Oregondaisy

ALJ, how are you doing now? It's been a month since you posted that you were having trouble maintaining. I hope you will post and tell us if you've found a balance yet.

I either order from the appetizer menu , the kid's menu, or senior menu. A lot of places will let you if you tell them you had WLS and can't eat much. Of course there are many times when I am not comfortable doing this. I also split meals with friends frequently too.

I am glad both of you are under doctor's care. We are not doctors here, and this is not the norm for most of us. It will be good to find out what diagnosis the doctors have and we should all be able to learn something here. I know a lot of people do experience nausea in the beginning, but usually with medication and taking tiny sips of fluids, they improve a little bit each day.

That's great. I still stress about food most days. I am almost 20 months post op and planning my meals and being worried if I know I am going to be around sweets is a daily problem for me. I watch what I eat, but I worry about gaining the weight back on most days.

There are a lot of people who do have nausea problems. The problem is compounded when you get dehydrated because being dehydrated does cause nausea. The key is to sip slowly. They have those little cups that you use when you take cough medicine. Use those cups at first. Take one sip then wait at least 10 min before trying anymore. Your doctor should have also given you medication for nausea.

I know TifF. I liked that IP board. Apparently they want us to see those ads :=(

Dr Aceves uses a 34 and over sews it down to a 32

I wear an A cup now down from a C and believe me I hate it too. I never did have big ones, but I am smaller now that I was in High School. I'm not going to pay for boobs though. I'd rather have a face lift. I've gone bra less most of my life every change I get, and that is one good thing. Now I can go without one even more. I have to wear one to work, but that's about it. Oh yeah, I wear a heavily padded one on dates.

I am very happy the chat function is back. There are a lot of us that like to talk in the evenings. The time change does make it a little more tricky, but please check in and see if anyone is chatting. It's a great way for support and to get questions answered.

Thank you Alex! I know everyone here appreciates all your hard work to make VST the great site that it is

I take the generic of Protonix . $10 co pay with ins.

I was talking about the Oh Yeah bars. 15 grams of protein, 7 grams of carbs. they taste like a candy bars. I have to be careful with them

I eat the Premeire from Costco too and the Oh yeah bars. I love the peanut butter chocolate. I'll have to get one and post what it says for fat grams. I know they are 200 calories and 15 grams of protein.

No other doctor say 2 hours after a meal. Some say one hour, some say 45 minutes, and a lot say 30 minutes. I will usually take at least a sip.

The bullets have a low quality of protein that makes it hard to absorb the protein. They are made from collagen not whey.

In the beginning, your stomach is swollen and putting acid in a new sleeved stomach is not a good idea. After everything is healed, I don't see how it could hurt the stomach, but it will slow down weight loss.

I was one of those people who could drink as fast as I wanted. I had to force myself to go slow when Dr. Aceves said no more than 2 oz every 10 min. I could drink everything they brought me right down if I wanted to. Moving to solid Protein is like night and day. Once I moved to solids, I could barely eat 4 bites.

Stop being so hard on yourself! You are eating right and you will lose weight! You just barely had surgery. I am sure your gain is only temporary. Our bodies have to get used to their new weight and it fluctuates. I can remember a lot of people who are now at goal thinking this surgery was not going to work for them.

A personal conversation should be when you send a private message to someone. I am going to have to watch for that. I know I read that someone has quoted me, but I don't remember whether it's called something different than when someone sends me a private message.

Alex keeps promising us but so far, NOTHING! I am going to email him. I want to know what's going on and if the chat he promised us is still coming!

go to the food section of the forum and look for the thread where you can order samples. There are a lot of places to buy samples to try different things. . the sytrex nectar has a chocolate truffle is good and so is the cherry. I personally don't like the Ungury but I have never tried the unflavored. I used the GNC brand of unflavored and put it in crystal lite and other sf drinks like poweraide zero.

hard to believe that is what it took for you to buy some new scrubs. I am surprised they stayed on you for so long! I've heard of people walking and their pants fall off of them! That is a great NSV. Thanks for sharing!

I love the Oh Yeah Peanut butter chocolate bars and the Premeire from Costco. Neither one has sugar alcohol in them.

when we got this new lay out, there used to be chat at the bottom of the screen There was an option to chat one on one with someone, or enter the chat room. The chat room was not the same as the chat room we had before the new board came along. Now there is not even an option to chat ! Are we getting chat back?

The IP board is not available to me. It sucks. Down at the bottom, where there there used to be a choice, the IP board choice is gone!!