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I've just joined a gym for the first time since my 20s and feeling exactly the same so have really appreciated this thread. Thank you and congrats on getting it done! Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

[emoji6]. It's an incredible change. You look amazing. Betting the beard bit is mainly blokes. Shamelessly stereotyping, but in my long anecdotal experience it holds true. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Slightly gutted. Your ideas all sound fab on paper and will keep.an eye on the thread, but I'm ruled by texture and whizzed up lunch has me mentally done before I begin. Never say never though! Started purees today (10 days post sleeve) with porridge cos I loved it. Puree 'safe space'. Fine milled porridge with lots milk powder added to 1%. Had idea I was meant to eat until I'm 'full', or for 20 minutes. Whichever is sooner. Though my stomach didn't totally rebel, eating was really unpleasant. Didn't like texture. Stopped when it ticked to more like nausea...10-15 TSP and approx 5g protein in. Huge win that it stayed down and I got that far, but sad the easy end of the puree scale was so tough. Usual 'Am I normal/am I doing it wrong?' questions Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Oh bless your heart. I am one of two sisters too and my sister has dieted on and off all her life succeeding periodically in hitting what they call healthy BMI, though she merrily swims a mile at a time whether overweight or creeping to obese. Her OH is terrified of the idea of unecessarily surgery and anaesthesia, so this is not an option for her and I felt me doing this might upset her. Make her feel bad about her yo-yoing. She, like your sister, has been an utter sweetheart and a rock. I she'd a year for you as you, like me, obviously love your sis and feel overwhelmed by having that support when you didn't expect it. So pleased for you. I liken readiness for this (I took 2 years from first consultation to committing, including cancelling one op), to readiness to quit smoking (did that Jan last year too). If all the intellectual arguments made sense we'd just do it, but you have to catch the right wave. Sounds like this is yours xxx Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

I read all the literature that said average 50-60% excess weight loss, about 30kg for me. Aiming for that. Wondering if I'm likely to go further. Trying to do the right things to make that a possibility. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

I'm 9 days post sleeve and not coping remotely with things going wrong. This feels like PMT on coke. I feel like I'm messing everything up, I can't think straight, I'm making my fella angry by being useless and overreacting, and I'm generally a waste of space. I ditched exercise yesterday because I couldn't find one of two things that fit I can be seen in public in, I then realised I needed to drink some protein, which I can't do on the go, if I did I would then be out of time to go out as school pick up time, but if I didn't go out I would probably find an excuse another time, then I sobbed, then ai couldn't go because I was a sodden mess. He was actually very kind in the end. Have probably been due for this, but need it to bloody go away. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Thank you :-) Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Cheers lovely people. So helps to know a cause and not feel alone I made the man take me for walkies, which here, unlike most of the country, involved blue skies, bright sunshine, and frost. More of an amble as took some snaps cos it was the golden few minutes between the sunlight hitting frosty foliage and it melting (see below). Cheered me up. Will be expecting the short fuse though. So glad I'm not at work yet. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

BTW no period for 3 yrs (45, but no-one would investigate as I'm fat...you know the drill) Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Hi there, my OH used Lose It! to dump 3st the old fashioned way and I've found it worked for me pre and now for one week post sleeve. It has configurable macronutrient goals and you can add bespoke goals. Not checked if fluids are a configurable goal, but I just add mine as X ml of whatever as snacks whenever I finish a bottle/cup and tot up myself. I'm a bit of a privacy paranoid so would never link Google fit app or say Fitbit, but you can, and when all's said and done if we're on Google controlled Android well... :-) Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Just checking in with the nutrition folks to see if I need to challenge this. Now 7 days post sleeve and no pre-op nutrition bloods. No post surgery nutrition bloods, and told no supplements needed unless test at 6 week appointment says so. Rationale: your body likely has 6 week's worth stored up. That's fine, except if you start with deficiencies, which I almost certainly do in vitamin D and otherwise due to no ovulation for 3 years. I trust my team, but I want to verify whether folk think this warrants a call. Paranoid about bone loss after being denied any kind of useful help with my PCOS and cycle issues. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Thank you both. I hadn't considered the potential issues with vitamins that accumulate unless you need them and can metabolize them. I appreciate the sanity check. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Hi there! I'm a 21st Jan sleever in the same situation as you. Hoping the pizza my kids ordered in would disgust me, but it didn't. Also delving into research I didn't see before surgery on long term outcomes...then remembering I'm unique and was 44BMI pre-surgery, up from 35 BMI 9 years ago, and relatively well considering, so I'm not in those big risk centiles. Still blows my mind I had major bits cut off instead of hitting the gym, then sensible head weighs back in to remind me how that never worked and even dietician was baffled how I got here when I gave a full and honest account of daily diet. Please rant and doubt however much you need. Decisions get better the more we examine them and just because you can't reverse isn't a reason to shut up and put up. In future they may untangle all the electrics, hormones, thousands of genes that change with the surgery and synthesize a way to save folk the knife. In the mean time you have bought yourself a dramatic decrease in the risk of leaving the people who love you too early. That is courageous, as is the work you are doing now to make the best of it. Finally...hugs. It can be so lonely Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk