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I'm down 57 lbs since surgery. I weigh 135 now! I haven't weighed that little since 3rd grade, I'm pretty sure ????! My goal is 130 so I'm almost there, yippee. I do worry about regain the most since I can eat more now.

Has anyone started pulling out their own hair? !! I guess it's an actual addiction and I don't know why I have suddenly started doing it... I am hoping someone else can relate here...

It gets better everyday! Try not to worry too much because before you know it you'll be feeling great. Best of luck!

I'm 5 weeks out and have three boys ages 11, 6, and 1. It has been challenging for me and I'm exhausted! I work and am in the last 3 months of school! Crazy life. Hopefully we can motivate each other!

Um perhaps for some. But do not judge those of us with suicidal ideation and schizophrenic tendancies. Psych disease is managed not cured.

I'm 5 weeks out and have three boys ages 11, 6, and 1. It has been challenging for me and I'm exhausted! I work and am in the last 3 months of school! Crazy life. Hopefully we can motivate each other!

I am four weeks post op today and I was cleared TODAY for picking up my 25lb 12 month old! Yippee it was a long wait but it's over!

I decided not to tell anyone either, only my husband knows. Almost 3 weeks after surgery I was visiting family and my sister who is 23 years old acts childish sometimes and while I was visiting she proceeded to jump on me and I had to hurry and cover my stomach and told her not to do that. She looked at me weird and then said "what? are you pregnant or something"? Yeah ok, we'll go with that, I'm pregnant so don't jump on me. LOL!

Everything looks and sounds good but of course I don't eat it. I do however get kinda moody and cranky about it. Also my side and main incision hurt when I bend over and I still take a few pain pills a day

Well, there is liquid in it. It is mostly Water. Therefore, the NUT is an idiot. But this is only my opinion. While I do not love Isopure it is a liquid and it is Protein. For some it is a lifesaver to get the protein and the liquid in one. Seems to me the NUT has some odd agenda, like a lot of NUT's do.

It's great that your 10 year old is able to help because it will be a big help. Honestly, I probably should have rested more while I was home but I just couldn't stay still. I'd say about the 3rd day home I started doing light chores like washing dishes, light dusting, etc. I hardly ever bent over though. No one said anything to me about bending over but I think I just had this mindset of lifting or bending straight over and what it might do to my stomach or the staples and it was enough to freak me out. I knew I wanted to be moving but not do anything that would cause any type of damage. I truly think that the reason I was able to move around so much was because of how much I walked in the hospital. Plus I hated being confined to the hospital bed and I couldn't sleep well so what else did I have to do, so I walked. It's been all little over two weeks and I feel 100%. I went back to work, one week after surgery. Follow everything the doctor says and you should do great, plus you know your body so you will know when you are home if you are pushing it or you should be resting and if people offer help, take it....it's not often mommies get so pampered, lol.

So glad you are doing well! Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Can't wait to see the smokin hot new tummy!
Lynda

My first visit is also on the tenth! Woot woot!

Your looking at it all wrong.......Try this. After the sleeve, picture yourself staring at a very small table right next to you with very small portions of healthy unappetizing foods on it. (just enough to keep you alive) Then right across this, not so very large expanse, is a Large Buffet table loaded with every kind of delicious food and dessert you can imagine. Only the expanse is bottomless quicksand teeming with quicksand sharks ready to devour you. (really, I've heard they really do have quicksand sharks). -- my analogy of course is the quicksand and sharks is my sleeve bursting and causing my dimise--
Can't picture it ???? Well, I can and I'm count'n on them sharks keeping me away from the buffet...........so don't spoil it for me.

Before surgery I was obsessed with food. I'm a little over a year out and my head hunger is about 90% gone. I hope that never changes!

I wonder if you are able to meet your Protein, Fluid, and supplement needs without obsessing,.craving, and logging all intake as time goes by? My hope is that I won't wake up thinking of food, be driven by my cravings and appetite, and won't feel that I have to eat what I see on TV (right now!) Has your gastric sleeve, even after the honeymoon period, allowed you to put food in it's proper perspective? Does the diet after surgery ever become...well...routine? Thanks...I am so tired of being ruled by food and wonder if this is a way to end that lifelong struggle.

Happy New Year!!!! I was sleeved on Dec 3, weighting 215. As of yesterday, 197! Yeaaaaaaaa, finally after ten years I see the one's again. Thanks to the sleeve, I have no regrets. My doctor said due to my low bmi I may lose slower, but thats good still. I am happy and thankful. Good luck everyone, may the new year bring, better health and prosperity!!!