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First time posting Hi everyone! This forum has been a real source of support for me and I appreciate all who post!

I'm concerned about my liquid intake' date=' three weeks out. I was sleeved on 8/1, and have a stricter diet to where I am in the full liquids phase only as of a few days ago. I started to get into full liquids, had some thin Soups and was enjoying the variety when I had a really tired day on Monday. My stomach was sore and my body was exhausted. I felt like I needed to go back into straight liquids, like I was moving too fast (and oh, how I craaaved that Soup before!). Now I am concerned--I'm still struggling to get in more than 3 shakes a day (total 24oz, 70g protein) and maaybee a full glass of Water as well (10oz.) I can't seem to get it all in. I feel full all the time, with no desire to eat. I describe it as if you had just eaten a Thanksgiving dinner, and someone said "Now drink a glass of water". No way.

Anyone else out there struggling to get all of your Water in? Any advice on how I can get more into a day? I've started drinking some Gatorade because I'm starting to feel dehydrated [/quote']

I was sleeved on 5/14 and it took me a couple months to get my liquids and all those Protein shakes down too and I also felt weak but I just made sure I was taking all my Vitamins and honestly only had one shake per day, couldn't do more than that. I think your body is still adjusting especially since u just got sleeved on the 1st but if u especially concerned call the doc.

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Defiantly sounds like my situation And good for you for standing up! Sounds like that's exactly what I need to do. Thanks for the encouragement.

@it's not u it's me. Thank you for your candid response and I do agree with you. I have no intentions of cheating on my husband. I'm just very saddened and disappointed. I went thru hell and back to get this surgery and had a very rough recovery. I even lost my job over it because I was not covered under disability at work. But I am amazed at myself to see in just 10 short weeks the weight I've lost and the transformation has been just awesome and so exciting. When my husband met me 8 years ago I weighed 130 which was my normal weight pretty much my entire adult life, wore a size 6 and never in my wildest dreams would have ever thought that by age 33 I would weigh almost 300 lbs after moving to good old deep fried Texas. But it happened. I watched my husband pull away for 7 years and again at one point told me that if i didn't lose the weight he'd leave, once again he

never did physically leave but he checked out long ago. So here I am today wearing a size 14 and only 60 lbs away from my goa weight and what do I get from

him....nothing...I don't understand...I am happy again, I'm ready to tackle the world, I'm pursueing my dream and enrolling in nursing school but all I get once in a blue moon is "you look pretty". And he says it with no enthusiasm. I guess I'm just not understanding. I did this for 2 reasons number 1 my health and 2 my marriage, to give not just me but my husband back the women he fell head over heals for. He always used to tell me how beautiful i was and took me places and romanced me, he was so in love with me. He says he still is and wants to be with me and makes things better but those have been just words, no action. So as I feel so sexy and alive again I can't seem to get my husband to respond to me. I'm not arrogant or conceited about the situation, just excited and happy son why isnt he. This is what he wanted....I'm so confused and he's stealing my joy...i just don't know what to do anymore. I feel stuck....

Please don't take me to be unkind for what I am about to say. I'm saying this to try to help you.

Your quote above suggests that you are interested in something else happening, and it almost seems as though you are suggesting that if it happens it will be your husband's fault because he is not giving you as much attention as other people are giving your. This is a terrible basis for making a decision about him and about your marriage. You have every right to leave your marriage if you wish, and I'm not trying to talk you out of that, but I'm just saying don't leave it because other people give you more attention than he does. If you choose to leave it, leave it because he doesn't give you as much attention as you need in a relationship. That's a perfectly fine basis, but just don't compare him to others and find him lacking. That's a recipe for disaster in personal relationships.

Unless your relationship is truly terrible I encourage you to not make this kind of decision right now. Wait a year or two if you can. You've undergone some much change so rapidly that your mind doesn't really know where you are right now emotionally. It's great to get attention from others that you have been lacking, but you've spent a lot of time in this relationship where you are now. I encourage you to put as much effort into making this work as you possibly can. That way if things don't work out, you will know that you really tried to make this work. Just imagine how you might have felt if your husband had left you a year or two ago because he found someone he liked more, or who was thin. Now think about how you might feel about yourself in a few years if something does happen and you regret it later.

I encourage you and your husband to go to counseling. I wish you the best of luck.

Nothing you said shows your marriage is going down the tubes. Like most men they do not talk about their feeling. He could be just getting use to the "New You". If you do find the marriage is over then you need to evaluate if it will change thing to go to therapy. He maybe the kind of man who is attracted to big women. You would be the one who knows him best. Work on yourself and in the mean time try and talk to him slowly' date=' don't push. Hit him up a little at a time or he will clam right up. Good luck to you, I wish you the best.[/quote']

I didn't share alot of the details because the run a lot deeper and are really personal. And trust me he defiantly doesn't like big women. He threatened to leave me once if I didn't lose the weight but he never left. My fear is I'm getting all this outside attention and if he continues to neglect me as he has for the past 3 years I'm scared of what might happen. I feel like I'm going thru some mid life crisis at 39.

When I had my sleeve I weighed 265 and before that I was almost 300 lbs. Now almost 10 weeks later I have gone from a size 22/24 to 14. I feel reborn and like a new person. I'm so excited that I'm getting my old body back. I feel confidant and sexy and alive again, however my husband seems to have very little to say about it. I'm getting a slew of attention but not from my own attention which we all know can be dangerous. I'm I doing something wrong here. Don't I deserve to feel all these feelings. Any feedback would help. Anybody go through this?..

I was sleeved 5 weeks ago. The first 5 days were hell and I cried and regretted having the surgery thought I would never get better. But by day 8 I was back to normal and have lost 30lbs. Good luck to u and keep us all posted.

Go on the internet and look up signs for leak after vsg. The pain I had was on my left side as well. It was horrible but its because that's the side they pull your stomach out of and my pain was from the surgeon cutting my nerves and that was a burning pain sensation. If u have a leak your symptoms would be severe abdominal pain, vomiting and fever. And when in doubt call your Dr or go to the er.

I say you are very lucky with things going so well. You should be thrilled. I went thru 10 days of pure hell. The only thing I would say is stop eating yogurt. You can cause a leak if u don't maintain liquids only. Even if your Dr said its OK I would not drink anything that does not go thru a strainer for 3 weeks. I new of a women who had one spoon of yogurt and caused a leak in her stomach and was in the hospital for 2 months on a feeding tube. But other than that its awesome u feel so good. I was sleeved 5 weeks ago and have lost 30 lbs. Keep up the good work but don't let the fact u feel so great fool u. You had a major surgery so just be careful.

Thank you roadmap

Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate it. I've read all these story's and watched a bunch of you tube videos where these women lost 100 lbs in 6 months. So I guess I expected the same thing.

I am 3 weeks post op and I've only lost 20 pounds. All the sudden at 3 weeks the weight loss stopped. I am drinking my Protein and not eating anything that contains fat. I have lost 2 dress sizes but it just seems like I should still be loosing at least a pound per day like I was. I did this surgery so I could get back in the corporate world and to be attractive again to my husband. Am I doing something wrong? If anybody has any feedback please let me know what I can do to go back to loosing the weight. I just want to feel normal and beautiful again. But i must be doing something wrong. Dr says I can't go back to the gym for 5 more weeks so I'm just walking. Any advice anyone?

I swear I'm not trying to sabotage myself or my diet. I already lost 30 lbs but I'm so scared. I was half asleep until I realized what I was doing.

Are u sure I'll be okay. Should I try to throw it up

I am three weeks post op. I woke up in the middle of the night and ate half a hotdog. Am I going to blow up my pouch. Has anybody else eaten something they weren't suppose to. Please answer. I'm scared.

Couldn't believe how much this surgery cost when I saw the amount billed to my insurance plan! (Luckily my insurance should cover all of that) Wondered what others have paid...

I self paid. 4,000 to Dr and 8,200 to hospital. I'm in Dallas tx

Today I am 3 days post op. I am doing pretty good. No major issues as of yet. My surgeon dr nick nicolson was great. He's the best in the field in the DFW area but my hospital stay at Forrest park medical hospital was horrible. The nursing staff was rude and was no comfort to me at all. They all acted as I was an inconvenience to them. It was a horrible experience for me. But now I am home and doing pretty good I think after my surgery which was on Tuesday morning.

I am 3 days post off and due to the gas pain I have had to sleep in an upright position. The 2 nights I spent in the hospital I slept reclined up and last night was my first nighth home and I slept on my reclining sofa and was very comortable that way. Laying flat in bed or on my side is not an option for me right now....

So everybody , I made it. Dr nick Nicholson is one of the best and he said everything went great. So far the recovery room experience was the worst because I am allergic to morphine and that what they give everybody is a morphine drip. None for me so I think they were just figuring how much dilaudid to admin on the pump. I did great during the day I walked 3 times, I'm burping just a little so that can be pretty painful but I'm OK. I actually gained 5 lbs and the nurse said its because of all the liquids I'm consuming thru my iv and all the liquids they are making me drink. I cannnot have more than 1oz of Fluid every 15 minutes. The worst part of the pain is the big incision they made where they pulled my stomach out of. Ewwww and painful. Other than that I'm doing pretty good.

Thank you all for your kind words. I'm so glad I found this website. So happy to have a group of people to lean on.

Thanks Lawrence for the response. I've been so excited for the past 2 months and all the sudden I'm so scared. And yes I beileve in god and know he will watch out for me. Good luck to you on Friday and keep me posted on how you do...take care

Tuesday is my surgery and all of the sudden the fear has kicked in. I am so scared to have this surgery and don't know what to expect when I wake up. Am I really going to be able to do this. Am I really going to lose the 100 lbs I need to lose. Just feeling unprepared emotional and flat out scared.

I have heard and seen so manybcomments from people saying that if we cannot follow the pre op diet then we will fail after surgery. I think that is all crap. Most of us have been eating whatever we want and whenever we wanted too, this is why we are having the surgery in the first place. I struggled the entire 2 weeks but it's a learning experience and we will learn how to eat after surgery. Changing your life takes more than a 2 week pre op diet. I know I am going to make mistakes but you bet your ass I'm going to pick myself back up and try it again. My only concern is today is that even though I stuck to my pre op diet as far as what foods I could eat, I did have days I ate over the 1200 calorie limit and yes I did cheat a few times, I have 3 days til surgery and I'm going to hunker down and stick to all liquids and not exceed 700 calories per day, I will be devastated if my doc has to cancel my surgery....

I meant 1200 calories per day....

The diet the dr put me on was a 2 week diet of 1200 calories per which includes 5 Protein Shakes or bars and one 5oz meal. In that 2 week time period I have stuck to the diet minus 3 days. One day I broke down and ate 2 crunchy beef tacos and a small coke and the 2 other days I had one pancake. Other than that I have had no sugar or sweets and have had no carbonated drinks of any kind and I have been drinking about 2 quarts of crystal light per day. As of last Tuesday I put myself on a more strict diet which contains of chicken or beef broth, Decaf coffee, sugar free Jello, nonfat cottage cheese and crystal light. So since Tuesday I have not consumed more than 700 calories per day minus today's screw up of eating a pancake. I pray everything is going to be ok and the dr won't cancel my surgery.