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I know someone on IG that is doing it to break a stall at almost a year out. I think early on, the first 6 months any kind of fasting is dangerous, just because its so hard to meet goals anyway. Fasting like this is a tool to break people of bad habits. Being sleeved should do it for you. You don't have to diet, your calories are already limited. I think keeping up dieting habits after surgery is a bad idea. The idea is that your 500 calorie day balances out your high calorie day and eventually you stop eating as much on your high calorie day because the low calorie day teaches you discipline. This is a lesson you learn with the sleeve, you don't need a fasting rotation to teach yourself this like a person that hasn't had WLS. Every day with the sleeve is a low calorie day unless you go off plan and purposely try to eat more. The only fasting I would consider post sleeve is limiting the hours that you eat in a day, once you can easily meet your Protein goals. Since I can easily meet my goals, I try to eat in a 8-10 hour time window, just because it stops me from eating late at night. Everyone fasts when they sleep anyway, so extending that fasting window isn't a big deal.

What insurance do you have? All the literature that I have found says it is not covered in Kentucky. Medicaid plans might cover it since Medicaid is federal and not state.

@@rleslye Personality is kind of harsh too. Dating is just really different right now, especially with people in the later 30-60. You have a lot of people that are damaged from previous relationship and haven't done the work to be better. You have some people that are in Peter Pan mode (like moi). Then just flat out, people have a ton of options. A lot of guys are just rolling the dice and dating as many women as they can because they have access to more women than ever before with the internet. Lastly there is another thing that creeps in with this age range, lots of married or not single men, who are dating just because they are middle aged and they want to see if they can still pull, but have no intentions of a relationship. They often just disappear or fade out on you. You could totally just be constantly picking the wrong kind of guy, but I seriously doubt it is your body.

The scale of that image is a little off The stomach is under the ribs. Most of the intestines are below the ribs.

No one called you a liar but you make unbelievable posts and contradict yourself all the time. Plus you have admitted to mental illness and eating disorders. So what are people supposed to think?

Your stomach is in your chest, right under your breast bone. It is no where below your ribs, where people claim they are having all this hunger and noise. Which is really digestion. A lot of this confusion could be fixed by people doing live swallow tests. I think the only people on this forum that have had one are me and JaimeLogical, at least people that talk about it. You can see that liquids go right through the sleeve, and you can see your small intestines and you learn where your stomach is and isn't. I think programs do a really poor job educating people, and since the sleeve is an easy and very profitable surgery for Doctors this is only going to get worse. I think the most disturbing thing I am seeing in the past year or so reading WLS forums is the number of people with low BMIs and obvious eating disorders having surgery. The sleeve is an anorexic dream. As WLS moves more and more to being easily profitable in the US and other places this is going to become a bigger problem. Wait poop out staples?!??!!?

It is grilling season. I read most of this thread but excuse if I post something that someone else has posted. I have tried a few sugar free BBQ sauces. Walden Farms is okay. It is easily accessible, at least around here most of the nicer grocery stores carry it. http://www.waldenfarms.com/products/sauce_bbq.html Hughes is okay, better than Walden Farms has a fake sweetner aftertaste, but its not bad if you are used to fake sweetener. It is available at some Walmarts, it seems like the ones in my area stopped carrying it, but they did a few months ago. http://www.walmart.com/ip/G-Hughes-Smokehouse-Sugar-Free-Hickory-Flavored-BBQ-Sauce-18-oz/40740655 Now onto the best I have tried... Guy's Famous http://guysbbq.com/sugar-free-sauce/4121213 This tastes just like BBQ sauce, no after taste for me. I had my carb and sugar loving friend test it and they loved it too (your tastes can get a little skewed when you never have sugar, so I needed a neutral party). Delicious amazing. I might use it to make some lower carb baked Beans. Summer is saved! I haven't seen it in stores but you can buy it online.

She will still think you had the lapband. Whatever surgery sticks in peoples mind is what they think surgery is. It is like people who call all soda Coke.

I went from a 28W to a 14 Misses, 16/17 juniors (I like juniors cuts better). I'm not done yet, hoping to get to a 10 or a 12 in Gucci.

Do you track your food? How much protein are you eating each day?

Sleep. You just had major surgery. You body is using all of its energy to repair the trauma. You are going to tired all the time for the first 6 weeks. Rest. You had most of a major organ removed.

@@Kindle I found it amusing. Body builders and anyone who is really into it will tell you, "You cannot out train a bad diet". If your eating is bad, all the training in the world is pointless. I have lost more weight controlling my calories, than I ever did training hard. The main focus of WLS patients needs to be controlling their food and head hunger. Exercising can be counter productive for some people because it stimulates the appetite. The other issue is balancing calorie intake with calories burned to prevent starvation mode.

Not only is @@Dub a handsome devil, he is well spoken too. He really nailed it on the head. I love cooking so much more that I am less attached to food. It is more art to me than aything. I don't cook for a family, I spend most of my time experimenting with low carb, keto, and paleo recipes. My goal is to replace most things I like with healthy options. It is really fun and taps into my inner scientist. It is hard to really explain how your relationship with food changes. I would have never believed this would be how i feel.

I am watching the episode with Olivia. Dr Now, does every surgery under the sun. I bet he delivers babies too. I don't understand his practice at all.

I was swallowing pills within 28 hours or so of being sleeved. When i was released in was told to resume my meds as normal, and my pain meds and all the meds they released me with were pills.

If it changes be sure to post about it. There are lots of unknowns when it comes to surgery and we would love to hear about that

I guess I'm an a*****e but it's just as rude to let your pants fall off your butt as it is for someone to comment on it. I get jeans for less than $20 at Ross, and with coupons I can do the same thing at Macys. Belts are cheap too. I don't think people who are out to eat should be subjected to seeing your button because you are trying to save money. There are so many cheap options to prevent this.

I doubt it. I mean a lot of people claim their tastes change but I am totally the same. I can't see surgery fixing an allergy and you sure don't want to test it out

He is under doctors care would have covered it without it being a lie. PEOPLE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO KNOW YOU HAVE SURGERY JUST BECAUSE THEY ASK. Do people walk up to women without children and ask how they are keeping their uterus on lockdown? Pill? IUD? No, they don't because it is rude, a personal issue and affects them in no way. I don't understand why people don't get this. Other people are not entitled to your life. I told my friend in pre-op I was thinking about surgery and she told people she thought didn't count even though I told her to tell no one. I have kept so many of her trifling secrets and she couldn't keep this on for me. Our friendship is totally different in my eyes. I will never ever trust her again. Trust once broken can't be regained, at least not with me. She went from bestie to associate. I have no idea what I would do if my spouse violated me like that.

Shrimp I had early, crab too, probably too early on crab, but it was delicious so yolo.

Do you track everything you have with am app? Can you post it? Like a sample day? How many minutes do you walk once? How far? Walking totally works but you have to walk a decent amount of time and distance

About 3 months because they are tough.

Everything you ate is basically a slider food, but you don't want to test your staple line. This is temporary. Once you are healed it's solid food till you die

@@Madea61 it did for me. I will admit, I was never on insulin and controlled with pills. I could control my sugar well eating keto, before surgery but it was too hard to maintain and I still had to watch portions. It is a lot easier to eat properly with the sleeve.

I live alone, the day I was discharged, which was 24 hours after surgery, my friend was here. The only thing she really helped with was filling my prescriptions. I was self sufficient and she left the next day. Everyone is different though, it would hurt to have help, even if annoying. If you don't need her just send her home. Also even if she is annoying, you can fake sleep a lot.