Ready4success

I started using My Fitness Pal. It really holds me accountable. It a little time consuming at first, but only until you get your foods loaded into the diary. There is a large online database for any food/restaurant imaginable. If you eat a lot of the same stuff over and over again, it'll be saved, so you won't spend a lot of time on it the next time you eat that same food. You can add friends, and what they're eating and how much they're exercising too. It also logs weightloss. I really like it.

I started using My Fitness Pal. It really holds me accountable. It a little time consuming at first, but only until you get your foods loaded into the diary. There is a large online database for any food/restaurant imaginable. If you eat a lot of the same stuff over and over again, it'll be saved, so you won't spend a lot of time on it the next time you eat that same food. You can add friends, and what they're eating and how much they're exercising too. It also logs weightloss. I really like it.

Way to go! After today, you'll always be in onederland.

Congratulations! 20 pounds from goal in 8 months is amazing. You'll get there and you'll feel better than ever.

Someone from here turned me onto 3 TBSP cottage cheese and 1/4 of avocado with pepper. It tastes so good, I want to eat it for lunch and dinner too.

Do a site search on stall. There lots. Here is one that I commented on, which I like.
Bottom line ... what is a stall?
What does it mean? Is a stall when you don't lose weight? Don't lose weight for ... a day, a week?
Are you doing this to lose weight or lose fat?
Would you rather lose lose weight everyday and have your clothes fit the same?
If you lose weight one day, but don't lose any the whole week, but are able to walk further with easier effort and able to drink more Water than you were last week, are you stalled?
Weigh yourself once a month and you will never see a stall
Trust me. Ditch the scale. It lies. It measures weight, not fat. What are you looking to lose ... weight ... fat ... your mind?

I was in the same situation as you. I told my boyfriend while I was completing the insurance requirements, and he became so difficult about the surgery, that I felt I couldn't deal with it anymore. We broke up a few weeks before the surgery. Because we don't live together, I was able to focus on the journey without having to worry about what he was feeling. This was about me getting healthy, not about his insecurities. We started dating again, but it hasn't been easy.

I've told everyone. I don't make a big deal out of it, and neither does anybody else. People have surgery everyday, I know this for fact, because I'm an OR nurse. :-)

I've told everyone. I don't make a big deal out of it, and neither does anybody else. People have surgery everyday, I know this for fact, because I'm an OR nurse. :-)

I just got off of the scale, and I am down 3 more pounds. I had been on a 2 week stall, but I am happy to say, the scale is moving again. Starting weight was 278, I am now 245. Glory to God! I'll take it!!

Wow!!! You look so healthy! Congratulations on the amazing loss.

Tell that to Lehman Brothers.

Congratulations on the weight loss, and the many more to come. No worries, you'll do great tomorrow.

Way to go! That's a wonderful way to kick off your sleeve success!

Well, I'm 99% sure your restriction has not increased. My restriction varies depending upon several things.

The texture of what I am eating: For instance. A 3 oz piece of ground turkey is easier to eat than a 3 oz slice of turkey breast. As a matter of fact, I don't think I could eat anything else if I had a 3 oz slice of turkey breast. Point is, the ground turkey has already been a bit processed for me making it easier to chew and handle.

The order in which I eat: Which makes sense to me as we stack food up against the pyloric valve. If I start off with salad, and then eat a meatball, I don't feel the same restriction as if I ate the meatball first. meat is going to take a bit more time to break down before passing through the pyloric valve, so it will back everything else up giving the feeling of more restriction.

What I am eating: I can pack away a good amount of slider foods. popcorn, salads ... even crackers are sliders for me, which I don't quite get. Seems the grains would expand in the stomach and cause restriction, but I can eat crackers. Oye. I digress. Bottom line is eating 3 oz of cottage cheese is not the same as eating 3 oz of Pasta. You WILL feel different amounts of restriction.

Liquids: Whether drinking with the meal or if the dinner has liquids in it, this definately affects restriction. I have played around with this a lot to increase calories for exercise. I can eat almost double of the exact same foods when I drink with them. I can eat 8 oz of just about any Soup, no problem.

Rate of consumption: If I take my time and chew well, I can eat more comfortably. When I go back to my old habits of chewing 5 times and shoveling another fork-full in, I have pain. I try to put my utencil down between each bite and chew really well. Not to mush like we had to do early out, but we have to remember what happened here. The stomach is the mechanical part of digestion. Think of it as the garbage disposer mashing up the food getting it ready to send down the pipes. Removing 85% of it has changed it from a 1 horsepower unit to an eighth horsepower unit. Help it out by chewing the food a little more than we did pre-op.

My 2 cents on this. Experiment with what I have thrown out there and you may be able to find what works for you.

I was in the same situation as you. I told my boyfriend while I was completing the insurance requirements, and he became so difficult about the surgery, that I felt I couldn't deal with it anymore. We broke up a few weeks before the surgery. Because we don't live together, I was able to focus on the journey without having to worry about what he was feeling. This was about me getting healthy, not about his insecurities. We started dating again, but it hasn't been easy.

I think sometimes people forget this forum is multicultural and is made of people from all walks of life. I am offend by the comments and I am not Latina; however I live in a Latin American country. That was a very bigoted statement and unfortunately because we are on a forum people feel the need to say what ever they feel no matter who's feelings are affected. I have seen posts from particular individual on VST and I try to stay clear. I am reporting this post.-

My doctor doesn't use a drain and he trained at UT medical school. He does single incision gastric sleeve and robotic sleeves. Not everyone needs a drain, it's a case by case situation or should be. Some surgeons take the cookie-cut route, and do everything the same way for every patient, whether they need it or not.