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I think the 4-8 ounces is a bit too much, I'm 9 weeks out and still can only hold 3 oz. Try to have ur wife cut back on the liquid and sip slowly and take a break before the next sip, that might help with the pain. At 2 weeks out if I remember right I stuck with jello, popsicles and cream of chicken soup but strained the chicken out.

It could just be water retention too

I was sleeved on 11/9 and I just broke my 19 day stall. I was getting highly upset but from what I'm hearing its your body catching up to the weight loss that just occured. Don't worry it will break soon, trust in ur sleeve

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only 23 lbs to go to ur ultimate, thats pretty darn impressive. You'll probably be there before our March meeting

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm 9 weeks out and I just tried a salad. I cut it into little tiny pieces and did pretty good. I only had a little bit because I was scared my sleeve would rebel. I'm a huge salad lover and that would just suck if my sleeve hated it.

I was freezing all the time at first. Mine went away at about the 11th day or so.

You look fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ur an inspiration to us slow losers or at least me who gets down n out when i don't see the scale move.

You look fantastic Tiff, thx for the inspiration

I'm 34 and had my surgery on Nov. 9th, I tried to have the procedure done years ago but I had to change Dr's seeing my old Dr was dead set on not having any of his patients have the surgery (his dad passed away w/complications from the RnY). I finally had it done and love every minute of my life now

My Dr said the same thing when I asked him what is my goal weight. He simply stated he's not going to give me a number, we will know when i get there. I was stunned because I've heard and read everyones Dr atleast has a goal weight for them to be at but hey I'll take my Dr's approach. So my goal is to get to 160-170 lbs. I think begin smaller then that at 5'6 wouldn't look good on me.

Supersweet I think that is whats going on with me. My protein shakes just don't sit well in my tummy if they have milk in them. But thats the only thing so far that I'm having problems with but then again I'm not on full foods yet

Woohooo congrats

Tiff, I almost choked as I was eating some chicken and read your post. But man is it sooo true. I chose the sleeve because I have an aunt who had the RnY and gained all her weight back and some. I didn't want the malabsorbtion and other complications that happen with the RnY.

Wow congrats

Thank u everyone again and Pam you made me blush, hee hee. Sleeve I can't wait till march either. Everyone that I met in November looked soooo damn good. I really love my sleeve its the best thing I have ever done with my life

I think we've all have this issue. I used to drink about a gallon of water a day before surgery and now plain water doesn't agree with me. I just went and bought some of the K20 and I'm gonna see how that goes. I asked my Dr why can't I drink water anymore and he said it is common but to try it at different temps. Like room temp, almost frozen, lightly chilled and so on.

I think some people have the misconception that I lost almost 100 lbs in the 2 months from surgery. Nope I lost almost 100 lbs in a years time. I've lost about 37 lbs since surgery. But still 100lbs is a 100lbs gone and it will never come back

Thank you everyone

Yes I lost quite a bit before surgery and of course people tried to talk me out of the surgery, but like everyone else the weight comes back. hee hee not this time. The best part of losing the weight is I'm off my blood pressure meds, my back pain has subsided alot, I'm off my water pills and I can move around better without feeling tired and out of breath all the time. My one main reason for doing this surgery was my babies and the other was the doctors wanted to do a 3 level fusion in my lower back with a 15% success rate, ummm negative. Thank you so much for the compliments

Wow you look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I'm really not a writer but here it goes. At my all time highest I was 309lbs, yes 309 ahhhh. I was sleeved on Nov 9th and I now weight, drum roll plz... 214 lbs, yes I went there and said my weight. Now my scale and I are having some arguments because it's not moving, it's stayed the same for 3 weeks. So I went to a support meeting from with a few girls from this site and I was told I look amazing and so on, aww shucks. After the meeting I told my hubby I actually feel pretty now and I'm not even at goal. Then hubby has to say what all hubby's say when they don't want to be in the dog house, "baby you've always been beautiful." During the meeting it was brought up that I really need to post some before and after photos on here so people can see the difference and yes if your struggling and having issues you will get past it. I went from a ugly duckling to a swan in my book and I'm sooo not done. If I can do this anyone can. 1st pic is a year ago Halloween on my wedding day, 2nd pic is well me again, last pic is me today as of about 4 1/2 hrs ago

I think we all go through a meltdown. I sure did for over a week, but after about 2 weeks I was somewhat normal again. It takes a bit for your body to adjust on what just happened. You'll do fine and get through this hurdle.

WOW, looking good... CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now thats a great Valentine's day gift to have. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!