Hammer_Down

My God...other than having hit my goal this week, the last 6 days have been the worst I've had in, well, ever.
I SO NEEDED THIS LAUGH!!!!!
Thank you to the OP for providing folly and levity to my otherwise bleak week!!!
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I repeat "I paid thousands of dollars for this procedure and cheap, crappy French fries aren't worth it" when I feel tempted. I already know "I can't just eat one" so I just eat none.

Sounds like a person court ordered to go to AA who sits in the back of the meetings saying they don't belong there.....
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@@Dysruption
People eat around their sleeve by eating get sliders and trash food. Also by grazing.
Almost no one is regaining by pounding down steak or grilled chicken breasts. They start eating carbs and go full bender on them. Then add in drinking calories and yeah it's easy to slide right into regain.
I'll probably never have a 12 or 16 ounces steak again but no one should be eating that much steak at one sitting so the fact I can eat a normal portion is fine.

Trolly troll

So you just popped off to Mexico to have 85% of your stomach cut out and when you hit your goal weight you want instructions on how to stretch it back out?
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Never. You will never again have a normal intake of food at one meal. That's why we're all aghast that you had a VSG to lose weight when you don't have weight issues or food issues. Did you have any pre-op teaching at all?

Never. The answer is never.
Your stomach doesn't just grow back.

@@Babbs **And who is the hack of a surgeon who took 85% of your stomach out for a temporary fix?**
Literally, the $10K question.

Oh, and:

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So, you wanted a sleeve to force a temporary diet? You had surgery for that? Seriously?

You can't really stretch your sleeve, so I think you're pretty well screwed. This isn't a quick fix, it's a long term surgical solution to obesity and clearly the wrong choice for you.

I followed a strict low carb/high protein/high healthy fat lifestyle throughout the duration of the six month diet program that my insurance required. I lost 99 pounds (from 397 to 298) during that time, re-established my relationship with food, and optimally prepared myself for the surgery and post-op life. I have continued to follow the low carb/high protein/high healthy fat way of eating post-op (even throughout the food stages), and I have had continued success in the 2 months since my surgery (I weighed 259 this morning).
You'll do yourself a favor by getting started now. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I look at the surgery as a tool that plays a major supporting role in the second half of my journey, not as a destination or as the journey itself.
Good luck!

You're definitely not the only person who has experienced this.
Our society attaches moral values to appearance. We want to believe that thin, attractive people must be good people. We believe overweight people have moral failings, like gluttony and sloth.
Thin people are much more likely to be hired than fat people with identical credentials because of the baggage we attach to body profile. The effect is much more pronounced in women than men.
For men, height can be a deal breaker for finding work when competing against taller but equally qualified candidates.
I lost 100lbs several years ago, and the attention I received from men was brutal (I'm a lesbian). I suddenly had men trying to invite themselves into my relationship with my wife, and had 1 stalker who took it upon himself to become my new "protector." I am generally a warm and friendly person, but I quickly realized that being friendly with men when you are attractive is always perceived as flirting and I opened myself to heaps of abuse from them when they found out I was just being nice (and not in any way, shape or form interested in them.)

You're definitely not the only person who has experienced this.
Our society attaches moral values to appearance. We want to believe that thin, attractive people must be good people. We believe overweight people have moral failings, like gluttony and sloth.
Thin people are much more likely to be hired than fat people with identical credentials because of the baggage we attach to body profile. The effect is much more pronounced in women than men.
For men, height can be a deal breaker for finding work when competing against taller but equally qualified candidates.
I lost 100lbs several years ago, and the attention I received from men was brutal (I'm a lesbian). I suddenly had men trying to invite themselves into my relationship with my wife, and had 1 stalker who took it upon himself to become my new "protector." I am generally a warm and friendly person, but I quickly realized that being friendly with men when you are attractive is always perceived as flirting and I opened myself to heaps of abuse from them when they found out I was just being nice (and not in any way, shape or form interested in them.)

It's a zombie post, back from the dead after more than a year!
KILL IT! KILL IT!!!

It's a zombie post, back from the dead after more than a year!
KILL IT! KILL IT!!!

Went to Target tonight and stocked up for my post-op diet!

Today
I
Hit
My
Goal
Weight.
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OUCHHH!!! @@Hammer_Down that was not funny that sounds horrible poor boobie. lol

The 18th of what month?
It depends what you are eating and how much.
If it was Nov, I wasn't eating anything at 10 days post op so I can't say whether it's normal or not. I was on 7 days of Water only, 7 days of full liquids and then 7 days of purées before I was okayed to eat anything.
If you're concerned, you should refer back to the Info your doc gave you and if there's no answers there - contact your surgery team.

@@RJrocks
I have a few links here that discuss the various mechanisms involved:
On the process and mechanics of weight regain after loss:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371661/
On the ever advancing field of epigenetics, or how gene expressions are altered by diet, weight loss and excercise:
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14841
http://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-015-0101-5
http://m.advances.nutrition.org/content/5/1/71.full
Regarding the claim that there is a 3-4 year period before your genotype adjusts towards that of a non obese person, I learned that from a podcast with a bariatric physician who treats 15,000+ patients per year with a ketogenic diet. I will try to find which episode it was, the podcast is called Keto Talk if you're interested.

If he's into statistics and studies, I would approach from that angle.
Studies show that 1/1200 women will be able to lose 100lbs and keep it off for 5 years. So your trainer and gym and diet plan has about 0.0008% of working out, short term. There are no real long term studies, probably because basically no one loses that much weight and keeps it off for 10, 20, 50 years.
It takes your body 3-4 years to adjust to your new weight. So lose ALL your excess weight, then don't gain anything for 3-4 years before your metabolism starts to upregulate and your genetic profile shifts away from being an obese person.
Most of us cannot (1199/1200 people). We lose the weight and start to slip up. Even though we are no longer obese, our genetic profile still is. THIS is the challenge of weight loss, not just getting the scale to move. THIS is the reason we fight to lose weight but regain is so easily and so quickly.
Bariatric surgery offers you a 5ish year window to lose the weight, and maintain the loss long enough to make the genetic shift. Thousands of genes express themselves in different ways, and your lifestyle absolutely can change them.

@@vamping
Fun story about the healing process:
A few months after having mine done, I was getting ready for bed while extremely intoxicated. I hooked the barbell in my wedding ring and tore that sucker 3/4 of the way out. The natural response was hysterical laughter (yep, THAT intoxicated) and going to bed.
Repiercing (a year or so later, once it healed back together) SUCKED. Piercing through scar tissue on an existing piercing was no laughing matter.