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Hey all, hope you're all doing alright and looking forward to moving slowly, but hopefully surely and irrevocably, out of lockdown. I've got my first three swimming sessions booked for next week and it'll be the first time I'll have been able to go since December! Yesterday was my two year...

A very belated Happy New Year to everyone. How's everyone keeping? I'm just sitting here watching Biden's inauguration. Glad to see the back of Trump but I suspect things are going to get worse before they get better. Between whatever potential further troubles might be ahead for the US...

Had an appointment with L&D last Friday. So, after having been told that it was a video appointment and taking a camera in to work with me, I got a call on my mobile. :rolleyes: The woman I spoke to seemed baffled as to why I had an appointment and thought that I'd requested it. All I could...

OH MY GOODNESS TAKE EARPLUGS! lol! As for the rest of what Bling suggested, I would say it's good advice. But doubly so for earplugs. When I had my surgery there was an older woman on the ward who literally shouted all bloody night long, telling the nurses how cruel they were to her, how...

Glad to know it's not just me! I spoke to L&D today and apparently my appointment has been changed to an online one and I've not been sent any details! The bloke I spoke to will send the letter out to me. On 19th November I go to have some blood drawn so they can see what my thyroid is up...

LOL, how's this for a new development? I have a sore tailbone. I've lost enough padding (my butt is still rather sizeable!) that if I'm not careful, I end up with REALLY sore tailbone. No one warned me of this! :rotflmao:

I still need to contact L&D to try and find out if they still want me to go in. I hope not. Got to speak to my local GP regarding my thyroid though! The scans showed a milky cyst or nodule and so I have to go in on the 17th for blood tests for my thyroid. At least there is some forward...

lol, you know what I both love and hate? It's a weird thing. It's my collar bones. I love that I can see them, but I cannot stand the feel of them! If I have an itch in that area and scratch it, it's actually uncomfortable!

The next day after posting my last update I got a call from a nurse from my useless doctor's surgery and so I did get my B12 after all. I'm glad I did because I think I was really needing it because I'd been getting this really awful mental fog that I just could not shift. Not so much being...

Hey all, hope you're keeping well in these crazy times! Honestly, why are people starting to hoard toilet paper again? :rolleyes: After a long struggle with getting the weight to shift, it's finally moving downwards steadily, almost back to the 2lbs a week it was pre-lockdown. I'm currently...

When I got my letter confirming the date of my surgery I burst into tears. After nearly 2 years of working towards that point and feeling like it never would arrive I finally had proof that it was definitely going to happen! What BlingBabe said about the chicken OXO in milk is spot on. It's...

Hi! Congrats on your approaching surgery! Is your surgeon giving you an option on the liver shrinking diet? I had my surgery at Luton & Dunstable and we only were given one option which was the milk diet. I could have 5 pints of milk a day along with sugar free jelly, a salty drink (Bovril or...

The gym is opening up next week but the pool is still a question, although they keep saying later in August, which is fine. How was your first gym session back?

I'm getting to the stage where if I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror, either face only or whole body I do a double take. I have changed so much over the last year and a half and am almost, literally, half the woman I was. I'm more than happy to put up with the minor annoyances that come...

Ok, so the scales moved this week -4 lbs, so yay! At the church we have a 'rogues' gallery' with pictures of the staff and important people. My picture was taken about a month before my surgery and I look at it now and almost don't recognize myself. It's funny because back then I didn't think...

I know you posted a few weeks ago and you may have moved on since, but here's my two cents. A lot of us on here had our surgeries through the NHS, so it's kind of difficult to really say as we had no real decision in who did our surgeries. Having said that, shopping for a surgeon is kind of...

I agree with Sarnie. I'm a year out from surgery and have really started paying close attention to what I'm doing and recording everything. Start with the basics, examine everything you're doing and eating and see if you can see any patterns. Look at whether you're getting in your exercise...

Pft, that 7lb loss only has led me to two weeks of creeping up again, joy of joys! @Sarnie, I am thinking that my shape is changing a lot right now because people who haven't seen me since March keep going on about how skinny I am! I'm like... nooooo, I still have another 6 st to go, which...

So I had a 7.7lb loss this week... THANK GOODNESS! I don't expect to lose like that every single week, but just want it to remain steady. If it hadn't shifted this week I think I would have jumped out of a window! Having said that, over the previous week I've been almost obsessive with...

Talked it up. I got the letter from L&D today so I'll get in touch with my surgery next week. At the time when they cancelled the B-12 shot and I explained to the nurse why I had them, she said that she'd spoken to the doctor (no idea which one) and they said that most people have too much...