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Not owning a scale and not weighing myself is how I got super morbidly obese. Weighing myself is a simple part of my morning now. Weighing myself every day has allowed me to learn not to stress about what the scale says. It is completely ridiculous sometimes. Weighing myself all the time, has allowed to accept stalls and learn that even though you are eating perfectly, you still might not lose weight, and that is fine. I feel like having a scale and weighing yourself every day desensitizes you to it so it isn't so dramatic.

@niseys4 I love wearing wigs. It has opened a whole new world to me. I keep my hair braided and I can workout be active whatever. And then when I am dressed I wear wigs. I have several and it makes like easy and getting dressed fun. I'm not sure I will ever stop wearing them.

Before you get your knickers in a knot if you read everything I posted I said the projected WL with RNY is better, but it is only 20 pounds or so. I personally don't think 20 pounds is worth having healthy intestines cut and rerouted or the extra long term maintenance. I don't think RNY is worth the hassle unless you have GERD. I also said, I have exceeded the weight loss for RNY and Bypass. OP is asking for opinions from people on why they chose one surgery over the other. I really don't feel that one surgery has better outcomes than others, just based on the surgery, the patient and their post op choices matter more. I have lost more weight than most people I know with RNY. My diabetes has reversed while a lot of people who had bypass are still diabetic. Surgery doesn't matter as much as lifestyle changes, habits and food choices. People can easily eat around any surgery.

Eating real food, real protein like meat is better for you for a lot reasons. Since it is not pre-processed, your body uses more calories processing meat than it does processing protein supplements, so 200 calories of a protein supplement you will absorb most of the calories, but your body is going to burn more calories processing the dense protein. Also it is more satisfying, and keeps you full longer. At 2 years out a protein bar for me, does not trigger restriction, 4 ounces of dense protein always does. Some people say they still have restriction with protein bars long term, but that doesn't apply to me. For me they are basically empty calories that do nothing for hunger.

My program did not have those classes. They sound very helpful. I would say. Stress Management - if you are an emotional eater and you can no long self soothe with food, you are going to need to learn stress management. Or if you have a drink to relax. Emotional Eating - See above Self image and Self Esteem - This is what I personally had the most issues with and I was a confident plus size woman but no longer being plus sized after 20 years of being plus sized was a huge shift for me that I was no prepared for at all. I thought it was would awesome and fun and enjoyable but instead it was a huge crisis. Changes in social dynamics - This didn't apply to me because where I live, I live alone with no friends near by but if I lived near friends or family it would have been an issue. I see it being an issue for a lot of people. They have made a major life change but they try to resume their old life and keep things going like nothing happened. That seems to mostly have pretty poor results. Good luck! seems like you have a good program. Report back about the classes and if they help you.

Early on they sit in your stomach like a brick. Protein shakes are a lot easier while you are still healing the first 6 months.

I am very happy you finally got the help you needed. Best of luck!

Flatouts last for over a month and you can freeze them. The crisp up perfectly on a pizza stone. @gwbicster You are barely a month from surgery neither are appropriate food choices for you. You seem hell bent on sabotaging yourself almost every post I read from you is one bad choice after another. You have a new baby stomach it can not handle this stuff and even if it is, it shouldn't.

@digi1024 Do you track and weigh your food?

There are 8 years of posts in this thread.

I can't believe people are complaining about a waitress actually doing her job, properly. If most people are not eating their food, they are usually not happy with it. It is the servers job to make sure people are enjoying their food and it was prepared properly. It isn't the server fault that someone had surgery and can't eat. I still don't get why people insist on going out when they can't even make a dent in the food then get pissy when people notice. You choose this no one else. The rest of the world is not required to adapt to you. The smaller you get physically the easier it gets. At the size I am now, when I 1/2 eat my food no one is surprised, lol. When I ask for a box, no one cares. Thin women don't eat a lot and people don't expect them to. Also at 2 years out, I can eat enough when I am out that no one even notices. You would never know I had surgery. I feel like post-op a lot of us put ourselves in a lot of awkward and uncomfortable situations that are not necessary just to try and still fit into a certain mold. The problem is that mold is, it is the one that allowed you to get obese in the first place. There is nothing wrong with being a different person with different habits. Don't be afraid to change and be a difference person. Long term it makes life easier to make choices that align with a healthy lifestyle. The one person that was semi close to me that had WLS before me. She never changed her lifestyle. She still went out to eat with her family to the same restaurant, ordered the same food and just ate less. She never got to goal, never got under 200 pounds (she started close to 400 pounds) bottoming out at 250 and then regained 50 pounds and is now sitting around 300. Now years later she is trying to adapt a healthy lifestyle and lose her regain and then some. It is much hard years out to change your habits, it is much easier to change them early on and then stick them.

If someone is over a year, probably not. Probably not even at 6 months. It is dense because it is basically solid cheese, but the density isn't the issue, since you really eat one piece of fat head and that is it. The calories are too high for a sleever, when there are better lower calorie options. I like fathead, I make it. I have the calories to spare so it is okay for me. I would just caution people from making it a staple in their eating when they are trying to drop weight. 4 ounces of steak is a better lower calorie option.

Well this is posted in the Band to Sleeve forum so I am not sure how many responses you are going to get. Do you track your food? Do you weigh your food? Do you eat dense protein? What do you eat in a day?

Sleevers don't have pouches...

This are these feelings that a lot of people hold. I will admit myself until I had surgery or got close to having it, I thought that surgery did more than what it does. The reality is, you still need will power after WLS. You REALLY need to understand nutrition, no matter how you choose to eat post-op, the people that more successful have a firm grasp on nutrition and how it works. You still have to manage head hunger. I have no physical appetite really, but I have head hunger like anyone else. WLS makes it easier to ignore my head hunger but it is still there. I feel like WW would do more harm than good, for these reasons. If you accidentally slip and let people know you had surgery, they are more than likely going to treat you with disdain. All of your successes will have an asterisk next to it, in their minds. I will be 2 years post-op tomorrow and I feel like the biggest flaw with WLS and the WLS community is all of it is focused on immediate post-ops. No one cares about people over a year out. The further you get from surgery the less of a community you have. People are either successful and they have just moved on from WLS community or they are not successful and are too embarrassed to come back. If you are looking for long term support, other long term WLS patients, support and information, it basically does not exist.

First, just have surgery ASAP. The longer you are heavy the more damage you do to your body. Energy levels were weird for me. I would have a lot of energy, huge bursts, then I would be instantly exhausted and need a nap. The first 6 weeks your body is working over time to repair itself. My Dr said the first 6 weeks are for healing not weight loss. You are having the majority of a major organ removed and it sends your body into freak out mode. It is working overtime to heal and repair all the incision and cuts and reconnect nerves and make sense of what happened. That takes a lot of energy and you are not consuming a lot of calories. If you are very diligent with your eating, and keep your calories over 600 (which believe me can be hard), 800 would be better and keep your fluid in take up you should be okay, but you can't guarantee it and no one can tell you. I have a high pain tolerance and it was easy for me to push myself after surgery (which I regret, I should have rested more, it is major surgery). Everyone is different, you don't know how you are going to be after surgery until it happens to you.

@niseys4 Everyone obsesses over the hair loss but it is really such a small part of this. The weight loss opens so many doors and you feel so much better, the hair does not matter.

Long story short, I know someone who had a surgery, not a WLS surgery, but their intestines were nicked in the surgery, and part of their intestine died. that part hard to be removed and then it was just a slow downward decent into a slow hellish death from there (took over a year of non stop complications). Also I watched a lot of Fat Dr UK and one of the Dr on there talked about how terrible it was to have to touch healthy intestines. So much can go wrong with your intestines and kill you, and not even usually fast kill you, just slow miserable kill you. Obviously most people that have RNY don't have serious intestinal issues. It was just something I was not willing to roll the dice on at all. They cut your intestines with RNY and reconnect them and that carries risks. Plus pouch stretching, you have to be more diligent long term with RNY. These were my reasons and obviously a lot of people don't have this opinion. I don't think there is anything wrong with RNY in general, it helps a lot of people, but for me, It wasn't really worth the extra risk to maybe lose an extra 20 pounds or so. And in the end I exceed the expected weight loss for RNY and for the Sleeve. The 2nd chart is 24 month expected loses, Which has a bounce back (weight increase) from month 18 So... Pick whatever surgery you want, it doesn't really matter, what matters is what you do with the surgery.

You can take hair vitamins but hair loss post op is not vitamin related and vitamins aren't going to stop your hair from shedding if it is going to shed. All vitamins can do is help your hair grow back faster.

One of my good friends is your height and about your weight now. I know that being double that weight had to be really hard. That is really an amazing accomplishment, you should be really proud.

Ok.

@lupita19 Congrats! How tall are you and how many sizes down are you?

I can wear dresses (if they are tight enough, structured right) without Bras now! Which is so awesome. My band size is also a 34 now, which is something I never ever thought I would see. Still an F/G cup When I was larger I had a larger car. Recently I purchased a small luxury sport coupe that I would have never fit in comfortably 2 years ago. I feel like an entirely new person.

*Yawn* Every few weeks/months someone comes with some horor story with no real back up. Just trolling. Oddly when you read people that post that really have bad complications, with the exception being that lady from the UK that is miserable, they are still happy with the results in the long run, even with complications. The laws in Florida however are perfect for quacks to set up shop there and butcher people with little recourse. I would never have any kind of medical procedure in Florida unless i was literally bleeding out from like a Jet-skiing accident or something.

Gas X is useless. They give you socks with grip to wear. I still have mine, I love them. Heating pad is a no, just don't do it. I doubt the hospital will let you bring one but they would have something for you if you really need it. All you need are a lip balm, whatever you wash your face with, cell phone and charger. The hospital has everything you need. They are charging you a fortune, take advantage.