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Or did your first persona just stretch as you would have us think (for whatever warped reason you may have) that our sleeved stomachs will do?

I'm always suspicious of someone's views who's spelling and grammar are of poor quality. I'm with all the guys on here who have had their surgery ages ago and have experienced the highs and lows of their post surgery period. A newby of 20 hours (pre surgery too) posting as though they were an expert worries me insofar as there might be another newby reading those posts and it might put them off the idea of bariatric surgery. If you are a newby, you'll soon learn from reading the posts on this site who knows what they are talking about. By the way, as regards bread, I have the odd bit of fresh bread now and again but I LOVE toast and can quite happily manage a couple of slices. My nearest and dearest has been on an economy drive of late so I have been making my own bread with lots of healthy seeds in it. Even healthy food sceptic, my husband, is loving it. Luckily, he hasn't discovered my new shoes and boots in the cupboard...........somewhat making a mockery of his 'economy' drive!!!!!!!!!!!!

The emotional side is just as satisfying as the weight is dropping off. I'm still a grumpy old git but I do walk around, especially on dog walks with a grin on my face that makes me look like the village idiot! I love wishing people who have faces liked smacked arses a cheery 'good morning' or whatever to see if I can make them crack. My dog walking pals do it too now. Great sport! I did five miles round the two Royal parks just by me the other day (no problem, easy peasy except junior dog found and ate a dead parakeet feathers and all) and managed a decent score of frozen faced humans who didn't defrost. Maybe it's my smile...........maybe they think that I am going to launch myself at them like Hannibal Lecter........... Who cares. I feel fit, happy and I'm loving wearing fun clothes. You've got all this waiting for you. Just think what you can be sliding to for the Christmas Season. Keep being excited. I am.

I'm with ISG on this. Stay off the scales at this point in your journey. I'll lay a bet that you weren't leaping onto them at every opportunity as the weigh was taking up residence on your frame so just don't do it now. Give your body a chance, it's got a LOT of healing to do. Do as is suggested, get plenty of rest and don't think that you are Superwoman! I did and my body revolted by refusing to let me do anything until I had an afternoon nap most days. The whole process taught me a valuable lesson, which is-LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. Stop stressing, chill, and start enjoying what is the most wonderful journey (just for you) ever. x

I can't say that I noticed mine being any darker but the truth is I don't think I looked! Stop worrying anyway- I've only got one kidney and my body managed to cope with no problem. Don't get yourself in a lather about the exact amount of water you are getting in, just do what you can. Relax, Rome wasn't built in a day just as a stone wasn't demolished in a day. Let your body sort out what the hell just happened to it. You'll get there but not by stressing. Now just go and enjoy the thought that this is the beginning of a new you x

Yay!!!!! Once you've got the first couple of days out of the way when, I have to be honest, I felt like death warmed up, you really do feel like you've emerged from a cocoon. The thing is, do as is suggested with your protein, water etc. and you will keep emerging from your fat cocoon. I am loving every step of my journey and I just hope that you do too. Let's hope that you have lost the 'scared' bit and now have just all the excitement! Believe me, the whole journey is just sooooo exciting.

Thank you Inner Surfer Girl. You are a sweetheart. However, the only sashaying that I'm doing at the moment is (wearing wellies and mud splattered jeans) is over hill and down dale (OK in the two beautiful parks adjoining Hampton Court Palace) with three overexcited mutts, one who got hold of a dead rabbit from a crow yesterday and WOULD NOT drop it! I did however see the following-yes I know we're on a thread about arse face cream guys but we need a commercial break occasionally! On the question of the cream, does anyone know what the active ingredient was or maybe still is in certain parts of the world? Could we (if we find out what it is get a consortium together and maybe market it................it's only a thought................ ) Damned Nanny State Do-Gooders. How dare they ban and remove an ingredient in a product that could be of enormous use to certain members of society. Must be a case for interfering in our our human rights or freedom of choice or something along those lines....................

Good morning guys. 6.45 here in the UK and sitting in bed, with a cup of tea, the menagerie and husband still snoring and I am chuckling away to myself. What a great way to start the day-reading the Great Arse Face Experiment posts. I'm not being sarky either. For once I'm serious. Just think of all those people who wake up and spend the day with faces like smacked arses as that is just how they naturally, or by temperament are!!!!! Blimey, at least we all have the capacity to laugh at ourselves. I've just remembered a little incident concerning my flappy neck which I shall impart to you mob. Have had to renew my passport in the last couple of weeks. The first set of photos I had taken showed a great expanse (well it looked like the Grand Canyon to me) of spare neck flesh. I spent about a day wondering if I could cope with looking at them for the next ten years every time I travelled anywhere. Vanity won out and I went back to the photo booth but this time with a scarf elegantly swathed around my neck. This is now the version which is with Her Majesty's Passport Office! You can just see a few bits of flappy flesh but on the whole, think I've got away with it. As for the research, on the case................

Rat bag!!!! [emoji6] I'm talking about your last comment regarding viewing the pic on your phone etc. Just remember sunshine-MANKINI...............

OK KF-got the pic of me holding the baby. As you will probably notice when you look carefully (OK...........maybe not so carefully) there is evidence of a neck that wouldn't disgrace a turkey that had been overlooked and escaped several Christmas and Thanksgiving Dinners! Need to research the arse creams over here in the UK unless there is someone over here who might have one that they swear by-for the face that is, not the arse!

Can't wait for the Kotex pics. Oh KF, they will be AMAZING! I know exactly where you are coming from on the turkey neck. I had a pic taken the other day holding a friend's new grandson. The juxtaposition of the smooth new baby skin and the flabby bag that used to be my double chin nearly made me weep!!! I thought that it was going to look like a sorta Madonna & Child pose but oh no................ just new baby and old git pic. I'm not a great child lover but I politely asked how much this new little man weighed, just to let my friend know that I'm not really the Childcatcher in female form. I then sat and worked out that I had managed to shed SEVEN of what was cradled in my arms since my op 6 months ago. YES!!!!!! Sod the loose skin. Still, I await the results of your experiment although the make up girls (when I worked in TV) always had arse cream in their kits due to the fact that quite a few of the luvvies and stars they had to deal with would turn up in the morning looking less than. It seemed to work then so I need an update from you. By the way, hate to give you reason to be smug but you look WONDERFUL. Don't lose your beard either, it suits you. Now, we just need to see you in that mankini you mentioned in a previous post.....................

KF, are you just being obtuse to wind me up? Of course I don't want the bitch serviced!!!!!! Bit of domination and discipline to put her in her place maybe but anything else-perish the thought! Anyway, I apologise for my previous post-you could easily have misconstrued my early morning ramblings-it is Sunday and it was a bit early for me. Reading it back now at 18.45pm here in the UK it does sound a bit like I had lost my marbles earlier. Hey ho.......maybe some of brain cells are joining the lard in vacating my body or maybe it's just early onset senile dementia due to my advancing years. What d'you reckon oh wise one?

When you've finished with the kids KF I've got my recently re-homed mutt in season and it appears that she has gone deaf due to her hormones. Could you drop by and deal with her? I don't feel nauseous when I yell at her, I just have strained vocal chords but my core muscles are getting a great workout! Sooner the dog has a shag the better. My voice can go back to normal. Just a quick pic to show you our (local) walk yesterday. Yep, that is Hampton Court Palace and yep, we can, and do, walk freely in the surrounding parkland. Bliss.

Just spotted this thread-I'm 21st Oct '15 surgery date. Down 53lbs to 150 and have got just under 30lbs to lose. I am loving how I am feeling and just wish that I had had the VSG years ago. It's taken years off me and as I am hurtling headlong to my 60th birthday later this year every little helps. As I couldn't give a flying fart about behaving in a normal, grown up manner, I am starting to add to my eccentricities starting by throwing conventional behaviour to the four winds. My clothes are now bought for fun and not function, I make loud comments (more to embarrass my pals!) when I see worthy male anatomy when out and about, and I am driving far too fast in my Fiat 500c Abarth (black with red and black leather interior). When I got the car two months pre-op I wasn't sure whether it was such a good idea as my arse was really too big to fit into it's sporty little seats properly. Now, no problem. Not even snug. Just need the warmer weather so that I can have the hood down and really pose. Ain't life fun? All the NSV just keep adding up to one HUGE smile.

OK you guys-STOP!!!!! It has reverted to winter here in the UK. I was about to pack away my boots and woolies and get the flip flops and tee shirts out as a few days of beautiful spring sunshine had lulled me into a false sense of security. It is cold, wet, the weather forecast for the coming week is depressing and the flip flops ain't coming out. Oh, the joys of wellies!!!!!!

I got a Misfit Speedo Shine so it keeps count whilst I am swimming. I aim for 10,000 steps or the equivalent when I swim but most days I go over. This week I have been averaging about 15,000 but my dogs legs have shrunk!!!! Weather here in the UK has been positively Spring like so been out for hours. It's reverted back to winter today so tackled the housework today (good for using calories) but will be back knackering the dogs - and husband - tomorrow but with winter woolies back on again.

Just want to add my two pennyworth about bodily aches. I'm 59&1/2, ex ballet dancer, have osteoarthritis in both my knees, have had my right hip replaced and my lower back is knackered. I would post the MRI pic of my back but you'd all probably post that I should be shot like a decrepit old mare. I WAS taking so much medication before having my sleeve done but now I am onto minimal amounts and that is just to maintain the minimal amount of pain that I sometimes have. I walk for miles with my dogs most days and rarely do I get any back pain from doing that although there are days when my left knee really plays up. My (newish) hip is wonderful-I don't even know that I have got a man-made object there. I still get a bit of recurring plantar fasciitis in my left foot but I cope with that. However, before the op, everything hurt for the majority of the time. Now, having shifted 50lbs of unwanted lard in the six months since my surgery I can breeze along with the best of them. In fact, I can out walk most of my dog walking pals easily. Can't wait to get the next 30lbs off to get to my goal to see how that feels! I liken my journey to having managed to throw off a particularly clingy toddler who was clamped to my frame. Either that or three paper sacks of Costco Maris Piper spuds!!!!!! I love my weight loss and am so glad that I bit the bullet and just got sleeved. Just wish I had done it years ago.

You can even get it in the UK from Amazon. Nomnomnomnomnomnomnom!!!!!!!!!!

Since being sleeved last October my dog walks have got longer and longer as I have dropped the pounds and got fitter. I'm loving every minute of my weight loss journey and each NSV which is achieved. Just thought that I would post a couple of pics for all you Americans using this site. These memorials are in the Royal Park, Bushy Park where I walk most days as it is only five minutes walk down the road from where I live. Some of our more elderly residents can remember the day the Yanks came to town and still tell stories of how they brought some cheer to the local kids - mostly in the form of gum and candies, but also in organising activities and film shows for them. So you see, even in this corner of Surrey, there is a place for memories of our American cousins.

Nearly six miles this morning because newest dog Coco was being a stubborn bitch and I couldn't get her to come to me to get her lead on so just kept walking. She did however find the following-11 duck eggs hidden in the bracken. We looked then left so that mummy duck could return Maybe Coco has got a different agenda from me as regards on how far we walk. She is spark out on the sofa now whilst I have loads that I need to get done. Definitely a dog's life in this house!!!

Look carefully guys, there are three different mutts but they are all cute! They are also keeping me walking, especially the re-home job at five weeks with us the newest member of the family. She just doesn't tire-five miles (not every day-I'M not that fit) and she still runs.........and runs...........and runs...........

Here in the UK I wear FitFlops a lot but have discovered Sketchers recently. They are so light and comfortable and great fun for us girls of a certain age. Apparently they are NOT cool for teenagers! My PF comes and goes in various painful episodes but walking around in bare feet does me no favours at all. I need to shove my feet into something which, now that the British weather is showing signs of dawdling into spring is not something I want to always do. I love traipsing around with no socks and shoes on. I'm hooked on a capsicum gel called Perskindol which I got through Amazon, although I'm pretty sure that in the States you have a much larger selection that you can get from pharmacies, and it works wonders. I got it for my builder husband's sore bits but have purloined it for myself. Brilliant stuff for us footsore people.

I'm here in the UK and love anything that Ruth Goodman does. She is such a quiet genius and gloriously eccentric. She does great pieces for UK TV and her sense of dress is as much fun as she is. I reckon she's a bit of a treasure!My latest obsession is nails! If the rest of me is beginning to look halfway decent then the nails have got to be got up to scratch (pun intended). No subtle colours for me either, just got neon pink gel. What do you expect from a 59&1/2 year old? Subtle beige or shell pink maybe?

I was EXACTLY the same weight as you when I had surgery. The surgery itself was a doddle-don't remember much about it really but I felt like s**t the first night. Didn't feel sick at all, just couldn't get comfy so spent the night playing games on my iPad! At about 4 in the morning I discovered how to get very comfy indeed and fell asleep. I had all my checks that morning and was allowed to go back to the hotel that lunchtime. I could have stayed in hospital if I'd wanted but I reckoned that I'd be happier at the hotel. I felt a bit nauseous then but had lots of sips of water and encouraging noises from my husband and managed to get a fair bit of sleep. Later that night I had some apple juice and it was like drinking heaven. The following day, I was up, showered and dressed and in the afternoon having seen Chris Deprez (who organised the whole shebang and who is a senior nursing professional into the bargain) I went into town for some light retail therapy with husband. Lots of cuppas and apple juices later we toddled back to the hotel and I slept like a baby. Came home by Eurostar the following day having done some more retail therapy in Lille!!!! Easy peasy. I took things easy for a couple or three weeks as I did get tired but I've had no problems, can eat anything without any adverse effects and am loving escaping from my fat suit. I paid £4,500 and that included all medical fees, 4* hotel, all (unlimited cab journeys whilst there plus pick up and drop off at Lille). The only extra we had to pay was our Eurostar fares and food for husband! To find out more Google ECFS or ECFS - Obesity Solutions - London. The whole experience was carried through seamlessly and organised by Chris Deprez. Just out of curiosity, where are you based? Might be easier to have a chat on the phone x

Hi Oasis, I read your second to last post and had to re-read it a couple of times. You are the same height as me, the same SW weight and same BMI! I went to Belgium through ECFS and had Philip Vanden Borre as my surgeon. Faultless care right from my first contact, surgery on 21Oct '15 and through to post op. I am now 50lbs down, feel WONDERFUL. I only wish that I had done it years ago. I am wearing really fun clothes, getting great compliments, and getting loads fitter. I swim half a mile most mornings and then walk the dogs for anything between 2-5 miles. I'm 60 in September and want to be at goal weight by then. I've got just over 30lbs to go so should manage it. Don't have any fears or doubts about having VSG. Just go for it! Life just keeps getting better and better the more lard that I lose.