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This may be an growing experience for him as it is a weight loss experience for you! Hugs to you and you can share one with him if he's been treating you good!😛💓😲

ShrinkingWildflower have you checked out Vega? Also I like personally Svelte, you get a lower protein count but it is soy-based and really tastes good.

@Kcoley check out the Summer 2018. surgery buddies check in here, you may find a Surgery twin there. Otherwise love to have you join in.

Yeah YLime it is Autumn but let's "grandfather" her in, she's served🏆 her time, she's one of us, and I , for one, love the pants off her for her postings!👍

Isn't it when a poster used a certain emjoi for a punctuation instead of showing an emjoi such as a pizza,flower or smiley face it quotes it. I suppose if you had a picture of all common emoji and nothing else to do that day you could count off until you would come to the proper one. Sounds like a real waste of time to me. 😛 (emoji # 12 on my phone)

Yeah you guys both are right. Confession your youth intimidates me, I think If they can do it, why can't I? I must have the Basal Metabolism rate of a sick spastic sea slug, all I need is for someone to post "I'm in a wheelchair and lost 15 pounds in a month" that would brighten my day, not! I wanna, I needs it, why can I not do this faster and smoother? I keep forgetting weight loss is not l8ke a rocket ship as much as a old wheezy junky jalopy,that stops and starts. I don't want to ask somebody for a jump start or push me over the Finish line.

I understand that, such things do happen. Keep,up Johnnie and post us when you can. Best from me.

Since your pen name,ends in Smiley and the happiness,her impending birth,brings would you please consider the names Joy or Delight for her? I do have a friend with the second name, knowing and relating with her has been just that!

Still never an Easy Road but Oh So Worth It!😛

And all my June Bypass buddies Congratulations to all who have had their surgeries and Good Luck and Good Healing to all who are in the process Update us so we can share in your Joys!😛👍😛

Let's hope my surgeon, Bradley Needleman MD agrees!😛

I hope I have found a renewed faith in myself that I finally will make it through. I have found that I matter to others through Bariatric Pal, I was down on ME and about to give up and die FAT when I tremblingly reached out on here, read read others stories, some had come from much worse places in life than me, they had been a success and I started to think "Frusrt8, old but,imaybe just maybe YOU can do this too. I realized many life could still be lived and lived with more joy than I was having. And even now the stories of others inspires me. And in July 2018 my RuN should occur. Scared? Shoot No,I am looking to the days counting on down. Might not be anyone else's journey but it will be mine, and in long run I still do matter so much!😛🏣👍

Will be watching on June 27th for a further update. Keep your Dragon Scales shiney, we are going to make it through to the other side. And stars will fall down sparkling from the sky at that time!

On your way to July 2nd! Are you on a liquid liver'-shrinking diet before your surgery. Oh I know you must be starting to get more excited! I still haven't got a firm date, thinking middle-ish, my son keeps telling me to keep the faith but down deep I fear another roadblock or something bad happening. I want this so bad, maybe more than they want to perform it? We will get through this together and celebrate on the. other side of surgery, I have to tie a big knot in the end of that rope I've been hanging from and hold on for all I'm worth!

@ DVontesmommy1, how are things going with you? Have there been any updates to your story? Been thi,king about you this morn8ng!😛

Can my body go to reform school with call of yours. I enrolled in my new program March 9th, saw the staff psychologist April 25th, he handed me a prediet plan that I start on 3 meals 3 snacks daily along with upping fluid consumption to 64 oz and start small-sipping, yes, rather like going into training, when I met dietician, exercise person, nurse practioner on May 24th my rotten body had rewarded me with a 1.5 pound loss. Okay I have really tried to "rock the plan", upped my walking and other mild exercises, I'm 72, my days of hanging from trapezes or swinging from mo,key bars are pretty over. How has my Chunky Mama Monkey 🐵 body rewarded me? 4.5 pounds in almost 2 months, should it have been better? I gave up spaghetti and Garlic Bread for this? Sat in eating places and around watching Tomkitten chow down pizza, hamburgers et all with my self-righteous salad with a lemon juice and olive oil dressing on the side. When we went to Wendy's he got a. chocolate frosty, I popped a vanilla Equate protein shake and pretended it was exactly my dream liquid. Oh when I got my vitamins for,my deficiencies, my pre surgery labs showed a few. I've been very compliant. I should be in a stage of happy before surgery happiness, right? Why do I want to pick up my "Life After Bariatric Surgery" booklet and heave it against the wall? Is it my redhead temper coming out or am I really not cut out for this? Am I just having a PLOM moment, short for Poor Little Ole Me( thanks Mrs Gamgee)? Does everybody get these moments? Don't help when I read " I was down 25 pounds after my 2 week liquid diet, Doctor was so proud!" I sit here thinking Duhh, I must be totally screwing this up. Help, my veteran friends, perk me up!

When my father died it rocked my world. Yes I knew he hadn't been well, yes I knew his 💓wasn't First Rate, but he beaten much so much in his life, I thought he'd be okay a while longer. Late husband's Aunt Lois came up at the funeral home, mind you I had never exceptionally cared for the woman and wouldn't have minded if she had stayed home, took my hands in hers and said in a very smarmy tone "You have my Sympathy", I did not want her flipping sympathy, I wanted my daddy back, the daddy,who put me on his shoulders at parades so I could see better, no I didn't want the man lying cold in the casket, I wanted the man who looked at life with a twinkle in his eye, that saw both the joy and irony in life! Sympathy, don't give me that empty word. You could have said you were SORRY or since you professed to be such. higher classed Christian. than anyone one else in the Western World you could have offered to "pray that I would have peace in my mind and soul" But Sympathy, that you find on cards at the $1 stores . Take your smarmy self out of my face and take your smarmy sympathy with you and stuff it where the sun☀don't shine! Ta Ta!

Congratulations @New Challenge, my new Down Under friend. I'm still in training but next month💥 July💥I will receive my "call up" to the major leagues and become an RnY myself. Started my journey in August 2015, many ups,down, hairpin turns, a roadblock in February, luckily it didn't stop me completely, and I CAN SEE the Finish Line ahead. Not sure of exact date, maybe middle-ish but I do believe it will happen! Did you know our joking bypasser phrase? We all become Kangaroos because we leave Operating Theatre with our very own pouches. So I will,become a Kangaroo Kid and I am already bouncing in anticipation!💥🚩💥😛💥🚩💥

Mattymatt I have heard of weight set points, but until now I didn't realize so much bariatrictees have such a food "set point". Fruit-diarrhea, sansfruit-constipation. As a baby bypasser waiting her call-up to the "major league" and become a full-fledged RnY, I was only dreading the evil dumping demon. Now 8 see things can be hair triggered, will I ever be able travel anywhere farther than a 1/8 mile from home? Yipes, scary, but it won't stop my own journey! Next month , things are really on GO , I receive my Golden TurkeyEgg-sized pouch and become a Bono Fide 🏆Kangaroo Kid with my very,own pouch!! !! Yes can back just in time to help me CELEBRATE!💥💥😛💥💥

YLime,in my own family we call such jello,"wall ball". Story starts: my daughter had just had tonsillectomy and hospital served her these gelintinized chunks. She tried to scoop it up with a teaspoon , flew,off her spoon, through,the air, hit the wall and bounced, traveled 3-4 feet back towards the bed before it stopped. R.D. states "I don't care if it is good for me, I don't eat no bouncing food" and it wasn't the hospital' s favorite color, red, but a neon green.😲

Guess who's getting scratched off of Doctor's Christmas List! I would go in a Colorado Rockies catcher outfit or A Colorado Avalance 🌀hockey suit, because there may,be,micking and screaming and you want your shins protected, don't you?

Well well I do hope you are all fixed with your RnY, like your promo. Remember Every Day. 🎈 In Every Way. 🎈 You will get better and better! 💓,Hugs💓

Congratulations Trixie82 for a good surgery, even though I do sympathise for how anesthesia can make you feel. Now you get to feeling better, get strong , go home and start into,your beautiful new life. I am very,proud of you!😝🎈😝

And Numbheart you don't live up to your pen name,for your 💓is still soft and gentle. You are a credit to your daddy and I'm sure he loves you so also.

Well that's good to know, now I can resume my other PreSurgery worries and nightmare dreams.😪