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Welcome Janet! You will find that this is a great forum for support or when you just need a good rant Good luck on your journey, you will love your sleeve!

A bit of wholemeal bread isn't bad, I'm not saying eat loads and don't eat your protein, but a balanced diet I believe is the key to success

I can eat bread(very small amounts), toast, from about 2 months out, so you'll be fine you just need to wait a bit, your urge for bread will pass, believe me

I have a lot of carbs, from 50 to 100 on any given day, I'm working on it, but it's hard because most of my carbs come from milk and I'm not giving up milk. I also have weight watcher's wrap sometimes, a slice of wholemeal toast a few times a week, veggies everyday and a fruit most days. (at least most of my carbs are slow releasing good carbs )

I use myfatsecret.com, it easy to use and you can enter foods that aren't listed really easily

Group Hug definetly!! I am so glad I have you guys cause to be honest as i posted in some other thread I know my family and close friends have kind of had enough of my weight loss antics

Congratulations on your sleeve! Yep, I was in pain too when I started moving around more, I would maybe not lie flat but kind of sit up in bed with a few pillows and take it easy!

My nut said the same about my body finding the weight it's comfortable at, that's why I keep changing my goal!

If you cut out 1,000 calories per day from your maintenance level, that will add up to a 7,000-calorie deficit in one week. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of stored body fat, so in theory, there should be a loss of two pounds of fat for the week. Actual real world fat loss rarely works out with such mathematical precision. This is because of the "Starvation Response." The Starvation Response is your body's ability to slow down your metabolism when it senses calorie deprivation. The only way to prevent your body from going into "starvation mode" would be to avoid severe calorie shortages...800 cal 6 months out, to little in my opinion...

Wow Julie, I bet you're gonna lose more than 4 lbs at this pace!!!

Amazing story, thanks for sharing! This forum is the best, I too find that my friends but especially family are sick of me going on and on about my weightloss journey, so this is my lifeline!

Susanne that's what I mean, we who are/ have been obese have our metabolisms so effed up, that we obviously need/ed a veryl low calorie diet to lose a big chunk of weight. With those 1700 you say you need to maintain, that would be maintaining the weight you are now, and probably putting some on as you say, because of our extreme dieting/binge eating in the past! Funny last night I was looking at a phase I went thorough on a "healthy" diet, trying to lose weight presurgery a few years ago, and counting the calories that I was eating at the time I was eating 1700-2000 cal a day, so no wonder I wasn't losing, and that was me on a diet, I dread to think how much I was consuming when I wasn't on a "diet" prob near 4000 cal a day, scary

Awwwwwww now you 2 made me smile and want to cry at the same time! The other thing you forgot to mention, that even though we are slow losers, I am a slow loser even though I have less to lose, is how much healthier we are now! For every pound we lose we are at less risk for all those horrible diseases that come with obesity

You know I've had 3 c-sections and that has always been my fear as well! I didn't get a catheter when I had my sleeve, as far as I can remeber, and if i did it was when I was under. So I undertand your fear, just ask them if they have to and if they do to put it in and take it out while you're still out,. Good luck!

True what Julie said about the carbs, I did the 5 day pouch test,and even though I didn't lose any weight I don't crave any "bad" carbs whatsoever!

Glad you reposted that here mini-me!

I don't think you need 80 gr protein, maybe 60 or 70 this far out. I've been told that I should do a balanced diet, lean proteins, slow releasing carbs, fruit veg, milk. I wouldn't do protein drinks this far out either, especially since you can eat a fair amount. Just go back to basics, trcxk your food, try to do around 1000-1200 cal a day. How much do you weigh and how tall ere you if you don't mind me asking? I can eat quite a bit and I'm only 5 1/2 months out so I'm starting again, after not been very good over christmas, to track my food and make the right choices. I don't think your sleeve has stretched, you just got a bit out of control.Hope this helps

t-Happened to me like a dumping , it will pass though!

It's funny how this thread started as concern for milk and finished in protein drinks!

I slice a tomato thinly and add it in with refried beans and some cheese ina a weight watchers wrap and make a panini type of thing, I find that slightly cooked tomatoes don't take up much space at all. Yesterday I made a lasagna but with eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and cheese, it was yummy and again not heavy to my stomach at all, full of "goodness"

:)Have you not tried myfatsecret.com? That works well fro me. I'm sure you'll start losing again, it just gets frustrating when you're workng hard and you don't see the scales move. I usually wegh 1 or twice a month.

Protein drink??

Exactly, which is what I've been trying to say GT, but in us who are/have been obese it's not as straightforward as Sussanne said- I guess that's why WLS is our only solution, because we go on a Very Low Calorie diet (around 800) and when we lose a big bulk of weightn(which even if you don't think yours is a big bulk it it GT) and from there we try and slowly up our calories as we get closer to goal, to, at some point become "normal" people and be able to function on a diet of around 2000 cal and neither lose or put on weight!! (this is what my nut explained) But then again, we're all diifferent and diff things work for different people, sighhhhhhhhhhh