Everything posted by OutsideMatchInside
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For the Newbies or those considering the sleeve
What a great share. I didn't have surgery at Blossom but I found that their staff and nutrition information to be top knot have. I refer to it often especially for supplement suggestions. They seems to be more realistic and advanced than most programs.
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After the Honeymoon Phase is Over...
Man I wish we could sticky this. People need to understand that the losing phase post-op I'd a one time chance. Go as low as possible as fast as possible while still being healthy. This is the only time it is going to be this "easy" later you have to fight like everyone else. All the band revision people pretty much prove this theory.
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Quest Bars
Read the ingredients it's all fake and they keep changing to formula and depending on what the formula is this 6 month period, it causes various digestive problems for people. Just Google Quest bars. There is plenty of information, don't just go by my opinion. Any artifical sweetener can make you stall out.
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After the Honeymoon Phase is Over...
You can still binge eat if you want. Get into therapy and get to the root cause of why you binge eat. Once you understand that and fix that, then have surgery. Once you can stop binging on your own surgery will help you support that. It is very easy to eat around you sleeve and binge especially if you like carbs that break down to nothing.
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Did you not like your food?
This is a really limited time problem. I never went out to eat at 10 days. The further out you get the more you can eat. I went to waffle house at like 6 weeks. I was able to make a decent dent in my food. Scrambled eggs are the worst eggs to try and eat. You can eat a lot more of a fried, or poached egg. Scrambled eggs are dry and dense, I still can't deal with them. I can easily eat 2 fried or over easy eggs. 2 poached eggs. At a year and a half out I can eat a 2 egg omlette if it isn't over packed with stuff. The key to being able to eat with your sleeve is a higher moisture content. I go out to breakfast with people all the time and my plate looks pretty normal.
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Quest Bars
3 or 4 months. Just be careful with Protein bars. Early on they trigger restriction. Once I healed they are basically a slider. I eat them now for emergency protein but they don't trigger restriction and provide zero satisfaction. I'm still hungry feeling after eating them. They are also entirely fake and they can make you stall, especially early on.
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Sleeping on the tummy
I slept on my stomach on the 4th night. It was heaven. Helped with the pain and pressure. I highly suggest it.
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Bariatric Eating
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+1 year sleevers
@@Selvia At one year I realized I could chug pretty well. It gets better every month. I am sure I will be able to chug 16 ounces without taking a breath again by the 2 year mark. I don't drink carbonated beverages. I have had a couple sips a few times by accident, like not thinking about it or paying attention, but they were fountain which are not as strongly carbonated at can or bottle. I don't think I have issue with carbonation, there just aren't carbonated drinks that interest me, I gave up sodas long before surgery.
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Bariatric Eating
@@chase67 It will have to be tomorrow, I ended up having something different for dinner tonight on the go. Tomorrow I will post my pork chop dinner
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Tempting
I had surgery in the summer so by the holidays I would be semi healed. I changed my attitude about food and my tastes so I didn't binge or anything last year and I am even less interested this year. I would never have surgery this time of year. If for no other reason it's too close to the end of the year and taking the change on have to start over on deductibles etc if something goes wrong and surgery is delayed. Plus your freezing at surgery, being colder in the winter, no thanks. @@Finding_Stacy yeah a lot of place don't do the liquid diet, for the most part it is useless and all it does is weaken people before surgery by starving them.
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Caffeine Problems
I wonder if the answer from your doctor would have been different if you drank carbonated drinks instead of coffee. I'm curious. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Probably. I don't drink soda. Haven't in years. Just coffee and tea. I totally get the acid in coffee thing. Early on your tummy can't handle the acid in coffee, but if you have cold brew it can. I'm almost 1.5 years out and since I am freezing this winter I basically drink black coffee all day, we'll for about 8 hours then I switch to hot water. The first 9 month I only had cold brew because of the acid. You can warm cold brew up, but the cold brewing process doesn't produce the acid I also want add that I never get caffeine withdrawal headaches. Most of the time when people think they are getting caffeine withdrawal headaches they are just dehydrated because they don't replace their normal caffeine liquids with water at the same amount. Also another reason they say no caffeine is because they think most people load their caffeine with calories. You have to read between the lines, when I talked to my Dr about it, it is more about calories and appetite than it is about actual caffeine as a drug. When I convinced him that I don't add excessive calories to my caffeine drinks he was like okay.
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Bariatric Eating
I'll post tonight. I weigh my food before I cook it so I eat everything
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Caffeine Problems
Talk to your dr. I flat out told my Dr I was not giving up caffeine. It doesn't make me hungry it does the opposite actually and I find it helpful for concentration for work. My Dr agreed with me and didn't make me give it up. Before I could drink coffee post-op, I just took caffeine pills until 6 weeks. The I started with coffee.
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No where else to vent
I need to start dating multiple guys at a time. I just don't have time to manage them, they want to text all day and I have a business to run. So for now, no dating.
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Band to sleeve failure and revision questions
Yeah that's exactly what my acid felt like. I never had GERD before so I didn't know what it was. Once my acid production caught up with my new stomach, it stopped.
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When Obesity Rules our Life
I spent way more time running the streets fat than I do now. I partied a lot more.
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Contraception (TMI for some)
The pill is fine for a sleever. A lot of people get pregnant because they were infertile before and don't make much of an effort to avoid pregnancy afterward. Getting knocked up is 100% preventable in 2016, so if someone is pregnant it is no accident.
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Band to sleeve failure and revision questions
Once a day? Maybe you need more? Have you discussed this with your dr?
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No where else to vent
Dating right now is terrible. I think I am going to look for someone active in their 60s. These guys in their 40s are a mess.
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Dec 25 will be 2 months post op.
Change your hair. I am natural and I used to always rock my hair or kinky curly weave. Since losing weight I have been wearing kinky straight or yaki wigs and the sleek hair looks feels sleeker and I feel like a smaller person. I have a friend that lost a lot of weight and she told me changing your hair helps a lot, so I tried it and it worked.
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On the road lunch ideas
Grill any meat, cut it into strips. Now it's finger food and you can eat it on the go. And early on good quality lunch meat like boars head is an awesome solution
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No where else to vent
I'm really proud of you for sticking to your plan during an emotional time like this. I will say if you look good and you are over 40, you pretty much have your pick of men. I'm a super model around these parts. Lol
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Cannot eat certain foods after 2 years!?
Everything you listed not being able to eat is not essential. You didn't say anything about Proteins at all. I am guessing you eat a lot of carbs? Also if you take a PPI and an antacid, you should probably be able to eat those foods. Corn however is a starch/grain not a vegetable so I would avoid it or eat it in moderation
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How much protein?
In the beginning I was doing 90 with shakes. I get between 110 and 130 a day with just food.