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Fat holds hormones, when you dump fat, it releases hormones into your body, floods it really. You can expect spotting and irregular periods for a while. After a lifetime of clockwork periods mine are now irregular.

@@Crystal Ann Keister 2 days after having your insides diced and rearranged, yeah you are in pain. It is only the 2nd day though, give it time. This is major surgery! Just because people can walk and move and are released from the hospital quickly doesn't mean that WLS is not major surgery it is. Rest and give yourself time to heal.

A couple much larger studies have shown that bougie size does not matter, and a smaller bougie increases complications. The issue isn't the bougie size, it is if the sleeve is properly formed. He kind of outted himself by admitting he used larger and switched to smaller later. That doesn't mean that smaller works better, more than likely his technique at doing sleeves improved with time. They just use the bougie as a guide when they cut, so if they are close or further away from the bougie that is all on them and their technique. The differences in sizes is still very minimal, you can't blame regain on the bougie size, unless you can't make a properly formed sleeve.

I am 5'4" femaleI don't track food or calories but my guess is between 900-1200 a day. What's interesting is that I WANT to start running, and I can't find a real, valid reason why I haven't yet. That sounds absolutely ridiculous now that I'm reading it... I am not a gym person at all. Every single person I know that is successful with weight loss long term logs their food. I suggest you weight, measure and log your food. Every single thing. I have been doing it for over a year never missing a day, and I have a complete log of what I eat and that helps me see patterns and make adjustments. If you don't have the data, how can you make adjustments? If you start weighing and measuring your portions and logging you might realize you are under or overestimating your calories. I want to run also. I am choosing not to run because an injury is just not worth it. Dr Matthew Weiner talks about what happens when you have an injury and basically all the normal activity you have, like doing things around the house and shopping nose dive. So an injury and recovery sets you back more. It is better to do something simple and less prone to injury that you can do all the time. I can easily burn 500-1000 calories a day with walking, depending on how far and how much time I have to walk. Walking has very little chance of injury and I can do it all the time. I do really want to run a 5K but I am going to wait until I am much closer to goal and my joints have had more time to recover from carrying so much weight for so long.

This should be a poster or a T-shirt. Well said.

@@Inner Surfer Girl Embracing the stall doesn't apply to everything and it patronizing and dismissive to just drop it in every stall thread.

@@madeline121 All calories do not effect your body the same way. What do you eat?

@@haleymarie I felt that way for years. I am so happy with mine I am really disappointed I didn't get one sooner, but you have to choose what works with you. I can't take hormones at all so this is my only viable long term option while keeping the door open so to speak.

I had a copper IUD before surgery. I like it, and I have no plans on getting rid of it. When I have it removed I will just get another one. Perfect birth control, no nasty hormones.

@@KristenLe I really wonder about people being curious and what makes them curious. I don't have co-workers so I have never had to deal with that aspect of WLS. When I moved where I live now I moved here before surgery, so these people knew me as fat only. I had surgery started walking, got a dog and walked even more. I walked all the time in my apt complex, rainy days, freezing cold. With weights on, multiple times a day. None of the people that live here that have seen me drop weight "rapidly" have asked me a lot of questions about it. They just say "Looking good" "The hard work is paying off" I have literally lost a whole entire person in weight since I moved here, and no one questions it. Even the people that know me, and don't know I had surgery have never questioned it. My eating habits are totally different and my activity level while high before is through the roof now. People that are my friends on fitbit etc, see that I walk 25,000 steps a lot of days. My weight loss doesn't seem magical to people, they attribute it to a lifestyle change.

My Dr said it was an appetite stimulant and to avoid it for that reason. Caffeine does the exact opposite to me. Before I could have coffee after surgery I just took a caffeine pill. Then I added coffee back and I have coffee all day every day (cold brew low acid). Talk to your Dr about it.. Also caffeine is in stuff like Goody powders because it makes them hit your blood stream faster.

@@d258 you didn't state your height, if you are male or female or how many calories or carbs you eat in a day. You might need more calories, more Protein and possibly fewer carbs. You can lose a lot of weight just walking. I just walk and I lose a lot of weight. Exercise doesn't have to mean going to the gym and depend on what kind of person you are going to the gym can do more harm than good. I have lost more weight steadily with walking than I ever did doing lots of other really hard workouts. The stress of other workouts are counter-productive for me. Also, @@SuperDave is right, 5.5 pounds isn't a stall. You are under 200 pounds, your weight loss is going to be slower now.

It took my body about 6-9 months to adjust.

@@bigmamaAfrica I use LoseIt Premium. It is only 29.99 a year compared to the $49-69 other apps are asking.

@@Daisee68 The jeans at Banana republic stretch but they hug you so they kind of mask any issues and make the most of what you have, they are a little thicker than the jeans at Old Navy but still soft. I still might get a pair, they were $30 off the other day. The Rockstar sculpt are pretty awesome. I tried stuff on with no shapewear on so I can get a real idea how they fit. The rockstar jeans with the sculpt are worth paying a little extra for. The regular rockstars fit good too. Yeah the curvys seem to have too much stretch. I think the kid working the dressing room hates me. I tried on 15 pairs of jeans. i always take 2 sizes just to make sure I am not kidding myself on my sizes.

You know what's funny, everything you have on your list you can have post op except the beer and champagne. I had all these food funerals thinking I would not enjoy food or something in the future and that was just not the case at all. I have steak and it tastes even better because since I eat less of it I get the most expensive cuts. Good luck with the surgery

Is your surgeon Dr Wiener?

Calories really vary. I am still losing eat 1400 to 1600 calories a day. With my activity level, that still puts me at a deficit. Like @@Babbs said, it is really important to raise your calories as you are losing and can eat more so you don't ruin your metabolism and have to eat 800 or 1000 calories a day forever.

One random broad when I went to buy a bra last year. Only fat people ask if you have surgery I think. Naturally thin people believe diet and exercise work.

She is Canadian, they have always been able to go to Cuba. They didn't participate in out dated US foreign policy. So good job on writing a book about US laws when she clearly stated she was Canadian and it is hard to find summer clothes in Canada before her trip. Nothing like clinging to the cold war.

It is bad. Eating disorder bad. Stop. If you can't stop seek professional help.

You know they are hateful old birds but you are trying to find common ground with them and be friends. Just stop. These sound like the hateful old biddies my mom works with. They made her life a living hell. Do yourself a favor and just work at work and stop talking to them. Also the next time they say something about gays, turn them into corporate HR. That is a hostile workplace. You know they aren't your friends, stop talking to them. And for anyone else who reads this stop yelling your co-workers your business when you know you work with hateful, petty, jealous, unhappy women. Make you life easy and keep to yourself.

Thank goodness we have wine at church and I'm not Catholic. I guess you take communion with grape juice? Jesus actually said wine, it is a representation. Jesus loved wine so much he turned Water into wine at a wedding to keep the party going, so I don't think he will care if I say wine. The mystery of faith doesn't require that you be an idiot. It is water down wine,and we are talking about medical needs so calling it what I is, in and secular setting is completely appropriate.

I went to Old Navy. Nothing in old Navy feels as good as the banana Republic jeans but since they are about 1/2 to 1/4 the price that is to be expected. The Rockstar mid rise skinny jeans make my butt look the best. I also feel like I can wear them the longest. The curvy size is okay, but even in skinny they a close to mom jeans, the butt just isn't as flattering. I might need to go down a size in the curvy.

I am flabby, but I don't even care. I am still so much smaller and more comfortable it is worth it.