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A lot of places charge split fees. I never get charged split fees because I never split food and I don't ask for special treatment at restaurants. I don't think it is fair to complain about being charged a fee. It is like when parties of 6 or more complain about automatic gratuities.

No one is saying not to count. If people are eating 800 calories a day and over 50 grams of carbs, most of their calories are from carbs not Protein. That is bad nutrition. The type of calorie counts, just just the calories amount.

Nicer restaurants charge a split fee. If you don't want to pay stuff like that there is always Applebee's. Just because you are eating "less" does not mean you cost less to service. Why should the restaurant or the server lose money on your table because you had WLS?

I was not interested in Malabsorption. I wanted to be able to take meds and supplements and not worrying about the dosing for the rest of my life. I also wanted to be as normal as possible, which was easily achieved with the sleeve I don't know anyone who as even had the bypass and got to a normal weight. They are all still obese. Gold standard my ^%$.

I would randomly get GERD if I accidently over ate. I never had GERD before surgery and it hurts in a really weird way. I just think take them. Taking them won't hurt anything. Not taking them you take the chance on hurting. It was just an easy situation to avoid so I wish I followed Dr orders on iy

Come now. I just saw you chewing out and name calling someone for asking about the AA sleevers thread. I've noted your help. I'm asking you, respectfully to leave my thread alone. Thanks Sent from my iPhone What name did I call them? I said they lack critical thinking. If special snowflake is name calling... And yeah I have an issue with people attacking minorities spaces online. I'm not going to apologize for it. No one attacks all the PCOS or Christian forums but someone always want to come for the AA thread. Even though you have to hunt for that thread to even find it, so they are going in it and attacking on purpose. So yeah I have issues with that and I will defend that thread and it's purpose. People barely even use it anymore so I don't even get the gripes about it. Like I said you have to look for it to even see it.

I wish people would learn more about nutrition instead of focusing on calories. The type of calories you are consuming matter more than the calories. Almost everyone who can barely eat anything without gaining is having over 50 grams of carbs. And it is basically impossible to consume 50 grams of carbs with green veggies which means you are eating trash to get to those 50 to 90 carbs. 1200 calories is the bare minimum I can eat or I stall. I have to eat at least 1500 calories if I barely move or I stall. It is hard to even hit that many calories on Protein and green veggies. If it wasn't for the cream in my coffee I would never make it. You guys are tanking your metabolism forever with these calories. You are going to be stuck on starvation calories forever.

Some of us care more about strangers than, they do about themselves. If they don't care about their life and health why should we. People think that this is a game or just another diet. Cheating immediately post op can kill you. I had a friend that had RNY 12 and advanced her food and ended up on a feeding tube. People on here don't believe that fat meat is greasy. Let them learn the hard way. I'm over it.

I have over 3000 posts most of them helping people. I'm helping you too if you pay attention.

Umm a discussion has opposing opinions, if not it is just an echo chamber.

No one is attacking you. Calm down. You advanced your diet knowing you shouldn't have them bragged about it online. What did you think was going to happen? And my issue with people doing this is, it encourages other new people to do the same because someone online did it and didn't get sick. It is just Russian Roulette with your health and safety. And it creates a bad environment.

As you get further out the eating and drinking is up to you honestly. Most of the time drinking is going to make you too full. I take a few sips now and then when eating. I do portion all my food so there is no chance of over eating. It isn't a forever thing, but you will find you don't want or need to do it in the long term. I suggest taking the PPI and the antacids for the first 6 to 9 months until your body adjusts. I didn't take them consistently and it is something I regret.

I'm curious to understand the logic. App user, makes sense. *sigh*

If you log you food in an app you don't have to count anything it does it all for you. As WLS patients it seems like a lot of us have too few calories and that causes stalls and it ruins your metabolism. I don't count calories but I log all my food in an app and the calories are right there. I worry more about hitting my 100 grams of Protein min. At the end of the day I look at the calories to make sure I got enough in.

Pork is the easiest for me to eat. Chicken is the hardest, it gets stuck a lot.

I really don't get the point in posting stuff like this online. You are an adult. What is the point of confessing to strangers?

If you are choosing surgeries based off which one is reversible, surgery probably isn't a good option for you.

You asked what I was thinking? I'm both black and white. I don't identify with any one race. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App So am I! Yeah not to sure why there's a special forum and I'm not to sure why people get offended when the question is asked Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Because people never pop in the other forums asking why they have forums but some special snowflake with no critical thinking skills or tact always pops up in here asking the same dumb question.

Every few months someone comes in here complaining. Read before you whine. Completely ignoring there are entire sub forums for Christians and all kinds of other groups. If you don't like this thread stay out. No one is asking you to post here.

@@Lisa_85 Are you ever going to post what you eat and if you track so people can try and help you?

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Bill, you have lost 121 pounds and you aren't even 6 months. I expect you will lose a lot more. When I started this, if I am going to be honest, even though I set a goal of 180, I really never thought I would get below 250. I accept that I would be a smaller plus sized woman forever. Well now that I am easily under 200, and far before the 2 year mark, I am aiming for 165. I think a guy your height and build 275 would be a nice weight. Great response, although I would just say that you might surprise yourself about being thin. And I say this from a personal perspective. I, also, said/thought I would never be thin. I was always fat with the exception of a few years where I wrestled/played football as a kid. When I started out, I was 333 at 5'8" and just the thought of being around 200 seemed impossible. I am 9+ months out from surgery and about 11 months out from starting the weight loss process. I am now 148lbs and thin by any objective measure. I'm not saying you will be thin, that you even desire to be thin, or that you should aspire to be thin. Just saying that this surgery is really amazing thing that may surprise you in a lot of ways. I'm not special. I got thin just by following my plan and doing what I was supposed to. Thank you. I am open minded. I started out with a goal of 325 after doing the math, based on the information provided by the people at my program - math based on fat, Water, and muscle mass. I revised that down to 300 after I got started. If I go lower than 300 without losing muscle, I am fine with that. But, I will be very surprised.

Totally agree about Fat Doctor. Dr Now has little empathy. I hate his bedside manner.

It happens sometimes. I think it is just metabolism changes. I usually eat every 2.5 to 3 hours when I am awake anyway, but every once in a while I have days where I am ravenous hungry or at least mentally I am. I just go with it. I only eat meat and veggies. Even if I go nuts the calories are still minimal. One thing I started doing was having a huge bowl of baby spinach in the afternoon. I will have a whole grocery store salad bag with either salt and pepper or Walden farms dressing as an afternoon snack. It helps on hungry days because I get to do a lot of chewing. And hungry is "hungry", some days I just want to eat more, but I'm not really physically hungry.

I think he is a bad Dr for a lot of reasons but mainly because he does every surgery under the sun and a good surgeon doesn't do that. He drives me nuts