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Small sized nonchewable vitamins? - I'm sick of my giant chewable vitamins and don't like having to carry them around with me (otherwise, I end up forgetting to take them).  I'm ready to move to a swallowable vitamin...

For the first time in decades, I let my picture be - 11 months after RNY, down about 100 lbs. and still...very slowly...losing.   Not sure I know how to add a picture....trying.    

small-sized nonchewable multivitamin pills??? - I've been taking Bariatric Advantage chewables for the past 10 months or so since my surgery and am hoping to find a vitamin pill I can swallow instead.  But the horse-sized vit...

check up today....labs are terrific! - Well I feel good and I feel like I look good.  Now I have confirmation that my innards actually ARE good.  Had a check up at my surgeon's office today and they say my labs all l...

Possibly TMI....how is it humanly possible to prod - There are some days when I feel like I fart all day long, at least once every 10 minutes or so.  Thank goodness, they usually aren't smelly and often aren't audible, but sometim...

V8 juice...12 oz. or more a day OK? - For months I've been drinking a small 5 Oz. can as part of my lunch (yes, I spread it out from the eating part by 30 minutes or so).  I started doing this because I found that a...

V-8 juice... would it be bad to drink 10-20 oz. a - For months I've been drinking a small 5 Oz. can as part of my lunch (yes, I spread it out from the eating part by 30 minutes or so).  I started doing this because I found that a...

When does hair loss usually occur....is mine late? - My surgery was April 25 and for the first  6-7months I noticed no hair lost, while I shed 80-90  pounds. In the past month or so, I have started losing hair.  My weight loss has...

brachioplasty....when is too soon? - Turns out that my WLS didn't cost as much as I feared...or my insurance covered more of it than expected...and I have about $3000 left in my Flex plan for health care for 2012. ...

checking in on my diet....7 months out - Just wanted some feedback from more experienred WLSers about whether my diet these days still seems reasonably sound, given where I am.  I am still losing, am not hungry eating ...

Confessions of a shameless clothes horse... - I admit it.  I am so thrilled with my new shape that I LOVE shopping.  And yes, I know (or at least I hope, I'm not done losing yet and spending lots of $ on size 14 clothing ma...

uh oh. WLS has released my inner shopaholic! - Today I discovered that Ann Tayor has clothes that fit me.  And that I fit in a JJill large easily, no longer  HAVE to wear wide shoes.   And that I can wear a down coat to be warm...

WLS trade off thinner vs. aged - For the past 20 years or so (from roughly age 40 to nearly 60), one of the rare advantages of being heavy is that I was NEVER  assumed to be as old as a I am.  Doctors, strangers a...

%body fat measured on home scales - I'm down over 75 pounds and went from a largish size 24 to a size 16, at 4.5 months post surgery.  I'm happy with the loss and feel great. (It's not over yet, either). What I do...

Under 200 and another size down...YES! - Just got back a day or two ago from an 18-day vacation in Germany (longest, best vacation I ever had!).  The scale says I'm down another 8 pounds and I fit in some clothing that wa...

hot flashes? for women of a certain age.... - I'm 59 and about a decade past the onset of menopause.  For the first year or two, I suffered the usual hot flashes, but for at least six or seven years now, hadn't experienced any...

OT: I'm feeling untethered, guilty and scared... - I just dropped my 19 year old son off at the Marine recruiting station. He'll spend tonight in a hotel with other recruits and leave from Ft. Meade Maryland for boot camp at Paris ...

raw almonds vs. dry roasted? - Anyone know if there's a nutritional difference? 

When a subject line says "I have a date!" - I am I the only one who thinks:  Lucky girl.  i want a date too, cuz I need to get frisky with some hunk of a man!

Can anyone explain...why does the alcohol buzz wea - In other posts folks who have had alcohol post op often say that the effects come on and disappear quickly.  I get how they would come on quickly....liquid alcohol pours directly i...

What does getting something stuck feel like? - Don't think I"ve ever had the problem and wondering  about it....

DEcided I need to add some fiber in the AM....what - No huge problems with constipation but I don't go every day and I am sometimes uncomfortable. Been taking stool softeners once a day, but I think I'm ready to add a modicum of fib...