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I'd be surprised if it's that. I think it's that they want to eat this stuff but feel they can't so they offer it to other people and somehow other people eating it meets a bit of their own need to eat it. IOW, they are using other people as their eating surrogates. It's kind of like when a reformed alcoholic pushes other…

Hey, this is the DAILY conversation thread and no one has said anything for four days! Cat got your tongue? (And what would a cat want with my tongue anyway?) I'm hanging in there hoping for my topamax to kick in and start working so I can start working out again. I'm also planning to start working on my book every day in…

I'm 5'1" with a small-to-medium frame and I weighed 115 when I had 18% body fat and okay muscle definition. If you want to weigh that much you are going to have to have an extra small frame, a pretty low body fat percentage and not much muscle on top since you are 3 inches taller.

Hi! My advice for stalls is to track your food so you're already here!

My suggestion is to think about what kind of exercise personality you have. Do you prefer to exercise with other people or alone? Do you like team sports or individual sports? Do you like a structured program or to be more free form? Do you like outdoors or indoors? Once you answer some questions like that, you can narrow…

I had my sleeve in my 50s so no personal experience, but I can tell you that pregnancy can be tricky for people with weight problems. I used my first pregnancy as an excuse to eat and eat and eat! In reality, you need maybe 200 calories more a day -- so maybe an extra protein shake. Definitely nothing someone with a sleeve…

My favorite is Syntrax Maxtrix Mint Cookie. I order it online.

I find that what the insurance company gets billed varies really wildly. I've seen people whose insurance company was billed in almost a quarter of a million dollars! Of course, insurance paid a fraction of that as their negotiated "customary and reasonable" rate. My self-pay costs were $17000 but my program typically…

A lot of people return to work days or 1 week after surgery. I was not one of them. I went back after 1.5 weeks and, honestly, I wish I had waited two whole weeks.

I think whether or not you eat back your exercise calories depends on many things. The more accurate you are about recording your eating and your exercise and the more accurate MFP was in coming up with your calorie goals, the more you can eat your exercise calories. But most of us aren't that accurate. We tend to forget…

That makes no sense. Our bodies turn all our food I to liquid And then extract the nutrients from them. Protein is protein whether it's liquid or not.

It's been a long time since I've been here so I thought I'd re-introduce myself. I'm MacMadame and I had sleeve surgery back in the Fall of 2008. I did really well, lost all my excess weight and then some, got into triathlon, did two Ironmans. Then I crashed my bike on an all day ride that ended in the dark and rain. I…

I'm 4.5 years out... the tailbone pain was bad in the beginning but by 2 years out it went away. It just takes time learning to sit new ways and getting used to not having padding there.

I didn't have the surgery to lose weight. I had it to KEEP IT OFF. Studies show that almost no one who loses significant weight through diet & exercise alone keeps it off while the majority of WLS patients do.

There are several non-bariatric multivitamins that have just as good as stats as these guys and are much cheaper though. You do have to take a double dose, but they are still cheaper even with taking 2x as much as a normie. Nothing prevents the hair loss. The hair died in the day of surgery and the few weeks after when we…

Syntrax Matrix Mint Cookie protein shake - 2 scoops (double serving). It generally takes me 1-2 hours to finish it and by then it's almost lunch time so that cuts out mid-morning snacking for me.

It depends on the person.

I also had issues with protein. But not with iron. I had low protein even with consuming quite a bit for the first 3 years post-op. I was also training quite extensively. I had to stop training due to an injury and 3 months later, my protein was in the normal range for the first time since my surgery.

Well a plateau is when you don't lose any at all. Once you are far enough out that you only have 10-20 pounds more to lose, it's pretty hard to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week. In fact, that's a great rate of loss once you are no longer in the obese range but only overweight. You can try the following that have helped…

You can up to a point. But, if you have a calorie deficit of 500 calories every day for a week, you are going to lose a pound. If you then go out and eat those calories all in the next two days, you will gain a pound. So clearly you can't bank forever. You have a few days to play with, maybe up to a week. The only thing to…

I would trust him then. Also, I ran a half-marathon after not training for 2 months. It wasn't pretty, but I got through it. (I couldn't train due to a head injury and probably shouldn't have done the HM but... um, well, I did it. :laugh:)

Did you see a regular PCP or a sports medicine doc? I find regular doctors always say "rest" but a sports medicine doctor understands you need to train and will suggest training modifications and cross-training while you heal. Not that a sports medicine doc will never say to rest. Mine told me the last time I aggravated my…

Your stomach has stomach acids. Adding something acidic to the water helps it break through the surface tension of those digestive juices. And, while pure H2O might not have a taste, the only place pure H2O exists is in a lab. The stuff coming out of your tap (or a bottle or a filter) has other chemicals in it and those do…

This did happen to me. The guy was a pathological liar so I dumped him. He wasn't going to change and that's not something I am willing to live with.

Billy Joel soon after Piano Man came out. Martin Mull was still doing stand-up comedy then and was the opening act!

My thighs were literally the last thing to go. My tummy was second to last. You just have to keep losing weight and eventually your body will redistribute it and you will end up with the shape you are genetically programmed to have.

I stayed off the internet yesterday because it was April's Fools Day. :laugh: My goals for April are to get under 125 pound and maintain that until I am able to start working out again. I was very close last month but then I had a week of "hungry hippo" days where I felt like I was eating everything in sight. Now, MFP says…

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/celery.asp It takes more calories to digest a stalk of celery than the calories in it that we absorb. But it's still a negligible difference.

I think it's very possible to see a 2 lb. loss. I know when I got down to my desired look, I tried to stop the weight loss and was still losing 1-2 pounds a week in spite of myself until I finally got up to my maintenance calories. I was doing a TON of cardio though. I was training for a Half-ironman race and working out…

I stayed in bed until 2:30pm so I wouldn't have to be subjected to lame April Fool's jokes. :wink: