Cluelesswinner

Everyone answered your question. I just wanted to congratulate you on the beginning of a whole new life. I wished I did this 20 years ago. Either way I am grateful I'm sleeved today.

Great post. I am going to copy and paste to my file.
Thank you.

First I like to say I wish you all the best on you weight loss journey. I too notice my sleeve seem to be larger than most. While others could only take a tiny bite I could already eat a cup of yogurt. Others would eat a half a teaspoon of cottage cheese, while I ate a half a cup. My surgeon said he uses the same size instrument on all his patients. Some stomachs are larger than others. I'm barely at stage 4 (soft food with the transition to solid food). I'm afraid to eat too much for the fear of throwing up. If my stomach is larger than most, I hope it will shrink (especially since I'm barely eating around 900 calories). If when I'm 7 months sleeved (as you are) I will go back to my surgeon and request the Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass. My good friend suggested I get that surgery, instead, I choose the Sleeve. Thomas, again I wish you all the luck and God's speed in your journey.

Everyone answered your question. I just wanted to congratulate you on the beginning of a whole new life. I wished I did this 20 years ago. Either way I am grateful I'm sleeved today.

Yes, not just someone, almost everyone! You are in good company! It is completely normal to stall for a few weeks in the 2-4 weeks after surgery range. You can Google something like "3 week stall weight loss surgery" or "third week stall vsg" and you will see that it is 100% normal and you are not doing anything wrong. Your body just needs a little pause to catch up with what is going on. Stay off the scale for at least a few weeks, focus on following your program, and everything will be fine. Good luck!

My first few days after leaving the hospital were really rough. I couldn't eat or drink, I kept throwing up. It was bad. By day 4 or 5 everything was good. I was taking in plenty of fluids and all my Protein. good luck. Today I'm 1 month post op and I have no regrets.

I started at 386 lost about 14 lbs. My surgeon put me on a Protein shake for Breakfast and lunch. dinner I was to eat no more than 400 calories or eat a Healthy Choice or Lean Causine meal. I was to do this diet 2 weeks before my surgery date. I lost 21 lbs which was a total of 45 lbs.

I started at 386 lost about 14 lbs. My surgeon put me on a Protein shake for Breakfast and lunch. dinner I was to eat no more than 400 calories or eat a Healthy Choice or Lean Causine meal. I was to do this diet 2 weeks before my surgery date. I lost 21 lbs which was a total of 45 lbs.

I so glad you doing well. My first couple of days after leaving the hospital were really rough. I was sipping to large amounts of my drinks, which caused me to throw up a lot. After my 5th day everything was so smooth, I felt like did I really get sleeved!
Good Luck

I so glad you doing well. My first couple of days after leaving the hospital were really rough. I was sipping to large amounts of my drinks, which caused me to throw up a lot. After my 5th day everything was so smooth, I felt like did I really get sleeved!
Good Luck

Good Luck!!! I decided to ease my way into a complete liquid diet. I'm starting off with replacing my dinner with a Protein shake. This may sound boring to most, but to me it's epic! I don't want to throw my body into a culture shock. I need to loose as much weight as possible. Starting this way seems best for me.

Try walking every day twice a day. Also I bought a new digital scale (top of the line) and it still was off 10 lbs compared to the scale in my surgeon's office. Good luck

At 5 days out from surgery, if you're strict with your liquid diet, you're fine. Your liver will, ideally, still be small enough that when they go under it to get to your stomach they won't crack it. The reason for the liquid diet before surgery is primarily to shrink the liver. A 7 week liquid diet is a little ridiculous and 1 week is more than sufficient. I had a 1 week liquid diet, and a family friend had no liquid diet at all (lucky jerk). Both of us were fine.

They need you to be healthy, too!
You don't get bonus points for going back too early, especially if you have complications or just need more time to recover.

Best not to fall into the trap of foodies. I refuse to read post about food and when there is a picture of food I by pass that too. Watching TV is the hardest but do-able. Just walk away during commercials. Remember it was that same food that brought you to this point in your life. Lastly focus on how wonderful you are going to look and feel!!!!! You can do this !

Woo hoo my surgery date is August 2nd!!!!!!

I was feeling that same blue feelings too. I realized I was leaving my best friend, my comforter, my lover, and my protector. food was everything to me, everything but nutrition. I began to journal and write my feelings. I than breath deeply and I realize food will still be here with the job of fueling me and nothing more. Your doing all the right things for a healthier you. Keep going forward. Your got this.

I'm sure you already know to drink plenty of fluids and hot teas. I know the sugar-free Jello and Popsicle helped alot. I just want to add take your Vitamins. Good Luck!!

yay!! Good for you!!

Woo hoo my surgery date is August 2nd!!!!!!

​Congratulations I am so happy for you and I wish you a speedy recovery. I will have my sleeve August 2nd (yikes that's 19 days away!!).

@@Fredbear .... Cmon....blogging and videos are "straight up attention whoring", but you writing a book on your experience is not?
Two sides of the same communication coin, and nothing wrong with either one.
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Kathy made some good points. I am scheduled to be sleeved on August 24th. I am an emotional eater too but slowly over the last few months I've given myself "food funerals" (one last time foods) and staying away from them from then on. I don't drink coffee anymore. I do have tea but Decaf. (Many great flavors).
It's something you will need to mentally prepare for. I start preop on August 10. I've already started with just having a Protein shake for Breakfast. ( Aware: only a few Protein shakes are good, premier and muscle milk light are my two faces)
I am no longer doing pastas, potatoes only veggies and meat. My hardest battle will be a couple foods I enjoy eating everyday, Cinnamon rice pudding and Noosa yoghurt ???? I will miss these but later maybe the yoghurt I can add some back in.
After the surgery your body may react differently to food too. Some people have no problem eating what they want but others can't eat certain foods at all. I.e sugar
Once you stop eating the sugars and starches and heavy carbs within a week or two it will be easier.
There are tons of recipes out there. Pre-op diet will depend on your doctor. Amazing how different they can be.
11 days I am on a strict diet but luckily I can have foods I enjoy. Plus for the sweet factor we can have sugar free Jello and pudding. Then the last two days uo to12 hours before surgery it's liquids only. Protein Shake, broth, Water, sugar free Jello or popsicles.
You will and MUST take Vitamins the rest of your life. You can learn more about those if you choose to do the surgery.
There is so much more but that's why it's important to do your research before jumping in.
I am going to ALM, Dr Ortiz in Tijuana. My insurance puts me through the ringer and still has no gaurentee so for me this is the best option.
Good luck!
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After you have fully recovered from surgery, you no longer have any medically-required restrictions. There is literally not a single rule I can think of that if you break you will actually physically hurt yourself. There are plenty that will just make you fat again, which isn't the point either, but no, the sleeve is great because it allows you to be a normal person and eat normal food.
For example, the other poster noted you can't eat while you drink. Yes you can. I was not willing to have a dry mouth with food for the rest of my life and the only reason they tell you not to drink while you eat is because it washes the food through your stomach faster so you eat more. It doesn't hurt you it just makes you lose less weight if you don't pay attention to what you're eating. You also don't HAVE to eat Protein first- it won't kill you to eat a piece of cake for dinner sometimes. You can drink with a straw...in fact a straw is a really great way to get all of your fluids in after surgery when drinking without a straw makes it feel like you're swallowing rocks. I do agree that you should take Vitamins. If you miss them sometimes, no biggie, if you don't take the bariatric ones after the first few months, this is fine too, but B12 especially is important because your stomach no longer helps produce this and you have the potential to end up anemic without a supplement. I have forgotten my B12 for months at a time and my blood values are always fine...but based on science, you need to take that one- the rest are negligible but again, based on evidence, you do need to take Vitamins if purely because right now that is what research says is best. I haven't found I do better or worse with vitamins- my body processes food fine without them, however while I am 3 years out and feel like I know it all, I also recognize that in 5 years this may no longer be the case so I take vitamins now even if I don't see them as being overly helpful. I take the ones that don't make me feel sick and that I like, which would not be the gross bariatric ones they tell you you have to take.
Past that in terms of food, after your stomach is healed you can medically eat whatever you want. If you eat too much or you eat too quickly, you're probably going to get sick and barf. You're only hurting your own ability to lose weight- once you are healed, you aren't physically hurting your stomach, you're just going to make it mad and it will respond by making you feel like crap. That's about the extent of what happens when you eat garbage. I have a sleeve that doesn't really like fried food, cream, sugar, or oily stuff...she pukes when I try to feed her those things, but gradually I have learned that I can still have a few bites, slowly, and I'll be fine. I just can't go eat half a burger anymore and expect it to go well. Most people though are able to tolerate the majority of foods just fine, which again, before surgery I can see as being important, but after surgery, it's really kind of a blessing to not be able to eat foods that make you fat. At almost three years out, this week I have not eaten very well at all. I had dental surgery, which seems to be an ongoing miserable process until it's all finished. My mouth hurts and I'm cranky, so I've had some Peanut Butter and jelly, a few half-cups of corn chowder from Panera (which I usually avoid because of the cream), a few sushi wonton thingies from the grocery store, and a few other things that are soft and which I don't generally eat a lot of. I haven't gained any weight (I weigh every morning) and the calories I'm eating are really not much more than usual. My sleeve has not remotely prevented me from eating anything I've felt like eating this week, but my head has kept me in check. There is a sandwich in my fridge that looks really good and is probably soggy because I left it in there overnight...before the sleeve I would have eaten it because I didn't want to waste it and today I'll probably throw it out. I have a bag of candy in my pantry leftover from Easter of which I haven't had a single piece and a little bit of sorry for myself sugar might be nice, but really, I don't have any interest in eating it because it will either still be there tomorrow if I want it, or I can always go get more.
After awhile the idea is that you recognize that if you want to have a brownie, you can, but you think, eh, I don't really want it. If you want a few bites of cake, you can eat some, and then go back to munching on veggies at a party. If you want to have some food at a BBQ, you eat the meat, or 1/4 of a burger with a roll, and then you don't feel the need to eat half the macaroni salad too. The sleeve does not prevent you from eating whatever you want whenever you want after a year or two, but it teaches you that you don't need to eat as much as it seems like you want because you can stop at a few bites and be completely content. Had I said that three years ago I would have thought it was hysterical, but I am now the person that can have a bag of Cookies in the pantry, eat only one of them and then forget that they are there. The goal is to be thin and while you CAN eat whatever you want, this does not mean that you SHOULD and if you do things right, in the end, hopefully you decide that even though you can eat something, you have no real desire to. It may not sound like a win at the moment, but I promise it is.

Yay I am schedule for August 2, 2016 !!!!