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At my last support group meeting, the nurse who runs it said that while sleeve patients don't generally experience dumping syndrome, we do get delayed hypoglycemia about 2 hours after eating too many carbs. There are some websites that call this late dumping. The nurse said it can be frustrating because it comes on late and you've not been eating. My advice you be to start a food journal, if you don't already, and make sure that you always take carbs with some Protein.

My program recommends Benefiber or the store brand equivalent.

And I sat there, eating my ham slice and cheese stick, while my coworker ate one across from me. I had no feelings of envy, temptation, or mourning. I didn't even realize until I got home that I'd gone up against my major trigger food and won! It's a great NSV and a big step forward to getting a healthy relationship with food.

How many days of liquid diet did you have to do? Pre-op, none. How much weight did you lose during it? Lost 43 lbs on a solid food based pre op diet How many days (if any) did you have to stay at the hospital? 2 days Did you have any complications? Surgeon found a mass on my stomach near the pylorus which turned out to be a pancreatic heterotopia- tissue from the pancreas growing where it's not supposed to be. First night i couldn't drink anything and had a leak test the next day- usually patients in my program start liquids a few hours after waking up and go home the day after surgery. Also developed gout in my elbow 2 weeks post op. How long after surgery did you try to eat normal food? (non-puréed, etc) 4 weeks until we eat soft food. How soon after surgery did you feel mostly or fully back to normal? At 7 weeks out, my tummy feels great, but sit ups are a challenge. I'm still recovering from the gout and my arm still isn't back to normal. I have good days and bad days. Please share any extra comments about things you weren't expecting or tips: I guess I lost a lot of fat in my head, which caused the middle ear tubes to open up. This lets the Fluid that's supposed to be there drain out and creates a fishbowl or bucket-on-the-head effect when I speak or breathe. Best fix I have for it is to get my head and heart level ASAP by laying down or touching my toes.

7 weeks post op and I've only been buying dresses (except for a smaller bra and pack of panties). We were warned at our pre op class to be prepared for nothing to fit for long; they said you could get something on Monday and it would be too big on Wednesday. I figured dresses would be more forgiving. They might end up fitting really loose, but they probably won't fall off!

There's no change to the tat. Upper arm seems to be a good spot to have one.

Lost 26 before entering my Bariatric program, 43 pre op, and 31 in my 6 weeks post op. The before pic is at my heaviest in 2008, the after poc I took this afternoon.

We've all had head hunger come out of nowhere, but I thought it might be amusing to share some of the more random or bizarre attacks and cravings we've had. I was reading a mystery novel in the bathtub this morning when head hunger popped up and I started craving a jam sandwich- bread, butter, and grape jelly. There was no jam sandwich in the book and I can't even remember the last time I had one. Definitely not one of my trigger foods! Like most cravings, it went away after a while, but I'm still struck by how random it was.

My BMI the day of surgery was 33.7, down from 42.6 when I entered my Bariatric program. When I visited my surgeon for my 5 week follow up last week, it was 29.

Get rid of anything you shouldn't be eating. If you've got a family, shift stuff in the cupboards so you have your own cupboard and don't have to see their food. Same thing with food in the fridge.

I got used to eating healthy and feeling healthy. I was in a pretty good mood when I started that fast food meal. I felt terrible afterwards and realized how unhealthy it was, physically and mentally.