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Welcome back! Looks like you know what is behind the regain and now you just have to WANT to lose it badly enough, that you don't let these outside influences determine how you medicate with food.
You have to make your health a priority. That's not easy.
What kind of help do you need?

Had my three week follow up appt and have lost 18lbs! So excited and anxious to keep the scale moving. Already experienced my first stall during week 2 which I thought was early, but it's moving again. Plain Water is still a problem for me but I'm told it will get better with time. Good luck to all of you future sleevers!
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@UalreadyKnow... Congrats on your weight loss!! That's absolutely amazing. ????
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Agreed! Just told my hubby that this morning. I was sleeved on 4/4 and told him whoever thinks this is the easy way out is sadly mistaken!
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I found mine at Walmart in the pharmacy section near the area where the Protein bars are. They actually have different flavors.
https://www.atkins.com/products/atkins-lift-protein-bars-drinks/protein-drinks/lift-orange-flavored-protein-drink
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Premier Protein shakes
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Agreed! Just told my hubby that this morning. I was sleeved on 4/4 and told him whoever thinks this is the easy way out is sadly mistaken!
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I am in onederland!! I never thought I'd get here and am soooooooo happy!

Postop day 2 was horrible for me. Stay on top of your pain medicine every 4 hours. It will get better!
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How did your swallow test go?
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My post op instructions said to expect not to have a BM for 2-10 days. I wouldn't stress just yet. Your intake has been low and Fluid only. I'm sure you're going to be fine!
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My post op instructions said to expect not to have a BM for 2-10 days. I wouldn't stress just yet. Your intake has been low and Fluid only. I'm sure you're going to be fine!
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How did your swallow test go?
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By the way, surgery went well. First two hours were rough but I got up and got moving. It really paid off. I was doing laps by the third hour and walking every two hours. No nausea whatsoever. Also found Atkins Lift Protein drink at Wal-Mart. Water with 20g of protein!
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Had my sleeve done yesterday, 4/4/16. Before I left my house, I weighed 234 lbs. Just got home today and I now weigh 242 lbs. Is this normal? Is it Water weight?! Kinda freaked out at the moment!
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I had the sleeve yesterday and would love to be your buddy!! Keep us posted.
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Reading your post brought back soo many memories but I had to smile and say all those feelings are so worth it once you get through it.
I am 8 months post op and it was rough all the way up until 8 weeks post op and to be honest the eating started becoming painless very recently. Maybe in the last two months. I do agree with others, the hormones at that stage are out of control and the fact that you now don't have food as a comfort anymore was such a reality check. You have to relearn everything and build an entire new relationship to food.
But if I can give you any advice is to not look to your friend or anyone for your own journey. If you take your Vitamins and Protein to the best of your ability you don't know what result you will have. Your success is not built on someone else's. The fact that you've made it to be one of the post op people gives you opportunity to build a new entirely different life. I know most people in this forum are soo happy including myself. Being down 95lbs is not even the thing I'm most happy about when I look in the mirror and see my results from sculpting my new body with the tool I have been given, a second chance, I could cry all over again. And that feeling alone is sooo worth it!
In a few months you're going to look back and you're going to laugh and hopefully have formed a new relationship to food and found a multitude of others things you now enjoy instead of eating your "favorite foods"....feel better!
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Though I am ever so sorry that you feeling lousy, I want to thank you for your post.
I believe that it is extremely important that newbies--especially pre op posters hear that WLS is not for everyone and is no easy bed of roses.
The weight loss is wonderful. Shopping for new and smaller clothes is exciting. Dating after years of abstinence is an exhilarating ego boost. However, the journey is pitted with pot holes and hardship bumps for some--physically and mentally.
If your post makes even one pre op reader really stop and think, research more diligently, and consider not only the good outcomes, but the sacrifices too, then your post has extreme merit and I for one, thank YOU.
Try to calm yourself. Take a deep breath. Try not to overwhelm yourself. At a slower pace, take one step--one hour at a time. Work with your new body. Don't fight against it. That will take practice and patience.
Prayers going up for you.
It will get better. I promise.
Thank you, friend,
Valentina

I had the sleeve yesterday and would love to be your buddy!! Keep us posted.
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