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The goal is to LOSE WEIGHT. Not to wait for the surgery to lose weight. I applaud the choice to get'r'dun asap.

Words to live by !!!! Whiskey is better. Okay....it's a toss up whether rum, whisky, vodka or cactus juice is better as far as I'm concerned. I certainly like the options other than beer. Beer is a played out commodity in my book. Done. Boring.

So true on the follow up order following. I will be one compliant little sucka. T&B. I will follow all instructions. If it's okay with you I'll ask that you approve my tin underpinning pics before I show them as "progress" pics. Right now that region of my body looks like the aftermath of a tornado strewn trailer park. Abs built by Budweiser and now look like the day after a child's lawn party birthday bash with deflated inflatable bouncy things laying around.

I gave it up briefly during my initial post op timeframe. Then......during a post-op follow up appointment I asked my surgeon if, when and how I could have coffee. He smiled and said, "Sure, I have two cups a day why can't you?". I had man-love for that dude at that moment (no homo). Seriously....I damn near broke his hand when we shook hands. Coffee and have been friends for a long, long time.......and will remain so. I gave it up briefly during my initial post op timeframe. Then......during a post-op follow up appointment I asked my surgeon if, when and how I could have coffee. He smiled and said, "Sure, I have two cups a day why can't you?". I had man-love for that dude at that moment (no homo). Seriously....I damn near broke his hand when we shook hands. Coffee and have been friends for a long, long time.......and will remain so.

Thank you. It is a mighty good thing that men aren't entrusted to the calling of childbirth. We are good at building stuff, tearing stuff up, killing stuff and grilling stuff. Labor pain????? Nope. It'd be a sparsely populated planet. And as to hearing my progress..............know that it sounds like a lot of grunting and groaning.....not the good kind, either....but the wimpish, whiny way that's fueled by icy hot and tiger balm and ace wraps. It doesn't take much for me to call it "progress" as I'd set the bar damn low from the start. All is well, though, and I appreciate every day above ground and living life.

You are doing great !!!!!!!!

Cherish thy bum. Be kind to it henceforth and forever. No more bum punishment......unless you are kinky that way. Seriously, very sorry you experienced this. Milk of Magnesia was what I was supposed to take as well. I was an idiot and tried to proceed with no special meds or actions. 6 days post-op.......also had a healing abdominal hernia repair........and I have been sipping Protein shakes according to schedule. Much of this protein bonded together in my system. The little peptides and nucleotides found each other in some type of cosmic dance......they joined.......and formed a brick like mass of protein. It became a living breathing monsta.......moving slowly and painfully towards what I knew would be an epic rectum wrecker. Milk of Magnesia is best when when taken all along......not just on the eve of the birth of an intestinal protein monsta.....with an ab that has 9 suture sights and internal muscle stitches holding the hernia down. That brick of protein started to make way for a painful exit sometime shortly after dawn.......then went breech. OHOHLYHELLYAGOTTABEKIDDINME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Extreme countermeasures were employed to get past that. Never again. Neva. Eva. So sorry you had to live through this as well. Moral of the story is indeed that an ounce of prevention will save pounds of rectum wrecking reality.

Naw, Darlin'. It's about attitude......not latitude. (or longitude) You can achieve this status if you so aspire. And probably look sexy as hell as you do so.

Without a doubt. This will make numba four in that area. My abs are full of suck and weakness it would seem. They simply couldn't stand up to the awesomeness of the spectacular beer gut I'd built....one stein at a time. I swear.......if I can ever get a properly healed abdomen then I will do yoga and other core work to tighten up the house that Budweiser built. Abs of steel? Probably never have those. At least I can abs of tin. Tin like the underpinning you see on mobile homes.........but only in the upscale local trailer parks. Abs of tin. My goal.

Well said, bro. The KISS principle has served me well over the years.

I believe it was when I was 14. Oh....post-op? Gotcha. Sorry. I didn't wait long enough......because I'm a stubborn dumbarse. Doc said for his wls patients he's all good with walking immediately.........two weeks on sex.......a week or two on returning to normal jobs......and a month on lifting any weights. This was said in group setting. I heard "immediately" and "sex" and I thought I was all good and ready for action as soon as the IV lines came out. Dumbarse. He also repaired a umbilical hernia during my sleeve surgery. He'd cautioned me to take it easy and let it heal. Evidently I didn't because I'm 7 months out and the hernia repair is shot. I did some stuff in the gym Sunday night that really screwed it up. Such an idiot. I'll get to spend the last three weeks of this calendar year healing from yet another repair if I can hold out that long. That's the next break in my work schedule that will allow for some post op healing. I'm an idiot sometimes......much of the time......okay I'm stupid on occasions. My best advice is listen carefully to your surgeon during a consult with you and only you. Get their instructions as they apply to your situation.

Damn.......there ya go making total sense again. I should feel bad for my swift dismissal of what I saw as rubbish being spewed in her posts. I truly should. I don't. I'd just arrived home after a long week of night shifts with a fresh hot cup of Starbuck's Cafe Verona in hand and I rode the wave of goodness that it provided. Pretty sure I was rude and insensitive with a large dose of IDGAF. It happened. I then had a much needed nap. A superhot showa followed. A powa showa. And........cracked open a bottle of Maker's Mark....not bad for screw top stuff.....gathered some ice cubes and a nice mellow state is being conjured up. Gonna make some coconut shrimp and other stuff in a bit. Just trying to decide whether to do it indoors or out on the deck.....weather will make the decision for me. Rain......dry.....rain......dry......hmmmm. Decisions. Until then I sip and ponder womenz who drink their dranks with large straws. Much respect for their endeavors to.......quench their thirsts. Deep thoughts from a shallow dude. I should feel bad....all sorts of bad. Yet I don't. I'm mightily focused on feeling good and cooking up some tasty grub for a carnivorous teen while I crank some good tunes.

This is good stuff. I'm so dang grateful for women who choose the large straws. I love it when they put on a show.

Cool. Your advice will really mean the most to folks then. Now....not so much.

No, no, no dear Babbs. Us Trumpers would never allow such kookiness. We'd have our wall built to keep such madness out of our village. By the way....did you not see the pic she posted ? Doesn't look like a Trump person to me. I could be wrong, though. I often am.

Know idea, huh? Well that does, indeed explain quite a bit. No....that's not why you've been getting beat up for the stuff you've said. You've simply been getting beat up for saying it. As far as finding your people.....I'm sure they are out there.....somewhere..........

That's deep. You are right, of course. The truth will come out in the end. Thank goodness we have you here to guide us until then...... Oh, but she is an expert, dear. She's the Chosen One.......sent to collect us, the misguided. She's come for us....in her stretch mini-van....come to collect our wayward selves and bus us to the nearest Golden Corral for a throw down of epic proportions.

Again this is a sleeve forum, so..........

You go girl. That's how you do it. Thank you. I think following our doctors is certainly the way to go. Otherwise, one could find themselves following the ramblings of some ill informed idiot on the internet. Oh....and the only thing that's given me heartburn since my sleeve surgery has been ignorance like I've read in this post.

Looking great !!!!

I need something quick and easy that I can use to make a homemade V-8 style drink with some added unflavored Protien powder. I'm clueless as to what I should get.

Yup. Eating fast is not good. I hate that feeling, too. Work lunches have always been rushed affairs for me, too. I've learned to slow my roll.

Good luck ! It was one of the very best decisions I've ever made in my life. I'm very glad I went with the sleeve and very pleased with the ongoing progress and look forward to living at goal weight for the rest of my life, Lord willing. My only regret is not acting on this sooner.

Awesome !!!!!!! Gotta love seeing a "2" on there. You are doing great, man.

When you find the chairs at your parents house have grown since you last sat in them.....and their dogs have room to join you.... When you return home to your own home and your own dogs have room to join you in your char that's grown some, too.... Furniture everywhere seems to be getting bigger and bigger. Strange phenomenon. Strange but cool. I like strange.