LessOfMe0503

Because you are NOT yo-yo dieting. This is not any other diet you have been on. You had major surgery. Your body has to have time to heal and adjust to the change.
Look at it like this. I'm in Arizona. If I drive 300 miles east I'll be in New Mexico, if I drive 300 miles west I'll be in California. Either way I drove 300 miles, but I ended up in very different places. You simply cannot compare the two. You have to get out of the mindset that this is like any other diet you have tried. It is not. All of those diets failed. This one will not. Relax. Follow your plan. It will work!

There is a powder called Monkey Butt that works wonders! It was originally made to help motorcyclists with chafing but works with skin flaps too.

I have found it at Walmart. I've also seen it at hardware stores. It's also for sale on Amazon and I assume many other places online

I met someone out dancing...we are going to dinner later this week. I never get asked out, it's a Seattle thing, so this is a good thing to experience!

Sooo... just my opinion- I would reschedule the surgery. The stress of the position you are in will make it difficult to focus on caring for yourself.
Also, Protein shakes, Vitamins, etc can be expensive. Do you have a plan for continuing to afford them when money gets tough?
Do you have insurance that is paying for your surgery? I have good insurance but still had to pay 3000.00 for the surgery. That didn't include all the copays and pre op testing.

I'm sorry you have not been successful with your band and that you haven't been able to get the fills you need to make it work. The purpose of the band is to dim your appetite so you can make good choices but you have to do that part -- not eat whatever you want. Please don't discourage my choice in getting a band as I have been very happy with it for two years. It's one thing to have it not work for you but to tell other people not to have one surgery or another based on your singular experience is misleading. Meanwhile, best wishes and hopes that you are able to work with your doctors to find whatever is right for you.

I'm 5 years in and it has done everything I expected, and then some....
Best decision I ever made....easiest thing I could ever do to loose ALL my excess weight and body fat....
Now living the new life I thought would never be possible....
I only say this, because after years on this forum it is obvious everyone is welcome to share their experiences, good and bad....and for every statement made, positive or negative, there is always someone with a different experience...
The same goes with things such as caffeine, alcohol, # of fills, interpretation of the Green Zone...there is no wrong or right, there is no Black and white...
When one person or persons say one thing and feel it is the absolute fact, there will be another one with a totally different experience.
And readers, especially newbies, should not get caught up into that trap...just because someone on the internet says so...
I read success stories, as well as failures all the time....and the underlying issues to both the reader will never know...one can only assume.

Sooo... just my opinion- I would reschedule the surgery. The stress of the position you are in will make it difficult to focus on caring for yourself.
Also, Protein shakes, Vitamins, etc can be expensive. Do you have a plan for continuing to afford them when money gets tough?
Do you have insurance that is paying for your surgery? I have good insurance but still had to pay 3000.00 for the surgery. That didn't include all the copays and pre op testing.

My NUT is pretty decent. In my one on one, she asked what my normal meals are, what worries I had about nutrition after surgery, and gave me suggestions. During the pre op class, she was rather scripted. One lady had tons of questions about could she change this and that and she kept saying, this is the suggested plan... but the 2 of them spent some time in the corner after class so maybe they were working through it.
I wonder if some programs have decisions made for them by someone e higher up. For example, I'm a teacher and many decisions that are made about education have nothing to do with children, child development or educational research- but rather someone way up the line made a decision and I have to work within those boundaries. I know it can't just be in education that that happens, so maybe it is happened to nutritionists as well?

One of the first discussions I had with my surgeon was a goal weight. He looked at me and said "your personal weight will depend on too many factors, pinpointing an exact number will distract you from the immediate goals. Don't worry, you'll get to a healthy weight and will have learned how to maintain that weight."

There is nothing so sad as a nice, flat tummy not serving its purpose as a view-finder or compass
Giddyap, Cowgirl.

In training now to become a lean sex olympian.
Gonna throw my back out.

Sooo... just my opinion- I would reschedule the surgery. The stress of the position you are in will make it difficult to focus on caring for yourself.
Also, Protein shakes, Vitamins, etc can be expensive. Do you have a plan for continuing to afford them when money gets tough?
Do you have insurance that is paying for your surgery? I have good insurance but still had to pay 3000.00 for the surgery. That didn't include all the copays and pre op testing.

The fact that I come back to read this thread tells me.... I think I need to get a little more action going on in my life. I have a nice flat tummy and yet, nothing to view... dammit!

@@Dallas Powell
I am going to make a post, you may well not like. Call it tough love. It consists of two parts, first. Stop eating more than 800 calories a day. Man the fuck up, and just stop. I eat 600-800 calories a day and am never full, I do get satiated from time to time, but I find ways to distract myself, take a long ass walk. Like 2 hours long, you can't eat if you are an hour away from home in some park.
CONTINUE EATING AS YOU ARE AND YOU WILL DIE.
Part two. Run, better yet, drive, and drive quickly to the hospital that performed your surgery, and refuse to leave until they have solved this problem. It is IMPOSSIBLE for you to eat 3 lean cuisines with a 4 oz pouch. There are really two possibilities, first, a Fistula, secondly the opening from the pouch to your intestine if that junction is too large (it should be roughly 1/2 the diameter of a dime at this stage) you lose the restrictive portion of the surgery. Then, it becomes possible to eat as you have been because the food does not even slow down in your pouch, it just slides right through and you won't feel satiated until you have filled your entire roux limb AND pouch.(and I am not going to do the math but if you have a standard Roux limb it is 150cm long so think of how much food it takes to pack 150cm of garden hose and you get an idea of the volume of food you COULD stuff into yourself) Either of these is a borked surgery that, and I am going to bold this;
YOU PAID FOR. YOU ARE A CUSTOMER. YOUR SURGERY WAS NOT COMPLETED PROPERLY, REFUSE TO LEAVE THE HOSPITAL UNTIL THIS IS FIXED.
I'm not an asshole, but you have to understand the customer, salesman relationship. You or at least your insurance paid for a service that is defective. Pack a bag and head back to the hospital. Under no circumstances leave until this issue is resolved. Look up the hospitals resources. Call them. Dispute your discharge, just about every hospital has Q A people you can call.
NO EXCUSES, NO COME TO MY OFFICE, NO LET’S MAKE AN APPOINTMENT, FIX THIS AND FUCKING FIX IT NOW, OR YOU ARE LEAVING ME NO CHOICE BUT TO SEEK LEGAL REMEDY.
Sorry for all the cursing, but this has gone on long enough. We cannot help you, only your surgeon can. He already admitted a 'problem' making your pouch, We'll if he has to go back in and unfuck his mistake, that is on him. We have done all we can do, anything more in this post is speculation, you need medical care, and now.
Best of luck and let us know how it goes.

The pain you have under your left rib is your stomach, sounds like you are stuffing in too much food and yes that will cause pain. What happens when you eat half a cup of food? What do you mean by starving yourself? What type of hunger symptoms do you have? You may have only head hunger that is making you eat. Sounds like you may need nutritional counseling and meal planning. Give it a try.

Sooo... just my opinion- I would reschedule the surgery. The stress of the position you are in will make it difficult to focus on caring for yourself.
Also, Protein shakes, Vitamins, etc can be expensive. Do you have a plan for continuing to afford them when money gets tough?
Do you have insurance that is paying for your surgery? I have good insurance but still had to pay 3000.00 for the surgery. That didn't include all the copays and pre op testing.

Sooo... just my opinion- I would reschedule the surgery. The stress of the position you are in will make it difficult to focus on caring for yourself.
Also, Protein shakes, Vitamins, etc can be expensive. Do you have a plan for continuing to afford them when money gets tough?
Do you have insurance that is paying for your surgery? I have good insurance but still had to pay 3000.00 for the surgery. That didn't include all the copays and pre op testing.

I'm talking quietly because I'm a boy in the girls' room, but...
I like this thread...
I like the theme...
It's my absolute favourite...
If you know what I mean...
Oh yeah...
I poemed the s**t outta that!!
Accidently...
Anyway, I gotta go..
I've got man stuff to do...
Enjoy your...
Well...
You know...

Whoa! It's wowie-zowie only when a man knows what he's doing. The proficient ones are in the minority. I blame women for that. Not many, for whatever reasons, take the time to teach: "That's nice, but x-y-z would be even better." A man can't know the sensations a woman feels and, therefore, is unlikely to be effective without having been instructed. In the case of impermanent relationships especially, we owe it to each other to send them off with diplomas and impressive résumés. Maybe we should institute a system for providing references, too.
So far this topic has been women only. I think it's time to go co-ed to reduce the bozo population out there.

OK...this is probably TMI, but since we're already TMI, you might find this amusing. My BF has his own term for 'going to lady town'. He calls it 'praying at the temple'. I'm sorry if some think this is sacrilegious, but I find that I like that he calls it that. It's just another way to reach euphoria in my opinion.

Amen - when I see something that hits me as "stupid" or " you gotta be kidding me" - I back out of the post and move on to something more interesting without feeling the need to belittle anyone.

Museum, painting or pottery place, a walk in a park, a concert, ice skating, hiking, an amusement park...

Went on a few dates right after surgery. I had explained the whole surgery to him so it wasn't a big deal.
You could also choose no food related dates!

It's certainly a balancing act!
When I first had surgery, I set a timer in my phone for 1 minute. Everytime it went off, I would take a sip of Water. I would do that for about 20 minutes several times a day. I also did it with Protein shakes. Staying hydrated is important so keep working on it!
Refried Beans, scrambled eggs, cottage cheese and yogurt are really what I ate during the mushy stage.