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I didn't have a dog pre-op, I adopted my dog less than a month out from surgery. I knew a dog would force me to walk and not let up. It has worked perfectly. At a minimum every day my base line exercise is at least walking a couple miles with the dog. Rain or shine, hot or cold. We walk. He demands it.

@mi75 Some people in my facebook keto groups have been able to see some tumor shrinkage eating Keto. If use facebook, look for some Keto groups, there are lots of cancer patients seeing great results.

I rarely ever have cramps, but I had cramps and a heavy flow the first 6 months when the weight was coming off in big chunks. Then my periods got lighter, but I has having a period every 2 weeks with spotting in between for like another year, so it was basically 18 months of a very active uterus. I'm back to normal since my weight loss has slowed down.

Dr Weiner's plan, with that level of veggies, you wouldn't regain. I don't eat that much in veggies just because I don't have the time, but I seriously ate a pound of veggies a day, it would be impossible to regain. If I get bored this summer I might try it for a week. At 2 years out I could definitely do it and get my protein in, but I would just have to eat in a 12 hour window instead of my usual 8. When I read a pound of cure I knew it was pretty much impossible for me to follow his plan because I would be miserable(i'll starve before I eat beans), but I did what he suggested and incorporated some other things. I wish more people would think of veggies and salads as snacks. You get to eat a ton of volume for basically no calories. My issue is when people say complex carbs, and are vague AF about it, that usually means junk science "healthy" carbs. Not vegetables and legumes. @Travelher You are also a RNY patient. You have malabsoprtion on your side and sleevers don't, being less than a year out, your malaborption is still in full tilt. If you can eat carbs like that when you are over 18 months out and still lose, I would love to see it. We have to be stricter with out nutrition, because while we have restriction, we have an otherwise normal anatomy. Also the technical part of our surgery that helps us, which is the valve we have at the bottom of our stomach, is something RNY patients don't have. That valve is why eating dense protein is more productive for us, and works with our tool instead of against it. Also no offense to Dr Weiner because I like him and I think he has a lot to offer people but he looks haggard and so do most of his patients. My Dr eats Paleo and looks a lot better, he has about 2x the muscle mass Dr Weiner has.

They never show up until they have regained 75% of their weight. Every flipping time. The one vegetarian that used to post here that was sleeved around the time I was never got goal or anywhere remotely close. I don't think they ever even lost 50% of excess weight. Prove us wrong carb people, prove us wrong. I'm rooting for for you.

Everyone has different instructions. Those were my instructions and most instructions are written like that. I also feel like that is an easy way to be successful. WLS is an amazing tool to lose weight, and it seems like a lot of people are hell bent against using the tool to the best of its ability. Also for me, this is basically how I grew up eating. I forgot about it and didn't think much about it until Post-op for surgery. I grew up in a family of thin athletic people, even into old age. Which also reinforces to me this is the correct manner in which to eat. Additionally, a lot of my family is Native American, straight on the Reservation, and we value the sacrifice that animals make to provide us nourishment, so it makes sense to eat protein first. I spent a lot of time with depression era Grandparents who saw meat as a luxury and a blessing not something to be wasted. People can eat however they want and do whatever they want. There seems to be some habits that long term successful impose. No one has to follow them or even care. I took notes and decided to go the easy route. I didn't spend tens of thousands of dollar and get chopped and screwed to fail. I follow best practices in IT, I will follow them in my post-op life too.

My improved yoga poses and just the general feeling that I am getting a lot more from my yoga classes is one of my best non scale victories. I would say yoga is even more useful than just going to the gym because the stretching helps with your skin, helps with muscle recovery and the relaxation helps keep your stress down which helps with losing weight also. So keep up with the yoga! The more you lose the better it gets.

Walk and try heat. Nothing really helps though. You just have to tough it out. That was the worst pain of the whole thing.

I used to fly every day, sometimes 2 times in a day at 330 pounds as a business traveler for years. I only had a couple bad experiences. Flying now is worse because the TSA gets to molest you and you can't do anything about it.

I mean you really don't know. You are asleep. you close your eyes in the operating room and wake up in the recovery room and it is like zero time passed. It had to be less than an hour, maybe more than 30 minutes. I really didn't care, my lips my dry and that was my major concern when I woke up.

I also don't know if you retain water but I retained a ton of water when I was over 350, 10 to 15 pounds in the heat. I would swell terrible. So you might be retaining water also, since it is warm weather.

It doesn't matter if you are gaining weight if you are sticking to your diet. The diet is to shrink your liver. Period is 3-5 pounds and a stall for me every time.

@new Well people on 600 pound life weight 600 pounds and lose 30 in a month, you were in the 200s and lost 19. That is awesome. Your body is healing from major surgery, let it heal. Good Dog! You'll never be able to quit walking now.

@slimmingsteff Bread can be filling because it can expand in the stomach for some people. Maybe rice does, I don't know, I'm not vary familiar with rice. Anything thin and dry is going to break down to nothing. So things like crackers, thin crust pizza, chips, crispy cookies. They break down to mush basically in your mouth and you can eat unlimited quantities. They are called sliders. It is going to depend on the density and the fiber in the carbs. I feel like this thread should be retitled, making the case for carbs.

Nice honest story. Thanks for sharing. Broads on YouTube like to be dramatic for views. Period. Plus a lot of them are straight nuts. If you watch enough of their videos it is easy to figure out. Men have a stigma attached to looking weak, women don't. They whine and cry on YouTube and people baby them. The same thing happens here, people mess up and make themselves miserable with dumb choices and want other people to coddle them. I don't have a YouTube channel but I have a high pain tolerance. I had a baby, no pain meds, 10 pushes, no screaming (I wanted my baby born into a calm environment). I had VSG surgery, stopped taking pain meds as soon as I got home 28 hours later. Drove my car on day 3. Did everything for myself because I live alone. I had no complications, little pain (it just felt like I did 1000 crunches, I used to do 1000 crunches a day in HS so I know the feeling), and I was back to my regular life fairly rapidly. People that are happy and have few issues don't usually shout it, because no one cares and it also seems like you are bragging and rubbing it in to the people that are miserable. So the miserable people have the floor. I think you are going to do great long term. If you aren't already seeing a therapist you probably should. You might have an identity crisis once you aren't a Bear anymore and you have to figure out where you fit in your world after knowing your place for so long. BTW the Bears are my favorite

A lot of people think you should wait to have surgery when you are at deaths door. It is so much better to step up and have surgery before you damage your body. Some bodies recover and repair (mine has) but some people never repair the damage done from being heavy. Before I had surgery and maybe even the whole first year after surgery, I didn't feel like people with low BMIs should have surgery. Mainly because a lot seem to have eating disorders and the sleeve is a person with anorexia dream. My opinion on that has changed drastically. I think if people have struggled with their weight for a long period of time, having surgery so they don't continue to yo-yo, is a good idea. Eventually down the road they will stop yo-yoing and just ge stuck at a high weight.

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Any of them will work. It is just up to you. The first 6 months I had free vitamins from insurance, they came free with my B-12 nasal. If you can get insurance to cover the B-12 Nasal, that company gives you free vitamins. That is what my Dr recommended. After those 6 months I switched to whatever I wanted.

I keep meaning to make stuffed bell peppers and I have some riced cauliflower in the freezer, I am going to make some next week. I'm making fathead pizza tonight, so I will be eating leftovers all weekend. A rarity.

You can get the most wear from dresses and Ross does have some really nice brands there, you just have to look. I get Calvin and Ralph there all the time. Along with with cheaper unknown brands. Honestly if you are a good shopper, clothes are so cheap now there is no reason to wear used clothes. I purchased 5 bodycon skirts over memorial day weekend for less than $30 total.

Sleeve because your intestines are not altered at all and you keep the valve at the bottom of your stomach so vitamins and food get time to digest with stomach acid.

They tested my stomach when they sent it to pathology. Never had GERD before surgery. I had excess acid like almost everyone the first 6 to 9 months (took my PPI) then it stoppped no PPI. The only time I get GERD now, I cause it. Shapewear+Underwirebra+too much food=GERD for me.

All I did was watch cooking shows for a month. I had basically zero reaction to them and it was nothing short of glee. I was basically testing my head vs physical hunger. I knew I had a serious disconnect between my brain and my stomach and I loved it. It was very reassuring to not get hungry looking at food. It took me months to get interested in food, probably not until after 12 months.

You could use search, then you would not have to worry about negative comments.

Learn from my mistakes, wait until 1 year post-op to date.