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CONGRATS!!! crossing the legs is a great NSV! I hadn't been able to comfortably cross my legs in years and a few weeks after surgery I was sitting at home talking to my wife and she just stopped talking and stared at me. I asked her what happened and she pointed at my legs. I had casually crossed them while we spoke without noticing. It was wonderful!!! A similar one is bending over to pick something up without any problem. These type of NSVs are really powerful and make you feel like you are taking your life back. Keep on enjoying them!

I opted for sleeve surgery a few months back because my weight gain had been large enough that it was compromising my mobility. I had always had success with weight loss, the most being ten years ago when I lost 100 lbs. IN four years I gained it back and another 50 over the next few years after that. I knew I can lose the weight while dieting, but I was uncertain I could maintain it. The sleeve offered me the option to physically restrict food intake and calories. While it's only been three months, I am ecstatic with the results so far. It is hard work and tales perseverance, but I needed this change and I could not have accomplished what I have so far by dieting alone. You should takl a look and decide what works for you.

That was sooo inspiring! Thanks for that post and making us all realize once again it's all about choices.Your commitment is commendable and a great example to us all!

Excellent advice that is hard to follow. I try to do it and I recognize I am still relatively early in what will be a life long process, but sometimes I do wonder why the difference in speed of weight loss. I know that there are many variables, and we do not know anybody's whole story, but still that desire to compare and question comes in and mucks things up!

I am three months out from surgery and I do miss foods. When I feel food pressure building, I think about how far I have come and the pressures taut once dominated me seem much less important. Not eating some of the things nor the quantities of times past seems like such a small price to pay for mobility, less pain and feeling better about myself than I have in years! Also, food is about quality not quantity. As many have said before in these forums, you now eat to live, not live to eat.

hello all. I;m a 51 yr old male living in the Dominican Republic and I had sleeve surgery 7/29. I am married to a wonderful women that has supported me through this process and we have three adult kids (23, 22 and 20). I have been benefiting from everyone's collective wisdom for some time and hope to be able to help folks as I have been helped.

My sleeve has been cooperative and starts me off with a small hiccup when I am nearing being full. If I choose to ignore that (not wise), the hiccups get stronger and my nose gets stuffed. I have learned the hard way that going beyond that takes me to the danger zone with lots of pain and nausea. After much trail and error, I learned that as soon as the hiccups start, I stop. Once that happened a few times I started being able to eyeball about how much I can eat. Good luck!

After the surgery you will be amazed how little goes in. Right after the surgery, when I was on liquids I didn't notice it that much, but I did notice that hunger disappeared. Once I started on pureed foods, a Few teaspoons would fill me up. And if I went too far and ate too much or too fast, it hurt and I felt really, really bad. The sleeve's physical restriction is very real. The other thing you will face is your body trying to act like it used to with food. You'll try to gulp Water and you will learn you shouldn't. You'll try to eat the same size mouthfuls and at the same speed and you;ll quickly learn not to. THIS REALLY WORKS BUT YOU HAVE TO READY FOR THE CHANGES THAT YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE!

You are changing your life in a radical way. Many things that were comfortable or familiar are changing. That is a scary process and regret is a normal reaction. But you had the courage to take the first steps. Just keep taking those steps. As for not being able to do it alone, only a small percentage of folks can. Big deal! You made a choice to live a different, healthier life and more power to you. We all have moments of regret, the key is to see past them. So far, I am discovering this was the best gift I ever gave myself and in my now much smaller gut I know that feeling will only get stronger.

INCREDIBLE!! Keep it up!

Yes, Water does suck. Protein powder is the pits. Feeling guilty about missing exercise is a pain in the butt. BUTTHEN I THINK... ...dropping clothing sizes like mad is exhilarating! ...feeling no leg or back pain has changed my life! ...no more BP meds, pain meds, is liberating! ...and feeling like I gained my life back is the greatest feeling of all! I bitch and rant all the time to myself about the restrictions, until I think about what I have accomplished and what it will mean for the future. Before my surgery I was scared about the future, I was uncertain if I would be healthy enough to face it. Now, just 11 weeks later, I can't wait for what the future will bring. Rants are normal and healthy - we all need to let off steam!

Anxiety is not unusual. I was freaking out when I left the pureed stage and onto solids about six weeks ago. My nutritionist gave me a list of foods and amounts I should eat, and I couldn't tolerate the foods nor the amounts. I started trying to force myself to eat the food and amounts and I felt horrible. My wife finally stopped me and made me re-evaluate what I was doing. She made me realize that the nutritionist had provided me guidelines, but every one of us is different. I started going at my own pace and focused on Protein and Water. That meant that some days I couldn't get in anything but my lean Proteins and water. It took some adjusting but I learned my pace. Your stomach and your whole system is still adjusting - that takes a while. Don't push yourself and just try to get in the protein and water you need. Over time, everyone on this site with a lot more experience tells us that we will adjust. I am finding that it is true. Good luck and just keep going one day at a time. It's worth it!

Great news that the recovery is going smoothly. I started having leg pains about a week after surgery, but embarrassingly it was because I felt so good I was actually walking for the first time in years and my muscles were sore! Talk to your surgeon and they will likely check for clots just to make sure.

Congrats! Thanks for sharing and giving those of us starting out proof that that sticking to the program works!

I think many of us have longed to be able to win that trophy! The early days are the ones where you doubt you sanity but it does get much, much better. You've got the right attitude - keep it up! Water, liquids and Protein - the combination to success!

It may be hard to believe, but you are doing great! I couldn't go back to me regular schedule for two weeks after my sleeve surgery. Take it easy and like everyone has said, keep walking. I found low-sodium broths were far more palatable than Water and had more of them than water at the beginning. Just keep plugging away. at this point walking, water and Protein are your priorities. You will get through it and things will get much, much better!

Congratulations! Thanks for relaying your accomplishment - it serves as an inspiration to those of us starting the process!

I'm slightly ahead of you at 11 weeks and I am continually surprised at how little I eat and how satisfied I feel. The important thing is not to push it and respect the signals you are getting. If you push the results are not good (pain and nausea), so understand that you can only hold a bit. The more experienced here say that it does get better, but it is really restrictive in the beginning.

I have the same problem, and the past couple of weeks more things are not staying down. It usually happens to me, however, when I eat too fast or try something new. I got too adventurous on food choices and have scaled things back to good effect. I have also tried slowing down and it helps somewhat.

Had my weigh in today with the nutritionist and things are still going steady. They use one of the scales that uses electrical currents to gauge your fat/non-fat percentages and it showed I lost 3/4 muscle to 1/4 fat. I am doing 30 minutes of cardio a day so I hoped that my muscle mass would at least hold steady. I am happy at the continued weight loss, but bummed at the mix. I know I must stay the course, but why am I so fixated on the bad news (muscle vs fat loss) rather than the good (20 lb loss in 5 weeks!!!)????

El procedimiento recomendado por el medico es reconocido por su eficacia en eliminar diabetes. Hace 10 semanas me hicieron una manga gástrica así que no puedo comentar sobre el SADI-S. La única recomendación que le hago es que consulte con varios médicos para ver que funcionaria mejor para usted. En mi caso, consulte con varios, y todos recomendaron la manga gástrica. El proceso no es fácil, pero si vale la pena. No es que la cirugía es difícil, es que la cirugía es solo el paso inicial. Es una lucha diaria para controlar lo que uno come, hacer el ejercicio necesario y cambiar su estilo de vida. Pero hace mucho tiempo que no me siento tan bien como ahora. Tengo victorias diarias como poder agacharme y levantarme sin problemas, como poder cruzar mis piernas o caminar sin agotarme. Siga las indicaciones del médico que escoja y vera un resultado positivo. Le deseo suerte en este proceso y la felicito por haber tomado los pasos iniciales!

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That overfull feeling is scary - pain, nausea, and it feels like you will never get over it, but you do. Just learn from the experience and know when to stop. I have unfortunately felt it more than once, and have finally learned to understand the signals. The temptations will always be there, but it's up to us to resist them as much as we can (of course the negative reinforcement of how crappy you feel does make it a bit easier).

Have you tried unflavored Protein? I found one on amazon that is an unflavored whey isolate that I make smoothies with in the morning. I used vanilla flavored whey isolate for three weeks pre-op and for eight weeks after surgery and I couldn't tolerate it by the end of the eighth week. I am now making smoothies using oj or milk, fresh fruit and frozen berries and it goes down real smooth. You have to be careful regarding carbs, especially from the fruit, but my stomach can handle the protein again.

As many others say on this forum, this is a long term change and every day it gets better. I did lots of research before my surgery ten weeks ago and I thought I was ready for what was to come. i wasn't. However, every day I learn more about what I can and can't do. There will be good days and bad days, but you will find that the balance quickly goes more to the good than the bad. Speak with the your surgeon and nutritionist, take care of the GERD, and take it day by day. I am a newbie on this journey, and after only 10 weeks, the good is outweighing the bad. It will for you as well. Hang in there!