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You will do wonderfully! I am 15 months post op. I started out at 241 lbs with no thyroid and now weigh 149. I walk about 30 min. each day and since I travel for work all the time, I am always challenged with learning to eat well on the road. Good Luck!

You will do wonderfully! I am 15 months post op. I started out at 241 lbs with no thyroid and now weigh 149. I walk about 30 min. each day and since I travel for work all the time, I am always challenged with learning to eat well on the road. Good Luck!

You will do wonderfully! I am 15 months post op. I started out at 241 lbs with no thyroid and now weigh 149. I walk about 30 min. each day and since I travel for work all the time, I am always challenged with learning to eat well on the road. Good Luck!

Hi there. I had my revision from band to sleeve in June 2011. I am just over 14 months post-op and my weight as of this morning in 149. I started out my revision at 220 lbs (started WLS at 241 lbs). I had a ton of complications with my band so after 18 months I had it removed.
It is so worth the second surgery!!! I am so much happier with my sleeve than I ever was with my band. I was very fortunate after surgery. I had only one complication, it was dehydration. I will tell you that happens to a lot of people. My doc just gave me some fluids and I felt amazing after that. My weight loss came pretty steadily.
My biggest piece of wisdom is that you are worth so much more than you know. Even though your band has caused you a ton of grief, it will actually benefit you in the long run. I have found that having had my band for 18 months prior to my revision that I learned to eat slowly and without the liquids. So after my revision, I have not had any issues with learning to eat with a much smaller stomach!
Feel free to message me anytime. I'll be glad to answer any questions or just listen.
Good luck!
Nichole

I have found that if I plan well for the day, I don't need Protein shakes. A typical day for food looks like this:
Breakfast: 16 oz skim milk (which takes me a while to drink so it doesn't all happen at one time)
and a greek yogurt (this totals about 27g of Protein, depending on the yogurt)
Lunch: 4 oz of meat (28g of protein) usually mexican in nature easy to eat out with my group from work
Dinner: 2 oz of meat and veggies (14g of protein, sometimes more meat if I slacked earlier in the day)
Snacks: veggies or fruit with a piece of cheese and lots of Water or tea.
I didn't start incorporating Snacks until later on in my journey. I can tell you this, I am never hungry even when I skip Snacks which I do. My doc and nut both want me to get in 60 grams of protein, this is a preference by doctor. Please follow whatever they want you to get in. I can tell you that my doc's thought process is that you shouldn't live your life on a Protein shake and that you are meant to get your nutrients in by eating them. So far it has worked for me. Believe me there are some days that my stomach is just not interested in solid protein. Those are the days that I drink more milk and eat more yogurt.
Hope that helps,
Nichole

Hi there. I had my revision from band to sleeve in June 2011. I am just over 14 months post-op and my weight as of this morning in 149. I started out my revision at 220 lbs (started WLS at 241 lbs). I had a ton of complications with my band so after 18 months I had it removed.
It is so worth the second surgery!!! I am so much happier with my sleeve than I ever was with my band. I was very fortunate after surgery. I had only one complication, it was dehydration. I will tell you that happens to a lot of people. My doc just gave me some fluids and I felt amazing after that. My weight loss came pretty steadily.
My biggest piece of wisdom is that you are worth so much more than you know. Even though your band has caused you a ton of grief, it will actually benefit you in the long run. I have found that having had my band for 18 months prior to my revision that I learned to eat slowly and without the liquids. So after my revision, I have not had any issues with learning to eat with a much smaller stomach!
Feel free to message me anytime. I'll be glad to answer any questions or just listen.
Good luck!
Nichole

Congratulations! You look great! No moo moo's this summer!
Nichole

Welcome. I am a band to sleeve revision. You will find a ton of us on here. From my personal expereince, it was the best decision I have ever made! Check out the forum that is for Band to Sleeve revisions. It is about half way down the page.
I did not have any problems thus far with my sleeve. You can read my profile to read about my expereince with the band. Anything that could go wrong did. Just PM me if you have any questions that come to mind.
Nichole

I am also on a business trip right now. Here is what I did during that phase. Soft fish, Beans, if you have unflavored Protein powder with you add it to mashed potatoes. I also ate though a little high in sugar, smoothies from Jamba juice with Protein added, Chai Tea from Starbucks (Venti has 9 grams of protein and Grande has 7 grams), skim milk (8 grams/cup I use this a lot to make up for my lack of protein on the road.) For lunch today I am thinking about having grilled chicken and salad and a snack of Peanut Butter with saltines this afternoon. You could also do chicken from a can, if you need to. Hope this gives you some suggestions.
Let me know if you need some more. I travel all the time and am always looking for something different to eat than my usual. It gets harder when I am overseas though.
Nichole

Nicely done!! Excellent post! I would also like to add one of my favorite sayings...
DO remember that the sleeve is stomach surgery and not brain surgery. If you are an emotional eater, or a compulsive overeater, or if you have any sort of serious eating disorder you cannot expect the sleeve to automatically fix that. It's extremely important to address the mental and emotional reasons that you eat and not just rely on the restriction of the sleeve to keep your eating under control.

Hang in there Alyssa. Try some gas-x strips for the has pain. I lives off those the first few months after surgery. They work miracles!

Hang in there Ali. We discussed this last night at support group. I need to scan in the documents they provided and share them. I will try to do that later today.
Trust me you have not thrown away your chance...you just got distracted. You are already half way to getting everything together again. YOU REALIZED YOU NEEDED HELP!!!
Nichole

I am about 9 months post-op. I had a 3oz margarita at a party in November at 5 months. I will tell you it hit me far faster than it had ever before. Also my nut and surgeon both suggest waiting a year before drinking alcohol, as it can slow weight loss since it is liquid calories.
On the other hand if you decide to have a drink, remember that you don't have to drink a coctail at the event. I have found getting a glass of cranberry juice generally throws people off at those functions. Plus I don't have to explain anything I'm not comfortable explaining to strangers.
Good Luck!

If you can get the prune juice down...all the more power to you. I have tried mirilax, colace, lactulose (RX), senocot, Fiber pills and powders...but nothing worked. Then I did some research and found that since we focus so much on Protein and fluids that we don't get enough magnesium in our diets. (It comes from dark leafy green vegetables.) So I spoke with my doctor and I started taking a magnesium supplement of 500 mg per day. After the first day or two, the system was working normally again! Never thought I would be that excited about it, but it is a relief to not have to think about when the last time it was that I went!
Hope it helps!
Nichole

I am about 9 months post-op. I had a 3oz margarita at a party in November at 5 months. I will tell you it hit me far faster than it had ever before. Also my nut and surgeon both suggest waiting a year before drinking alcohol, as it can slow weight loss since it is liquid calories.
On the other hand if you decide to have a drink, remember that you don't have to drink a coctail at the event. I have found getting a glass of cranberry juice generally throws people off at those functions. Plus I don't have to explain anything I'm not comfortable explaining to strangers.
Good Luck!

I was a 40G prior to surgery and now I am a 36G. I am only 5 pounds from my goal, so I'm guessing they are here to stay. Not to mention they must have been the only thing on my old body that wasn't FAT!
Oh well...I have always like mine. I was hoping not to lose too much.

You might try asking your doctor to do a breath test for H-pylori. It is a stomach bacteria that causes ulcers, severe reflux, gastritis, cancer, etc. I had the same problem and found that is what I have. My doctor found it in an endoscope with biopsies. I have gone through a 14 day treatment with 4 antibiotics 4 times a day. Truely exhausting. But I go next week to have a breath test to see if the antibiotics killed it or not. I am hoping so, otherwise I will be doing another 2 weeks of antibiotics.
Hope this helps and most importantly feel better soon!