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I weigh everyday but i am pretty detached from it. I never used to weigh myself before surgery so i am trying to make a new habit. Stalls dont bother me because i lose a lot of inches. Like other people Monday is my offical weight counting day. I want to weigh every day or every other for the rest of my life. Once i get into maintenance, i never want to be in a position where i gain more than 5lbs. If you let it pile on, its too hard to get it off.

Don't say anything. Just keep dating him and see where it goes. As long as you haven't agreed to be exclusive, date other people. The best way not to get serious with one person is to date more than one person at a time.

I'm 8 months out. The preoperative diet is the worst part. Not eating after surgery is easy, almost too easy. In the beginning you have to really work hard to eat enough and meet your goals. While it is a permanent thing. Barely eating really isn't. You will have a variety of options of things to eat, eventually you will be able to eat more. I feel completely normal. I just eat less. That's about it. I make better choices but I don't feel deprived. I didn't have 2nd thoughts, once I decided that I was going to this I worked really hard to make it happen as fast as possible. I went from visit to surgery in less than 8 weeks. I think people with a lot of lead of have too much time to over think it.

Maybe you need a different dose.

dry skin brushing is the only thing that really helps, that and chemical peels.

@@Smye dump her fast. As soon as possible. Do not try to work this out. Also, seriously. Your therapist is a quack. You should be alone for a while and find yourself instead of jumping from marriage to something else. Try dating yourself for a while. It is indulgent and will get you in the right head space so you can find crazy easier. Seriously though, take a break from dating.

If you love your skin, don't try Biotin, it won't stop your hair from shedding and it makes a lot of people break out. It isn't worth the risk, imo. The best thing you can do is create and environment that promotes fast regrowth. If your hair is going to fall out, nothing will stop it. a high quality hair Vitamin like, Phyto. Collagen supplements, and exceeding your Protein goals helps. Hair is protein. When I wanted to make my hair grow fast prior to surgery I always increased my protein.

Months 3 and 4 I lost the most weight the fastest. It just fell off. My doctor explained that in the beginning most of what your body is doing is trying to heal, not lose weight. Once your body recovers from the trauma, the weight loss kicks in. Removing 85% of an organ is trauma to the body, even if it doesn't feel like it.

I have to agree with @@AvaFern on the straw. I accidentally drank from a straw and when I didn't die or instantly explode and realized how much easier it was to get Water down, that is how I drink all my water now. I can understand why they don't want people to use straws, you can drink a lot quickly and easily and if you are drinking calories that would be terrible, but for just water it is awesome. Just make sure you don't suck air in by accident. If you are having problems with Protein and liquids, I would drink Protein shakes so you can kill 2 birds with one stone. When you get tried of shakes you might try to get your water/protein in harder. Early on everything is boring and tedious and the weight loss doesn't really have that motivating wow factor yet to add to your motivation. Things really changed a lot for me at 3 months, I was 1/2 healed (my doctor said at 6 months you are fully healed an that really seems to be the case, 6 months was a huge change), and I could drink a lot more, faster and I could add more variety to my food. I know it sounds patronizing but stick with it, it gets better.

If your surgeon won't fix it for free, I would sue for malpractice.

I had similar starting stats age and weight. I had been diabetic controlled with diet and pills for several years. I'm 8 months now, and I don't take any diabetes meds, and my blood sugars are normal. I still test them now and then, fasting and shortly after eating to just to make sure it is really true and they are normal to the low end of normal all the time. I'm noteven at goal or close, I am only down a little over 100lbs. My Dr only does the sleeve. He said I was young and active and there was no reason I needed RNY. You can lose and lose quickly with the sleeve. Long term it doesn't matter if you get the sleeve or RNY. Once you are healed you can eat around either surgery if you choose to, and people regrain and/or never meet goal with both. Check both forums. RNY is not magic. If you don't want RNY and you can't afford it, don't have it. Since you are paying cash, you can switch Doctors if you want. I wasn't comfortable with having my intestines touched, I would have opted not to have surgery rather than have that option, it is just not something I want at all. If you feel like that, go with your feeling. You have to live in this body, not the Dr.

Your brother is stuffing himself, but hot dogs in a bun, depending on the bun is just a slider food. Hot dogs are not a dense source of protein. This wont trigger restriction. If he is drinking while eating then he can probably eat a lot. There is a reason they use water ate hot dog eating contests and there is a reason there are hot dog eating contests and not grilled chicken breast contests. I hate to say it but your brother is doomed to fail. He is already off program in a huge way. He isn't even healed so when he does heal, he will be eating tons because he has already figured out how to eat around his sleeve.

Maybe they have corrected some of the issues or yours is simply fuctioning better because it is new. It is known in the industry they over inflate, that is part of what makes them so popular with consumers. When your blaze is over 6 months old, the accuracy might decrease. The older they get the less accurate they are. Most of the fitbits are just glorified pedmeters, they are terrible at measuring other activities. The newer ones with GPS for runners are more accurate, but only a couple models have that, the one you have and the more expensive one. I find it interesting that your fitbit has more accurate HR monitoring, chest straps are supposed to be the gold standard. Thanks for posting about your Blaze experience.

If you live in illinois, buy a plan on health exchange.

I recently stopped using my fitbit after having one for years because I realized the step count was inaccurate. The steps are completely inflated. Iwalked with it on a few times and watched the step counts on my app on my phone and it was registering 3 steps for every step took. Some other people on instagram I talk to noticed the same thing with theirs. I haven't used a Blaze. I switched right before they announced it.

Are you taking anything for acid? You might have developed GERD since surgery, that would make you feel hungry all the time.

My opinion is going to differ from most people that are going to reply to this, but work through this the best way you can. With pre-op and immediate post on dieting, I had about 8 weeks of almost nothing. The main thing that got me through those weeks and like week 2 post on mentally I felt I was starving, was looking back on what I had eaten and knowing that I'd had what I wanted and didn't need it now. If you are still having good funerals, that's your business. When you preoperative diet, it might make it easier to endure. It might not. Don't beat yourself up about the past though, just move forward.

I think you might really be over thinking it. Mine didn't hurt any more than cramps. The gas pain in my shoulder and my hip post WLS was really the worst pain of my life because it lasted for days and not the 30 to 90 seconds of the IUD.

I would have more respect for an OB, that doesn't want to dole out narcotics for a procedure that doesn't need it. If she is this nervous about it, maybe it isn't the option for her and she should choose something else. Birth control shouldn't cause this kind of anxiety level.

Since you have to scroll down to reply, the top is what you see first. People are only skipping it by being willfully ignorant. You just admitted you know where it is but you don't bother to look, because you just don't care. And I only responded because I think it is totally BS, that women keep popping in the men forum and then get huffy when men don't respond well to it, this isn't the first time.

The forum name is in print at the top of the thread on the app and on the website just like every other forum. The fact that sometimes you can't see the blue button isn't a valid excuse. It is just laziness and entitlement. Even when women see it is a men only thread they will still post. If guys happen into a womens only thread they will usually back out and apologize. Most of the guys that post here are older married, or formerly married guys and they are respectful of womens spaces. The women that post here however don't care and run roughshod over the whole forum, because the forum is mostly women. There is one forum, one entire forum out of all the tens of forums here that isn't for them and they can't respect that, not even a little a bit. It is a good psychology experiment on when minorities become the majority, they act just like the majority, no respect for other people. Anyway I see it happening all the time and it is rude and annoying. It is one thing to make the mistake but like I said before when women see the the mistake they just keep going because they feel entitled. Men, especially since they are the minority in WLS on this forum and in the world, should be able to have a forum they can post in, and feel safe about posting without women popping in with their uninformed and unsolicited advice.

That doesn't seem like a good nutritional goal. You can't even get enough protein from 500 calories

If it is done properly in the first place no. A sleeve that isn't formed right and too much of the stretchy part is left can stretch more than others but it will never get close to normal size. The staple line they make is 3 rows of titanium staples. Some people do have leaks and develop complications but that is rare. You can however eat around your sleeve. There are food that break down very easily and are high calorie, called slider foods. You can eat a lot of these items. You will find on forums a lot of people eat these kinds of foods and complain about not having restriction but some things will never trigger your restriction, thus they are called slider foods.

I can see male only on the app. It is in the male only forum. People post all kinds of stuff in the wrong forum. Her lecturing post was completely out of line. A young man asking about the function of his penis is perfectly fine. The broads with PCOS post all over the forum everywhere about their baby dreams and no one says a damn thing to them. Maybe he wants to be a dad and hopes surgery will improve his chances. Women always pop in the male forum giving unneeded advice but men rarely pop in the female forum. Just because women are the majority on the forum doesn't get them the right to be bullys. If he wanted to ask other guys if his knees are going to be sexy that is his business. No one asked for her Mom opinion. Just because you are old doesn't mean a 24 year old isn't an adult.

The pain is going to depend on a few factors, including the skill of the doctor. I have a copper IUD I had several years before surgery. My pain was basically non existent. Cramped a little like a period. The first 6 months I spotted a lot, but I didn't have constant periods. After 6 months totally normal. No idea about hormonal one, I got an IUD to avoid hormones. The peace of mind is worth it. I love it 2nd only to my sleeve.