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I couldn't sleep on my back either. I accidently slept on my stomach on the 4th night. And I finally slept well and it helped so much with gas. I'm not suggesting it, but for me it felt great.

Sleeve doesn't have malaborption like bypass so the pill will still work fine.

What do you eat?

I weigh my food and track it with an app. If you weigh and track your food you know exactly where you went wrong. I am 8 months out. What I eat varies by my mood. I have one Protein shake a day. A steak or 2, 4 to 5 ounces. 6 ounces of fish. I eat 4 times a day and try to have 100 to 120 grams of protein a day. I try to keep my calories above 700 and below 1100. I still have some high and low days, it just depends on my mood. I keep my net carbs below 50, my goal is below 30 but that can be hard some days.

Cucumber slices make the perfect cracker. Change how you think about food. Crackers are terrible with zero nutrition.

No, I tolerate everything, no after taste. I just choose not to have some things because they are trash like truvia. It is worse than sugar.

That's the thing with these artifical sweeteners they are all made so differently by different companies that it is hard to know which ones work. Anything granulated is a wild card. They all have different ways they make them granulated and that makes all the difference. Your ice cream probably uses liquid sweetener, the liquid is more pure.

Yeah I agree, just no on truvia. If swerve doesn't work for you, then I am not sure what to tell you, that is the best baking option. So the sweetener in that ice cream you eat doesn't bother you? What is it sweetened with? My Protein sweets are eatmeguiltfree.com brownies. I don't have the energy for baking and most low carb recipes for sweets are a pain in the ass.

What are you baking with? Swerve bakes well. It really depends on what you are making, how the recipe was designed and what sweetener you are using. Do you have an example?

Yeah I don't eat microwaved food at all. Microwaving leftovers removes the moisture and you will be able to eat less.

Yeah it varies. Sometimes it is the food, the temp of the food, the texture, the moisture content, etc. Sometimes its just the mood, etc. I know early on I would get bored eating slow and just stop eating.

I weigh my food so how it looks on the plates doesn't matter. I do like to see how small 4oz of meat looks on a plate so I can better judge it when I am eating out.

It really depends on the recipe, most cauliflower crust recipes suck. As a former Chicagoan I take my pizza real serious especially my thin crust. This is the best recipe I have tried. http://ketodietapp.com/Blog/post/2015/08/24/foolproof-cauli-pizza-pepperoni If you are a good cook, you can really make good substitutions. I make saffron cauliflower rice, it is delicious and I make garlic cheddar mashed cauliflower and it is delicious. I just don't make it often because unless I am going to have it for a snack, I don't have room for it after eating my Protein.

My program doesn't allow any of those items you were eating for the first 6 months anyway. I think most doctors are against bread forever.

If you were taking narcotics still after coming home, it makes it harder for your intestines to wake up. A lot of the grumbling and noises you hear are you intestines. You really shouldn't be feeling physically hungry at this point, it is something to discuss with your Dr at your follow up appointments.

@@24601 He is a man and how he looks with a BMI of 30 is going to be different than a female. According to my BMI I am mostly fat but according to my DEXA scan I have more lean mass than fat, and the BMI calculation is very far off on my body fat percentage. Being heavy for a long time strengthens your bones and makes them very dense. My bone density is at the top of the chart. I don't know how long OP was overweight but if he was over weight for a long time, he could have very dense bones. Being overweight for a long time changes your body, that is why most doctors don't set goals for for long time morbidly obese people that low. Carry a large amount of weight for a long time increases your muscle mass and your bone density, then if you add in ethnicity and body frame, there are more differences.

@@sammielouwho @@jlw18 Are you mentally or physically hungry? Are you on a PPI? Are you taking an acid reducer? Is your physical hunger below your breast or below your rib cage?

It depends on how you were before and how you felt about yourself. I think age and culture is also a factor. I notice that it seems common in certain cultures that being fat means you are worthless and invisible and people give up on looking good and making an effort. I had a business associate that had WLS and afterwards her personality totally changed. She had never had male attention before and suddenly she had lots of it, and we completely boy crazy. Also due to some other issues in her life, she had to grow up early and missed being a young adult and it was like she reverted to being 18. It was difficult to watch. I have always been an outgoing confident person and that hasn't changed. I have a different weight loss environment than most people since I live and work alone. I don't have other people projecting their feelings onto me every day about how I look, so that allows me to adjust in my own time and space. I think a big factor about people thinking they are different is other people seeing them differently and projecting different feelings onto them. Like people used to ignore and discount someone and suddenly they have lost weight and seem like a real person to them. I have always been a flashy dresser, and that hasn't changed. The only difference is I look a lot better in my clothing choices and I have much larger selection of clothing to choose from, and many more stores to shop at since I am at the bottom of plus sizes and the top of normal sizes. I always wore skirts and dresses, now I just wear bodycon dresses more than I wear fit and flares.

Stop watching TV, it is full of food commercials. When you think about food, go for a walk and think about your weight loss goals while walking.

It is kind of pointless to try now. Everything is different after surgery. Don't stress about it. One of the tgingd thats happens after surgery is you learn to eat again, like a baby. New habits come easier.

Congrats. I hope my 1 year looks like yours. I think the least amount of lead time to surgery is the best.

Just get a steak at every meal, skip the starch and get a good veggie. You can do it!

I know a lot of people use small plates and utensils but I really like using normal sizes. It keeps me mindful that I am eating small amounts, and I really enjoy that I can be satisfied on so little, it makes me feel more in control. Also it helps for when I am in situations where a plate might be prepared for me. I know how much I should leave (like at a restaurant). Also a small amount of food on a larger plate appears to be fine dining. I have some really nice dinnerware and flatware I purchased not long before surgery and I love to use them.

If a person has certain desires and their partner is unable or unwilling to meet those desires, it can be a big blow to the ego of that person, especially if it is something that people consider common like oral sex, and their partner refuses to do it. /r/deadbedroom offers a lot of insight into this, you can read about what sexual incompatibility does to relationships and people from both perspectives. So your husband probably has a lot of resentment over his needs not being met and he is being an ass and going out of his way to make you jealous as payback. As other people have said, you have to cut off contact with him. I can't imagine how hard that is to do after all these years, but if you can go a few weeks with no contact with him, it will do you both a lot of good.

Look for a makeup artist in your area that does one on one makeup sessions and book one. You can learn to correct a lot of what you are complaining about with artful makeup application.