Sunwyse

Someone explained this to me and I think it makes a lot of sense. During the pre-op diet and while on the liquids phase, your body is completely empty of any food stored in the stomach or alimentary canal. (tum to bum). When you start eating again, that volume slowly is built back up. Any extra weight put on at this stage is to be expected and is simply the body doing its usual thing.

I agree with MacMadame, I do think they have based it all on assuming people will exercise. The difference is how much you are expected to exercise. I think originally, it was set up with the intention that people will do the recommended 30 minutes a day 3 or 4 times a week. Some people though, have gone far beyond that and then I think you do need to look at added more. If you are adding weights workouts, then I don't think you'd need to add more, but if you were weight training, then definitely I'd add more protein and carbs.

In Australia the government is instituting obesity tests on 3 year olds. I'm not joking - 3!! The problem is complex. I knew one mother who gave her 3 year old fat reduced milk, mistakenly believing it was good for him. She was very looks conscious herself. Parents today often have no or very little, contact with extended family memebers, so don't get the knowledge and help passed to them. They are working much longer hours nowadays. And its not a luxury, many have to do it to survive. Life is so much about convenience, its so much easier to run passed Maccas (Mcdonalds) on the way home than it is to cook once you get there. Cooking healthy food doesn't take long at all. Most things can be done in less than 30 minutes, but people view it as too much hard work. Grab take-away on the way home, grab something from the freezer and zap it. So much easier and no thinking involved.

I'm one week out from banding and I've found I cannot have yoghurt. I used to practically live on the stuff! At first I tried added milk to make it a runny drink, then last night I tried a different brand and a bit thicker. Same reaction both times, I feel like my stomach is on fire and have pain all night. Has anybody else had this experience, either with yoghurt or anything else? What foods have now become a problem?

In Australia, all surgeons for this procedure require you to stay overnight. Its standard procedure.

Olinka, good luck with the op tomorrow.

You are not going crazy! What you are craving is intensity of flavour. You are mostly likely used to having quite rich foods, with a lot of taste to them. That's missing now. One of the ways to get a quick flavour hit is with spicy foods.

Are you breast feeding? Your body requires a lot more energy right now, just to recover from pregnancy and giving birth. If you are breast feeding, then you need even more calories. Stop beating yourself up. Having a baby changes your life completely. Its a lot of stress. Its ok to slip up a bit, its ok to not lose weight for a time. Just enjoy having bub right now. If you don't have time to prepare healthy meals for yourself, what about buying some ready made ones? Sure, not as good as making it yourself at home, but not as bad as having quick & easy junk food either. You've done really well, so relax.

Who is dr de bruyne and how would you contact them?

Well, I was done on 29 Oct, but I've only just found this thread :tongue: While all of you were posting, I was in hospital recovering - our 29/10 is about 24 hours ahead of yours. It was a bad trip for me. I had to stay in hospital over night. Didn't get any sleep though. If it wasn't obs being done every hour, it was my "Jewish Grandmother" waking me. That's the name I gave to my drip machine. I had a drip in and every time I bent my arm, it would set off an alarm. Of course, the only time it would actually do this was anytime I was just getting into a deep sleep. I had gas pain all over the place, both shoulder blades, my spine, top of my ribs, along the shoulder and up my neck to behind my ear. About day 3 I started to get pains in my liver and kidneys, which I put down to gas as well. Its day 7 now and just about all the pain has gone. I was burping and farting like a trooper there for a while. For the first 24 hours after surgery, I was on clear fluids only. Well, I was a bit confused on this, so I had Water, apple juice and gatorade until I could call my dietitian on Friday morning. I was then told I could go onto thicker liquids. I'm having the Optifast for most of my nutrition at the moment, along with my 8 glasses of water, a dissolvable Vitamin supplement, cup-a-soup, and chocolate custard that I add milk to to make it really runny. On Friday, I see the dietitian again and she will advise me to the next step, which I think will be full liquids next week to prepare for mushie stage. I've not had problems with BMs. I had diarrea the first few days, which stopped yesterday, so now I've added powdered fibre which can be mixed into my coffee and has no taste. It seems to have helped. The pain the first few days was like someone shoving a knife in me - I swear someone had a voodoo doll! and I was seriously regretting what I'd done. When I got home from hospital on Thursday I even had a little mourn for what I had done to my body. Now, at day 7 everything is on track. I'm using a moisturiser I made myself with all sorts of good oils (mango butter, cocoa butter, jojoba, etc) to rub into my scars so they can heal well. It seems to be working fine. Now I'm just waiting for the end of next week before returning to work.

Downward dog is extremely easy. Its basically like bending over and with any yoga position, you only do what you feel comfortable with. I think the whole point here is to get your head lower than the pouch, so you could easily do similar by hanging your head over the edge of the bed. As for unstucking a stuck - not happened to me yet, but many people I've spoken to swear by having a fizzy drink on hand and simply taking a large mouthful. The gas seems to do it.

I've had pain in the kidneys and also my liver. I put it down to the gas pains just moving around. They seem to be fine now.

Don't copy and paste the url. When you make the ticker, there will be code at the bottom of it, you copy the code and paste that into the signature part of your control panel. I don't remember if you need to copy the bb code or the html code, but try one and if it doesn't work, then try the other.

Stace, has anyone told you you should go back to liquid phase for 24 hours after a fill? The stomach becomes inflamed and it gives it a chance to heal. Digesting solid food could cause the band to slip at this point.

I have rambling pains as well. I've had both shoulder blades, spine, ribs, top of shoulder all the way up back of neck to behind ear - either side! The pains go from feeling like I've caught a slight chill in my bones to someone sticking a knife in me. Thankfully, they are receding. I've taken de-gas (gas ex to you I think) and done a lot of laying down. It seems to help.

I'm still on liquid phase post op. No, I can guarantee the shakes don't fill you up. They do seem to take the edge off the hunger for me though. At present I'm having little often, about every 2 hours and that seems to get me through. Have you tried having a glass of Water 10 minutes before eating? That might help take the edge off before you eat and help to make you feel less hungry.

Why do you think that you will be restricted because you've had a fill? The number of fills you get is individual. 1 more may do it, but you might need 3 more. No one knows until they reach that sweet spot. I don't think your doc will give you another fill yet. The stomach needs time to adjust to what has just happened. This isn't an instant fix, that will magically change us during surgery. It will take months for most of us before the real restriction begins. If you are on met, then chances are you have PCOS, that means really slow weight loss. But even if you have met for diabetes, you could well be insulin resistant anyway, which also means slow weight loss. Just know the weight loss will come, in the mean time enjoy life.

My cucumbers and tomatoes have put up their heads and my eggplants are going well, first shoot came up yesterday. I've got a few more to plant, just got to get around to getting the potty mix ready.

Have you thought about trying complementary medicines? Acupuncture is supposed to be really good at helping the hormones to balance more naturally.

I had something similar about 6 years ago, but that wasn't related to the band. I've heard quite a few women with PCOS get a quite heavy period not long after getting the band and then nothing for a while. Just the shake up to the system from the op I think. See your doctor, but also look at taking and iron supplement for the time being.

Totally agree about the quality! I actually started growing my own veg and herbs a few weeks ago. I'm also planning on switching to being vegetarian in about a month's time. We will be able to get such a small amount in, compared to how it used to be, I plan to get as much good, living foods into me as possible - and definitely agree about quality over quantity!

Hi Fanny, no probs about the long post, it makes a lot of sense actually. I've been a very good girl so far, only having liquids or custards which are thinned down with milk. And I'm having something roughly every 2 hours cause I may have been through weightloss surgery, but I still have quite a bulky body that needs a certain level of calories in order to function. I have to say though, my obsession with food isn't totally new. For years I've thought about becoming a professional cook because I wanted to learn about food, the technical stuff and the creative side. I guess I just have too much time on my hands right now and its taking over. Was a really interesting read.

I think I've got this obsession with food going on. Not food per se, but cooking and doing stuff with it. I'm cooking all the meals for my partner at the moment and wanting to do lots of baking. I don't have all that much interest in food for myself and I don't crave it while I'm doing it or he's eating or anything. I'm also starting to feel bored. My energy levels are coming back up, but I'm still not quite ready to be doing much. And my hunger has come back. Anyone else experiencing this?

Well done on making it through to mushies stage and on the wonderful loss!

I was done on the same day and yes, I still have the gas pains and have diarrhea.