lornaevans

36 pounds in 7 weeks, plus 22 lbs on the pre op diet (2 months) Total weight loss is 58 lbs I'm feeling so much better now that I am further along. I love my sleeve.

gmanbat....100 lb loss in a year... awesome and congratulations! How many calories do you eat daily now?

Hi Mel, I wish the best for you in your upcoming surgery. I am 5 weeks post op and just got back from a chinese buffet with my husband. lol... We used to go there all the time and pig out, but today, i had a small piece of fish and a crab w 2 small pieces of brocolli. To be honest, I had a little ice cream and a little banana pudding. I enjoyed it so much because its the first time I have done anything like that since before my surgery. I won't do dessert often, but I guess every once in a while is okay. I was on a pre op diet for about 2 mos before surgery and lost 25 lbs. I lost another 25 lbs since surgery 5 weeks ago. I am feeling so much better, but I still have 100 more to go. I just wanted to tell you that I love my sleeve. I have not been able to consume more than about 800 calories/day and the weight is coming off. I didn't have any pain, nausea, or anything bad after my surgery. I was tired for a couple of weeks after, but now that I upped my calories a little and am consuming some carbs, I feel great. Let us know if there is anything you are concerned about. There are so many helpful people on this site. This support group has helped me tremendously, and by the time I went for surgery, I was not nervous in the least. Just make sure that you have all of your questions answered and you are sure that you want this before you go for surgery. I was desparate to get the weight off since it was affecting my health and my life so much. I only only recommend this for people who are very serious about the weight loss because they are taking out a large part of your stomach, and you won't be able to gorge yourself with alot of food ever again, I don't think, but you will be happy and satisfied with the amount you can eat because you won't be so hungry anymore. The hormones that make you hungry will be gone for the most part. I was so happy that I could not gorge myself today at the chinese restaurant like I used to do. I ate slowly, but felt like I ate a huge amount of food when I really didn't eat that much at all. But satified I was..... and I felt great..... The only other thing that I want to say is to make sure that you go to a doctor's office that has an impecable reputation and a low complication rate. There are people that come to my doctors office from far away because they heard about their low complication rate. It's less than 1 %. I felt so good about that that I was very comfortable throughout the whole process. I am so looking forward to the rest of this weight coming off... I hope the same for you, too.... Good Luck, and best wishes for you!

I love my sleeve, too. I was sleeved 5 weeks ago, and already lost 50 lbs from pre op diet until now.

I started on vitamins when I got home because I could tolerate them just fine. At this point you should probably be fine. My doctors office recommends Bariatric Advantage because they are made specifically for Bariatric patients. Get Bariatric Advantage Multi with B complex, take 30 mg of iron, dry vitamin d3 5000 mg, and calcium chewables. All of these you can get online. I found Diet Direct online, and have been happy with their prices and service. you don't take your d and calcium at the same time as your iron, so i take my multi and iron early morn, and then 2 calcium chews and vit d3 in afternoon and 2 more calcium chews before bed. Oh, I almost forgot, do B-12 under the tongue as well.. dosage is 1000 mg every day as long as you are not over your labs. I was taking too much b-12 and got crusty dry patches on the sides of my mouth due to excessive amount of b - 12, so stay within you limits on your labwork. Home this helps. There are alot of other places to get the Bariatric Advantage vits online, such as Amazon.com