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We have liptons ones here - caffeinated teas though, that are cookies and cream and also caramel. They taste divine, and also make the cupboard where you keep the tea and coffee smell beautiful too.

Oh gosh I thank my lucky stars I have never farted in public. Well not audibly anyway, lol. My mother is doing it an awful lot lately though, if she can pretend it didnt happen then you can too!

One of the reasons I would never ever consider a gastric bypass is that you're losing weight at the expense of your health. It is worth it if you're about to die from complications of obesity but that's about the only thing that would make me consider it. I'd rather not have baggy saggy skin, have my bones breaking everytime I sneezed and suffer a million other complications of malnutrition thanks. I dont want to look good that badly. Also, somebody who has lost weight that way has severely damaged their metabolism. If they ever so much as looked at 1500 calories a day again they'd put weight right back on. Cutting down on calories too severely slows your metabolism, the idea is to keep your intake as high as possible to still produce a good weight loss, part of that equation is both lots of cardiovascular exercise to burn calories and also lots of weight resistance exercise to build and maintain muscle. That's about as scientific as you really need to get. You can get all into high Protein, low carb etc etc but I dont think even the experts really know the truth there. I think there's definitely something to be said for cutting out all the processed carbohydrate rubbish that most people eat and eating more good quality protein foods but I think things like Atkins are pretty much fad diets, just my opinion though. If calories in is less than calories out you will lose weight, whatever you eat.

I got them both sides after I had my tubes tied after my caesar. My tubes worried more than the caesar incision did - but I did tell my ob to do a good job so I think they were pretty butchered.

Hmmm, I dont really agree with it to be honest. The snacking part that is. I mean,he may be right in that snacking can turn into unhealthy snacking but its like feeding a child when you have a band. Limited tummy capacity but big need for nutrients and its pretty well established that eating five or six very small meals a day can help keep your metabolism up when you're losing weight. I'm not the most compliant soul though, I'd just go ahead and do what the heck I wanted to anyway. And if you want to track calories then track calories. Personally, I want to let this go and never do it again, but if it helps you then do it.

I'm going to The Avenue too - although we live out in Berwick its a pretty easy trip, Doug can drop me off on his way to work, lol. And the follow up and fills etc are way easier for me there than over at kew where I've been seeing him. Good start today - healthy Breakfast and 1.5 hours in the gym. Lets see if I'm still going so well at 4pm, lol.

I've been thinking about this lots and really believe that since I've decided to have the surgery NOW is the time to start changing bad habits. I'd also really like to take advantage of the fact that I can usually diet very successfully for six weeks or so, so if I could do that, which usually brings me to the 7 or 8kg that is my maximum weight loss ever (can never get past that amount, never) then going into surgery and having a month of liquid and mushy diet afterwards should blast me through that. OK so I'm being very idealistic but its better than having no intentions at all I guess. I've been just counting Weight Watchers points, so that I can allow foods that will not be good choices afterwards. Its only human to want to say goodbye to things you think you'll never eat again. Logically you know you will probably eat them again one day but in a different manner. But that whole last supper thing, eating huge amounts, out of control, its not very good for you going into surgery. It really upsets your body to have big weight swings. Try to think of it in terms of your health. I dont know that giving you an amount of weight to lose is all that helpful but focussing on levelling out your eating, treating your body well and starting to practice good habits is a way of caring for yourself. You've made a big step towards putting yourself first, and doing somethng good for yourself, dont start on your new life by treating yourself badly.

No preop liquid diet necessary either. I'm in good health, no liver issues and no fatty liver so its not necessary. But he was more than enthusiastic about my goal to try to lose some weight before the surgery. Whether that happens remains to be seen but I"m planning on counting points a la Weight Watchers and trying to get it down a bit. I have to, its gorgeously warm in Melbourne today, hot weather is just around the corner and I have absolutely nothign I can fit into.

Well I wouldnt want growlers down my thighs, but I leave mine pretty much alone, I never shave it. I dont have an awful lot and its pretty neat, lol. On Australian Big Brother this last series seriously all the girls did in the house was shave and pluck their pubes! I dont get it.

Really doubt I'll need a tummy tuck but maybe a bit of lipo to finish up the job. And these poor old boobies that have fed 3 babies for a total of about 6 years are definitely going to need some work. Interesting about WA!

The more you can eat and still lose weight the better really. Just be glad about it. That's more nourishment you can get in and much more ease socialising and eating out etc. I'd only worry about it if you werent losing or were having to muster up undue willpower to keep losing.

Happy Birthday. I'm looking forward to 40 to be honest. Life is really going to begin at 40. The kids will all be at school, we'll have bought our next house, the one we hope to live in for 20+years, I'm going to be looking fab and all the crap, the hard work, the heartache and the financial burden of raising very young kids is going to be behind us. I'll have a new career to look forward to as well as I will almost have finished my primary teaching degree. Hope life holds as many wonderful anticipations for you!

I'm another one that compares myself to every heavy person around me. I get a sick pride that I'm not that fat yet - and if one of my heavy friends (or my husband) goes ona diet I get a weird panicky feeling that they will get thinner than me. I'd like to stop that but truth be told I dont think that body consciousness will go away, I'll just be comparing myself to smaller people probably. I want to stop being completely and utterly exhausted by 3 in the afternoon. I used to be such a houseproud person now with 3 kids I literally just cannot keep up with it. Living in a dirty house just depresses me and affects my outlook on everything. Not that it's a hovel or a pigsty but just not up to my standards. Shopping in a normal store, oh wow that would be great. Well I'll admit I havent even waited, I'm not even banded and I've spent almost a thousand dollars on stuff that doesnt fit me of recent months. I need to save some of the shopping for later. Not thinking about bloody food all day everyday.

When Ewan was born the midwife thought it would be a good idea to hold up a mirror as he crowned, so I know my parts more intimately than I want to actually. There is not much attractive about male or female genital organs in my opinion. But I dont have a hanging tummy, so I see it in the mirror every day. Well, like Vines says, I dont really see the workings but you know what I mean.

I had my first visit to the surgeon 5 weeks ago and he said yes, he'd do it but he wanted me to go to one of his information sessions and then come back to him with my final decision. It feels like its been five years, not five weeks, when I knew before I even went to see him what I wanted to do. If he puts me off again, and doesnt want to book a date until after the preop testing is all done, I'll have his balls on toast. I really resent paying for consultations when I had done the thinking, the research etc the first time I went. Three consults to book a date will be too much! I go back on Thursday, I'm pretty sure he will book a date for me then though. I hope he's not booked up for months in advance though.

Bananas stick for me too - they always give me a big lump in the chest, so I was thinking they might be hard to eat after. Same with eggs, particularly hard boiled eggs.

I'm so looking forward to cooking without the insane appetite to just overeat the results. I buy a magazine here in Australia called Delicious which is full of gorgeous recipes, but I never enjoy it becuase if I go to the effort I feel like I have to eat enormous quanities. It always looks so good served up on a big white plate, but different when its heaped and the plate is groaning. I cant wait for that. I think I'm going to enjoy cooking and eating way more than I do now.

think like you're feeding a baby - many fruits can be stewed and pureed.

Secretly I think the reason my hubby wont consider a band just yet is the thought of giving up beer. Aussie men and their beer, sheesh! He'd be run out of town if he didnt drink beer, lol. I will drink beer very occasionally but you make it sound delectable.

But its not just that these people are skinny when they eat like that! Dont they always have gorgeous hair and clear, radiant skin? If I ate like that I'd look like shit, no doubt about it. My skin would be pasty and spotty and my hair would be dull. I'd have big circles under my eyes and I would feel like crap. Its just not fair is it?

If you do happen to be pregnant though it is possible to have a healthy pregnancy and a nice big bouncing baby with no weight gain. My obstetrician didnt want me to gain any weight at all - his reasoning was that I needed nutrients, not calories, so that if I ate carefully it was entirely possible to lose plenty of body fat without starving my baby or myself of nourishment. So I pretty much followed Weight Watchers the entire pregnancy, gained a small 4.5kg (and Eliza was 3.7kg of that) in total and came home from hospital about 12kg lighter than when I'd conceived. I find it much much easier to avoid gaining weight rather than actually losing it. Without the pressure of expecting to see the scales move it takes a lot of the head games out of it.

This is the biggest frustration when talking about the band. Everyone insists you havent really tried properly before. No doubt you could lose weight but tell them to look at the freaking statistics. Nobody loses that much weight and keeps it off. Its a losing battle, and the chances of you being one of the .0000005% who actually win it is pretty remote. I would make sure I lost no weight to be honest. My DH is thinking the same thing. He has a BMI of about 33 and in Australia, its becoming more and more accepted to operate on patients of that size - he has quite high blood pressure so he'd probably be a candidate. He's not really sure he would want to take that step but he said to me, "I dont want to lose 10kg and then be stuck being fat but not being fat enough". I'd also play the family history thing - I was armed with all sorts of info about the diabetes and high blood pressure on my mother's side of the family - and I'd complain about foot, knee or hip pain and fatigue too, say you cant keep up with the daily grind (which more often than not is true when you're overweight) etc.

Off track but those movie deals ARGH! We took the boys yesterday, I ordered them a small popcorn and a bottle of Water each. I knew it was coming but still felt frustrated when she started with the for 50c more you can have a large popcorn, choc top (ice cream) and large drink combo - and they virtually refuse to sell you what you originally ordered. Of course both boys are going "yeah, I want that!". We were sending them in on their own while we went Christmas shopping for the duration with Eliza. I knew they would fight and end up spilling everything if I made them share. So both boys ended up with a stinking gutload of food. It infuriates me, absolutely infuriates me how they do that at the movies. Talk about contributing to childhood obesity! It was 10.00 in the morning for crying out loud. I know I'm the one that gave in but sheesh, you could do without the pressure.

Now I look back I've never been obese till the last few years. I've always been slightly overweight. I'm taller than average at 5ft 10 and was always a BMI of about 26-27, so always just over the top of my healthy range. Consequently as a child and teenager I felt like a hippopotomus, how I longed to be petite and pretty and cute. I never will be and I guess I can strive for being striking and elegant instead. I got through one pregnancy pretty well, came out of it same weight as when I'd conceived, my second pregnancy undid me though. I gained 23kg during the pregnancy so was left with a bit of extra blubber and just the lifestyle change of having a baby and a toddler under 2, I was really stuck with them so young. It was hard to go out for a walk etc, in those few years I gained a LOT of weight and then got pregnant again. I was really concerned by my weight at that time so was extremely careful through the pregnancy and only gained 5kg so came out much lighter than I went in but over the last 2 and a half years I've gained all of that back plus 8 extra kilograms - and now I'm obese. It was always going to happen though - my eating habits just didnt catch up with me before babies, afterwards and now being 38 and no longer as young and with not such a great metabolism as you have when you're a kid, its piling on steadily.

I just dont get why larger size specialty stores do this. Its demoralising enough to have to shop in the fat shops but when they do this to their sizes its infuriating. We all need somewhere we can go where we dependably fit into a certain size.