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For instance.... how stoopid dieting is . Especially for a larger or athletic person.
I was like a photogenic weight maybe five times in my life .... always involved hours ( and months ) of strenuous exercise every single morning... a ten mile run or crazy long rollerblade ... and I always did the stop and stare in the deli ... look there?s a cookie ... look there are pistachio nuts I?m not allowed to eat .... and maybe a sandwich...
you know am I NUTS ? Someone would have loved me at whatever size ... I didn?t like myself ... I simply couldn?t accept myself.
I NEVER want my girls to feel that way .... and I look at pictures and just say you were SO pretty.... but obviously miserable.
todays food - fat free milk . Salsa . A bit of potato stix ( still less than 1/4 down in the first container after a week of grazing) .... maybe a bite of cold pizza . Seems like such a waste of food and money to get a lunch special and then ignore it and eventually throw it out . Very frustrated.
the cold cuts already went down the garbage hatch ****ouched) as did a chicken and broccoli lunch special .
I simply can?t eat anymore.... and the laugh is I would have given ANYTHING not to feel hungry years ago .
To be slim and sexy and under a hundred lbs ( not that that?s true even now ) ... but even then I worried what would happen to say my heart if I starved myself.
I have a few dancer friends ( not strippers but ballerinas and male ballet dancers ) and a few years after they retire ( at like 25-35) they usually have serious heart problems from starvation.
The heart muscle dissolves and is only adequate to supply blood to a ninety pound body ... and if she?s one-thirty after retirement it gets enlarged and eventually results in heart monitors and heart failure. No joke . super scary . The boys are often anorexic too ( or bulimic ) quiet as it?s kept .
There?s a guy on here ... he doesn?t post a lot but i believe he came from a big weight. And he?s smart and loved and kool n th gang and does something internet based . Smart as hell .
and the most amazing thing is... he?s here he?s loved and appreciated and we?re all cool .
we have way more in common than we don?t . There?s no size shaming here .
At all ... I know it?s hard to believe but you?re actually truly loved and appreciated for the person you actually are . It?s a love thing !
Call it hippie dippy ( which several boyfriends ( and political opponents) have called me and like EVERYONE on this website ) but I?m not ashamed of being an optimist and ... it feels WONDERFUL to really feel loved , appreciated and accepted. 
If he?ll talk with U ... he?s got much more experience than I do ... I think he?ll reach out ....
And I?ll always b here for U ... and You?ll never trust m and it?s okay .
I ended up being a skinny ***** ( maybe a dying ***** ) ..... I mean REALLY?!!! Now I just have to work for health and youth and even EATING I guess...
No ! I give her formula and cream of wheat .... and just recently chewed up fresh mozzarella cheese which she swallows like an eager baby bird ( also homemade spinach , beet , carrot , applesauce and banana baby food ) .
My bigger almost one year old grrl has self toilet trained ( to the point I'm looking for tiny underwear because she no longer needs or wants a diaper... when she needs to pee every few hours she just jumps or rubs her legs together... ) and she loves chewed up hot dogs ( no teeth yet .... you can feel them but they can?t bite and haven?t broken through the gums ) and the same chewed up fresh cheese and salad ...
they seem pretty happy .... we all wake up together and they smile at me and hug me and get sat upon the toilet ( the bigger one Katy) and the little one fills her diaper and everyone gets a butt bath, a fresh diaper and a walk about outside ( after a meal ) . We?re just a normal family.
At this point, you have got to do what's BEST for you my dear new friend! If you feel this is a step you need to take then I would investigate EXCELLENT WLS surgeons. Not just anybody! Surgeons that have done over 15,000 Gastric Sleeves like Dr. Alverez at Endobariatrics or better yet a surgeon who does all WLS, Dr. Ortiz at OCC. These two really know weight loss surgery and they incorporate you into their WLS family and are "always" there to answer your questions. Cost is on their websites. They are very transparent! Email them both to see what your best way to go is.......WE support your decision to go forward here on obesity help....Let's show this wonderful person huge support my fellow OH members! ?
When I started this journey approx a decade ago..I had NO idea I?d end up with two adorable little kidz , beautiful homes , financial security and sweet younger boyfriends.
You Do learn .... the lessons aren?t always easy but it seems like you can catch up .
Unfortunately now it seems like a serious health issue caught up with me which makes it very difficult to go out to sea especially since we?re traveling to different countries . Well life is a risk ....
food today - anything I can get down from pork n beans to orange juice . It IS really scary to leave the land of Chinese , Mexican , Greek and Thai takeout and just go .... being unable to eat .
But milk and baby formula ( which is basically Ensure ) are foods too ... bananas, mangoes , papaya , conch salad in the Bahamas , ceviche everywhere else .... these things I can eat .
I may be just turning Vegan or what they call pescatarian ( someone who eats fish ) .. I notice I?m much more interested in tofu than meat .
And funny ... I never understood ladies lying around a pool in lounge chairs .. now I'm that lady in the big hat sexy bikini and sunscreen! And happy to do it .... is this AGING?
Ok you have me totally confused. Are you traveling with the two little kids?
Ensure is no where near baby formula two totally different things. I hope you are not giving the young one Ensure she should have baby formula.
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Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
I?m a coleslaw expert... because I too adore it . Buy a bag of freshly shredded cabbage ( 1.39 ? ) a bottle of fat free hidden valley ranch and a bottle of the coleslaw dressing.
If you can?t find that just buy an envelope of dry coleslaw dressing. One envelope is enough for six bags of salad because you?re mainly using the fat free ranch dressing.
mix a little of the dry stuff with water and get it to your taste ... you might want to add salt and pepper. A lot of times I just use the Hidden Valley fat free ranch dressing alone and it works great ....
what I at least can?t tolerate post op are fatty mayonnaise based dressings . This is a great tasting workaround. Actually tastes a LOT better than what you can buy expensively in the deli.
And obviously it?s a lot less calories and much more healthful.
When I started this journey approx a decade ago..I had NO idea I?d end up with two adorable little kidz , beautiful homes , financial security and sweet younger boyfriends.
You Do learn .... the lessons aren?t always easy but it seems like you can catch up .
Unfortunately now it seems like a serious health issue caught up with me which makes it very difficult to go out to sea especially since we?re traveling to different countries . Well life is a risk ....
food today - anything I can get down from pork n beans to orange juice . It IS really scary to leave the land of Chinese , Mexican , Greek and Thai takeout and just go .... being unable to eat .
But milk and baby formula ( which is basically Ensure ) are foods too ... bananas, mangoes , papaya , conch salad in the Bahamas , ceviche everywhere else .... these things I can eat .
I may be just turning Vegan or what they call pescatarian ( someone who eats fish ) .. I notice I?m much more interested in tofu than meat .
And funny ... I never understood ladies lying around a pool in lounge chairs .. now I?m that lady in the big hat sexy bikini and sunscreen! And happy to do it .... is this AGING?
Here's the thing .... no one is going to support you so get over it .
This is YOUR decision no one else's .
For a few scary weeks feeling alone will be hard but in the long run you're much better off saying that you're taking the weight off through diet and exercise ( which is true by the way ) .
And when it permanently stays off ... let the skeptical bystanders be amazed :)
We have one guy who never told his wife
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
