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They keep changing the formula, like every 6 months. Also a long time ago, they came on the bodybuilder forums and threatened people with legal action. ON A FORUM. Asshats.

I have this one. It is accurate. It is always within a pound or 2 of my DEXA scans. It balances itself and works on uneven floors. It rocks. Before this scale I had a scale I could step off of and back on and the numbers would be different every time. http://a.co/dRh56dM

@hermione53 I'm not sure why you thought he was a quack. He lays it all out very exactly why you shouldn't go to the gym in great detail with explanations YOU CANNOT CONSUME ENOUGH CALORIES. That is pretty much it in the nutshell. He also explains that increasing your activity increasing your hunger. Which is why we always see these people here talking about they are starving post-op when you shouldn't be hungry post-op and stalling while working out 6 days a week. Not only does he go into explaining why people shouldn't go in the first 6 months in great detail, he addressing weight loss and life post-op holistically by going into emotions and feelings. When I started working out doing yoga and other things after losing my first 70 pounds I felt to so much better. Not only could I do things like a normal person. I got more out of my poses etc. I also was going to working out not to lose weight, I already knew how to lose weight at that point with my diet. I was doing it to be stronger, feel better and improve my skin elasticity. Instead of trying to burn calories, I was just trying to be healthier, be better. Totally different attitude. And the heavens opened. I enjoyed being active like I did when I was younger. Also after I had already lost weight, I felt so much better physically. I had a ton more energy and I could move better, I didn't ache. I could stand on my feet and not hurt. Dr Vuong is my boo for life. He is telling the truth about loose skin. You can't fill real loose skin with muscle. Going to the gym isn't going to save you from loose skin. I have awesome biceps and triceps but I still have a 1/2 an arm of loose skin that I am never going to be able to fill with muscle unless I suddenly become a man and can build as much muscle and Arnold. I have lost an entire person in weight, I am literally 1/2 the person I was. I have a lot of loose skin. Most people never have loose skin like this because they were never as large as I was and they never lose low enough. He hit that nail right on the head. Most people lose some with surgery but never enough to really have loose skin even though every fat person uses loose skin as an excuse not to lose weight. Lose the weight and get their first then worry about it. Dr Vuong I love you!

@chynadoll619 My hair thinned a lot, but I lost a lot of fat and it was kinda traumatic to my body. I ended up with a lot of hormonal issues. I was really fat for a really long time and losing weight just freaked my body out. I also always lose hair when under stress. I just wear wigs, so it doesn't even matter now. Actually thin hair is better for wigs, they fit better. Since I have lost most of my weight my hair is growing back super fast. A year from now it won't even matter and I will still be wearing wigs anyway because I love them! Who knew. I never though I would be a wig or weave chick, but I love it. #hoeislife

They are best bars on the market, even if I hate the company, lol. https://labdoor.com/rankings/protein-bars

@hermione53 I lost all my weight with walking for the most part for the first 9 months. I added in Yoga, I did CrossFit for a little while (really just to meet men), and I do weights at home. I found I can't do a lot of really vigorous exercise because I can't eat enough calories to support it, plus it stresses my body out and I cling to weight (everyone is different so you have to do what works for you). Walking 2-5 miles a day is enough to lose weight. Anything that is really going to make you sweat or burn a lot of calories before 6 months is pretty dicey imo. Just because you can't drink water fast enough to replace it and you are still healing and it is hard to get enough calories in to support an increased calorie deficit cause by exercise beyond the deficit you are already running because of decreased intake. If you want to do something intense I think you should wait until you can consume at least 1200 calories a day and drink water at a pretty decent pace. That is going to vary for everyone. Dr Matthew Weiner is a bariatric Dr I respect. One things he talks about is working out and injuring yourself, you end up back tracking. So instead of having your normal level of activity, now you are hurt so not only are you not exercising, you also are not doing your normal level of activity just moving around the house or the office. At Minute 8:57 he talks about injury. I think being active is really important, but I think people can lose a lot of weight with walking, something simple. It has a lot of benefits and if you like that is great. I hate being inside, I will run, walk, play any sport, swim, anything if I am outside. I can't stand being in a Gym longer than an hour, but I will walk outside 10 miles at a time. So you have to find what you like. The goal in the first 6 months should be healing and learning your sleeve, not burning calories to the max. I hate personal trainers too. LOL I'll never pay for one, and most of them look like they need trainers themselves. I lost my weight with keto and walking with a little yoga tossed in here and there. I think you will like what Dr Weiner has to say, I hope you watch the whole video. Edited to Add: I am watching this video now. I love this guy. I have never heard of him until this video. He is right and I like his logic. I need go walking before it gets dark but I am going to watch this whole thing and reply. What he saying about fat brain and skinny brain is totally right. He might be my new Dr crush, lol.

Quest Protein Chips. All of the flavors except Salt and Vinegar are nasty imo, though.

Unless someone is like 4'11 eating calories that low is going to ruin their metabolism and make it easy for them to regain. Around 3 months I was eating around 1000 calories a day.

@Hellya Thanks for sharing her story, I have never seen her on youtube. I stopped watching most YouTube WLS people because most of them have been to Mexico and are not diet compliant and all they do is complain about slow weight loss. It is cool to see someone like her who kept plugging away at it and got to a normal BMI. I'm guessing she is short, like 5'2 or 5'3? She posts her weight but never her height. I wear size 8s in the high 180s but I am 5'6 ish with lots of loose skin. I share her same attitude of never wanting to go back, Once I hit a new weight "decade" I never want to see the last one. I really enjoyed the couple of videos I watched, thanks again for sharing.

@Introversion is exactly right. Nope that is normal. Your sleeve isn't stretched. You are making choices of things that are making it easy for you to eat more than you should. I can eat all the toppings off a large pizza. I can still only eat 4-5 ounces of steak. You are making bad food choices you can't blame on your sleeve.

I keep saying protein bars are bad because they are entirely fake and created in a factory with chemicals. They don't grow from the ground, they don't come from nature. If you are pressed for protein in a crunch situation, fine, but they aren't a natural or healthy food. Even the guys at the supplement store I go to will caution people from eating too many. They are not real food.

I never weighed myself before WLS surgery. It allowed me to get morbidly obese and stay that way. I'm trying to make different habits. I weigh myself every day, or every other day. I only count one day a week though. It has helped me learn more about how my body works. There are a lot of fluctuations in weight. My weight can be 5 pounds different from when I went to bed to when I wake up. I say if you didn't weigh yourself before, do something different and weigh yourself. A good way to disconnect yourself from the scale is to weight yourself all the time. If you are tracking your food and doing the right thing you know you didn't gain 3 pounds of fat from one day to the next. I think a scale is a great tool, and I think not weighing yourself often is a recipe for regain. It is a lot easier to catch regain if you are weighing yourself all the time instead of not weighting and catching it at 20 pounds instead of 5.

You are 12 weeks. Almost nothing is a slider at 12 weeks. Popcorn is definitely a slider. Introducing it when it isn't a slider is just going to make it easier to over eat when it is a slider. Protein bars used to have me stuff at 3 to 6 months. Now I can eat like 3 back to back if I want. They offer no restriction. Luckily I know they aren't good for you so I eat them rarely.

The less dense protein you eat, the harder it is to eat it. you have to use your sleeve so you can eat. If I go a couple days without eating, I can't eat as much as I could before. Eat dense protein and track your food. The last little bit of weight is the hardest to get off

@Melisa G When people ask these questions, it would really help a lot of you posted a food log. No one can help you or offer you constructive advice without something solid to base it on.

Crackers are a pretty terrible option. If you feel like you need crunch to eat tuna, don't eat tuna. If you are trying to lose weight adding carbs back into your diet early on isn't a good idea.

Anyone that loses weight fast can lose their hair though. It has nothing to do with WLS like people think. Some women shed and lose a bunch of hair after having a baby. Any kind of body change can make you lose hair. So just because he lost weight and hair doesn't mean he had WLS. And men can drop weight so fast if they cut calories and stick to it, it doesn't have to be because of WLS.

Its a waste of calories. I'm almost to maintenance and I still haven't had fruit.

What do you eat in a day?

I was cold all the time. It stopped once my weight loss slowed to an average pace. Now that I am just losing a couple pounds here and there, I am no longer cold.

I did that for a little while post-op. I didn't have any hunger and I wanted to test the limits. I would never do it now. I would be in the kitchen all day.

One of my friends that knows I had surgery told me that when he tells people about me and my surgery they don't believe him. "No one loses that much weight, they are lying".

Most of my daily hydration comes from Coffee. It totally counts.

I don't think it is good to reintroduce carbs or carb substitutes until you have a good handle on things but there are options. And they are okay as long as you aren't using them at every meal.

Hmm once I was close to a year and really active. I used the low carb flatout wraps to make low carb pizza. https://www.flatoutbread.com/products/flatout-wraps/flatout-light/light-italian-herb/ https://www.flatoutbread.com/products/flatout-wraps/flatout-proteinup/low-carb-flatbreadcore-12/ These are good too. http://www.tumaros.com/content/tumaros-products?cid=68 I make fat head pizza most of the time now when I want pizza I have the calories to spare. When you are at goal, or close to it, you have more choices. Or if you are super active and have issues getting your calories up. Still these are like once or twice a week items for me, not every day.