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Scallops are too dense too

I'm sorry for your loss.

Oysters and clams are too tough.

LOL No. She has surgery 13 years ago.

I started just walking 5 or 10 minutes, then I walked 1/2 a mile, then a mile and it builds. I can miles and miles now, I have walked 15 miles in a day, no issues. You just have to start. I had a lot of energy at 10 days out but it would be gone very fast. That is normal. You are recovering from major surgery and living on almost no calories. It gets better.

I was never given a calorie count. They provided a list of approved shakes. Meals were to be replaced with those shakes. Using those shakes the calories depending on the shake selected would be 480 to 750

@browngirl89 Did you take any of the suggestions from the last thread you made? Have you changed anything in the past week?

Walking is great exercise and very underrated

Well, you need to find a supportive shrink. GERD is 20% in the normal population and 10% in sleevers. Don't stress about it. Even if it is going to happen to you, worrying about it won't stop it, it will just make the situation worse. Focus on losing weight and being healthy. When people look at complication data, they forget that a lot of people were in terrible general health before they ever had surgery. So since we have started down this path... I'm looking at their blog http://suethsayings.blogspot.com/ This is what they have to say about the sleeve... Really? because it is 5:30 PM and I have had 2 eggs, bacon, 32 ounces of coffee 32 ounces of iced tea, 32 ounce of water, and 12 ounces of pork. My sleeve holds a lot. I'm about to suck down 100 grams (2 cups) of spinach. I still have 2 hours left to eat and I plan on doing some damage, LOL They are completely ignoring ghrelin, but from the entire tone of their blog, they don't even research actual studies or science about surgery, claiming there is zero research. @Deactivatedfatgal The person running that site and blog is bitter and deranged. I had a friend from college, that had RNY back in the early 2000s. She had complications and ended up on a feeding tube. That sounds like a tragic story right? The part left out is 2 days after she was home she was drinking Coke (not even diet) and eating KFC (just a pinch to see if I can tolerate it she said). Her complications were brought on by herself. Not to mention she was not heavy enough to qualify for surgery and wore ankle and arm weights under her clothes to make her BMI high enough, Lots of people are not good cadidates for surgery but they don't tell that part of the story. You can notice even around here when people say they regained, they NEVER tell exactly what they were eating and in what amounts. They keep it vague and say they were eating bad. If you were tracking their food and looking at their binges in print, they would be less likely to do that, but that isn't what happens. So when people tell their WLS tales of woe, remember that there is more to the story.

That has basically been my approach. I do read people that tell stories here to see what symptoms they have so I can have an idea of what to be aware of. Other than that, I walk my dog every day and I am more likely to get hit by car with my dog than have a WLS complication.

The grandmother of one of my good friends said "Don't borrow trouble". Stay off that website, it is totally dedicated to complications but all those people had surgery years ago before techniques improved. Also if you look for complications then that is all you are going to see. It is like buying a new Camry, you probably didn't notice all the Camrys on the road but now that you have one, you see them everywhere. Stressing yourself out will cause your body to react making you sick. You have to chill out. Didn't you have a sleeve not RNY? RNY has all kinds of complications the sleeve just does not have. When is your next Dr Appointment? You should get back in school to keep your mind occupied. Do you have a therapist?

You seem obsessed with complications. It is that old stomach stapling. She had the surgery back in 1984. She died 27 years later... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/19498.htm This looks like a terrible idea. I don't know who thought this was clever.

You will never, should never feel food on liquids. You won't feel restriction until you get to soft foods typically. It feels different for everyone, you will know when it happens.

The Lord will make a way, it might not be on your time frame but it will happen.

But you didn't even read what she wrote. She was hoping God would help her come up with the cash, not lose the weight. You went out of your way to be a jerk and look like an idiot in the process. After your idiotic comment the other day about stomachs growing back, this isn't a shock.

I eat high fat but I know if I eat a greasy burger or lets say one cooked in butter I could eat a lot more than normal because the fat acts like moisture, so if you have excess fat with your protein, it is just like drinking and eating. I'm sure a lot of them know that too, because things cooked in fat are never in short supply on that show. In general I think 600 pound life is useless but it is a great way to learn what not to do. Watching that show you can learn exactly how you can eat around your surgery, so hopefully you don't do it.

I just watched a where are they now episode and they were cooking burgers in butter. Yeah, it is awesome you aren't eating a bun but you are eating 2 burgers with cheese cooked in butter This is why when people are begging for Dr Now's diet on here. WHY!?!?!?!?!!? The people on the show don't follow it. They only lose weight because they are massive and they had surgery. The amount of them that manage to gain like 30 pounds in a month post-op is staggering. Still people come on here begging for his diet? Why? It obviously sucks just like his bedside manner. They also eat salads loaded down with trash. Salad greens are a slider, so when you eat other stuff with it, you can eat basically endless amounts. Saying "ohh I had a salad for lunch" doesn't matter when you pile another 800 calories on it. It would be comical if it wasn't truly sad. Food addiction is the hardest addiction to battle because you can't go cold turkey on food.

23 months. I know lots of people that eat more carbs than me and are successful long term. The thing is I don't actually like carbs, so I don't eat them. I eat the things I like. I hate rice, I hate beans, I don't like pasta unless it is freshly made and then only one kind, and only like fresh baked (rye and pumpernickel) bread. and croissants. Crackers just make no logical sense to me what so ever. I think I have eaten crackers less than 5 times in my entire life and I am just making that number up because I can't even recall eating them. The issue with carbs post-op from WLS is carbs are EASY to eat. They go down very easy because they don't trigger restriction and you can eat them in massive (normal sized and binge size) quantities. So a lot of people that are food addicts go right back to carbs as soon as they get a chance. Then once they start, they can't seem to stop. My choice to limit and not introduce carbs came from not only just not liking them but from years and years of reading stories on WLS forums of people that regained. There was always one common denominator, carbs. Complex or otherwise. Complex seem to be a gateway to not so complex.

Everyone is different.

Everyone loses at different rates. There is no normal no matter what people try to say. There are a lot of other factors that go into weight loss. 28 pounds in 10 days is great. What did the Dr say at your one week appointment?

Plus the failures seem to scream it from the roof tops, while successful people are enjoying life. Most of the people on youtube are WLS failures and they are always talking about the sleeve failed them but they are eating fried egg sandwiches for breakfast. Fast food with their kids. Getting every drink they want at Starbucks. I see the same thing on Instagram. There is a girl I follow 3 weeks from surgery and she eats more than me, most of it useless trash and I am 23 months. A sleeve and RNY are so easy to eat around it isn't even funny. I could easily suck down a large shake from Steak and Shake, that is around 900 calories. People that whine about not losing never say, I was eating 12 to 16 ounces of steak a day and gained 50 pounds. They are vague af about what they actually eat. You can't do it. People are such compulsive food addicts they lie about their food like heroin addicts lie about their drug use. It is just sad.

@Ldyvenus Some of us just have refined palate. Exemplary taste is a curse. I have always been picky like this since I was a child too, should have never got whale sized but I love food, even if I am picky about it.

That is amazing! You look great!

Are you seriously complaining about 28 pounds in 10 days?

I like all my food piping hot to the point it almost burns my mouth and fresh. I also don't eat microwaved food. I use my microwave for melting butter fast and that is about it. I feel like leftovers are punishments. I can't understand people who meal prep, they are just eating left overs all week. Why do people torture themselves like that?!?!? I end up getting boxes for my food at restaurants just to make other people comfortable, but I toss it in the dumpster when I get home and don't even bring it in. I'm not eating leftovers I cooked and for sure not eating restaurant leftovers, reheated restaurant food is the biggest fail of fails. I buy meat a pound at a time, rarely get frozen, only with grass fed beef because you just don't have any choice. I cook my steaks/pork chops and immediately eat them, so I cook like 4 times a day. I also work from home so I have that luxury. I had a job for a little while a few months ago, and almost starved because I didn't have a lot of options of places to eat around me and I hate taking a lunch to work. I also hate most carbs so I don't miss the stuff people are crying about all the time. I'm weird and I know it, lol.