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Thanks Berry78 and yes I have tried this. Depends on where I am working it does work. For example when I work in ICU I carry a snack bag since I cannot leave the floor without relief and Im in the same area all day, usually about 8000 steps. I rearly have sugar drops on these days. However when I'm assigned to working on the floors I'm constantly walking very very busy and although I'm not confined to one area and can grab a quick snack at my leisure usually I'm so busy with crashing patients that I don't realize I haven't eaten until I become symptomatic. I've tried setting my phone but usually don't feel it as I can only have it on vibrate. I typically get 14-20,000 steps when I'm working the floors so I'm using much more energy and my sugar drops quicker and more often. I work as a respiratory therapists for a very large hospital. So Im currently a work in progress. Thanks so much for your input .

Would it be possible to keep some snack bars with you? Eat a few bites every couple hours between patients.
The snack bars should be something like oats+ peanut butter+choc. Protein powder. No sugar.
Eating two Snacks + lunch during your shift should help. Breakfast and dinner before and after. Bedtime snack if needed.
Hope this gives some ideas.

I'm not really sure if I have regrets or not at this stage of my surgery. I had my sleeve done 10/14 so I'm about 2 yrs 4 mos post op. Like many of you up until my 2nd year postop I was thrilled and wouldn't have doubted that I made the right decision for anything. However for the past 6-8 months I have been battling hypoglycemia. Which I found out is very common 18-24 mos postop. Like many of you I also did my research but never came across these statistics. Then again I was so determined to have the surgery .I'm not really sure learning that would have changed my mind back then. It's a horrible feeling and working 12hr shifts at the hospital I am not always able to eat every 2-3 hrs as my body demands, which also results in my blood sugar dropping. I'm sure once I get a handle on this and feel normal again I may very well be thrilled about my decision to sleeve, but currently I having trouble believing I made the right decision as this seems to be a new norm for my life. I welcome any advice or suggestion if anyone else have experienced and conquered low Sugar issues.

I'm not really sure if I have regrets or not at this stage of my surgery. I had my sleeve done 10/14 so I'm about 2 yrs 4 mos post op. Like many of you up until my 2nd year postop I was thrilled and wouldn't have doubted that I made the right decision for anything. However for the past 6-8 months I have been battling hypoglycemia. Which I found out is very common 18-24 mos postop. Like many of you I also did my research but never came across these statistics. Then again I was so determined to have the surgery .I'm not really sure learning that would have changed my mind back then. It's a horrible feeling and working 12hr shifts at the hospital I am not always able to eat every 2-3 hrs as my body demands, which also results in my blood sugar dropping. I'm sure once I get a handle on this and feel normal again I may very well be thrilled about my decision to sleeve, but currently I having trouble believing I made the right decision as this seems to be a new norm for my life. I welcome any advice or suggestion if anyone else have experienced and conquered low Sugar issues.

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A new year to start fresh. You have lost 108 pounds before. You can get back on the horse and lose weight again.
Things to try,
If you haven't already, You may want to consider counseling to deal with your mothers death and staying on track. Get rid of all the unhealthy food in the house. Go grocery shopping for your bariatric diet. Get back to basics. Track, Protein, Water and low carb.
Exercise:
All you have to do is move more even when you don't want to. Find out If your release allows for resistance bands and chair exercise . Give it a try. I have a group of women from age 67 to 94. They do chair workouts 6 days a week. Love it.
16 Minute SEATED Cardio + Strength HIIT | Countdown to Christmas (The Festival of HIITs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZOpORbZUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5NLluNkAnc

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I researched for almost 2 years as well. I listen to countless people giving advise and enjoying their new found life. To be honest my choice to do this was never about feeling or looking beautiful. It was about saving my life. I feel like I traded in one situation for another one because I couldn't see clearly the course. However, as I said in my previous post..... All the glory overshadow the people that are hurting, dying, in and out of the hospital, one surgery after another and even divorcing. Now, that I'm on this side I can clearly see I made a drastic mistake. My question is at this point..... why the opposition? At the end of the day.... people are going to do what they choose to do. I choose to reveal the ugly not just the glamorous.

Thank you so much willow13 for sharing your experience. I am scheduled for surgery on October 1st and I am excited, scared and all the other emotions that go along with pre op. Congratulations on ur success and continue 2 encourage others.

192.0 today, thx

194.4

Please add me Susan, My current weight is 197 and my goal is 185. Thank you

Just an update, today I started on benefibre and my god ppl's my gurgling and bowel sounds have almost stopped the pain I was having with is gone, maybe my body just needed more fibre

210.6, did not meet my goal but feel and look better than I have in years.

211.2

I'm at 129 this morning. I have blown past my goal. I don't know what is going on. It's supposed to be harder to lose when you are near goal, but for some reason December was my month. I guess even I can have good luck sometimes.
I hope everyone's holiday was wonderful.

177.9 I just might hit my goal! We'll see

Sorry I'm late this week... 213.0
I'm losing only 1-2 lbs a week don't think I will make my goal of 195 by the end of this challenge but I will keep trying. Not sure why I'm losing so slowly but I don't remember the last time I was 213 lbs, so I won't complain.
Nov 7, 220.0
Nov 14, 221.0
Nov. 21, 217.6
Nov. 28, 216.8
Dec. 5, 214.6
Dec. 12. 213.0

When I began this journey I was over 300#, had a history of being even heavier and have been morbidly obese, obese or overweight MOST of my life (pre sleeve maybe had spent total of 2 years not overweight or obese) in my whole life.
You can imagine how much I wanted to grab onto data that predicted how much i would lose, how fast I would lose, sort of like the infomercials "lose 30 pounds of ugly fat in 30 days". I wanted to know how I was gonna lose 150 pounds of ugly fat in how many days?!?!?!?
I was blessed to work with a NUT and a surgical practice who just didn't play that game. They refused to set a "surgeon's goal" because their point was... "lets say you lose 100# are healthy, your life is so much better but it is short of the goal we set... so you feel like a failure, you don't honor your success and you regain".
Instead, i was guided to focus alot on the process... the WAY of getting healthy less than the measuring sticks (the scale, clothing sizes etc)
Don't get me wrong, I weighed myself during the losing phase and celebrated every new clothing size (getting into single digits was like nirvana... a place i never dreamed I would be). However, the larger point really stuck.
If you follow the methods, you will get slimmer, you will get healthier. Our bodies are all so different, I don't know why Joe lost 150 in 8 months, I lost 150 in 14 months and someone else never gets to their goal. I don't know - but here is what I do know:
1. focusing on the "how" - lets call it following the rules best you can will get you best results you can
2. focusing on the "why" - to regain health, to regain a normal feeling and looking body, to regain mobility, to improve appearance, to be able to MOVE and fully enjoy life. Those things keep you motivated to maintain.
3. less focus on the "what" which is exactly how many pounds and how fast you lose them. I don't mean to say to ignore it, but i guarantee you that over the long haul MAINTAINING can be a real challenge and keeping your methods and motiviation in place are key. Getting down to some arbitrary number you cannot maintain in an acceptable lifestyle and then regaining it is discouraging...
So, don't give up. Just "working the sleeve", maximize the tool best you can and to some extent try to accept and be grateful for your results. If they aren't what you want, there are things you can do to kick em up (already mentioned in this thread) but i think most important is a bit of inner peace on the topic.
okay, climbing down from soapbox. I geniunely wish all the very best success happiness and great health.

265.7
Back on track. Although I'm only just a bit over 4 months from surgery, I started trying out the 5:2 eating schedule.
THANK YOU SUSAN, GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!

WOOHOO!!!! GO Ava! :DCongrats - that's fabulous news pretty lady. Revel in it today before worrying about anything else. Just enjoy. And you ARE fancy!
Kate

214.6 for me, slow but steady.

160 - not my goal for this challenge, but glad i handle my first sleeved holiday well
:0)

I had my VSG on October 10 and I'm down, as of this morning, 39 pounds. I'm extremely pleased. In calculating it out, 6 weeks is 42 days. That's almost a pound a day! Look at the big picture! Just imagine 6 months from now!

I had the same problem and was told I was eating too few calories. I increased my calories to around a thousand and that worked for me. I've lost forty pounds since surgery in July and a total of seventy since last March.