lisa2job

the cost, I payed out of pocket ( my insurance doesn't cover bariatric or anything to do with weight loss ) any how it cost almost 20 grand where I live but if I would of went to Mexico it would of been between 5-10 .... big big difference....

I am 5 months out and just started being able to eat salad type foods. Onions & brocolli and cabbage no problem from the beginning .. everybody is different however just be careful I have found that most food high in carbs are also the foods that are sliders for me !! Protien first !!!

hope that helps

some places take longer than others..... my sister took only 3 days my friend took a month. I wouldnt do surgery untill I had the approval, you never know what if they throw a wrench to your plans... good luck keep bugging them !!

I could only change my calories intake on my phone,. go to the tab that shows the circle with the downward arrow , go to edit profile and then you can change your calorie goal, when you change that it also adjust how many carbs you should be eating, sugar ect.... note that I dont go by the carbs they are recomending way too many for me ... hope that helps

Congrats !!! I am 13 lbs behind ya

wowsa you look fantastic

I totally feel your pain, It seems like I am more on stalls than weight loss, I am no longer or at least trying not to weigh myself on a daily or weekly basis.... I found that my body seems to only loose once a month for about a week the lbs melt off me then for three weeks nothing..... So at 5 months out I am just following my plan given to me by my doc the lbs are still melting off me ... make sure to get your Protein, Water and Vitamins in, excercise as perscribed by your Doc and the lbs will leave you.

PS the weeks that I don't loose weight are the weeks that I loose the most inches and I see a change in my clothes.

dont give up YOU CAN DO THIS !!!!

wowsa you look awesome !!! keep up the good work

yummy !!! gonna try this with PB2

thanks for posting

As I am sure you already see on here everybody's experience is different.

Since you Cant tolerate protien drinks have you tried unflavored Protein powder to sprinkle on your food or to add for that extra punch of Protein to yorgurt or SF pudding????

Also its hard to say are you really hungry or is it head hunger, or even reflux that is allot like a hunger feeling. I am 5 months out and only eat about 2 oz of dense protien at a time, things like greek yogurt or slider type food I can eat more of. It took me a few months to find out what filled me up for longer periods and what was a slider food. So right now it is more a matter of finding your balance and dont give up.

Excercise, I would maybe start with walking and build my self up to the eliptical at 5 months out I just started resistant training and its a feat within its self to have enough energy to do that....

Things truely do get better, one baby step at a time.... You can do this !!!

Ps congrats on the weight loss

congrats !!!

wowsa your my hero , I started out close to your starting weight and trying to hit that 100 lb mark!!! nice work congrats

lisa2job!!! add me also , I need some friends on there also

8 lbs in a week is fabulous!!! I didnt loose that much the first week .... keep up the good work !! and remember it wont always be lots of weight loss every week .... fabulous just fabulous

so I got a sleeve Sept 6th 2012 and I am totally happy with it , my sister got the RNY August 20th 2012 , I can say that she took longer to recover (10 weeks) has had more issues than me with getting sick , weakness ect.... and we are loosing so far at the same pace ... I am 85 lbs down and she is 95 lbs down, I can eat more variety of food w/o any issues just in smaller quantities she cant eat allot of different food because of getting the dumping syndrome but she can eat more than me at one sitting ...

I think they both have their positives and negatives. study up and make the choice that fits you best...

I am in Washington State and paid about $20 grand when all was said in done including sleep studies and pre lim's but I do get monthly check ups for the first year and semi annually for the year after... totally worth the money I paid !!! 85 lbs gone forever so far

sorry that your having problems!! sounds like maybe that steuosis stricture they talk about ( not sure if I am spelling this correctly) , my doctor checked me for it after a few weeks due to some simliar problems but nothing as drastic as yours. I would call them asap !!! good luck hope things get better .. will be praying for you

I like that also !!!

so I am 16 weeks out and I get in about 800 cal a day.... some days more some days less at 6 weeks I was lucky if I could do 500.... make sure you are eating your meat first and you may have to try different types to see what really fills you up ... I found that shrimp is a slider food for me, but cod is good filler, chicken is also really good filler, but eggs is a slider............. so just be paitent you will learn what fills you up and what doesnt through trial and error.

Like PEvette I was told to increase my calories at my last Dr appointment but I haven't yet and I am loosing a few lbs a week so I am gonna stay where I am at for now, as I increase my activity like my personal trainer days I will eat more to have more energy....

glad you made through !!! cant wait to see the results!!! exciting

I didn't even try any regular food for probably a month I would think it would be too soon for eggs still your stomach is still healing and really swollen .... I ate Soup , Soup and more fricken soup and drank protien shakes .... try Isopure its more like Water , taste horrible ( too me ) but I got it down to make sure I got my protien in. It was probably my 3rd week before I could tolerate a regular protien shake....

it gets better very fast after the first two weeks hang in there

OMG that is fricken awesome !!! one day I will be joining you in onederland , cant wait

I dont loose on a continued basis either, I go for weeks with out loosing anything but I so notice inches going away... then woosh 5-10 lbs , then go again with a stall. right now I am on a 30 day stall but I lost inches during this time and went down from a 18 to a 16 ...... stick with it follow your plan and your plan

looking good !!!

OMG that is what I called it too .... hahaha I swear pre op that is all I watched and now at 4 months out I still watch it all the time, sometimes it triggers me to want something I cant , well not cant , shouldnt have ... yes I have found that I can eat anything, but I have to choose not too.... so for some reason food "porn" helps me with not eating it now most of the times....