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If that is your allowed portion, and that is what you ate, then why are you asking advice from random strangers? Your plan has outlined what you are allowed to eat and you are following it. I added a lot positive to the post, weighing and measuring your food is the key. If you are weighing and measuring your food and eating your proper allowed portion from your plan, how is there a question? 1/4 cup of food is a normal portion for most patients. I'm just not saying what you want to hear? You are being really nasty to people over a banana. Good luck.

@@Cassie111 I also have a book, with all kinds of nutritional information and outlines, but besides limits on the amount of sugar in Protein shakes that is allowed, there are no carb recommendations. I am below 25 net carbs most days, and always below 50. You have to find a way of eating that works for you. I eat low carb leaning towards keto. I eat this way because I enjoy it and it is sustainable for a lifetime for me.

If the people that were in my pre-op class are the kind of people that will be at the support groups, not interested. Never been to a support group. This chick sounds like a twit, ignore her and stop talking to her. Some people are not worth knowing.

@@gustavio If your plan says 4 tablespoons, why did you eat an entire banana?

@@dvons How much you should eat isn't some great mystery. Serving sizes aren't a mystery. How much you can eat and how much you should eat are two different things and it seems to be something that a lot of people don't understand by the constant barrage of posts we see about it.

When people say I could eat X in X amount, should I be able to? The response is WHY? You should be weighing or measuring your proper portion and only eating that. I'm pretty sure I could eat quite a bit right now, maybe a 6 ounce steak if I wanted, but a proper portion is 4 ounces. I weigh my 4 ounces and eat that. I don't know if I can eat too much because I don't create situations where I can over eat. Weighing and measuring your food and only eating the proper portion is a major key.

coffee is not a diuretic. This has been disproved by numerous studies. I have never been dehydrated and I have been drinking coffee since 6 weeks. I drink coffee everyday, I'm sipping on some right now. I enjoy it the same as before, maybe more because it is my only "vice" if coffee can even be considered a vice. I was never consuming coffee with sugar before. Never used fake creamers. My coffee is pretty clean. I don't add Protein to it because well, I'm never short on protein and heat with most protein doesn't mix. When I drink iced coffee, I will add protein every once in a while. I do suggest if you are going to drink coffee, especially in the first 6 months, opt for something low acid, like a cold brew or a coffee that specifically says low acid. The acid in coffee is more of a concern than the caffeine or any imagined diuretic effects.

@@Sajijoma I'm really happy for you. It is a great feeling!

@@illailla Depends on the person and the amount they have to lose. My hormones just got back to normal at the one year mark, because I am not losing rapidly anymore.

@@illailla Fat stores hormones so as you lose weight it floods your system with them. Also all the Vitamins and other changes are a lot on your body. You can try this face scrub http://www.sheamoisture.com/SheaMoisture-for-Men-Official-Real-Smooth-Man-Regimen-_p_1412.html The facial wash and scrub, I couldn't find a picture of it alone. They have at Target's that stock a lot of products for African Americans.

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You can't add most Protein to really hot foods and if you cook most protein powders you ruin them. The chicken soup from unjury is a good option for something savory. other than that, I would slowly add my protein to my warm broth with a whisk and that created few clumps.

People on the app can, but they rare do, see what forum stuff is posted in.

Bananas are super high in sugar for a fruit, and since they can vary so much in size, people should be careful with them.

http://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/sugar-free-vanilla-buttercream-frosting/

I purchased really nice flatware and plates before surgery and since I live alone they would go unused if I used baby utensils. I have always used regular utensils and plates. I used to eat fast pre-op and I tried myself to not eat fast post-op by taking a bite, putting the for down, set a timer on my phone for 90 seconds, take a bite. I also eat while I read on my phone or computer and that causes me to naturally pause some to scroll, etc.

@@IveGotThePower The 60%, is 60% of your excess weight within 2 years. Taking your start weight and height, you would expect to lose 98 pounds within 2 years and end up at 192. Your surgery date is not filled in so I am not sure if you are pre or post-op. I met/exceed the 60% in the first 12 months, and hope to lose the rest over the next 6-12 months.

@@stefanie0804 Do you need will power with the sleeve and motivation. If you are properly motivated, your sleeve makes it easier to make the right choices because you are satisfied with less and you can eat to normal portions. In the beginning, which is the stage almost everyone in this thread is in, the healing process makes it easier to stick to your plan. Once you are healed at 6 months, you have your normal capacity which is higher than right after post op. If people don't learn early on to eat healthy and properly (the opposite of what they normally eat just in smaller amounts that a lot of people seem to try), when they can eat larger amounts they stop losing, and eventually start gaining. Your sleeve won't stop you from eating cake or ice cream or cotton candy or elephant ear, or crackers or chips. All the empty calories and sugary carbs are very easy to eat and you can eat them in quantity. You have to decide not to eat them The difference with the sleeve is if you follow your program, following the stages, it reprograms your mind and body to be satisfied with Proteins and veggies and you relearn to eat properly like a baby. The stages exist not just to help with healing but also to change the relationship with food. A lot of people miss that point and skip that aspect of surgery by skipping the steps, or advancing them or eating what they normally do in small amounts. If you change your way of eating for life, you are never on a diet.

Nothing is going to stop you from lifting post op but you need to wait until you heal. Surgery cuts through your abdominal muscles and you need to let them fully heal or risk a hernia.

27 lb first 6 weeks

No. I grill most days. I grilled yesterday, grilling again today. I have sugar free BBQ sauce and sugar free BBQ rubs. If you can cook, I really don't see holidays being a struggle as far as food.

@ As other people have said, at 6 months you are fully healed you can eat more, and there is less chance of accidentally over eating and causing pain, so our aversion to food lessens. When I was 6 months it was like a switch flipped for me, and instead of feeling like a WLS patient I felt normal. In this time between 6-12 months it is really important to learn that just because you CAN eat more at one sitting, doesn't mean you SHOULD. Weigh/measure your portions and stick to those, those portion amount will satisfy you. The goal is to be satisfied not full. When you hit the 12 month mark you will have even more capacity, so if it important to learn and practice discipline before it happens.

@@jtellechea001 The sleeve and the bypass are the same long term. At the 2 year mark the results are almost exactly the same. Bypass patients will lose faster in the very beginning but those stop losing faster. The person that gave you the advice doesn't seem to be that knowledgable about bypass, because most bypass patients don't dump and those that do, only usually dump early on. I have an associate that had bypass 4 years and they eat incredible amounts of sugar (and have regained about 1/3 of their loss and they never hit goal or anything close to it, never got under 200), and they do not dump or get sick. Finally if in 10-20 years you need some kind of revison, with the sleeve, at least you can go to the DS. If someone wastes their bypass and regains all or most of their weight back, they are stuck with that "gold standard" and no where to go. In 1 year I exceed my 2 years expected weight loss with the sleeve and probably in the next 6-12 months I will probably get to or below my desired goal weight. The tool doesn't matter, what matters is the person using it. Also if they are having results that bad with the sleeve at that hospital, then they aren't doing them right. a well formed sleeve is just as good if not better than bypass. The skill of the surgeon matters in the Sleeve.

Well you don't have to tell anyone about your health choices, there are laws that even say you don't. They already know you are over weight so just tell them you start a medical weight loss program. Most people have jobs. The program I went to, when I had appointments they were clustered together, so it was 1/2 a day or whatever and got it all over with. you need to talk to them about how you can work appointments around your work schedule.

@@saphfyre14 Are you tracking your food and your exercise in an app? Where you can see the numbers? You won't feel bad about the food you are eating when you see the calories you are burning right next to it. Also you don't want to get a bad attitude towards food or an exercise addiction, that is a gateway to an eating disorder. You have to have balance.