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    Well, you have been offline like me I see. I lost my damn password and today finically figured it out. I had used my other email address so my kids could not get on this site. Daaaa. How are you doing. I've lost 48 pounds so far. 32 left and I'm done. Tell me everything, I've missed you. I hope your doing well and healthy.
    Take care,
    Lisa
  2. Thank the Lord . I was so worried about you. Did they call it a hemangioma? One of my very good friends wasxalso born with that and just found out about 5 years ago. They just scan it every now and then to see if it has grown or not. It is so weird to think you could have a birth mark on your liver! She also has a very large one down one of her arms. Hope your steak went down well! Good night my dear friend. Ly
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    Well here is a laugh. The lesion on my Liver is a Strawberry birthmark. It has a long name but that is what it is. One of my daughters was born with a few and they went away, I always wondered where she got them from, well now I know....lol
    I don't have a galblater so that's a good thing. I'm glad you haven't binged, I actually don't think I could if I wanted to. I can eat about half a cup uf food if it's like soft veggies or stew kinds of food. I can't eat even half of that if there is meat. Today is my first day with steak, hope it will work out ok...
    Well, dinner is ready but I knew you were thinking about this so I wanted to let you know, I'm goooood. I'm feel so much better...
    Take care,
    Love Lisa
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    What are you talking about bones. You've lost 77 pounds. That is soooo good. Of course we just want to wake up and be skinny, but your doing really good. I'm so proud of you. This time next year we will go get all the skin taken off and we will be hot. I'm sorry your mom is sick, but I understand her thinking weather or not to fight. Even at my 53 years old, I'm of course thinking if it's cancer am I willing to go through what it would take to be ok. It's scary, and she is older so you can only support what she chooses and spend every second you can with her. That's the one blessing I had. We had two weeks with my mom, and I was with her every second. It was hard, but I think we all should choose our way if we have to make that hard choice. I will totally be praying for her.
    And as for you, doesn't it feel so good to have 77 pounds gone. If you think about it, that is 308 cubes of butter. Think about that, 308. I always try to think of items when I think of my loss and it always makes me feel so good. Crap girl, you could build a butter man with that much butter...lol.
    Keep that beautiful chin up. One of these months I just have to meet you. I have so much liked having one person I talk to all the time, it keeps my head up..
    Talk to you soon,
    Love, Lisa
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    Hey, how are you. I'm sorry I've not been on for a while. I've had some issues with my Liver. Not from the surgery. Had a second MRI and now the waiting. Not quite sure if my brain would explode if I heard cancer or tumor. I very worried. Wouldn't it just suck to have gastric Sergery and be loosing so good, and then fing something like that. I will be pist. How are you. How's your weight loss going. I think about you often and I hope your doing really well.
    Chat me sometime and tell me how you are.
    Take care, Lisa
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    Just read your note. More food? Hurrah! LOL!!

    I just got home from the pool. It was freaking GLORIOUS!!
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    Oh, I keep forgetting you're a month behind me! Yes, the famous three week stall. I actually gained a pound. Don't worry... It WILL come off!
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    Hey Sleeve sister!
    I am going to the pool TODAY!!!!! I'm so freaking happy!!!!!!

    I can't believe your incisions aren't closed yet. Boy, we both had a long haul! I've been rubbing coconut oil around the edges to help with scars.

    Stalling? I've only had one real stall, I think, but I don't weigh very often. I try to stay around 800 calories. Some days I am starving and feel such carb cravings that I just eat all day--some crackers, some canned fruit (apricots, yum!!!!), a biscuit--I learned this in all my successful diets. My body likes to shut down when I starve it, so now and then I have to feed it to fool it. Make sense? My big changes have been absolutely no sugarn no fast food, no take b out, and very few processed carbs on most days.

    What are you eating? Do you think you need to eat more?
    K.
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    Hi Lynda!
    Just checking in to see how you're doing!
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    My 3 big wholes are still open. I went to the Doctor today for a check up and I'm not infected but there to dry. I have still been washing with that shower soap and spraying them 4 times a day with the wound wash. Doctor told me to use regular soap now, and to keep them covered with airtight bandages because they are to dry and it's stopping them from healing. So at least I can shower regular now. Happy face. I have started loosing again, now I'm at 18 pounds lost. Happy face. Tonight I had thin sliced turkey and one piece of low fat cheese. I feel sick right now. It's the first time. I think it was the cheese. Don't want to eat that again for a while. Are you excited about going back to work, I was. It's hard to sit in the house not being able to do anything. Have you had any foods that don't agree with you yet? It sucks...blaaa. This is the first time my belly felt sick since before surgery am I'm not liking it...
    Work does keep me busy and walking twice at work, means when I get home in the dark I don't have to walk. My dog is so happy we walk twice a day. She's so happy. Well, I am off to bed, so I will talk to you soon. Have a good first day at work, I want to hear all about it.
    Take care,
    Lisa
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    My. TMI for the day is yessss, I've been so constipated. When I got home last night I finically too a normal dose of a Laxitive. all, didn't know I had to go that bed. Took a nap today, and pow all over the place.lol. Told ya tmi.
    I am glad to hear that other people get stuck about 3 weeks so I feel better. O know I'm loosing inches because people who don't know I've had surgery, have said I look like I'm loosing weight. Must be inches..better then nothing. I do get my protien, from purade Chicken, cottage cheese and protein drinks if I think I have not had enough. Getting fluids I has been pretty easy, though sometimes I forget fluids allot when I'm at work. I get busy.. How are you doing, it I think About. You all. The time. How are you cuts on your belly? I have two open and the rest are doing well. How's your healing going? When did you say your going back to work? Remember to take brakes and walk. That helped me a lot letting my belly stretch a little during the day. Has your family been helping you get your food together, or if you don't have kids, how are you doing with making you food. I don't know about you but I can't wait yo crunch something..lol. As d, but even a carrot sounds pretty darn good.
    We'll keep me up to date and thanks for the pep talk.
    Take care,
    Losa
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    Hey there. Just got home from work. I have a bedroom in Fremont where my office is so I stayed there so I could go to sleep early. I usually have a 3-4 hour commute a day, and I didn't feel like doing it this week.
    I have a question. My surgery was Jan, 19th. I weight myself on 1/29 and had lost 16 pounds. I didn't weigh myself all week because I was at work, so I came home today and weighed in. I have not lost anything. Des that sound right? I can't believe in my 3rd week I've lost nothing. I'm very upset and don't know what to think. I'm eating exactly what they have told me to and nothing. Dd you have a week that you lost nothing, because it looks like you are loosing really well. Should I be freaking out or what. My brain is telling me that I still have my stomach and that even though I barely eat I won't loose weight. Am I just nuts. I feel a bit like I'm going to flip my lid. I would love to hear your thoughts.
    Thanks for listening .
    Love Lisa
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    So glad I have you also. I'm glad I'm back at work, because I'm soon sick of sitting around watching TV. I hope you get cleared to go back to work. The time seems to fly then. The hardest thing with going back to work is remembering to eat and drink.
    I hope hinges are great and can't wait to hear from you again. Take care
    Lisa
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    How are you doing my friend. Today was my first day back at work. Long day, and I couldn't eat hardly anything, and drinking was really hard. At home it was my top priority but work gets you busy and you actually forget....lol. If someone ever told me before this that I would forget to eat I would have rolled on the ground laughing. Then I got home and ate the amount I had measure for lunch, which I new was the perfect amount. What I didn't do was eat slow. I'm an on the go person and used to earring fast and going back to what ever I'm doing. Well, big lesson, slow the hell down. I'm at right now laying in my bed with my heating pad on my belly. Omg, it hurts. Not throw up hurts but real pain I the spot we all had pain swallowing after surgery. Bet I don't do that again. Ouch..
    Have you gone back to work, and if you have how was it for you?
    I hope your doing great and I actually think of my friend Linda often.
    Talk to you soon.
    Lisa
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    L--I'm about 2 weeks away from swimming, finally, hurrah!!!!!! The smaller wound closed this week; the bigger one is looking good. I can't wait to get back on my Still's meds so I can have a life again! I hope your drain is removed quickly and you heal up. We have skinny people stuff to do!
    I'm on regular food now and learning what my sleeve will and will not tolerate. Anything high fat comes right back up. I haven't tried anything with sugar yet, just a "gut" feeling it won't be pretty. So this is great because I'm being forced to eat low carb, low fat, no sugar. I haven't been on the scale for a month (too much edema) but will once I'm swimming again and my legs unswell. Last I checked I was down 50 lbs. How are you doing on weight loss?
    K.
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Sleeved or not sleeved:
I have had a gastric sleeve.
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used to love to ride horses now cross stitch needlepoint and reading
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medical transcriptionist in a pathology lab
Name:
Lynda
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Michelotti
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2015-01-08

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