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I have my personal number which puts me at a BMI of 22. My surgeon's goal for me is a BMI of 27 but I'm only 1.5 BMI points away from that and I certainly don't feel done. I'm in size 12 at 4'11" and while that is heaps better than size 22, it's still pretty large for my height. If I get to a point where I am having to work especially hard to lose more, I hope I will have the self-awareness to realize it and be happy with whatever weight that is.

I just wanted to point out that this is the January 2014 Sleevers support thread. The bandsters are welcome of course but it made me wonder if this thread belongs somewhere else like the lounge? What so you guys think?

It will sure hurt your weight loss if you get pregnant this early out. Lots of women get really fertile really quickly after surgery. Edit: posted that before I saw the reply from Jerzy. Wow. I hope your surgeon and other doctors are guiding you through it. That would be so stressful! I was not trying to make light of your situation.

Lol thanks I appreciated your opinion!

Thanks Butterthebean for getting this moved back to the right place.

Food and tablets don't get absorbed in your stomach even before surgery. They get absorbed in your small intestine, which is the same as it always was. You can take any medications you had before, as long as your surgeon gives the OK.

I can and have had it. I can eat half of a small deli sandwich (like a ham and cheese on rye -- not a thick one). It fills me up and I can't get as much protein so I treat it like a treat. I usually get salads instead and ask for extra meat. I have found that I can tolerate the hard thin breadsticks and there is a brand that is only 5 carbs for 3. So I have them as a snack with some cheese and sriracha sauce. But on,y a couple times a week.

It's very regional. Assamese and Bengali people eat beef. Probably other regions too. Also lots of more secular people from all over eat it. A few years ago you almost never saw pork on the menu, but it is now easy to find as well.

You actually can change the columns. It is in the website under Settings I think. Then you have it restart the app to see the change. On the phone it only shoes you calories though because of limited real estate. I have mine set to Calories, Protein, Carbs. For the others I chose None.

Um why is this in vets? I am not even a vet yet. I posted this in the General Sleeve forum.

Holy moley! I think your plan seems harder than tracking!

As an aside, what firm protein do you eat for breakfast? Eggs? I struggle with breakfast and often just have a shake.

I was just playing with MND today. I had bought it for my iPad and forgot (probably years ago) so I reinstalled it and played with it. It is a lot different from MFP and i didn't find it as quick to enter things but maybe I just haven't got the knack yet. I did like that you can hide calories (though you still have to have a calorie target). Sometimes I like the social aspect of mfp but again sometimes it is a distraction too. I think I have OCD and everything is a potential OCD monster.

What are you using to track, if I may ask? I have a friend who had surgery a couple weeks before me and just tracks protein in her head. I envy her. She is already at goal, had a little less to lose than me. I will be interested to see how she maintains. She didn't want a heavyweight approach. She also doesn't use web forums either. She is focused on living her life with all the benefits of being smaller. I feel like a huge amount of my brain is taken up with tracking and reading these forums. I have to say this is not the "after" that I envisioned. I thought I would spend more time outdoors and active, and spending more energy on my professional life. Instead I feel so distracted by all of this that I feel like I am missing out. It's hard to explain.

There is an official thread for this in the stickies of this forum. Would you guys like me to merge this in? It will keep you subscribed to the thread.

FYI I fixed the spelling in the title so it is easier to find in searches. Looks yummy!

Mine doesn't have an opening in the lid. It's just flat and you take off the lid and you have a plain cup. But the lid seals very well and doesn't leak which to me is the best part.

I would get a second opinion about that dilation and your capacity. I'm 8 months out and I can't eat half a 6" sub. I would just throw up. I can't even eat 4 ounces of meat.

6 weeks, though if you have one it usually shows within the first two weeks as the swelling is going down.

I apologize.

I had this problem with coffee, which it takes me ages to drink now. I have two of these, the 12-oz one for coffee and the 16-oz one for water. Coffee stays almost too hot to drink for more than 5 hours and water stays very cold for 10+. You could either put your shake in there or put the water for your shake in it, so the shake is cold when you make it up. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005PO9T1W

Nope it just explains them well. I was a little surprised he is not particularly anti-HFCs, just equates it to sugar. I'm glad because I don't buy that it is any more evil than sugar. People look for bogeymen everywhere. Fwiw we don't use much corn syrup in Australia. It's all cane sugar and yet we get fat too!

Drink a lot of water and do something else distracting. Stay on the straight and narrow for two days and it gets better.

You will be fine. Just don't eat the snacks! Stick with water or juice on the plane. And let a friend carry your bags.

And also, I "barely" had diabetes if start with but many people with much worse blood sugar control than me seem to reap the benefits of better control without medication or insulin (or with much less) immediately after the sleeve or RNY.