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@@gustavio Give up the bananas so you go into ketosis like most people are post-op at your stage and you weight loss will speed up.

@@Nana1222 If it is after 6 weeks and you can get all your fluids and Proteins in, you should be fine. You will get tired, but you can do it. The exercise will be great. If you are having issues getting your Protein in still in Feb, then you won't have enough energy and you are going to be exhausted. So it is a roll of the dice based on how you heal.

@@rnstudent343 I have hot suace and hot wings all the time. I don't have issues. before 9 months I had to take antacid when I had them. Now I don't. I pretty much eat normally.

@@LittleLizzieLilliput For people that are stress eaters, marijuana has the opposite effect, they eat less, but no one here will ever believe that. Congrats on the 16 month liquid fast! You have more will power than me.

Like @@Bufflehead said, no one can offer you any suggestions without some details on what you are doing now @@Lisa_85

@@LittleLizzieLilliput Ask the Dr and have them check with the anesthesiologist. You might have to stop for a couple weeks before and after. Just because of your lungs, but ask them. No one here is qualified to answer and all people are going to do is tell you that smoking will give you the munchies. This place is like Reefer Madness. The responses will go from bad to ridiculous.

@@etorres Yes, and I hate them all for it.

@@ashleyrowles Call your Dr.

My plan was 6 weeks and it was in my book. I didn't really have them until about 6 months, no room for anything but protein.

I'm going to with @@AvaFern here. If you want to drink with your friends tonight do it. Your liver only needs a few days to shrink anyway.

@@kendra01 It depends. Some people still are hungry. Some people have head hunger. Some people need to take acid reducers. I am 1 year out and I do not have, or very rarely have any physical hunger. I do have head hunger. In the very beginning I had no hunger or desire to eat.

I would say he is full of crap because doctors are pretty universally against you adding zinc as a supplement unless you need it. So if he said if you have hair loss, come in, we will do a blood panel and check if you have any nutritional deficiencies, that would make sense. We are supposed to have our blood work checked anyway but adding supplements without a need can be harmful. Not to mention you can't take zinc and Iron together, so you have to work a schedule out for taking them.

Even when you are losing weight "fast" people don't usually see it, and they can't really tell how much. If you are really living an active life and have changed your eating habits, they will attribute it to diet and exercise.

This is why I think it is just best to keep it to yourself about surgery. 4 of my friends know, and they are my real friends. They were only concerned about my recovery since I live alone in an area where I do not know anyone. They were all really supportive, but they aren't my fat friends. I didn't tell any of my fat friends. And since I am doing things they aren't willing to do, they don't have as much of an attitude about my weight loss as I thought they would, well there is one exception. I walk 2-5 miles a day, and don't eat any carbs. Most people are not willing to do that, so they are like whatever, enough your painful weight loss (it is easy mode to me).

Honestly it is best to just donate for the tax deduction. It takes the least amount of time and you get the most bang for your buck. Clothes are so cheap now, there isn't much of a market for re-sell unless you have really nice name brands. I can resell my dresses from Bebe since I usually just wear them once and that is it. Unless something cost over $80 originally and is a brand that people really want, it won't resell for enough to make it worth selling.

Their monthly subscription is more or close to the same that I spend on clothes in a month, and I buy clothes every month. I don't keep clothes as I drop sizes, when I am down a size I dump the old clothes and buy new clothes that fit and I have been doing this for a year. It is a rip off in my opinion, and all the clothes are fat and frumpy.

I'm quoting this because I wish more people realized this information. The amount of people that work in these unprofessional work places is staggering to me. Most of these people and their co-workers are walking lawsuits. A good HR dept is not going to want you disclosing all this medical information to your co-workers. Your boss shouldn't want to know. If you have surgery then get passed over for a promotion or something, you can easily blame it on surgery based discrimination, regardless of the facts, and bring a lawsuit. No good manager wants to know all your business like that. People work for unprofessional untrained management that are opening their companies to liability on a daily basis. I haven't told anyone but my super close friends I had surgery. People see how I eat and how I act. They never think I had surgery. They think I have changed my way of eating and I am sticking to it. Which is what happened and is true. If you eat properly and live an active life, no one will assume you had WLS to lose weight. However if you sit at your desk sucking the toppings off pizza, and never do anything active and are dropping weight like a stone that raises eyebrows. Most people believe diet and exercise work, the idea that it doesn't really work for people is beyond their comprehension.

@@aortiz1987 I bought a leisure bra that closed in the front, that was probably one of my best preop purchases. Then I wore a loose maxi dress. I loved that dress, I miss it

@@iloveorganicmilk You might want to consider some counseling. You don't really have a mindset that is conducive to post-op success or happiness. First of all everyone isn't in the 2 bites category. There are people that post here that they can only have a couple bites and they are full, but a bite isn't a scientific measurement so none of us know WTF a "bite" is so that information is useless. I have always been able to eat more post-op than what a lot of people eat, but I use my sleeve more than a lot of people, and I made a point of making sure I got my Protein and Water goals. The more you use your sleeve the more "relaxed" it becomes. I can eat about 4-6 ounces of dense protein, but I try to keep it to 4 ounces, because that is a proper portion. It depends on what I am eating how much I can eat. I can eat 3 cups of spinach at a time. I don't eat watermelon so I have no idea on that. @@AvaFern Put it well, about not wanting a lot of food post-op. I am very satisfied with small amounts of food and not only am I satisfied, small amounts of food feels like a feast.

@@reree6898 I never thought my weight held me down so to speak, but I notice my posture is so much better. All that belly I had in front isn't pulling me forward.

3 months 2-3 ounces depending. 6 months, 4 ounces 12-14 months 4-7 ounces I can basically eat double to triple what I could right after surgery. Things that were not sliders like Protein bars, turned into sliders as I healed. I can eat 3 cups of salad greens. I can chug Water at almost pre-op levels. If you watched me eat in public, you would never know I had surgery.

@@ginabee38 Never used a binder. I wore shapewear.

@ Babydolls hide it. Yandy has lots of great options.

It depends on the person. Pressure on my stomach was great. It helped with the gas and the support was awesome and it helped protect my incisions from clothes, bumps and pets.

I lose up until 3 days before my period, then I stall, then I lose after my period. It was like that. Now it is more like stll for 3 weeks, lose for one week, stall for 3 or 4 weeks, lose, stall. I measure myself so that helps because even in my stalls I am still losing inches.