ElectricBoogaloo

Although I have yet to accomplish our daily goal, I am more focused on trying. Perhaps today is my day!

At first Flinstones were approved, but per my surgeon it has fallen out of favor because there wasn't enough thiamine. FWIW, when they were recommending Flintstones, they had patients take two a day.

Although it may be difficult, try not to compare yourself to others. Your body will lose weight in a way that is specific to you! Also, try to keep your weight loss in perspective...have you ever lost 15 pounds in TWO WEEKS(!!!) on any weight loss plan that you have tried? If yes, then your body is following its normal course. If not, then this process is already different for YOU. Onward!!

I am having a difficult time with Opurity MV. While they don't nauseate me, they taste gross and are difficult to chew and swallow. Of course I have a three months supply?. What I have been doing for the last couple of days is suck on it for a few minutes, use my teeth to kind of crush it (not chew), trying to keep all it contained, then swallow all of it...if that makes sense. ? I am awaiting my Fusion MV sample order.

Check with your team, experiences shared here may not align with your team's wishes. For example at my first week follow-up, my surgeon said I no longer have to sprinkle omeprazole on a spoonful of yogurt, but could swallow whole and I didn't have to cut tablets in half, while @Lynnlovesthebeach is okayed at 6 weeks. Do you mix them into the entire container of yogurt, applesauce? If yes, don't do that!! ?? For the omeprazole, I dipped a spoon in the yogurt, carefully poured it all on the yogurt on the spoon and swallowed the entire dose at once. The nurses mixed the meds in the jello and it was difficult to get it all in because it was disgusting. Yuck.

I plan to eat turkey (dark meat) with gravy, the cooked veggies (collard greens), and maybe a bite of sweet potatoes. I am on soft foods.

Seriously?!?!! Stupid computer.

Double post

I didn't have a drain. I had glue and within a week two fell off, then by week two they were all off. When I had my lapband placed, they used steri-strips, which I like better (incisions seemed better aligned and scars looked better/invisible).

I would like to co-sign and add to CM's list: If you work in an office, full spectrum, happy lights can be installed overhead (it is slightly blue tinged). I want to second getting outside during the day, especially if you go to work in the dark and leave in the dark (a Minnesota special!) Make sure you are not just going to work and coming home. Continue activities (DATING!!!) and make good use of weekends. I try to vacation in February, which is about the time I am so ready for winter to be over that I could scream. Minnesota has 7 months of winter, 4 months of summer, and two transition periods called spring and fall! ? Take care of yourself!

Ahh...powder form. I was thinking bone broth soup. I actually used the bone broth as the base for the cream soups I was allowed to eat. 8oz bone broth (unsalted) with half of the small can of low-fat cream of chicken soup (didn't eat the chicken chunks, because I wasn't allowed to). To me sipping the bone broth by itself was kind of gross, especially the smell.

I wouldn't think GNC would sell it. Does GNC sell other food?

Most (all?) grocery stores should have it. It would be with the other broths (chicken, beef, etc.). Has 9-10grams of protein per serving.

I'm in and will track here!

None for me either and I had door duty! I did tell Mr. EB he needs to buy only candy corn, Mounds, Almond Joy, and Whoppers next year...I hate them. He had all the good stuff, but I really wasn't tempted, though it smelled good!

They pumped me full of 8 pounds of fluid! After my syncopal episode, I guess they didn't want to take any chances!

My surgery weight on 10/10 was 210.8 and my discharge weight was 218.4?. Today (3 weeks po), I weighed in at 195.8. I have been able to drink 64 ounces and get in 60 grams of protein from the first day I returned home...which led me to believe that I had a placebo sleeve!? Once I started soft foods, I quickly realized that a majority of my stomach was no longer there. I would say the best thing that has happened to me since surgery was the ability to...?SLEEP ON MY STOMACH AGAIN!!!!?

That's what I did, CM, with the obligatory tear in my eye. It was horrible for the first two weeks, but I survived.?

Hi! Your stats are similar to mine. My highest was 365 - surgery weight was 327 (on 10/10/18) and current weight is around 312. And today I went to the gym for the first time in 10 years!! I went with a friend who has a membership. I did 25 minutes on the treadmill which isn’t super long but I DID IT! And then I JOINED the gym so I can go anytime now!! I plan to go again tomorrow and shoot for 30 minutes!! ? You are kicking butt, my sleeve twin!

As do I...?

How could I forget this one... We were driving home from the hospital and stopped once so I could walk around in a restaurant parking lot. After opening the door, I felt like I had to vomit and try to clear something from my throat...turns out it was my uvula!!! There was so much inflammation from being intubated that it was hanging down my throat. Every time I swallowed, it felt like I swallowed my tonsil. It was a truly horrible situation for about a week. As Mr. ElectricBoogaloo took a picture of it so that I could see, he said it is kind of shaped like a penis...at the grocery store...to which I responded a little louder than I should have (read:wailed), "I don't want to continually swallow a P***S!?

That's great! Congratulations!

Thank you! But, looking like a Klingon is not my jam, either??

I told my husband to have me tested for CTE upon my death!

Mantra: Never trust a fart!! (I contemplated using this as my user name?)