u/Training_Smile4723

... But I can confirm, Suzie's is here!

Good morning and happy ArcTanGent day to the 4 dayers! I can confirm it's been very wet overnight, however no obvious accumulation of ground water here at Fernhill - at least in the area I'm in! Not been down to the arena yet this morning because, you know, it's 6am.

Dry but grey at the moment with more rain forecast later today. Can confirm it is not terribly warm overnight, with forecasts indicating it's going to get colder over the next few days! Having done 2000 Trees Festival for the last two years in over 30c heat, I am looking forward to getting some sleep without cooking inside my tent!!!

Can confirm, we've had a bit of rain this evening, but I do mean a really really tiny bit of rain (so far)

Hey folks. Gastric bypass in October 2021. Highest weight around 400lb, lowest weight 185lb, current weight around 200lb and happy there - seems to have evened out. UK size 26+ (bursting out of)/US22+, I now wear UK12/US8 and my life has completely changed, but I have one huge regret. I didn't measure myself before my surgery.

It sounds silly, especially if you have not yet had surgery, but DO IT. GO AND DO IT RIGHT NOW. GET THAT TAPE MEASURE AND MEASURE EVERYTHING. Trust me, you will thank me later.

It is hard to imagine what a size 12 is really like when you are 400lb. Also (and this is a biggy) when you are losing weight as fast as you likely will after surgery (even if it doesn't feel like it at the time - I lost 200lb in a year and it felt soooo slow at the time, which seems bonkers now).

As you can see, I carried most of my weight in my core. I have no bum, and never had, my legs were average, but my waist and my bust were ENORMOUS. When I drove, my tummy rubbed against the steering wheel. When I flew I needed a seatbelt extender. When I sat in any chair with arms, I was in agony within minutes.

I didn't do my measurements. Partly because I was in absolute denial about how huge I actually was, partly because I didn't have a tape measure that was long enough. I do know I had a 46L bra size - so 46 inches below my bust, which I think means I would be around 62 inches around my bust, BUT the bras I wore were extremely stretchy, so I was probably even bigger. Equally all of my clothes were very stretchy, so also not a good measure!

Weight loss isn't a constant. Your weight will go up and down on your journey. As long as, when you look at the bigger picture, it continues to track downwards, you will know it's going in the right direction.

I started doing my measurements at some point in my journey, I forget exactly when. I found this to be extremely helpful when the scales weren't moving, as it allowed me to continue to see progress and not get downhearted when the scales haven't moved in a few weeks.

It's not all been plain sailing, I've hit more than a few bumps along the way. But despite all of that, I'd do it all again in a heartbeat.

I hope this helps someone!

Hey! So I had a gastric bypass in October 2021 and it's been a rollercoaster! At my heaviest I hit close to 400lb, and I got down to 185lb at my lowest. I regained a little and settled around 200-210lb and was happy there.

Unfortunately, 12 months after surgery I collapsed. After this happened a couple more times I started to monitor my blood sugar and discovered I had developed severe reactive hypoglycemia. A rough year followed, and I had a revision surgery in October 2023 to help.

Needless to say, it didn't help much. A year of more crazy blood sugars and intermittent severe pain in my abdomen, and I ended up having a further surgery to repair a Peterson's hernia.

Anyway, here we are nearly 5 years after my bypass, and on 28th May 2026 my bypass was reversed, with further surgery planned in 6 - 12 months.

I was released from hospital last night. I'm home, I'm sore, and I'm honestly feeling rather lost right now.

I'm scared I've had this huge surgery and that nothing will change.

I'm scared that my tool has been taken away and that I'm going to pile all the weight back on.

My blood sugar issues forced me to follow a healthy diet. They forced me to eat a high protein, low carb diet and as such I maintained my weight. I'm scared that I'm going to be about to go back to reading terrible things and I'm going to end up fat and immobile.

I hope that I have learned enough from the last 5 years to stop me from making terrible choices. I also hope that being much fitter now should also make it easier to keep weight off.

Right now, however, I feel a huge sense of loss.

Surprisingly good for such a basic meal, however I appreciate I may be biased as this is the closest I've come to food since my "last meal" on 14th May.

Had this rash for at least 2 years now, possibly longer. It's small, hard, raised spots. Never any fluid or blistering, intermittently itchy. Most of the time it doesn't bother me, but it's bothering me that is still there, even if it has migrated a bit over time. I have seen my primary care doctor a few times over the last couple of years, and they have not been terribly helpful. They have prescribed a few different topical treatments, but with no improvement. It's not ringworm, despite being in a vaguely ring like formation!

I had similar spots on my knuckle around about the time the doors appeared on my elbow. Those however disappeared within a few weeks.

It's so hard to get an appointment with a GP on the UK currently, I feel like I don't want to waste an appointment for something that's not causing me a huge amount of bother, but I'd still like to know what it is!

So this is a throw back to a hospital stay in 2021. I had surgery on my stomach that required a 2 week milk diet beforehand, and strict puree or softer post op meals for the first 4 weeks.

Due to catching c.diff I got to enjoy an extended 3 week hospital stay, where I got to experience the NHS purée menu.

I'm told this is generally given to the elderly in hospital who have dementia, and they "reform" the food into something vaguely representing it's original shape to reduce further confusion.

Due to c.diff (also a 0 out of 10 for me, do not recommend) I didn't eat for the first 18 days post op. Finally feeling well enough to attempt food, and this is what I was served. I'd like to say it tasted better than it looked, but I'd be lying.

I'm headed back to hospital at the end of the month for another stomach surgery and have just commenced the dreaded milk diet yet again. I am prepared for afterwards this time and will be taking in my own back up food in order to avoid another plate of reformed yuck!