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It got a facelift and a new location. You can add the forum to your favorites so you can find it more easily. We are trying to organize the recipes by food stage and I have worked backward to last July so far! We moved it to the General Surgery section because all of the surgeries have similar food stages and rules.

This is such a helpful thread. Do you guys mind if I move it to the purée recipes section?

Planning my meals and sticking to my plan. Drinking my Water.

There are different parts of the stomach. The upper curve is called the fundus and it is the part that is really stretchy. That's the part that is removed with the sleeve. With the RNY, the pouch is made using mostly tissue from the fundus. The pouch starts out about the size of a walnut, but is quite prone to stretching. You will see lots of people who have not taken care of their pouch complaining that they can eat a lot when they are several years out. They can have surgery to tighten the pouch back up. Also the opening from the pouch into the roux limb can stretch too which means food can exit the pouch more quickly than is ideal. This may make the RNY sound like a bad surgery but it is not. You just need to be very aware of "pouch maintenance" and be aware that over time you will have increased capacity. Just because you can eat more does not mean you should. With the sleeve, you start out with an extremely small capacity because of swelling. You can only hold a couple ounces for the first several weeks. The swelling goes down and you can hold more at around 6-8 weeks. Then the sleeve starts to "relax" by about the 6 month mark and you can hold half a cup to 2/3 of a cup. By the 2-year mark the sleeve is as big as it will probably get and people seem to hold about a cup, depending on the food. So yes the sleeve's capacity increases too but it is not made from a very stretchy part of the stomach so it can only go so far. The sleever's long term struggle is keeping the carbs on the low side because carbs tend to be sliders for many of us. For instance I could eat a whole lot of chips or crackers but can't eat more than 60 grams of lean Protein. Also it is becoming clear now that sleevers do need to take supplements because we do appear to have some malabsorption. Rather than choosing whether to take supplements based on your surgery type, it is better to have your levels tested regularly and take what you are short of. Two books that are great to read no matter what surgery you choose are "Success Habits" and "Emotional First Aid Kit." Regardless which surgery you choose, find some long-term successful vets here and learn from them.

Odd! It was off. Thanks!

I think I could have lost faster. I have not been very extreme with myself. I am trying to make this a lifestyle not a crash diet. So some people have lost heaps faster but I am hoping I will give myself enough time to get really comfortable with my new lifestyle and that I will be able to sustain this for a lifetime. People don't realize in the beginning that while losing is easier with the surgery, maintaining is mostly YOU. Especially it is up to you to fill up on protein because most of us can eat and drink a lot of carbs.

It can be a symptom of pruritis, which can be caused by your liver making more bile than you need. It could also be an allergy. Or just a skin problem. Speak to your doctor about it.

FYI the sleeve resolved my type 2 diabetes. I am 8 months post-op and have a non-diabetic A1C. I am actually sitting in the doctor office right now having the two hour glucose tolerance test to prove I don't have diabetes anymore and take it off my record. I have not had a glucose reading over 4.8 since I woke up from surgery, have not had to take metformin. Mostly my glucose readings are around 4.2 now. That is mmol/l but I think it is around 80 mg/dl (the system used in the US). These are non-diabetic numbers. One downside to RNY is the part of the stomach left behind is very prone to stretching. Several years out many RNY patients can eat a normal sized meal. Of course the sleeve doesn't have a lot of data about patients more than 10 years out. They are both good surgeries. You need to research the hell out of it and make a choice you are comfortable with. None of us can or should try to make up your mind for you.

You will find heaps of info about the sleeve on the sleeve forums here. If you are using the website, you can click Forums at the top and choose All Forums. The sleeve is the first section of forums. There is also the Big Book of the Gastric Sleeve, written by Alex Brecher. You can use the search feature here for "sleeve RNY" or similar terms and find tons and tons of threads discussing the pros and cons. Naturally the people who had sleeve will be pro-sleeve and the people who had RNY will be pro-RNY.

I had mine removed 6 months post-op. Ain't no bug thang.

GG is on holiday. Butter has been traveling too.

I typically run for 50 minutes now because that's all I have time for. I still walk 5 minutes either side so that is 40 minutes of actual running. In that total time I tend to run about 6k. Just wanted to report back as another graduate who is still running. I've decided to substitute a hard elliptical workout for one of my runs to change things up, and to add Zumba one night a week (starts tomorrow)! You will be amazed what you have the energy for. I also get bored during the work day and take a walk break.

So today is my 8 month anniversary. Here are my monthly totals. There are more than 8 because I just totaled up every 4 weeks. I have had several no-loss weeks and a few gains. I didn't have a pre-op diet. Today is the end of my first week in my 10th 4-week period, meaning i am 41 weeks post-op. I could have had a baby in this time! LOL 1: 6 kg 2: 4.4 kg 3: 4.7 kg 4: 3.5 kg 5: 2.8 kg 6: 2.8 kg 7: 4 kg 8: 2.5 kg 9: 2.3 kg

I bet it's your gall bladder. Speak to your doctor.

Protein more than 90 and carbs less than protein. That's it. I'm 8 months out now and I'm getting between 900 and 1100 calories a day.

I'll look it up and post for you in a bit!

Look carefully at the serving sizes on things that claim to be zero. Often the serving size is a fraction of what you would actually use.

I can't see my signature or anyone else's in the app now. I used to be able to click a message to see it rendered in HTML and it would show me the signature too, including tickers. I thought maybe I had screwed mine up, but I can't see any. I can see them in the website.

Oops, the rename means it gets a new number too: http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/1048-food-and-nutrition/

There is a whole forum for this kind of thing. You will find heaps of great info there. It is in the middle of being reorganized, so make sure you use the search function as well as browsing. http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/1048-food-and-nutrition/ (edit to correct the link)

Exercise for fitness and to feel good. It probably won't drop pounds all on its own but you will sure feel younger and more energetic!

We have a thread full of resources for those that don't. Check out the link in my signature.

If it continues even when you are on solids, talk to your doctor. It could be a food intolerance like lactose intolerance, or it could be something else, like impaired gall bladder function. If it ends up being the latter, there are medications you can take to clear it right up. Ask your doctor about bile acid diarrhea.

We have a whole forum for ladies' issues: http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/432-powder-room-ladies-gone-wild/

I gained a kg this week! I'm taking it in stride and just continuing to work my plan. I think the next 10-15 kg are going to be much tougher to lose. I'm going to try Zumba on Thursday! I'm nervous I will look like an idiot but I'm excited too. A friend is going with me. I'm not sure if I would rather do it on my own or not but it is what it is.