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  1. Jo777

    Hello

    Hi there! I'm another longer-term sleever (same surgeon as Jackie.) I'm coming up on my 7 yr anniversary in April. Still maintaining 100lbs down.. I am about 25lbs over my "happy" low weight, but have been for several years now as I do not diet.. I can, just choose not to :) I still have...
  2. Jo777

    Trish477

    hey- just wanted to chime in here on a couple things, welcome! The hair loss is scary, but normal and usually temporary. I would shed like a nervous cat and clog the drain with every shower, it passed. It happened before when I crash dieted back in my 20's and lost 120lbs in a little over a...
  3. Jo777

    Jo777

    Hey! I'm still kicking. It's been a rough ride in my personal life. Not been online much- FB or otherwise. Got a job I loved, got booted likely to save money (last on/first gone.) Got another job now I like, but pays for crap. Learning new things though is the payoff.. Our favorite 16yo cat...
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    Head hunger? Sleeved 1 week ago.

    I can't tell you which is which.. there's all sorts of things people say "if you are wanting x, y, z then it's head hunger.. I don't necessarily agree with that, sometimes I'm actually hungry and XY or Z sounds really good! You are really early out and not really eating much of anything, and not...
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    If you do this, you MIGHT be an Orthorexic

    Granted, I am one that says adjust your level of carbs to your personal tolerance, and one who does see some interesting studies out there on IF.. but doesn't intentionally IF if I am hungry (I'm not a morning eater, never was, never will be.. but there are times when a bowl of Grape Nuts and...
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    Back home, kissing x revision.

    I would def say NO to treating yourself like a sleever.. I treat myself as a normie as a sleever, which means intermittent vites. Once a year or less I get a full vite panel and nothing has been low- save D, when I don't supplement, which I try to since it's a good thing to have in a good...
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    A real time support group for all us surgically altered fat folk

    & make sure the popsicles don't have xylitol, it's toxic to dogs!
  8. Jo777

    Here’s a “Box of Chocolates”….

    I just read the news here a short while ago. I had a couple moments of not believing/understanding what had happened. I'm really sad to hear this. He had reached out for advice about the VSG for his wife pre-op.. he was a really wonderful guy.
  9. Jo777

    Whodunnit? (Help Identify Animal Tracks in Snow Please.)

    My sister has fishers where she lives in CT, they live on a lake and have had a couple make appearances, along with a juvenile moose, and the neighbors chickens.
  10. Jo777

    New DS revision!

    Welcome! Band first I presume? I also went to Mexicali for Dr. A.. about 5yrs ago. He was a good surgeon, sad he died before his time, he did a good job and the hospital/staff was top notch. It was my first time doing "medical tourism" but really set the bar for me.
  11. Jo777

    officially old enough for Senior Housing!

    I would love to find a good intentional community to move in with.. Being child-free (dislike that term, but better than childless or non-breeder..) I do get concerned with social outlets as Todd & I age. We have a nice friend-circle of other people that never had kids, but still. I would love...
  12. Jo777

    Sometimes, when you hear hoofbeats, it's a zebra

    It's scary and rough seeing your parents doing the slide, one way or the other, mentally/physically. Really happy though that you'll be needing to plan for another birthday party and that it wasn't the big C.
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    Happy to be here! Investigating band to VSG

    Hi there! This board is really the only one I bother staying active on at 5 years post-op. I'm not a revision VSG, but I have had my share of huge losses in my past, pre-op, the one biggie from 300+ to 155 way back in my 20's.. I'm almost 43 now, and had my VSG right before my 38th. I weighed in...
  14. Jo777

    Update...met with surgeon

    Thinking of you! I'm hoping they see something and get it fixed!
  15. Jo777

    Hunger

    @DSRIGGS - I def don't have a lot of willpower, I don't believe in it either! :) I was MO solely from way, way overeating. My metabolism wasn't wonked at all, and I never had problems losing when I bothered to eat well.. I just ate way too much at a sitting, and mostly carbs.. I knew then that...
  16. Jo777

    Hunger

    I don't have a DS, so don't have the same body-nutritional cues. However, a sleeved stomach (ghrelin) is the same- but I find my hunger now compared with pre-op is possibly less, since I never stopped eating before once I started. I get physically hungry only a couple/3 times a day, that true...
  17. Jo777

    Another good thing?

    @JackieOnLine - you'd prob appreciate this- the package stolen was a fairly expensive shipment of incense (yes, just incense :) ) and since we live in a cul-de-sac, with limited traffic, I walked the block a few times sniffing the air trying to find the fucker with my Japanese aloeswood...
  18. Jo777

    Hoping, Frustrated, and Making Deals with God

    One day at a time is all you can do, and each day is another day to put the pressure on them! The insanity that you are having to deal with.. sorry you can't reach through a phone line and strangle someone like they can in cartoons. :)
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    What You Need to Know for the Duodenal Switch. Written by David F. Greenbaum, MD

    I don't live with the DS, but the 2 movements in the am, and possible one in the PM sounds about right from what I've read here and elsewhere, plus it seemed a pretty decent post overall regarding the DS. Amazing that the other place actually posted something useful. editing, for privacy of a...
  20. Jo777

    Howdy from Montana!

    I've been catching wind about the crap going down with the "family" on FB.. I can only imagine the stress it's creating. Insane. Sorry that distance and/or the other half can't intercede to fix the drama. I hope whatever it is blows over and you guys can get really settled, it looks gorgeous out...
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