june13sleever

August 7th is my due date! I have my next appointment on Monday. I am scared of the weigh in! I am looking quite big!!! I will check in on Monday.

I really do believe in the ppi theory! I am just afraid to take it. I have some Prevacid. Are they the same?

While it is a great achievement to get to goal, success is keeping it off. I hate the fact that the people who have had this surgery post 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 years are not on this site anymore. MAYBE they are living fabulously skinny, but my pessimistic and I believe realistic view point is that some/most are struggling. Of course there is always going to be that one lady who is like I am perfect, i made it, the sleeve still works for me...Who cares about you! I believe you are the minority. I got pregnant so the sleeve is not working for me now...up almost 20 pounds! But I will get back to you a couple of months after the baby drops to see where I am. My 2 year surgiversary is June 13, 2013. I just think people are not smart when it comes to this process long term because no one is really sharing their long term stories. There are 1000 people who have just had the surgery and 10 who had it 2 years ago. So again, I ask everyone to stick around years out. Even if you are just touching base once every couple of months.

And 1 year out is not really far. Let's say 3 years and up!

I am only 18 weeks and up almost 20 pounds. My eating habits are ****. I am very worried to. I truly believe at this point this sleeve can sort of help you, but this is where you have to help yourself. The sleeve maybe over. I know others don't see it this way, and I could care less what they think. You could have a sleeve revision...Which I would opt for first before the bypass. Or you somehow get to the biggest loser camp thingy for a couple of weeks. It may only take a couple of weeks to break some bad habits and start you on your road to being fit again. I am pretty much certain I will be gaining more than 40 during this pregnancy. I can eat like a horse. Whatever you need to do, you need to do it now and not wait for 10 more pounds, but...if the sleeve still can work...YOU are going to have to work it. Eat nothing (800 to 1000 calories) and work out 2 to 4 hours a day...Basically going back to the beginning. But this is where I warned everyone. You may not be able to go back to those wonderful days of hardly doing anything and losing. A lot to think about, but no matter what get moving on it now and whatever you decide will be ok. Just don't decide for too long to not have another procedure if you fail to accomplish your goals within a reasonable amount of time.

I also need to see if I can take my prevacid again because the acid is starting to flare up!!!!!!!

I weighed myself today on my original scale, not my doctor's. I think my doc's is lower. I was 18 weeks yesterday, and I weighed 181.5. That is 18 pounds up. I REALLY REALLY REALLY do not want to gain 40 pounds! I think I would gain even more! I am eating all the time. I feel like my old self. I still can't eat a large pizza, but I can eat 3!!!! 3!!!! slices. If I don't eat I still get sick, then when I do go to eat I throw it up. THIS IS VERY SCARY! This weekend is daylight savings time, and I VOW to get my ass up and walking everyday. SOMETHING! I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! I have to eat. All the food in my house...Me and my boyfriend are going to eat everything up until there is nothing left and my next shopping trip is going to be nothing by white chicken breasts, vegetables and fruit. NO MORE SNACKS! I crave chips like crazy, but I have to really take a break. I have to find the strength that I really don't think I have.

We all are fat right. That is why we had or are having the surgery. It has been impossible for us to lose it on our own. Sure if we could all take a year off from life and go on the biggest loser we would be able to, but who really has that luxury. So we get the surgery. Yay for us! I am so glad I got the freaking surgery. So when you get to one year out and can eat like a semi-normal person you will not be able to lose it on your own - If you can't do it now, you won't be able to do it in a year from now. Eventually you will be able to consume enough calories and stop losing and it will be a struggle to lose the rest...IF YOU EVER DO. So you have this window of opportunity. For me it was a good year, but for a lot of people it might only be six months and some of the lucky ones will have it forever. BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR "FOOD" LIFE WILL BE LIKE IN SIX MONTHS, A YEAR OR FOREVER, but you do know you have the six months! That is six months to basically allow your body to survive off of all of your stored goodness, fatty cells. You basically could just drink Water and eat very little and be fine. So do that! I really ate 500 calories the first six months, and I didn't eat much on the weekends. I wasn't hungry, and I didn't like food because it made me feel all yucky. My good fortune lasted me a year and two months, but I am done losing now. I am really sad when I hear people say that they are struggling to get the weight off after a year. They still have 60 more to lose. That window is closed and the only way they will lose weight is through diet and working out and a lot of it. To get that weight off they might have to work out 3 hours a day and do all the impossible things that were a struggle to do in the first place which is why we had surgery. Use the first six months wisely...make them count. If you are stalling then eat nothing. I am serious. Drink water and cut your calories in 1/2. Work out for like 4 hours. You don't know how much time you will have. So for the first six months push yourself harder than you ever have. It is just six months and you have this excellent tool to help you.

Running is not really good for you anyway. Walking up an incline makes me feel just as good as running. So just keep on adding to that incline. Rowing. Cycling. Swimming. All much better than running.

I met him on the internet, he's a French model.

Ok this is the last one. See what I mean!!! Only a **** would really believe that after I pop a baby out I would be working out at the hospital getting my sweat on in the stair well while my vag is bleeding and I have stitches sticking me. You take things so literally then want to post some crazy comment about your somewhat insane way of interpreting information.

At 1.5 years out I do have it figured out. I can eat a lot and I can gain the weight back.

I am totally done responding to people that just take what I am saying and offer up some twisted version of the overall theme. You go and do you. Eat healthy. Do it "the right" way. I just hope others who read this realize the **** isn't permanent. Some people will gain weight back and mostly everyone will be able to consume quite a bit more one to two years out. Geeesh!

Omg. Minkywinks. I am 5'11". I wanted for once in my life to be super model thin. Like a 4. I was a 6/8. Ummmmmmmm at 5'11" that is pretty darn skinny. I made it to where my body took me, but I got that thin because I ate nothing and really didn't eat any carbs. I bet if I had worked out I would have made it. Mine is more of a warning. Give it all you got because the tool may not last forever. Everyone on here who disagrees with that should just lose the weight on their own because you seem to know all about it! And furthermore. I don't want the people on here who may like excuses, but don't want to live in a world where they have excuses anymore have any reason to have one because you told them to take it slow and just eat healthy. None of us are eating healthy in the beginning because we are eating nothing. Please refer to my definition to avoid retardation. I am so far from being self righteous, but the only time I have heard someone say that is because when we were running on a treadmill I told her she could push herself harder. She didn't like it one bit, but you can tell when someone is just content or really wants it. So let's just say you need to really want this weight off and for the first six mo ths, while the tool works the best...want it more than you have ever wanted it before because I don't want to see you upset because you are struggling to get those last 20 or 30 off and you are already a year out.

Everyone here who takes this literally is a joke. Eat nothing = 800 to 1,000 calories a day and working out 4 hours a day = well that pretty much was word for word. You all are slow and I am laughing my tail off. Ummmmmm what do you think you did for the first six months? You ate nothing and hopefully worked out a lot. Please read my definition for eating nothing above. So all I am saying is that you need to make sure you work really hard in the beginning because in a year or two...you could gain weight because you will be able to eat 1600, 1800, 2000 calories...maybe even more. And because you obviously could not control your eating...which is why you had the surgery in the first place...if you don't go balls to the wall in the first six months you don't ever have those six months again...you never get them back. I am over 1.5 years out. Where are you again? At goal? I already know people who are struggling to keep it off with the sleeve at two years out.

Um there is no way you can get 1000 calories in. I was dizzy and shaky too. Just sip on your water and eat soup! I ate chilli. Your doctor is retarded. Stop taking drugs and just find foods that work for you! I ate soups and puréed them for six months.

Dee!!! Wow! Three pounds should be that place where you decide to juice or go back to basics for a week! I am not weighing back in until march 18th, but I will be checking in on you!

I couldn't ever get pregnant. I am 16 weeks at 36 years old. I got pregnant once my body went into the maintenance phase. 3 months of being 163.5 and bam!!! I was pregnant! I believe that my body was finally in a harmonious state. I never fluctuated. Week after week I was 163.5. Now I am 174!!! I am hungry!!! But that is ok! I will lose it!

You have a lot to lose. Good luck! Some people get it, some people don't. The people that don't remind me of the girl on the biggest loser right now. The one with the excuses who never breaks a sweat and thinks they are doing something. When you get to 1.5 years out with 30 left to lose honey the only way you are getting that last 30 off is by working out for 4 hours a day and eating maybe at that point 800 Calories which is going to be impossible because if you could have done that you would have not had the surgery. You go back to normal. I was eating pretty normal and every month I could see that i could eat just a bit more. But for me I ate nothing the first six months whereas people on here are eating way too many calories. I am over this subject. I lost 130 pounds and got down to 160. I am up now from baby weight, but when I pop that baby out I will be working out for 4 hours and eating 800 calories (I HOPE!) to get to 150. 160 was ok, but i could be 150. I hope the sleeve works for me, but if not I am actually going to have to try to work for myself. I ate a whole sandwich today. Like a big one! I have never been able to eat a whole sandwich.

Weighed in on Monday!!! 2/18! Weighed 174! Whoooo hooo! 10.5 pounds up! Almost 16 weeks.

I have not had an episode in awhile. I enhaled a Frappachino awhile back and got the shakes. I also noticed that a cup of OJ has more sugar than a Frap, but when I drink OJ I don't have that feeling. I have been able to eat more...even before I got pregnant, so things were not on such a drastic level. I am sure things will pan out in a few months for you, but oatmeal...even with protien powder is something I would use during maintenance...not in your weight loss stage. You should be eating eggs and if you are vegan than you need to eat some tofu and beans. Wheat, bread, oats, sugar, flour...You really shouldn't touch these.

I finally think I have it figured out. Today I ate sushi and then ate a couple of fries. I mean I ate a small fry. It was one of those days when I was so hungry I just took what I could get. NEVER AGAIN!!! EVER EVER EVER! Basically I ate WAY TOO MANY CARBS...This is not dumping. I thought it was caffeine a few months back...but it isn't. So yeah...I will never eat a carb heavy meal again! Reactive hypoglycemia occurs in people who do not have diabetes. It's a different type of hypoglycemia than the one that affects people who have diabetes. Although the causes are unrelated, the symptoms of both kinds of hypoglycemia are the same. Symptoms of hypoglycemia: Trembling or weakness Lack of coordination Drowsiness or confusion Headache Dizziness Double vision Convulsions or unconsciousness What is the cause of reactive hypoglycemia? The exact cause of reactive hypoglycemia is still unknown, but there are several hypothesis that might explain why it can happen. Sensitivity to epinephrine, a hormone that is released in the body during times of stress. Insufficient glucagon production. Glucagon is also a hormone which has the opposite effect of insulin. It raises blood glucose levels. Gastric surgeries can also cause reactive hypoglycemia because food may pass too quickly through the digestive system. Enzyme deficiencies can also cause reactive hypoglycemia, but these are rare and occur during infancy. How to manage reactive hypoglycemia Limit foods with a high sugar content, especially on an empty stomach. For example, eating a doughnut first thing in the morning can trigger a hypoglycemic episode. Eat small, frequent meals and Snacks. Eat a varied, high Fiber diet, with adequate servings of Protein, whole grain carbs and vegetables, fruits, and dairy foods Carry pieces of hard candy with you, for those times when you feel your blood sugar dropping. What to do if you are having a hypoglycemic episode. Eat or drink something that is a fast sugar source, such as orange juice, regular soda, a few pieces of hard candy, or sugar cubes. This should relieve the symptoms within 15 minutes. Avoid choosing chocolate as a sugar source. The fat in chocolate makes it absorb more slowly and it won't raise your blood sugar up as quickly as you need it too. Make sure to eat a small balanced meal after the symptoms are gone. This will prevent another blood sugar spike and consequent drop.

I would see what the calorie content of a wrap is v. the bun. but I think either is fine.

I just think now...everyone is saying I am thin...but in all honesty I could lose more. So are you in a healthy weight range? Could you lose more and be ok? I never not ate what I wanted. In moderation you can have anything. I think your stomach naturally expands, but if you need to add more a WASA cracker with peanut butter is yummy. I love me some peanut butter! I don't know ya'all's height and weight so it is hard to say.

Go to 140. I don't know how tall you are, but keep going! I was 5'11" and got to 163. After I have this baby I want to get to 150 or a size 6 pants! WHAT! WHAT! I mean I should probably just have a goal of losing the baby weight, but I want want want to get to a size 6.