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Get a second opinion. A huge number of Sleevers have hiatal hernias and repairing the hernia is a standard part of the surgery. I'm one of them. It's just an extra scar at your bra line. Choose sleeve or bypass, but a hernia is not a factor.

Rather than making my own post, I'll join yours and say "Me too!" As of November 14. 64 pounds down, it's hard to believe. your progress is amazing too!

The site and the app are working for me, at least as well as before and better in some ways. Thanks for the hard work getting the bugs ironed out. The only thing still crashing is the subscribed forums on the iPhone app (reported elsewhere).

An elephant's penis! Fuck yeah!

This article is relevant. http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/ally-fat-people-lost-weight/

I was your husband. Best thing you can do is not be his food police. Maybe offer to fix him a snack before you go to bed so he knows he doesn't have to hide, knows you know he snacks and it's ok with you.

Most of us have lost it tons of times. The surgery is for keeping it off. In combination with your hard work.

I wanted to check back in here. A few things have happened. First of all I need to have my gallbladder removed and that is happening Wednesday. I'm not worried about it and expect to only be out of commission for a couple days. I don't even see how it could keep me from running for more than a few days, but I will listen to my body and see. Second, I have had some strange knee pain. Here is the background. I have a really bad ankle due to mechanical problems with the ligaments and nerves. I really need surgery. If that foot hits any instability at all, the ankle can collapse without warning. Even just walking on a tiny pebble on the sidewalk. So I have always done my running inside, including all but the last three weeks of the Couch to 10k. I did those outside (very carefully) because we were on a road trip vacation and outside was all I had. Those runs actually went very well. I went faster than I expected to and felt better than I expected for running outside. And I didn't fall. I got home and did a run on the treadmill the first day I was back, and had knee pain. I never had knee pain before, even 20+ kg heavier. That's weird. The treadmill is supposed to be easier on the joints, right? I had knee surgery on the right knee a few years ago and wouldn't be surprised by a bit of soreness there, but the other one was sore too. I chalked it up as an oddity and ran again two days later. Even more knee pain. Hmm. So two days after that, I just did a short run and took the weekend to recover. The next week, I ran again on the Monday and the knee pain hadn't really gone away. I had the gallbladder attack on the Tuesday and couldn't run on the Wednesday. I did a short run on the Friday and felt a but better, but the next few days I had a ton of knee pain just walking around, especially walking down hills or stairs. I asked for advice on MFP and BTB advised that I try to land softer. I did that today and I felt better. I managed 6 km in 50 pain-free minutes. Now to see how I feel tomorrow. We are having a party and I will be on my feet all day, but I won't run again until Monday. Then I will miss my run for the rest do the week but will surely feel up to walking by Friday.

You look great! Do you consider yourself at goal? By the way those pants are way too big! And you look so much younger now.

It would be rude for them to say "I'm so glad" or something like that. It is a catch 22. And when they are saying "don't lose more" (I am getting that now), I think it is just because they can't picture it. When I tell people my goal weight, they always respond that it is too thin and I will be skeletal. But they are projecting that goal weight onto themselves. I am 4'11" which is way shorter than most people. I knew a few healthy-weight women at similar heights and ages and they look great at 45-55 kg. But when I tell people that's my goal, they just can't imagine it. They think I should stop now, and I'm not even "overweight" yet (though I'm on the cusp).

In the iPhone app, but not the iPad app, clicking "Subscribed" then "forums" crashes the app for me. Every time. I have force-quit the app but it doesn't help. This has been going on for several days. So many problems have resolved on their own that I wanted to give it some time before reporting it.

Alex, I really want to "like" your post, but I think it must be disabled in this forum?

Sounds like you guys are both doing great!

I have a good career now. I'm a manager in IT and enjoy my work for the most part, and am well-compensated. But since surgery and learning so much about how my body works, I keep thinking about the idea of a career in the medical field. The most attractive career to me at the moment is in medical imaging, maybe as a sonographer. Where I live, this would be a 4-6 year full-time course of study (not like in the US where I believe it is a 2-year degree) and the top pay would be close to what I make now (I'm mid-range for my career now). A huge commitment both financially and time-wise. What is attractive about it? A few things. I find the technology and the interpretation fascinating. It would be really helping people in a very practical way. I could leave work at work. The pay is pretty good. The demand seems high, from the research I have done. Not sure what this has to do with surgery or weight loss except that I believe in medicine and science, I have benefited from it, and somehow I have more confidence to consider such a thing than I would have before. I think I am also evaluating work-life balance in my current work and seeing some things I would not mind changing. But then, my work-life balance would be a ton worse while studying! Because it wouldn't be fair to my husband to have to earn all the money and support me through school. Has anyone else had similar thoughts / questions?

That is awesome! Congratulations. I hope you lose the last 7 kg really quickly!

I haven't had the band, only the sleeve. But there is a thread somewhere in the sleeve section about what foods are hard for people to eat. It is mostly dry dense Protein like dry chicken, or steak, or tough veggies, or rice or Pasta or bread. With the last three it is just because you get full too quickly. With the others it is if you can't chew it well enough and it just sits heavy. Things don't get stuck like with the band. You just get too full or things sit wrong. But for most of us, there are very few foods like that. I can eat almost everything. I just can't eat a big meal. Maybe 3/4 of a cup total and I feel full like Thanksgiving. I'm 6 months post-op. I hope that helps. I eat around 800 calories most days and I don't get hungry between meals. I don't get hard-to-resist physical cravings often. Sometimes I get head hunger, but I can usually ignore it. If I decide to have what I'm craving, a small portion is all I need. Oh and I have no trouble with liquids. I can drink 16 ounces of Water in 5 minutes (less if I'm really thirsty).

I got carried away too. Sorry.

I'm happy you found the answer!

Glad you are back, Jen! My gallbladder surgery will be on the 20th and I need to be in hospital overnight. Not a big deal and I expect to be working (from home) by Friday. I hope this fixes it all! Saw my surgeon today (also my sleeve surgeon) and he is so happy with my progress. I've lost 30 kg, 70% or excess weight, and I'm right on the cusp of being "overweight"! He thinks I should shoot for a BMI of 27, but is prefer to get all the way to 24 or even 22. We will see!

I had surgery 14 May 2013 at 98 kg. I expect to be 68 kg within the next week and my 6-month anniversary is 14 Nov, also this week. That will put me 30 kg down (66 lb) and exactly at 70% of excess weight lost. This was my surgeon's goal as it puts me at the very top of the Overweight range, rather than obese. Personally, I want to get to the middle of the healthy range if I can, which means losing another 18 kg or so. But I already feel like a success. How did I do it? I eat around 800 calories a day, get at least 40g Protein, and try to stay under 100g carbs. I'm not fanatical about the calories or carbs. I usually eat 50g of a meat for lunch and dinner every day, along with veggies and a little carbs. I started a running program and now run 15+ km a week in three runs. I log all food and exercise on MyFitnessPal. I do a lot of walking now as part of my everyday routines. And I stop eating when I'm full, regardless of what is left on my plate. I follow my surgeon's and dietitian's plans, which allow me to have everything in moderation. But I did not cheat one bit on the graduated diet. It's really hard for me to understand the severity of craving that makes people put their brand new sleeves at risk by advancing their diet too quickly. The first 6 months is the honeymoon. I realize that it will slow down and I will have to work harder to get the other 30% excess off. I'm not kidding myself that I have it all figured out. I have read every book I could get my hands on about the sleeve, bariatric surgery, and long-term success with changing habits and making life-long changes. I recommend "Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients" which is available for the kindle or iPad as well as in book form. Another good one is called "Eat it Up." I have read the Vet forum since day 1 because I recognize that they are living the hardest part of the journey. I'd like to lose the rest of my excess weight within the first year post-op, but if I don't, I hope I won't be devastated. The most important thing is not how long it takes me to get there, but how long and how consistently I stay there.

I have been in the position of responsibility for infrastructure and upgrades and I was a paid full-time employee. I never had to endure the amount of abuse and bitching that has happened here in the last few days. If I had, I would have gone straight to my boss and HR. The amount of abuse that has been heaped upon Alex and his colleagues due to this upgrade has been downright ugly at times. I just hope people realize that he could decide to just close the site completely and do something else with his free time, and that we should all be grateful to him for the time and money he has thrown into this site, just to educate people about bariatric surgery. This is not a government-sponsored website and it is certainly not our right to have access to it. It is our privilege. SydneySusan, fair enough, keep giving feedback. But can't we all be a bit nicer about it?

If you go into the app and get errors saying you don't have permission, you are probably logged off. To log back in you need to kill the app and restart it. To do that on iOS, click the Home button once to get to the home screen, then double-click the Home button and swipe the BariatricPal app upward out of your list of running apps. (This is on iOS). I see lots of people with these permission issues and I hope they will see this and stop reporting it. Now, a couple theories about why this is happening. Alex and co will probably know for sure. 1. Maybe it is a time-based logout. If you haven't viewed the site in X amount of time, you are logged out? 2. Maybe you can only be logged into one instance of the app at once (one session). I have both an iPhone and an iPad and I always seem to be logged out of one of them when I use the app on the other one. I can't prove this for sure.

You don't pay anything for this site. Please have some patience and perspective.

I enjoy a glass of red wine or a shot of nice bourbon. I prefer "pure" things instead of cocktails most of the time so I know what is in them. I do enjoy an old fashioned or a gin martini on occasion. I choose them because they are simple and don't use fruit juice. I used to love gin and tonic, but don't have that anymore for obvious reasons.

Find a new doctor. HRT is safe and effective for most women. I had a hyst at 32 and I need to be on it until my 60s and you can be sure I did my research. I'm only 35 now so that's a long time.