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Hello dearest Queen. Lovely to see a post from you. You were my greatest inspiration when I was a newbie and I devoured your book with great gusto so that I could have a hint of what my weight loss journey could be like. It should be required reading for all the newly sleeved as it is just simple common sense from front cover to back. Oh yes, and humour, which always makes things that much more enjoyable. I'm now in the maintaining camp having had my surgery 18 months ago at the age of 58. I reckon that the really hard work starts once the main bulk has left your frame and the maintenance has to become part of every day life. It's hard sometimes. Worth it though. I walk 6-7 miles with my dogs every day, loving every step of it. I do two ballet classes every week with a teacher who taught me when I was a professional dancer. Although I take it a lot easier and don't have the ability (or the suppleness or strength) to get my legs up around my ears I can quite happily move my normal weight body around the moves. The thought of even trying to do that with all the pre-sleeve excess weight just doesn't bear thinking about! I couldn't have done it. As far as I'm concerned, it's never too late to start an active life so bariatric surgery in later life is one of the most wonderful options open to those of us who wake up one day and find, to our horror, that all those random extra ounces that were slowly creeping onto our frames have turned into serious poundage!

Run? Now I do many things but running is not one of them! Never mind after surgery-just let's say never!!! Now, many other kinds of exercise, yes. After surgery I immediately went back to dog walking, only a couple of miles a day to start with but gradually increasing distance and length of walks. I swam as soon as I could get back in the water which was as soon as I got my stitches out. I was back at ballet classes after ten months but it was only vanity that made me put it off for so long as I really couldn't cope with looking at my still lumpy bits in the mirrors that surround you in a dance studio! Oh yes, and the fact that I hadn't done class for 35 years. I now walk 6-7miles every day with my dogs and do at least two ballet classes a week. I feel wonderful!

Just had a look at my PMs and the creep has disappeared. Thanks for the advice. Thought a bit of simple shaming would help which is why I posted his moniker. Sad git must have been a bit desperate to hit on this old dame! Hey ho, ain't life odd![emoji6]

Mdsraju49 is the guy who is asking for my details

As I haven't been using this site as much recently I may have been missing notifications about changes in contacting those in charge! I left a post a couple of days ago and I have immediately been contacted by a complete (male) newby who is requesting my email address or social website address. Very creepy. My antenna is on alert as I find this very odd and want to have him looked into, just incase he does this to anyone else who is not as long in the tooth and sceptical as me. Answers gratefully accepted.

Hiya Dub, nothing to do with weight, just that as you know, I'm a fellow Oct 2015 sleever. Thought you'd like a quick pic of our pups Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Girl, I don't yell at people nor would I call anyone a moron whether they deserve it or not. Well, in my honest opinion you bloody well should. I hardly need to explain my reasoning to anyone on this site with half a brain! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

In our house it's going to be roast beef for Christmas Day. Neither of us (husband and I) are great turkey fans so we shall have some beautiful, if expensive Aberdeen Angus rib roast. I'll do all the trimmings-Yorkshire puddings, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, roast parsnips, roast spuds etc but I will be sticking with the meat and cheese sauce free veg whilst my naturally slender other half attacks the full monty. For the rest of the day and for Boxing Day I shall just do exactly as I did last year when I was two months post sleeve. A little bit of everything so that I didn't feel left out. It worked well for me. I shall also still be dragging the dogs out for their usual five mile walk every morning of the holiday. I may however, have to indulge, just a little, in a few Haribro jelly babies. A girl can't turn into a saint after all!!! Merry Christmas to you all x Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Thank heavens for threads like this one. I'm right on board. Bloody carbs! The invention of the Devil. They are so easy to eat and to be honest I find them very yummy!!! However, my new wardrobe and accompanying new found confidence are worth more than a a dollop of those horrors. I am 15 months out from my sleeve surgery and for the first time I've been complacent and a couple of lbs have crept on. Back to basics for me so no more dipping into the Christmas chocolates that are there for guests. I now have a mountain of oranges and clementines to satisfy my sweet tooth. I'm also upping my Water intake which had slipped a bit. Reading these posts has given me the required kick up my arse that I needed. Thank you guys x Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

4 in the morning here in the U.K. and I'm drinking tea as I'm wide awake. Having just read your posts I'm completely incapable of even thinking about counting sheep to get back to sleep! Thank heavens for having some funny, demented losers! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Get you Ms RosieCheeks-Jimmy Choo's. I have to agree with the feet losing weight though. I've lost a bit from my trotters but the biggest difference is the circumference of my calves. I'm getting into boots that have been relegated to the back of the cupboard for years. Loving it. Mind you, it has saved my neck when my nearest and dearest (Mr 'We're on an economy drive') spied a new pair of boots. I used the 'these old things' line. Of course the excuse works EVERY time as there is no way that a mere man can remember exactly what his woman's footwear looks like from season to season! I am a complete shoeholic so I have to have viable excuses at the ready! Oh the NSVs, especially the ones that keep your addictions flowing! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Chilly morning here in UK. Sitting in bed with first cuppa of the day with one large ginger cat and two small dogs draped over me. As warm as toast with my animal comforters. Lovely.............don't want to get up!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I'm 60. Had VSG surgery a year ago and now walk at least 5 miles a day and I'm back doing 2-3 ballet classes per week with the teacher who taught me when I was a professional dancer 30 years ago. I feel WONDERFUL. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Well, what a devastating, delectable, delightful mental image I have of my WLS pals over there in the US. I'm surprised that you haven't got your knitting needles out and getting woolly hats and scarves churned out to keep you going throughout the cold months! Toughen up you lot-try living here in the U.K.!! Global warming has yet to manifest itself here and those of us who originally hail from north of the border in Scotland have genes pre-programmed to deal with the cold and the damp! OK, I do admit that I was the one last year who was knitting woolly hats, piling a few extra layers on and surrounding myself with husband, three dogs and two cats in bed. No idea what it's going to be like this year as we have had the mildest Autumn possible. Will keep you posted. As for slutty dressing girls (well boys too if that's your penchant).........YAY!!!! It's fun, fun and more fun. I bought over the knee boots about six months after my VSG and they were too tight around the calf. Yesterday, a year after surgery, they slipped up my legs beautifully. I also buy a great US brand of jeans NYJ (Not Your Daughter's Jeans) whenever I see them in a sale as they are expensive over here. They are great moral boosters and they are cut to make your bum look great. I might have hit the age of 60 in September but that isn't going to stop my fun. Nor for that matter will the cold when it hits us! The following pic was taken 8 months after surgery as I was just getting back into the swing of slutty styling. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

With you there all of you have posted and who have helped me through my first year post op with your wit, wisdom and common sense. If I were a pre-op newby I think that I might just have cottoned on to the fact (by reading the posts in the Vets forum) that they, the vets, weren't seeking advice from pre-op, recently post op or just those who were considering gastric surgery. It doesn't matter how much you have read, Googled, talked to others or gathered by mental osmosis and here say, until you have lived with the sleeve or whatever in place, you have no real idea of what really goes on. I didn't. I would no more have tried to advise the vets with my self awarded degree in WLS than fly to the moon. I would have regarded myself as an arrogant eedgit, which is probably how the vets would have seen me-and quite rightly too. I remember being told by a teacher once that when you are lucky enough to be in the company of those who are wiser than you, then keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. I transpose this sage advice to the digital age to keep your eyes (and brain) on the text and your fingers off the keypad. These are only my opinions and I may well be typing a crock of shite but I'll lay money on the fact that some of the vets give me a thumbs up! I now rest my case - until something else gets my typing digits dancing! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App