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You probably can't eat a lot of dense Protein. Most of us can eat a lot of certain foods. I ate 1300 calories today. How? Normal Breakfast, morning snack, and lunch. Ice cream twice, and (half) a small burger and (1/4 of) a small fries for dinner. It wasn't a normal day, I own all the choices, I walked like crazy and I logged it all. Capacity differs by meal, day, time of day, mood, what you have been doing, the shape and size of your sleeve, etc. don't constantly test your limits. Follow the rules most of the time. At the same time, you won't ruin your sleeve with a meal or a day of less than stellar choices.

I got the aria scale for Christmas and love it. There are other "smart scales" too like the Withings one. But if you already have the Fitbit it makes sense. I love that it can recognize who is on the scale and that it does body fat percentage. It also removes the urge to weigh multiple times a day because then it will update the website and MyFitnessPal multiple times a day and everyone will know how neurotic I am. LOL

I know what you mean, Seela. Recycled, sorry but don't generalize. I for one hate being ogled unless it's by my husband.

There is an existing thread for Arizona Sleevers just a few threads down the page at http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/263298-any-az-sleevers/. Would you like to merge this one with that one?

That's great Lissa! I don't see a ticker on your post but I think you are already past your goal, right? Are you happy to keep losing?

That is so good!!

Done.

Can you have some cottage cheese or Greek yogurt? Have you tried different shakes? Lots of people seem to love the Premier Protein for 30 grams a serving. If you like coffee you can use the Chike or Click shakes. There is also syntrax which has some fruity flavors. How about baby bel cheese? Or laughing cow? If you are getting so few calories, don't worry about fat.

Would you like me to move this to the Surgeons forum for you?

That study is assuming you get most of your calcium from your diet. It is looking at how and whether eating calcium-rich foods with iron-rich foods reduces iron absorption. Most people don't need to supplement calcium. We do and it helps to know not to take your pills right after eating iron-rich foods.

I find them revolting. I tried to like them but no dice!

liquids only stay in your stomach about 5 minutes. It's normal to be able to drink the full 8 ounces at 4 weeks out. At 8 months out I can finish an 8 ounce shake in about 3 minutes or less. After you are on solid food, a shake will work better as a snack than a meal. They are great for Breakfast if you aren't a big breakfast eater.

I just wanted to post a tip for Protein shakes and other portable beverages. The tupperware tumblers with flat lids (not sippy lids or sports lids or ones with straws) are absolutely great. You can put your Protein powder in and throw it in your bag. When you want to make up your shake, fill it 2/3 with Water and shake the hell out of it. It won't leak. Then after you drink it (out of the tumbler itself), put the lid back on and toss in your bag. Again, won't leak. I have found these to be great. I get the 11 ounce ones. I have four so one or two are always clean and dry and ready to go. You can get them cheap on eBay but I just got the "rainbow" set. It was $27 for the set of 4. My shake is only 8 ounces made up so these are plenty big, though you can get 16 ounces too. The normal protein shakers are ok but they are big and in my opinion not very portable. I also find that they can leak from the pour spout and the ones where the lid just snaps on can make a mess if you snap it off wrong and fling your shake everywhere. If your protein doesn't mix easily you could get one of those whisk balls and throw it in with your dry powder. I don't have this problem. I also use one to mix a medicine I have to take with juice.

Do you mean Good Calories, Bad Calories?

If you need a thread deleted, go to the forum it is in, look down at the bottom (in the website, not the app), and look for the list of forum hosts. Send one of them a Private message (PM) asking then to delete the thread. You can also ask for the title to be changed or for your thread to be merged into another one. I'm not a host on the forum where you posted this or I would fix it up for you.

It's not cheating because you are not getting an advantage out of it. Call it choosing to second-guess the surgical team that you are trusting to cut out most of your stomach. You chose them for a reason so why would you do that? If you get a leak or have a complication won't you always wonder if it was your fault? What will your spouse tell your kids if you don't make it and you were disobeying your surgeon?

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/Obesity/40490 "Obese patients who have laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy keep the weight off in the long run, researchers found. In a single-center study, patients who underwent the procedure lost an average 57.4% of excessive body mass index (BMI) over 5 years, Ralph Peterli, MD, of Claraspital in Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues reported online in the journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, first developed about a decade ago, "was initially intended to be a primary intervention in high-risk patients before laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or as the first step of biliopancreatic diversion duodenal switch," the authors noted in their introduction. But evidence has been mounting that sleeve gastrectomy itself is an effective surgery for weight loss."

I've had fun with this the past two days. I'm making the best choices I can for every meal and snack, then logging at the end of the day. My goal is to have at least 90 grams Protein and less carbs than protein. Simple! And it's a small sample size but I have hit it both days so far. Also I am logging in MFP and MND to see which I really like better. It seems silly to double-log but it lets me try MND without losing days in MFP. Now that I am back at work and in my normal routine, I am going to make it a habit to pack my morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, and "emergency food" every day, in a way that makes my food goals easy to meet. I had gotten lax about bringing my lunch and just grabbing something near work. Wasteful and usually not the best choice I could have been making. But mostly expensive! I even bought a better lunch bag and ordered some new tupperware to help me out.

Fiber doesn't get absorbed by your body at all so it doesn't have calories that are usable by your body. Soluble fiber turns into a goop that helps things go through and insoluble fiber adds bulk to your stools and keeps your colon health.

+1

You can't spot reduce. You can build up the muscles under the fat and wait for them to emerge. I'm built the same as you. I still have fat under the skin in those areas. When it is mostly deflated skin, that's when surgery might be able to help.

Where/how are you tracking your protein, if I may ask? Just in your head using the labels?

http://consumerist.com/2014/01/03/9-things-we-learned-from-vanity-fairs-article-about-the-dangers-of-nuvaring/

Ok this will sound dumb but I think the juice got me accustomed enough to the texture that I can handle it with just Water now. I put it in a lidded tumbler and shake it up, leave it alone for a few minutes, shake it up again, and drink it. I have over a cup of water and maybe that dilutes it enough or maybe it is waiting a few minutes for it to mix with the water more. But it is tolerable. I've been using juice once a day and having it plain the other two times in the day. Also it is definitely working!

I think people who are at the beginning of their journey or people who are watching someone else's journey tend to be conservative. "I could never weigh that, I would look ill!" But the reality is that if you are exercising and following a sensible way of eating, the "healthy" BMI range WILL look healthy on most people, especially given some time for remaining fat to redistribute and for skin to tighten a bit. Just because you can't picture it now doesn't make it true. I also think the last 15-20 pounds tend to be "invisible". It is around our middle and we tend to hide our middle by wearing clothes that compress it (jeans) or hide it (untucked shirts). Also nobody looks very closely at someone else's stomach because it is rude. People keep telling me they don't know where I will lose more weight but I know it is between my bra strap and my hip bones. I have at least 20 pounds to lose from there if not 30.