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Here's what I tell people. I'm doing a high Protein low carb diet and exercising 1 to 2hrs a day(all of which are true). They don't need to know the particulars of the surgery and for all they know you could have lost weight from something like cancer even. It's your business and not theirs. You don't have to give up any information you don't want to, just because someone was nosey and asked.

It's not advised ever to drink carbonated beverages because it can do damage to your pouch, but I don't know of any surgeon anywhere who is going to tell you it is ok at 15 days post op mainly because your stomach is still healing and that fresh suture line will never be able to hold up to the acidity of that soda nor to the gas from the carbonation. It's really just a bad idea.

My biggest annoyance are the people who want an exact weight amount about how much I've lost so far. "You are life half the size! How much have you loss?" And when you refuse to give them an exact amount siting that it is very personal, then they keep needling away "so was it like 100lbs?" Seriously, it's no ones business how much I have lost! I'm not doing it for their curiosity!

I want to scream NEVER!!! But it's not never. My program offered mashed potatoes in the puréed stage and low carb tortillas in the soft food stage in the form of a roll up. Why I want to say never is because the window of opportunity to maximize your weight loss is so small, and these things tend to be really bad for most of us. A lot of us got to where we started on the backs of bread, Pasta, rice, and sweets, so the more you stay away from them, the better your overall outcome. I'm almost 8 months out and although I occasionally will take a small bite of one of these things, I generally leave them alone and honestly I don't miss them anymore.

I didn't have one and didn't really need it. I did find a few pairs of bike shorts that helped support me without being too constricting that helped, but I didn't need anything as tight as a binder.< /p>

I avoid Pasta, potatoes, most kinds of rice, most breads(but not all), anything breaded, fried, anything with more than 5g of sugar in it....really it's probably easier to say what I do eat than what I don't. I stick with simple unprocessed foods, beef, Beans, and fish mainly. I eat a lot of cheese and Jerky. My stomach doesn't handle most chicken or pork well and then after I've had my Protein serving, I'll fill in with salad, carrots, green beans or other fresh veggies, peaches in natural fruit juice with no sugar, or a few strawberries especially if my meal was spicy. It cuts the burn and allows me to wait comfortably til my 1hr post meal time to drink Water.< /p>

Before doing anything different, always always ALWAYS consult your NUT. Advancing your diet before your body is able is a recipe for disaster. That being said, I was advanced to puréed foods at 10 days post op. Things on that list included sugar free yogurt, sugar free pudding, mash potatoes mixed with unflavored Protein Powder, ricotta cheese, refried Beans, cottage cheese and even runny eggs smashed. This is the part of the program where your brain and your body are not on the same page. You have to learn to follow your steps and ignore what you think is hunger, because it isn't. It's just your head talking a pretty game, but the longer you follow your rules and stick to the steps, the easier it gets. I'm almost 9 months out and I do get hungry sometimes and sometimes I don't. It matters what you put in your body to make it not be hungry. The rules are a must. At about 4 to 6 months that's when hunger starts making it's comeback so it's important to have the rules down to heart before that happens otherwise you will likely go off the rails easier.

@@charliewrt2016 do you know who your surgeon at Kaiser will be? My surgeon Dr Chae, also does surgeries for Kaiser and he is amazing!

I haven't had any problem eating raw carrots, but I do make sure to eat them slowly and chew them very well. I've been eating them probably since I was 4 or 5 months out with no problems

The biggest lie I told myself was that my weight wasn't having a negative impact on my life. That all I needed was more willpower and I could pull it together. That my joints really weren't being damaged because some of us just were born to carry a heavier load(saying this as I battle my dislocated knee caused by carrying that heavy load for so long). How bad could it be if I can still jump up and down? This one candy, ice cream, piece of cake won't send me railing over the edge into a binge. I could go on and on. In hindsight, I think we all do these things. Mainly it's a coping mechanism to get us through this unbearable place we are in. It's easier to say "it's out of my control" or "it doesn't apply to me" because then we don't have to take responsibility for where we arenas how hopeless we feel to change it.

I'm in Colorado just south of Denver but oops I see you are in the sleeve forum and I did RNY.

My advice is to just go in calm and relaxed and don't lie about anything and don't get upset or stress about it. The whole process made me a nervous wreck, but the test is basically just like 100 questions about things like depression, feeling inadequate, do you think you can manipulate people into doing what you want, have you ever used drugs or alcohol and the like and then the questions are restated about 4-5 times in different ways. The worst part of all was talking to the psych himself and that's because mine was a smug jerk who didn't even listen to me or what I was saying and then tried to pounce on things he thought I said wrong like he asked my age and I said 38 and he thought I said 28, so when I listed my kids name and ages he said there's no way you had a kid at that age, and I was confused. I said lots of people have kids at 24 yrs old(my age when my 1st was born) so it took awhile of trying to explain to him I was 38 and he still kept saying 28 and by the end of it I was almost in tears thinking it would be wrecked because he wasn't even listening to me. I still passed though. The office manager pointed a couple of things out to me after the fact that calmed me down. One, he is an a-hole and they all know it. Two, it's his job to get people qualified. If he doesn't get people qualified, he won't have a job so he will get as many people qualified as possible so unless there was a serious reason not to(like obvious mental illness or drug addiction), he should pass pretty much everyone.

Also zulily! It's online and the options are often hot or miss, but I have gotten a lot of cute pieces cheap there.

I just started shopping on Zulilly, first time I ordered 2 items just because I wasn't sure about sizing. Those were fine, so I just ordered several maxi dresses for the summer. This just might be a little addicting!

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it's easy to get addicted to them! I buy a lot of my jean shorts there because at $14.99 or so I don't feel as bad when I blow through a size a month. They fit so well and when things don't fit so well, they make it right by you and I like that! Also love the reborn collection. I have several of their tunics in various colors, styles, and prints but they take like 4wks to get and sometimes I'm out of them before they arrive.

Also zulily! It's online and the options are often hot or miss, but I have gotten a lot of cute pieces cheap there.

I posted further up the thread, but I want to post a new update  

Hw:429 sw:386 current weight:260 at 7 months out.

No aeronautics with a huge global company. But the liaison is really helpful.

I had one assigned through my husband's work. They have their own plan but it's administered through Aetna . She was helpful! We went over history and stuff and then she talked to me about possible medications, side effects to watch out for, gave me a number to call if I needed extended stay in the hospital beyond the 1 day insurance allotted-which I did use, and ahe called after my surgery to check to see if my needs were being met and my pain managed and reminded me not to shave while on blood thinners because it could be disastrous....but it was good to know! I never thought of that one!

Don't be too hard on yourself. Some of us didn't even have a liver shrink diet to begin with! That's right! No liver shrink diet at all and I was HUGE and I did just fine. Just so your best to get right back on the horse and do the best you can with the instructions your surgeon gave you. People screw up, we are human. It's what you do next that determines if you are going to be successful or fail.

My favorite thing was my body pillow. It's the only thing that made that hard miserable bed comfortable enough to sleep in.

How rude of her to ask! It's none of her business! [emoji35]I'd just say it's something of a personal nature-which it is- and don't say anything above that. It really is no ones business.

Refried Beans, sugar free yogurt, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes with unflavored Protein Powder mixed in...I was allowed to have Mac n cheese if it was over cooked and thoroughly mashed first, but I never did it or the potatoes because of the carbs, ricotta bake, lasagna smashed with a fork-although again the carbs are too much IMO, cook an over easy egg using Pam cooking spray and then smash with a fork til it makes egg slop. I ate A LOT of eggs during puréed stage...

I chose rny and I had a really easy and wonderful time with it. I had my 6 month labs done and all was well, no issues with mal absorption. I have great restriction, I was a complete sugar addict pre surgery and having the rny has curbed that because I absolutely do not want dumping syndrome and although I've only come close to dumping twice, that was enough to make me make sure I read my labels and followed my plan to the letter. For me, at my starting weight and knowing my triggers, this was the way to go for me. If rny scares you, even after talking to the surgeon, in the end it's your decision to make. You have to live with the results either way, so choose what makes you feel like you can be most successful and happy with your end results.

Don't walk in saying "you screwed up" and list a laundry list of why you know it is so. Make an appt, go into his office and tell him you are concerned and then tell him your reasons why, but just don't be accusatory. It's possible that it was done correct and your anatomy and physiology along with your eating habits have made it otherwise. Part of this is going to be on you though for not measuring out and limiting your portions to begin with despite the lack of restriction, but there may be something else going on and a simple Bariatric swallow test should show if there is an abnormality in the size of your pouch. If it comes back that all is well with your sleeve, you really should follow up with your NUT and psych to make a plan to get back on track, because I have a feeling there is more to the eating a 20oz steak than just in a delightful conversation. Even with a full size stomach I couldn't eat a 20oz steak although it never stopped me from trying. You could be just pushing the food out the bottom into your intestines or something.

Maybe try a drink with some Protein in it that isn't a heavy calorie shake. Like the Bariatric Pal Store sells proti-15. I get the grape flavor and it's like a Syrup in the packet that mixes with Water and tastes like Welch's grape juice. It gives me a little extra protein when I need it and it's like 75 calories or something so it's not a complete derail. I sip it between meals.

I took both and it wasn't til the day I went home that I could even get up to get changed into them because of an oxygen issue. They were great for the ride home though.