Rainbow_Warrior

My wife is on her second gastric balloon. The second one has been in since early July. The first one lasted eight months. She's dropped from 122kg to 88kg. [269 pounds to 194 pounds.] She's found it relatively easy to live with. Do you have more specific questions, @srocks112 ?

I see ... The site does need 'terminal' threads too ... ones which die or self-erase after 30/60/90 days or outlive their recent relevance. Maybe the option for the O.P. to kill the thread when a newer, more relevant one emerges. (Given the limited number of people who actually update their weight/mass and profile, I'd say it's not a likely winning cause!) :-)

Also, during the HIGH-PROTEIN CHEESE SHOPPING, I grabbed some vegan MINCE and some vegan CHICKEN-LIKE meat strips ... both HIGH-PROTEIN, LOW CARBOHYDRATE meat substitutes. For Australian readers, the brand is the well-known QUORN ... but DO NOT LOOK IN THE FREEZER SECTION ... my local Coles supermarket staff has 'hidden' it near the egg-whites and high-protein chilled soups. As part of this new stomach, I am seriously winding back my animal products consumption ... I need less meat, I'm sure.

PRE-OP = nil DURING OP = nil (thanks, anaesthesia!) POST OP (rest of day) = about 3/10 to 4/10 POST OP (2nd day) = about 2/10 when moving, flexing, changing position in bed. Able to walk fairly comfortably for exercise. POST OP (3rd day) = about 1/10 when changing position in bed, otherwise NIL. Able to walk slowly & comfortably for exercise all around clinic. POST OP (days 4-7) at home = NIL PAIN n.b. Other than the op day and the morning of the 2nd day, I refused ALL PAIN-KILLERS offered to me as I simply did NOT need them. I spent another week doing light exercise (walking and stretch bands) at home. (I am officially retired but I returned to my part-time job 12 days post op.

I was at Day 36 post-op yesterday so I went to the supermarket and searched ALL the HIGH-PROTEIN cheeses and found a couple I liked the look of. A. Vintage tasty with chilli. B. Vintage tasty with garlic and chives. 25 grams of each for afternoon tea Friday. Delightful!

>> Wk 11.05.17-11.11.17 Since last Saturday, I have kept a half-eye out for a new thread like "Wk 11/12/17 to 11/18/17" but none has emerged. That was an idea that had a natural death date then! As it's already the Saturday 18th at 1pm, I guess that the idea fell down.

Others have already said it ... I'll just amplify it. The time will fly by ... REALLY! I joined this website on September 2 ... 40 days before my surgery and 36 days after my referral for the procedure. It's now Friday November 17 ... 36 days post surgery. Every day just moves so quickly. By all means, read and filter the information from here. Ask the questions you're sweating over. Good luck.

Please include me ... Rainbow_Warrior Currently 153.3 kilograms or 338 pounds. (337.97 pounds rounded off according to the conversion page in Google). My goal for January 10th would be 137.9 kilograms or 304 pounds rounded off. It might be ambitious but it'll motivate me more than no challenge. Thank you.

Entirely reasonable.

SUNDAY 12th NOVEMBER 1) 50g lean rare roast beef, 75g lean chicken breast, 140g pouch strawberry yoghurt (early) 2) 55g lean rare roast beef, 118g lean chicken breast,; ginger & turmeric skim latte (mid morning) 3) 500mL fruit smoothie (noon-1pm) 4) ISOWHEY Chocolate Protein shake made on 175mL egg whites & fibre supplement (2:30pm-3:30pm) 5) 75g pork/veal rissole, 140g pouch blueberry yoghurt; skim milk espresso (5:30pm-7pm) 6) 80g lean rare roast beef, 140g pouch strawberry yoghurt (9pm-10pm) Water consumed throughout day = 1690mL Proteins=197g Fats=26g Carbohydrates=168g Fibre=22g Sugars=113g Calories=1624 This was a very good day for protein but a bit O.T.T. for carbs and sugar.

You can add a couple of teaspoons of BENEFIBRE/BENEFIBER to your drinks or bottles of water if you really feel you need it.

I know if I buy a Russell Athletic or Hanes T-shirt in the USA, I buy a US XXXL or 3XL size. The same two companies sell the same actual shirts with the same chest and waist sizes in Australia as XXXXXL or 5XL. We here in AUS are trailing the US in obesity levels but only just. This is how VANITY SIZING works ... the mind of a 3XL wearer is saying, 'hey, i'm a big guy but at least i'm not a 4XL or 5XL.'

Very upfront straight talk. That will lower the outgoing expenses for Jules too.

The evils of modern clothing companies ... VANITY SIZING has been around about a dozen years.

Yep ... day 15 to day 24 for me ... barely lost 400g in nine days!

If you make anything in the fortnight post-surgery runnier than it's already likely to be, you might be pumping through a lot of gas and liquid. It was about nine or ten days post surgery that my BMs returned to some sort of normalcy.

SATURDAY 11th NOV 1) 50g lean pork mini-rissole, 25g veal mini-rissole, espresso coffee on skim milk (early) 2) 50g ham, 50g egg, 50mL egg whites; ginger & turmeric skim latte (mid morning) 3) ISOWHEY Chocolate Protein shake, 125mL egg whites; 65g lean chicken breast (noon-1pm) 4) 500mL pineapple & mint juice; 45g lean chicken breast (2:30pm-3:30pm) 5) 50g ham, 50g egg, 85mL egg whites; (5:30pm-7pm) 6) ISOWHEY Chocolate Protein shake made on 260mL skim milk; 5g beef jerky (9pm-10pm) Water consumed throughout day = 1700mL Proteins=157g Fats=25g Carbohydrates=102g Fibre=8g Sugars=59g Calories=1321 This was a good day ... about 200 calories fewer, more protein, less fat, less sugar. Sadly, I needed more fibre than I had on the day but (thanks to the huge juice at lunch) my BM was okay for the day.

Can you afford to see a good professional hypnotist or even a professional motivator? Refocusing is hard without strong affirmation.

Can you afford to see a quality hypnotherapist or a motivation expert?

Your mother sounds a lot like my late father.

Something that I have noticed re the three or four people that I knew had previously been open about their surgery. The closet experts and gossips are a pain in the arse.

Have you seen the UK comedy show, "Little Britain", where Daffyd (correctly spelled), the gay Welsh teenager thinks he's "the only gay in the village'? It's a recurring skit with new scenarios in every episode. Search Youtube with "little britain only gay in the village" to enjoy several of them.

James, I was aware of excess baggage in my upper chest. It did tighten with exercise. I always swam/swim in a rash vest.

Sounds (and looks) impressive. Might do this as an afternoon tea mid-week.

As I look out of my head through my eyes, I generally see a small section of either side of my nose and the metal rims of my spectacles. Occasionally, through the day, I see my hands doing whatever they do at any particular time. Rarely do I see photos or videos of myself. (If I did see them more often, I'd have probably reacted with a bit more urgency to do more about weight loss in my late 30s before the task became almost insurmountable.) I don't usually see or IMAGINE the fat/obese me. Shaving is only five minutes every second or third day if I blade-shave. Combing my hair in front of a mirror focuses my eyes to the top of my head ... NOT the protruding abdomen. In an ideal world, obese people's walls might become mirrors so we become more conditioned as to how others perceive us. Just a 'stream of thought' 2c worth there!