QueenOfTheTamazons

I like to Celebrate the small accomplishments when trying to lose weight. My final goal is 200lbs gone, so its a big number and will take quite a while. These mini goals help keep me on target and feel like I accomplished something. Mine are all percentages of excess weight and starting weight. Mini goals 10% of starting weight 38.5lbs - 10/21/16 20% of excess weight 40lbs - 10/22/16 45lbs lost by 1st annivery - 10/30/16 (1 day early and 339.6!) 20% of excess weight 50lbs - soon! HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

Are you sure you are getting enough calories? My hospital provides access to a bariatric nurse for the first 2 years after surgery. Mine checked in on me on tuesday and i told her i was getting in between 600 and 700 cals and 60g protein. She said that less than 800 is considered starvation, so she wanted me to hit 800-900. She also said 70g protein min and when i started working out to do 80-100g protein. I am taller than you and 100lbs more, so this may be tailored to my numbers but you should ask your dr or nut. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I gained 10lbs in the hospital. I lost all of it plus 8 more the first week. But a lot of people dont. Its really depends on how your body reacts to being violated. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

My highest was 385, prior to preop diet. Surgery weight was 359. Today I am 24 days post op and I weigh 340. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I am 3 weeks and 2 days post op. I lost 25lbs during the 2 week preop. I gained 10lbs in the hospital. Ive lost those 10lbs and 18 more since. I am one of those daily weighers. Once I gained and once I stayed the same. Most days I lose at least 0.4lbs. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I gained 10lbs in the hospital and in week I had dropped it again HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I have been averaging between 600 and 700 cals on soft foods. Ive lost 16lbs in the 3 weeks since surgery. Should i up my calories? HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

That's a shame because they are very helpful with constipation. Bought 2 of them myself. Hell, I'd bring it to work if I didn't think the savages in my office would piss all over it. I snorted at "savages". Sounds about right at my job too. I think part of the rejection was due to size of bathroom and proximety of toilet to wall making the squatty potty a hinderence. The ither size is man tummy. Has anyone else seen a change in their "schedule"? I was a 7am or 9am-er and now I am a 1-2pmer. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I think you would need a sleep study in order to count it as a comorbidity. Otherwise everyone would use it because it cant really be proved without a study. Snoring doesnt always mean sleep apnea. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I bought the squatty potty along with poopourri and other items as part of a toilet themed birthday gag gift for my husband last year. He wasnt exactly thrilled while i cackled to myself. We returned it because he refused to use it. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I, too, have had problems with things not tasting good anymore. Ive had trouble with most of the fake sweetener and cant get down pure Water yet. I always have to have ice tea, Powerade, diluted juice. Most of the crystal lights i used to enjoy taste blech to me. As far as the foods, have you tried experimenting? Have you found something you kinda like and swapped out ingredients to find a better balance/flavor? I have a hard time with most of the shakes but GENEPRO doesnt bug me for the most part and i really enjoy the muscle milk coffee house. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I know that having your feet "fall asleep/pins and needles" while sitting on the toilet is a fairly common side effect of being overweight/obese. Has anyone had increased instances of pins and needles since having the sleeve and losing weight? I get them practically every time I spend more than 5 min on the toilet and I rarely used to get them in the past. Im 42lbs lighter, so I dont understand why its getting worse. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

$300 fee is nothing. Drs do have costs associated with submitting your case to insurance company. People like me, who required 3 full submissions and 2 peer to peer appointments cost more than easier patients/insurance companies so the fees balance out. My first surgeon had a $2500 "lifestyle management fee" that had to be paid in advance of the surgery being scheduled. And that was on top of all the other costs that insurance was covering 100%. Supposedly that was to cover support groups/classes and the doctor coming out to visit you in cases of extreme need, but considering we lived 50 miles away and the support programs were all during business hours we would never have used any. Plus, if we coukd afford $5000 we wouldnt be on medical. The surgeon also refused to work with us on the fee. The surgeon who did my sleeve (and who i recommend if in CA) is Dr. Richard Nguyen of Lifetime Surgical. He charges $300 and i didnt find out until after I paid it that that fee also includes the bariatric diet food for the 2 weeks preop. That makes the portion that goes to them more like $150-200. I find that very reasonable for all they did. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

Trust me. I get it.it took me 3+ months to get approved and now we are playing the waiting game with my husband. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

I watch a lot of chopped and worst cooks and similar. Occationally I will watch DDD or similar. HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

Peer to peers can be helpful. The furst p2p my surgeon did helped us find out specifically why the ins was denying me. They were saying that i hadnt cometed the 6 months medically supervised diet, which i had. During the P2P, we found out that the lack of notes in my chart regarding exercise as part of my diet plan was what they were denying me for. The second one was the push needed to get approved (once i provided the info needed from the first denial). HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

344.4 40lbs down and 1/5 of my way to goal!!! HW 385 SW 359 CW 344 Sleeved 10/5/16

They call the San Francisco/San Jose area (where i am from originally) the Bay Area as well, so for a sec I was thinking "why is bpowell16 going to be in CA? Thats,a long way from FL." Lol. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

I used to love fried zucchini with ranch. I thought the parm zucchini fries with a greek yogurt ranch would be a diet friendly way to get similar flavors. Anyone try the parm fries? How did they come out? Flavor and in apperance/texture. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

I have always had what we jokingly call "pregnancy nose" but it has gotten kinda worse since the surgery. Things that didnt bug me before get me know. For example, my husband got a "new york dog" from sonics and the onions and kraut were making me nausious. It smelled like rancid armpits. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

By federal bcbs do you mean as a federal employee or medical/medicade? As someone who got sleeved with BCBS medical, its a 6 months supervised weight loss and it has to be specifically documented as a food and exercise diet. Make sure your doctor very clearly notes your chart. I was denied several times because of the supwrvised diet portion. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

I make a seafood salad that i like. It has 4oz of the tiny shrimp and 3oz of the imatation crab (crab snackers, but you could use real crab) and one stalk of celery. I wizz these into a micro dice (maybe the size of a couple of grains of sand) but not pureed in the food processor. I wizz them one at a time because they have different consistancies. In another bowl i mix 4 table spoons of light mayo, old bay, onion powder and garlic powder. It makes distributing the spices easier. I add the mayo to the chopped food and stir to combine. It makes 3-4 servings, depending on how much you can get down. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

Whats the weirdest food related dream since getting sleeved? Since a big portion of our new weightloss struggle is dealing with head hunger, I figure Im not the only one to get food dreams. My dream yesterday was the weirdest so far. I was with a coworker (whom i recognised as a real life employee at the company i work for but that i do not interact with). We are driving to my new property in the boonies of some small town. When we get there the house, which looks like a more run down version of the AHS 6 house, is locked and i apparently dont have keys. The rest of the crew (and my husband too i guess) are a couple of hours behind us. We decide to drive up this crazy hilly road that dissapears behind the house. It takes us to a ramshackle resturant were we decide to get some food. Coworker and I both order sandwiches. Mine is some sort of chicken sandwhich, slightly smaller than a 6" from Subway. About 2/3rds of the way throu it I decide that I want another sandwhich, i am still hungry. I walk up to the counter and start looking at the menu. For some reason the menu is hard to read/understand. The names and descriptions dont really make sense, so i cant decide what i want. I am hemming and hawwing, asking whats good from several people but get no sololid answer. I let a few people cut in front of me and they get food fast. After about 25 min of this indecision, i go to the bathroom. When i come out, some sort of buffet has been set up in the middle with different plates of food on plastic tables. I ask the cook how much is the buffet and she takes a lookat what is out there (spiral ham dinner, pizza, chicken wings, potato skins) and quotes me $11. I pay her, smirking to myself, thinking i got a good deal because i didnt pay for the chicken sandwhich. I grab a plate and turn around and the "buffet" is decimated. There are just a few slices of cold pizza left, a few rubbery looking chicken wings, and half eaten eaten potato skin. I am confused by how fast the food dissapeared but i dig thru the pizza boxes for a few slices and grab a couple of wings. I return to the table where my coworker, who has long finished his meal, stares at me with glazed over eyes, telegraphing boredom and contempt. I realize, looking down at my partially finishing sandwhich and cold pizza, that its been an hour since i got up to get more food. And then I wake up. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

I gained 10lbs in the hospital. I lost it again in a few days. HW 385 SW 359 Sleeved 10/5/16

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