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@ He was talking to me. I have been dating men in their 40s for the past 20 years. My preference has always been a silver fox, so 40 and up. Dating someone in their 40s isn't settling, most women want an established man. Even though I mainly get approached now by men in their 20s. Men and how they feel about me aren't the issue. It is my own person issue and comfort level. I always feel like I am beating my head against a brick wall with this topic. No one gets it.

GasX is completely useless for surgery gas. That gas is. It in your GI tract, it is in your chest cavity. Walk and move as much as possible. The gas hitting my shoulder was the most painful thing about this whole process. Hurt like hell and nothing helps it.

I've never counted bites since they are not scientific and vary from person to person. A better way to tell if you are full early on is burping, hiccups or a running nose. You don't experience restriction on liquids on soups, what you are feeling is swelling from surgery, so you should never really feel full. Have your 2 ounces if you can, or whatever your program recommends, and stop. There is no way to gauge your capacity early on, you have to measure and work to just meet goals.

You can definately add spices to your foods, they are no calories and make a big difference.

I make keto/low carb chili, and it just has meat, seasoning and diced tomatoes. I can eat 6 ounces at a time, had some for lunch. Some asked this exact same Quest like a week or 2 ago and people, including myself, posted pictures. Search for that thread. I posted my 5.5 ounce pork chop. I can eat a whole dinner salad at most restaurants, the Protein is only 2-3 ounces and the salad greens are sliders to me so I can pretty much eat unlimited. Other thread http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/385643-bariatric-eating/

@@Judygrim708 2.5 months is far to early to know if someone has lactose intolerance. Eating an ice cream sandwich that is full of sugar and causing dumping is pretty obvious.

Stop eating things that make you dump. Ice cream bars shouldn't even be on the menu for you. You don't have uncontrollable bowels, you are dumping by eating off plan. Which is surgery working as intended. Dumping is supposed to discourage you from eating trash foods. Wait until you are healed and have lost your weight to eat sugary sweets, and then only do it in moderation.

In the beginning I took a sip ever minute or so. Now I just guzzle 8 to 16 ounces randomly.

I couldn't leave the hospital if I couldn't "eat". I had to be able to finish most of a Protein shake and make a dent in the other stuff on my tray. You need to drink. Not drinking and not using your sleeve will just allow it to swell more and it will be harder to drink with each passing day. If you don't get fluids in you will dehydrate and you will be in the hospital.

Every day now. I started weighing myself everyday so I could see a pattern and detach my feelings from the scale. I suggest not weighing at all the first month, then weighing weekly. Then once you are closer to goal or one year, weigh every day.

Probably not. I have a marketing degree but I wouldn't waste my skills on Red Lobster. Maybe Bonefish Grill... I thought their slogan was "Come see what's fresh today". Their new slogan of "Trash peasant food" doesn't sound very good for their business.

Ask your Dr. I had Syntrax Cappuccino until 6 weeks then I started drinking cold brew coffee. I love coffee and I drink a lot every day. Early on the acid in coffee is an issue so try something low acid like cold brew or french.

You will never look like you lost weight if you the same clothes. So many people complain about looking/feeling fat, but they are in fat clothes, of course that is how they feel. New you, new clothes.

You basically have no energy for the first 6 weeks and you won't be able to lift your baby for 2 weeks to a month because of hernia risk. Good luck. I would never get sleeved with a baby that you to care for.

If i was going to eat something after not eating for a long time it wouldn't be trash peasant food like Red Lobster. Lol if you are going to eat seafood, eat real seafood.

She told me anything bunched up that they can't get a good read on sets it off. I was almost crying so she felt compelled to explain it to me. It was also hot then and I was about 50 pounds heavier and I was using powder between skin folds. That didn't help either.

99% of the people I am around don't know if had surgery and think I eat nornally. Almost everyone low carbs at some point in their life. I low carb, no one thinks it is wired. I go out to restaurants and I can finish a whole entree or make it look like I did. The amount of time you can't eat "normally" is so short it isn't even worth dwelling on. 6 to 9 months out of a lifetime. Comments like your friend is exactly why I didn't tell people. Still the people that I did tell, they never make comments like that. My best friend and I are foodies and now all we do is make sure we get the highest quality and best food possible when I visit. She never pities that I can eat less, but she really loves me. People need to rethink some of the people they have in their lives and decide if they really care about them or not.

I take the Vitamins I took before surgery. NOW foods. They are huge though but I don't have trouble swallowing pills. I think chewable are disgusting, I'm not a toddler. I'll never take them.

It is the skin that lights it up. That is what the TSA lady told me the last time I was humiliated in the airport. And yeah I had to get new ID pictures. I looking nothing like my old picture. It was getting really bed when I was going places.

Surgery Wed, home thursday, went to get my nails done and some other stuff on that Friday.

No one really post-op from the sleeve should do liquids to get back on track. Liquids offer zero restriction or satisfaction. If you need a reset just dense Protein is best and it will remind you of your restriction. Whenever you start working out from an absense, you are going to gain because your muscles that you haven't been using are swelling and breaking up and rebuilding. If you aren't over eating and tracking your food. There is no reason to freak about your weight.

You might realize that going out just to eat is boring af. When I go out with my friends that just want to eat I am so bored. I want to go rock climbing! LOL which no fat girls want to do.

8 weeks.

@@larry971 All of my friends feel like I should just be happy to be pretty, in good healthy and not look my age. So they don't understand my issues. So I just stopped talking to them about it.

@@Dashofpixiedust8 I still want to lose another 20-35 pounds. Putting me right at or close to 200 pounds lost. Most of the people that post here or have WLS in general now have around 100 lbs or so to lose. And I agree, losing 100 pounds is no easy feat but it nothing like having to lose the big numbers. Most people will never have to lose the big numbers. Being super morbidly obese puts you in a class by yourself. I never even knew I was super morbidly obese until I started this jorney, I just thought I was normal fat, lol. So when someone here who was 250 tries to lecture me that I should wear my loose skin as a badge of honor, I want to punch them in the face. The amount of lose skin someone who started 100 pounds lower than I did is going to be nothing like that skin I have so they really shouldn't comment unless they are in my shoes. I too, took a break from dating and sex before surgery, concentrating on my business and some other achievements. The hormone flood after surgery kind of forced me into the dating world, even though I wasn't ready. It is much harder now, dating strangers online than dating in the past. In the past I date people I met through work or college, and they knew me. I felt like in the past most men that wanted to date me, wanted to date me because of my personality and other character attributes and now they just want to date me because I am "beautiful". I don't feel beautiful, at least with my clothes off, so it makes me feel like a fraud. Like I said before, most people that have WLS are older and married or now they are young and haven't been obese that long. There aren't many people in my boat and I feel very alone in my journey. I just working on accepting that I am alone and being okay with it.