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I was on a two week, modified atkins type program. All I had to do was keep under 40 carbs, which was super easy. I enjoyed wine and cheese and steak the entire time LOL I lost ten pounds, but was not required to lose anything. Many do the preop just to get your liver in better shape. It has nothing to do with weight loss with some docs.

Go to Virginia mason! They saved my life.

I make mine with butter...don't tell

The only time I haven't weighed daily is when I was overweight and not doing anything about it. When I was thin (about 7 years ago) and single, I weighed myself daily. One pound didn't set me off in a panic, but if I had consistent gains for several days verses the normal up and down a pound or two you should see, I would deal with it with more exercise. I found love, got busy, and gained weight, not weighing myself daily. Daily or weekly, even healthy thin people should have some regularity to their scale. That's not unhealthy unless you let it be.

Think about what muscle is in your body...your heart is muscle. You need it to regain stregnth, to keep your muscles, including your heart, healthy, and if you do that, your healthy body will burn fat instead of trying to survive off of it.

I forgot one other thing I had one night that was so good. Roasted garlic, roasted until it was super soft, like spreading butter. I had it on top of a slice of mozzarella cheese (very thin).

LOL not very internet like huh? I should have been utterly offended and called crickie three bad names But that's so DONE TO DEATH lol

No no not at all dear. I'm just saying that sometimes people don't understand the surgery so when you toss it out, they panic, not out of lack of support...but out of caring!

You're rocking it baby

So the fat naked man with a snake wrapped around him is out? And I've never had a masusse who didn't have a tat so I think it's preferred there. I will also admit...most masusses I've known are far more fun than staid old banker dudes LOL And...I can't spell masuse? massuse? no, can't do it....

Ok but if she does not hush...keep the latte in mind LMAO

Most leaks develop within the first two weeks so at one week she's right in the window. Many are developed during the surgery...but so small they aren't discovered until later, and that's normally within the first couple of weeks. The poison flowing into your body causes symptoms which many ignore for a week or more as "typical gas" or whatever. Severe weakness and shortness of breath are symptoms that the leak is causing damage in the body. If there is a leak of course. But it's not something to screw around with. My problems were greatly exacerbated by the medical people dismissing them as symptoms of a blood loss in surgery. A leak found early has a much much much higher chance of repair, but every hour, every day you go with that poison leaking into you, makes it more likely they won't be able to repair it and your other organs will be damaged. When are you out of the woods? Typically it takes a few months to fully heal, but a leak after six weeks is very rare. They are normally caused by activities that aren't recommended in the first six months, high contact sports, extreme lifting, trauma from other uncontrollable sources (ie a car accident). After three or so months of a healthy surgery with no complications your staple line is likely mostly covered with tissue which will continue to form into a hard line which closes the stomach permanently, staples or not When to quit worrying....I will be given the all clear at six weeks after the second surgery. Unless you have been experiencing symptoms of flu, low fevers, etc and dismissing them during the six week period, you're probably safe to say you are out of the woods at that point, then just act like a lady for the next six (OK i'm not good at that heh heh)

You are two weeks late? (making you 30 days into a pregnancy) or its been two weeks since unprotected sex? At a month into a 40 week pregnancy you aren't normally producing enough HCG to be sick...but some people are really early producers. If this is about morning sickness, there are cures for that (they have a pill you can take that makes it go away...it's often given to sleevers while in the hospital and it's safe for a fetus). But I would sense that this is about more than just morning sickness....

She was sleeved six months ago, she hasn't said how far along she is, but I assumed due to the comments on self aborting she was just recently pregnant...at least I hope so. At six months such an action would be murder...I''m sure she didn't mean that!

Walk, treadmill, and ask your doctor, not us

You know what darling...she's a horrible human being and as such, karma will eventually get her. She obviously has "issues" if she would say something like that to anyone. You however have had "issues" which you dealt with by having this surgery. Issues of the body, verses issues of the brain. I'd rather be fat than mean myself...and I'll bet you are the same! No one says "what a horrible human being" when reading about you. I said that first off when reading this post.

Make her a latte and add exlax. She won't be able to leave the house to blab...oh if you have a cell phone, make sure its not in the bathroom Don't kill her...just slow her down a bit

Shortness of breath can be an indication of a leak higher up in your stomach which caused Fluid to collect in the esophagus causing the plural sac to be inflated and your lung to be crushed by the fluid inflating it (the plural sac is the bag your spongy lung is encased in). Because it almost killed me I'm a fan of taking action. The weakness isn't normally at a week out (I had it as well) for just basic walking. I would advise that if you can't raise a doc on the emergency call line (they have one right?) that you consider going to the ER and having a chest xray to ensure your lungs look ok. This is not an uncommon complication outcome and it can be fatal if left untreated. When admitted they asked if I wanted to see a Chaplin....don't wait like I did please! If you are fine, than I'm thrilled, but that level of energy loss and the combination of shortness of breath is something to take seriously and most leaks occur at this time in your recovery.

The typical "natural miscarriage" (the only correct kind) is to have a miscarriage that happens naturally, not induced with drugs or other poisons to the fetus and to not have a D&C afterwards. All of my miscarriages were "natural" because I didn't need the further procedure. Then there is the bad kind...people choose to poison their fetus (done with drugs or herbs that will damage it) which often leads to nothing more than a brain damaged, or physically damaged baby who makes it to term carrying the maiming their parents chose to inflict on them. If you are not ready to have this child, I carry no judgement and suggest you consider a medical abortion before it's too late legally. But don't try to kill your fetus on your own....that's nothing more than torture when it does not work. We shared a room at Hopkins with a little girl from Mexico who had experienced her mother attempting an herbal "natural" abortion. Half an arm and severe mental disturbances due to the damage done to her brain...and she was only 3. Don't be a fool...don't do this to a child you don't want. There are pain free options for the fetus you can easily take advantage of verses attempting to kill it on your own. And miscarriage "natural miscarriage" is an easy way to say abortion for many. I'm not against abortion...but when you knowingly remove a viable fetus from your body it's an abortion. Clear and simple, no matter how you label it. When I was pregnant I had testing done on each fetus to determine if it carried any serious issues (down syndrome etc). Had I have had a down's child I would have aborted the fetus. NEVER would I have taken that medical procedure into my own hands.

I hope you are able to move it, but really...you can not host that party. You'll never make it and taking a risk so close to surgery is playing with fire. I almost died from a leak and hate to hear of them, especially when brought on by overdoing it.

It needs to be sublingual b12 at this point, and you also need to assess your food intake. You are early out and not getting enough Protein which means your body is not healing properly. You mentioned not enough calories....how many shy are you? You really have to concentrate on protein, calories and liquids early out of the box or your body won't heal and you'll be tired constantly, no matter how much b12 you take. And I sound like a lecturing fool....but honey I give myself that same lecture every day. I also was trying to avoid the shakes but finally after several weeks of being shy of my protein goal I have decided to add one a day to my routine so that I make goal (I'm in a stall as well). When I am able to eat more food due to less restriction I will cut the shakes back out, but they are a necessary evil for some of us....