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- Hello everyone!! I hope this day finds ya'll feeling as awesome as I feel today :) In honor of our minds.... I'd like to offer up some fuel for them in the form of a couple quotes. The first one is hanging on my frig and is the background on my...
- Today make 3 weeks post op for me... And I have a PCP appointment this am (It's only 7:40 here in Oregon) and a ortho appt this afternoon. I have to take the bus (we only have 1 car right now).... just a few short weeks ago I'd have been a mess at...
- I never want to lose sight of the successes that have NOTHING to do with the numbers reflected back to me on the chunk of metal, plastic and readouts we call a scale... Today is day 19 post op and so far I have experienced the following: >My black...
- Wonderful article worth the read: (Link at end) This article has been around for quite awhile.... but is always a good reminder for those difficult times :) This of course is not specific to WLS folks! Why The Scale Lies...We've been told over an...
- So... as many of you know, I had a tough few days. JJ tells me my first melt down was right on schedule! LOL!I am doing MUCH better! Have come to grips that my break down was so much of the head stuff that we are destined to go thru... In fact I've...
- So, after my melt down yesterday... then my weird craving for egg salad today... i have decided that this adventure is like being pregnant! My moods were always all over the place.... Laughing one moment, crying the next... and everything...
- Recipehttp://www.dailystrength.org/groups/wls-recipes/discussions/messages/17022148:)
- I had posted this under the question threads in error (they do not tend to get as much attention)... so decided to move it over here :) I totally understand how our pouch (RNY at least) is like a funnel... and that soft foods (sliders) such as...
- In reading Robert Frost I am reminded that we (WLS people) have chosen the road least often traveled... and where would we be had we chosen the other path? For me.... I know, even thru my head game struggles, I have chosen the correct path for me! ...
- I totally understand how our pouch (RNY at least) is like a funnel... and that soft foods (sliders) such as yogurt, refried beans, etc, can 'slide' right thru without giving us the opportunity to feel full because they don't stay in our pouch as...
- Over the last 6 months I keep hearing everyone saying how hard it is to eat more than a little bit after surgery and how they get full easy, and if they eat too much they feel ill. NONE of this happens to me! It is taking straight will power to...
- Today I've been working on my future... grad school options. And today, it got real because I spent some time on the phone with a fella from Portland State discussing the options of my future. I start the process now of finding the schools and their...
- Alrighty lady!! Where are your nightly rambles??? You think you get nights off or something? :) I am here in Oregon thinking you should be posting one of your late night posts so I can read it! :) ((HUGS))Becca ~
- So..... my first post op check up was today.... :) My BP was 110/64 WITHOUT meds since surgery!! I am OFF my metformin (diabetic meds)......and.... wait for it.... wait for it.... I am down 13.5 LBS in 13 days! What a frickin trip!! Instead of my...
- Angie texted me... she is doing well :) :) Another one makes it to the losers bench!!