Recently I have been feeling really nauseated after eating my first meal of the day. I have not thrown up, just feel ill until I either drink some hot tea or go to the bathroom. Any ideas? Perhaps I am eating too fast, therefore overfilling my pouch before the full feeling sets in. Usually I feel sick when I have to have a bowel movement also which goes away as soon as I go. It is just disturbing because I wake up feeling fine until I eat.

I've got to say , we all are doing awesome!! We just gotta work on the head thing I guess!! Looking at the pictures on the responses we are all hotties!!! So let's just keep up the great work and worry about the head thing later!! right??!! Mary

Yes I still feel fat! Probably because of the way my weight loss is distributed -- my face has thinned considerably, but I still have this fatty spare tire thing going on with my tummy that's making clothing fit poorly. If I could get this panni removed I think I could fit into clothing 4 sizes smaller! I just reached my 10-month mark five days ago. Hard to believe it's been ten months already, huh?! -BJ the sharpei 300/181/150-60???

I still feel fat. My students everyday comment on the weight I have lost and how BIG I was. Its funny becasue I tell them I will always be a fat girl. A comment was made about a "happy ending" which a man may get after a massage *wink *wink * and all I could think about was a Friendly's Happy Ending Sundae. I know that I will always have fat thoughts. I will always think I am fat no matter what the mirror shows or the scale says. I look at myslef in the mirror too much to make sure that I look okay and I grab at extra flabs of skin and pull and tug and wonder what I would look like without the extra skin. I dirve my boyfriend crazy, but he is getting used to it. I bought the book "FAT GIRL" just because I kknew I would be able to identify with the author. Don't feel that you are alone in feeling fat. I was fat my entire life and I will always be fat. I think that will be the hardest for people who didn't know me before surgery. I make jokes about here come the fat girls to the buffe****ch out and I realize that most other people don't consider me fat and would take offense at me saying that now. It is very hard. I am sure some day we might just get used to being thin.

Hi Mary, my surgery date buddy- Yes, I feel the same way. Some days I feel the 80 lbs I have lost and others I still feel FAT!!! As in size 20 FAT!! It all depends.... My doctor calls it "body desmorphic disorder" (sp?) It's a real medical disorder where we can't see how we look, realistically. Anorexic's have the same problem. I call it just thinking like the same old fat person, we once were. It just takes time for our brains to catch up with our eyes I guess! Anyway, I don't do it every day, just when I'm a little depressed or down that day. (Just like I used to!) By the way, you look awesome! Keep up the good work! Lyn 245/165/145