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Personally I wouldn't bring it up at all. I would however start smoking or vaping it as you don't want/can't eat those things after surgery. Also, I never find it increases my appetite - it just makes everything taste hella good, so if you start eating stuff high, you just don't want to stop. I don't have any problems with eating now while high. i just don't eat.

no, your pouch isn't stretched out. Relax and breathe.

Make a good tasting Protein drink and you can write your own ticket. You will be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Sorry, just being a smart ass! lol!

So...you retain water from SWIMMING? Or do you just mean exercising in general?

I appreciate all the responses. I'm having an irrational fear that just 6 weeks after surgery, all the weight loss is going to stop. I know that can't be possible. I can't eat enough for it to.

I don't sense any negativity. Y'all are stupid. Just kidding, that was sarcasm.

THIS EXACTLY. Same for me.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm a little pho'd up.

What the pho is going on around here?

Pho if I know. LOL.

Thank you. Sometimes it feels like I am talking to people from the future. Lol

Today is the day after my one month surgi-versary. I am down 45 lbs. Still haven't dropped shirt sizes. Pants sizes have dropped. I'm in this weird phase where my shirts are bog on me, I'm swimming in them, but if I go down one sixe from 3xl to 2xl , they don't quite fit yet. Poop.

I have been staying away from them because I wasn't sure. Now that I know the both of you haven't died or gotten the dumps or the itis from them, they are now gonna be on my list because I loved them before. Thank you for being my test-tummies.

Could someone recommend non-chalky multi vitamins - I mean, are there gummies or any other consistency that aren't the huge horse pills that are all chalky? I am about to gag on those.

Damn! You are definitely an inspiration. Good for you!!!

Hey ya'll Let me give you a quick rundown as it is ALMOST my one moth SURGIVERSARY or however that's spelled. 40 lbs down. In a "third week stall" currently but ok with it, not worried 5" down in chest 4" down in stomach 2" down in neck 2" down upper arm 2" down in thigh 1.5" down in calves I am still on "full liquid" phase per doctor till I see him at the 1st of September which at THAT point I guess I will only progress to the "Pureed" Phase. So here's the deal: I'm a little depressed because I can't figure out what to do anymore. EVERYTHING I used to do revolved around food and drink and I am finding this out now because normal things I would do to make me happy, I can't do anymore. I don't meet my friends at restaurants - I don't meet my friends hardly anymore.... I don't take my wife and daughter to eat out...I don't even cook for them at home anymore like I used to love to do. I don't want to go to my neighborhood bar hang out place because I don't want to ask for water. My family functions were centered around food. I used to LOVE to go try food at new restaurants every weekend, or just go to the places that I loved to eat at. I know the standard answer "You gotta find new hobbies" This doesn't help someone who for at least the last 25 years or so of their life have been spent NOT doing anything else but these things. I don't find hiking fun. I don't find a lot of outdoor stuff fun at all. I don't know even of I would if I was thin. It's not "me". I really don't KNOW who me is anymore when I can't do these things. Yes, I have other hobbies, I write music, I play in a band. I record music. but I can't just do that. I'm really kinda lost right now. Let's talk.

Congrats!!!

Have you been losing the weight you wanted to? What's it like three months out? What do you eat?

That's kinda sad, but I feel ya.

Yes. Let me just say that YES, this and I know it will happen for me too, eventually, I'm just in the middle of it as it were and it feels like a real struggle right now.

I'm so glad the both of you get exactly what I'm talking about first of all. It really is a mindf**k right now.

Aha! Thanks

I actually have that

How do you know whether or not you have "favorable markers"