eating before a run to make it good, I know there's a bit of debate about the need for carboloading now, and for the average exerciser, there's no need really. But if I'm entering a fun run that I know is going to be really long (I tend to just run out of energy at about the 9km mark), I do get up early enough to eat a piece of good stoneground wholegrain toast and a banana (maybe in stages, wouldnt get all that in at once) and have it digested before I run. There's no point eating carbs immediately before going out and running, it has to be digested for it to do any good. You want your muscles nice and full of glycogen for energy, then you eat the Protein foods afterwards so your body can repair. Only I dont normally do that bit because I'm not hungry.