june13sleever

First off, who really cares about them? Really, it's your health that must be taken care of, not them. . . And you are so lucky to have a husband who is supporting you in this. . . it is his support that matters not your family. . . you have to live with your husband not you skinny jealous sister. . . my mom still thinks I'm going to regain all my weight and be 350 lbs again. . . when she sees me eat only 4 - 6 oz at a meal she says I'm faking and just trying to show off. . . in one ear and out of the other, I don't give a flip about what my family says, they are just hurtful anyhow. . . it's me that matters not them. . . cheers and good luck!

Seriuosly? I would tell my mom to F OFF and never talk to her again until she had some respect. This sounds seriously messed up, and I know what our parents can do to us. I would get some therapy because her behavior is OUT OF CONTROL! Parents should be the MOST supportive and everyone else can fly a kite.

Get off the scale. Eat 500 calories. This is just my opinion, but i have noticed a lot of people on here complaining about a stall and then saying a week to two weeks later the stall was over. No offense to anyone, but it seems a bit obsessive. The weight is going to come off. Just throw the scale away and start living! I am sure it will come! That is unless you did it in Mexico and they just cut you open and didn't remove anything. JUST A JOKE PEOPLE! Ok, you are going to do what you are going to do and we all went through this to lose weight and made drastic changes to have drastic results. But I can't imagine not losing at 500 calories.

I was sleeved on May 9, about 6 weeks ago. I have lost 30lbs in those 6 weeks and have not (yet) experienced a stall. But I feel like I'm not doing as well as I should be. I am one of those people who had very little swelling from the get-go and I've been able to eat far more than I feel I should be able to. Maybe the doctor cut me a bigger pouch because I'm so tall and big-framed, I don't know.

I feel restriction but I am able to eat (for example) an entire slice of pizza in a sitting. instead of a 1/4c pouch, I feel full at 3/4 to 1 cup. And all the problems I had before surgery are still there. I'm still struggling to stay on high protein/low carb/low fat. I'm still struggling wtih that mindset that becuase it's there, and because my stomach will let me, I can eat it. I can't eat nearly what I used to, but at the same time I still eat stuff I shouldn't.

I need to do better. whatever weightloss I have enjoyed so far will eventually diminish and halt if I keep this up. But at the same time, am I doing okay as far as the number of pounds in 6 weeks?

Why are you eating the pizza. Just eat a cup of cucumbers with a little drizzle of dressing. If you go for pizza, look at it and SAY NO and then immediately pick up the salt shaker and douse the damn thing in salt. This is what I did a restaurants when I still was eating on a plate of food any wasn't hungry anymore! EAT EGG WHITES OR AN EGG. The bread is a no-no. Just eat the topping on the pizza and don't eat the bread. Just think (if you didn't cook the pizza yourself) that someone in the back jizzed on it. Your doing great, but maybe eat something else first.

I was sleeved on the 15th too. I am able to tolerate liquids pretty well. Hope it gets betters soon for you guys. I haven't pooped since I've been out of the hospital and that has me worried.

That first liquidy poop is the BEST! It will come! Mine was 4 days after so anytime now!

I'm on my 12th day since surgery. I am drinking just over 32 oz at this point. It is hard to get it down, I feel a big lump in my throat and then hopefully I burp! Sipping throughout the day is going to have to become a new habit for me.

THE LUMP IS KILLING ME! But I just read it is ACID REFLUX. It could be other things, but I am guess this is what it is since alot of people have it. Burps don't even really make it go away it is swelling. I guess that is one of the reasons why people are on Prilosec or Prevacid.

Well it it now 337 am and I am home. Yes I did go back the hospital I had surgery at and I am NOT impressed in the least! I had to sit for 3 hours in the er waiting room for them to argue with me that was no longer in my stomach, I said I beg to differ, I can feel it. Then I had argue with the er doc that this was not going to pass as my anatomy was altered. She said it would and wanted me to eat to prove that myself that food was going down. I said iit may be but that does not meat this thing is not stuck and food is going around it. She then proceeds to bring apples sauce, 6 gram crackers and ice Water. I told her that is more than I eat in a sitting and she looked at me like yeah right. Then told me to eat what I could, I finished the apple sauce and ended up in more pain at which point she thought calling my surgeon was a good thing. He wanted me to have a stat upper gi so they call the radiologists team who argues the need for the test and refused to come in. So they settle on cat scan which showed them nothing as the piece is plastic and does not show on cat scans. They have decided to send me home to look through my elimination and to return if I start vomiting/ fever or pain. I am suppose to see my surgeon on Monday for a scope. I will be calling the hospital administrator on Monday as I plan on chewing him a new one!

I don't even know you, but I want to call them now. UMMMMMM! HELLO! You can not stand for this. Where do you live? Can you go to another Hospital? I absolutely want to call them. I AM FURIOUS!

Ok so a week ago I did it. Today I have a lump in my throat that won't go away. I have had this prior to being sleeved, but it has been so long I can't remember. it is super annoying. What is it???? And number 2, shortness of breath. I seriously can't walk up a flight of stairs without being winded. I am more winded than I was before. Anyone?

On a more postive note I am down 23 pounds. 6 pounds leading up to my surgery and 17 this week. How much does your 85% of stomach weigh I also bought numerous amounts of egg substitutes and eggs. Next monday I can eat eggs, and I will eat them FOREVER! I will get my Protein in with EGGS! EGGS! EGGS! I LOVE EGGS! And...I weighed myself at work, but I will commit to not weighing myself anymore except at Doctor's visits. I DO NOT WANT TO BE A SLAVE TO THE SCALE!

just on more thing....doctors think we are retarded so they don't explain things in depth. yes you need cards, yes you really need Protein...research ketosis.

some are for it and some are against it. but our bodies were never designed to handle this food we have in this country now.

your body has to stay in ketosis to lose the weight. that being said...500 calories a day until you reah your goal. i did a liquid diet before i decided to do the sleeve. they put you into ketosis. 1000 calories is way too many in the weightloss stage. look it up. i am not a doctor, but you can buy ketosis strips to see if you are in it. it is all about calories. that really is the bottom line. i believe it.

i told everyone. only one of my co-workers was supportive, the others were, let's just say i don't think they really cared or they kept their feelings to themselves. I will, in our next meeting, ask that no one really say anything about it it anyway ever again and I am going to straight up tell my boss that my performance during the healing phase will not change so don't go blaming my weight loss surgery if i forget to do something. she will most certainly blame te surgery, but i am back to work on monday. only 6 days to get better. i think she would have had a heart attack if i took two weeks. she is nuts.

Finally farted and pooped and felt relief from gas pain There is still a bunch of rumbling going on, but I know I will poop again soon. So right now the only pain I have is from the two incisions on the left...you looking at me...my right. They aren't easing up. I still can not drink much of anything, but I found that Water actually goes down the easiest. sipping is no problem because i take myself back to childhood. I used to poke a little hole in a soda can and drink the whole thing through this tiny little hole. I was really tired today, but once I got some Protein in I felt better. I need to really find some shakes that taste good or where i can make mini ones with my own powder so i don't let it sit too long. I am just drinking clear Protein Drinks. I maybe feel a little acid down there, but nothing too bad. I am feeling pretty good today even with the pain. I do sill take the pain meds..they just help to take the edge off. I bought a belt you wrap around your tummy to hold in my gut and that helps with the pain, All in all i feel sort of good. I maybe am hungry, but not sure if it is acid. i wish could just try some applesauce now, but i will be ok. the hunger or acid isn't that bad where i find myself about to lose it. so that is my update. still at home. i have to go to work on Monday so I am going to cherish these next two days and hope that the incision pain does away.

i just can't drink anymore I am going to explode. I doubt I got three cups in today. 8 cups...how am i gonna do it. i feel like i never stop sipping and i just want to take a nap. after how many days of just three cups before i should call my doctor. i brought those tiny medicine cups from the hospital, but i can't find them. i only have the teaspoon, table spoon thingys and i don't know how much an ounce is. they said an ounce every 15 minutes.

I paid for it. Insurance didn't cover it even if I was approved. Some companies don't include it to keep costs down, And what would happen if all the fat people in the world stopped eating Mcdonald's and corn based products. No one wants us to be healthy. I financed through Care Credit. Zero percent for 18 months. Oh well. I will somehow make it work.

My boyfriend thinks the change was too drastic. I had to tell him about my sneaking food in. He really thought I didn't eat a lot. I told him that everyday after work I would go to McDonalds and get two meals and eat them. I had gotten to the point where I was hiding eating from him and everyone. I could eat 8 pieces of chicken, 3 biscuts and two large sides no problem. I told him while I know this process may seem drastic, if I kept going I would die either from a heart attack or killing myself, After my binge eating, I would feel so sad I was borderline suicidal. I am so happy that I have taken this step, and I will be going to OA and my support groups, He is skinny and can eat anything, He doesn't understand,, but he will feel the benefit one day when we are having sex and I can finally be back on top without being super embarrassed. Skinny people never understand.

Incision pain still sucks. Gas pain still sucks. Thankful for this site. Yesterday read a post about guy who went to hospital for dehydration coupled with another post where someone could drink a lot right after surgery. So today I am trying my best to get these damn fluids in. I am feeling good with 1/4 cup of fluids in 15 minutes. I probably could do more, but I don't want to push it too far. Still no sign of farts, which I feel something a coming, but I will just hang tight, Tried some Mylanta, but it is so gross. I would rather have the pain. Wish there was something better. I read the posts today about people not losing enough, I am 5'10" and weigh 290 one week before surgery and then 284 before surgery. I have no scale and don't want on and if I lose only 20 pounds I will be happy because when I would eat a whole pizza I would hate myself. So I don't even care about being super skinny. I just don't want to feel that feeling after I leave an all you can eat place. That feeling is the worst.

i was sleeved on 5/24. it took me over a week to go to the bathroom. it will happen. i think that everything you're feeling is normal. i ate whole popcicles--a lot of them. they tasted better that anything else. also, my incision pain was horrible, but it gets better every day. i am still sore, and i am 3 weeks out. it will get better!

This is good to know. I will just wait to poop.

Sleeved on 6/13 and I'm still in the hospital with complications. You name it and it has happened,but it is my hope and my prayer that I will be home in my own bed on Friday! Prayers and lots of them are needed.

What are your complications? I am sorry to hear about your troubles. Do you know boogie size your doctore used?

My inision pain is the worst!!! I mean terrible!!! Sharp shooting like if I move to much they are going to split open and I will die!

2 days out and my incisions on the right side hurt like helll. Sharp shooting pain. Gas pain too. All and all this sucks, but I am not hungry! So if it takes a few weeks to feel like i did too many crunhes oh well! FAT NO MORE! I have a hard time even wiping myself after the bathroom. I haven't cried because there is relief when I am in bed, but moving...walking...wish I didn't have to.

As an expert pooper I really want to know when I will get my pooping skills back! This gas is so terrible! Rumble Rumble Rumble and no poop...no burps!! I have a scarf wrapped around my belly for when I walk. I am not sure doctors really understand that we have big droopy bellies and they just hang out there. When I had breast reduction surgery i had to wear a surgical bra. I feel like we should have a surgical belt to help keep our tummy in place. The incision pain is horrible. When will that get better? Yesterday i freaked out a little because i was able to eat a whole popsicle. Seemed like too much liquid. Also when I did my upper GI yesterday after my third sip I threw up. I was in rush hour traffic and was sick by the time I got home. I also have a little shortness of breath. All in all I think I am ok. What do you think?