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Oh wow! Congratulations! I imagine you are probably scared to death, but just hang in there! I'd like to say the morning sickness doesn't last forever, but it sure feels like it and with just having surgery, a lot of the helper things are gone like hard candies and ginger ale. Praying for you and your little one to have a safe and healthy 9 month.

I showered my second day in the hospital. They glued me shut so all I had to do was just avoid scrubbing those areas and keep a waterproof bandage over my drain. The drain was the worst part about bathing but I got a lanyard and clipped it to the drain for hands free showering. Made life easier. I wasn't cleared for bathing in the tub til after the hole where my drain had been had completely closed good...probably like 2 month post op.

I like the Caribbean Cooler, but not enough to commit to a 2lb tub so I buy the to go packets of that one. Tastes great over shaved ice too!

No one can say how long your stall will last or how many stalls you will have along the journey. It's too individual a process. I just came off a 2 month stall. It was the hardest time of my life and I really needed help to get out of it. If it goes beyond 3-4wks really call your NUT and go over your diet and exercise to see if you are getting enough nutrition for your activity level. Mine probably would have broken sooner if my NUT had just suggested I bump up my nutrition.

Being a mom with 7 kids, I totally understand the home situation you are dealing with. When I first started exercising, I couldn't do much and my husband was a bit of an @ss about it too saying stretching and leg lifts weren't real exercise but a warm up to start exercising. Anyway, he gave no support and wouldn't watch kids so I could exercise so I started using them in my exercises. My toddler for instance makes a great bench press. LOL I bought a dance dance revolution game mat and challenge my kids to a dance off. It doesn't matter if the 3 yr old just rocks back and forth the whole time and never hits a single arrow, but they feel included and also stay out from under foot. Then(as long as you are in the northern hemisphere) spring is hitting us and there's beautiful days for taking long walks or strolls with the younger ones and just chasing them around at the park. It counts because your body is in motion. It doesn't matter if it's pretending to walk(treadmill) or an actual walk. If anything actually walking is more fun and motivating than pretend walking. Don't let his lack of caring or understanding become your roadblock to success.

It could be that you are not taking in enough nutrients-protein, carbs, overall calories to sustain your body's needs. I just went through something similar here at 6 months where I wasn't getting enough and I was falling asleep all the time and I would have crushing migraine like headaches every afternoon. My weight loss also stalled out and I felt really just ill. My blood work was all good, just like yours so I asked my NUT for help, but she didn't really offer me anything except when my weight first stalled she cut out my carbs which made me even more tired and more ill. So after talking to several people on here, I went rogue and bumped my protein, carbs, and calories up and now my weight is melting like butter and I'm not tired anymore. It might be something to think about.

It was definitely the right move. I'm losing about 1lb a day now! Woot! [emoji2]

My surgeon doesn't require the liquid pre op diet at all. He said it's really not that effective and all it does is put undue stress and hardship on his already struggling patients. He said that he believed in the next year (that was 6 months ago) that most practices would be phasing it out altogether. I didn't have any problem with an enlarged liver or anything and my surgery went well and was really quite painless compared to my previous gall bladder removal 13yrs before.

I'm so sorry. I hope for your sake that it was just a faulty test. Sometimes when people get positive hcg tests it can be something more serious though. A friend of mine had ovarian cancer and she thought she was just pregnant. I'm not saying that is what happened to you, but you DEFINITELY need to investigate and find out what is causing the high levels because obviously you aren't pregnant unless you know a way I don't know about to get pregnant! LOL

The restrictive feeling is from where your new stomach is swollen and it just needs time to heal. In the beginning, I could only hold 1 oz at a time. If I tried to drive all 2oz of my protein shake in 15 mins, I would throw up. It took at least a month before I could hold a full 2oz. Fast forward to around month 4 or 5 and it was like almost overnight that the swelling went down and I could hold substantially more-like 4oz. Now, at 6 months I can hold between 6-8oz usually.

I was 429lbs when I started. I would start by just walking across the house and pushing a rolling chair for when my legs were too tired to hold me anymore. Then I built up to doing laps around the kitchen island and then to walking the end of the block and eventually around the block and then around the subdivision. Then I added resistance bands and a fitball and started doing basic floor exercises like leg lifts and such. THEN I got an elliptical when I hit my 100lb milestone and currently I'm running 65 min programs each day and doing core building exercises or resistance training every day and when the weather is nice I can easily walk 3-4miles without huffing and puffing like a dying fish. Just find where you are starting from and challenge yourself to do a little more next time. When I first got my elliptical, I could maybe do 3 mins at a time and each time I would strive for 1 min more then 1 more and 1 level more intensity and incline til I built up to where I am. Same with walking or doing leg lifts. Start with like 5 and challenge yourself to do a few more each time and see how far you can go.

I was a nervous wreck in the days leading up to surgery, but the morning of my surgery I was totally Zen. The nurse even had to double check twice to make sure I hadn't already gotten the Valium or whatever because I was just so calm. I'm sure you will do fine. Just find your inner skinny personal and go Zen! [emoji6]

I was 5'10 and change when I was in high school and in my 20's I injured my back a blew a few discs and shrunk to 5'9 1/2 and at my recent point I was just below 5'9 so apparently between the discs and just being heavy and having had so many kids I've lost over an inch of height. Kind of disappointing, but the good news is that it's easier to find "regular length" clothes instead of talls!

Mine wasn't diagnosed, but I definitely had it and don't now. I snored so loud my family could hear me downstairs with the doors closed, and I would wake up choking and with a pounding head most mornings. Since surgery though, I don't snore anymore. Even my husband can't believe how quiet I am now. I don't wake up choking anymore either. I really used to go to sleep each night afraid my kids would find me dead in my bed in the morning. So there is definitely hope that you can be "cured" after surgery. It probably won't be as fast as the day/week you go home, but a few months out, you might be!

So far, going rogue has netted me a HUGE loss! Stall broken-although I hate to say it less I jinx myself into another one! About day 3 of bumping my protein to 90 grams or so, calories around 1000, and carbs to about 30 for the day and I lost 4lbs! In one day! Then over the next few days I've lost a few more! Seems like everyone was right(except my NUT). My headaches are gone and I'm no longer passing out exhausted! Yay!

Don't overthink the bag. LOL I had all kinds of crap I never used. All you really need is your insurance cards, ID, underwear, loose clothes to wear home, a robe to cover your @ss flapping in the breeze as you walk the halls, slippers or slip on shoes, toiletries(although hospital provided some), chapstick(although hospital also provided some but I like my brand better), charger and phone, and I took my body pillow to get comfortable with. That was the life saver of all the things I brought! I can't emphasize enough how uncomfortable those hospital beds are, but with a good body pillow I was pretty comfy for my 3 day stay(had oxygen and waking up from anesthesia issues so I got an extra day) that's all you really need. I had all kinds of junk in my bag for "worse case scenarios" from listerine pocket packs, self cooling ice bags, self heating heat packs, ear plugs, eye mask, feminine hygiene products, sprays to make the hospital smell go away, pjs(which in the end I wore 1 pair home just because I didn't want to have to get dressed just to go home and put pj's on but the rest of the time I was in the hospital gowns and too out of it to care), socks, they put compression socks on me so my socks were useless, I mean I had a lot of crap! LOL

I like the Jack links tender cuts. They aren't so painful to chew and have a good flavor without being too strong. I keep bags of jerky stashed in my van, my desk, and occasionally my purse just incase of emergencies although I did have a major emergency Monday and was left without any jerky or water for almost 6hrs. I don't advise that!

If you are fresh out of the hospital post op, sure, it could work, otherwise it's just not enough protein to meet your needs. The first days are rough trying to get in enough protein and liquids. Just do the best you can.

@@Cassie111 PB2 is a powdered peanut butter without the fat and sugar. You can "reconstitute" it into peanut butter by mixing with oil or blend it into protein drinks to add peanut-ness.

I took my before pic the night before surgery. I didn't want to look at it. I didn't want anything to do with it, but at 6 months out and down well over 100lbs I like looking at it compared to my pics of me now. It shows me how far I've come because physically I don't feel different. My mind protected me from seeing how huge I was and when I look in the mirror now I cannot see any difference, but when I take a pic and compare side by side with that first pic I'm all like "yeah, that's a major difference!"

The Bariatric pal store has some crunchy protein snacks that are pretty good. There's one that's like sour cream and onion O's. Tastes really good and we're kind funyon like....I used to love those back in the day. Scratched that itch nicely.

I didn't get cheese back til I was over a month out. Something about it can melt and gum up the healing stomach pouch/intestines, so you need to wait til it's healed. Literally at 6 months out, I eat cheese every day. It's my best friend when it comes to meals.

I haven't dumped except during the soft food stages when I was ok'd to eat Bariatric vegetarian chili. It was just this side of hell. Not something you want to go looking for. I have kind of poked at that bear a few times like tasting a bite of cake(it was gross btw) and it didn't do anything to me. I've had pasta sauce that was over my 4g of sugar limit given to me by my NUT and still no dumping. Not all people dump so you cannot count on that safety net. You have to just go knowing that it "may" be a possibility, but don't go poking for how much you can get away with before it happens. When I recognized my behavior I made changes so I don't go testing to see what I can get away with again. It's not very beneficial in the long haul to be trying to defeat or push the limits of our surgeries.

are you sure you don't? Have you been checked for sleep apnea or have light stress in continence like when you sneeze? That can be comorbidity! I bet if you go to your PCP they can find you a comorbidity if they look hard enough. I technically didn't have any, but if I had been tested for sleep apnea I am certain I would have come back with it because I would wake up choking and gasping for air and feel tired in the morning.

You should just tell him. You are suppose to be a team and he can either support you, or you'll know it's time to walk away from the sinking ship, but hiding is not healthy. What if you have complications or worse yet, what if you didn't make it due to complications. He has a right to know what the risks are too doesn't he? Since he'd be the one losin his wife and shouldering the responsibility of both parents. Here's the deal. When I told my hubby I wanted gastric bypass he was NOT behind me at all, but I told him my reasons for doing it and that I was going to do it. I did my best to educate him on what it was and what it wasn't so that he would know that this was a carefully thought out decision and although he didn't like the idea, he did come around and seeing me healthy, happy, and a helluva lot more mobile now, he understands that it was the best thing for me.