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there is also a 50+ still active, and many more if you put in the title you want. Some call it necroposting, I just think it's nice to give them a new and renewed,lifem

"go to "bedtime snack, but pop one during the day also. My favorite is pineapple, followed by the o-g-cherry, for s9me 4eason the fruit punch from the tropical I dont care for as much.

7 months out,have a box of s.f. tropical and a box of s.f. orange- grape- cherry natural flavor both made by Popsicle, they are my g9-

My prediction is 10 days, but I hope my guess is off and you're able to do it sooner, you're just a little water- logged at the moment! Wal walk walk sip sip sip smile smile smile because surgery is behind instead of something to be dreaded. Your future Briswife is now kicking into gear, and oh the places you'll go, the thongs you'll see along the way to goal. But it is Good, and your surgical tool will help in your success. Forward, you're heading forward,leave the past behind!

Gonna go smooth as silk now, you got this ,kid! And we'll all cheer over the GOOD reports and updates you're going to give us!

Well the bras, panties, and tights were all colors, as I finally got out of the BIGGEST sizes they handle, I have declared a moratorium on white baggy granny panties! Tomkitten teased me nobody is gonna see them, yeah true but I will feel prettier and remember when smart aleck PCP asked if I was still sexually active and I told him " I do live in hope". Thought he might choke on his tongue, if that happens he won't have to worry about the complimentary copy AARP sends out when you turn 50 of their magazine. Did I ask him about HIS love life? I think.... not! Go ahead and dust me for cobwebs, I have been widowed for nearly 7 years, after all.

And I am still doing it, step by step, day after day, sometimes it is dull but even I have my bright flashes of sunlight. My weight is finally responding to the work I've put in, I am cheered by that. I cannot remember when I last weighed 234.6, praying I will be able to say someday I don't remember being so far over 300, but that is an deeply entrenched one. But I live from from from one doctor appointment to the next, hoping for positive glimmers. And they are actually starting to come, Oh I am not giving in as long as I can put forth my efforts daily.

And it will come, my Silver Sisters, it will come! None of us are flashes, streaks of lightening in the sky, we are the solid women that truly rock the world. And we have the potential to be just as much a success as the young chickie- babies, and we have lived long enough to appreciate it all!

And I hope all of your flights were straight, smooth and fine! Now that you have landed again, how are tho,is going?

And wayward Chix fluttering by?

Be the Little Engine That Could! Start chugga- chugging down the Train Track of Life! If you see me, give a friendly little Toot Toot!🚝

Hey, will there be an APRIL SHOWER OF POWER challenge? This inquiring mind wants to know!

And all the ex's got the old YOU, the next to come along gets the upgraded model of YOU and one can hope they will be appreciative!

Some of us look like we have been through a bad knife fight , depends largely on your bruiseability. But if you can survive the color changes, you'll come out on top. And the fact you have Mr Achey and Sore means something got fully adjusted internally! See there's always a little joy,if you Look 👀for it!

Also what feels like things falling apart may be only things falling finally into place!

Remember at your stage, what feels like hunger could be the st9mach acid that,hasn't quieted down or simple inside swelling. Your body is saying" Iliana, WHAT did you do to ME? Why did you let those doctors do THAT? " see your body does not see the benefits yet, it only knows it's been HURT and it is afraid now. You will become fine as days go by, but right now remember you just had your major surgery, they don't call it "minor" because it has so many changes to it. Keep fluid going in even if it's only a little bit every 15 minutes, it will mount up.

What a glorious answer to 🙏prayer! May this now continue that all goes well for you! We like hearing good reports on here. Too often we complain and never mention the 👼praiseworthy things!Much 💘 love to you today and into the future!

Donated sell them. Many hospitals have a Clothes Closet-type thing, take in your too bigs and exchange them for smaller sizes. My local Wal- Mart is remodeling, got clearance bras and panties for a $1 and $1,50, if I ubdergrow them no big thing, I'm not out much. Got a cute T-shirt, one size down, should not be long until I fit it. I am proud of me this week, HW was 365+, SW319, well Tuesday I was 234.6, 7 months out, and my 26-28-30s are going bye bye , I hope to make it down to 20s Mothers Day or so, and I finally weigh less than Tomkitten, my son! A long time coming but a sweet victory still. And this time he got the jaundiced eye from our PCP instead of ME!

You'll probably will go through a Sleep study, you may pick up Sleep Apnea, a lot if asthmatics c seem to have it, your BMI is v high b enough to be taken into account and your diet failures should count for something. UHC used to require a 6 months dietary supervision, but perhaps thats no longer valid. Hey if you want it badly enough, it will happen . Your surgeon and staff p,o how to work and dance the Insurance Boogie, I'm sure this isn't their first rodeo,after ALL Don't give into worry, it only tires YOU!❤ And anytime you want to talk there is always someone on BP who has been there and can help! I was an RnY, but many of my best buds were and are VSG and there is more in common than you would think! So just ask, anytime, any hour, I'm in Ohio, it's 4AM and I can't sleep. So I'm on here this morning to relax... . and slide into Slumberland.

You could say something like you gave an owie that your doctor is going to help fix. At that age they still think doctors and adults can fix anything.

Oh it is a challenge, I'm not perfect myself and I'm nearly 7 months. But I remind myself people do better on Fluid drive, dehydration really makes your pains and sorrow worse, I honestly do the 2 oz every 15 route, my pouch Ms Precious Pouch is a cranky taskmistress, the reason I'm awake and posting is she is not letting me sleep.. I simply am praying she doesn't want to engage in delayed vomiting or something. I'm still on Zofran, as well as Dexilent (PPI) and Carafate to heal my ulcers. I am not an average run- of- the-mill RnYer, but it is my Journey and I will get my final victory like everybody else, in the meantime It Is What It Is! Lived too long to cry about it, all my tears and fears have dried up, and I am still a tough old broad who is in it to Win it! Hey, set your mind to being a🌈 success and you will be!👈😜👉

Oh do I have news for you, not only do we have B.C. the ever present Ontario and P.Am we recently acquired a Newfoundlander and a P. E. I., and while you were inactive a Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but I think they have both moved on to the thinner life. I think the PEI is maybe having her surgery on shore in Labrador, but of course they all have my well wishes! Told the Maritimers and PQ I would sing O Canada in their success, but I think they didn't mind the threat and still had success. I had 5 years of French , grades 7 through12, I really should take the challenge of learning it in French, one of my instructors was from Alabama, so some words have a drawl . When I. talked to my penpal in Dollard Des Ormeaux( Montreal suburb) I think it was all she could do to keep from giggling. Haven't. heard from her for a while , her hubby was a professor at McGill, I think Chemistry.

It has a lit of bad press, but if it works, this old broad says- Go for It, life is too short to be in misery!

Still have my lymphadema, probably will rest of my misbegotten life, but I am awake at 3 AM, so maybe not missbegotten, as much as blah. But I can also report my feet have narrowed out of wide width, my legs have reverted back to more normal shapely human legs from looking a cross between dining table pedestals and an elephant foot umbrella stand. And when I'm looking me over in the sunny light of day my shape is returning. Oh my tummy will never be perfect and flat, 3 9-pound babies, lax muscles and too too many years of obesity, but it's okay, it is what it is and it beats death all hallow, doesn't it? I can cram it into clothes, which I am dropping sizes on, Yippee Skippee. for me, I swore I would be stuck a 26- 28 W forever, bought the 30s in my former closet to sleep in, now I can see 20s coming soon! Ever deminishment is, Gee I haven't been this size since____insert a good memory here!! And when I'm not crabby I'm proud of the woman I am becoming, because I , best of all, know what she went through. I remember the chairs I got stuck in because I was too wide or I just didn't have strength to get up on my own. I remember sitting on an old wooden kitchen chair because relatives wouldn't let me on the GOOD furniture, then time I got stuck in the back seat, even with Tomkitten and his help I ended up with visible bruising .Of not having the stamina not to keep with others on a walk, having to rest halfway up a set of stairs, having take showers because I could s u t v down safely in the tub. These are a few of my sad memories, and almost every obese person has them. Of having Morbid Obesity on every record paper, Oh I yearn for a mere Overweight classification, and it shall soon come! I told someone recently I am half the Woman I used to be and twice as happy with myself, never dreamed of such deminishment in weight, starting to look like my dead relatives, still okay, some were very nice people who would cheer me on if they hadnt exceeded their earthly years. Of course there would be a Wisenheimer or 2,one branch was populated with smart alecks, the difference, they could not degrigate me any longer, I'm stronger in spirit, would look them in the eye, not cry but give back as good as I got! And ooh I have years of verbal abuse to have cremated! But I would never. return to the Old Days when the New Days and life are so much better!*!😜📦🌈

And I may be right behind you in the Belt queue, I have always figured that a belt would look like a rope around a sack of grain, so steered clear of them, but at goal I think shall be able to do it with firm resolve.