Ms skinniness

This is so scary for me too. I know that I am not always disciplined and sometimes eat things I don't need to eat. I believe that we have to make this our journey to carefully monitor our weight and eat Protein first, and more importantly, now I'm looking at keeping my Proteins low fat and my meats lean cuts, small portion sizes. This is a problem because I love nuts. We can do this! Get back on track with a fitness app. exercise do LilMissDiva's "The Basic Bootcamp" to get over the sweets cravings.

Meg: CONGRATS! I'm so excited to hear that you are at goal!

My hubby use to eat my meals and now he's gained weight and his blood sugar is way out of control.

Hipe you get better real soon. Let us know what the doctor said.

Yes on the refill but also speak with the doc and tell him/her whats going on.

I slept in an inclined position and that helped a lot with acid and gas. It did make my hair a mess though.

Gather as much info as you can and discuss it further with your surgeon. Like Lissa said, she knows someone who has the sleeve and Barrett's. Let us know what's going on...... Sorry for the bad news.....XOXO!

I bought some for hunger, tried them once and hated how they expanded. Now I'll try them quickly and see what happens.

I didn't take anything, not even a tooth brush. I guess I didn't think i was going to get the surgery! LOL Actually all I needed was my morphine drip! Yep, slept the whole time when I wasn't walking! I hated my hiney being exposed also. LOL So glad I did this.

OMG! You are looking so sexy! You are a Diva! Yep, that's right! A Diva!

I love going into Italian restrants and ordering a meatball sandwich without the bread. They will bring a plate with 3 giant meatballs and some cheese covered with marinara sauce. I can maybe get about 1/2 of a meatball down and then I'm totally full. So delicious. I don't even miss pasta's at all. Teddy Bear was it head hunger that drove you to eating Pasta? Now would be a good time to identify head hunger to not get caught up in it.

Congrats! It will be here before you know it! Let us know your surgery date when you find out!

You may have acid in your stomach. you might give you surgeon's office a call and ask about taking a PPI (nexium, omeprazole, tagamet) to reduce the acid. Acid and gas mimimics hunger. And yes, sometimes it is head hunger as well.

So you guys have a life! Yayyyyyyyyyy! Glad to hear. I have been distracted from participating on this site as much. I still come on daily but find myself being very selective and sometimes i don't know what to say. I'm in a funk! LOL Good to hear from you guys!

I believe that part of you knows that your doing really good! And you are! This is normal for all of us. One day we can eat more than the next day. It would be great to increase your water intake.

Katie is absolutely correct. This is the time to take full advantage of your sleeve. Eat protein, protein, and more protein in small portion sizes. For the first 6 months, I barely ate anything but protein. Then I added veggies and some starches at the end. In fact focus on getting in more water now in between meals to flush out your body. You can do this, it's not too late.

This is so true! When I don't get enough water, I feel so hungry and I eat a lot more! So let's all increase our water intake.

Day 1 check in. I have had my protein drink this am and am just waiting to start my gallon of water for the day. This is a great start for everyone. Today I plan on all liquids like protein shakes and El Pollo Loco's Chicken Tortilla broth! It is so yummy. LilMissDiva, I have a question for you. Do you think that this will help shrink our stomach's also? I know my stomach can hold more now than a month a go and would love to have it shrink some.

This is great food for thought. I tend to do about 1200-1300 calories at times and I am still not moving the scale. Well it does go up some days though and then I freak out and cut back. I am sometimes curious as to whether the rules for us is different than the main stream population since we've drastically reduced our stomach size. I've been walking 2 miles most days of the week and feel great that way. But I am so afraid to eat 1300 calories right now. This is really scary stuff.

It gets better! Hang in there!

Ok, today's the day. I will also drink half my weight in water. That would be 125oz of water. Wow, that's a lot of water for me. i can do this. Today I will be drinking protein shakes, soups, and most of all, a gallon of water. Yep, that's my plan and I'm sticking to it. We can do this. Actually, this is pretty much I do most days, now I'm going to be ridged about it.

Meg I love your post! It's fantastic. I see that you have only 1 more lb to go! Wow, that's rockin that sleeve. I love that your affirmation is "I can choose!" It is all about making choices in our lives. I can eat a small portion, or i can continue eating a larger portion (with the possibility of stretching my sleeve) is what i tell myself. Not always able to make the best choice though. It's always a job. So good to see you on the board! Missed ya!

I am really glad that your asking for help. I know that you want to be successful in your weight loss and are concerned about having complications such as a leak or something horrible like that. This is the time that you can maximize your weight loss by following your surgeon's directions. My surgeon has us on an all liquid diet for the 1st 3 weeks, 2nd 3 weeks we are on pureed fooods, 3rd 3 weeks we are eating soft foods and after that we are able to eat what ever we want. My surgeon wants and directs us to eat sf stuff, protein first and to get as much water (fluid) in as possible. This is the period of time you would benefit highly by following protocol to increase weight loss. You can do this! We re here to help you as others have helped us.

Your body is in ketosis because your not able to eat carbs and it has a tendency to make things taste like metal. It will get better in time. I had to result to putting mio drops in my water so I would drink it. I'm 11 months out now and can drink a lot of water at one time. Pretty much normal.

I'm 56 and have hot flashes periodically. They come and they go. I am 11 months out also and I eat meat. I'd try to up your chicken and fish so your stomach will get use to digesting solid proteins. I do love my shakes but I find that chicken, fish and beef are easier on the calories and keeps me full longer. Let me know your doing, I'm hoping to maintain with minimum weight loss.