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I will start by saying that I know this thread might get controversial. I would like to know what you are doing but I don't want anyone to tell anyone else they are doing it wrong. I also don't want anyone to deviate from the plan that their surgical team has worked out for them. I strongly feel like you need to follow the letter of the law, at least until at least one year post-op. I have actually been deviating from my surgical team's plan BY rigorously tracking. I'm finding MyFitnessPal a little bit "heavy weight" and thinking about trying to track my food in a lighter weight, easier way. It seems to me that if I follow the "rules", and get enough Protein, I will have a tough time screwing things up because I won't even have room for many carbs. It seems overkill to track calories because again, if I get in my protein I am never very high. I might get some value in tracking carbs along with protein. I can't hide calories in MFP. I'm also just tired of tracking every bite, honestly. I have been tracking every bite for most of the last 12 years. My nutritionist and my therapist have actually both encouraged me to work toward tracking in my head. I would like to find a middle ground. I'm not quite ready to let go of the security of some kind of tracking and don't know if I ever will.

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

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.

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.

Sorry to post so late on such an old thread. I went into the hospital with pretty mild type 2 diabetes. I had had it for about 7 years. I was managing it extremely well with diet and metformin and my A1C (3-month average blood glucose level, which is measured by counting the number of hemoglobin in a blood sample that is damages by high blood glucose) was always between 5.7 and 6.0. My fasting blood glucose was usually around 5.5 mmol/l (99 mg/dl) which was considered very good for a diabetic. One of the things that tipped me over the sets to get surgery is that I started sometimes seeing two-hour post-meal glucose readings over 9 mmol/l (162 mg/dl). Not often and not enough to raise my A1C but enough to make me feel worried and insecure. Without surgery I did not have the self control to keep my carb load low enough to ensure this would never happen. I left the hospital the second day after my surgery. Since my surgery I have never taken metformin and never seen a fasting glucose level over 4.7. I have never seen a two-hour post-meal glucose level over 4.5. This was not a gradual thing but happened immediately after surgery. It may not be permanent. I am almost 8 months post-op now. I eat about 1000 calories a day and have about 100-120 grams of carbs a day. This is extremely common with the sleeve (which I have), the bypass, and the DS. I don't know about plication but as far as I know it doesn't happen with the band. There are some theories about why it happens and about why it stays around at least for a while. The science is not definite yet. Why it happens (maybe): 1. You are basically in a fasting state from 8 hours before surgery to two days afterward. Even when you do eat again, the calories and carbs are so low that there is virtually no load on your pancreas. 2. There are tons of hormones and chemicals that get produced in and act on your stomach and intestines. Surgery may temporarily or permanently disrupt some of them. 3. Maybe this happens because your body is in a bit of shock. Why it stays around at least for a while (maybe): (bandsters would also get this part of it) 1. Your calorie and carb intake stay very low for a significant amount of time. Your Protein intake is probably the highest it has been in your life if you are following the rules. This type of diet makes your cells more responsive to insulin and also reduces the load on your pancreas. 2. Fat produces estrogen, especially belly fat. Even in men. Estrogen and insulin are related. As your estrogen levels get lower, your cells also get more responsive to insulin (less insulin resistant). This means it takes less estrogen to do the job. Less insulin means it is harder to store fat and easier to burn it. This sets up a virtuous cycle. 3. As you lose weight, you are more likely to be physically active. Exercise also makes your cells more sensitive to estrogen! Having diabetes at all means that your pancreas is not perfect. That is why some people do re-acquire diabetes later on. But any respite is great for your health, and losing weight can also "cure" some type 2 diabetics. If you get it again later, it doesn't mean you did anything wrong. If you don't, you are fortunate. By the way, bariatric surgery won't ever cure type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes. But it can make heavy type 1s lose weight, and make their bodies less resistant to insulin too. That means they may be able to reduce the amount of insulin they need to use, which means that they may find it easier to stay slim!

I finally finished GCBC and immediately started Why We Get Fat. My husband us going to read the second one too. He has never really shared my obsession with nutrition science and diets but he did have a physical this week and the doctor wants him to lose 15 kg. He has already lost 10 kg previous to the physical by dramatically increasing his exercise over the last several months, but I think he has been surprised not to lose more. He did couch to 5k and has kept up his running ( now doing a 10k training plan 3x a week) along with cycling three days a week. I think he thought that would be all he would need and he is a bit shocked it isn't. I hope he gets some info out of the book because he would not welcome any feedback from his wife on his diet!

Also known as sliming or the slimes. It's when your body is preparing you in case you vomit because you ate too much or too quickly, and makes a ton of extra mucus. Normally that mucus would just stay in your stomach and pass out with the food, but we don't have much room now so the mucus comes back up, sometimes along with the food. It is not vomit since there is no bile acid. Since you are so full you can't just swallow the mucus and have it spit it out.

Let's not play doctor. It is always possible that psychological issues are caused by physical issues too. And a child does not exactly have any expectation of having self control. If there is an intense physical craving for food due to grehlin or insulin or other hormonal responses, the child cannot be expected to just tough it out. How do you know no psychologist or psychiatrist is involved? Don't assume the media is giving you the whole story. Their job is to get more eyeballs on the news story and thus on the advertising. Anyway we are all grown adults and we probably all have pretty good self control in most areas of our lives, yet we are on a bariatric website. Why do we expect a child to be stronger than we have been?

A "three week stall" is so normal with this surgery that it is a cliche. Just keep following your plan and wait it out.

You still need to make good choices with all bariatric procedures.

There is an Indiana group in the Local Support Groups -> USA section. I think it is fairly active.

Depends what extent of vegetarianism. Eggs, cheese, milk, yogurt if you are using dairy. Beans, nuts, lentils, soy, tofu, tempeh, quinoa, textured vegetable protein, sprouted wheat are all vegan. Some vegetables have some protein. You need to use a lot of sources because vegetable proteins are not "complete" like vegetable proteins (they don't contain all the amino acids). They are missing different ones so you can get all the amino acids with variety.

You will find lots of people who have had successful pregnancies after RNY. If you have GERD pre-op, there is a possibility that VSG could make it worse. If that happens, you may need to revise to RNY later. However, it could be that you never have GERD post-op. There is a good chance you won't dump with RNY. There is a very small percentage of people who do dump with VSG. Only you can make your choice, after doing research and talking to your surgeon. You are smart to be asking these questions. Good luck!

Just FYI I am in my fourth day diarrhea-free. Taking a Questran sachet in either orange juice or tomato juice (watered down) about 15 minutes before each of my three main meals. So far no constipation either. I will be seeing my GP Monday and will make sure that he is ok with me using it 3x a day instead of the 2x he prescribed. But I am feeling great and so relieved! It is raising my carbs a bit but I may just need to compensate elsewhere in my diet. A funny thing about getting this relief after 7 months? I had not realized how low my volume of urine had gotten due to the dehydration. I feel like I am just going and going now!

If you use endomondo you can have it tell you when you have gone a certain distance. You can do the couch to 5k that way yourself but I haven't seen any apps that specifically track it. It would only work outside and if you use a smartphone or other device with a GPS to track your distance. Or if you trust your treadmill's distance read-out.

For a very few people with the sleeve, eating foods very high in sugar, like fruit juices or desserts. It feels like a stomach flu with dizziness, sweating, chills, the whole 9 yards. It's different from diarrhea, which some people also get especially early post-op.