O.T.R. sleever

Quick math, 15hr day eating every 3hrs= 5meals X 1.5oz per meal= 7.5oz total consumed nourishment. Even if you ate every 2hrs you are only talkin about 10.75oz. There is not a food out there(that I am aware of) that is going to supply just your protien requirements in under 11oz. You are tired& fatigued because you are starving yourself. I know you don't like the idea, but I don't think you are ready to give up protien supplements yet. Also hair loss is mostly a result of protien deficiency. That alone would be enough for me to add at least 1 protien drink a day to my diet. I'm sorry to come across this rough. My real intent here is to help, & I couldn't think of a nicer way to say this and retain the impact I feel it needs.

Are you taking protien supplements? I drink a smoothie in the morning w/ hemp protien or unjury protien. It goes down pretty easy. Your liquid restriction should be minimal, I drink most of my calories & I'm really close to the same schedule as you. I'm taking gummi Vitamins & KyoGreen. KyoGreen taste awful but 4oz of Naked or Bolthouse mango masks the flavor really well. I hope this helps.

First off, it's gotta be said even before your surgery the human body is only capable of absorbing 20-27grams of protien at one sitting. So all this stuff that advertises 40-50grams should be taken in 1-2 doses or less. Unfortunately I haven't tried any of the supplements you've listed so I'm not much help there. I can however tell you that the 2 top recommendations from ppl on this board are Unjury® protien powders (chicken Soup flavor is most popular) & Syntrax® nectar ( fuzzy navel seems to be most popular)

Hmmm, well looks like I had a bad scale last week. I used 2 different scales this time. Now I'm 250. I guess the 20# in one week wasn't possible, but I'm still happy with 9# in two weeks, seems a bit healthier too.

This depends on what you consider "cost effective". Aceves, Ponce, Kelly, & Garcia are the highest recommended surgeons all have impeccable reputations. The question is what are you comfortable with? Aceves works out of a bit nicer facility, limits himself to 2 surgeries per day but is 8750 Ponce is a very well established surgeon that has taught the procedure to other successful surgeons (Kelly for example). He has a great coordanator named Trish that is a heaven sent, I could go on about her but I won't. His only downfall is the he doesn't speak English very well. Rate 5500 Kelly speaks fluent English and provides a lot of personal attention. He has chosen not to work with coordinators, and to take some of that responsibility on himself. Rate 5500 Garcia, to be honest I don't know much about but have seen tons of raving reviews. Rate 5000 (that might have been a special) Bottom line, if 3250 doesn't amount to much in your life, Aceves is the answer. But if you are willing to deal with a bit less hand holding the other 3 are just as good an option. For me, I went to dr. ponce de leon & I am very happy with my results.

Why choose? I like meat sauce w/meatballs:D

Or at least don't plan on buying them in the hotel gift shop. Just view it as a convenience fee. All things considered $20 in extra expenses is not that bad.

Welcome, and welcome to your new life.

It's when someone gets to the 100s in weight. One-derland There is a thread called learning the lingo that has a few of the terms you see in this forum.

Awesome story. Can't wait till I can walk a mile.

I had a small salad at about 3.5 weeks. But you gotta remember, most salads are nutritionally void (iceberg lettuce is basicly just water)

Is that 0.8lb in a day or a week? When was your surgery? Are you experiencing a stall? I've had a couple 2lb weeks, I think that is pretty normal, and almost everybody has stalls.

IDK about Dr. Almanza, probably not, I don't see that he would have any time to mess with plastics since he is known to be the highest volume WLS provider (it's not uncommon for him to have 5 surgeries in a day). But you can talk to Trish, she knows a couple cosmetic surgeons. There is also a plastics office in the INT.

Nope, my pre-op diet was a total of 48hrs. The 3 or so weeks prior to that I was a total pig, eating anything I wanted and too much of it. My recovery has been a breeze, no pain, no nausea, no problems w/foods I've tried. So I think I probably went into this the worst way possible, & still have had great results.

I for one read a post & if me posting would just be repeating someone else's response, I will typically not post a response. Maybe I should at least post that I agree with so & so. I just always felt that ppl would view that as a cheap way of boosting my post count. Another thing to be aware of is this is a very active forum and threads move down rapidly. I'm on an iPad, it only shows the top 15 threads so I miss a lot.

Hmmmm, Thin Soon, did you notice the last four posts say the same thing? I've got nothing against Dr Ponce de Leon, actually he did my surgury and I am actually considering sending my daughter to him (how's that for a recommendation), however, I hope you are just an excited future sleeves and not a shill. Just saying it looks suspicious when someone quotes a surgeons price 4 times in a row.

I took my iPhone, iPad, 2pr shorts, 2 shirts, socks, undies, toiletries, & a pair of house shoes. All in a small gym bag. Oh yeah, my passport.

Ha Ha Ha. I saw this video on youtube. I hate to say it, but I was waiting for the pole to collapse. I couldn't imagine having the confidence to even try anything of that nature on public television.

And it's a hard left turn into the outside wall!!! TMI TMI TMI !!! I'm kidding--------- barely, but I'm kidding.