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Yes. Even 5 months along it is the dense animal protein that keeps me full and stops me from eating more than 3 Oz.

I think low carb would be very good for you. Dumping is about sugar not fat. I have been so surprised to learn that over 50% of my calories come from fat. I lose a couple lbs a week. I’m 5 months out. I eat about 30-40g fat a day. I focus on protein, animal and whey (which I can only stand mixed into plain full fat greek yogurt). I only use plant protein in emergencies by keeping protein peanut butter packets in my purse if I am not near any animal protein. I have vegetables including potatoes after I’ve had protein. I eat 1-2 servings of my own granola recipe (2 Oz a serving) made with oats and seeds a day to keep fr9m constipation. Breakfast is a scrambled egg in butter. During the day I eat the mixture of whey (grass fed, plain no sweetener) in full fat plain greek yogurt, with some groundflax seed and a splash of coconut water to help mix it. Dinners are meat with some veg. Fatty meat is fine. Fatty fish, mayo, etc. I eat tons of fat and it’s is very satisfying. No sweet anything - my granola isn’t sweet though it has a bit of maple syrup. And my dessert is 85-90% dark chocolate. Avoiding sweet tasting things is absolutely key for me. No breads or pastas. First 4 months, no fruit. Now I will allow myself onebite of fruit a day, not every day. I’m good without it. I believe that sugar and eating sweet tast8ng things are our downfall. Once those things are out, the cravings are gone.

12/6 todays weight 163

I eat 900-1000 cals at 5 mo out, and am losing about 2 lb a week. Slow but steady. Max 40 g carbs, some exercise.

I too am so sorry about your sister. It breaks my heart. the friends here who are advising to only focus on protein are right. I’m not an expert. But I’m doing well, almost 5 months in. Main thing to think about besides protein is STOP ALL SUGAR, sweet drinks, bread, desserts, fake sugars. ive found that fat alone doesn’t stop my loss of fat ever. Full fat diary and meat don’t hurt me and taste fantastic. Healthy fats have a place with your protein. Don’t eat low fat anything. Eating a piece of juicy hamburger or a full fat unsweetened greek yogurt will keep you losing weight AND help you feel full and satisfied. All sweet carbs make you crave sugar and that’s is what you do not want. A week or two without sugar and you will lose the desire for it. No bread, no fruit, no sweets. 85% chocolate is ok. Potatoes and sweet potatoes even with butter are fine. I promise you, giving up all sweetness really works and after you kick the habit, it’s painless. good luck sweetie, you will lose the rest of your weight. And your sister will be proud.

You are awesome. You were low BMI obese like me. I lost almost nothing my first month and not much the second. In a couple months you will be glad you’re losing nice and slowly. Hang in there.

11/29 my weight today is 163. I am so thrilled and amazed to have lost weight on thanksgiving weekend. Thanks for doing this. It means a lot to me. I feel so positive about keeping losing through the holidays.

How do I find the spreadsheet. W/o Looking at all these pages?

I was so thrilled 4 mo post op to be able to make a ton of delicious thanksgiving foods, including three delicious pies, and know that Thanksgiving Day was going to be, for my food log, the same as any other day. That is the blessing of this surgery. i don’t eat desserts. If after a dinner I feel munch while the others eat dessert, I will have a bit or two of 85% dark chocolate. It’s perfectly satisfying. Sugar never made me feel anything but BAD after, vision messed up, mood cranky, increased carb cravings. So I am done with eating sweet things. I don’t even eat fruit, though at goal I may add in 1 serving a day possibly. I chose the food I wanted, put it on a plate like the others, got out my scale, weighed the plate to zero it, and took away everything but 4 Oz. It was really only a few chunks of turkey and a tablespoon of every other thing. I did put a tbsp of homemade cranberry sauce on the plate, which was a rare sweet thing. And I enjoyed that food for real as much as the two plates plus 4 pieces of pie I probably had last year. Would never have believed it. I'm thankful for my gastric sleeve.

I forgot about the weds weigh ins. I still want to be playing. Today i am 165.

I’d like to lose an Irish setter. At least I’ve lost a mid size microwave!

I was a low BMI obese. So I lost slowly. It took 3 months and 30 lbs down before people seemed to notice. Or before I went down one size.

It was SUPER HARD keeping the food quantity down during the 2 weeks of pre op. I had to force myself because I wanted to shrink the liver for surgery. After surgery, keeping quantity down is effortless (because you get a stomach ache if you Don’t!). But during pre op I was starving . Now I can eat low cal and I’m fine. Probably the best thing you can do now is to go low carb. Get used to no sugar, no fake sugar, no breads and pastas, and focus on protein and veggie soup and fruits. Eat natural starchy carbs every day like potatoes, sweet potatoes, root veggies. After a couple weeks not eating sweets your gut bacteria change to the k8nd that don’t make you crave sweets any more. This will prepare you for a post surgery HEALTHY diet. Of real foods, not sugar free jello . Getting off sweet tasting things is going to help you. Good luck.

Since we need protein powder for the rest of our lives, i had to figure out something. I only want unsweetened unflavored protein powder form healthy grass fed animals. But mixing that with water is yuck. Mixing it with milk makes me feel sweaty and dizzy. FINALLY I have figured it out. I’m now mixing the 20g protein powder portion into a cup of greek yogurt, adding some flax seed and some coconut water (to get the powder stuff to mix), and put them into two little metal lunchbots and taking them with me all day (with coolpack if needed). Finally I can get that extra protein we need, no sugar, no fake sugar. No weird dizzy low blood sugar reaction.

I have some professional cooking experience from years ago and I have always loved to bake bake bake. Had to limit myself because everything I baked, I thought I needed to taste, and by taste I mean eat as much of it as possible. My dream has come true now. I can bake whatever I want now and not even taste one bite. Pies, cookies, gingerbread. I get my fam ily to taste and review it. I get literally more pleasure now from baking it and smelling it than I ever did eating it. the weirdest is the strange satisfaction I now get from smelling food. Anyone else? Prior to surgery, smelling good food made me want, no, NEED, to eat it! Now, it doesnt. A deep whiff is it. That is satisfying instead of craving enhancing. And I can bake without. Wanting to put it in my mouth. It’s a miracle. I adore the craft of baking and now I can do it.

I have done well with seeds. Pumpkin and sunflower, shelled. Chew them well. I had zero fruit for the first three months. Our nutritionist calls them sugar bombs. No sugar or bread cerealy things at all. And now three months later I hate the taste of sweet things. So I’m glad I stopped eating fruit. Now I will eat ONE bite of fruit a day, usually just a taste when I fix fruit for a child. I don’t really want sweet things any more. I will add a small amount of fruit in to my diet next summer if I am ready for maintenance.

Goal Weight: 154 Current Weight: 167 Today's Date: 11/12/17

I am 3.5 mo out and shedding like a golden retriever. I take chewable biotin daily. I feel my hair is getting thin despite all my vitamins and minerals. Maybe it’s just a thing 3 months out from losing the weight. Hope it’s temporary.

We are all different but now, 3.5 months out, I have found weight loss to continue on a regular basis when I focus only on protein and stick to my basic non protein daily exceptions. Like 85-90% dark chocolate, or my homemade granola made mostly from seeds and oats. The more carbs I have the worse, and I just came off a 2week stall. So I’d choose to eat my protein sans carbs. Or very little. Whatever works for you, is fine. 1) how it makes you feel afterward and 2) how It affects your weight loss the next day or so.

Three and a half months out now, just having my first stall. I lost weight (only a couple ounces sometimes) basically every day til 2 weeks ago. Very very slow weight loss, only 22 lbs lost since the day of surgery. But steady. then I had a procedure unrelated to this and wasn’t allowed to exercise for a week. I think that was part of the stall. I even gained a Lb that week. This last week I have lost back down to almost less than the stall so I hope it’s ending. I was 169-170 all week and now exactly 169.0 this morning. And back to exercise, and really focused on getting my protein. i was lucky to not stall til now tho.

Hi July sleevers! I passed my 3 month surgiversary and I have lost around 35 lbs total. Finally people are noticing the weight loss, and I did have to buy a few new pairs of yoga pants because the 2x’s weren’t staying up! Eating is great as long as I focus on animal protein. Nuts and beans don’t fill me as much as meat or eggs. So I eat more calories and carbs when I consume veg protein. To me it is almost not counting as protein because of that. Though I need starchy foods each day in order to avoid constipation. Hard to get enough water in when each time you eat there is an hour ban on drinking! i Lose very slowly because of the lower bmi but most days the scale goes down a couple ounces. Very steady, no stalls more than a one day thing. I don’t eat any sweets including fruit. It really helps, has made sweet things taste way too sweet. good luck to you all.

I’m three months since surgery now. And in the last two days, I’ve had two Non Scale Victories! One, I went to a grocery store and two of the checker women hadn’t seen me in a couple months, and were so nice to me, and fussing over me, and telling me how good I look! Have I lost weight?? So I told them I’d had the sleeve in July, and yes, I am losing some weight. Finally people are noticing! Here is a small but very meaningful non scale victory: the other night I took my child to the movies, and I did something I couldn’t believe. I crossed my legs. What? They actually fit! Not forming the letter 4 shape perpendicular to each other. Crossed over each other, nearly parallel. What a trip! I remember being able to do that once! Cheering all the little victories along the way.

I learned about the Jillian Michaels app from this site and I am áddicted. Her programs are great, you can play your own music behind her, each exercise is only 20 seconds, and it switches up a lot. Any questions are answered within 24hrs. It’s not pricy either.25 min workouts with cool exercises. Great little videos that you don’t need to stare at the whole time.

Yes. Very very low energy. Not able to participate in life much for the first month . In the second month day by day it got better. After 6 weeks I started a beginning exercise program. Thereafter, slowly I recovered to full strength and then some. You had major surgery. You don’t get enough protein at first. Give yourself permission to recover. I was scared I’d be like that forever, but I have more energy now 3 months out than I did before surgery.so will you.

I use a lunchbox metal round container that is 3 ounces. It really guides me so I don’t eat too much and get a stomach ache. I will take it with me sometimes if I have to eat out. Or at least think of it and put what I can eat on a separate dish from what has been served. i do not have to eat 6 times. Maybe 4? I just eat during the day when I feel the need for protein to stay strong. Right now I am preferring to eat rather than drink the protein powder, so I mix it into full fat greek yogurt, adding flax seed and a bit of coconut water to be able to mix those powders in. Then I put it into those little 3 ounce containers (I make enough for 2) and put them into my new Pokémon lunchbox with plastic spoons and a cold pack. When I need protein on the go I take a few bites. I was feeling a bit sick drinking the protein powder in milk, and this way I don’t, plus greek yogurt doubles the protein.