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Mine says forever. I'm back to Tylenol for mild headaches.
I had to switch to daily topimax for my Migraines and keep imitrex for when they start.
I had a lingering Migraine and my pcp gave me a NSAID injection. Totally bypass the stomach. Just to see if it would help.
Lots of new things with my sleeve. Lots of never things too....,

Good news. I'm 9 months out and popcorn is great for me. I treat myself at the movies if we go. So a nice way to feel normal again and thank goodness no pain or regret.
So far no issues. It is a slider, so I bring a bag from home and fill it up. That way I only have a portion I am comfortable with !!!
Good luck to you if there is a next time.

I would be surprised if every person who has gone through WLS did not mourn food. First of all, it is probably because you are in the pureed stage and emotional following surgery which is making it worse.
This surgery is not for the feint of heart. It is very hard work, most of it mental. You have to stay positive and focus on all the reasons you had the surgery in the first place. Do not spend wasted time focusing on the negatives, it will only make you feel worse and that ultimately means you will struggle, like you are.
Keep your eye on the prize whether it was health reasons or simply because you wanted to lose weight. Pull your goals out that you wrote before surgery and remind yourself why you chose to have surgery.
I promise you will make it past this phase and if you stick to the right foods pretty soon you will crave healthy foods and not all the other stuff that made you heavy to begin with.
Also, having WLS does not mean that you will never eat those things again. You will simply have them once in a great while and in very small portions.
I wish you all the best, keep your head up and stay positive, it will help you succeed.

Great job on the weight loss.
Yes it will slow. I did the same thing. I had 54 total to lose and lost 30 by week 7 and I'm at goal at month 9.
The first loss was fast and after month three it was stalls and slow but steady. Maybe one pound or a little more a week.
All my labs have been great. I keep up with Protein intake first and foremost and Vitamins. I make sure I'm hydrated and then enjoy the rest of my food selections for the day.
I have worked out very little because of my Migraines so I am going to start strength training to firm up and see where my body wants my weight to be.
Even though you have more to lose, if you work your program, you could be at goal within year one and then some.
It's all about you and what you do for yourself.
You sound like you're doing it all right so far. Keep it up.

Great job on the weight loss.
Yes it will slow. I did the same thing. I had 54 total to lose and lost 30 by week 7 and I'm at goal at month 9.
The first loss was fast and after month three it was stalls and slow but steady. Maybe one pound or a little more a week.
All my labs have been great. I keep up with Protein intake first and foremost and Vitamins. I make sure I'm hydrated and then enjoy the rest of my food selections for the day.
I have worked out very little because of my Migraines so I am going to start strength training to firm up and see where my body wants my weight to be.
Even though you have more to lose, if you work your program, you could be at goal within year one and then some.
It's all about you and what you do for yourself.
You sound like you're doing it all right so far. Keep it up.

I agree with the other poster. Please do not advance so soon. I am 9 months post op and I STILL have issues with grapes and oranges and watermelon.
Even though it's fruit and a juice, my sleeve just doesn't agree. And you just being 9 days and healing I just can't imagine.
Please please don't do that again. Or more than anything .,, remember it again for the next time because it probably will happen again.
Good luck to you and hopefully lesson learned.

I'm going to say congrats. And if that was just a one time treat then it wasn't a horrible choice. Cereal isn't the worst choice. You didn't have a whole bag of chocolate.
So look at it for what it is. You wanted it and you enjoyed it in moderation.
Just record the things you are eating so you can look back and see when there is a turning point. When does a treat turn into a regular occurrence. When does a small amount turn into excess.
I think life is a balance in every aspect and you seem to know that you've come a long way and worked very hard. But you can handle making some decisions to keep your weight in check and enjoy your food as well.
I'm not a die hard shamer here. I just say do what you know you can do. And you are under 140 and for anyone here that's fabulous. Congrats!!!!

I am 13 months out and I cannot hardly eat anything. I have sooo much restriction it's crazy. I don't know if my surgeon made my sleeve too small or what, but it absolutely painfully hurts if I eat too much, I just simply can't. I'm constantly thirsty and Water is difficult to get down. However I was able to reach my goal and even exceed it in very little time. Eating is just not enjoyable at all anymore, it's very disheartening! I eat about 1/4 cup of cottage cheese for lunch and can only get down a half a bowl of Soup for dinner. If I'm hungry between I just snack on chips, they go down easily and I don't feel hungry. I am under 500 calories a day, I can really eat anything I want because I'm restricted to just a few bites, but am maintaining my weight since November. I did lose most of my hair, which is slowly growing back. It's been a hard and winding road!

Yes. All of you liquid counts towards your total ounces so count away !!!!

Hello all!!! I'm 9 months post op and hit my goal weight yesterday exactly on the day. 138 even. I'm not exercising nor following anything extreme except I do have a Protein Shake daily.
The initial weight loss was great. I stalled a lot and the last months have been slow. But like I said I have not been working out. I think if I stepped that up I would see more results in tone and shape than just a number.
It has definitely been a year like no other.

Conscience, schmonscience!
I think you're doing great. I say the bigger, the better. You could even add these:
1. They discovered I have a tapeworm, and it's so big they have to operate to get it all out.
2. Now, they've discovered that the big tapeworm has had baby tapeworms, and they have to do even more complicated surgery to remove the baby tapeworms. It's becoming very dangerous!
3. Turns out it's not tapeworms, after all. It's Amazonian leeches that have attached themselves to the inside of my intestinal walls. We have NO idea how they got in there. It's possible they crawled into my mouth while I was asleep on a Caribbean beach last fall when hubby and I were on that cruise. But it's bad!
4. I just had a pre-op endoscopy, and now it seems that I've also swallowed some car keys--three of them, the electronic kind. And none of them are a match to our cars. My husband thinks this could also have happened on that cruise. One night I didn't get back to our cabin until 5:00 am and don't remember a damn thing after the baked Alaska. Hubby won't stop teasing me about it. I'm pretty pissed.
5. Hubby bought me a beautiful new ring for my birthday and also as an apology for teasing me so much about the car keys in my stomach. Trouble is that he hid it in a piece of birthday cake, and I swallowed the ring! And it hasn't come out the other end yet! The doctors are worried that it's been swallowed by one of the Amazonian leeches. So we're adding that to the list of things they're going to remove during gastrointestinal surgery.
See ... you could get much more creative about all this.
Have fun!

I started at 186 184 SW 153 CW. 5 more pounds to a normal BMI and 15 pounds to goal weight. I am slowing way down to maybe a pound or less per week. Is this normal? I'm 63 years old.

I haven't been here in a good while. I see some familiar names and lots of names that are new. Right before surgery and for several months after this forum was very helpful to me.
I freely admit that I did not follow the recommended path after my gastric sleeve. I got some stern commentary from a few members here and I probably deserved it. Overall the members here have good intentions and the advice they give is sound. There will be a few here that remember me - to you I say Hola! Nice to see you all are still around. For the ones that I haven't had the pleasure of seeing before - Hey there. I'm Sharon, I'm in Mesquite TX, and I went to Tijuana in March of 2013. Dr Almanza did my surgery. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with him and the staff.
I've lost 50 pounds. For the past year I have been maintaining that. I didn't really have a goal weight when I started this thing. I was tired of fighting the fat battle and I found a way to make the battle stop. I could lose more weight if I put my mind to it but I'm really pretty happy where I am. I went from a size 18 or 20 to a size 12. In an effort to be brief I'm going to list my main thoughts below and maybe a few of them will be helpful to someone else.
Do not underestimate the need for counseling before this type of surgery. In going to Mexico I bypassed all of the preparation that you get in the US. I figured I didn't need it. Haha! It didn't happen that way. I was completely unprepared for the emotional changes. It took over a year for me to start to get a grip on my feelings. It was hard, it sucked, and I wouldn't advise going it alone. I'm doing ok now and I will say that being forced to deal with the issues that made me a fat girl in the first place have made me a stronger person. Like...a lot stronger. I know myself better than I ever did before and truthfully I like me better now after having to fight thru the emotions. But seriously - get the pre-surgery counseling - all of it and take it to heart. Don't be like me and think you don't need it. You do.
Would I do it again? I don't know. Probably so. Some days I would give anything to eat a whole hamburger. After you spend your life relating to food in one way then it changes abruptly - well it can be quite frustrating. But you learn to live with it. I do like my results and I like the size of my clothes. I eat anything I want and I don't gain weight. People talk of the sleeve stretching and gaining weight back. This hasn't happened to me. This thing is unforgiving and it doesn't budge. I can actually eat less now than a year ago. I must say that Dr Almanza did a bang up job. The sleeve he gave me is quite sturdy and dependable. When it comes to eating, the sleeve wins every time.
Yes the sleeve gave me everything I wanted from it. I asked for it and I got it. I got the results I wanted and my appearance changed permanently. But this is the thing - when you are fatter you are kind of invisible. Lose a lot of weight and suddenly you aren't invisible anymore. Once again I got what I asked for. Well - it makes me very uncomfortable. Sometimes I just want to be invisible again. Not all the time but for the most part I just don't need the extra attention. Just another case of be careful what you ask for. I'm not meaning to be negative. Just saying that a lot of times what we think we want isn't necessarily going to make us happy. Happiness can only come from inside yourself. A lower number on the scales and a slimmer physique will not equate to happiness. Change yourself from the inside first if you want to be happy.
These are the most pleasant things you gain from the sleeve from my perspective: I'm proud of myself for having the courage to do it and I'm more proud of myself for making the emotional journey. There will always be those who think weight loss surgery is the easy way out. WRONG. Its the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Self confidence. That elusive thing that we all want more of. Well guess what? I got it. I have confidence in my appearance and somewhere along the way I started to carry myself with confidence. If I catch a glimpse of myself in a store window I am still surprised at the way I look walking along. Sometimes I can't believe that's me. But it is and I like it. Here's the thing: Yes, some of the confidence comes from my outward appearance. But the most of the confidence comes from having emerged alive after the emotional issues were ( mostly) conquered. So see, the confidence was in there the whole time. I just didn't know how to find it. Yours is in there too! Being thinner won't allow it to come out. Only you can do that.
I have learned so much about myself. I am a different person than before. Once again, on the inside. I don't care anymore if I'm fat or thin. I always thought that's what defined me as a person. How I looked. What a silly girl I was. My self worth is no longer defined by a number on a scale or by a size on a pair of pants.
So there it is. Thanks to those of you that read this. I do hope someone finds something useful in what I've said. But mostly I said it because I needed to for me. 2 years ago I would have never opened up like this. Now I can and I'm not afraid of how I feel. That's what the sleeve did for me. I hope it does something good for you too.

Yescobar
I'm similar to you. 190 in June. Surgery on 6/17 and today down 42 pounds to 148.
Morning: Protein shake
Lunch: 4 - 5 bites of pork chop
Dinner: slice of meat stuffed pizza. Again only 4 to 5 bites.
Snack: maybe almonds or a cheese stick.
Treats: maybe 1/2 of a cookie or 3 bites of ice cream.
I eat whatever I want just in drastic moderation. I do eat the Protein first.
So if I'm having shrimp and spinach tortellini, I eat 4 to 5 shrimp and maybe two tortellini.
I don't grab fast food because I know if I wait until I get home I'll get full within a few bites.
Other things I eat often (again imagine I am eating the protein first)
Turkey sausage with Beans and rice
Beef stroganoff
Pork chops
Steak
Omlettes with meats and veggies and cheese
Tilapia with garlic and butter
chicken usually in cream sauce.
Spaghetti with meat sauce.
lunch meats and sliced cheeses.
I have a family of 6 at home and I'm the chef for them all. I just have to make smart choices for myself and separate the majority of the "empty" stuff.
I don't deprive myself though. I have nibbled everything I've wanted to. I have overeaten a treat and I was puking for an hour. Lesson learned.
Not too much exercise. Just started back to heated yoga!! I need to step that up.
So what is your typical day? I track on my fitness pal and weigh everyday. I feel great about myself and my decisions I make every day.
Message me if anyone wants to talk more. We are all just worthy being going through the transformation of our lives.
Best to everyone.

I woke up in the middle of the night in horror that my wedding ring was not on my hand.
I NEVER remove it. So I'm about at goal at 141 and have lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks and it must have come off my fingers too.
I have retraced my weekend steps and left my number with every place I went. I posted on CL and lets just say I'm not holding my breath.
And I'm not stressing over it either. My wonderful husband said .. Well it's been 16 years and we should Renew our vows anyway.
What a man. It means a lot to me because I had it made for me from family jewelry. But I am realistic about getting something like that back.
And just knowing that it slipped off my skinny finger kind of makes me giggle.
Very expensive lesson learned.

I woke up in the middle of the night in horror that my wedding ring was not on my hand.
I NEVER remove it. So I'm about at goal at 141 and have lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks and it must have come off my fingers too.
I have retraced my weekend steps and left my number with every place I went. I posted on CL and lets just say I'm not holding my breath.
And I'm not stressing over it either. My wonderful husband said .. Well it's been 16 years and we should Renew our vows anyway.
What a man. It means a lot to me because I had it made for me from family jewelry. But I am realistic about getting something like that back.
And just knowing that it slipped off my skinny finger kind of makes me giggle.
Very expensive lesson learned.

I woke up in the middle of the night in horror that my wedding ring was not on my hand.
I NEVER remove it. So I'm about at goal at 141 and have lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks and it must have come off my fingers too.
I have retraced my weekend steps and left my number with every place I went. I posted on CL and lets just say I'm not holding my breath.
And I'm not stressing over it either. My wonderful husband said .. Well it's been 16 years and we should Renew our vows anyway.
What a man. It means a lot to me because I had it made for me from family jewelry. But I am realistic about getting something like that back.
And just knowing that it slipped off my skinny finger kind of makes me giggle.
Very expensive lesson learned.

I woke up in the middle of the night in horror that my wedding ring was not on my hand.
I NEVER remove it. So I'm about at goal at 141 and have lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks and it must have come off my fingers too.
I have retraced my weekend steps and left my number with every place I went. I posted on CL and lets just say I'm not holding my breath.
And I'm not stressing over it either. My wonderful husband said .. Well it's been 16 years and we should Renew our vows anyway.
What a man. It means a lot to me because I had it made for me from family jewelry. But I am realistic about getting something like that back.
And just knowing that it slipped off my skinny finger kind of makes me giggle.
Very expensive lesson learned.

I woke up in the middle of the night in horror that my wedding ring was not on my hand.
I NEVER remove it. So I'm about at goal at 141 and have lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks and it must have come off my fingers too.
I have retraced my weekend steps and left my number with every place I went. I posted on CL and lets just say I'm not holding my breath.
And I'm not stressing over it either. My wonderful husband said .. Well it's been 16 years and we should Renew our vows anyway.
What a man. It means a lot to me because I had it made for me from family jewelry. But I am realistic about getting something like that back.
And just knowing that it slipped off my skinny finger kind of makes me giggle.
Very expensive lesson learned.

I still have a shake every day. I did go through the period where I thought I could never drink another one or I would die.
But now that I am in the swing of things, I have one first thing in the morning. It is my pick me up. My 3 month and six month follow up I was told what ever I'm doing keep gm doing because everything was great. My Protein levels were excellent.
I don't try to get my total intake without it. All the other posters are right with excellent suggestions. But ... shakes seem to be a staple for many.

I'm going to say congrats. And if that was just a one time treat then it wasn't a horrible choice. Cereal isn't the worst choice. You didn't have a whole bag of chocolate.
So look at it for what it is. You wanted it and you enjoyed it in moderation.
Just record the things you are eating so you can look back and see when there is a turning point. When does a treat turn into a regular occurrence. When does a small amount turn into excess.
I think life is a balance in every aspect and you seem to know that you've come a long way and worked very hard. But you can handle making some decisions to keep your weight in check and enjoy your food as well.
I'm not a die hard shamer here. I just say do what you know you can do. And you are under 140 and for anyone here that's fabulous. Congrats!!!!

I chose mine right off the doctors chart in their patient handbook

I chose mine right off the doctors chart in their patient handbook

I chose mine right off the doctors chart in their patient handbook

It's also done to check for a hiatal hernia. Many times that is repaired during the vsg procedure.