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Well said darling dub. It's a lovely English bit of slang but I reckon you should use it more on your side of the pond. You know that I pointed out to you what 'Dub' means in Scottish slang, well for our bonkers poster I have a fab bit of Scottish slang. Never mind being just plain bonkers she's also terminally 'glaiket'. Great descriptive word. Love using it!!!!

VSGAnne2014-you are a kind, wise, dear person to describe her as a 'bit of a troubled soul'. Plain 'bonkers' would have done! There again, I'm not a kind, wise, dear person. I'm just a sarky git who is old enough to say it how she sees it, not give a flying **** and most times get away with it! Actually, I can be nice but not when I'm exasperated!!!!!!!! As I have been reading the tripe from the knowledgeable knobhead!

Yeh, we call it exactly the same. I was just trying to be a little more, how shall we say..........posh (?!) by calling them acid yellow. Should have a sign on my arse saying 'HAZARDOUS AREA' really.

Just checked out the rest of the posts from our 'knowledgeable' friend who has been starting various threads. Love to know what the rest of you think if you can take the time to take a look. It's a bit of a chore I know but have a look anyway and please, post your seriously considered opinions. I am more than ever convinced that we have a troll in our midst.

I would like to imagine that anyone with a modicum of active brain cells would have either the wit or the wisdom to notice that this thread has plumbed the depths when it comes to the absolute tripe being spouted by what appears to be a troll who thinks it's clever to boast that she has fooled her way to surgery! What an introduction to any newcomer to this site who is looking for serious information and/or advice on bariatric surgery. Ignorant trolls (such as we have found on this thread-you know who you are) are dangerous, especially to people who are vulnerable due to real, not imagined, issues with their weight. People who have a legitimate reason for WLS surgery DO NOT need to read hearsay shite from some who who lies to medical professionals to get her own silly way. Rant over. Right, back to the humour from the sensible souls whose opinions and posts I shall continue to take seriously but who have the ability to make me HOWL with laughter. There are some really clever people posting on this site who luckily have great wit (humorous) with their wisdom (real and not picked up from some trashy web page).

OK folks-wore the shorts, met my dog walking pal and her comment was "wish I hadn't forgotten my sunglasses!" Friends........humph.........they know how to make you wonder if you've maybe been a bit too eccentric too far!!!!!! At least she couldn't lose me in the park! Neither could the dogs. Think they tried!

Just watched the video and I love what they are wearing. I have seen some of the photos in a magazine recently but there are loads more in the video. Thank you for suggesting it. I've just bought a pair of eye wateringly bright acid yellow knee length shorts. The sun is shining, the dogs will be going to our beautiful Royal Park in the next hour so I'm going to wear them out (shorts I mean, not dogs) for the first time. Yay!!!!!!!

Hi guys, on a purely personal note, I prefer to stick with experienced sleevers who have heard all the 'opinions' but who have the intelligence and sense to sort the solid true facts out from the flannel. Those veterans (please excuse the title but it denotes experience not age!) have been successful in losing weight. They have a wealth of knowledge gained through intelligent research. I'm with them. Thus far, their posts have been my touchstone on my journey. I'm sticking with what is working (rather brilliantly too) for me. By the way I'm walking away too-apart from anything else I cannot keep reading badly spelled, grammatically incorrect articles full of malapropisms and with no decent spacing. To me that shows a lack of respect for readers of the posts. It (wrongly sometimes) assumes we all can disentangle the prose and work out the true meaning behind the words.

Hi guys, I was 59 when I had my sleeve surgery last October. So far have lost 53lbs with 20lbs to lose to reach goal. I am LOVING my journey. I've got a load of bits of my body falling to bits, the result of old injuries sustained as a dancer in my youth. With the weight dropping off it is become so much easier to manage the aches and pains and my dog walks can (and frequently do) reach about five miles per walk. I feel wonderful. I'm having great fun wearing clothes that no longer resemble tents and I broke out the shorts the other day for the first time in years! Have now decided that I am going to grow older in an eccentric and quite disgraceful manner! Will need to practice wearing heels as I do resemble a trainee tart toddling along in them at the moment!!!! Big difference from my usual Sketchers or FitFlops! By the way, I read Queen of Crop's book in my early post op days and found it a great help so can't help but suggest it to any newbie who is about to experience the whole sleeve journey. It helped me, personally, enormously. Here are my pics of my seven month weight loss.

Hmmmm-it could be costing someone some money sometime soon. I thank you but he won't!!!!!!!!

WOW! Plus WOW!! You look wonderful. I love your honesty about not exercising and the way you have kept things simple. I have no option but that I have to exercise as three dogs tell me to get off my butt and walk with them but won't catch me anywhere near a gym! It also seems to me that your mantra has been JFDI. No nonsense, no faffing, just getting on with the job of losing that spare person you were carrying around with you. I've only (only!!!) lost the weight of about seven average sized new born babies but I'm loving how I feel. Love the pic of the salmon Wellington - yum.

Found a great online shop with designer stuff at sale prices for both sexes. Try BrandAlley-it's brilliant. The jacket came from there-French Connection and the price was £50 cheaper than the John Lewis sale price. RESULT!!!!! I'm loving the fact that I can browse through sites, lust after something nice and now I can actually buy it knowing that I can get into it. I'm having a ball-just don't let on to him indoors! He is being mislead into believing that I am just unearthing clothing from the closet from about 12 years ago!!!! Best way. Kindest too. Saves him fretting that his economy drive isn't being adhered to!!!!

Thank you for posting this. I have just bought a copy from Amazon and am reading it on Kindle already. Will post again when I've finished reading it but so far it has got me gripped.

You look wonderful. Keep going girl. I'm seven months out too and so happy. Isn't WLS surgery just the most amazing thing. I'm loving my journey and hope that anyone who is wondering whether or not to undergo surgery just goes for it. It's the best thing that I have ever done. My fitness levels have just soared, as has my self esteem. I'm having a ball wearing clothes that are fun instead of functional and am determined to grow old disgracefully.

8.00 am here in the UK and you lot have just made my Sunday morning. It's a bit like Rhett and Scarlet in Gone With the Wind........bickering but irresponsibly and inexplicably drawn to each other.........oooooooh, how romantic. You two could meet up somewhere (I'm imagining a real American Diner location) and you could sit opposite each other, each drinking coke through a straw and play footsie under the table. I've just got this wonderful picture in my mind.............. This romance could run and run. Wonder if you LipstickLady like men in green Lycra mankinis? Ask KindaFamiliar about THAT comment! Right, I now need to get back to reality, drink my first cuppa, watch the BBC news on the box, but first I need to rearrange the husband, three dogs and two cats on our bed as I don't have too much leg room.

Hi guys. I've been a bit lax recently posting on our UK board. Probably to do with drooling over Dub's recipes and pics and laughing my socks off at KindaFamiliar's 'Great Arse Face Experiment' thread. If anyone is feeling low for any reason I would suggest a trawl through the posts on it. You WILL end up chuckling to yourself. I find myself in the middle of a stall. Not despondent, just impatient. I stayed with a friend last weekend and went off track a bit so it's all my own fault. However, I am now in size 12 (US 8) tops and bottoms and I am ecstatic! More so because I can get loads of bargains on a fab site called Brand Alley. Just bagged a load of great stuff and have hidden it from husband until he comes off his economy drive!!!! I haven't been that size for years. Love it. I found the pic from 9 June last year which started my WLS journey. I got husband to take one on Monday (9 May) as I got the glad (ish) rags on to go to an 86th birthday party and the difference is really quite noticeable. I'm walking miles with the dogs these days but got cranked off with the early morning swims. It was more to do with the geriatric jellyfish who will insist on hogging (and stopping mid length to catch up on the latest chat with their cohorts!) the slower lanes (that I have to use due to not being an Olympic class swimmer)-than my inability to get out of bed at the crack of dawn. Love the swim, hate the thoughtlessness of others but don't feel that I can ask them to change their modus operandi at their age! On the other hand, my walks are getting longer and five miles is what I like to aim for when I've got time. I will admit to having frequent stops but that is not through being unfit or unable to keep going but from watching the local wildlife! I'm loving it. I am so very, very happy that nearly a year ago I was forced to face the fact that I wasn't just a bit overweight but completely obese. It made me get off my butt, do something positive and stop the pontificating about going to Weight Watchers or some other (in my case) daft idea.

Thank you LipstickLady for pointing out that the article was about bypass and not VSG and also for the fact that it was written in 1980. I did notice somewhere, way, way back in this thread that it was pointed out that a pouch pertains to the bypass and not to the sleeve. I was about to re-iterate the fact but you got there before me and put far more politely than I in my exasperation would have put it. Think I'm off now to have a stroll through the timeline listings to see if anyone has had a good rant in the last couple of hours, or maybe posted another great thread like the Great Arse Face Experiment which will provide a little light entertainment for the end of my Friday evening. Nighty night all.

I'm going for a tattoo as a 60th birthday present to myself in September. Can't wait!!!!

Stick with this site and you won't go far wrong. There is a wealth of information from a great bunch of people. A lot of them are sleeve veterans who have been on the journey for some time. You will also find yourself laughing out loud at some of the posts as there are some very witty posters. You got a comment already from one of my favourites, KindaFamiliar. He takes his weight loss journey very seriously but has the capability to laugh at himself which in turn, through his posts, makes me, for one, chuckle away. Your trip to a new sylph like self mustn't be filled with worries and doubts. Enjoy one of the best roller coaster rides of your life. I most certainly am.

Do I count as I'm 59 and a half? If I do (I'm not waiting for an answer as I'm sure being four months away from my six ooooohhhhhh.....won't matter too much) here's a couple of pics. 9 June '15 Surgery date 21 Oct'15 9 May '16

Told you I was going to raise the retired teacher's eyebrows at supper this evening. I did. I don't care if the phrase 'mutton dressed as lamb' springs to mind cos this old ewe is having FUN!!!!!!!!!! Isn't WLS THE BEST THING EVER? 9 June '15 Surgery date 21 Oct '15 9 May '16 (Why can't I get my pics to upload. They have on another thread!)

Just remember, your body has had major surgery, it needs time to sort itself out. When I stall I give it a couple of days then try something on that was too small the last time I tried it. Chances are that it fits. God only knows what goes on with our bodies but I reckon I have a whole herd of stylists in mine re-arranging it and none of them can agree what needs to go where or what to get rid of. It's only when they all stop having hissy fits with each other that they get rid of the crap and get on with the job of creating a beautiful object. Stick with it and stick with BP as you will get all the help, advice and answers to your questions here. By the way you'll also get some of the best fits of giggles here as some of the posters really do merit their own stand up slot at the Comedy Store. I love the humour.

Just found this thread and found it really interesting. Like you lauraellen, I was a ballet dancer in my youth. If I wasn't the required weight for my height (98lbs) I was given s**t until I lost the extra pounds. We were never told that we were beautiful, facially or physically and that has kinda stuck with me until now. I was told that my thighs were a bit too long and that my arms were too short. I mean - purleese!!!!! Got hold of a copy of a promotional video that was made of the company that I was in, aged 19 in 1976. Have a copy to a guy who I am still in contact with who I had been at the Royal Ballet School with and who was then in said company with. He came back to me with the comment that he had forgotten how hot I was!!!!! WHAT!!!!! Forty years down the line and the guy that I was lusting after THEN tells me NOW that he thought I was hot. Hmmmmm.......food for thought, and something to put down to experience. Now, I'm just getting on with growing old disgracefully. I'm getting out of my rentatent clothes and having fun. I don't wear much make-up now as it gets stuck in my laughter and grumpy lines but I can put on a show when required. I'm off out tonight and will be wearing black with a pair of red patent Agent Provocateur heels that are really a bit much for my age but what the hell. If the outfit works and gets the required 'tut' from another guest (retired schoolteacher, a little older than me) at this dinner, I will have got the reaction that I wanted! What I am trying to say to you is - stop fretting and just enjoy being you. Give yourself a kick up your rear, (if you can find it now that you have lost all your padding), give the world a smile, hoik your head high and go for it. You are beautiful. Don't leave it until you are my age to realise that you were hot when you were younger. Oh my god, the time that I spent in front of the mirror correcting every little thing. What a waste of valuable living time. Go girl x

KF-you've been very quiet on this thread of late. You haven't been using so much of the cream that it's tightened up your typing digits? You know, a bit like when you apply fake tan and forget to wash your hands........... Just a thought x

You can do up a pair of high heels with a side ankle buckle without completely losing it and shouting to anyone who is within hearing range that shoe designers are s**t!!!!! Anything to take the blame away from the mound of useless flab that is getting in the way and scuppering the whole operation! Yay!!!!!!!