TheGamer

A lot of it will also depend on things like your starting weight. The higher that was, the easier it will be to lose a lot very quickly. As an example, my starting weight was 383. In the two weeks prior to surgery (I was sleeved on 10/22), I lost 30 pounds just on the pre-surgery diet. It took me about a week to lose the weight I put on during my hospital stay and now, a little under 2 weeks out from surgery I've lost a total of 43 pounds in a little under 1 month. All that really means is that I still weigh quite a bit over 300! Sure, I'll lose over 100 in 6 months, but I'm also running at a much larger caloric defecit than most people, which is really what it comes down to. Even with VGS, it still comes down to calories in, calories out. VGS just makes it easier.

Propel makes a flavored water that is zero. The grape is my favorite but berry isn't bad either. I haven't tried those protein drinks yet. Where do you normally get them from, online?

I'm going to try and head back to work after two weeks off. They said I could go after 1 week but I decided it wasn't worth pushing myself over.

Mine was done with the DaVinci robotic assist on 10/22 and I was given the option to do this or not and elected to do it because... well... robot surgery just sounds way more awesome than normal surgery. I'm going to assume the fact that I felt like hell afterward is attributable to taking out most of my stomach and not the fact that a robot was involved. The only difference that I could see from prep is that you get two IVs instead of one as a point of necessary redundancy. I've got this nice, neat little row of five scabbing incisions about 1 - 1 1/2" long just above my belly button like I've been perforated. They don't particularly hurt, though the one that does hurt is the one where they had the port (drain?) in. It's super tender and hurts. The tiny one on my upper chest I don't even notice. I think the thing I notice most is the internal stitches.

I'm probably a bit strange in that there wasn't anything that lit the "must lose weight now" fire. Having been fat most of my life, it wasn't anything new. Tried and failed numerous diets and after the last one didn't hold, I basically made peace with being fat and enjoying all the eating that entailed. I knew that doing another diet would end the same way as all the others, so I should probably just embrace not dieting. I basically got fed up with the deprivation and the constant feeling of starvation. Then someone at work told me that if you were over a certain weight, there'd be no 6 month mandatory diet for the surgery. Oddly enough? That was my go signal! I signed up for a hospital seminar that same night and started my surgery process. I have surgery on the 22nd of October! It's the first time in a long time I've felt like this time, it'll work.