mrsbailey921

i suffer from hypothyroidism and have lost about 60 lbs total, and although my weight yoyos from 184 to 189 and back again, it never goes above 189. my original goal weight loss was 80 pounds. now, being only 20 pounds away, im still a size 14...so i want to lose a total of 40 more pounds or so. my thyroid hormone readings are still really bad despite me feeling much better. i do know that i eat about 1600 calories per day now, down from well over 4000 calories per day pre surgery. my doctor believes my thyroid has something to do with my weight loss once again becoming difficult. i received my specialist referral two weeks ago and am waiting for my appointment now.

From day one of my sleeve I could knock down 4oz of water easily every hour. By the time I got to the soup stage I was drowning out 6oz of soup per meal before restriction started. I've always been able to eat larger portions of food. It may be why my weight loss is so much slower than others. Either way, I've never heard of the sleeve stretching...how large can it possibly stretch to??

Have you ever considered Vitamin therapy (via IV)? I'm researching it now myself but might be something you want to consider if you can't stomach the chewables.Also-- Congratulations to everyone who got dates and is going home! Yay! Hey, thanks for responding. No, I've never considered it, I will look into it, definitely! Thanks so much!

Sorry for all of the horrible typos...I hope my post is understood. If not I will be happy to clarify. For some reason my edit button isn't working on my tablet.

Hey everyone! Good luck to all soon to be sleevers! Is anyone tagging gummy Vitamins? I know they aren't recommended, but after months of battling the chewable vitamins...I just can't do it anymore. I can't stomach the smell our the taste and I spotted taking my vitamins altogether because it was so bad. I am now trying to get back on track but with gummies. I chew really well and they are so much easier on me. I am going to start taking an Iron supplement for support too... My nut of course is against this but my surgeon is of the mindset that gummies are better than nothing. At 13.00 for 300 gummies I can also afford them. Any encouragement and/or advice is appreciated...thanks ladies!

Tilapia, swai, porgies and salmon are great mild tasting fish, although salmon is very meaty.

I have to say, I agree with Babb's... you sound like you're exercising too much.

I was told to steer clear of pills because many of them will clear the digestive tract before being fully broken down by the body. Yet I also hate chewables. My current solution is to crush them and then swallow them in two separate gulps along with Water. Ugh.

Some of these responses claiming slow weight loss are nowhere near slow weight loss. My surgeon said more than 10pds a month loss is excellent for the surgery, considering 10 PDS a month is average. I am 10 months out and about 54 pounds down... Now that is slow! Benefits of a slower weight loss is... I'm not shocking my body... The loss is more gradual and thus looks very good on me. Plus no one knows I had surgery unless I tell them. I don't have what I call "Bariatric face". ????

I had esophageal bruising due to the robotic arms bumping into my esophagus during surgery. The bruising and pain and spasms lasted about two months unfortunately and made my life very difficult because swallowing was the worst!!! And when I finally could swallow, I had to deal with getting it past the bruised area of my esophagus! Talk about pain... my esophagus would spasm for about a minute afterwards and I felt like passing out some days! Levsin certainly may be an option to help stop the spasms until your esophagus heals.

I eat sugar. For me post surgery I have a horrible reaction to all artificial sweeteners and I do not like stevia or agave. So I deal with real sugar .

I was feeling horrible a week out. Realized it was because I was taking in absolutely no carbs. I incorporated 50% diluted apple juice into my regimen and it saved my life.

I don't have any advice... I hit a five month stall and just didn't weigh myself or stress it at all. Then suddenly I lost 4 lbs two weeks ago and have been steadily losing since, so I guess my stall is over. Seeing the scale move so unexpectedly encouraged me to begin an exercise regimen again though! ????

3 ballerina tea for weight loss... Be careful though... It's an herbal supplement...

3-5 pounds... I gain and lose up to 5 lbs a week on bad weeks.