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Well I'm 4.5 years out so I'm eating to maintain. But here's what I did the first year: http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2010/07/calories-protein-carbs-exercise-weight.html I never plateaued and I think the reason is that every time my calories went up, my exercise went up too so it all balanced out.

What were you originally planning to get?

Studies show that people who weigh daily do better in maintenance. Also people who log their food. So I do those things. And they have helped me.

It was definitely the last to go. The other thing is that your pani has empty fat cells in it that will not go away without plastic surgery and they make it look like you have fat there when you don't. The fat cells aren't nice and flat and paper thin so they look like fat.

Yes we have. We've told you that natural means found in nature. Factories are not found in nature. HFCS is made in a factory. HFCS is man-made. Man-made is not nature-made.

To get back to the original post... I am not remotely surprised by these findings. I frequently find myself having conversations with people that go something like this: Them: I'm going to try to eat healthier. I'm not going to put any chemicals in my body! Me: Then I guess you aren't going to drink or eat anything. Them:…

Well that's kind of obvious. :wink: You are also arguing a different point than that of the OP which is that people's understanding of what it means to be "natural" doesn't seem to be based on anything logical. This is very clear when you look at the difference in the answers between whether or not adding salt to something…

Nope, not true. Surgeons want your weight to be stable but they all have different guidelines for when that is and most don't go by when you had surgery but by how many months your weight has been stable. Many plastic surgeons will operate on you almost the second you get to goal, it seems to me! :laugh: There have been a…

Practice chewing well and slowly! Start taking your vitamins now and get a routine going because routines are going to be hard to get going post-op. Buy a lot of protein powder and shake samples now but don't worry about finding one you like because post-op your tastes will change and the ones you like now might not be the…

Good luck!

Congrats! I wish my husband would get surgery. Sigh.

I waited until I had lost most of the weight. Alcohol is a lot of empty calories. I didn't want to derail my weight loss. After that, I did get bombed much faster and then I got sober much faster. It took all the fun out of it. But after a while I went back to my old normal. Or close to it. Because I weigh a lot less, my…

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If you look at the labels, Celebrate and Bariatric Advantage are good vitamins but Centrum is very comparable if you take a double dose. And much cheaper! I alternate between Centrum (or the Store Brand of them Centrum) and Celebrate and my labs are great with both.

I can't remember that far back but I was still on soft food so my menu was pretty limited. I was so happy to go to regular food at about 7 weeks out!

If your nutrition is good and you aren't deficient in anything, it generally happens at about 3-4 months out and stops at about 6-7 months. I was having protein issues so mine started way before that and stopped way after that, but that's unusual.

Those scales use bio-impedance. They are not that accurate. They vary fairly wildly based on hydration level, for one. I have one -- it's expensive and uses the same technology as the super-expensive ones in the doctor's office -- even has hand grips and not just feet plates. It claims my body fat % varies by as much as 5%…

It's weird how much the price is regional, stratusphr. My doc was one of the pioneers of the surgery... been doing it since 2000/2001. So you'd think he'd charge top prices to match his experience, right? Nope. He charges the same as everyone else in the area and definitely way less than 25,000. A sleeve is around 17,000…

I've never seen pornography, dead babies or anything particularly horrific on Facebook. I have reported it when some moron kept SPAMing a group I belonged to with ads for his bicycle wheel shop (which looked like it might actually be fake and not actually even sell anything, just take people's money). I reported his…

Oh, good point! I'm finally not doing that as much.

Good luck!

My work blocked the article. I find that ironic but probably the way the author intended.

I like Syntrax Matrix Mint Cookie and various flavors of Chike. And that's about it because I'm picky that way. :laugh:

Still in lecture mode, I see. :wink:

I don't either. Plus I'm married. ;)

There's not a lot you can do about it.... well actually that depends. For 90% of the people, there's not a lot they can do about it. The shock of surgery and anesthesia and being on a very low calorie diet right out of surgery (a lot of people can't get in more than 400 calories those first couple of weeks) causes your…

Caffeine is not actually dehydrating. That is old information. They used to believe it was based on some poorly designed studies. But it turns out that it's more like caffeine is an on switch for your bladder. You consume caffeine, your bladder says "empty me" and you pee. But the volume of pee over 24 hours isn't any…

Mine was bad at first but gradually got less noisy.

Well, I'd also say define "need". Some days I really, really WANT it. Other days, not so much. But need? No. Never. But some people really do need it. Either for physical reasons or for psychological ones.

I think being sick makes me retain water. Or maybe I think "I'm sick, I should eat something" and eat too much??