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Bryan, I'm a total foodie as is my husband and most of our friends, but good food, not crap. You don't see a bucket of KFC on anyone's dinning room in our group. I am also a big wine drinker as well which was a great deal of my problem in losing weight. I don't obsess about food, but preparing and enjoying food with company is a big part of our life and I am not changing that. This is my week three of the second surgery and week ten of the first and I just spent the weekend with our management team on our annual get away. It included wine tasting, amazing gourmet foods and a lot of wonderful conversations during dinners that went as long as four hours. I enjoyed octopus, crab, lobster, caviar, potatoes, fab cheeses, Chicken, beef, rabbit, bolonaise, panacotta, gelato....but all in very small portions. In the old days I'd have eaten more of each course but I was happy with a few bites of each item and didn't feel deprived at all. I sipped wine a bit as well and enjoyed working on my lost palate. You can enjoy food Don't obsess, but enjoying it isn't a sin. Enjoying a one egg omelet is good. Planning and obsessing about a six egg omelet all night and then devouring it at breakfast...not so good.

If I remember right it was to lose weight...the same reason most have it.

this is what you should fear most. that and death both of which i faced after the surgery. pain like you could never imagine. nearly leaving my family for months. hundreds of thousands in additional bills not normally covered by insurance (because the sleeve wasn't). id trade my experience for some loose skin any day.

most hospital based pharmacies are compounding

lol my nut would advise a lot more but i didnt want to freak her out

you are using as many calories as you are eating so your body is going into survival mode. you should go up to at least 1000 cals and not worry about the carbs so much as you are burning them up anyhoo. youll break the stall by fueling your body appropriately. sometimes less is actually not more

I'm on a new iPad. PMs and posts both have a send button, but it only works if I quote someone (obviously that does not work with the PM's). I just tried again...same problem in this post.

what is a lot? i could probably eat more than I do but have been advised by my doc to be very careful about portions. I've already had a leak and don't want to risk another. Over eating is the number one cause of late leaks....be careful!

It will be an endoscopy then and really, you won't feel a thing. I have a had a few including one in which a JG tube was placed because of my leak. I didn't have any trouble after the procedure. The xray with barium is actually called a barium swallow. It can be done with barium and/or a contrast dye. It is used to check for leaks typically after surgery, but is occasionally done to check for other gastric issues like delayed gastric emptying, gerd, etc. I had many of these done in the last couple of weeks due to the leak. upper gi's are often done to check for reflux related damage to your system. Some docs do them routinely, some if indicated by a patient's symptom, and then the rest are often done after to fix a leak. Really they are painless since you are asleep.

I'm either two weeks out (second surgery) or nine (first) but my new doc counts from the second since I have to heal just like the first. I was told to eat 4 oz five times daily. I only have trouble with this on really busy days but things sit fine.

Can I have that old tee shirt . I love it and it has to be too big for you now lol