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first congratulations! you look amazing and happy. I bet you feel healthier too. To help why don't you measure inches, sometimes the scales are slow to show. You are unique!

My stomach feels like a war zone with fluids boiling so loud a person next to me can hear. No pain... anyone else had this?

Awesome and keep going! I hosted a Thanksgiving party being on 800 cal diet. It was tough! I might have had too much protein/turkey :/ To get rid of food smell, try eucalyptus oil, it really overpowers all other smells and is calming. And every time I thought of food I always had a bottle or glass of Water and kept sipping on it. For headache try just tiny piece of darkest chocolate to open up your veins. Good luck!

Hi guys a huge thank you for the support! Professor, keep chugging that water and not the usual 64 oz but at least 80! I am actually 3 lbs more due water retention and gas. But physically even my very critical mom saw the differences!

Thank you Marie. Great going yourself. Just got my baby from mom's to give my parents a break and while its weekend my husband helps. Lots of snuggles and he seems to understand mommy can't pick him up. Walking does feel better, except for crappy weather in NYC.

Surgery couldn't be better! I feel good, positive and determined. Lots of tightness specially laying down or sitting but I try to move around ad much as possible. Still feel a bit oozy from meds. Not much pain only at the site of port upon getting up (back to pregnancy days and rolling off to a side to get up:) My biggest challenge will be away from my almost 23 months old son. My awesome mom is taking care of him for the next 3 weeks until I heal (cannot lift anything heavy). My sister is my biggest inspiration, she was lap banded in 2012 lost all the excess weight and keeping it off. Her only major complication was lifting her son (then 2.5 yr) and having port twist and stitches open slightly, she was only 3 weeks post op. So yes, I will learn from that mistake! Otherwise I make sure I drink plenty of water, broth, kefir, fresh squeezed juices and protein shakes. So far so good, learning to swallow nice and slow. Biggest challenge was to go #2 , but milk of magnesia did the trick . Still a bit bloated but feeling much better. Hope to hear some great stories of encouragement.