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Ha! This=BEST!!!

Also, people may be responding to your thinner face. Fat will reapportion itself over the next year after weight loss stops and then it's probably you won't look drawn or thin. From your avatar here, you do not look emaciated. I'd go for a normal BMI if it were me.

So it's vitally important when you're on any drug therapy for psych stuff, especially BP, to work with your bariatric surgeon and your psych to make a plan for post WLS. With your new anatomy, you may need changes to your meds. And it's super important to know what those changes are going to be up front, before the surgery happens, that way you can help avoid a crash after surgery. Cuz it's gonna be hard enough emotionally to handle the effects of the surgery itself, let alone, having a crash with your meds too. Right? So if it were me, I'd really be frank with your present psych. Get him/her on board. After surgery, we have to gets subs for extended release meds and also enteric coated meds. Our new anatomies don't give us the time or stomach acid to dissolve pills that have an enteric coating on them, so they end up not being absorbed. Again, because things go through our system so much quicker, extended release pills don't work well for us, because they are malabsorbed. Congrats on really staying on top of your BP meds so your BP remains stable. That's no small undertaking and you deserve to be congratulated!!! I've seen many people with BP who've done perfectly well with RNY and VSG. I just fall into the group that things it is better to plan for success rather than rally through a crisis. ((hugs)) You'll figure it out!

Congrats!!!! Way to make it look easy hon!!!

Gimme all your notes girl!!! That's wonderful. Congrats! I know I knew it already but I can't keep anything straight right now!

Hahaha! Don't worry, I'll have enough carryin' on and pity parties for the 2 of us. "Excuse me, pity party for 2 please..." *ROFLMAOOOOO! Yes, I'm surgery #2 on February 20. (big gulp) What day are you again?

@kakatlady612 Congrats! I'm so excited for you! Did you already start your liquid pre-op diet phase? I know you'll do great!!!!

It looks like this--sorta--this belongs to an animal. Google caul fat. We have a greater and lesser omentum. And as @Creekimp13 said, it's loaded with blood vessels.

Girl! Shut up, ya big whiner! (oh wait...serry not serry, that was me I was yelling at and I don't even start mine until Monday ) Ok, carry on carrying on!! You know you can do this. And you know the reward at the end of it is not a train coming out of a tunnel! ((hugs))

And to add to @elforman, fat is stored in cells or compartments. Think packages. When we convert the stored fat which is fuel and burn it for energy, we're left with empty packages all over over our body. For awhile, they try to fill up with extra water floating around...before giving up and staying empty-ish. FOREVS! Ever and ever. They are always there. So if we made eleventy billion fat cells while we overate to our energy needs, they will be there the day we die. The only way to get rid of them is either have them cut out with plastic surgery, or sucked out with liposuction. And those containers do not lay quietly. They have inner workings/pieces called organelles. So they are living, breathing, functioning cells and some even power out hormones and signals that go all over our body including our brains. And they are hungry beasts, cuz they do not like being empty! So um, yeah. There's that.

Welcome! I wish I had the answers. Clearly, at 228 lbs, I do not. If this surgery were limited to people who successfully lose and maintain their weight, I would not have been approved. Like you, I've had a lifetime (since age 9) of trying to get to a "normal" weight range and maintain. I've tried almost every diet out there and pills. And here I am. Also, those of us who lose and lose big and can maintain...well, hmmm, that's not me. I'm pretty sure that was none of us pre-operatively. I hope someone chimes in and can give you good feedback and info. I'm just one of the schleps on the couch with you, raising my hand saying, "Me, me, me! That's me to a T!"

Wow girl! You look fabulous! Congrats and so glad you've been able to work through all of your tough, tough, challenges.

Wahhhoooooooooooo girl! Not long now. You're on the downhill side. You got this!!! I'm starting my 2 weeks in hell on Monday, Feb. 5!!! Woot! Der she is!

Hahaha, I just asked that question yesterday. Apparently, no it is not. LOL. Good times!

Congrats girlfriend!!!! You look amazing and am so inspired by the reports of how good you feel. You truly are inspiring me to get off my booty and to shake it! You know, the difference between successful people and those who fail? Consistency. The end. And you my friend are VERY consistent. You're a winner. You are a success. Bravo! Consistency "may" sound boring to some, but it's like a marathon, too. It can be grueling. It requires endurance, tenacity, focus. So start checking off each day you are consistent. Rack up a "mile count" on those days. I bet you can go back and count retroactively and it will be something like eleventy billion days being consistent. LOL. How's that for motivation and "juice"? But, I do really understand where you're coming from. Now it's a daily grind with little tangible "success metric". Maybe you can start tallying the "number of days in X or Y", not just consistency days, but like "#days I remained within my weight window" or "#days/wks of working out" etc that gives you a new carrot? ((hugs)) Attagirl! (in case you needed one)

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3 days later are approved for or got WLS. As someone who is on the straight and narrow and keeps having her expectations and potential surgery dates extended and jacked with...I'm highly jealous, envious, now downright cranky at the injustice of "life." *pouts* The. End.

Awww hon! That's just sucky! Limbo sucks (even though the music is great). Just hang in there and keep swimming. Ok? ((hugs)) Saying prayers you get a date in April!!!

Damn dude. Doctor up!

Oh no you 'idn't!? Tell me you did NOT call her a S(C)ee-U-Next-Tuesday (the c is silent ) ? Bahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaahaha!!!

Holy crap! That's just all kinds of wrong!!! But dear God, the HUMANITY! I have had many happy days having unnatural knowledge of that bit-c-h, Little Debbie and her hoe cakes. Happy Camper. Indeed. I happied my camper to 325lbs with that little hoe's help. Go donate to the food pantry at church. You will either make some one in need's day, or you'll make the minister's wife very very happy! ((hugs)) Remember, living well is the best revenge.

One word for you all: theYouTube Now here's another one/two: Ricky Nelson (pssst..."you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself"...)

Congrats on surgery. I just urge you to remember, you weren't on a Magic Bus that just magically arrived at the corner of morbid obesity and pain. Doing the same things and expecting different outcomes is the definition of insanity. So I truly, truly pray you will not just eat the same foods that got you to the dance, but rather adopt a new philosophy and relationship/behaviors with super healthy foods while you have this golden shot time frame to have the grace period to learn them. Success to you!

Good times. Good. Good. Times. It always involves "happy toes" = bright orange toenail polish (so far I've never been ripped for having tnp on during surgery.) It always involves Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb blasting on the OR room stereo. It always involves lots of Fentanyl and chit chat. Then it's good night Irene, turn off the lights... I come to in recovery, sitting up, and I don't remember being out, but I'm talking a mile a minute to the nurses and crackin jokes. (I'm a happy drunk.)

Dang! ((hugs)) Saying prayers.