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Guess I *could* have been nicer.

Why??  She needs to hear the truth, not have rainbows blown up her behind.  Especially since this isn't the first time she's tested the water.  5 years out and maintaining?  You've got some good advice to give.  No need to 'apologize.'

Why start now?

heh

point blank this is how stupid people are!! CRAZY!!! I could barely eat yogurt 7 weeks out!! These are the same type of people who are going to ***** in a year that their surgery "didn't work". Dr Brader told me flat out pre-op that the people who die or have serious problems post-op are generally the people who do stupid stuff (eat steak 1 weeks out etc) not all of course, but many.

Jo - tell her how it is! No (pardon the pun) sugar coating there!

All I can say is Wow.  It boggles the mind.  Jo-- I loved the train wreck comment-- sometimes you just have to watch, don't you?

OMG I couldn't even read it all to much drama for me.  I don't think I have seen so many responses on one thread in all the time I've been a member.  I know that sugar is my enemy, and the white flour too.  I just hope I have the strength to stay away from both.  Tempting fate is not for me.  I am already fighting head hunger, I see it I want it sometimes.  But indulge, never.  I hope I can stay that way.  I pray for compliance every nite.  No main forum for me. 

Okay all that thread made me want to do is eat cupcakes and popcorn and that was on the 2nd page!!!!. So I ate a cupcake and am going to go pop some popcorn.

However my difference is, I am not 7 weeks post op and I am preggo. After she comes and I go back to work so no more breast feeding, I am definitely going to have to go back to basics and get my butt back on track. 

 Okay so I had to edit this. After I typed it, I went back and read this girls blog. Really she was eating cherry pie at 5 weeks out. Talking about how she tried a little bit of everything at Thanksgiving dinner at 5 weeks out?? If I am not mistaken, I didn't even hit solid foods until 6 weeks and even then it was a HUGE challenge for me to attempt to eat them. I definitely have to agree with everyone who said she will be looking for revision in a year. 

Oh and I s kipped the popcorn and am going to take my drugs and go to bed instead of eating it! :-)

First of all I  had to laugh at Norm's response of why start now? Cute Norm.  So "Normish" of you. I mean that with the utmost respect.  And second of all I will just say 7 weeks out!  Its like she is wagging her tail at the Gods!  I am only 17 months out so I most certainly am not the expert here but at 7 weeks would never ever have thought of cherry pie, reese cups and cotton candy.  I was more chaneled on protein and being able to reach my fluid goals but she isn't me and I am not her.  I look at it like this we all are in charge of our own choices and I think what has everyone upset is that she did this so quickly after her surgery.  Only 3 bites to 1/2 a bag? Cotton candy is total sugar at least with a reese cup there's protein in the peanut butter not that I would even think about it even at this point of my journey.  She will just have to find out the hard way I guess. I didn't even jump on and post on that thread.  Its one thing I stayed off of.

I wound up responding to her post when it went from a 1/2 bag of her "favorite"  food, to 3 bite, to it being 3 bites of "her daughter's" cotton candy. 

I am no angel by any means, but seriously at 7 weeks I was still struggling to get all of my fluids in and manage to eat foods. I had gone back to work a week before that for the Red Cross. So anywhere from 8-17 hours a day on the road. Man it was tough. Many days that I thought a sugar fix would be perfect to wake me up! LOL But I didn't even dare attempt it. 

I think that is what caused the uproar the fact that it was done 7 weeks out and she sounded like she wanted our blessings. And then said cherry pie with cool whip and reeses peanut butter right after surgery. I mean may as well shoot herself in the foot,