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My surgeon says no snacks, just three meals. My nutritionist and his nurse practitioner say we need snacks and they should be protein ones. I have always had some snacks in my diet since the beginning and I have done fine. They just wave the surgeon off...lol. They say they know best after the surgery is over. lol.

Is anyone having surgery on or around June 1, with Dr. Alvarez? My sister is and I am going with her and we were wondering if there is anyone else who might be there too. I have put this out there a time or two but I get no responses. I hope we are not alone there!

Where are you having yours? Who is your surgeon?

This was my sleeve date in 2011! I will be one year out when you have yours! Congratulations and good luck!

I have this happen often. My bp stays around 90/50 which is hypotensive. It has been that way all my life but only since surgery to I get the dizzy spells from standing too quickly. I think its a combo of low bp and not drinking enough fluids.

I am 9.5 months out and I eat something like this: Breakfast: 8 oz of OJ with one scoop unflavored Protein OR a Muscle Milk banana Creme flavor--NOT BOTH 10 oclock snack two cracker cut cheddar cheese slices with two whole wheat ritz OR 1 tbls Peanut Butter and five mini nilla wafers --NOT BOTH Lunch: Lean pocket (13 g of protein) OR leftover chicken fajita, beef or fish I had the night before- Tuna salad---some type of meat at any rate. 3 oclock snack- 8 oz of 2% or skim milk and peanut butter nilla wafers as above. (not together) i space them apart about 30 minutes. Dinner: Talapia, grilled fajita chicken, roast, (some type of meat) and a few bites of veggies. Sometimes my hubby will make hamburger helper and i will eat a few bites of it but I usually have my meat separate from them. Snack: I usually have another glass of milk and one cookie at night. Some days I eat a few bbq pork rinds if I want something salty or beef Jerky for snack. I also eat out some and I share with my husband or order a Soup. I just try to pick something with protein that reheats well. I can make a dish last about 4 meals.

No problem. What are friend for? I hesitate to give unasked for advice but when I see a friend that I think could benefit from anything i have learned, I feel I need to tell them. Im glad it helped. I have faith that you will do just fine and make goal in no time!

I noticed that you quit smoking. My sister did too, four days ago. She is doing the patches to help her. She started her liquid diet then too. She is scheduled for surgery on June 1! You guys will be sleeve sisters! How is it coming along for you?

Dont worry. They put you in a gown when they are prepping you for surgery. You have the gown on while you are awake and aware. They give you something to relax you and then you are asleep and not aware. When you come out of surgery, you are in your gown. You dont even realize you were ever naked. You wont have to be timid about your body because you wont be laying there naked and awake. Thanks goodness! HTH

Its probably true. Your body decides to let go of water when it wants too and it decided to take a nose dive! Some weeks you will have big losses and some none at all. Its an average and you are coming off a gain from your TOM so its probably just adjusting for that. Dont worry, be Happy!

I am 9.5 months out and a few of mine are raised on the right side. The left ones are flat and pencil thin. the others look like little red grub worms.. yuck. I am hoping they start to fade like the doc says they will. He said they were normal. I guess I dont heal as pretty as others do. Im still waiting on them to fade and be flat.

Hey. I want to say this to you and I know its unwanted, unsolicited advice but its free! LOL. I have noticed that here lately you seem to be, for lack of a better term, FAD dieting. Trying everything under the sun for short terms and none of it seems to be working. I just wanted to tell you and maybe others too what my surgeon told me about doing this. IT WORKS AGAINST YOU. He says its still that yo yo diet mentality. Try this a few days, try that a few days, no sugar, liquid diet, cut carbs, up calories, reduce calories, etc. You body has no idea if its coming or going! It is holding on to the pounds because it never knows what you are going to do next. He advises against doing this sort of thing. Just do the regular sleeve diet and that is eat Protein first, if you have room, add veggies, then carbs etc. Thats it. Nothing else. Dont worry about doing liquids again and no sugar and all that crap. Its what made us lifetime dieters and we screwed up our metabolism doing that. My unsolicited advice is for you to stop the madness and get back to the business of enjoying your life where food doesnt control it, get some exercise, and the weight will come off naturally. The stress of worrying about every little thing is also a cause of your body to store fat. RELAX! It is going to happen for you. Believe it! Trust! We all believe in you and know you will reach your personal goal and you dont need all these fad diet tricks to do it. You have the tool! Love ya, Tammi

My boobs are bigger in cup size now. I am a 34 E/F. I have to order them. The DD's are too small. I never dreamed that would happen! I wore a 34 C in college. I guess after kids and being fat for so long just made the cups bigger. LOL.

Im 5'4" too and I started at 234. According to the charts I have looked at, 145 is my normal BMI. I am 148 right now but I hope to make my ultimate goal of 135. I made my own goal and my surgeon agreed that it was a good one. I said I wanted to make it there by my one year surgiversary (August) and my doc says he will be happy if I make it by Thanksgiving!

did you mean May 28?

I have never liked to drink water per se. I had to make myself and I was a guzzler. I would take big drinks, like six or seven big swallows at a time until I got it drank or about 10 ounces at a time. I cannot do that anymore. I had to start with very small sips after surgery or I got a tightness in my chest. I am 9.5 months out and the most I can do is about 6 regular swallows at a time and then wait a few minutes and i can do that again. So if you are a guzler, you can drink 5 or 6 swallows at a time eventually but that is my max right now.

Well, I beg to differ. I dont think the surgery is necessarily the only thing a person has to do to lose weight. Its the biggest part and I agree that its a great tool but what about the rules you have to follow strictly to be sucessful? You have to eat Protein first, exercise, not drink your calories and the list goes on and on. I know several people who have not been as sucessful as others and it pertains to that aspect of it. A person is not just home free after surgery. You have to work at it, its only a tool to be used. It has seemed easy for me too but it fit in with my lifestyle and that is why I have been so successful without much ado. Its been relatively easy so far for me. I do consider myself a success and I do contribute it to me working with my tool, eating healthier, exercising, etc. Just another point of view on the same topic. Do not intend to offend. Not saying you are wrong, just saying I have a different view. I believe you are a success and an inspiration! You have inspired me along the way!

I liked the RTD muscle milk banana cream and cake batter flavors. You can get them at the vitamin shoppe or gnc or places like walmart and the grocery store. I am not into chocolate so that was not an option for me. My sister likes them too.

I was sleeved in August and my sister is getting sleeved in under two weeks! June 1st! I am excited for her and I hope she doesnt have a lot of pain. We both suffer from kidney stones so her pain threshold is high, like mine. We have both had gall bladder surgery which is what i would compare this to. I think she will be fine with the surgery pain. I had no gas pain and I hope that is the case with her too. I feel very excited that we will both be sleeved very soon!

Thanks everyone! I am looking forward to it but nervous at the same time!

My surgeons office called today to ask if I would participate in their seminar this Thursday evening! What an honor! I have lost 86 pounds and I am only 3 pounds from a normal weight, 13 pounds from my personal goal and 14 pounds from losing 100 pounds! Woop! When I was at my seminar, they had about 10 people there who told there story and there were only two sleevers there. One of those was my inspiration and he really helped me. I hope to be someone elses inspiration. Its surreal to think that I am going to be one of those inspirational people! I told my husband at my seminar that I wanted to do that when I reached goal and now its here, I get to do one and I am only 9.5 months out from my surgery! Woooop! She also told me that they are performing more sleeves now than any other procedure but have mostly GB patients who come to the seminars for them. I will be the only sleever there representing! I better do us all proud! Now to pick an outfit to wear!

Do you mean vitreous humor? The aqueous humor is that tiny bit of Fluid between the lens and the cornea, the vitreous humor is the fluid that fills the eyeball between the retina and the lens. I saw a thread a few months back on this subject and the people found out they vision changes but that given a little time, self corrected. They said it was common and it would go back to normal with time.

Take advantage of these early months to really get your eating habits changed. This the prime time to lose. We all have stalls and fluctuations but if there is a time to bear down and do the absolute best you can, its now. You can be a bit more lax about it later, because now is the honeymoon and you need to take full advantage of it. I am not saying be perfect but do your very best and you will be glad you did. Congrats for being in the 300's! Wooop!

Good luck!!!!

I had one at two weeks out that required surgery. It was very painful. I hope to never experience that again. Drink up people! lol