Lester Burnham

Oh, nooooooooooo!
Well, then....what's done is done. Time to start over. Just as a refresher, here are the basic concepts again:
While you are hanging out here for support, you can initiate the following steps that most of our plans have us do for our pre-op preparations.

Drink no calories.

Drink Water until your eyeballs float - 64 - 80+ ounces per day.

Don't eat anything made in a factory. You can do this by shopping the perimeter of the supermarket and avoid the aisle unless you need a spice or paper towels...that kind of stuff.

Eat at least 60 ounces of Protein per day, and at any meal, eat your Protein first - then veg - then fruit.< /span>

Dessert should be something like an apple, not apple pie with two scoops of ice cream.

Avoid sugar, grease, and salt as much as possible. Eating clean will help you discover the real taste of natural food. If it weren't for sugar, grease and salt, McDonald's would have no business. When I gave up candy bars and started eating dark chocolate, I realized that it wasn't the chocolate I missed - it was the sugar.

Try to wean yourself off of soda and diet soda. Most bariatric plans discourage soda pop and anything with bubbles post-op.

Reduce starchy carbs like bread, flour, sugar, rice, noodle, biscuits, white potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti etc.


So what is left to eat? meat, eggs, cheese, Beans, Peanut Butter, yogurt, cottage cheese, nuts, and fresh fruits and non-starchy veggies. You can adjust your current recipes to reduce carbs. The World According to Eggface is a good place to start. Check out the forum here for recipes, also Sparkpeople.com and Myfitnesspal.com.

Many of us use Myfitnesspal.com for logging our food every day. It is really an eye-opener if you are honest with yourself about what you eat.

Weigh and measure your food to accurately acknowledge your actual portion size. There is a scientific principle that says, "You cannot control that which you do not measure."

Exercise where you can. Move your body every day. Don't become part of the sofa.
Hugs for a new start. Now, off you go!

Thankyou for that. I was fairly pleased with my progress (35lbs in 12 weeks post op) until my 1st check up with a consultant . He talked to me like a naughty schoolboy and said he expected better, and thatother patients had lost far more by this stage. He mocked my surgeon (who allowed me to go sleeve instead of bypass - personal choice) and said he wanted to see me more often "to keep an eye on me". I was so demotivated and felt like that fo some time. I still haven't got past the "stall" that this coincided with

It was only when I took a heavy parcel to the post office and noticed it was the same as my weight loss total to date that it dawned on me how much I had shed. I was happy with that figure, the bariatric nurse said slow and steady was good, the nutritionalist seemed OK, only the consultant tore a strip off me. Do they all think their skills extend to motivational speaking? Most should stick to slicing and dicing.

I'm 1 year and 7 months out and the foods I know will make me sick are milk fats (so any milk other than skim- except weirdly not all ice cream), Desserts that have a lot of sugar (a few bites of creme brullee is fine but more than that and I'm heaving), anything fried, anything that has been anywhere near butter, and anything cooked in any kind of oil. So basically everything that tastes good, which works out well for me, lol.
I have noticed I can have one or two bites of everything, but I can almost immediately tell from those two bites if something is making me sick and then I stop with plenty of time to spare before I actually get sick. As an example I bought a pressed juice today which had kale, spinach, pineapple, and apple- nothing that should have made me sick. A few sips in I realized the pineapple probably had too much sugar, so I got rid of the drink and I was fine. A few more sips and I would have been heaving. It's really all about what your stomach does and doesn't like. You learn to adapt.
Good luck!

ditto! I either sneeze or my nose runs when I'm right at that full point... it's a good reminder to stop eating!!

It annoys me that some drs seem to have a set of expectations that put everyone in the same box. I think it puts extra stress on us to meet these expectations that may or may not be right for our very individual selves. So long as im losing I'm fine with me, even when its slow. Fortunately my Drs expectations are simply downward progress. I think it relieves a lot of pressure.
Why no gum?

I know you will get soooo many answers and you will get so many days of stalls and frustrations.
Here was my take on it. I do weigh every day. If my weight drops lower than its been then I do record in my fitness pal. If not I just move on and don't sweat it. I don't bother with the fluctuation and frustration.
I'm 11 months out and hit goal at 9 and under since. scale does not move much at all. Many many stalls that began at 10 days and continued at a logical stair step pattern throughout the process.
See what works for you. I just don't record any ups because they are not permanent.

What a BITCH you should have given her a slap. See this is why I dislike the vast majority of nutritionalists; their total lack of empathy. So food isn't a pleasure is it? Tell that to every human since the dawn of history, and ask her why EVERY culture worldwide has developed a cuisine.
By the same rationale sex is purely functional too, ask her if she enjoys that or is it missionary every time?
And "normal people"?? Go take a jump. I bet she has a face like an old boot.

I would have to say that my biggest surprise would have to be my recovery. Short of one day where I tried a new shake and it didn't agree with me. my recovery went way smoother and easier than I thought it would. I am such a big baby when it comes to be being uncomfortable or in pain. Even my family was surprised at how well I did. YEAH ME!! LOL
My biggest regret would definitely be not doing it sooner. I had gone to a WLS about 5 years ago and ran out of it early thinking this is not for me, I don't need this. Now knowing what I know now, I really really wish I had stayed and did it then. But hey better now than never.

Honestly? I was surprised how hard I still have to work to get the weight off. Yeah, at first it comes off pretty easily and steadily, but after a certain amount of time it really is all on you to use the tool you were given to its full advantage. The other thing that surprised me was realizing the complicated relationship I had with food, and the head games that can play on you sometimes.
Regrets? During some hard times,(stalls, slow losing, head hunger) yeah, I can say I had a few. But I am a realist with a little pessimist sprinkled in, so that's my nature. But I can also honestly tell you this has made me a better person all the way around. Yes I've lost weight and can see the goal line on the horizon, but I'm also more disciplined about exercise, and I can honestly say food isn't such a huge deal to me anymore, and that's very freeing. I'm pushing 48, and feel like I did in my 30's. I look and feel amazing. All of that is thanks to the Sleeve. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!
Good luck with your upcoming surgery and keep us posted!

Wow you have really shrunk, that little tattoo now covers your whole arm!
I've just got back to work and everyone knows. Talked to one friend last night and friends -of-friends know. Talked to my dad and divorced ex-relatives know. It doesn't take long for word to spread .
Got to hear of one persons comment and it was how just abouth how much it cost (mine was done for free by NHS, UK under national healthcare), so I doubt it was positive! This is someone I see about once every 4 years so who cares what other people think?

Wow you have really shrunk, that little tattoo now covers your whole arm!
I've just got back to work and everyone knows. Talked to one friend last night and friends -of-friends know. Talked to my dad and divorced ex-relatives know. It doesn't take long for word to spread .
Got to hear of one persons comment and it was how just abouth how much it cost (mine was done for free by NHS, UK under national healthcare), so I doubt it was positive! This is someone I see about once every 4 years so who cares what other people think?

I've only lost 15Lbs since my surgery on 5 weeks ago, and that includes whatever my lost stomach weighed!
However that is akin to what I was losing on a pretty rigid diet leading up to surgery so I'm not too concerned yet, just realized it's going to be a long trip. If it means I don't end up with saggy man boobs then all the better!

I've only lost 7 lbs since 2/25 when I was sleeved I thought I was having it hard but if your losing a lb a day wow that's a lot

I think it was just the wording of the original post. The "only" in there.
Only, made it sound like she was disappointed in the amount of weight she was losing thus far. So I can see how the other poster took it that way.

Haha just wait till you stall at less than 1000 cals a day. It's gonna piss you off.

. My before and after I still got a little more to lose but all and all down 125 since 2/12/14

Finding Proteins easy, it's fitting liquids in that seems hard!

The worst part is, because I was used to drinking with meals, in-between times I get so busy I forget! Then I get to a point where I'm hungry AND thirsty and need to make a choice!

The worst part is, because I was used to drinking with meals, in-between times I get so busy I forget! Then I get to a point where I'm hungry AND thirsty and need to make a choice!

The worst part is, because I was used to drinking with meals, in-between times I get so busy I forget! Then I get to a point where I'm hungry AND thirsty and need to make a choice!

I'm bet if you ate only chicken or fish you could eat only 3-4 ounces. Max.
What you eat determines to a great degree how much you can eat at one time.
Protein will stay in your stomach much longer and make you much more satiated than ... potato chips, ice cream, crackers, and other slider foods.

I was told the cut nerves in the stomach take a good 6 weeks to heal. Are you still on soft food? It is not until you are fully transitioned to solid food that you begin to feel a normal satiety.
I asked my NUT what were the most important success factors. All the"rules" have a reason but she told me that #1 eat to lack of hunger/satiety, do NOT try to find "full" and #2 don't graze. I still take this to heart over 3 years post op. I choose to eat less than I "could" eat.
I will share advice given to me...those early months, eat by the clock and measuring cup. I had been obese for most of my life and had a strong physical drive to eat..freaking hungry! It took me awhile to learn how to eat intuitively, to recognize signals, to eat slower etc. So I measured everything in the early months, followed volume recommendations from NUT.
So I doubt you stretched your stomach but work that sleeve to maximize your results - you can do it!

Weigh yourself and take comfort from the pounds you are already losing

I started my signature ticker at 310 pounds as that was my starting weight at surgery BUT I had already lost 10 pounds on the pre-op buildup. It's all part of the trip.
A bit of discipline now will help your confidence come the day of the operation.