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I feel you... However, it's about adapting to the change we all made when we chose the weightloss surgery. Our body is not nor will it ever be the same. Learn as much as you can and embrace the choice you've made. Then and only then will you enjoy the journey/course you're on for the rest of your life.

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Head hunger is real. I can control it with drinking more Water or Protein. I am definitely not as "hungry" as I was preop and the cravings are much easier to control.

WOW - the doctor's response is as good as picking a standard size off the rack and finding that it fits for once. Good on you! Woohoo!

This surgery will be one of the best decisions you ever make. You will be making a very positive and healthy lifestyle change that if you stick with it and stay determined will greatly improve your quality of life and those around you. I'm close to six months post RNY, down over 100lbs and still losing. No two people that have WLS end up with the same exact experiences, but I'm one of the many that was blessed to have an extremely easy time. No complications or extended pain from the surgery, stopped all my meds the day of surgery and have had excellent blood work and diagnosis since then. I've learned how to manage my eating habits, how to eat right and gained a ton of insight into being healthy. My biggest expense has been new clothes because I work in a profession that requires business attire, but it's one I'm happy to live with these days.
Most important lessons I've learned:
Drink your Water and make it your go to beverage.
Get your Protein in daily and don't cheat on it.
Take it easy after surgery and follow your doctors advice on your timeline to recovery.
Find a good Vitamin and a good probiotic and take them daily.
Your taste will definitely change in terms of what you like to eat and what you can actually handle eating.
Remind yourself daily that you're still a work in progress and success depends on your commitment to eating and living heathy.
Exercise will make you lose weight faster, make you feel better and needs to be part of your plan.
Learn how to take a compliment ( you'll get plenty from those that truly love and respect you) and ignore those people that only want to bring you down.
Good luck as you move forward with your journey, lots of great folks on this site for support and advice.

I could only handle half a cup of puree. Even now after 8 months I'm lucky if I can eat a cupful of whatever the food is. (To me, cup measurements were more useful than weighing the food on a scale. I learned to estimate visually how much I could eat - which is harder when it's ounces or grams!
I guess the best advice I was given was to listen to my body and feel free not to finish the meal if I had had enough. I love leaving food uneaten on the plate now. Perverse, isn't it! (The old hardwiring of 'You have to eat everything that is put in front of you' takes a while to displace!)
I found that if the meal was Soup or 'wet' enough (stews, casseroles, sauces), I didn't feel the urge to drink straight after it, but now I do have a couple of sips of Water straight after some meals. Mainly to balance the strong flavours of say, Mexican, or Italian.
I have found that a little bit of strong flavoured food is a great strategy. I have always preferred milder or even blander flavoured foods, but I now think the subtler flavours encouraged me to eat bigger portions. So maybe prepare stronger flavoured foods and you will find you want to eat less of them, and eat them more slowly.
We're all different, but this seems to have worked for me.
It is a very hot summer in Australia right now and I once made the mistake of gulping down the water like I used to do. My body soon let me know that this was not the way to go. I felt terrible.

April 30 2015 and the best decision I've ever made. More energy, lots of clothes options when I shop and lots of compliments. I don't miss most of the bad old foods but eating out is still a challenge. The portions are way too big.

The only thing that worries me about sharing on this forum is that I don't see progress as competitive. I watched that show 'My 600 lb life' and the woman there is not typical and I feel sad for her, because she is not being honest with herself. But that is an exceptional example.
I think 23 pounds in pre-op is fantastic and 82 pounds overall a cause for celebration. I was really cranky with myself this morning when my weight went up by a pound - but I know exactly why it did. Yesterday was a big drop, it was also a stressful work afternoon and I foolishly went back to 'oh it won't matter if I snack on this'. Boom. There's the result today. I even knew I was doing the wrong thing, but I let myself get trapped into old thinking.
So all I'm saying is that each of us progresses differently due to individual metabolism. You've done an amazing job. I think I have too, and everyone else who is posting on here. Even to get to the point of acting to change your life at all is a big step. I guess I'm going back to the concept of doing my 'personal best'. Only I can know if I am truly doing that. Same for you - but from where I'm looking, you seem to be doing just great!

The only thing that worries me about sharing on this forum is that I don't see progress as competitive. I watched that show 'My 600 lb life' and the woman there is not typical and I feel sad for her, because she is not being honest with herself. But that is an exceptional example.
I think 23 pounds in pre-op is fantastic and 82 pounds overall a cause for celebration. I was really cranky with myself this morning when my weight went up by a pound - but I know exactly why it did. Yesterday was a big drop, it was also a stressful work afternoon and I foolishly went back to 'oh it won't matter if I snack on this'. Boom. There's the result today. I even knew I was doing the wrong thing, but I let myself get trapped into old thinking.
So all I'm saying is that each of us progresses differently due to individual metabolism. You've done an amazing job. I think I have too, and everyone else who is posting on here. Even to get to the point of acting to change your life at all is a big step. I guess I'm going back to the concept of doing my 'personal best'. Only I can know if I am truly doing that. Same for you - but from where I'm looking, you seem to be doing just great!

WOW - the doctor's response is as good as picking a standard size off the rack and finding that it fits for once. Good on you! Woohoo!

The only thing that worries me about sharing on this forum is that I don't see progress as competitive. I watched that show 'My 600 lb life' and the woman there is not typical and I feel sad for her, because she is not being honest with herself. But that is an exceptional example.
I think 23 pounds in pre-op is fantastic and 82 pounds overall a cause for celebration. I was really cranky with myself this morning when my weight went up by a pound - but I know exactly why it did. Yesterday was a big drop, it was also a stressful work afternoon and I foolishly went back to 'oh it won't matter if I snack on this'. Boom. There's the result today. I even knew I was doing the wrong thing, but I let myself get trapped into old thinking.
So all I'm saying is that each of us progresses differently due to individual metabolism. You've done an amazing job. I think I have too, and everyone else who is posting on here. Even to get to the point of acting to change your life at all is a big step. I guess I'm going back to the concept of doing my 'personal best'. Only I can know if I am truly doing that. Same for you - but from where I'm looking, you seem to be doing just great!

WOW - the doctor's response is as good as picking a standard size off the rack and finding that it fits for once. Good on you! Woohoo!

WOW - the doctor's response is as good as picking a standard size off the rack and finding that it fits for once. Good on you! Woohoo!

Congratulations everyone! Feels good to hear that others are doing well. This thing we did works and has made our lives healthier! I just hit 100lbs lost, I am in shock most days when I get on the scale. I went to a new specialist doctor last week that made an off hand comment when we were discussing something and she said "well you are not obese so..." I was like, what, wait, am I not? Not anymore. Surreal.

The only thing that worries me about sharing on this forum is that I don't see progress as competitive. I watched that show 'My 600 lb life' and the woman there is not typical and I feel sad for her, because she is not being honest with herself. But that is an exceptional example.
I think 23 pounds in pre-op is fantastic and 82 pounds overall a cause for celebration. I was really cranky with myself this morning when my weight went up by a pound - but I know exactly why it did. Yesterday was a big drop, it was also a stressful work afternoon and I foolishly went back to 'oh it won't matter if I snack on this'. Boom. There's the result today. I even knew I was doing the wrong thing, but I let myself get trapped into old thinking.
So all I'm saying is that each of us progresses differently due to individual metabolism. You've done an amazing job. I think I have too, and everyone else who is posting on here. Even to get to the point of acting to change your life at all is a big step. I guess I'm going back to the concept of doing my 'personal best'. Only I can know if I am truly doing that. Same for you - but from where I'm looking, you seem to be doing just great!

My 6 months is actually on the 29th. I'm down to the goal weight I initially set for myself 165 lbs, now I'm thinking 145 lbs. My HW was 252 SW was 238 so about 87 lbs lost total.

My 6 months was on November 11! I am 96 pounds down.
I'm 6'2" and I started at 330. I am currently hanging out around 234-236. All my health issues resolved a month and a half after surgery. Now I'm just reaping the benefits of slow, steady weight loss. My goal weight is 210. Doctors are okay with me staying where I'm at! I dropped from a size 24 to a size 14-16 in jeans and a 3X to a medium/large in tops. I am so happy to be a happy, HEALTHY 21 year old.

Omg seriously, sometimes people really need to think about what they're saying before they say it.
100 pounds is a heck of a lot more than just a few pounds!!!
I'll compliment you.
(Even tho I don't see a pic)
YOU LOOK AMAZING!!! And healthy!!!
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lol, people are simple sometimes. yesterday i was looking at a youtube channel about old commercials and found out about a diet supplement from the early 80s unfortunately named ayds...so even entire companies are simple sometimes!

105 pounds down in 6 months: very fast at first but slow now. I notice if I occasionally eat more than usual due to work stress it shows up within the next couple of days, so daily weighing helps me to monitor my progress. The best things about losing the weight are feeling more energetic, having lots of clothing choices when I shop (wearing less black now!), and the occasional compliments. I think there would be more comments from my friends, but I'm guessing that they think there might be a health problem: gay man, weight loss...One friend said 'Did you want to lose the weight?'
Huh? When you've been 100 pounds heavier and obviously not happy, who wouldn't want to?

105 pounds down in 6 months: very fast at first but slow now. I notice if I occasionally eat more than usual due to work stress it shows up within the next couple of days, so daily weighing helps me to monitor my progress. The best things about losing the weight are feeling more energetic, having lots of clothing choices when I shop (wearing less black now!), and the occasional compliments. I think there would be more comments from my friends, but I'm guessing that they think there might be a health problem: gay man, weight loss...One friend said 'Did you want to lose the weight?'
Huh? When you've been 100 pounds heavier and obviously not happy, who wouldn't want to?

As the others have said - I was always told that the 30/30 rule did not apply to Protein Shakes. But use your best judgment.

HI @@StabMyFinger
WOO WOO! CONGRATS. I'M 62 HAD BYPASS 12/24/14. HAVE LOST ABOUT 67 POUNDS. YOU'LL DO WONDERFUL. LOOK FORWARD TO A LOT MORE ENERGY.
BE BLESSED
DENISE

Even though the pre-op liver shrinking included sweet shakes and bars, I am 6 weeks post-op and only occasionally feel a little pull towards cake, chocolate, pie, dessert. Mostly I can walk right past shop displays and can even watch those close-up food-porn shots on TV cooking shows without wanting to join in. A couple of spoonfuls of slightly sweet yogurt or maybe a couple of dried apple chips fix any desire for sweet food after dinner.
For snacking, lite milk is sweet enough and has the Protein to get rid of hunger pangs.
Four weeks post-op I was feeling over-confident because everything had gone smoothly, so I resumed my weekly trip to the farmers market and while I was there I bought a slice of quiche and ate half the filling. I thought it was only egg and milk or cream, and wouldn't be a problem. But I had eaten lunch only half an hour before. Whoa! The reaction was so extreme and awful - sweating, dizziness, needing to vomit, couldn't sit down, couldn't stand up, had difficulty catching my breath - for about 15 minutes that it put me right back on track. If that was dumping I never want to go there again!

I don't dump over anything. I had a hardcore sugar addiction before my bypass revision and thus far I don't have cravings for sugar. I don't do a low carb diet so I do eat fruits so maybe that takes care of the sweet tooth I have. I never have cravings for cake or Cookies or anything I was struggling with just a few months ago... Just my two cents.

no pills that have to be swallowed ???? I use all of these everyday with no discomfort or sick feeling after taking. Good luck.