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Friday night and nothing to do. - Happy long weekend everyone!  It's Friday night and I'll be hanging out at home with nothing to do.  I might venture out and do some grocery shopping if I feel frisky! LOL Oh th...

Bariatric Advantage Iron - Hi everyone.  I just wanted to share this.  I ordered some Chocolate Raspberry flavoured chewy bites Iron supplements from Bariatric Choice and I recieved them today.  They are Bar...

8 weeks out with pics. - Well here I am 8 weeks after surgery.  I remember when I started this journey and I was looking at a year of waiting.  It seemed so long, and it was!  I started my Optifast diet on...

Need a vacation!!! - Ok well, I am going on vacation tonight and I will be gone for 2 weeks.  I am excited to take the kids swimming and fishing and boating.  I am not taking my scale with me because I...

Barrie Support Group meeting for July is cancelled - I just wanted to pass along that the meeting on July 23rd has been cancelled.  We were supposed to go down to Centennial Beach but it's been cancelled due to lack of interest.  Sum...

5 weeks post op - picture :) - Well I am 5 weeks post op now and I thought I would do some picture comparisons.  I took a picture of my face about a month before surgery and then took another one today.  Here it...

How do I add a photo to the board topic? - Hi all! :)  I am trying to add a photo to a discussion topic but can't figure out how to do it.  I have tried to search for help but I can't find anything.  Can anyone offer some a...

Kinect - Well tonight I dusted off the Kinect and put in my "Your Shape" disc and started my exercises.  Let's just say it didn't go well. LOL  It's going to take a while to get in the groo...

Yikes! Sorry you had a hard time with that. I tried a scrambled egg...

Look at you! You look great! :)

Little victory - Yesterday I went to the walk in clinic because of course, I get sick on a Friday and my doctor's office is closed.  So I walk in and the first thing I do before I even register is ...

Antibiotics - Hi everyone.  I am leaving shortly to go to the walk in clinic because I do believe I have strep throat.  How do you take antibiotics?  Should I ask for liquid or capsules?  Thanks...

Post-op pain - Hi everyone.  I am 3 and a half weeks post-op and I am still having alot of pain in the muscle on the right side of my tummy.  I know that they went through the muscle and that it ...

Bariatric Advantage vitamins - Has anyone dealt with Bariatric Advantage?  I ordered vitamins from them last week and they don't seem to want to ship them.  I am getting frustrated with the whole thing. 

Question about puree stage. - Hello everyone.  I have a question.  Is it ok to drink with the meal while on the pureed stage?  What stage to we start waiting 30 minutes?  I started my pureed stage tonight so I ...

Cravings - It's been just over 2 weeks since my surgery so I haven't had food in over a month.  Some days I am hungry, some days I am not.  I am definitely struggling with the evil "head hung...

Hang in there Sirene. We all have been there and understand your...

Had my first "wow" moment. - Yesterday was the first day that I saw a difference in my body.  My clothes fit differently, my face is thinning out, my body is thinning out.  I hadn't seen the changes until yest...

The only input I got was to shoot for 60 grams of protein per day and...

Follow up appointment - I went to Hamilton for my first follow up appointment this afternoon.  What a waste of time that was.  I was in there for literally 4 minutes and only spoke to the nurse.  She took...

Just when I thought things were looking up.... - It looks like one of my incisions is getting infected.  When I took the steri-strips off a few days ago, one of the strips was folded inside one of my incisions so it wasn't closed...

Hungry so soon. - I am 12 days post-op and my stomach is growling.  I know that's not physically possible but that's what it feels like.  Is it possible to be hungry so soon out?  It worries me beca...