MegInNOLA

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When you HAVE to put your jeans in the dryer because they're too big! I'm with ya on that one!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

My husband and I are both sleevers, and we eat a lot of sushi. Since I can't eat regular white or brown rice but CAN tolerate rice paper, we make spring rolls with boiled shrimp, julienne veggies (cucumber, lettuce or cabbage), some cilantro (ESSENTIAL, in my opinion), all wrapped up in the rice paper. It's cool, it's no-cook, it's high Protein, and it's fantastic. We dip into peanut sauce, which is basically Peanut Butter, some chili sauce, and some soy sauce with a squeeze of lime juice, thinned with Water. We LOVE these! For you carb trackers, there are 4 carbs in a piece of rice paper--and I can only eat about half a piece of the rice paper-wrapped spring roll at a time. You may be able to handle more. Enjoy!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

Alcohol will "feel" different after surgery for most of us in one way or another. I'm one of the ones who found it hit a lot harder than pre-surgery. I also discovered the hard way that it makes it almost impossible to tell how much is actually IN your stomach at a given time--it seems to make things relax to the point that my usual "I'm full" signals don't work very well... I'll leave the rest to your imagination, but it was not pretty and I didn't even get to enjoy a buzz!! LOL
As with all things post-sleeve, caution and paying attention to your body are the keys--only problem is that it's difficult to do that with the alcohol working in you. :-) Slow is your best bet.

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

I had vomiting for the first 7 weeks after surgery, almost every single day--why? Because I was not on a PPI!!! My surgeon does not routinely prescribe it post surgery. Once I started taking Prilosec, it was like a miracle--suddenly, food stayed down! Now, I still can't eat much at one time, only a couple of tablespoons per "meal," but it stays down and I'm feeling so much better.
If you're not already on a PPI, get some generic omeprazole and try it out. Can't hurt and might help. Use it for a couple of days and then try something really bland and really soft, like mashed potatoes, and only eat a tablespoon... see if that stays down. At this point, don't worry about carbs or whatever, just see if you can get something gentle to stay down. Tiny bites, please, and wait a few minutes between bites.
I really hope you find some answers--NOBODY should have to go through vomiting every day, and I should know!!

Dooter, yes, that's what I did and do still sometimes; I make my own "gazpacho," since my sleeve loves tomatoes but didn't (and doesn't) like carrots--I zap it all in the blender and slurp away slowly.
My sleeve is particularly picky and didn't tolerate a lot of different kinds of foods until around 6 months or so. Now, at 9 months, I can eat salad, broccoli, cabbage, cucumber (tolerated better now than pre-surgery--go figure!), and the only things that give me pause are raw carrots, raw celery, and raw onion, but I can eat all of these cooked.
If you find something bothers your sleeve at some point, try it again in a couple of months--I know it really did take what seemed like forever for my sleeve to accept raw veggies, but now I'm LOVING it!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

Ooh, I hate that sort of thing, and it happens all the time! Bodies are strange things. scales are also strange things. When you combine the two, sometimes you get readings that seem completely WRONG!
Your weight may fluctuate a lot--according to how much salt you eat, where you are in the monthly hormonal cycle, how much Water you drank, when your last BM was, etc. And your scale is subject to the physical limitations of a machine. :rolleyes:Let me tell you what happened to me this morning! I got up and weighed as usual. Did not put a single thing in my mouth. Sat down, got busy at the computer. Two hours later, I got up and, just for a lark, got back on the scale. It was 2 pounds higher!!! All I had done was sit on my butt for 2 hours, and the scale registered a 2-pound gain. I had to laugh...
So, my advice is to weigh once a week, don't freak about the small, daily, or hourly, ups and downs, and live your life. Scale, schmale...it's a good tool, but don't give it the power to make you crazy!
Best--
Meg

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When you HAVE to put your jeans in the dryer because they're too big! I'm with ya on that one!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When you HAVE to put your jeans in the dryer because they're too big! I'm with ya on that one!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!

When your husband starts calling you "Hottie" in front of all your friends!!