frust8

You guys are winning the hydration game. Better that than drying up like a prune or blowing away like the tumbling tumbleweed. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Wonderful advice blizair. I'm going to follow it myself. It will be a hard road for me as well but I know I can do it. Thank you. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Blessings to you and your baby boy. Jujuwich there will be not a dry eye when everybody reads your story. Give your little miracle a hug from all of us. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

She could make a sunny day storm cloudy. Just hate people with that poisonous frame of mind. My granny would say she's full of nasty meaness. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

They sell long pillows, called body pillows at Wal-Mart and probably Target. That also might help. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Gonna be a big day for you 2 and there will be several more following you this week. Good luck to all of you! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Yeah R.D. is but you won't get her to admit it, so she's far from weight loss surgery. Her ass is wider across than mine and at 323 lbs nobody is going to call me petite. She got her daddy's thicker wider bone structure, her pinkie finger is the same size as my ring finger 6.5, her ring finger is 9,5. But she thinks she's just right. I used to get out of breath yelling at her so I've just shut up most of the time. Everyone has a relative like that, I have the dubious honor of having given birth to mine. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good keep going, I love hearing from you. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

At least your family sort of communicates, when I tried to tell my daughter I'd be having surgery she started talking about her left knee needing more repair. I should have yelled Are you listening to me? I'm planning major surgery, after all. That's why her name is RD short for Rotten Daughter. Oh I could go on and on but then there wouldn't be room for anyone else's rants. Nuff said. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Ready4change88 how's things going today? You've been home a few days, are you meeting your fluid goals okay? Think when I have my surgery that will be a sticking point for me. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

How about limburger cheese and sliced(i prefer vidalia) onions in rye or pumpernickel bread. That's my liverwurst'--. Type guilty pleasure. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Louise look for Post under kakatlady612 they changed my nom de plume on here. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good idea tanyamann32, hope they give you some answers. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Yes your operation made a change in you, could you be experiecing the other big change of womanhood? Sure sounds menopausal , only other thing that comes to my ever- whirling brain is the Biggie CANCER and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, no maybe I would but I wouldn't wish that on You. Best get it checked out,my dear. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Amen Kim, I'm paddling that canoe also, think I may put a garden out when the weather gets warm enough, do more walking, & maybe take up biking. I've got to stop being a couch potato or a bed recliner. It just hurts so much, I need that surgery tool to get over that hump. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

@jeez sleeved Louise so happy it all did good for you and your weight journey. I have felt you were a distant friend but still a friend. I haven't made it to surgery yet, check my Change Your Hospital posting and you'll find out what I had happen. But I'm going forward, I may be an American mutt but I have hybrid strength and enough stubbornness to be divided in 3 parts. I'm going to be a winner in this race, I'm not giving up. This going to be the sweet spring of my life! Keep,up the good losses, that's over 2 of you stones isn't it? Hurrah! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You look good, no longer the shape of Kansas, you're a clean lean version, this is a Jayhawk that could fly staight and true, and what's more you're true to yourself. You are a fine fine lady and you inspire me. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Are you commited to make it succeed, even if in maintainance you can have only a miniature amount of any of them? Can you say those don't attract me any more? I'm saying this for myself as much as you, the way my journey has gone I've almost given up at times. But I look at the future sans WLS and it's UGLY. More pain, more crippling, more organs and body systems breaking down from the strain, waking up to a heart attack or not waking up at all. Having my son some bright morning finding me dead. Sheeet I'll crawl across broken glass if necessary. Better the life after than the life I have Now. Sure it's scary, you're human, no reason you wouldn't be except for the fact you're doing the right thing, at the right time and for the right reason. Let's put our Big Girl panties on, pull them up just enough we don't give ourself a wedgie and March forward. Are you with me? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

My good gosh I would not have recognized you 2 and I mean it in a good way. Going to watch your video now. Best to both of you. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Mattymatt it's really good idea, I think I have messed up there myself, wanted to pick a fight with someone on BP Friday, I was out of sorts and I think hydration might have been it. I'm going to watch closer so I can stay myself. Looking forward to your day, after my seminars this weekend I hope to have some news myself and be moving towards my own. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Show him a good example and he might,just come around to it himself. Good luck and keep the faith. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I'm a Columbus Crew fan, we just beat Toronto and will be in a,match with Montreal in a few days. Our other worry, keeping Anthony Precourt, the owner, from moving our guys to Austin Texas. Austin's a nice enough place but it doesn't need our guys there. Glad you didn't have holey moley old granny panties on. Good luck with your shopping mall trip. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hope you don't end up in a turban or something but que sera sera. My late mother-in-law wore black velvet to my wedding. We have pictures of my late father-in-law scratching his head like he had fleas. MIL was peeved for a while I didn't utilize groom's adorable(her term) 2 little girl cousins. Also mad we didn't have more music, what was it, a rock concert? At the end right before the benediction which I had asked my pastor to do, my friend Connie sang the Lord's Prayer. I still think it was a beautiful touch. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Beauty may come Beauty may go But wit, brains and a good sense of humor That makes it all for me Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Leslie.( And all the rest of you.) good to hear from you again. What I want to share I hope doesn't cause any offense. I joke that I live in Bible Belt North, a fair amount of gospel music moved in from farther south, think,Kentucky and Tennessee. There's a song keeps running through my head: Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now Gonna make it to Heaven somehow The Devil, grabs ahold and tries to turn me around We all have our devils, our self-doubts, many of us even say "oh I can do this on my own" well it just doesn't work, I've tried every diet known to man, up to and including starvation. What weight I have lost was rubber, it bounced right back on and sometimes it brought friends. Don't waver in your resolve, surgery is your hope and future tool, trust you are doing the best thing for future health, an inceasing lifespan and the fitness to walk proud and strong. Some of us, moi,included, are one step away from spending life and traveling through the rest,of our days in a wheelchair because our legs gave up, they said(in Spanish) No Mas! I ain't a -doing that no more. You weigh less than I do but I'm 4 inches taller and 80 lbs heavier. Oh,i'm not proud of it and I'll have quite a road to make it down to the size 15/16 I do dream of. My surgeon says a normal BMI weight,would be 144 to148 lbs, I will never be there short of cutting my esophagus in two or severe chemotherapy. My dream weight would be 175 but I'd even accept up to 190-195, that's the size I was when I visited BC in 1967, I was not petite but dang I was muscular and fine then. Doubts? We all go through them, I myself am in limbo or maybe its purgatory? I finished all my prerequirements, thought I was done, I had jumped through every known hoop, was waiting on a surgery date,& received a call from surgeon's office. The 3 bariatric doctors in the practice had a commitee meeting and decided not to perform my surgery. Their excuse(mind you I don't believe this) I wasn't emotional stable or had a lack of something mentally. Bovine excrement, I asked for more clarification, she said Dearie(oh I loathe people calling me Dearie) I don't know if I can explain. When I saw the psychologist in my adult son's presence I was told I had passed all questions with perfect answers and she would forward her notes to the practice. What happened? So I will apply to another bariatric facility, I have 1 seminar Friday March 9th, another March 10th. I will have my records released to whichever one and go on from there. I've screamed my screams, cried my cries, now I'm picking myself up and progressing onward. Why don't I give up? Because not having surgery, continuing on with this fat tired and aching body is a step by step path to my death, I fear surgery less than the vision I see. So doubts, I'm the chairman and CEO of that club, and I must have missed my election but I'm stuck with the job. If you want to talk more, I'm always here to listen. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app