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No pre-op diet ordered! thank goodness. Just healthy eating patterns and we are given the tools needed post op to start using after surgery. Such as Protein with carb for snack, (low carb of course) and eating every 3 to 4 hours, increasing fluids. Every thing we are supposed to do now.

Great!! Thanks for all the motivational activities!! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Down 38 pounds and 26.5 inches. Still can wear old clothes but Also smaller sized clothing fro yearssss ago! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Hey, believe me I get your drift. I'm eight weeks out and I too felt that way at first. It gets a lot better. Don't give up. Pretty soon, you get used to not eating very much and when you can wear clothes you've never worn before or not in years, you will so be happy. God bless you and keep you and please pray about it! I pray every day for the Lord to lead me and guide me in this long journey ahead of me! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I eat ~4 oz but about ~900 kcal. Hungry in about 2-3h Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

There is a FB group that is private for us the link is FB BP OR I will try to get a link if it does not work for u. LisaMergs on here started it Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I met my goal, don't know where spread sheet is? Thanks for your hard work! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

One Shining Moment by David Barrett

I don't know but I am from MS! Nice to see the southern Belles!

You have lost 64 pounds!! wow. There is not way you are not going to loose wt! You have a baby stomach now. It will come. Seems like I hit a standstill about every 3 weeks. I am in one now as I am 9 weeks out. I did not have to loose wt prior to surgery and I am down 37.4 pounds. If you had not lost all that weight before hand, you would be down more! Keep up the good work! I am from MS! Had surgery 7/21/16. Our stats are probably close. I am down from 251.7 to 214.7 since surgery. Good luck

I am 54 years old and had my surgery July 21, 2016. I am averaging 2 to 2 1/2 pounds a week but I know overtime this will add up. I'm not as young as I used to be. This is one reason I had to have surgery as I had lost the ability to lose weight. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

214.7 Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

7/21 down 37. SW 251 CW 214 Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I do not limit what kind of foods I eat except those that are fried, no breads, pastas, rice or concentrated sweets or those that irritate my already dinged gall bladder. I cook for my family but of course it is healthier now and I make my tiny plate! I have not deprived myself at all! I do not want to fall back into some of my bad habits: high carbs. I am losing about 2 to 2.5-3 pounds a week. VSG 7/21/16 Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

You can grind your shrimp up in a blender with some cocktail sauce? We all need a prescription. Can be taken everyday. It is taking every day by those with IBS AND CHRONIC constipation LINZESS... Is med Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I can still wear my old clothes but I can also fit in the smaller clothes that were too small before. Down about 35 to 38 Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Linzess is great prescription Med if u can get ur PCP to prescribe! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

The constipation to me was the worst part of the surgery initially. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I can't even think about taking MiraLAX and it has no flavor. It nauseate me. Just thinking of it. That is why I would try the other end. Then oral meds after this Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Sounds delicious Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Try Dulcolax suppository, fleets enema glycerin suppository. Need to move bottom out so top can pass through. I had to use suppository every other day until I got better. Then add Peri-Colace. Take two at bedtime. See if you can find capsules. I don't know if they make capsules but the pills or not hard to swallow but they seem to sit there in my pouch but I usually go to bed to keep from feeling that Little bit of fullness. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Looks like a metropolis! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Allowed coffee at 2 weeks! Most enjoyable thing that I have drank. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Don't be embarrassed by your old picture. You are the same person. You were beautiful in both! We have an illness. We now Have the tool to fix ourselves our disease. We cannot hate on ourselves. Maybe I should take my own advice. We are all too hard on ourselves. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Some foods go down very well while others are more difficult. In the puréed mushy stage most everything goes down smoothly. you do occasionally feel fuller on some of these foods, e.g. eggs for me. When you get to real food, you will notice a full feeling difference. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App