COsleeveDude

My program told us some people have a hard time digesting raw vegetables and/or fruits right away. They suggested waiting six months and eating non-stringy things without skins and seeds.

There's nothing that you can never have again unless you, as an individual, can't tolerate it. Everything is basically guidance. Everyone will cheat and fudge, even just a little. Im two months out and have tried a lot of things, including soda, pizza, cheeseburger, salad, buffalo wings, Mexican. I just find I don't crave it as much and don't need or want to eat as much. So I still partake in social situations, but just much less frequently and in greatly reduced amounts. I think fear of food is unhealthy and may contribute to failure long-term. The sleeve just helps learn portion and control. Your mileage may vary. Good luck.

My experience has been good; no complications, pretty easy recovery. Almost eight weeks out and I basically feel back to normal, except for not wanting or being able to eat as much. I'm lucky to have great *** insurance through Kaiser, so I only paid around $500.

I live in NW Denver. Did you both get sleeved?

Did he say or did you ask why?

Thought I'd share this. I got an email at work about donating blood, and thought I remembered hearing that post-surgery weight loss surgery patients shouldn't donate. So, I Googled and found this link, one of many: http://www.realself.com/question/donate-blood-after-gatric-bypass-surgery Looks like the couple of docs who answered said they think as long as you're not anemic and your blood count is good then donating is probably not contraindicated. I'm going to wait until after my 3-month blood tests to start donating again, assuming the tests come out normal, which I think they will.

I reached 269 today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xCcOoPhLQ Carry on.

I can't wait to see how much mine "cost." Who doesn't need health insurance? One surgery, one broken bone...one trip to the ER sent a friend of mine into bankruptcy.

It's tough for everyone. Following the diet will make your recovery easier. Unfortunately, for all of us (or damn near most of us) it's suffer now or suffer later. I preferred to suffer before. Good luck.

Do you have access to your pre-op blood tests? On your metabolic panel was your ALT elevated over, say, 50? Is your surgical center a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence? Those could be a couple of clues. It seems pretty typical for experienced programs to put those people with higher BMI and/or those who don't lose enough weight pre-surgery on a 14-day liver shrinking diet. The shrinking diet can also be indicated for people whose known health problems may contribute to fatty liver, or if blood tests come back indicating a fattier fatty liver. Either way, sorry for your troubles.

I don't feel colder, but my actual body temp is typically down 1-3 degrees from before, usually 95-97F. Some people may actually feel colder, I brought it up to the nurse because I saw it on the thermometer. She said it's common, and some people will return to "normal" after awhile, others won't. Unfortunately I'm not sweating any less during exercise, but I definitely don't sweat as much as I did before in general.

I had eight classes, one per week. It's just education and encouragement with some group therapy mixed in. It can be a little annoying and feel denigrating at first, but after completing the classes I felt that it was an overall positive and really helped motivate me to not only educate myself further, but to drop almost 40 pounds during and after the class before surgery.

Eating or drinking anything with more than a few grams of sugar per serving is a poor idea.

I'm not sure which is worse: Googling, oogling or oggling.