jhope

This is the best, and well written, day to day, step by step example of what the sleevers day should be like! Well Done, Great Job

Ok I will be 3 weeks out on Wednesday. I went through something similar and I believe that's what caused my stall at a week and a half out. I wasn't eating crackers but I was making really cheesy dips that included chicken,velveeta cheese,etc. And I was eating snacks with my husband like a couple bites of cheesecake off his plate,a couple pieces of chex mix muddy buddy,etc. I had no room for the healthy stuff! At my one week post op appt my dr told me I was free to eat whatever(healthy) as long as I chewed it thoroughly and went slow. I started eating a bit of ice cream,a lil while later a couple bites of pudding,a while after that some of the velveeta dip stuff and so on...While I don't believe there is enough calories and or fat in the little bitty amounts I was sticking in my sleeve to make you gain a bunch of weight,I do believe all of this and the scale showed it with a 1 lb gain and then stall at a week and a half out: 1-Not eating planned out meals and just grazing throughout the day was getting in the way of my fluid intake. I had it in my mind that I could not tolerate protein shakes so that was being sabotoged as well,and none of these things are healthy. I was not coming to terms with the fact that my sleeve is still too small and new for me to be eating these things and still getting in the nutrition that I need. If I'm not getting in enough liquids or protein,my body is in starvation mode and will hang onto any little bit of fat it can to store for energy,I will feel weak and fatigued like I was,my hair will start falling out(one of my biggest fears). I gave my scale to my mom and made SURE to put lean protein foods first,and that's about all I can fit in my sleeve. My rule of thumb now is NO food goes into my mouth when I wake up until I have had at least 20 ozs of liquids,I follow that with a muscle milk light which has 20 grams of protein and my sleeve loves it compared to a protein shake. Then I have to have 10 more ounces of liquids b4 lunch. I can only stomach 1.5 ounces of chicken with hot sauce and a dab of blue cheese on it then I'm full. Wait about an hour and make myself finish off 10 more ounces of fluids before dinner. I then eat tuna,salmon,cheese,or chicken,something with protein for dinner. By then I have had more than 40 grams of protein and 40 ounces of liquids. I am free for the rest of the evening to drink liquids,eat a couple bites of SF pudding (I usually sprinkle some unflavored protein in it) or even eat a SF fruit bar-only 25 calories and soooo good! The reason I am saying all this is bc this: Since I put my foot down and started doing what I know I should be,my stall ended quickly and I have lost 3 more lbs in 3 days! I had to realize that I will eventually get to enjoy these things in moderation,but the whole reason I got the sleeve is so I can fill it with healthy,protein rich foods,vitamins and liquids consistently until my excess weight is gone. I will from now on save the junk food till I am farther out. That 1 lb gain and stall was enough to snap me out of it and remember what I was blessed with. Now,that being said it's just my opinion and I do believe everyone's body is different and everyone can handle things differently. I just kinda wanted to let u in on my experience thus far out and hope I can help in someway. ((HUGS)) and stay strong,we will get through this! Source: Is This Self-Sabotage?

You know as well as any of us, u cant go there. There aint nowhere in retardville you want to be sabotaged. You need to jump out of that fat food frying pan now. Alchoholics dont go to bars and we dont go to rits peanut butter jars! Get out this instant....Just felt like you needed that! HaHa...but Im not kidding. You need to leave the dead zone and not look for a fast fix, but get out of the movies sitting house, and get walking and get your cook books out and see what whould taste great, feel like a carb delight, but not be. Like a squash Soup with bacon, taste real carby but its not. Orange squash, calaflower cooked to the bone, put in processor with cheese and yummy. Your enemy is doing things that require you to sit. Just me....

OK, just me, but my little brother got chubby when he was 12, and by mid 13 he lost it. I was haranging on him about all his sugar ussage, and he hollered at me as only an adolesent does, "It aint about sugar, it's sh_ting that makes you fat or not, if you aint Sh_ting, you aint loosing" So maybe on his sage advice, you could use more fiber action....Just me...

Hey I heard of a few like your case of it, but I came across an article on coconut oil and its effect on diabeties and several other ailments, like fatty liver etc...You might go online and read a little about what this coconut oil does. It has some kind of powerful ester effect, there is also a video article on the 700 club web site.

One more thing, if it is true, like my brother always says,"Them skinny men love them fat women!" You might get a stout one when your skinny!

Well you know what my take on it is....There are two schools on the subjuect. If you make him love that part that is not affected by weight, than he wont want to move off it. He could just get that, and be every so happy, with out being alone, he will find it irrisistable, and so con develope into his, where he will keep taking it over ontill it is only found with him and then he will prosper and it will most likely form into a spring wedding! The other school of thought is, he might be a slippery fish, and could get scared off easy, no mater what bait you use....Jesus caught a bunch of easy fish, they just jumped into his net, why not let him?

Well I just chime in on not being able to eat your cooking, because my kids say they never liked my cooking noway! I cook a lot better when Im not eating, because thats when I take my time and really cook! When Im eating and cooking, why I just want to scoop it down my gullet, and get it past my lips, and scoop fashion up on over the gums, along side with health and many other qualities I dont deny. Ye Ha, lets not hide, but be cool and stride over to the ligiments that stretch, not like the old ones that blew out the first time my 300 lb butt took a spill in soft grass!

:aureola: HI Andy!, I havent made the cut yet, but I would get some liquid vitamins and a eye dropper and put a few drops in everything I drank, all day. I already purchased my arsenal for the long stretch of before and during and after surgery. Hang in there

Just a little something-something for your tray of remidies....There is a whole lot of the normal you left after all these surgical cures still left. Now according to Dr. Oz, (Gods favorite son, next to Jesus), he says that there are fat multiplyers waiting for the average totally exhausted person, called "Metabalism Booster". You can go to his site and check out a bunch of them, or you could try what I cant go a day without, and that is Kelp pills. They pack a punch to lethargy in the body and to the metabolism, because all weight loss is controlled by the thyroid, it puts the jump back in start! I take two 150 mg tablets, they drop a natural source of iodine into my starving nucleous for preparing my fat to burn!.. Also, and this makes a big difference, cooking with the only low cal fat on earth, Coconut oil. This two chain oil gets your body to burn fat insted of sugar, and it regulates the insulin production. Check out the coconut oil sites online, it just might break your stalled out rut. :boxing_smiley:

Im going through the same thing, but I keep reminding myself, that Ihave not been able to do it in 3 years now on my own, and my health problems are iintensifying, so why back out. Ya, that glourious salad I age an hour ago, will never be on my plate again after the surgery, since it was the size of the Grand Canyon, but who knew?! :ciappa: Im never going to be able to sit and eat for an hour at lunch with my office buddy, but I wont be having the highlight of my day being the break room anymore! My skinny 13 year old and I wont be laying in bed grazing hour after hour in the evenings anymore, because I will be out and moving around! No longer to be romanticly challenged is enough to get it done and dont look back.! Just Me :Banane56:

I just like to be in deniel, if I dont, I just cant seem to work it all out, and when I am in deniel, I can just get up and have fun.

Ya, like Im too swamped to dump all I have to do out, but I sure fill like a one armed bandet. I now have a sleeve twin to meet in San Diego for our surgery, I feel better!

Im getting excited, I have a date of 3/28/12 for my surgery. Im trying to pull all the loose ends together before I go, seems like so much to do for a single parent, if it gets done, I have to be the one to do it. Im trying to do everything I can before I go, because of the lift restriction. I have tons fo things to do. :aureola:

Sure would like to know about your Juarez sleeve. It is a million times closer to me, could you email me and tell me some, or on this forum, if your not to tired of telling it.

I rash out every dose of Amox and most other antibiotics, I just keep up with it with hydro peroxide.

Greatly incouraged by your blogs. Wanted to add something weird but great...Avacado shakes, they are so great. Go to the recipe sites to find out exactly which one you like, if you like avacados. I have always felt a lot better after I ate an avacado if I was week. I scheduled now for Dr. Almanza on March 28th, and I guess I will be going through everything everyone else is. But I have some complications slowing me up, but feel Im on track with schedule and all.

So Sorry to hear about your situation, because it is the most gut wrenching experience on earth, not down under hell has anything worse, but like everything else, it is a situation, not a death sentence. I myself would pray like crazy, but not everyone is gonna turn around. You just cant be proud, but you cant be a door mat either. Tricky waters, but you better vote up for what ever it is she wanting to have, or else you will get stuck with every thing. On what now seems of little importance, I just got my surgery date, March 28, 2012

:Angel_anim: You lost 8 lbs according to your ticker...your already beautiful, what could be going wrong?

Hey fcrepro, It is so good to get your help and your understanding on the forum, keep it up, cause Im reading !

:cheers2: Weight Loss :cheers2: and :Banane57: fun. I guess I will just have to leave the beer out all night to go flat....better than no beer! Lonely in Texas Jackie Just kidding, but I aint had no fun in so long, :ciappa:

Hey, (Everyones name is "Hey" ) ha ha! , no charge for that! Back to the subject, I was at the health food / Vitamin place, and saw some Protein drinks called, Isopure, (I think) and it was looking like a SoBe drink, but was a Protein Drink, with a whopping 60 grams of protien....! WOW! At 5 bucks a pop, I buck up the first 4 days after surgery with a small supply, or more. FYI this stuff looks good. Liquid Vitamins, 35 and half off second bottle. Liquid b-12, or which the Good Lord Good Looking Dude, Brick House assured me that you could not over dose on B-12 for energy.

Im all about " Ya " and "Ya Hooo" for you, and what a great day your having, for all of us! Bless God, it has been great to read your blogs/post and exclamations > Cant wait, I think Im going it alone...as usual, alone in texas, Jackie

You give great advice, great to read your post!.