TheCurvyJones

This is what I love about the sleeve. The ability to lose and KEEP LOSING past all those points I had aimed for before but was never able to achieve on my own. Congrats I am sure it will feel fantastic! Make sure you celebrate your milestone-- do something nice for you!

Just hang in there! It's really really hard to do screw this up, especially so early out. A couple of things to remember: 1. None of us loses weight every single week during the weight loss phase. You'll have some weeks where you remain steady. 2. During this time pay CLOSE attention to your inch loss. Try on something you used to not be able to wear... I bet you can, or I bet you're closer than you used to be. Because we don't lose inches and scale weight at the same time, your body has it's own system. Drop a lot lbs... then your inches catch up... then drop some lbs... then inches catch up. I used to make a game of it. I'd go buy something I knew I could not squeeze my butt into and every Friday, try that thing on until it fit. And when it did, do that again. It made Fridays fun. 3. Get used to these pauses. I call them a pause cause that's all it is. At 6 weeks out you're nowhere near a plateau. Just keep following the rules, stay hydrated and Protein focused. And make sure you're pooping! The scale will move again very soon!

I had surgery on Friday morning. Saturday I was off of pain IV, walking around, in general feeling good. ON Sunday I flew home (i had my surgery in Mexico). On Monday I woke up, went to the grocery store, picked up my parents as they had come into town to visit. We hung out all day, I showed them around town. Around 8:00 I was DONE. I was starting to feel sore, so I took a pain pill and went to bed. But during the day I felt good, I had no complications and moved around very well. I was hopping up and down stairs it used to take me at least a minute to gear myself to climb.

Yes!!!

I took regular old pills. They're small enough to swallow. You should be able to take them whole. Your doc just doesn't want them to get stuck but unless it's a GIANT pill that isn't going to happen.

At 90 days out it should not hurt to eat. What does your surgeon say?

Possibly ate too much. It's hard to decipher. Could also be gas. Hope it goes away soon!!`

Welcome to the Loser's Bench!

In answer to your question, I don't feel strongly about it one way or the other. I don't hate attention but I don't crave it either.

There was a point where the attention was different... but the romantic interest just didn't come to fruition for me. I am treated differently than I was when I was fat. I was invisible when I was fat, then more visible the smaller I got. But once you hit a certain size you look "normal" and you kind of blend in again. I only really get attention from people who knew me when I was heavy.

I don't know how to do it on the app. I can never get the app to work for me. On the computer, click on the little wheel next to your username at the top of the page and click on settings. When your settings are open you'll see Settings Gallery Surgery Information... Surgery information is where you put your stats. Height weight, all that stuff.

Also I will add that people romanticize not being able to eat much and tend to freak out when they can eat more than 4 bites of something. You're still eating MUCH LESS than you were before surgery and as long as you are a) not packing it in or grazing/eating when you really don't need to be and b)still losing on the amount you're eating, stay the course. If you're tracking how much you eat and the calories you consume, you'll probably find that you're in a normal range. The Sleeve is designed to cause the body to need nutritional input every 2-4 hours. That varies depending on your body makeup and your metabolism but just because you're not existing on 300 cals a day doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.

I take peri colace. it is a stool softener with a stimulant. But make sure you're getting in plenty of Water and Fiber.

Every word of this. I will be 4 years out in December and I will tell you that these habits will come in HANDY when you're at goal and trying to maintain. How you lose it is how you will keep it off. Very soon the division of labor between you and the sleeve will change. It will be less of the sleeve doing the work and mostly you and you won't continue to lose at the clip you've been losing while not eating on plan.

HW- Highest Weight or the heaviest you can recall SW- typically this is day of surgery weight since a lot of us have to do a liquid diet so we're smaller than our heaviest weight GW- Goal Weight CW- Current Weight

It took me a few weeks to get back to feeling myself. Just take it easy, take a break if you need to, have a seat and rest. Your body is the boss, give it what it is asking for. When I hit a wall, I HIT A WALL. For the first 8 weeks or so I was DONE by around 8:00 and I slept like i'd done manual labor all day. Losing weight rapidly is hard work.

Those feelings are normal and they come and go for me. Some days I really could not give a crap if I eat or not. Some days I'm mad that I can't eat all of what's sitting in front of me. Our tool helps us with portion control but the mental... there's no tool for that. Just have to find a way to move past that feeling because it is very fleeting and temporary. Most of the time I'm not even thinking about food and have to remind myeslf to eat.

Definite change in tastes. My toothpaste doesn't taste any different, but I don't like anything 'sweet'. Paste, no gel. And I have to brush bent over the sink because if I even swallow a drop of toothpaste my sleeve revolts. Retching for a good minute or so. I bought some honey roasted peanuts the other day and was mad because they taste funny. Everything is too sweet or too salty or just tastes weird. chocolate tastes like chalk to me, except during PMS, when it is delicious. How weird.

My doc says as soon as you can comfortably. However... since surgery I can't perform oral. It makes me slime and then vomit. I don't really date so I don't particularly care but I suppose my partner might care if I ever attain one of those.

For a few weeks... months... food was of no interest to me. For many of us we don't really have an appetite. We eat because we need to eat or we will pass out. I'm not really all that excited about food lately. It's just... food. It could be that your stomach just doesn't like dairy. Nausea = rejection to me so I take it back a step. Nausea could also signal excess acid production, so try a PPI (Zantac, Nexium, etc) if you're not on one. Many of us go through these adjustment periods. Hang in there but make sure your team knows you're experiencing this.

I went to Mexico so I was traveling. When we finally settled in, I had some Soup and watched TV. Rather uneventful!

Many patients lose some hair but there are no bald WLS patients unless it's by choice. Hair loss happens to some, then it slows and stops and grows back. A protective style seems to help a lot, so you're not manipulating it a lot. Twists, braids, buns etc. Keep it moisturized!

Not everyone experiences GERD. Some have issues, some don't. I am 4 yrs out just about. I take Nexium as needed.

Prilosec did nothing for me. I take Nexium before I go to bed otherwise I have heartburn. You might have to try a few things before you find something that works but also don't be afraid to let your surgeon know. A few people have serious acid issues post surgery and your doc needs ti know. He might also be able to prescribe something stronger than over the counter meds.

I tried. I'm just too lazy for all of that. I bought mine. There's no way to avoid sugar when you're using fresh fruit in your shakes and smoothies. Count the carbs--most surgeons want us to keep them at 30 or below but it depends on your doc's plan. The only other reason I would also leave the fruit out is because our bodies sometimes have an issue processing high sugar. Milk too. It might be unpleasant....