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My wife and I both had surgery, me with the sleeve, her with a Gastric Bypass. She has met and passed her goal, I am 1 pound away. We hug a lot. We are having a hard time getting used to our arms going all the way around.

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I just lost one of my two last pounds to goal, after an almost 3 month stall. In the mean time I am looking better, clothes like me, except for this exiting cold I am quite healthy. Stalls can't stop you. Some enemies die hard.

There is a warning about Java given out by homeland security. Java needs to be disabled temporarily. Hackers can do there malicious thing through it. When Oracle fixes it I will enable it again. It enables some of the functions here but the site is still usable. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/12/us-government-advises-computer-users-to-disable-java-software/?test=latestnews Edit: Yikes, I couldn' get into my bank account without java. I enabled it to get in and decided to fix this link as well. Hurry up, Oracle!

Yes, I told her. She smiled brightly. But then, she smiles a lot lately. I love to see the look in her eyes when she gets dressed up in new clothes and then asks me how she looks. Before it was a look of dread, not that I would ever say anything bad but only that she wouldn't believe my compliments. Now she looks like she knows the answer already; she looks like a million bucks! She's a classy lady, I love to watch her strut. She earned it.

Keep your eyes on the prize. Make plans for meals, exercise post sleeve. Enjoy your life as it is now and look forward to the new you. You are not just reducing you are being released. The liquid diet before surgery is notorious for being hard to take. You are not alone. Tough it out, you are investing a tough now for a much better tomorrow.

Ya, I go to restaurants and feel a bit sad that I can't shove it in like before. Then I look down and notice the space between me and the table of the booth and that it is no longer pushing into me with half of my pot gut on top and the other half bulging underneath. I went through a phase where normal eaters disgusted me. Was I ever such a gorging, lip smacking piggie? Sure were.

You adjust to it. I concentrate on the flavors, I linger over each bite like it's the last delicious food I will ever eat, I let the essense of sensual fulfillment sweep over me like a wave of warm scented oil, I Celebrate the party in my mouth and make it last as long as possible before commiting it to my small depository. OK, a bit too dramatic.

I see the difference. Good work!!!!!

Wow, pretty accurate dreams! Skinny, only eating a few bites, feeling full,.... yup. Throwing up doesn't happen very often, though, for me. I know what brings it on when I do. My dreams are normally far more removed from reality. I would say you are quite rational.

Welcome!!!! I could not lose weight for many reasons including cancer treatment that made me susceptible to weight gain. I was 63 and had my sleeve gastronomy in Jan. 2012. I am down over 100 pounds since the pre-op diet started. I am 2 pounds from my goal and in very good physical shape. I would not go back and change my decision. My life has been so enriched by getting rid of this excess me. The sleeve is just a tool, the mind makes it work. Educate yourself, know what to expect, and understand that this is a permanent change, not a diet plan. It has risks but so does obesity. You must determine which is more detrimental to you and if the rewards are worth the risk.

....Love....and Soul !!!! (from another era)

OK, Nicolanz. Sorry about my sternness. I better be nice to you. I might have to move to Texas if it secedes from the union.

I will post something I found on another forum: Part of what gives us that "full feeling" after we eat is the effect that stretching has on the stomach. Stretch receptors in the lower part of the stomach antrum signal the brain as the stomach fills up. With the sleeve food is essentially funneled to the antrum receptors which signal fullness much sooner than they normally would. The stomach is size restricted and that means that the antrum signals fullness at the slightest filling. The stomach we have left minus the fundus is essentially muscle and being muscle it has a limited expanding capacity. Over time the stomach will stretch some, but never get back to pre-surgery size. That being said here is a statistical study I found: A team of surgeons at the University of Chile, led by Dr. Italo Braghetto, have conducted measurements of stomach capacity with patients who have undergone sleeve gastrectomies, checking their stomach capacity within three days of their surgery and again after two years. This study, reported in the journal Obesity Surgery in January 2009, followed fifteen patients and found that the average stomach capacity did increase significantly over the two years after their surgeries. In fact, the average gastric capacity had more than doubled. These same patients had, for the most part, maintained their weight loss and had average Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 (although an increase in BMI was seen in a few patients). The stomach's studied expanded to over double their size which would max out at maybe, 6 to 10 ounces (estimating that your sleeve holds 2 to 4 oz at surgery). Well a normal stomach holds on average 1 liter, which is over 33 ounces and can expand to 4 liters, which is over 132 ounces or roughly 8 lb of solid food. How many sleevers do you know that can eat even a pound of solid food? So even if your sleeve stretched like crazy it is still going to be way smaller, at least 3 times smaller than the average person's stomach. Also, understand that they checked the stomach's capacity after only 3 days after surgery. We know that the stomach is swollen at that time and has less capacity. So the stretching ratio would be less.

So it started out thankful for ALL the posts. Then thankful for respectful posts. Then all the posters EXCEPT those who have a sense of entitlement for rudeness, looking down on others, and stating what they think is stupid or not. So isn't your post of thankfulness just a sugary way of slamming folks who don't post the way you want them to? I don't like rude posts either. I don't like veiled slams even more. They insult the intelligence.

Great work, you look wonderful!

It's your name, dude. Butter the bean,......yum.....must have.....attack

I have the same problem, habit. I have 63 years of slamming food down and adjusting to tiny bites doesn't happen unless I think about it. Many times I sit with a big mouthful and realize that I have to chew that thing for a looong time and let it down slowly or I'm gonna pay for it. I am trying to force myself to sit for a while before I eat, look at my food, and plan a strategy. Engage the brain all the way through. Wait between bites. Swallow, wait, feel. Did I reach the limit yet? Time is your friend, invite him to dinner.

I had my gall bladder taken out just weeks before my sleeve surgery. Yes, it was very similar.

I found the thread. Folks were suspicious of her because she was new and had nothing on her profile. I believe they were thinking she might be a plant sent to advertise a doctor. I would not think so. Many of us have nothing on our profile even after months. It's a looong stretch to label her as a spammer. Leave the detective work to the mods....mmmkay? Stay, Trina.

Which topic, Trina?

I've noticed that the recent topics on the right go by pretty quickly. If you post late at night you are less likely to get an answer. A hugely attended forum like this buries things pretty quickly. I try to answer the ones that are dropping off the bottom if they have no response but I can't be here all the time. I am too busy with my save the tuna campaign.

Hopefully everything will go well and you won't react to morphine that badly again. Everyone is different but I was telling jokes to the nurses in the recovery room. My family asked me how I was doing as they wheeled me into my regular room, "Miserable but happy!" was my drugged up response which they thought was hilarious. They have been saying that to me ever since. I am praying that it goes well for you. As for the bowl size, I recently watched The Incredible Shrinking Man on the old movie channel. He was fighting a spider for a small crumb of bread that he would have brushed off on the floor back before his change. Smaller portions for a smaller you. I was floored after surgery by how little I could eat and still feel great.

Go to the search box, type in your search word, click where it says "this topic". You will get a list that includes "forums", click the button next to forums so it colors in, click the search magnifying glass, there ya go!

That really bites. I have a cough but I'm nearly a year out. Maybe putting a pillow on your stomach when you cough would help, that's what I'd do. I'd see if doc would get you a good cough suppressant or whatever else he thinks.