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1) At rest, muscle burns 6 calories a day, while fat uses 2. 2) Being even slightly dehydrated will slow down your metabolism. Stdies have shown that people who drink 64 oz of Water a day burn more calories that people that burn 48. 3)Energy drinks DO work, but you have to carefully monitor your heart rate and it is of no benefit if you lose sleep, since sleep is much more important. 4) small, healthy Snacks in 3-4 hour intervals will keep your metabolism going better than big meals with nothing in between, and skipping meals decreases metabolism more. 5)Spicy food, specifically those flavored with chilis, speed up metabolim, but it is unsure how much. 6) It tak…

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I …

I am looking for a buddy to converse with thru this process...I hope to be scheduled for March

Next week I have my nutritionist and psych eval. So I assume I will be able to have surgery sometime either late Dec. or early Jan. This really isn’t what has been bugging me, so bear with me. I have been overweight probably the last 20 years of my life. Through all the obvious hardships, and ridicule, I have maintained the "I don’t care what people think attitude". During vacations, I have tried to act as if I wasn’t hurt by the fact there were many things I could not do because of my weight. About a year and a half ago, I attempted a very radical self diet/exercise program. I would eat less than 1300 calories and work out very rigorously to near 600-800 calories burne…

Hey! I'm 25 and just found this site a few days ago! I've been reading a lot, but reading other people's post pales in comparison to actually having your own friends. Feel free to add me! Please I need all the support I can get!! I'm a unique case, I have sever heartfailure and am having the sleeve in hopes of loosing enough weight to get on the list for a heart transplant! -G.

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I …

hi Everyone I am so excited I have my surgery date for October 16th!!! I've had a few people tell me that I failed the band so I will probably fail the sleeve too. those comments really get me down but they also make me want to work harder and prove that I can do it and that I can lose the weight!!! :-)

Well, tomorrow at 4AM, my sleeve and I are driving from west coast Canada to Missiouri. I have asked on the NUT forum about food ideas or travelling & I think I am set. I have shakes, cheese strings, hard boiled eggs, LF ham & turkey, US applesauce, LF greek yogurt and lots of water.My cooler will be well stocked LOL!! SO I will be away from the forum for a week & will miss checking in to see how everyone is doing, I won't be using the app, as I will be data/roaming and just not gonna incur those nasty costs while travelling LOL!! Hope everyone has an amazing week !!!

I don't think I slept for more then 3 hours (with Ambien). I was in and out of sleep the whole time. It wasn't because I wasn't comfortable...the wires didn't bother me at all. I just couldn't get into my deep sleep. Has this happened to anyone else - do you think I will need to re-take the test? I'm pretty sure I don't have sleep apena...

Well went to see primary doctor and had blood drawn for the A1c test. My b/s levels have ranged between 77 & 117. Haven't gone over the 117 mark in about 2 1/2 months. Hopefully that's a good sign. I am about to go to spend the night in the hospital to find out if I no longer have to share my bed with a mask and a hose....alas C-pap machine. Gonna be 'wired' so the tech can monitor my every sound (oh joy ). Hopefully I can give them back their machine and wave bye-bye to it as I leave....sorta. Has anyone else had to do the sleep study to 'officially' be declared Sleep Apnea(less)? Plus, my primary said I only have to take my blood pressure meds for a while l…

So 82 pounds and 7 1/2 months later, I just played hide and seek with my 6 & 2 year old. Woo-hoo!

Ten days until my surgery. I am so super excited and I can't wait for this! I think waiting is the worst part, knowing how much better life is going to be, I want it now! Apart of me is still very nervous though as well. The 31st my four hour pre op appointment. How did post ops deal with their anxieties before surgery?

I highly recommend "The Expert's Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery", by Garth Davis from TLC's show, "Big Medicine". It's helped answer a lot of questions I have regarding all stages of the process. I especially like the chapter called "The Honeymoon Period," which talks about ways to end emotional eating. Has anyone else read this or have other recommendations they'd like to share? books, blogs, websites?

I really hate to be posting this but I have to be accountable to someone. I am almost 2 years out. Started at 331 got down to 224 (107 loss). Well guess what? I am back up to 264!!! 40 gain!!! What the heck happened? It really hit me today. Cold front blew in so I had to put on my jeans. OMG!!! So tight but I refuse to get a bigger size. I am misarable. I decided to go ahead and wear them to show myself what a failure I am right now. The sad thing is I know exactly what went wrong.....I started eating the bad stuff again and no exercise!!! Where do I start from here? liquids again? Just start eating better? How did I let this happen!!!!

For the 1 year plus veterans, does the weight loss continue past the 1 year anniversary if you are not at goal? I am within 10 pounds to goal, but losing at 1 - 2 pounds a month will put me past my 1 year surgiversary. Thanks for your thoughts.........

I'm going to a costume party tonight. It is byob (which is good) however I need suggestions on what would be good to drink. I don't do well with carbonation so beer is out :-(

I am only 10 days post op but find it so funny to have so many leftovers. I am in shock that i can only eat half or less of a jello or pudding cup. Before i could eat all four or six in a package. I don't think i will ever finish my can of refried beans.

So to all you work out fanatics, when you are doing an intense workout, do you find that you need to eat more to fuel your body? I'm only a 2 weeks out but started back to a cardio drills class that I love. I know it's a little premature but i modified to fit what worked. Problem is, I'm HUNGRY!!! I don't feel like I'm getting enough food to fuel a workout like this. Thoughts?

Ok, I have just read on another post that Explosive Farts, Loaded Farts is an issue after the sleeve. WTF, I can't be Sharting Myself..... I wouldn't be able to live with it if I Sharted my self at Work. Is this really an issue??? Did YOU Shart yourself??? Please Tell, Please, please, Please. IMABear

I'm almost 4 weeks postop and have had continuous abdominal pain- surgeon told me today there is nothing else he can do for me. Told me maybe I should see a chronic pain specialist. I've never had pain like this-I'm devastated I may never be pain free again. Maybe God's way of teaching me some lesson .

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Here's a place for us to share info on our pre-op diets - how long, what you are allowed to have, what kind of protein shakes you like, and ideas to make protein shakes palatable after umpteen days of nothing else!

I am still in the pre-op phase and today at nap time with my 3y/o daughter I had a horrible dream. I was going in for my psych eval and three "professionals" met me in this office. I use quotes around the word because they acted anything but professional, eating and drinking and interrupting me, it was ludicrous! Any ways I had to get two out of the three of them to sign off on my eval and I only managed to get one to sign off because, as she said, I was pretty and she liked beautiful people. The second one wouldn't sign off and she refused to tell me why. The third one refused to sign off because she asked me what my worse fear concerning the surgery was and I said "Deat…

Anyone from Long Island? I'm looking for VSG friends. I had my revision from Lapband to Sleeve Aug 15th. -Emily

Hello everyone I'm 20 years old from Cali just got APPROVED for my vertical sleeve on Wednesday soo soo happy!!! I'm lookin for Sé advice from others on post op and pro op I.. I'm so excited for this new lifestyle struggling with my weight all my life words can't explain how much this surgery means to me ! Looking for some support and knowledge from those who are waiting or have got sleeved ! Thanks

Is anyone having problems with the VST app? I'm getting multiple notifications for subscribed threads, but when I get on the app, there isn't anything new. Also, I've had subscribed threads disappear. The constant notifications are draining my battery. I think I'm going to have to remove the app. Anyone else having these problems? Sent from my iPhone using VST

I had my surgery in Mexico on September 21. My husband didn't tell his parents until after I left for Mexico. My husband didn't tell them not to tell EVERYONE and there MOTHER!!! So I'm a little perturbed by that.. I told my sister (which I KNEW I shouldn't have) so today I get a call from my aunt asking me 50 million questions. When she talks to me, it's like I'm STOOPID. Granted she is a nurse, married to an ER doctor, but d@mn, I can read and research too!! Why can't people keep their mouths SHUT??!?! Sorry for the ranting and raving....

Did any of you decide to have your doctor go ahead and remove your gallbladder when you had your sleeve surgery? I really don't want to have a gallbladder attack in the future but I also don't want to have to take meds to prevent an attack every day either.

I’ve done all of my pre-op stuff (I’ll be starting the diet on October 31), and my surgery date is scheduled for November 14. I’ve been keeping my boss up-to-date on my appointments, and I’ve been saving all of my sick leave (currently up to 157.75 hours, with 0.25 hours of comp time, and 58 hours of annual leave). I only expected at least two weeks off, and some change. When I call the hospital to make sure before I put the leave in the system, the nurse said that she would like me to take 4 weeks off! Whoa! Not that I mind having 4 weeks away from some of the idiots that I encounter on a daily basis, but has anyone else been told that they need this much time off.…

I was sleved 8/21/12 and I am down 24lbs. I am at this horrible stand still and have been for 2 weeks now. I'm not gaining but not losing either. I need to start some type of regular exercise routine but need a serious kick in the pants. I have a 2 yr old and I cant drive due to my epilepsy. As much as an hour at the gym sounds fabulous it just isnt feasable for me so frustrated I have become and need some type of help getting out of this slump. PLEASE HELP ANY ADVICE IS WELCOME!

So if I could offer a little background first. I was banded in march of 2007. I quickly in six months time lost 120 lbs. I ran 20 miles a week and ate a very regimented diet. About a year later I stopped losing weight. Never reaching goal. I began struggling with food and eating. Chicken fish and beef became impossible. I turned to soft foods that caused me less discomfort. Weight began to slowly return. But I just increased my running to compensate. April of 2009 I had a fill to help control my appetite. It caused my stomach to be closed. No spit even went down. The tubing had been kinked and I had to have emergency surgery and spent 5 days in icu. I wished then that I w…

I've been researching and planning for this day for a year and a half. My brain can not possibly retain any more information. I'm lucky that my husband is supportive (though terrified) and my parents are so proud of me. I've been nothing but super excited until about an hour ago. The nerves are starting to creep in. I had a brief "Oh my God what am I about to do" moment that quickly passed. I think I'm mostly dreading the whole hospital stay. I know its only one night and it will pass fairly quickly and I guess if I have to be nervous about anything, why not my very first hospital stay?

November 1 will be 2 years for me. I am struggling in the worst way EVER!! I lost 107lbs. Went from 331 to 224. Now...Im back up to 263. So extremely disappointed in myself. NEED HELP DESPERATELY!!!!

We are staying in this fabulous 5 star resort.Got bumped up to a Grand Suite! To fancy or words I say! My family wants to go to this fabulous international buffet now and I somehow dread this. When will this get easier for me? FYI,I had half a glass of red wine and of course my inhibition slightly reduced thus my lust for food, but thank goodness my sleeve is faithfull. Just saying.

Hello!!! I was sleeved on 10/18, so I am officially 1 week post op. since surgery I have been on a clear liquid diet. Today at my one week follow up appointment the nurse clinician advanced my diet to full liquids. I was so excited to go home and plan my first "meal" post surgery. I was absolutely shocked at how quickly I felt full and how great something as simple as tomato Soup tasted. Is anyone else out there recently sleeved? How is the diet progression going? Is anyone nervous about trying new foods?

So I went for my six month check up (a month late). I've lost 87 lbs...woo-hoo! My doctor said I'm doing great. While we were talking I asked what he thought my goal weight should be. He said the government guidelines say I should be 135. I started cracking up. I told him my skeleton weighs more than 135 lbs. Under 150 people start asking if I'm sick. So here is my question...what bobble head decided what I should weigh? No wonder we are never happy. Others have "goals" that are completely unobtainable for most of us. I don't want to look like a runway model. I call them hangers. I'm still a woman. I still like curves. I just want them in the right place at a healthy …

Hi! I'm looking for anybody who has had the sleeve and is located in Long Island. I am in pre-op testing phase and would love to get some personal insight into life after the sleeve! Anyone interested - I'm fun I promise Thanks in advance!

Hey. My surgery was oct 22. I am 2 days out. The burping is killing me. I never really burped before so this is all new to me. It's quite annoying. Every time I take a sip of water or a tiny bite of jello I burp non stop for about 10 minutes. Anyone else go through this???

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ANY JULY 2012 SLEEVERS?

Hey how are the September sleeves doing? I am guessing we probably don't come back here as much now a days....life moves on so to speak . I am doing great, I remember pre-op being so worried at what life would be like post op,as much of my life centered around food. God if I only knew that all that worry was not worth it. Life feels so normal now. I have been traveling for 2 months now, so my at home reality is a bit skewed...but at home my day almost always includes a work out, it helps me get through the day, ESP at work. I am lucky my work fully endorses a healthy lifestyle and has its own gym on site, complete with teainers. We are all encouraged to use it, so…

Hello, I've been reading this forum for a while.. Well about a few weeks and I have finally decided to join. I jsut finished my last Pre surgery appt w/ the crazy shrink! I am just waiting for all the other Dr.'s to send in what is necessary so I can get insurance clearance. I've decided to go w/ the sleeve because I feel like that is best for me. I am so excited! I decided after I was at a carnival this summer w/ my son who is 4 years old. He wanted Mommy to go in a 'funny house' with him.. You know the one that is two levels and funny mirrors?? Also the big punching bag things that hang down I know that I would get stuck in. Well it broke my heart because he really w…

Took a fairly new medication called Nucynta. Would've been a miracle drug for my fibro but I had a horrible reaction : Central Nervous System Depression. Does anyone know how this will text with anesthia? I'll absolutely talk to my surgeon about it but I know there are a few sets of medically trained eyes floating around this forum thanks!

Hola, I’m Ledora! I currently live in Grove City/ Erie PA and will be sleeved in March 2013 (Pittsburgh, PA) !! YAY I have been doing my pre-op requirements. I’m so happy to do a master reset on my life (with weight that is). I’m looking for some people who had the procedure or will in the future so we can support each other. Also, I youtube about my journey.... even before I started to considered weight loss surgery. Check out my youtube if you like pbfinest1. I would love to follow others journey. I absoutely love me some and me-- You better love you some you!! :0) Peace and Happiness!!

I'm curious if anyone knows or has had problems with donating blood. I can't imagine why? I'm 9 months out, feeling great and would like to continue giving to others as a universal donor.

Hi everyone, I had my band surgery December 2011 so it's been less than a year since I got the band. I was so excited to get the band and even though my doctor thought RNY or the sleeve would be a better fit based on my BMI (51), I felt like I could prove them wrong. I watched so many videos on youtube of people that were successful with the band and thought I could do it too. Unfortunately, I have not been and I've had issues with the band. I lost 45 pounds but quickly gained it back after I had to have an almost complete unfill. I am back to my pre-surgery weight. My unfill occurred after I had went in for a fill and they gave me 2 ccs, which was apparently to…

Looking for someone in my area that has had the sleeve or is in the process!!

Hello November Sleevers! Please come and introduce yourselves! Scorch picked our name a few weeks ago in another thread. We are the banana BABES, because like she said, " our stomachs will end up looking like a banana". I will start. November 16th is my big day! I would have LOVED to have accepted the 7th, but I have tickets to see STING in concert. Don't you love my priorities? (Actually the tickets were expensive, non refundable & my husband would kill me). So the 16th it is and I couldn't be happier. Before Thanksgiving is probably not ideal, but being sleeved and somewhat recovered by January 1st ,2012 is way more important to me. I can't wait! …

Anxieties...eww @ liquid diet but hope it is short & goes very well. I dislike protein shakes & after taste. I'm awaiting approval and the call for scheduling VSG. My biggest concern is sagging skin.

Wow I did it! I had my sleeve surgery done on Monday in Mexico! Dr. Ponce is fantastic. His bedside manor is nice and light. I had my surgery at INT hospital. It was clean and the nurses were helpful. I don't feel hungry at all. the only issue I had was nausea.The only pain I have is the drain incision healing. I had no gas pains and I thought my stomach would feel like it had been removed and it doesn't. I'm a lil tired. Im having no problem keeping water, broth or juice down. I'm so excited. I stayed at the Lucerna Hotel and it was extremel nice and comfy. The pool area is beautiful. The bed was so comfy! Trish from WLS was fantastic as I knew she would be. She t…