Yea - I am a ***** but about the elephant in the room...

I enjoy your posts.  I was wondering where you were lately.  Post away.  Enjoy your success.  When jealousy rears its ugly head, stomp it back into the ground and keep it moving. 

You have done, and look, remarkably well.  I hope to follow your example.  Thanks for the inspiration.

Khem

Thank you Khem! Rock your sleeve, girl!

Much love to all of the posters here.. Some of my favorite oh people.. I really have no opinion on the substance of the post. I just take people with a grain of salt, and don't post complaints very often myself (sleeve wise I have very few)... Really, I am just here for the wine.. Lmao..

LOL Fawn. You are so easy-going. I love it!

And I love to see your sexy avi on threads.. Makes me smile to see someone who deserves it, and works so hard for it, find success..

You as well Fawn! Your current av is so cuuuute!!

Hey Brandylyn,  I remember picking muskadines as a kid. My grandpa used to take us to get them in the woods in Tennessee. (to Multiplepetmom : they are a kind of wild grape with a thick skin but very sweet). Granny used to make jelly from them. Didn't know about the wine.

And I like your post, uncle drunk. I hope you put it on the main vsg forum. It took me decades to learn the lesson that even so called naturally thin people do regulate their food intake and give thought to food choices and decline food that they might really wish to eat. Its a rare person who can and does eat anything and everything all the time without gaining weight; the exception being some teenage boys but that changes. So the little ol' sleeve is what enables me to eat like one of these people only with a lot more fear and  insight perhaps when making my food choices and recording them and looking at what I need and what i don't need to eat. Its work. It takes dedication. Even those of us with relatively easy weight loss experiences didn't get there by not following our surgeon's programs day in and day out or looking for ways to eat cookies and justify it.

So go ahead and rave, you drunk uncle. I think many people are just not mentally prepared for what they are getting into for any weight loss surgery. Then when its a teensie bit difficult or unpleasant they whine. Well we all are allowed our quota of whining on this group or the other boards, but some types of whining indicates a reality check is needed.

So where can I get some muscadine wine?

Diane

 
Probably cause we all spend far to much time on OH.........

I know you guys can see the same things......

I can now read a post or posts from a newer Sleeve patient and I can give them a rating real fast!

I'm not saying I'm 100% correct and I'm not claiming any kind of superiority..... but if I'm gonna take time to help someone..... I kinda want it to work out.

The trends show up real quick and you can put them into 3 categories.

1- Definitely ain't gonna make it......

2- This person is gonna have to make some changes and discoveries but could go either way....

3- This person totally gets it! Did the homework has the right mental frame of mind. No problem...just sit back and watch the magic !!!!! Not that they won't need any help.... they just need a few adjustments along the way. But more times than not they figure it out themselves.

Although I'll take the time for anyone who asks.......I try and help the number 2's and see if I can make a difference to get them to the good side. I'm not even talking about a "do what I do" thing. More like refine what there doing.

I hope this doesn't come across as arrogant, but with more and more new people coming in everyday... yah can't make and a positive effect on everybody (except Brandilynn can)

Problem is to many people think the surgery does more than it really does and they are not willing to make the changes. The one I like is: "I had this surgery to be normal"........I'm like.... good luck with that !!!!

frisco

Frisco you are right about many of us spending too much time on OH. I know I do. Its just that I find this stuff more interesting than most tv shows in the evening. And I have had such a dramatic positive life change from the vsg that i continued to be fascinated by this subject and wish to share what I have learned as others shared with me.

I told Elina I have become a barriatric busy-body. And I rationalize that by keeping in close touch with all this stuff that I am keeping my own head in the game and promoting my own long term success. My husband asks what i am doing with all this typing and I say I am chatting with my fat friends but most are not fat anymore.

But it can be disheartening to read some posts of new people and see they are having a rude awakening and wish you could help them "get it" so they could have a good outcome. Guess its just human nature to want to share a good thing. Its easy to tell someone that I lost my weight by staying under 800 calories, 70 g protein etc etc. Its harder to tell someone that they don't have the right mindset and won't be sucessful unless they accept some things instead of trying to game the system. So be it.    Diane

Nah, not arrogant.  I totally get it, and maybe I just have a bit of the weary around the edges. 

And I also *know* very well that sometimes we say the same stuff over and over and nobody *can* hear it until they are ready, then all of a sudden they are like

HOW COME NOBODY TOLD ME!!??

Then I just need to keep pointy objects from my eyes :} .

I guess its the same reason I stopped going to the support group that I actually created on this side of town, I got weary of grown adults treating me like their "learn us how to want to do this" step-n-fetchit gal.

I mean, I guess my thought is we gotta learn to wipe our OWN asses SOMEDAY.  Might as well put hand to crack TODAY!