Ms skinniness

With the amount of food your eating, cream of soup isn't going to hurt you at all. You are doing fine. Make sure you drink water and eat a little something throughout the day. You can do this!

I had surgery on Oct 4, 2011 and I have also experienced times when I can eat a lot more than before. it scares the sh** out of me too. I am so fearful that I will eat more and gain weight. Last night I went to the Red Lobster and had 1/2 cup of creamy potato and bacon soup, 1/2 grilled shrimp skewer, and 2 of there delicious cheddar bay biscuits! I so regretted it about 30 minutes later. Way too much food. I will always have to watch what I eat and be methodical about staying with small portion sizes. I have a lot of head hunger too which is totally frustrating for me.

Yes, you will feel hungry later out. When I skip meals I get all shaky and I start to panic. I know that I need to eat 3 meals a day, small ones, all be it. However, yesterday I didn't have lunch but i had some snacks. So I was wondering why I was able to eat more at dinner. I didn't really feel full until about 20 minutes later and boy i was really feeling uncomfortable. I don't think I want to skip meals anymore. I will be diligent about getting food in my tummy.

I've been there and done that! Except I had no gun! But I visualized it. This is what I call a bounce and I absolutely hate it. Now, I'm just getting to the point i don't care, I'm going to go by the lower point and I don't adjust my tickers. I just put the lowest # in and leave until I get another loss. I also stopped weighing myself every day and started weighing myself on a weekly basis.

I would feel the same way if I was in your shoes also. Have you tried going back to a liquid diet? Protein drinks and broths. You stomach is having a hard time with the transition and your body has been in ketosis. Not that you've added sugar to your diet, you may be have dumping syndrome. I know how that really sucks! NOW, I'm not a doctor, but it wouldn't hurt to just go liquids and see if your feeling better. Please keep us informed as to how your doing. I love the Premier chocolate protein drinks. Hang it there, it will get better!

People take lunch boxes for their kids all the time. What I did when eating out was order some vegetable beef soup, and I drank just the broth. They even brought me some apple sauce one time, but I hated it! So sweet. I'm all in for either way. It's the people your with that's important!

I'd at least wait until 3 weeks out! It would be a shame if you ate scrambled eggs so soon and it caused a leak in your staple line. My surgeon had us on a full liquid diet for the first 3 weeks, 3 weeks of pureed, 3 weeks of soft and then regular food. I in no way wanted to get a leak in my staple line, so i followed the rules of my surgeon.

Wow, this is truly a transformation with more to come! Good job! You have really worked hard to get here and it shows! CONGRATS!

So now it's time to take care of yourself! No more excuses! Make sure you aim at getting 64 ozs of water in (including protein drink). Start by scheduling the time when you will be able to have your protein drinks, the same time every day would be ideal. Keep a water bottle with you at all times. Dehydration really sucks big time. I had it and I learned that getting my water in everyday is a high priority now. When I don't have any water, I can feel my stomach feeling dry. You can do this, it's just a learning curve and making new habits that help you. If you don't take care of yourself, then how can you help others? Later you will look back on this and think, wow, what was I thinking? This is the best decision I have ever made.

I'm so happy your in the hospital so they can figure this out. you must have been totally dehydrated. Your stomach is in a transition and hasn't quite adjusted to changing food textures. Please get as much rest as you can, you need it.

Wow! This is actually a miracle that the tumors were found! This is life saving in itself! I know it is really scary and to look at your baby and think "I might not be here to see her growing up and see my grandchildren. " My thoughts are with you and I want you to have nothing but the best. Do you have a support person that you can talk too. It really helps to talk about what your going through.

This is such a great place to be! CONGRATS! You have changed your habits and that is monumental. Keep it up!

You have probably already started to lose weight! The 9lbs is from water retention and your stomach is really swollen. Take it one day at a time and try to weight yourself 1 timer per week. The scale will drive you crazy.

The pain is nothing! It's like have a sore and the areas around the sore get pulled. Its a lot of discomfort. At least for me.

Yep, it is pretty scary to take pills. The gas can cause a lot of discomfort so it's best to get up and walk, walk, and walk, and sip, sip, and sip as often as you can. It will get a little better everyday. now that your home, you will feel better a lot faster. keep it up and ask us any questions you need too. Welcome to the BIG LOSER'S BENCH!

That's a wonderful NSV! Keep it up, pretty soon you will be at normal weight! Yayyy!

This is a really great time to keep taking your pain meds! It gets better every day! Are you still in the hospital? I loved my morphine pump. I used it all the time. When I got home, I only used it 1 time for a HA that came on suddenly. I was in the hospital for 2 nights. No complications, just discomfort.

That's fantastic! Have you been sleeved yet? Keep losing it! It will happen!

I know that we should be eating sf stuff now, but I've been getting concerned about the artificial sweetners in them now. I'm thinking that maybe have something with a little more natural sugar might be alot better. So I am starting to look at whole foods with no additional additives. The less ingredients the better. However, I do eat yogurt, frozen, one in a while.

Catracks ~ interesting the medical profession is always making statements about how unhealthy are cholesterol levels on but it isn't even consider as a comorbidity for consideration for wls. how iranic.

This is all a process that we're going through! I love it! We get to see the old habits that had got us to our fat suits and now we can work on changing those habits for a more healthier life. We all have a skinny person inside us and now it's just seeing that skinny person come to fruition! Yayyyyy! We will get there and we are working hard to get to our goal and to maintain! The biggest step is acccepting us for who we are in our own skin. Great job everyone! We are all beautiful people.

Here is a good place to get info on statins. www.spacedoc.net

Thank you all for the info on statins (lipitor). I have decided to stop taking it from yesterday on. I had also discussed this with my SIL because she had told me not to take statins a few months ago, but never explained why. She connected me to another RN and she was talking about the side effect of lipitor are killing people. Which is true and yes, docs do listen to the pharmaceutical companies and don't do much research into the negative side effects. This RN told me that a relative of hers had neurological damage from taking this med with slow speech and cognitive processing. She gave me 2 websites that I'm going to go research after I finish posting this. Have a nice day everyone and thank you so much!

People are so consumed with themselves. So what if your looking at them. They should be flattered. LOL Best to keep busy while walking. It might be a great ideal to wear headphones and listen to music too.

It's a good thing I have just eaten! These sound so delicious! I love the Lasagna cupcakes too. I just have to remember that I really can't and don't want to eat too much. But it is amazing how our mind can work against us. LOL