catwoman7

I was an academic librarian and my supervisor asked me to wait until the school year was over *just in case*. So...I did. I took three weeks off but could have gone back after two. So you may be fine unless there are issues, which there usually aren't (I had the bypass). Edited to add that it doesn't seem to take any longer for the bypass to heal than it does the sleeve. The above posters are right, though, in it may take awhile to figure out the whole food thing - what your stomach will tolerate, what it won't. It definitely would be easier to do this if you wait until summer and have a couple of months to figure everything out.

liquids go through your stomach a lot faster than something dense like a chicken breast will.

that's a teaching & research hospital. You should have no worries at all - it's going to be excellent.

how long do you have to crush it for? I could take everything whole except for ursodiol and those big calcium pills as soon as I got home from the hospital

yes - that sounds about right. And no - you won't feel full or satisfied for awhile. For one thing, your nerves were cut, and it takes them awhile to heal. For another, liquids go right through you. Once you're a month or so out and start eating solid food, you'll feel your restriction. In the meantime, just follow your surgeon's plan.

your loss is about the same as I was at that point. Rate of weight loss has to do with a whole host of factors, most of which are out of your control - age, gender, starting BMI, metabolic rate, how active you are, whether or not you lost a lot of weight prior to surgery, etc. The only thing you have complete control over is commitment to your program. If you follow the program, the weight WILL come off, whether fast or slow. I was a slow loser from the get-go, but I almost never went off my plan during the losing phase, and I ended up losing all of my excess weight.

Just so you know, some people have had really good luck with those, and others haven't. I never tried them because I'd probably be one of those whom they don't work for...

I'd been worried for awhile about having a heart attack and lying on a table in the ER and having someone tell me there was nothing they could do until I lost at least 100 lbs. I also worried about dying and the funeral home having to search all over the state to find a crematory big enough for me.

a lot of plastic surgeons want you at a stable weight for at least a year. I had my first round of plastic surgery at three years out, after I had my 12-lb "rebound".

P.S. but I do agree with the above poster - I would run it by your surgeon's office just in case. But I bet it's just the normal weird-colored stuff a lot of us have the first few weeks.

I agree with the above poster. It's most likely iron. I had weird -colored stools for the first few weeks - before I started taking iron, yellow. Afterward the iron, black. They've been normal for a long time now, but yes - odd-colored stool isn't unusual in the first few weeks post-surgery.

I needed the surgery. I'd lost anywhere from 20-60 lbs countless times before (and I had over 200 to lose at my heaviest). The problem was, it always came back. This is the first time I've been able to take off all of my excess weight - and keep it off!

I've never heard of this supplement, but just so you know, most treatments don't really do squat. If you're going to lose hair, you're going to lose hair. It's temporary, though - and most of us don't lose it to the point where other people even notice.

Mine didn't really change - it just became more intense. Sweet things tasted sweeter; spicy things tasted spicier. I had a hard time handling either one of those in the early post-op months. They don't bother me anymore - not sure if my sense of taste eventually went back to normal or if I just got used to more intensity. P.S. I really hated bananas for awhile - a fruit I loved pre-op. But I think it was more the sweetness than the banana taste. However, I'm eating them again and have been for awhile. But the first few months - ugh.

all those surgeons you mentioned have outstanding reputations. I don't think you'll go wrong with any of them!

in defense of Fluffy, she's a respected member of this site and a really good resource for us. It's just that what your nutritionist told you is wildy different than what the rest of us were told. It's....unusual advice. I've been hanging out on WLS forums for about five years, and this is the first time I've ever heard of anything like this.

there are tons on the market. I'd suggest picking up some individual packets (online or at stores) to try them first before buying a big tub of something that you end up hating.

I love the sugar free fudgesicles, too - nice dessert when I'm craving chocolate. But like the above posters, I didn't have them until after surgery. Those weren't allowed on our pre-surgery liquid diet.

I agree with the others, I've never heard that before and it sounds absurd. I know they told us that whey protein isolate (which is in some of the protein shakes) is the best absorbed form of protein, so we should focus on those early out rather than shakes made from protein blends or whey concentrate, but they never told us not to count the protein in food.

people's bodies eventually stop. Mine stopped at 138. If 128 is in a normal BMI range for you, then that's probably what's going on.

many of us were told to just focus on protein and fluids the first few weeks. You're most likely not taking in enough calories at this point to worry about the rest of it. and 32 lbs in 43 days is excellent. I lost 28 lbs in the first two months (so 60 days), so you're already way ahead of me (and I started out at over 300 lbs, too)

it's not a very common surgery, so I'm not surprised you're having trouble, but still, in Boston? It's a big enough place it seems like there should be SOMEONE who does it. Good luck with your search!

that person is crazy. Especially crazy since she works at a weight loss clinic and should know better. Is she brand new there or....??? I've been hanging around this and other boards for several years now. I also talk to pre-op classes every month, because I'm one of my clinic's model patients. Just based on reading and listening and working with a ton of people all that time, I'd say the average amount of weight loss for the first month is somewhere in the 15-25 lb range. Of course there are outliers (people who lose more or less than that) - and there are of course "My 600 lb Life" contestants who are NOT representative of the average weight loss patient by the way, but I'd say for the majority of us, we fit somewhere in that range. And you ARE in that range. That woman is out of her freaking mind. P.S. the 700-800 calorie a day part of that is OK. A lot of us eat around that much the first few months. It's her comment about your weight loss that baffles me. She should know better!

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I think I look pretty much the same - and I'm wearing the same clothes, so....