MacMadame

Oh, I see it on the sleeve boards. I see it all over OH and it drives. me. crazy. I even wrote a whole post about it on my blog! Fatty Fights Back: MTYHBUSTERS: Starvation Mode

I did my BRIC class in the AM. We did some speed work for our run. Then I did a track workout in the PM. More speedwork, but the focus was on cadence. I finally have a good one!

I'm trying to figure out how many calories I need. I've been eating more fruit and I want to eat more veggies too. Today I had some bacon on my cheeseburger. Does that make you feel better? :Cry: But no bun. I never ate the bun pre-op either so I'm not going to start now. My spreadsheets say I should maybe eat 1800-2000 but that just feels like too much. I'm eating about 1600-1800 right now. The main problem is that most of my numbers are guesses. I'm not sure what my BMR is. I wear a heart rate monitor off and on when I workout to get an idea of how many calories I burn, but it can really vary. Plus today the HRM went nuts and either read 0 or 200+. So I don't trust any of these numbers. I think I'm going to eat at this level for a few weeks and see what happens. If I am still losing, I can add in more stuff. I look right about how I want to look minus the loose skin but I wouldn't mind have 5 lb. of wiggle room. Oh and remember me when the DSers on OH start blathering on about how you can't lose all your weight with a VSG. :drool5:

My program advises to stay under 800 for the entire time you are losing. There are some exceptions to that. For example, when I was training for my first triathlon (about 7 hours of high intensity exercise a week), my surgeon wanted me to up my Protein to 100 g a day and that caused my calories to go up to about 900. Then, when I upped my workouts even more, I got to up my protein to 120 g a day and that caused my calories to go up to 1200. But I still lost weight because I was working out so much. You need to eat enough to have the energy to do your daily activities IMO. If you are so tired that you take naps all the time, don't exercise as hard, and otherwise conserve energy, you are lowering your calorie deficit. But if you have plenty of energy, all more calories will do is slow down your weight loss. It's a myth that you "need to eat more to lose weight". That advice is based on a combination of wishful thinking and misunderstanding of some studies that have been done around this subject. If you operate at a calorie deficit, you WILL lose weight. That's just physics. :Cry:

Actually, lots of places charge more! My surgeon charges $395 which is *low* for this area, believe it or not. Anyway, what insurance company do you have? If you have BCBS of CA (Anthem?) or UHC, then I would agree with the surgeon's office flat out. Those guys are butheads about the sleeve! But not all of them are and many will give it to you on appeal, it just depends.

I'm so busy, I never have time to eat except planned meals. So get lots of hobbies! And, if you are tempted by stuff you've decided not to eat, then I find it's a lot easier to deal with if I leave where the stuff is. Since my surgery, "out of sight, out of mind" works well for me. (Pre-op, not so much.)

Please do not personally attack people. It's against the rules.

I got my Talbot's bag back!

I get put in the hospital for having anorexia? (I know, I shouldn't joke about that.) But the suit is supposed to fit if you are 98-116 pounds, so I think I'm safe. I will probably lose a few more, but not *that* much more.

CA - only 24.1 obese. But 37.1 are overweight. It looks like about 1/3 are normal and 1/3 are overweight.

I felt fat today. Why? I was 115 on the scale earlier in the week but today is my official weigh in day and I was up to 116. Lame! But it's the way we are wired, I think. All my never been fat girl friends all hate their bodies. Even the XS ones.

My lastest NSV.... In late Feb, I bought a wetsuit -- size M. Today it's too big and I had to buy another one... size XS!!

I'm down 107 but I'm down to 116. :001_tongue: The last time I weighed that little was college, I think.

That doesn't sound like a normal progression. You might want to have some blood work done to see if you are having hormonal issues or some sort of unrealized nutritional deficiency. I mean it couldn't hurt!

I think most boards have this as the default so that people don't come back months later and change all their posts around and make the thread incomprehensible.

I never expected to lose so much. I'm down 107 pounds as of this morning.

Yes, after a while you can't edit stuff.

Greek yogurt has more protein that regular and I think it tastes better than adding protein powder to regular. Also, a lot of the regular yogurts have a lot of sugar.

Mine started coming out at 1.5 weeks! It started slowing down at 7 months (around, can't really remember exactly). In between, I tried *everything*. But right about the time I'd given up and stopped taking all the Vitamins and supplements, it started slowing down. :001_tt2: I didn't buy the special shampoo because I finally figured out it was caused by hormones being released from the weight loss and I was tired of spending so much money with no results. I'm at 9 months now and I still lose about 10 hairs a day in the shower. This is compared to the 100 a day that I used to lose though. So I'm happy.

And those who aren't having problems are scared. Should I repeat my story about how going to LBT made me decided to get a sleeve? I want you to be happy! :001_tt2:

I stayed overnight in the hospital. Went back to work at 1.5 weeks but wish I'd taken 2. I've had two c-sections and an open gallbladder and this was much easier than any of those.

I just realized I'm 9 months out too. So we were probably sleeved right about the same time.

A big reason why I didn't get the band is because of the restriction issues I saw other people having with it. I really wanted hunger control above everything else and that seems elusive for some. Btw, I'm weird when it comes to restriction. I can eat anything in the morning, but by evening I'm tighter and have to be more careful with chewing!

An update: still have the problem but only when I come to "www.verticalsleevetalk.com" and not "verticalsleevetalk.com".

Nope, no list. There probably more than 50 doing it now but a lot of them are newcomers with little experience. Many of them treat their sleeve patients exactly like their bypass patients too, which is annoying. :001_tt2: