JohnnyCakes

of dry meat? eaten too fast and not chewed enough? absolutely. it almost happened to me after two bites of day sausage yesterday. i'm about the same post-op as you. i mean, did you get faint/sweaty/shaky/lightheaded/confused? if so, did that take an hour or more to go away? dumping CAN result in vomiting, but it's more of a system failure due to extremes in blood sugar. it's not a plumbing issue with esophageal and pouch pain. was the vomit coated in lots of drooly slimy stuff?

once again, i don't think that's dumping. i think that's foamies yo. you done blocked up your stoma with all that itchy swine...

that would be a hoot...

uhhhhhhh.....

wow your Dr sounds awesome.

ok 10-day... you're gonna need to chill out or you're not gonna make it..

great post.

great to hear! i ordered a sampling of meals to get here next week. because while I COOK THE VAST MAJORITY OF MY MEALS AT HOME, there are still a couple nights a week i don't have the time (or energy!). so i'm hoping this will be a good stand-in instead of eating out or ordering in crap food.

just because you're drinking "throughout the day" doesn't mean you're drinking enough. one way to be sure - get a 64oz water bottle. fill it every morning. finish it by the time you go to bed every night. if you do that for a few days and your urine is still dark, it's doctor time... there might be a kidney issue. but def do what i said before going to the dr so he doesn't just tell you "you're not drinking enough". take one variable out of the equation so you aren't wasting his time or yours.

do not defend Al Roker. he is not one of us.

i agree with Shereen. and yes i'm 5 weeks out and if i walk/exercise too much, it really takes it out of you. that seems like an awful lot of walking for a fresh post-op patient. especially in the middle of the summer. i would back that WAY down. to like 20 minutes. if you do that everyday and you feel good, then increase to 30, and so forth. i personally think an hour of walking a day, in the summer, that new a post-op, is insane. i can't believe your doctor said that. esp for an obese person who's probably not used to exercise and is recovering from surgery. wow this is making me mad now. i better leave.

^^^ Al Roker might have REPEATED that quote. but i assure you he didn't invent it. now... "i pooped my pants"... that is attributable to Al Roker.

look at it this way, newly bariatrisized people (myself included)........ we will lose the weight. it might be 6 months, it might be 12 months, it might be 18 months. but the weight WILL come off. and if it doesn't? congrats, you will be the one person that gastric bypass doesn't work for and they'll study you in Geneva for the rest of your days and you'll be famous in all the scientific literature. me? i'm gonna go find a new hobby. and try to get used to a new life of NOT obsessing about my weight all the time. after all, that's a big reason i had the surgery.

exactamundo. Dr. Weiner in one of his excellent videos says that in the first year, 90% of weight loss is pre-determined by genetics. only 10% is determined by environment (i.e. what you do/eat). slowly over the years, that changes, so that by year 5 and on, it's the opposite - your weight is determined 90% by what you do and only 10% by genetics. in other words, you could totally eat like crap the first year, not exercise at all, and you'll still get 90% of the results you would if you did everything perfectly right. the surgery works. you WILL lose the weight your body is going to lose, no matter what. success or failure comes after the initial loss.

you realize your surgery-day weight is like 25lbs off from my GOAL WEIGHT, right? in other words, you are a lightweight, and still losing about 15lbs/month pace. when you see people on here dropping 20-30lbs a month after surgery, those are typically young white males who started at like 400lbs (btw - i'm not being racist, or misogynist, or ageist. the fact is, surgery works worse for the older, the black, and the ladies). stop comparing yourself to that. for your low beginning weight, you are losing weight very very rapidly. stalls are normal, healthy, and necessary. just chill. DON'T ramp up exercise any more than you are. or drop your calories. that will be counter-productive. your body will probably start to conserve even more. keep doing exactly as you have been and wait it out. btw - "goals", like the 200lb by Oct 31 one you set, are stupid. your body couldn't know or care less about what arbitrary number you mind has come up with. so stop that noise too. it's like you are trying to come up with a way to be unhappy. when you should be over the moon right now. practice acceptance.

hahaha.... that's funny. for the first 2 weeks after my surgery, i kept having head hunger for fried chicken too. nothing else. JUST fried chicken. it eventually went away and hasn't come back. and you're right about the dark meat. f**k that white meat s**t.

awesome dude. keep on

i knew this thread would be frickin awesome before i even clicked on it. *grabs popcorn -- er, i mean, unsalted almonds*

you're a far better person than i.

i don't expect everyone to "jump on board", or agree with me. however, i DO expect people to make half-way intelligent arguments. an expectation to which you have fallen extremely short. you think all food served to you in a restaurant is fresh? hahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! man, you're a special kind of stupid, aren't you? you realize all the food you buy in a grocery store is..... you know.... SHIPPED TO THE STORE, right? sometimes sitting in tractor trailers for a week or more. yet the overnight shipping that Factor 75 uses is just incomprehensible to you? you think everyone should learn to cook, huh? that's great. in what other ways should everyone else be just like you? really, i'm curious to know. your arguments are non-sensical, based on false assumptions. move along and stop embarrassing yourself. i have asked for opinions of Factor 75 from people who have tried it. you have clearly demonstrated you have NOT tried it, instead harping on meal delivery services in general. we get your point. and no one cares. now go away, little girl.

oh. i get it now. carry on. btw - getting back to your original post re: struggling with hunger... i find that exercise increases my hunger significantly. if i don't exercise, i'm generally not hungry. not saying exercise is bad, and i'm sure it's okay to consume a little extra food to compensate, but don't eat more calories than you burn, that's where it can be counterproductive.

not rubbing anything in, i truly hope you get better, but... this is the flip side of all those great "get surgery in Mexico for cheap!" stories that are flooding this website. there is a huge downside - that you are on your own afterwards with no local support team to turn to in situations like this.

you're weird.

what?!? so by your logic, when you go to a restaurant, you are eating their leftovers? wtf are you talking about??? congrats on your eating-cheap-meat nutritional program. but there's a tad more variety (and vegetables) with this service. if it's too expensive for you, just move on...