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OutsideMatchInside

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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Everything posted by OutsideMatchInside

  1. No they don't help. The gas is outside your GI tract, you they use it to raise your organs. GasX is useless.
  2. You are still healing. Expect to be tired until you get to 1000 or more calories a day. Did your Dr clear you for crunches? Ask them.
  3. Well you always have restriction, 85% of your stomach is gone forever. Look online for a WLS expected weight loss calculator. There is one on another site I can't link here. When I got the average expected weight loss for my start weight, age, and height, which was around 220, my weight loss slowed down. This was also at around 14/15 months post op. I have lost another 32 pounds in the past 5 months. So it slowed down but the majority of my weight was gone already. It was cold and I wasn't walking as much and YOLO, I haven't been as strict about my food (too many protein bars). I think everyone slows down once they get under 200 pounds, or at least it seems like that from posts I see here.
  4. I really don't think anyone can realisticly eat and drink enough before 6 months for intense exercise and I would say 9 to be safe. You just don't have the stomach capacity to eat and enough and you can't replenish you water fast enough. I did Cross Fit for a while but I was about 10 months out. You don't need an intense workout to lose weight. If anything it seems to stall more people early on because you can't eat enough calories than it helps.
  5. I was swallowing pulls with in 24 hours after surgery.
  6. As much as low BMI patients annoy me with the constant whining on forums. I feel like more people should have surgery sooner than later because of the health benefits from losing weight and keeping it off. I started with a 60 BMI and no one should be as super morbidly obese as I was for as long as I was. We should intervene with people before it gets out of hand. No one else is going to carry your excess weight for you and deal with the issues. So their opinions don't matter.
  7. Walking. Yoga Squats with lots of variations so you hit all the muscles.
  8. Most people post op that are losing slow do not have their calories high enough and kill their metabolism. I would suggest people increase their calories without adding in simple carbs like potatoes. Glad you got the scale moving, good luck.
  9. I would definitely find another surgeon. First the goal after surgery isn't yo-yo weight loss. You want to get down to a comfortable weight and maintain it. Secondly, depending on how your body reacts to RNY it might not be easy to gain weight. She is a Dr, she knows this. RNY is a longer surgery that makes them more money and it is more likely you need more follow up. Find someone else or at least get a 2nd opinion.
  10. Exercise is just walking. I do weights and yoga every now and then I eat keto. More fat than protein, very few carbs. Usually I just have steak or a pork chop. And I have a big salad in thevery afternoon. I keep it very simple and very clean. I also drink coffee with heavy cream or half and half most of the day.
  11. All practices are different. I picked mine because I liked how they approached things better than other groups. Most doctors are hesitant to touch perfectly fine intestines because of all the issues. The doctors on Fat Doctor UK, talk about how they hate to do it all the time. As the show went on they switched to more sleeves than anything else.
  12. At 220 there is no way in hell I would have RNY. I can't believe a Dr even recommended that. Unless you are under 5 feet tall. I knew with the sleeve I would have more control over my weight loss. With RNY, you never know. It depends on how much they bypass and people have natural variations in the length of their intestines. Too many variables.
  13. This has happened to one or 2 people in the past couple years Try the search feature
  14. Honestly at the 2 year mark the surgeries are basically the same. Curing your diabetes is really up to you and how you eat long term. I know someone 4 plus years post op RNY that is sinking back into diabetes. Dr wants to put them back on meds and it is totally based on their lifestyle. They basically eat as bad if not worse than they did pre-op, fast food sweets (dumping is usually only short term for people if it happens at all). I'm an AA female. I had the sleeve. My diabetes was under control with pills only before surgery. I was off my meds in 6 weeks. After 6 to 9 months how much weight you lose is all on you, not your surgery. My Dr said I was young, relatively healthy and active. The sleeve would work for me. I have lost 180 pounds more weight than people who had RNY at the same time I had the sleeve and we're in the same weight range. I have exceeded the expected weight loss for both the sleeve and RNY. How much you lose is based on you and your lifestyle choices, not the surgery. They reserve RNY for the elderly and disabled. They only do DS on people that are massive 500 lb range. You have to live with the choice not your doctor so consider your options carefully. Oh yeah, I started with boarder line high blood pressure. The wanted to start me know meds. My blood pressure is at the bottom of normal now.
  15. Dr Matthew Weiner talks about how some people are super responders to surgery, you sound like one. Around 4 months I felt I was dropping too fast, like I really just could not keep up with it so I increased my protein and calories. I still kept losing pretty fast but I felt a lot better. You can't really lose too fast. Your body is in control kind of not you. When your body tires of losing it will slow down or stop. As long as you feel good, keep going.
  16. Liquids go right through your sleeve. You are supposed to be able to drink or you will dehydrate and die. Be happy you are healing and drinking more.
  17. Is this post trolling or serious, I can't even tell.
  18. I am almost 2 years and I don't have these issues. Did these chicken wings have breading? I eat in unbreaded wings all the time, from Wing Stop. I don't eat bread or bread like items. I don'the eat carbs. You can go to any GI not just your surgery Dr. By the way, I eat the chicken wings from wing stop because they are fried and go down easy. Other than. That I don't eat chicken. It is too dry and a pain in the ass to digest. I stick to beef and pork cuts with fat.
  19. I have lost 180 pounds. No one asks if I had surgery. Last summer I was walking 5 to 10 miles a day my friends are on fitbit with me, they saw that. I eat literally all day. I eat every 2 hours but I don't eat carbs. People see that too. Steaks, pork chops and other proteins. I will sit and pick all the croutons out a salad, people see that. If you actually living an active lifestyle and eating healthy no one questions what you are doing. In spite of what people think, the weight doesn't just drop off in a month. I lost 10 to 12 pounds most months, a steady decline but nothing insane. Most women lose at that pace after WLS. 98% of the population thinks diet, exercise and will power is enough to lose weight, if they see you actually practicing these they don't even consider surgery. WLS is still a pretty rare thing and an outside idea to most people. 90% of the people saying tell, are always men. Spend one week as a woman dealing with other women and get back to me on people being supportive. Also I don't know why new people think we don't eat a lot of food. Most WLS patients that are successful eat often. People are not seeing that you are eating 4 ounces at a time. They are seeing that you eat every 2 to 3 hours which is insane to most people. Also the amount of time you only eat very little is like 3 months max. Get real. Besides forums, IRL, I avoid giving people any weight loss or fitness advice. This isn't my life. I don't want to be the weight loss go to person. First of all most people aren't serious and it is a waste of time. All you have to do is say I eat Keto or I don't eat carbs and they lose interest. I have lost weight before low carbing and so have other people. Most people don't want to give up carbs to lose weight. They just want to eat whatever in moderation. I give back to the universe by posting on forums. Although honestly it is pretty pointless because the pre-ops and people less than 6 months from surgery think they know everything.
  20. Only the fat people notice. No one else does I promise.
  21. I don't see it as being secretive. When people ask me why I have one child, I tell them because that is what I wanted. I don't elaborate and say I have an IUD and I know how to keep my knees together. My body is no one else's business.
  22. I'm almost 2 years post op and no one but the people I told know. My child doesn't even know. At this point my life is so normal, there is no point in telling. It is an easy secret to keep as long as you don't tell people. The more people you tell the more likely you are to be exposed.
  23. I honestly liked my figure the best at 220. I was super curvy with a small waist and I could wear plus and regular sizes. However, knowing that people gain weight as they age and still being a relatively young person, I have decided to lose as low as possible. So I have some bounce room to still stay under 200. So even though physically I am not interested in being smaller. I am shooting for the top of normal BMI so I have some wigglexperience room in the future.
  24. A lot of people lose and look younger. I'm not 45 plus, I am 40 ish and look 28. I regularly am approached by men age 26 or 28 who assume I'm their age. If you don't want to look old, don't go the bare minimum on protein of 60, shoot for 100 plus. Get you calories up ASAP. Take your vitamins and drink lots of fluids (I run off coffee, not water). Also I notice the ladies that Keto like me, eating high fat low carb seem to age a lot better.

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