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yes my hair is the worst right now it get so oily it is because all the hormone changes your body is going through with the weight loss. Remember fat produces estrogen and when we are losing weight we are changing the hormone levels our bodies are use to making.

scrambled eggs are a lot harder to digest than you think. I still have a hard time with egg in this form and I was sleeved 3/12/12

I am so sorry you are in pain and didn't have the procedure. I know you said it feels like your insides are going to fall out when you stand up. try this It will help. Take a flat sheet and fold it to a small pillow tape it tight to make a hard little pillow. press it against your stomach where the most pain is when standing and sitting it will help so much.

I love it cold with just cocktail sauce. Also it is good make into a salad with a little mayo, celery, onion, salt and pepper.

I know there are many people out there that are not addicted to food that are over weight. They just don't take the time for themselves. I wasn't a food addict but I was medicating with food when I didn't know I was at times. I know I didn't eat my first meal of the say till noon with being up at 7 and then I would eat again at 3-4 pm then again sometimes at dinner 6 pm and then again at night before bed at 10 so all my food was in the later part of the day as I just took care of myself last.

colace didn't work for me at all. It is just a softener. Apple juice always helped me.

it was an option for me but I had to do it for 30 days before surgery.

I am sorry you are going through this and I feel you need to find another vice for your stress. I am a huge stress binge eater. I can't have things in the house that I will eat till it is gone period. I just can't buy it and have it around. I would suggest if you like crunchy do cut up veggies, if you like sweet find a yogurt you like, Or a frozen yogurt

Glad it was just spasm.
On a side note you may like to be all fancy and like the pink but it is VERY hard to read and font is rather small too. I had to copy and paste what you wrote into Word just to read it.

To the original OP when I first found this sit I thought it was GREAT, WONDERFUL I was ecstatic I found a place to go to HELP me.
I am now a year out and I rarely visit due to peoples posts being mean, hurtful, accusatory..etc I could go on.
I decided that to make my VGS trip successful I had to stay away from here because even typed words hurt and bring in doubt.
I feel some people forgot that we are/were all overweight for a reason. Weather it be food addiction emotional eaters or some other suppressing issues. There for a lot of the responses were not helping me. I now when reading a post don't read responses I just post to the OP.
I have stopped asking any questions and just hope to help others how I want to be helped.

To the original OP when I first found this sit I thought it was GREAT, WONDERFUL I was ecstatic I found a place to go to HELP me.
I am now a year out and I rarely visit due to peoples posts being mean, hurtful, accusatory..etc I could go on.
I decided that to make my VGS trip successful I had to stay away from here because even typed words hurt and bring in doubt.
I feel some people forgot that we are/were all overweight for a reason. Weather it be food addiction emotional eaters or some other suppressing issues. There for a lot of the responses were not helping me. I now when reading a post don't read responses I just post to the OP.
I have stopped asking any questions and just hope to help others how I want to be helped.

I had to laugh a little when I read your post as I am FREEZING all the time now. I even carry a sweat shirt in the summer now for when I get chilled. I dress in layers and as soon as I get to warm I take off a layer but in an hours time I putting the layer back on.

There are two types of PCOS. Don't let any doctor fool you there is one type from being over weight. As fat produces estrogen, estrogen produces fat.....but you can have PCOS when being in a healthy weight range. Is this something you have always had or just as your gained weight?
I have PCOS it was all blamed on me being over weight. I still have Migraines I don't have a regular period ( I also have a mirena IUD) so I don't know if it just me or the IUD. I did stop growing facial hair for the past year while I lost the bulk of my weight but it has started back up again recently.
I don't want to discourage you at all but There is great control of PCOS symptoms with food. I have to stay away from refined sugars and that helps my symptoms a lot.

I want you to know her decision in her feeling have NOTHING to do with you. IT has everything to do with her own personal struggles. I am saying this because she is overweight also. This weight thing has been something you have shared and had in common. Today is my surgiverssary and I have learned so much about myself this last year on so many levels. There are reasons why we over eat and don't exercise and self destruct You will still have to deal with those issues no matter what route you take in a weight loss journey.
I feel your friend is just at her own loss on her issues and mad at you for grabbing your issues by the balls and dealing with the issue at hand.

I want you to know her decision in her feeling have NOTHING to do with you. IT has everything to do with her own personal struggles. I am saying this because she is overweight also. This weight thing has been something you have shared and had in common. Today is my surgiverssary and I have learned so much about myself this last year on so many levels. There are reasons why we over eat and don't exercise and self destruct You will still have to deal with those issues no matter what route you take in a weight loss journey.
I feel your friend is just at her own loss on her issues and mad at you for grabbing your issues by the balls and dealing with the issue at hand.

I want you to know her decision in her feeling have NOTHING to do with you. IT has everything to do with her own personal struggles. I am saying this because she is overweight also. This weight thing has been something you have shared and had in common. Today is my surgiverssary and I have learned so much about myself this last year on so many levels. There are reasons why we over eat and don't exercise and self destruct You will still have to deal with those issues no matter what route you take in a weight loss journey.
I feel your friend is just at her own loss on her issues and mad at you for grabbing your issues by the balls and dealing with the issue at hand.

CONGRATS!!! I am almost at my year mark. 11 more days I wish I was at my goal but I didn't get there ... I will in time.

I was sleeved in MX on 3/12/12 this is what I was given. Hope this helps and please treat your tiny tummy and do this so you don't have any serious issues. like a leak. Also I see my primary care for follow up here in the states. She just did my labs for me a few months ago.
This was my post op diet
Days 1-3 Clear liquids only
Days 4-7 Clear Liquids and drinkable yogurt
Days 8-21 Clear liquids and full liquids
Days 22-35 Clear liquids and soft foods. Liquids try to get in 48-64 oz
Clear liquids: broth, penitential, diluted apple juice, Protein Water, Popsicle
Full liquids: Protein shakes, creamy Soups no chunks, (I blended chunky soup)
Soft diet: oatmeal, toast, crackers, tuna, mashed potatoes, puree vegetables, cottage cheese, apple sauce.
Days 1-7
only clear liquids
fruit juice diluted 50/50 NO nectar's
Gatorade
Special K Protein water
Vitamin water
water
tea (herbal)
clear broth
Popsicle
Days 7-21
Day 4-8 begin with drinkable yogurt 1/2 cup servings, with no pieces of fruit.< /span>
Day 8-10 add liquid Protein to the regimen, at least 30 g of protein a day.
Day 7-11 add creamy soups (no chunks)
if you can't drink it don't eat it
Week 4 Begin with soft foods 22-28
Tuna
cottage cheese
oatmeal
apple sauce
Ensure pudding
puree veggies
mashed potatoes
Week 6: increase food as tolerates, chew thoroughly, eat slowly.
No carbonated drinks
Take small sops, don't chug. Use a tablespoon at first.
Drink only what you can. Do not force feed. Do not take more than half a cup at a time. Meds should be cut up or mashed. Take your Vitamins each day. The idea is to not expand the stomach pouch. During the fist week, you will Not be physically hungry (careful with the mental hunger)
If you feel lethargic, or very, weak, it's because you are dehydrated, call or email the nutritionist.
Important changes:

Never combine solids with liquids. Liquids should be taken one hour later after your meal. Suck on an ice cube if you are thirsty.
No carbonated drinks. They can make your pouch stretch
Avoid high calorie drinks, juices, frappuccinos, milkshakes, alcohol... or you won't be able to lose weight. Or you can easily "dump"
Sit down for a meal and take at least 20 minutes for yourself. ( yes you will need 20 mins for 1/2 cup of food)
Take small bites.
CHEW!!!! 30 Chews per bite
Avoid productive burping (P'bing) eating too fast and not chewing food properly, eating solid food too soon after the surgery, drinking liquids with the meals or right after eating, eating too much at a meal.
If anything gets stuck, stop eating, wait for it to burp up and don't eat again. Resume your meal later.
Eat three meals a day ( solids, no protein shakes)
Each plate should have a serving of protein, green veggies, fruit and grain, and one serving of fat
If you feel restricted in the morning, drink something warm prior top your Breakfast.
If you do not exercise use a pedometer and take 10,000 steps a day.
Resume with your exercise 3 weeks after your surgery.

I loved my ramekin 8 oz bowels. for my creamy Soups, blended beans...etc baby spoons, Gatorade, my immersion mixer to make bean paste, and my won tastier blended soups.

I loved my ramekin 8 oz bowels. for my creamy Soups, blended beans...etc baby spoons, Gatorade, my immersion mixer to make bean paste, and my won tastier blended soups.

I would say the Hummus is OK but the pretzel crackers are too rough. I felt if I ate rough foods I payed for it the next day or later that day I could not each as much maybe it made me swollen.

I am down 225lbs to 225lbs. 11 months from surgery. Feel so great. Never going back.

I am sure you will be fine just stay hydrated. If you don't you will be very tired.

great story... I am now going to talk about your bowels. I can suggest many things but try eliminating things from your diet. I know since surgery I can't have milk at all. If I do I am in the bathroom all day. EVEN a little in my coffee. I can do cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt and things like that with no issues.

Hang in there. You are on the WORST pre op diet there is EVER. Too much sugar and not enough Protein in Carnation instant breakfast's. I would say if you are going to do anything I would replace one of the Carnation drinks with a real Protein Drink HTH