Anakin Jay

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.. ><

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

happened to me too, I stalled for 4 weeks immediately after surgery, then dropped 15 lbs practically over night.
Just hang on there.

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

Here's what you do:
Hi mom! This is a pitbull:

This pitbull ways 40 lbs.
Imagine picking this sucker up and carrying him around all day every day.
I've lost an entire pitbull in a handfull of months.
How long did it take you to lose a pitbull?.... that's what I thought.

I felt like all the crap the first 7 days, and had issues with ingesting anything.
Half way through day 7 it was like the heavens parted and rainbows and butterflies flew down from the sky and I could drink as much as I wanted.

I felt like all the crap the first 7 days, and had issues with ingesting anything.
Half way through day 7 it was like the heavens parted and rainbows and butterflies flew down from the sky and I could drink as much as I wanted.

Just FYI, raw meat is fine to eat. I'm not saying the Paleo diet is a raw meat diet, but I just wanted to chime in.
The *only* reason we need to cook our meat now is due to the disgusting mechanized way super markets slaughter their cows. The process ends up with a ton of germs and bacteria on the outside of the meat, so store bought meat needs the OUTSIDE of it cooked well enough to kill those germs.
That's why you can eat a rare steak. As long as the surface is cooked enough to kill the germs from processing, you're fine.
Note: you should NEVER eat raw hamburger from a store for this reason, the germs are all mixed up in the meat... and this is why it's a bad idea to ever order a rare hamburger.. in fact, most restaurants won't serve them to you less than medium.

my surgery is tomorrow morning!!! Never felt such a combination of nervous and excited at the same time.

eyes on the prize. Today is my *last* day of the pre-op diet, and I only have two pieces of advice:
1.) When you're hungry, drink a Protein shake. Protein really helps you feel not hungry.
2.) Remind yourself that YOU are in control. Not your brain, not your hunger, not your stomach, YOU. No matter how hungry you get, or how much pain you're in, you ALWAYS have a choice. You've come this far, so just remind yourself every day that you chose not to cheat.
The other big motivating factor for me was my doc said that if you cheat on your pre-op diet it exponentially increases the chance of having to convert to an open surgery, which involves splitting your torso in half, and cracking open all your ribs.
^---- 2 weeks of hunger is definitely worth reducing the risk of having 3 months of cracked ribs.

Good luck time lord!! you got this!!!!