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I decided quickly but insurance didn't.

I couldn't and that's exactly why I stopped doing it long ago. Tracking lead me to obsession and interestingly enough my brain craved more food when I was tracking and I was also more prone to loss-of-control eating when I tracked. Other people experience the opposite. They do very good with writing down everything they eat. It's up to you if you stop tracking or not.

Considering how many patients decide to hide their WLS people might simply don't know why one is loosing weight. A colleague was absent (i. e. on sick leave) for a while and then loses weight like crazy. Could be serious illness as well. I wouldn't want to make a compliment then.

The dieticians in my treatment team usually recommend some brands you can choose from (different price categories). They also provide a checklist what the supplement has to contain exactly if you choose to take a different brand. Once you know what amount of RDA you have to take daily (I bet you already know that requirements for the DS are different than for e. g. a sleeve) you could start by ordering samples. You can then check both taste and tolerance. Not everyone likes and tolerates the same products. You have to take that stuff daily, some more than one time and you don't want something in your supplement arsenal you don't like.

Pureed cooked red beet with soy creamer. Protein drink not pictured. 2 more weeks of this, lol.

I'm not and never was. Potato soup and mashed potatoes are staple foods during the liquid phase. Everything else can be eaten after 4 weeks. Bread, pasta... The program emphasizes getting the amount of protein necessary depending on height of the patient, but they also warn about not eating enough eating vegetables and fruits because of e. g. constipation.

Absolutely. I hated comments on weight gain and I hated comments on weight loss.

This. I personally think that it's rude to comment on someone's weight, regardless if they gained or lost. Unless they don't bring up the topic themselves I don't comment. The "the person has lost weight because of an illness" is something to take into consideration. You wouldn't want a compliment on your weight loss while battling a serious disease, would you?

Thanks a lot. ? As you can see I'm back in town. I'm feeling ok considering the type of surgery I got. My immediate recovery was not as speedy as before but I'm on the fifth post-op day today and was allowed home. One more of these awful antibiotic things (I had elevated inflammation parameters on Friday so had to take them) and then it's PPI for 6 months again. Major downsides: 3 weeks of liquids. No sports for 6 weeks, except some walking or light cycling. Oh well...

At the obesity help site there are quite a few people who've had the DS. Here are some as well but over at the afore mentioned website there are way more users who had the procedure. Maybe there is more information and/or help for you available there?

I think the OP already had the DS?

There actually is a procedure called banded-bypass but I don't know how effective it is or if it is even done today. IIRC it is (or at least was) sometimes also done because of severe dumping before the overstitch came around.

Thank you. I hope I'll be out again on Monday.

Going in tomorrow. Surgery is schedule for Wednesday. Hopefully everything goes as planned.

Hmmmmmm. Do you mean "thinking of yourself as a fat person", "expecting to see someone fat in the mirror" or "feeling fat"? I honestly can't say if there was a kind of "turning point" so to say for the first two things I mentioned. However, regarding the "feeling of fat" I have that quite often (I think this might be because of the loose skin I still have). Sometimes I think though that "feeling fat" is some sad kind of norm in our culture.

Depends on so many things. How much you should be eating depends on what position sizes satisfy both mental and physical hunger. What you should be eating depends e. g. on your taste preferences, intolerances, allergies, meeting nutritional requirements, some common sense and (if that is important for you) ethical and/or environmental considerations. What some people trying to lose weight are doing is logging their food for a few days and then cutting the calories by e. g. 300 or 500. Others cut out meals without counting calories. There is more than one way to Rome and you'll have to find yours.

Me, too. LOL. ? I don't know how much more money I would've spent on clothes if I would be working in an office. Being able to simply draw a smaller size out of the closet or unimat machine makes things easier (and less expensive).

Depends on your treatment team's policy. We were allowed bread after 4 weeks.

Let's face it. We're a crowd of eating disordered subjects and WLS caused that eating disorder to change gear in many cases. I'm not really sure why so many WLS patients deny having an eating disorder. Can one really get to a morbidly obese BMI without having seriously disordered eating?

This is what some people would call "moderation" or "balance". Unfortunately I've seen more than one time that quite a few people on here show negative reactions towards these words.

How is one supposed to eat this? Unhinge your mandible or what? ?

Temperature. You usually get it at Asian restaurants with the bake fruits as a sauce. Honey mustard sauce or sweet chili sauce is a thing in Germany as well but spicy honey not so much. One might get spiced up honey, e. g. with ginger or cinnamon to put on bread.

Aha, didn't know that. Hot honey is something I only know as a combo with baked pineapple, apple or banana.

Part of the pizza with corn, mushrooms and hot peppers.

Ok, this ignorant European here had to google "cheesy grits". Looks interesting but can't imagine having it with ... honey??