Who was it that said something like "You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word."

Life is certainly better! Congrats on the two years.

At the first local meeting I went to, they went around the room asking what surgery you had, when, and how much you'd lost. One woman said she'd lost 190 pounds from RNY 6 years prior. A newbie said "That's great, but why did you stop there?"

This was funny. I understand sometimes that chickens have accidents involving an axe. I also hear they are quite tasty.

You really, really need to do better with fluids. Burning fat requires a lot of extra fluid, healing requires extra fluid. You will be constantly exhausted until you drink more. There really is no rwason at this point to have to go to the hoital to get hydrated. Try hot, cold, flavored. Popsicles, jello. Make it your number one job. Everything else will follow that.

I think taking it every single day is a bad idea. As an emergency, I wouldn't hesitate to take an NSAID, but I wouldn't take it every day.

I don't think it's a lack of padding. When it hurt the most, I still had more than enough padding. But It seems like the difference is, at our biggest, the padding is firm. After losing a bunch, the padding is floppy. It's the squishy padding that makes it hurt. After being at a stable weight, things redistribute and firm up some, and it hurts less. At least, that's my take on it.

It mostly goes away, but it takes a while. It might have been the end of year two when sitting was more normal for me.

Happy surgiversary Rocky!

More wonderful advice. I'm so very happy you are still around.

Same here. I go to the movies a lot, and always have popcorn. I don't get it with butter. Movie theater popcorn is cooked in oil, so is pretty high in calories already, without the topping.

I'm not a lady, or even lady-like. So, for what it's worth:

I've never been picked up either. I never even considered it, so wasn't afeaid. It sounds like fun though, if someone wants to give it a try.

There is no waiting period after surgery, but they prefer you wait until after you've been discharged. It caused me a bit of pain, but only because the needle from the IV was still in my arm.

There's rwally nothing to be afraid of. See how things go, and if they don't feel right, stop. The same advice applies to pretty much everything in life.

The American Society For Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery recommends 200% of the RDA for vitamins and minerals. And I hate to tell you, the Bariatric Fusion products are criminally misleading. Each chewable has only 25% of most things. To get 200% of what you need you would have to take EIGHT of those multivitamins, each and every day. Taking comparable chewables from Celebrate or Bariatric Advantage, or locally available Centrum, you would only need TWO per day.

So the pricing is really not comparable either. Taking the Bariatric Fusion 8 times a day is really, really, really expensive.

It bugs the living crap out of me that they prey upon people by sticking Bariatric in their name. They are expensive as well as crappy, and there is no way you will be able to keep up with 8 per day. Don't reward them by buying their product. Please choose a better brand.