Tif 2.0

I'm so glad someone else knows Robertos. I've been eating refried Beans for dinner since Thursday night. Today for lunch I did make some chicken salad with mayo. I'll be honest. Mayo is the one food I won't go low fat or non fat on. That's just plain gross. I'd rather not eat food with mayo than go low fat.

Yes, you'll be able to take care of yourself. You will hurt, but you won't be bedridden. You HAVE to get up and walk around. Starting the day after surgery I was walking down the street to the mailbox and back. It was slow going, but I knew if I didn't walk I was going to get gas pains. I really hurt for about a week after surgery. If I moved certain ways, it felt like my insides were ripping. Others didn't feel this same way. Pain is somewhat subjective because some people have high thresholds for pain and others don't. I will say the pain wasn't as bad as my C-section. I had to have help getting out of bed and off the couch for a good week after that. For me, it was really only the first day after sleeve surgery.

I'm in. I am 3 weeks out and on surgery date weighed 286. Last week I weighed 269. This morning 264.4. YAY!

I reached my 3 week out mark yesterday. I've lost 22.2 lbs since surgery and 54 including my 6 month pre op diet. I've still got a long way to go, but I renewed my gym membership and they have a kids club I can take my son to on the weekend. I did have a weird day on Thursday. I had been getting weird twinges in my legs and since I know I'm still in the risky time frame for blood clots, I started having a panic attack which I am not prone to. But I went to the ER. They did ultrasounds of my legs. No blood clots, but I was a little dehydrated, low blood sugar and the ER Dr. said low caloric intake contributed. I told him I couldn't really have carbs and even though I need 800 calories I've only been getting between 500-600 calories because I'm on all liquids. He told me to go to Roberto's (local Mexican food chain) and get some refried Beans with cheese and yes, they are made with lard and eat some until I can't eat anymore. So I did. I feel 100% better than I did on Thursday. I'm so glad I'm on soft foods now.

If it's 25 yards, then it's approximately 65 laps. If it's a 50 yard pool, then 1/2 that.

The only thing I buy at Walmart are my Protein shakes and charcoal. My husband likes a particular brand of charcoal and in our area it's only sold at Walmart. I did also buy my son's valentines day stuff there, but other purchases are few and far between.

Awesome, I'm in the Southwest part of the valley.

I started August 2011 and my surgery date was January 27, 2012. I had to fulfill a 6 month medically supervised weightloss period for BCBS Texas before they would approve.

My surgeon told me that don't make it anymore. Children's it is.

I've been thinking of you. Please let us know how you're doing when you can.

I was sleeved on a Friday and on Tuesday, I was driving my son back and forth to school about 20 minutes away. I didn't go anywhere else. My surgeon said as long as I wasn't taking the Lortab he prescribed I'd be ok.

Debi, Are you near a pool? If so, try walking the length of the pool back and forth. That offers really good resistance. I was a swimmer in HS, I was still the fat girl on the team and never won a race, but I always lost about 25 lbs during swim season. I just gained it back over the course of the school year and summer. In 2004-05, I lost 65 lbs by going to Jenny Craig and swimming 100 laps 3 x a week. When I first got back into the pool, I could only swim about 10 laps. I increased it by 10 every couple of weeks until I got up to 100. I could've done more than that, but by the time I got to 100 laps, I had to pee. Since I wasn't going to go in the pool, I got out and I wasn't going to go back in at that point. The thing is, I was slow, but my heart rate was up and that was the most important part. Then I got pregnant and since he was my one and only pregnancy after 11 years I stopped going. I went from 249 to 270 during pregnancy. Lost it all right after and then proceeded to gain all of it back and more after. I had stopped taking care of me. I was taking care of my husband and my boy, but not me. And my boy needs me. So, August 2010, I went to the seminar and the rest is history. Yesterday morning I stepped on the scale and it said 269.2. 49.8 lbs lost pre and post op combined!! But it couldn't give me that last. .2 to make an even 50!!! LOL

I'm so happy for you!!!! I am really looking forward to the day I can say the same.

I don't quite have 200 to lose, but figured I was close enough that you guys would understand. I'm hoping to get to 145, but I'd love to get to 135. More than anything I just want a healthy BMI and to fit into a size 8. A single digit. I feel like I was 12 the last time I was able to do that.

Your post is EXACTLY how I feel. At work, I'm not telling anyone how much I'm losing. No hard numbers. They all know I had surgery and are very supportive, but my sharing anything beyond that is kept to a minimum. My husband doesn't even know exactly how much I want to lose. The only people that know are my cousin and best friend and Doctor. LOL!

I'm married, most of the time it's happily. LOL! However, I've never been one to get into Valentine's Day. It's just not a big deal to me. I LOVE the idea of taking the day to pamper yourself though.

I think you are doing great. Were you sleeved on Jan 27th too? I know the feeling about the cheesecake. Even though a bite would be nice.

I want to try yoga too!!! Go for it girl! Don't be afraid of looks or anything like that. My mindset at the gym has always been, if people can't appreciate that I'm at the gym and trying to better myself then they can kiss my @$$. All that matters is how YOU feel about it. I will warn you, my girlfriend does yoga 3 times a week and she said the downside of it is that people tend to be gassy in class. It's like all the stretching really works stuff out. She does Bikram I think. Where the room is 95 degrees. My only fear really would be passing gas in front of everyone, but if everyone else is doing it....LOL Go for it!!! You can do it. As soon as I'm completely healed I'm going to try it too.

I can't believe how well things have gone the past two weeks, relatively speaking. I stepped on the scale this morning before I got in the shower and it said 271. I started this journey in August at 319 and on surgery day weighed in at 286. My family is completely supportive. Husband, son, cousins, brother, everyone. My work has been completely supportive to the point that I worry if I'm not completely successful they might think differently of me. For the most part, I've drank all my water and managed all my protein. I feel like I've handled my head hunger well, except that I really would like a BITE of pizza. I'm not supposed to be on mushies yet, but last night I did have a small bowl of tortilla soup with a little bit of shredded cheese. I picked out all the beans, carrots, zucchini, corn and left a few small chunks of chicken and the liquid broth part and put a few chunks of avocado and maybe a tsp of shredded cheddar cheese. It was delicious and just what I needed. I managed about 10 small spoonfulls and hit that wall and it sat in my chest for about 20 min. The night after surgery, I was sitting/laying in the recliner at the surgical center and while I couldn't keep my eyes open, I was thinking of all the things that lead me up to that moment and they were bittersweet. I thought of all the negative things that I was just ready to let go of. I am so tired of being fat. I don't feel like I've missed out on anything thus far, except clothes shopping. I have 32 lbs to go until I reach the weight I was at when I got pregnant with my son. My goal is to lose that before his 6th birthday, April 21st. I know I can do that. I KNOW I can. I just have to continue to do what I'm supposed to. Since surgery I have decided to finally 'fix' the rest of me like getting new glasses, whitening my teeth. They are little things, but I feel like its things I HAVE to do. I feel a compulsion to do it. It probably is transferring my compulsion for food onto other aspects of my life, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've started dealing with issues of WHY I was fat and it has certainly been an awakening experience. All I know at the end of this journey, I'm not going back. As the Robinsons say, I will Keep Moving Forward.

I had mine laproscopically. My pain stemmed mostly from the internal stitches that my dr. did. He told me AFTER surgery that they would probably hurt for a few days. They did for about a week. The day after my 1 week follow up/wound check I woke up and the pain was 1000% better. Psychosomatic? Probably. LOL!

I wish I would've known about the pain. I also read alot of 'minimal pain' posts. I'm not a wuss or have a low threshold for pain, but it hurt alot more than I was expecting. Other than that, I feel like I was pretty well informed by reading this message board as opposed to the one at obesity help. No one ever had an answer or people would say "You should've had the Duodenal Switch." Good grief.

No soft foods until I'm 3 weeks out. Eleven days from now. Boooooo! LOL! I know I've made it this far in my journey and am sooo happy to be this far along, but I never thought I'd say "I'd kill to have an egg right now!" :biggrin:

It could be the acid in your stomach. That's what my tummy does. It feels and sounds like hunger pains, but it's really not. I try to ignore it most of the time or drink water.

My pain has faded significantly since the last post. Thank goodness. I asked my surgeon what size bougie he used and he said that he has the greatest success with 40 fr with the least amount of complications. The lady who was sleeved the same day I was and we talked alot the night after our surgeries didn't have any major nausea or vomiting. I feel pretty blessed that I haven't had any bad side effects from surgery. Not one moment of nausea, haven't vomited once, no slimes, I can drink normal sized drinks, but space out the swallows. My main thing now is I want something substantive to eat. An egg, some tuna or chicken. Something other than Protein drinks and Soup, pudding or Jello. I'm done with sweet stuff. I never thought I'd hear those words come out of my mouth. It might change later, but for now. I'm done.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. You might try to ask your Dr. for a prescription for Dexilant for your heartburn. My surgeon prescribed this and I haven't had one moment of heartburn and I was sleeved on 1/27/12.