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Mnicole

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    I got a little freaked out the first couple of weeks because I could eat more than 2oz. But now I feel way more restriction, I think maybe it's cause the nerves are more healed and therefor the full signals are sharper or more obvious. Sometimes if I eat too fast I won't feel it right away but when i finally do I'll feel extremely stuffed and uncomfortable so that's something I need to work on.

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    Yes getting 80 oz of Water and atleast 79 grams of Protein and walking 45 minutes 3 times a week which intend to increase as I feel comfortable.

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    Then it's most likely your body healing. I've read about how some people lose really slow at first and then they'll have rapid weightloss instead of rapid first and then slow down. It sounds like you're doing everything you should be so just be patient:)

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    I can drink completely normal and I'm 12 days post op but I've been able to drink normal since like 7 days. I kinda got nervous when my surgeon emphasized sipping all day so I at least get my Water in and said "since you can't just drink a glass of water" but I could and didn't say anything because I thought I was doing something wrong

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    I'm 3 weeks out and my first week I was like you and my wife was freaking out. I talked to my doc and he said if I'm feeling comfortable I shouldn't worry about it but to not go crazy and think I can go chug a beer now. I still don't chug but I do take multiple sips at a time. I can usually do a 11 oz Protein shake in under 10 minutes with no issues. food is generally a few bites and I'm burping.

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    I can drink a lot at a time with no discomfort but when I can eat about 2 ounces and I'm really full. I read that a lot of people don't even eat that much at 1 week out so I'm getting really paranoid about the size of my sleeve. I don't know how easy it is to stretch it out

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    I felt that way until today when I realized that eventually I will be able to treat myself here and there and the restriction won't be so extreme for forever.....and by then I'm going to have learned how to eat healthy portions and then be able to balance. Like if one day I want a bagel with full fat strawberry cream cheese I'll do that in the future. Maybe not the whole thing but I won't ever not have my favorite foods. But maybe 1 small slice of pizza rather than 5 big ones. That's how I'm looking at it. It may be looked down upon but I got this surgery to retrain myself to be able to eat like a normal person (healthy but has "bad" foods every now and then)

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    Hopefully, you will find other ways of "treating" yourself.

    Once you have been without processed carbs, full fat foods etc that made you overweight in the first place, gone through the withdrawal process; perhaps you will want to take advantage of this WLS, this tool that you put in place.

    pizza as you knew it, is really awkward to eat post op. Chewy bready carbs like Bagels and conventional pizza bases swell in your sleeve and sit really heavy in your stomach.

    But there are lots of bariatric recipes for faux pizza and you could always substitute full fat cream cheese for 0% fat cream cheese with thin slices of fresh strawberries on melba toast.

    Point being that restriction is a part of this process for weight loss but many "bad" foods are tiny and "slide" down your sleeve easily.

    You could easily find yourself eating more calories than is allowed on your weight loss plan and start gaining weight.

    Don't get me wrong, we all still want to eat foods that made us overweight in the first place, it takes time for our heads to catch up to our sleeve.

    I have been working really hard on training my new system to enjoy good, healthy foods. Unfortunately, even at five months out, I am still struggling to eat well as my sleeve hates everything.

    I hope that you can eventually see that other ways of treating yourself is better than using food, especially unhealthy carb and fat laden foods.

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    If that works for you then great. But my goal from the beginning of the process has been to use the restriction as a tool to relearn how to eat normally. Maybe your definition of normal is different then mine but if I have If I had eaten like what I think is normal then I would never be obese in the first place, I binged for years and not even on just bad foods. There is absolutely no reason I should not be able to "treat myself" every now and then as long as I'm not bingeing and it's not everyday it shouldn't be a problem, at least not for me anyway

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  24. Posted

    I had the worst gas pains ever! I walked a ton at the hospital I didn't even pass any gas until right before I left the hospital (my surgery was a Thursday night and I left Saturday morning) My gas pains didn't actually go away completely until Monday. Walk, walk, walk! I actually noticed that I passed more gas if I was laying on my side

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    yes, unfortunately i've had many dizzy spells that early on, the worst of them being if i'm in the shower too long or changing positions from lying down to sitting up. i had to end up going to the hospital at one point because it was so bad, but i felt better after i was given some iv bags of Fluid. i think at this point getting in enough Water is critical because you don't want to get dehydrated, if you're not taking in enough Water it's easy to feel very dizzy. take it very slowly when changing positions too. good luck :)

    I've gotten more water in today than I have since being off IV. Maybe I was looking down too long though. I almost got down a 32oz Gatorade today. I tried to get in more than that but I feel like I'll explode if I do

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