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I definitely can eat a full restaurant meal and feel hungry again an hour or two later. I do spare carbs and eat Protein first. Do not drink during or closely after eating. No liquid with calories. Crave 'fudge' 40 cal ice pops. Try to snack on string cheese and nuts. ALWAYS HUNGRY thats how I was b4 the sleeve. I weighed 428 and am now at 192-95. Lowest was 188 in july. Yes i work out religiously and walk the doggie. I know the struggle is constant but I did NOT expect to be thinking abt food every minute. Its boring!

It will never be easy. I'm 69 and had vsg 2011. U never can gp back to potato bread Pasta comfort...NEVER. I think of simple carbs as monsters.

I thought the same when I was 66. now I am 68. I changed some things. the old habits are still there. but being 190 is better than being 320 or even the 428 I carried for 10 years. go for it

I thought the same when I was 66. now I am 68. I changed some things. the old habits are still there. but being 190 is better than being 320 or even the 428 I carried for 10 years. go for it

I thought the same when I was 66. now I am 68. I changed some things. the old habits are still there. but being 190 is better than being 320 or even the 428 I carried for 10 years. go for it

Thank you for this. It was what I really needed to read today. I have been noticing there are a few holes in my approach and I love the thought of raising the fences.
I spend so much time doing things for others and I often forget to tend to my own backyard!!
I'm going to survey things today and make sure to correct and adjust properly!

Strange there are so few of us in this discussion. Its sep. 2013 now and I am down to 190-194 depending on the day. This seems to be "my" weight. I still work out 3 to 4 times a week. Have eaten a few apples blue berries strawberries a single peach. Still worry abt weight and cant find a comfortable routine or "diet". But I gotta admit im pleased with what ive done. Im not sorry I did it. food is just food. I dont crave anything. I cannot tolerate snything sweet. A cooked carrot is just too sweet for me! Not sirry about that at all. Would still love to have a free munchy food other than kale chips...or a way to keep kale chips crisp aftwr a few hours.
But I am ok with this. My thyroid med is way down. Dont need the cpap anymore. These are positives.
Uf any other senior was reading this for advice...id say now "go fir it" and again...good luck
Ps: you still need to make your own sunshine lollipops and rainbows.

I don't love my sleeve yet. If I can't eat what I want, its no better than a diet.

Strange there are so few of us in this discussion. Its sep. 2013 now and I am down to 190-194 depending on the day. This seems to be "my" weight. I still work out 3 to 4 times a week. Have eaten a few apples blue berries strawberries a single peach. Still worry abt weight and cant find a comfortable routine or "diet". But I gotta admit im pleased with what ive done. Im not sorry I did it. food is just food. I dont crave anything. I cannot tolerate snything sweet. A cooked carrot is just too sweet for me! Not sirry about that at all. Would still love to have a free munchy food other than kale chips...or a way to keep kale chips crisp aftwr a few hours.
But I am ok with this. My thyroid med is way down. Dont need the cpap anymore. These are positives.
Uf any other senior was reading this for advice...id say now "go fir it" and again...good luck
Ps: you still need to make your own sunshine lollipops and rainbows.

Greetings all!
Last year at 66 and 326# I had my surgery on 12/5. This year, at 67 I am 198# and while I haven't learned to ride a horse, yet, doggie and I walk for 2 to 4 miles without so much as a second thought. I am still working 3x wk with personal trainer and 2 x without. I can ride the recumbant bike in the gym now - before my stomach prevented me from getting close enuf to the bike to turn the pedals. I'm kinda, sorta pleased @ that.
I worry excessively every time I put something in my mouth that I didn't do last year...no, haven't added too many carbs yet--certainly no simple carbs-- but if I spray oil on veggies to grill, I feel like I'm going to go over 200 tomorrow. So I'm spooked and don't know if I could stick to a normal food diet at all or if the gremlin of "must have more" food is lying dormant just waiting for me to cave in.
I don't trust myself -at all-.
I still wanna learn to ride a horse. Going to ask the personal trainer to give me some sort of test to see if I can get my foot over and my tush in a saddle. Wonder if they have senior citizen horse back riding...wonder if they use old horses for old people??? Any one else do this?
I've started accupuncture for my arthritis and hope that'll make moving easier. And a friend has given me a full hour massage as a gift. Wow.
So that's my followup. If I knew how to change the heading, I would. The only caveat I will give to anyone reading this who has not yet been sleeved is: don't expect huge changes in your life other than the wt loss. Don't expect things are suddenly going to change in general. You definitely will lose weight. You will certainly have people react differently to you because u are smaller and look like a normal person. But life will be what you've made it and will continue until you change it.
I'm still learning that lesson.
Good fortune and happy new year to all.

Greetings all!
Last year at 66 and 326# I had my surgery on 12/5. This year, at 67 I am 198# and while I haven't learned to ride a horse, yet, doggie and I walk for 2 to 4 miles without so much as a second thought. I am still working 3x wk with personal trainer and 2 x without. I can ride the recumbant bike in the gym now - before my stomach prevented me from getting close enuf to the bike to turn the pedals. I'm kinda, sorta pleased @ that.
I worry excessively every time I put something in my mouth that I didn't do last year...no, haven't added too many carbs yet--certainly no simple carbs-- but if I spray oil on veggies to grill, I feel like I'm going to go over 200 tomorrow. So I'm spooked and don't know if I could stick to a normal food diet at all or if the gremlin of "must have more" food is lying dormant just waiting for me to cave in.
I don't trust myself -at all-.
I still wanna learn to ride a horse. Going to ask the personal trainer to give me some sort of test to see if I can get my foot over and my tush in a saddle. Wonder if they have senior citizen horse back riding...wonder if they use old horses for old people??? Any one else do this?
I've started accupuncture for my arthritis and hope that'll make moving easier. And a friend has given me a full hour massage as a gift. Wow.
So that's my followup. If I knew how to change the heading, I would. The only caveat I will give to anyone reading this who has not yet been sleeved is: don't expect huge changes in your life other than the wt loss. Don't expect things are suddenly going to change in general. You definitely will lose weight. You will certainly have people react differently to you because u are smaller and look like a normal person. But life will be what you've made it and will continue until you change it.
I'm still learning that lesson.
Good fortune and happy new year to all.

Yup. Too much of a good thing is never actually good!
Your doctor should have told you to reduce the B12 a bit. Try every other day instead of every day. I would even go down to twice a week, maybe.

I resemble that remark: haven't found a replacement for comfort. I crave bread...a rotten white ciabata roll would do the trick...for .5 seconds. Not worth it. I watch tv, go to bed early and read and look at the forums. I don't see exercise helping me at 9pm. Gotta be something else...

Greetings all!
Last year at 66 and 326# I had my surgery on 12/5. This year, at 67 I am 198# and while I haven't learned to ride a horse, yet, doggie and I walk for 2 to 4 miles without so much as a second thought. I am still working 3x wk with personal trainer and 2 x without. I can ride the recumbant bike in the gym now - before my stomach prevented me from getting close enuf to the bike to turn the pedals. I'm kinda, sorta pleased @ that.
I worry excessively every time I put something in my mouth that I didn't do last year...no, haven't added too many carbs yet--certainly no simple carbs-- but if I spray oil on veggies to grill, I feel like I'm going to go over 200 tomorrow. So I'm spooked and don't know if I could stick to a normal food diet at all or if the gremlin of "must have more" food is lying dormant just waiting for me to cave in.
I don't trust myself -at all-.
I still wanna learn to ride a horse. Going to ask the personal trainer to give me some sort of test to see if I can get my foot over and my tush in a saddle. Wonder if they have senior citizen horse back riding...wonder if they use old horses for old people??? Any one else do this?
I've started accupuncture for my arthritis and hope that'll make moving easier. And a friend has given me a full hour massage as a gift. Wow.
So that's my followup. If I knew how to change the heading, I would. The only caveat I will give to anyone reading this who has not yet been sleeved is: don't expect huge changes in your life other than the wt loss. Don't expect things are suddenly going to change in general. You definitely will lose weight. You will certainly have people react differently to you because u are smaller and look like a normal person. But life will be what you've made it and will continue until you change it.
I'm still learning that lesson.
Good fortune and happy new year to all.

Greetings all!
Last year at 66 and 326# I had my surgery on 12/5. This year, at 67 I am 198# and while I haven't learned to ride a horse, yet, doggie and I walk for 2 to 4 miles without so much as a second thought. I am still working 3x wk with personal trainer and 2 x without. I can ride the recumbant bike in the gym now - before my stomach prevented me from getting close enuf to the bike to turn the pedals. I'm kinda, sorta pleased @ that.
I worry excessively every time I put something in my mouth that I didn't do last year...no, haven't added too many carbs yet--certainly no simple carbs-- but if I spray oil on veggies to grill, I feel like I'm going to go over 200 tomorrow. So I'm spooked and don't know if I could stick to a normal food diet at all or if the gremlin of "must have more" food is lying dormant just waiting for me to cave in.
I don't trust myself -at all-.
I still wanna learn to ride a horse. Going to ask the personal trainer to give me some sort of test to see if I can get my foot over and my tush in a saddle. Wonder if they have senior citizen horse back riding...wonder if they use old horses for old people??? Any one else do this?
I've started accupuncture for my arthritis and hope that'll make moving easier. And a friend has given me a full hour massage as a gift. Wow.
So that's my followup. If I knew how to change the heading, I would. The only caveat I will give to anyone reading this who has not yet been sleeved is: don't expect huge changes in your life other than the wt loss. Don't expect things are suddenly going to change in general. You definitely will lose weight. You will certainly have people react differently to you because u are smaller and look like a normal person. But life will be what you've made it and will continue until you change it.
I'm still learning that lesson.
Good fortune and happy new year to all.

Hey, AZ senior...I'm due for my sleeve on november 7th. Thanks for writing this. This morning, I was watching the sleeve surgery videos and reading @ the pain nd decided NO way! I'm 66 and too old for this kind of invited trauma. Now you chime in just when I'm thinking negatively. Other thing thatg happened was a doc who swims at the same pool as I decided to tell me what a great thing I'm doing by coming to the pool so so frequently. So we chatted nd I told her @ the sleeve and sh encouraged me, too. Gee, we have a saying "meant to be"...I guess this was a sign that it is indeed "meant to be".
How much are you losing and are you still on Clear liquids? How is the reflux? Do u have it???

Just about 2 years out and I'm still cold. The upside is it's usually easier to get warm then it is to cool off, you can always ADD ;ayers but you can only take so much off - especially in public
I also just don't get very hot in the summer either. This past summer I was out riding my bike all through the horrible 100+ degree weather we had here, didn't really faze me at all.

Good luck with all your classes and tests. I'm 66 and was sleeved 12/5. I'm 63# down and it is a huge struggle to move the scale. Don't let anyone tell you itzlll be easy. Others have said it better than I....it is phenomenal in the beginning: you blink and u lose weight...but then the brakes get applied. I guess the body realizes you aren't feeding it anything and goes into a hibernation mode. One thing I have kept up is the exercise. 3x a week with trainer and 2 to 3 x a week on my own. It gives me something to do, if nothing else.

I thought membership in the century club was only if you made it to under 200. I ain't there, yet and as of now, don't think I ever will be. But, still plugging. Still trying. Another 80 some odd lbs....c'mon 199....

How much did u lose so far?

Congrats. My surgery was 12.5 and im down from 320 to 206. But im not calling it an anniversary until december. Been shopping @nordstroms the rack and able to fit into misses XL...down from 4x. Its ok to be smaller. Told i even have petite red blood cells (grin) i will take a real vacation in oct at a yoga retreat.
How will u maintain....?

Can anyone say what constitutes dense Protein in a vegan diet.

Sorry to hear what you went through. As far as the weight loss goes, I'm going through the exact same thing. Hang in there.

I am just about 8 weeks out. Last weekend I started noticing a pinching feeling below (1.5") and to the right (looking down) of my belly button. As of about Tuesday it is a for sure hernia. If I take in a huge breath or get up off the couch in just the right way, there is no doubt what is going on. I can feel some guts getting pinched very hard. It is way low compared to my stomach, so I am not afraid of messing up my wonderful new pouch.
I ran a search on the site and did not see much guidance...
Here is the deal. I do not have an incision within 4-5 inches of the hernia. My lowest incision is to the left of my belly button and the pain is to the right. I have a follow-up in 4 weeks, but may try to get in sooner.
Here is my question-
Has anyone else had a hernia (stomach wall, not hiatal) show up after surgery? And if so was it near an incision?
I was thinking it was an incision that came unstiched, but it is just not near any place I think they went through. I know they do some crazy angling, but this is the opposite direction from an incision pointing to my stomach.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.