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Damn, And I though I was so good at sex my wife stayed satisfied for 6 months at a time. Guess I need to be shopping for a girl friend.

Trust me on this. 95% of your weight loss will come by diet not exercise. Give yourself a chance to heal and eat properly drink lots of Water and be patient. The weigh will come off. Your going to hit stalls you will adventually come to terms mentally with the stalls. It took me 5 months to feel 100%. Then at about 9 months I discovered I could run. In Febuary, I started running and now have 2 half marathons under my belt and various other distances. Sure you will lose some weight exercising, but what I have found is once I lost the weigh running allows me to eat a bit more without gaining it back . This does not mean you dont have to watch what you eat but you will be able to absorb a few more carbos. In short, weight loss is one nutrtional set of rules were athletics comes under another set of dietary rules. Learn the weigh lose rules first. Make them second nature. Once you have lost most the weight and you increase exercise schedule a appointment with your nut and look at your nutritional needs. Also be aware that you can run into to blood sugar problems. As in being to low. You will get dizzy and feel a bit of anxiety if this happens. I found a couple of serving of fruit daily keeps me balanced.

Ditto it just early. Just wait until you start buying ne clothes nd people notice you. Its a great ride

This worked for me. I had to do a one week modified liquid diet before surgery. During this week I lost 22 lbs and wasn't that hungry. The meal plan was a follows: 3 Bariatric Advantage Protein shakes made with Water and one 350 to 400 cal meal. The trick was timing when to eat, eat slowly and eat the 400 cal meal for dinner. The meal consisted of about 5 OZ of the lean meat of your choice and a huge salad. I used 2 tbs of Salad Dressing at about 70 cals per on a quart of romane lettuce. Total daily cals did not exceed 900. I didnt have much of a problem sticking with it for 1 week.

Ditto it just early. Just wait until you start buying ne clothes nd people notice you. Its a great ride

In my journey, I found it to be 95% diet. Exercise does increase the metabolism. My might be because i had to lose weight before I foundmy new hobby of running. Running allows me to not worry about what I eat.

The menopause thing has ruined the physical relationship with my wife years ago. Although she has supported me through the surgery the spark is no longer there. This surgery has made me feel like 20 years old. I don’t plan on letting this new found youth go to waste. Life is too short.

Trust me on this. 95% of your weight loss will come by diet not exercise. Give yourself a chance to heal and eat properly drink lots of Water and be patient. The weigh will come off. Your going to hit stalls you will adventually come to terms mentally with the stalls. It took me 5 months to feel 100%. Then at about 9 months I discovered I could run. In Febuary, I started running and now have 2 half marathons under my belt and various other distances. Sure you will lose some weight exercising, but what I have found is once I lost the weigh running allows me to eat a bit more without gaining it back . This does not mean you dont have to watch what you eat but you will be able to absorb a few more carbos. In short, weight loss is one nutrtional set of rules were athletics comes under another set of dietary rules. Learn the weigh lose rules first. Make them second nature. Once you have lost most the weight and you increase exercise schedule a appointment with your nut and look at your nutritional needs. Also be aware that you can run into to blood sugar problems. As in being to low. You will get dizzy and feel a bit of anxiety if this happens. I found a couple of serving of fruit daily keeps me balanced.

Trust me on this. 95% of your weight loss will come by diet not exercise. Give yourself a chance to heal and eat properly drink lots of Water and be patient. The weigh will come off. Your going to hit stalls you will adventually come to terms mentally with the stalls. It took me 5 months to feel 100%. Then at about 9 months I discovered I could run. In Febuary, I started running and now have 2 half marathons under my belt and various other distances. Sure you will lose some weight exercising, but what I have found is once I lost the weigh running allows me to eat a bit more without gaining it back . This does not mean you dont have to watch what you eat but you will be able to absorb a few more carbos. In short, weight loss is one nutrtional set of rules were athletics comes under another set of dietary rules. Learn the weigh lose rules first. Make them second nature. Once you have lost most the weight and you increase exercise schedule a appointment with your nut and look at your nutritional needs. Also be aware that you can run into to blood sugar problems. As in being to low. You will get dizzy and feel a bit of anxiety if this happens. I found a couple of serving of fruit daily keeps me balanced.

This is exactly why I weigh every day and track intake. If I see a trend over a weeks time I make adjustments. AT least 1th a month I go back on the pre sugery diet for 5 days and it level sets me. Also make sure to get 10K steps a day in. It takes a bit of time to notice but it really helps.

Bariatric Advantage has a protien veggy Soup that is not bad. I prefer it over the protien shakes. The only problem is its on back order, because its popular. I was lucky enough to find a person with a stash that they gave me.

This is exactly why I weigh every day and track intake. If I see a trend over a weeks time I make adjustments. AT least 1th a month I go back on the pre sugery diet for 5 days and it level sets me. Also make sure to get 10K steps a day in. It takes a bit of time to notice but it really helps.

First a sleeve has less complications than a bypass. Both surgeries do work well. Generally a bypass is used on one that is super obese. A sleeve can also be changed into a bypass at a later date. I am sure there are great surgeons in Mass. I recommend finding a weight loss clinic that has a standing support group. Take you time an do your own homework. There is a lot of information to digest. Always remembereither surgery is just a tool. YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK FOR IT. This is a life time commitment. It has been well worth it for me.

You are doing fine. One thing I learned is weight loss is 95% food intake. It toook me 5 months to get my energy back. I am now at 10 months 130 lbs down and started training for a 1/2 marathon in April. Last week I ran a 15 K. Give your self time. As my mentor says do most of the stuff , most of the time and you will lose most of the weight. You wont regret this ride.

I weighed and measured everything for a short time. I can eye ball 4 oz of Protein and a 1/4 cup of food without thinking. Once in a while I will weigh or measure something to make sure my eyes havent grown. Surpisingly I'm alway very close. What keeps me on track is jumping on the scale each morning. That measurment, tells me how I need to behave.

I weighed and measured everything for a short time. I can eye ball 4 oz of Protein and a 1/4 cup of food without thinking. Once in a while I will weigh or measure something to make sure my eyes havent grown. Surpisingly I'm alway very close. What keeps me on track is jumping on the scale each morning. That measurment, tells me how I need to behave.

Good for you. I started training the 2nd of Feb and finished my first 15K on saturday. Goal is half maratnon in mid April. If you havent already, research Jeff Galloway. He developed the walk run training method. My current pace is run 3 walk 1. Lots of good info on Jeff's web site. Once I figured out I could run its become addictive. I also highly recommend fitbit. Get those 10,000 steps in each day. It's suprising how much that helps.

This is such a great topic! Everyone has stated just what I was thinking as I read the original post. But my summary is:
Becoming familiar with all phases of your surgeon's eating plan is essential for knowing which foods will be healthiest for each of us down the road. Learn to cook/prepare your own meals. Log food if it helps with your weight loss or keeps you on track. Otherwise, consider logging if you start gaining. Long winded response:
I've read many posts on here from people who come out of surgery and don't have a clue what their eating plan should be. Of course, I can't know if their surgeon/nutritionist didn't provide enough information or the people just ignored it. There's so much good information on the internet that I find it really hard to believe that people couldn't find any information.
I read through each phase (pre-op/post-op/purees/semi-solids, etc.) of my surgeon's plan so many times that I pretty much had it memorized. I understood the foods that were allowed on each phase and I was able to look up great meal ideas in advance.
Also, if people don't know how to cook that's a huge problem. Most prepackaged food isn't going to be nearly as nutritious as from-scratch food. Most pre-packaged foods are loaded with carbs, fat, preservatives, and other chemicals I can't pronounce. Eating out...well...same problems...most carbs, fat, and sodium.
The sleeve is a fantastic tool. I love that my hunger cravings are so much less than before and I love the feeling of fullness after about 4-4.5 oz of food. Everything else is on me, though. I knew that going into surgery. I knew what I had to do and did my best to plan for it.
Many people may not need to plan as extensively as I did, but it seems that those who complain about not knowing what they should eat might invest some time in learning how to prepare healthy foods. That was true before surgery and it's true after.

All I'm going to say is that I pre-make all my lunches not my dinners and Breakfast foods and log everything. This way if I don't lose weight I'm the one held accountable for my mistakes. Its a lil time consuming at first but you then learn to do it so fast that you don't notice the whole 3 minutes it took you to do it. I will give you advice my Nut told me when I first whined about the food logging. If you have time to complain about it you have time to log it. Kinda makes sense. Good luck to you!

I have used www.myfitnesspal.com since 2-1/2 months before surgery to plan my meals and track my food. It's a very easy tool to use. Doesn't take much time or effort on my part at all.
And here's how I feel about "normal."
F**k normal.
Eating "normally" led me to obesity, back pain, near immobility, agoraphobia, and misery. If I were normal I could eat normally. But a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and being overweight and obese was sufficient proof that I'm not one of the lucky normal ones. I will have to continue to focus on what I eat, how much I eat, when I eat, etc. if I have a hope in hell of maintaining my weight loss.
Others' mileage may vary.

This is exactly why I weigh every day and track intake. If I see a trend over a weeks time I make adjustments. AT least 1th a month I go back on the pre sugery diet for 5 days and it level sets me. Also make sure to get 10K steps a day in. It takes a bit of time to notice but it really helps.

I guess it depends on what an individual considers a large amount of time. In reality, logging ones intake takes at the most 10 minutes per day. In my real time support group I have heard house wives that don’t work complain about not being able to lose weight. The first thing the nut is going to ask is to see a log of what they have eaten. Their response is they don’t have enough time to log food. Makes me laugh. I work full time and find time to exercise and have a life. The 125 lbs I have lost has given me more time and energy. Logging my intake is easy and takes minute. After a while you will know portions by heart and the various on line logs take most of the work out of it. Bottom line, when somebody tells me they don’t have time to log means they are looking for excuses. In short, BS.

I guess it depends on what an individual considers a large amount of time. In reality, logging ones intake takes at the most 10 minutes per day. In my real time support group I have heard house wives that don’t work complain about not being able to lose weight. The first thing the nut is going to ask is to see a log of what they have eaten. Their response is they don’t have enough time to log food. Makes me laugh. I work full time and find time to exercise and have a life. The 125 lbs I have lost has given me more time and energy. Logging my intake is easy and takes minute. After a while you will know portions by heart and the various on line logs take most of the work out of it. Bottom line, when somebody tells me they don’t have time to log means they are looking for excuses. In short, BS.

I guess it depends on what an individual considers a large amount of time. In reality, logging ones intake takes at the most 10 minutes per day. In my real time support group I have heard house wives that don’t work complain about not being able to lose weight. The first thing the nut is going to ask is to see a log of what they have eaten. Their response is they don’t have enough time to log food. Makes me laugh. I work full time and find time to exercise and have a life. The 125 lbs I have lost has given me more time and energy. Logging my intake is easy and takes minute. After a while you will know portions by heart and the various on line logs take most of the work out of it. Bottom line, when somebody tells me they don’t have time to log means they are looking for excuses. In short, BS.

This being the guy’s room, I think a dinner date will be comical. A girl would never allow herself to eat more than her date. Be polite and let her order first. Then just order the smallest healthiest thing on the menu and watch her push the food around the plate all evening. Feed her lots of drinks. Then invite her over and show off your newly found endurance. When she cries uncle and asks if you took Viagra you can smile to yourself.