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Best you can do. Don't risk anything on this!

I was on shots for 14 days and that's the standard procedure here. I don't know why it seems uncommon in the US.

I have a VitaMix blender since years. I don't think that you need a blender that is as expensive as the VitaMix for as little as a few weeks. If you're planning to continue using it I'd highly recommend it.

Your GP will now be the person you should go to. He or she will tell you what to do next. What did they say about this "mass in the transverse colon"? Was a CAT scan done? A colonoscopy?

Same reason why lots of people subscribe to the channel of Eugenia Cooney maybe? It's some kind of a modern freak show.

Getting plastic surgery whether insurance will cover it or not. I deserve the best my body can be.

I've read his book. I like especially what he says about nutrition - and he doesn't mean "lean meats over everything else" when he talks about high quality nutrition.

It's not like regain is impossible with the DS though. No 100% guarantee for any procedure out there when you look at the studies.

It's nice to go into a shop while know that the sizes will fit. Sometimes the fitting size will be out of stock though. Did my style change? So far not. I basically wear the same stuff in smaller sizes.

Might also be because recovery from surgery essentially sucks for many people. A lot of the "Oh, I so regret this"-people are only a few days(!!!) out. After a few months (or even only weeks) you begin to reap the benefits and you feel fine again.

There is RNY and MGB (or single-anastomosis bypass). Both can be done laparoscopically.

I think this is an important thing to consider. You can research until you're blue in the face - the reality of it is still different. You do your research about complications and how often they occur after surgery but you can never ever know if you will be the one suffering complications. And when you're suffering complications it doesn't matter a bit if there is only a 0.000001 likelihood to suffer from complication. You're the screwed one if you get that rare complication.

After reading this I have to make my own protein bars again. Usually I'm too lazy to make then though but the store bought ones get old after a while. I should make my own at least from time to time.

... is not a magic bullet. If it was there wouldn't be the need for WLS. Yes, I'm afraid as well that this might be only temporary. However, I did quite well maintaining with the lap band before I got revision so I have hope that I will doing quite well with maintaining after MGB again.

Depends. My stomach gets a little bit queasy if I eat too much fat. Some people get diarrhea. Some people avoid it only because of the calories.

Go to the patients tab on top of the page.

I have a macbook, too.

go to patients -> my surgery -> progress

I think the shirataki pasta is quite interesting. It tastes quite good in the traditional Asian recipes it is usually used in. However, I'm a bit wary to try them after the MGB, they gave me diarrhea before MGB if I ate too much of them and "too much" wasn't much of a quantity. As for protein pasta. I like the bean pastas (they are quite expensive though and I somehow doubt that their nutritional value is that much higher compared to the regular stuff). If one wants to try "protein pasta", I think the stuff myprotein sells is quite alright.

Well, eat it... your body will tell you if it likes to stomach pasta or not. You need to experiment. Or is your team strictly against pasta for some reason?

Bariatric pal inserts?

I would definitely doing it again. However, I wouldn't opt for gastric banding again. Back in the days there was only lapband or gastric bypass and nearly nobody would have performed a gastric bypass on a woman my age and weight back then in Germany. It also was hard enough to get approved for lapband insurance wise, let alone gastric bypass or the DS. Most people got gastric banding or vertical gastroplasty then, some had a gastric bypass. I know have MGB because I needed revision because of complications (reflux, migrating band). I don't know if the MGB was the right decision. Maybe a few years down the road I will say that maybe RNY would have been the right choice or the DS to whatever. I'm having problems with gastritis again. Maybe diagnostics will be necessary again. Ah, whatever... Bottomline is though that I would have WLS again .

This a 1000 times. It's so important to adjust expectations otherwise you're going to feel like a failure. This is even more important when you're starting at a comparatively low BMI. Someone with a BMI of 55 or 60 will lose weight faster than someone with a BMI of 40 or 35 or less. You'll also lose weight slower if you have lost quite a bit of weight pre-surgery or if you're a revision and already had a substantial EWL in the past. Seriously, people are setting themselves up for depressed mood with these kind of expectations. (I have to remind myself of this as well and need to follow my own advice here, currently stalling since a few weeks.)

70 lbs in 4 months is a lot. --- If you feel you're getting off track analyze what is your downfall (you already said grazing) and try to get a grip on it by asking yourself what might help the problem. What could help you to prevent grazing? A meal plan? Spreading the food you want to eat for that day over more meals (e. g. six instead of three or four meals)? Getting distracted with work or a hobby? --- Problem solving is something very individual. What might help one person, might make another person's problem worse.

People may understand about WLS on here but you'll notice that there might be a lot of unsolicited advice on here as well.