marynoel

Pennsauken, NJ.....I was sleeved August 19 at the University of Princeton Medical Center by Dr. Brolin. Smooth sailing.. self pay. 30 lbs down. ...wooohooooo!

I have a halloween sized Three Musketeers bar in my freezer. My husband and kids found it and commented. It's mine and I want it! Won't let them touch it......it's my emergency stash!I feel better knowing its there if I want it.

I have a halloween sized Three Musketeers bar in my freezer. My husband and kids found it and commented. It's mine and I want it! Won't let them touch it......it's my emergency stash!I feel better knowing its there if I want it.

Well..I just has half of a Wendy's hamburger. mayo, ketchup, pickle, onion and lettuce. We'll see how it sits....I tore most of the top roll off because it was just too thick. My husband brought dinner home for us. I guess I should be grateful that he was thoughtful enough to bring dinner home. Sure wish he had opted for the grilled chicken sandwich. Hmmm.

My largest incision was sunk in too. My surgeon says it was because they stitched inside. She said it wouldn't be sunk in forever. I did have a lot of pain bending over and getting out of cars. But mostly when I moved wrong. I couldn't get out of bed without help either for a few days. I didn't have pain or burning al the time though just when I moved wrong. Hope that helps.

I ordered the Beneprotein today to increase my Protein. I am planning on adding it to some of the foods that I would like to have or try but dont contain any protein or very little.

Bright side...I'm not sliming, dumping or vomiting! Haven't yet....so if I have to live with some burping and a little reflux...so be it! I really HATE vomiting!

I do the same thing:( it's rather frustrating

I totally ate a pickle today...It was scrumptious! I chewed really well

I use a veggie peeler on whole dill pickles and just eat the insides. My dogs love the peels.

I have a halloween sized Three Musketeers bar in my freezer. My husband and kids found it and commented. It's mine and I want it! Won't let them touch it......it's my emergency stash!I feel better knowing its there if I want it.

Well,three hours after dinner....meatballs must be ok. Tomorrow, I'm having some banana. And maybe a pickle. ...not at the same time.

I want to dance with my husband with out my big stomach between us .

Exactly what crisbear said. As long as you follow the guidelines set for you by your doctor and nutritionist, you will be fine. It's the people who post about eating something they clearly shouldn't be eating at 4 or 5 weeks out that are they ones who will have a problem someday. Those guidelines are there for a reason, and we didn't go through major surgery for a quick fix. It is a tool to help achieve a total lifestyle change.

I want to dance with my husband with out my big stomach between us .

Jut ate one. I made them the size of a ping pong ball. So far..so good. It WAS deeelish.....I sure hope I dont pay for it!

Wow, this sounds like my type of meal. I'm on my 5th week now and I'm so tired of eating eggs and tuna.......

I have a halloween sized Three Musketeers bar in my freezer. My husband and kids found it and commented. It's mine and I want it! Won't let them touch it......it's my emergency stash!I feel better knowing its there if I want it.

OMG! I have three frozen Hershey kisses in my freezer; it's for what I call shark week (pms). Lmbo I kill them if they even look at my kisses!

I have a halloween sized Three Musketeers bar in my freezer. My husband and kids found it and commented. It's mine and I want it! Won't let them touch it......it's my emergency stash!I feel better knowing its there if I want it.

No not a good choice girl. One week out, your stitches can let loose very easily. You have to give your stomach the time it needs to heal....Your body cannot handle solids yet either because the acids that break the food down has not come back yet....
Please don't play with your sleeve and eat stuff that can harm you right now....We want you to succeed!! Lastly we don't want you to get a leak by stretching out your sleeve before it is healed....K

Many of you may or may not know that i'm a hairfanatic! Not in the usual sense, but a serious, can tell you the chemical breakdown and properties of hair and all type hairfanatic! I had the surgery on Thursday, December 20, 2012, and because I am such the hair fanatic I am, this was the one downfall that almost turned me away from this awesomeness I'm experiencing. With that said, I did tons of research on different supplements and their properties and have figured out how to keep our hair after WLS. I'm almost 5 months post op, have followed the below regimen to a tee, and have about 2 new inches of Hair growth. No thinning and no shedding at all.

Before I begin, please visit my hair blog thehairyfairy.blogspot.com for more in depth info, but here's the skinny on how hair works!

Understanding You Hair :
Hair grows about 1/2 in per month. In order to keep and maintain hair, one must do things: Increase growth rate and prevent shedding. The hair strands in your head are in 1 of 3 phases at all times: the Anagen phase is the growth phase. Most hairs are in this stage. Short hair usually results from short Anagen phases. The Catogen phase follows this stage and its sort of the transitioning phase that prepares the hair follicle to shrink and allows the hair strand to enter resting phase. Finally you have the telogen phase which is the resting stage where no hair grows at all and the old strand is pushed out and the new strand re-enters the anaogen phase. This is important because the tendency for hair to be in each of these stages influences how long the hair will actually be able to grow before it sheds and starts a new cycle. With pregnancy, many women experience hair growth because all hairs kick into the anagen phase and hair is growing continually for the duration of pregnancy. Protein is what keeps this cycle going. For WLS patients, many experience Hair loss because the reduction in Protein slows this cycle and much of the hair is kicked into the Telogen (shedding) phase. Fortunately for us, the solution awaits...

MSM
First and foremost everyone should add some form of MSM (METHYLSULFONYLMETHANE) into their diets after weight loss surgery. You can google it and find a wealth of health benefits, but in short it's a sulfur compound that our body needs but can only take in from food sources. Unfortunately because of the way food is processed much of the sulfur contained in it is broken down so we don't get the proper amount we need. MSM has been used to treat joint and arthritis pain, alergies, digestive disorders, etc. But it is also the miracle beauty drug as it helps to synthesize Proteins in the hair skin and nails. In hair particularly, it increases the anagen phase of hair allowing hair to grow longer and for a longer period of time. A truly great hair supplement will have some amount of msm in it for this reason. MSM helps us WLS patients to keep our hair strands in that growth phase and out of that dreaded shedding phase.

Collagen
Collagen is also another key item we should all have in our diets. collagen increases skin elasticity, smoothes away scars, and regenerates hair and nails. Collagen makes up 25% of the body's protein and is used particularly for hair loss because it supports the body's hair building protein. It is also one of those beauty drugs that targets many of the problems associated with WLS including hair loss, saggin skin, and protein loss. If your looking for something to help hair growth and keep your skin in snap-back mode, this product will not let you down!

Garlic Oil
I cannot stress enough, garlic oil is the key to our problem! Garlic oil is great for a healthy heart, but unknown to many, is the number one natural product people with alopecia use to combat hair loss. Garlic oil prevents shedding. GARLIC OIL PREVENTS SHEDDING. Every product I own contains garlic - Shampoo, conditioner, and hot oil treatments. The garlic extracts increases the blood flow in the scalp, thus allowing more oxygen to circulate the proper amount of nutrients to the hair follicle. Msm and garlic working together allows for hair to grow longer and stronger without shedding. Use garlic oil as a supplement and topically. There are great odorless garlic supplements and I take about 4000mcg daily and you would never know it! I also give myself garlic hot oil treatments monthly, and wash my hair bi weekly with garlic shampoo and conditioner.

Biotin
For obvious reasons, Biotin should be included. Everyone has a wealth of information on Biotin, but why many people fail using Biotin is because they use it as a standalone. Biotin works well with other supplements as far as growing the hair, but alone, they do little to keep hair from coming out. Hair will grow, but the strands due to shed will shed. Every hair supplement you buy if its worth anything will contain Biotin and MSM. But they are best used as stand alone products together because the dosage of each is so much higher.

I'm not the expert.. don't get me wrong. This is my approach to combatting hair loss during this incredible journey, and thus far, it has worked! If anyone is interested in specific brands for the items above or regimens, PM me. I'd be happy to help. I love hair and would do anything to help my fellow WLS friends keep theirs too!

I'm 8 days post-op so I have no experience with this but I am going to following this poster's advice as closely as possible:
http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/79304-for-those-wanting-to-keep-their-hair-after-surgery/

I won't miss getting tired out just getting dressed for work. Squat, jump, tuck, suck in, lay down..blah
Let alone how tiring my job is at this weight

I have a friend that I am ready to walk away from after 9 years of friendship. We always ate lunch together at work. Then we invited a new employee to eat with us. This person has insidiously and passively aggressively done things over several years to take over our friendship and push me out. There have been so many hurt feelings that I have tucked away thinking I was paranoid until another employee pointed out everything I had been thinking. The sad part is my girlfriend is totally blind to her behavior and despite proving some of her behavior to my friend she turns a blind eye to it. After being off for the whole summer and returning 41 pounds lighter neither one of them even acknowledged my weight loss. Only after someone complimented me in front of her did she act surprised that I had lost weight. So I guess I am so frickin invisible now she doesn't even notice anything anymore. Today I am at the gym and she starts talking to me and asking what I did to lose the weight. I told her wls and she was happy for me but only said "You can really see it in your face" and you could tell she didn't want to say another word. This pissed me off and I just looked at her and said Thank you I have lost almost 40 inches and went from a 22/24 to an 18. Waited a few seconds and said okay I got to go and left. If that was bitchy of me OH WELL!!! I just feel like this friendship has gone toxic as is and I need to distance myself from her. Am I nuts or is this a good decision?