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Probably at about 3 months. Eating out wasn't too aweful, but by 3 months I was used to accepting a few bites and done. For a good 2+ years I loved that I could grab some chips and a few would be enough. I'd grab an Oreo and it would be enough. I would eat dinner and a small portion was great. The last few months have been harder. I fell in love with Pita chips and they are siders so I can do a costco sized bag in 2 days. I'd portion a more 'normal' size plate for dinner and spend an hour nibbling. I'm hoping a sleeve reset I've just started gets me back to how I was at the beginning and I lost the 20lbs I've gained from my lowest number. You will love it soon! Enjoy the honeymoon 2 years.

Hi all. The Facebook group we had started still goes on. I think most of us slowed down to a crawl or stopped losing by February. I know my body kept changing for awhile but I haven't lost any weight in awhile. My doc wasn't all about suddenly becoming a perfect eater or someone who magically started working out. He fixed portion size. I certainly can eat double what I used to but it's much easier to control if I go crazy. If you are gaining track your calories and find out where they are going. It's impossible for me to eat a big dinner but Snacks and candy go down easy. Lol. So if I stick with meat it's simple to not eat much. If I have a bad day and I'm up a pound I just back off the snacking the next day and it goes back down. There is no "hunger" like before so it's more of a head thing on wanting to eat. The sleeve helps when I want to eat a cookie or a piece of cake- I eat one cookie not the bag, and half a piece of cake or something and can't really stomach more. I love the sleeve. I'd do it again in a minute! I'm down 115.

50lbs in 3 months is totally on par! I'm with a large group of women that all had surgery the same time. 80% are big time low carb and work out people and some of us are not. My doc didn't require me low carb and I'm right on par loss wise with everyone else. Sure there are a few that are losing faster, but there are also some losing slower. Just reminds you everyone is different. 50 in 3 months though is probably where we all were at 3 months, if not better!

Stop stressin, your doing great!

I still have gurgling 5 months out. More with whey Protein Shakes than anything else

Hope everyone is doing well! Sitting here eating dinner and I can still barely get through half a lean cuisine. Love the sleeve!!

Hey everyone! Thought I'd drop in and say hi. We still have a Facebook group going so if anyone would like to join in there, we chat and do weekly weigh ins and share pics and stuff in our private, secret group.

As far as me, well I'm looking ok. Seems like I have a few weeks where I lose 2-4lbs then a week or two of nothing. But overall I seem to be on point with most people at 67lbs down since surgery - and I don't count carbs, ever. I think its an interesting experiment to see how much everyone looses when some are so strict. My sleeve seems just about as tight as ever! Most days I try to get in a Protein Shake and a few Snacks between clients, but I'd say I probably range 500-800cal a day. I can get almost a taco in, and about 3/4 a lean cuisine. Those are the easist ways for me to gague how much I can eat.

On the weekends I try to force myself to eat more, and eat often, so my body doesnt get used to 500cal thing and stop losing. I dont gain on the weekends when I do this and certainly notice weight drops those first few days back to work so the cycle seems to work ok.

Still want to get out an excercise but I just haven't had the desire to give up sleep yet and it will have to be a trade off. Hopefully Ill get the bug soon since I know it will help with the jiggly feeling

I get a lot of comments about how small I am and how skinny etc. But I'm not excited yet because I've been re-losing weight I lost over and over before. But 5 more lbs and I'll be in NEW territory. I feel like THEN I might be more excited. Anyone else have that feeling?

And I find it fascinating that weight loss effected your eyes and ears!!! I had no clue!

I rarely, if ever. Only if I eat too fast or too much. Maybe once a month

If your going cowboy chasing I want to come. Lol

I live near bothell and work in Bellevue. So any of that is fine with me

One of the surgeons at my place of surgery himself couldn't stand the taste of Water after his surgery. Lol. So you are not alone. I flavor too! Happy there are so many drop options now days. I don't need much but I need somethin.

Do you still have your gallbladder? Sounds like a stone stuck

In the Everett area on the west side- my husband has been sleeved as well. He had his July 2, 2012 and I had mine July 2, 2013- exactly a year apart!

Who is your primary care doc? I'm 4 months out now and the doc wants me to go get a barium swallow and a blood test to see how I'm doing.

I need a doc somewhere between Everett and bellevue. I don't have a primary care doc, I haven't been to one in ages (the last one was such an idoit I didn't go back). lol

Hi devint, I hope you are feeling better!! What a stressful situation! At least you got your levels checked and all is good. I really need to find a doc to do a blood panel and test me.

Hope everyone else is doing good! I've been stalled a few weeks but it looks like 60lbs is average at this poing +- 10ish. So I'm glad where I'm at.

Everyone want to check in and let us know how you are doing if you still get notifications from this post?

Yep totally normal. Old joke when I was post op... never trust a fart

The stomach "growling" is not hunger like you used to have. Its all caused by the gas. I hope you are taking a good PPI, that makes a huge difference!!

This is the sleeve section so I am pro sleeve. But meeting all the women at the hospital having their band turned to a sleeve helped make me happy I didn't do the lap band route first.

Do you have a monthly chart?? I'm now 4 months out and would love to be in the 140s like you are. Just wondering if I'm on track!

I get that she was venting. It was simply the statement that she wasn't losing like she was when she started that made me think she assumed she would lose fast the whole time. If you take that statement into context from how I read it, my reply about her not knowing the loss slows down makes sense. If she didn't want response or a different kind of response, sorry I didn't answer how you wanted.

She said "I'm not losing like I was" and said she was getting upset. I have yet to read if ANYONE who lost the same after 3 months as they did the first 3 months. And there ARE people who are not informed. I remember a few weeks in reading about someone who ate a whole can of chili in an hour because she drank after each bite- no one informed her that's a big no no. So I would think if someone thinks they are going to lose the same speed the whole time they must not be informed on how it the process works. Sorry I'm not great at sugar coating things all the time.

Stalls are normal. Sometimes long ones. You can go check in the veteran group and ask them if they had stalls and how long.

That's too bad that you never understood how this works. Nobody loses as fast later as they do at the beginning. The first three months are the fastest you will lose. Then most people average between 8 and 15 pounds per month at most after those first 3 months. You can try to speed up losses by balancing work out and food but simply by calorie reduction in your body will not lose as fast after the first few months. It's a process. Most people from my surgeon will lose all of their excess weight within a year, but the average is 60%.

I have never restricted carbs. I didn't do this to restrict carbs - I did that with Atkins. I did this to restrict portions. Sure, if I want to lose glycogen stores and "look" thinner for a special event I'll go low carb for a few weeks - which I might do in october actually. I'll lose some weight from the glycogen stores while I am low carb, but I'm currently still losing 2-4lbs a week on average and I dont think going low carb will really change that. I'm doing as good as everyone else I am in a group with that was sleeved when I was. So you may temporarily gain from the glycogen store but you shoud still lose at the same rate if your calories are low enough.

The way the surgeon creates the sleeve is an art. At a month you are still very swollen. It still took me well over an hour to drink a 12oz Protein shake. I tried to get 1 in a day but I would often drink Isopure drinks becasue it was 40g an clear liquid and easier to get down in the middle of the day. Don't force food. Take your ppi, it helps with healing and the acid that could mimic hunger (you shouldnt actually have hunger real yet so its likely acid)

And your "normal" meals will never be a "normal" meal where you ate a bunch. I went out to dinner with my daughter and had 2 chicken wings and I was stuffed (I'm over 3 months out). life is a new normal. I don't have time to eat all day either, so I try to drink a Protein Shake on the way to worIk (my breakfast) and may have a bite or two of trail mix or beef jerkey during the day, then dinner of some kind. Dinner typically is a lean cuisine less than 300 cal and I can eat maybe 2/3 of it. (I don't cook much). Overall I'm getting in maybe 500-800 calories a day. I try to get in as much Water as a I can, but most of the time its somewhere aroudn 1.5 liters (flavored water). Losing well and hoping restriction and no hunger continues as long as possible.

We have a group on Facebook who all had surgery the end of May. Almost all of us stalled 2-3 weeks just after the 3 month mark. Normal.

I would still not hesitate to go to where dr Aceves was. The same team is there including the dr that assisted in my surgery and they brought in the doctor who taught dr Aceves years and years ago. So that team is still the way I would go.

I went to Mexicali bariatric center and it was 8750. I chose it not really because I was self pay but because of the level of skill if the surgeons there and the 3 day in hospital after care and multiple leak tests - you won't get that in the US. I would have paid more there if I had to, the quality and results from other patients was more important to me than anything else. I'm 3 months out and 50lbs down. I highly recommend it. Cleanest hospital you will ever go to.