Anakin Jay

I'm down about 100 pounds now since being sleeved 6 months ago... I STILL have about 100 to go, but I'm already seeing a LOT more attention from the opposite sex. I've been on several dates, girls I meet are flirting with me, etc...

You guys keep talking like people only like you for physical reasons when you get skinny, but really.. it's just that the weight is a barrier that prevents them from getting to know you. Once that barrier is down, then they're able to put the effort into getting to know you, and can actually appreciate your personality.

I regretted it the first week post op... by 3 week it was (and now 6 months later still is) the best thing I've ever done.

only regret is not doing it sooner.

sounds like acid to me too. Prilosec is the *only* acid reducer that works for me... and it takes a few days to kick in.

I was 415 when I started... and I have a friend who had the bypass... I can tell you this:

The sleeve requires more work. Think of the sleeve as "I cannot GAIN weight" instead of "I will lose weight" You can very very easily cheat your sleeve to the point where you don't lose weight... I think GAINING weight would be incredibly difficult to do, but I could easily eat enough calories to maintain if I didn't watch myself.

My friend with the bypass literally could not gain weight if she tried. Because if she eats fatty food it just goes right through her... with some serious side effects, so that might be a pro or a con.

With the sleeve you're still going to have to count calories, work out, and have the will power to make the right choices. The only benefit you get from it is being physically unable to over indulge in the wrong choices that you may make.

For me personally that's all I needed. I'm 325lbs now 6 months later, with lots of hard work, and good choices.

So to me, the decision between the two comes down to this:

Are you willing to put in extra work and lose slower in order to avoid the side effects of gastric bypass? If yes, then sleeve... if you've never been one to stick to a diet and are afraid you won't be committed enough to stick with it, gastric might be a better option.

at 4 months out, I can eat a 12 inch subway sub if it's just meat (not veggies).... but I'm retardedly stuffed. The few times I've gone to subway, I ate half a foot long, waited 3-4 hours then ate the other half.

I have a feeling my stomach is longer than most people's though... pre-op I could eat an entire stuffed crust pizza by myself and not be stuffed, just be "satisfied"... I've eaten 3 subway subs in one sitting before.

So to be super stuffed after eating 1 suits me just fine... i just have to be a little more disciplined than most on here until I lose the weight.

At one point I had the same mindset. But when I step back and take a look objectively, it's not just about what a person looks like, it's what they can do. I, for example, had pretty much turned myself into a prisoner. At 465 lbs I couldn't go to concerts because I didn't fit the seats. I couldn't go to sporting events because it was too painful to walk from the parking lot to the venue, and if I did make it, I was sweating so that I would soak through anything I wore. Now that I am slimmer and on my way to being fit, I do not want to spend my time with someone that was in the same place I was... I would much rather focus on someone that can help me continue my journey to being physically fit and living my life the way I should have been for the last 20 years. Maybe it's selfish, but I know where I was and what I couldn't do... Now that I can, I want someone that can live life with me.

This is pretty much exactly how I feel... When I'm skinny, I'm looking forward to riding roller coasters again, and going kayaking... walks in the park, going to the beach... going to Water parks... HAVING FUN.

Why should I expect someone to overlook giving up everything that skinny people can do for fun just because I have an awesome personality?

lol... ok well apparently I care a lot less about clothes than most people do my bad.

I don't to be with someone who only wants to be with me cause I'm thin or look a certain way. I'm not doing this to find love or to lure a man. I'm doing this for me for my health and my own wants..not the wants of some hypothetical dude who wouldn't have looked at me twice pre op.

ehh... that seems like a very defensive attitude.

Lets be honest here... if you had your choice between an attractive person, and a non-attractive person (with everything else being the same) what would you pick?

Do you always 100% completely ignore the looks of people and are PURELY attracted to people's personalities?

I'm not saying it's a good thing... I wish it was different, but lets be real here... 95% of people out there are not going to take the time to get to know romantically you unless they're attracted to you initially.

If you want to just mark 95% of the available singles off your list like that... then more power to you I suppose, but me personally, I'm excited about the opportunities I'm going to have to show more people how awesome I am on the inside... once my outside helps get my foot in the door, instead of causing the door to get slammed in my face

They make Protein shots, you can buy them at walmart.... they're usually between 25-30g Protein (2-3x more than a protein shake) in 2-3oz of liquid (protein shakes are usually 8-12oz)

they're more like a thicker red bull, as opposed to the Protein Shakes that try and taste like some kind of mutant milk.. bleh... and 2-3oz is enough to just gulp it and be done.

these are the ones I get, and they're not bad:

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Choice-Fruit-Punch-Protein/dp/B0007KS050/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1336655643&sr=8-9

this is what gas felt like to me... the left over gas from when they blew your stomach up like a balloon

yes, but I forget to take them half the time... >< That's probably the problem.

3oz of tuna is all I can hold. If I add mayo, some of it slides out of my stomach and I can eat 5-6oz... if I drink while I eat, it pushes the food out of my stomach and I can eat 6-12oz.

So I'm 3 months out, and about 2 weeks ago I started noticing a pattern...

When I eat, roughly 2-3 hours later, I get some nausea... it's not anything debilitating, but it hurts enough to make me grab my stomach.. If I wait it out for 10 min. it goes away until I eat again, then 2-3 hours later it's back.

It comes on *very* suddenly.

If I eat a little, or drink A LOT right when I feel the nausea, it goes away almost instantly... otherwise I have to wait it out for 10 min.

Just wondering if anyone has had a similar issue, or am I just weird?

congrats! I'm only 3 months out, but I have zero regrets.. best thing I've ever done for myself.

Also, just to give you an idea... I went to a mexican restaurant last week to Celebrate one of our work friends moving on to a new job..

I munched on a ton of chips and salsa... probably 1/4 of the bowl, ordered enchilada supreme which is 4 enchiladas, and ate 2 of them, and took the other 2 home for dinner.

Not only did I feel 100% normal, but I'm also really enjoying having leftovers for dinner when I go out

I don't know what size mine is, but I know I can eat more than most people because I'm taller (6'1) , and have a long chest (which means longer stomach).. I'm a little over 3 months out and can eat 2 hot dogs with Buns.< /p>

I feel super stuffed afterwards, but that's my limit.

Do I wish I could only eat 1? Somedays... but to contrast, I would have to eat 6 or 7 hotdogs to get the same stuffed feeling pre-op.. (and I've done so many times).. and once I'm at goal, it's going to be nice to be able to enjoy 2 hotdogs on occasion. (2 seems normal to me... neither 1 nor 7 does )

and before I get yelled at for eating hotdogs, they were turkey dogs

gas lasted about two weeks for me... it was almost unbearable day 1, and by day 7 it was pretty much just an annoyance, until around 14'sh It was gone.

Just became single ..im 12 days post op....i have been with the same guy for 5 years, thick and thin. Once i decided to have the sleeve he started to push me away....i dont get it but i know i have alot to do to fix me....so single is ok for now! Glad im not alone out here!!!

I'll never understand this, but it seems to be the trend..

to me it's like.. "Hey baby, I want to do something that's going to guarantee I'll never be fat again." What kind of idiot says no to that?? Sign me up for a girlfriend that's not capable of gaining weight ever again please! lol.

added!

I'm 3 months out and can eat absolutely anything like it's nothing... I just can't eat anywhere near as much. (I used to eat an entire large pizza to feel full... now I can eat 2 slices if I nurse it for an hour.

I'm actually a little frustrated with how easy it is to eat I figured I'd just eat till I was full and I'd lose weight, but you still really have to watch your calories and diet.

PROTIP though:

if you do accidentally eat too much, or the wrong food, drinking helps.

I've found that I can't throw up since surgery... (strange right?) like I ate something that didn't sit well with me, and my body kept trying to throw it up and I couldn't no matter what I did..

after an hour of trying to throw up and almost going to the hospital, I chugged a Powerade zero and it washed everything down and I felt fine in like 2 min.

My doc said that by removing the part of the stomach that produces ghrellin, our bodies are incapable of going into starvation mode, and that all you need to worry about is making sure you're getting in enough Vitamins, Calcium, etc... per day.

Sometimes the differences about vsg between doctors is scary to me.. ><

I do it too... counting my 6 months pre-op diet I'm down 70 pounds, but when I was at spin class saturday, and there was a wall of mirrors in front of us where I could easily see myself and everyone else, I looked like (to me) I took up 4x as much space as everyone else, just like I used to... I actually laughed a little bit before my heart sank, because it was almost comical... I had almost cartoon-like proportions ..

but I know it's part of the process.. I have the unfortunate fortune of having a professional quality video shot of me at my highest weight right before I started this whole thing last summer... when I watch that, and then look at pictures of me now, it's a night and day difference.

Well, I'm only 3 months out, but I can tell you that that's pretty much how weight loss goes for me. I won't lose anything for two or 3 weeks, then I'll drop 5-10 almost over night... that's pretty much been the pattern since surgery.

I imagine it's probably my body just adjusting... it seems like the weights I get stuck at are the weights I've spent the most time at in my life... this past stall was the *worst* ( at one point I even gained a few pounds) and that was the weight I had been at for about 3 years.. I just finally moved past it yesterday.

a few things:

are you actively tracking *all* of your calories, and are you discussing the results with a nutrionist? Pre-op I was eating 3500'sh calories a day... post op I was eating 1300-1500 and I got scolded by my doctor that it was too much. He said 500-750 cals / day max... and I honestly find it hard to eat that little.. but I feel like it has been helping.

Watch your sodium intake, I know when I eat a lot of salty stuff I gain a few Water pounds... if you're gaining Water pounds as you're losing real pounds it might seem like a stall.

Are you weight lifting? If you're going to the gym every morning and building muscle, you might just be gaining muscle weight around the same pace you lose fat weight. Are you tracking your measurements? That's the real deal.

Hope that helps!

*literally* twisted? or just feeling nauseous? Nausea is going to stick with you for a while... I'm two months out and still feel nauseousness once every day or two... I've read it doesn't COMPLETELY go away until like 6 months out or so.

I was out for 1 week, and did half days the next week, and I feel like that was perfect.