TiffanyC

tnttransplant, I can relate to what you said. I was the same way. I used to enjoy the full feeling too and still crave it. The feeling is lessening and I expect it to go away one day.....

Against my Drs orders, I have been eating popcorn nearly daily since about a week after my surgery. You can eat alot more popcorn than other foods since it squishes down real small when chewed up good. I am probably only eating 4 oz, but it seems like alot!! I find it to be a very satisfying snack. Never bothers my tummy.

My Dr said quit looking at the forums to find out if you are average He said really this will just frustrate you. So I have backed off.

Some people just are not rule followers, but then those of us are also the ones who are not as likely to be successful with the dramatic weightloss- because we do not follow the diet prescribed by our Dr or Nut. I am not loosing and I am only 8 weeks out. I havent lost weight in a month. I think not sticking to my Dr orders from the get go set me up for failure. I recommend you try harder to stick to Dr orders just on the premise of being a success, not because it might cause a complication. If it DID cause a complication, how would you feel?

It is like a diet to me. I don't like that part of it. I cant change my frame of mind. Maybe in time.

I drank alot of Water pre-sleeve and was VERY frustrated after surgery that I could not drink more water. Now at 6 weeks out, I am able to drink water alot better tho nothing like before surgery. But it is a satisfying amount. The reason I could not drink more water is due to restriction, my water did not slide right thru, I must have a tight duodenum. ( the muscular stricture that lets food go to the intestines after the stomach) I did drink with meals after surgery - just a few sips - I do not think it makes my food go thru faster but I do notice that it limits how much I can eat. Since it takes up space in my sleeve I can fit much less real food in if I drink at the same time. I still do drink a small amount when I eat most times. Its the only way I can get in all the water my body needs. I do stop drinking 15 or 20 mins before meals if want to be able to get a good amount of food in. If I drink right after a meal, and I filled my sleeve with food to the top, then when I take a few sips of water they sit in my esophagus and I have to burp them back up over the sink because it is uncomfortable. I have never had this happen with food, which i think is what people mean when they say "the slimes"- because even when I spit up just water - alot of saliva comes up with it and it is very gooey and slimey!! Yuk.

I think many of us who say we feel hungry are not feeling hungry but experiencing too much stomach acid. I do feel a strong twinge of emptiness in my tummy after not eating for a few hours, but it doesn't last long. If I skip a meal my stomach does not complain. I do not feel hungry like I use to. I never get an achy grumbly gurgly stomach with a headache like I used to from being terribly hungry. But like right now, I just ate a meal, which I did feel full from --and here I am 20 minutes later and I have an achy feeling in my tummy. I know it can not be hunger but it does feel sort of like a hunger pang I get when my sleeve is empty. My guess is it is stomach acid. When I get full with my sleeve it is what I think a normal feeling of being full should be. I just get a sign a in my brain that I have had enough to eat and a tight feeling in my tummy. Now I do sometimes mentally want to eat more and it sometimes is hard to not let myself keep eating in that case, but my sleeve stops me from going overboard. Before sleeve I would eat so fast til I was totally stuffed and miserable with stomach pressure and pain. Now I just eat till there is no more empty feeling. Sometimes I do feel physically full after eating when I push it, when it is something really yummy and I feel a little nauseous from it so it deters me from overeating the sleeve.

Unless it is low like period cramps it is not the cysts causing the pain. If you thought it was a leak then the pain is likely not that low. Is the pain all the time non stop? And is it up under the bottom edge of the ribcage? That is where the stomach is. Gas is fierce after surgery - for me it lasted non stop for weeks and even now 6-7 weeks out I am still way more gassy than pre-surg on a daily basis. YUK. Could it be gas pr constipation pains?

I feel a bit of discomfort when I eat certain foods - but not nausea. Right after my surgery I could only eat 2 or 3 bites too. Now I can eat about 8 or 10. It added up to about 2 oz at first and 3 to 4 oz now - about 1/2 a cup depending on the food. Alot of times I take to much and cannot eat but a few bites. It seems lately things are not agreeing with my sleeve that I could eat fine at first....

Congrats to all of you and thanks for replying. Alot of variance I see! Monisue - I am able to eat more than I would think I should be able to as well - of some things - but I do feel very restricted. I can eat almost 3/4 a cup too - and I find that to be about 3-4 oz. which is actually pretty typical my Dr. said. I am having trouble staying away from junk food and stopping myself from grazing and snacking especially in the evening. I finally got rid of most of the junk food in my pantry just 2 days ago and that has helped. I am still snacking on things like popcorn, ice cream, popsicles (not always sugar free). I suppose if I got rid of those too I would not snack on them... I had not had any of the nauseau or vomitting others claim - so I am not limited in what I can eat at all. Although for the last 3 days, when I ate my regular scrambled eggs for Breakfast, i got horribly nauseaous. Very tickly mouth and salivating profusely- ran to sink - but nothing happened - weird..... OK - I am making a commitment to myself - today I will throw away ALL the NOT SF popsicles, all the icecream and all the popcorn in my house!!! And all the cake batter too!! (yes, I will make a small bowl of it mixed with just Water to eat like pudding!! UGH, the horrible habits of fat people right?) And the package of cookie dough in the fridge too - its going in the trash..... (Whew- admitting I was snacking on this crap still has really made me accountable) ****. I really thought the sleeve was going to be 'magic' and make it easy - but this is just as hard as any other diet I ever did. I sure hope that once I loose the weight the sleeve keeps me from gaining it back. Maybe that is where the magic lies? Does anyone know if the sleeve can be revised to a bypass of any kind?

Ok, I am just curious how my weight loss compares since surgery on 10/25 I think my weight the day before surgery was 254. (I need to confirm this with my surgeon!) My weight now is 236 18 lbs. What are your stats if you had surgery about the same time? OR if you have a log book that you wrote what you were at 4 weeks -post op, refer to it and tell me

I was on a rebound form a weightloss attempt - so I had lost 60 lbs on my own last year and gaining it back - at the end of that I was getting approved for surgery, so yes, I gained like 30 lbs while trying to get approved for the surgery. I also cheated some on my 1 week presrugery liquid diet. But my surgery still went ok.

Well, how long ago did you have the surgery? I noticed today that several things I ate made me feel like vomitting, got the watery mouth feeling - stood over sink - but nothing. I have not gotten sick at all in the 5 weeks since my surgery. And these were things I have eaten before, oatmeal... Maybe something is stuck?

Cons of the sleeve- It does not make you magically get skinny with out any hard work. Booo. I was dupped!! You still crave junk food and you still have to fight the urge to eat it. it is true you cant eat a whole box/bag, but you can still eat more than you should. You can't drink liquids like you used to so it is a struggle to stay hydrated.

I eat too fast I take too big of bites I drink with meals My Snacks are not always healthy I don't exercise I know if I want to loose weight as fast as all of ya'll have I better get on the band wagon. I can't believe I spent over $5000 to have the sleeve and I am letting it go to waste by not controlling my eating better. I really thought it would be easier. I thought the sleeve would make me loose weight like magic and I wouldn't have to do anything difficult like *DIET*. I better stop kidding myself and get serious. Sleeve 4 me - you are so fortunate to have lost so much without exercise and with those bad habits! How long ago were you sleeved and what do you attribute to your success?? Do you just not eat much at all?