Matt Z

Not quite the same, but I've been dealing with back pain due to spinal arthritis, guess that when I was heavier the visceral fat was covering the arthritis to the point where it wasn't being felt. Now that I've dropped a bunch, I can absolutely feel it and boy does it suck! I'm trying to get my insurance to approve some physical therapy so I can start work through the pain. Might be worth looking into for your situation as well. Proper re-alignments and targeted muscle strengthening helps out immensely.

Don't worry about what you can't control. Odds are they won't deny you for weight gain due to quitting smoking. It's a side effect that's pretty much a guarantee. Cut all added sugars, cut all extra carbs (every veggie has carbs, avoid bread really) Start drinking ONLY water and get in upwards of 128oz a day. All of this will help you shed weight. But, stress makes you gain, so... stop stressing! If they deny, you can appeal. But until they do actually deny you... worrying about it is just a waste of energy.

Even if you can't find your original, *ANY* online pre-op for sleeve diet should be sufficient to get you where you need to go.

@MrsLucas sorry for your loss. You can just start over. Pretend you didn't have the surgery and start off with a pre-op diet, then transition though the stages the same way you didn't when you originally had the surgery. It can be challenging, but it's a great way to hit the reset button and get back on track. Good luck!

Adding back some electrolytes is a good idea, ESP when you are doing extensive flushing. When I go to the gym, I use electrolyte added to my water to help prevent it from dropping too low. But, that might not be why you are stalled out, that much exercise with that little of an intake is more than likely putting you right into conservation mode, add another 200-400 calories of protein a day on your heavy work out days and see if that helps out. Using a slow burn protein at night (Casein) might help out as well.

Might be worth trying to up your caloric intake a bit, see if your body is stuck in conservation mode, this is why I was also asking if you were paying attention to your BMR. Are you paying attention to your fat% by chance? Lots of times I personally didn't lose any weight, actually have gained some, but still would lose body fat.

Congrats again! That's an amazing transformation! You look fantastic! (the proportional changes are amazing as well, you look like you grew taller just by getting thinner!)

I've noticed you've avoided answering my post. The best tool for working through a stall, is tracking. If your water isn't near 128oz a day... that's can be a problem, because the human body needs water to process and remove fat. So, if we don't meet the daily needs and have extra around for the body to process fat... then fat loss suffers. If your carbs are too high, proteins too low, Caloric expenditure is too low or is over your BMR, those can all be problems. Since no one here has any idea what your daily totals looks like, no one is going to be able to give you a proper answer as to how to potentially break your stall.

To me... a Stall is any time that you are not losing weight when you should be, *NOT* a "I'm not losing weight because I'm not tracking anything and I don't know what I'm consuming etc". If you are doing EVERYTHING the way you are supposed to, and just not losing pounds... to me, that's a stall. A plateau (again, to me) is any extended length of time where you don't lose weight, generally because you are close to your bodies desired weight/size and still doing everything you are supposed to be doing.

Thanks J San! I've seen scales that do BMI, I haven't seen any that do BMR. (I haven't looked really either, so "grain of salt" here) but if the scale allows you to enter your height and age (either on the scale or a connected app), then it should be just as accurate as any other BMR Calculator.

Are you tracking your calorie intake? Are you tracking your carb intake? Are you tracking your protein intake? Are you tracking your water intake? Are you exercising? Do you know your Basal Metabolic Rate? You can start over and do some liquid diets, then move to puree, etc, just recreate your pre and post op diets. You can surely do that. Might not be 100% necessary though. If you are tracking all the above and your water intake is high, your protein intake is good, your carb intake is low and your daily caloric intake is less than or equal to your current BMR, then you should be fine and might just be stalled out. If you aren't tracking or aren't sure of any of the above, get on that before you revert to pre-op diet.

Firstly, Congrats on the Surgery. Secondly, walk walk walk and use your incentive spirometer every hour! They both help to not only get the gas out, but to increase blood flow to increase healing times! It gets better.

Congrats! Keep it up!

Small changes over time become habit. It's the large changes that are harder to fully commit to. You've seemingly got this under control, you know what you did wrong and how to resolve it. So, congrats on being ahead of this curve!

Congrats and good luck! Here's to a smooth surgery and easy recovery!

Yes it can Did you read what I wrote? I'm confused by your "Yes it can" post in reply to my post outlining how to have duplicates removed... did you quote the wrong post?

There is iron in the patch, and there are iron patches as well. I eat enough meat (and don't have a period although my wife would disagree) so I put them on her when she's still asleep in the morning before I leave when she's on her cycle. She says it helps her...

all this: peace & love, margalit lap-band june 6th, 2007 :whoo:

BMR is weight and age sensitive, I'm pretty sure it doesn't change just from having the surgery, it's the weight loss that changes the BMR total. https://bariatricsurgeryco.org/bariatric-surgery-information/bmi-calculators/bmr-us-basic-metabolic-rate/ Something lots of folks miss is the water, the human body requires water to not only work it's normal day to day processes, but for fat removal as well, if we don't give the body enough water to meet it's needs and then extra for the fat reduction, fat processing suffers.

I didn't need anyone after my revision surgery... like legit, no help needed at all.

Thanks! That signature block is MASSIVE btw LOL

First few days aren't that tough, the end of the first week going into the second can suck... but then it gets easy again.

Not sure if I'm on track or above average. Going off my starting weight for my revision of 310, and using https://www.obesitycoverage.com/weight-loss-surgeries/gastric-bypass/how-much-can-i-expect-to-lose I see that I should expect to hit 222 with ease within 18 months... seeing as I'm at 230ish right now, not quite 6 months out of surgery... I have a 20% chance to reach 182 within 18 months... so we'll see how it goes I guess. I'm just shooting for 200 by Nov 13-15th. (so I can be the same weight I was at 20 when I got married, when I turn 40)

This is a *VERY* touchy, highly debated topic. Check the "Search" function out and see what I'm talking about! I've been using them for about 6 months now, my 3 month labs were good. I get my 6 month labs done in 2 weeks, so we'll see how they look at that point. Right now, I'm happy with them. But we'll see how that goes moving forwards.

I just have to correct 1 thing with this. "...it may happen today or two years from now but eventually it *MIGHT* happen... I don't like the "will" in this sentence since that denotes a guaranteed outcome, there are folks that had RYN that don't take any extra vitamins because their diet provides them with all they need. But most of us are more than likely going to be on them for the rest of our lives. So, the "will" usage is just too strong in my opinion for a potential outcome rather than a guaranteed one. Sorry, it was just bugging me, nothing personal, I've got a little "spectrum" in me...