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I'm trying to understand why wine would be a problem or anything under 7%. They gave me hydrcodone and it has 7% alcohol.

I think everyone is different and I agree it's a tool. I was sleeved 7/6 and I've lost 34 pds. I didn't lose anything for 30 days and the scale just started back moving. I lost most of my weight right after surgery. Like a pd or 2 a day.
I struggled a along time to lose weight and I am glad I did it. At least I am losing and keeping it off this time. No regrets no rush. I do need to increase my exercise.

I think everyone is different and I agree it's a tool. I was sleeved 7/6 and I've lost 34 pds. I didn't lose anything for 30 days and the scale just started back moving. I lost most of my weight right after surgery. Like a pd or 2 a day.
I struggled a along time to lose weight and I am glad I did it. At least I am losing and keeping it off this time. No regrets no rush. I do need to increase my exercise.

Increasing my calories help me as well

I think everyone is different and I agree it's a tool. I was sleeved 7/6 and I've lost 34 pds. I didn't lose anything for 30 days and the scale just started back moving. I lost most of my weight right after surgery. Like a pd or 2 a day.
I struggled a along time to lose weight and I am glad I did it. At least I am losing and keeping it off this time. No regrets no rush. I do need to increase my exercise.

Me too...I am trying. ..dont want to go over the edge....losing many inches. .but I Wang that scale to move so badly..
I am boycotting it until dunday, my official weigh in day.

HW 274 SW 263 GW 125 GASTRIC SLEEVE 7/21/17. Height 5'1" instagram: K_aane_VSG

Don't worry guys, 3-6 week stall is a real thing and it seems to have happened to everyone I've talked to. What broke it for me was getting in more calories. Just a bit more, nothing crazy. It will pass!

I kind of just need to vent and air out my laundry. So feel free to read on and offer advice as you see fit. I know it is long so you don’t have to read it either. Maybe you can relate, maybe you can’t but I wanted to share this with people who might understand. I do have some before and after pictures at the bottoms also if you just want to look at those!
I am having a hard time lately. I had my sleeve surgery on 5/29/16. I started this process at the end of October 2015 weighing in at 540 pounds. I used to have to wear portable oxygen 24/7 because I was so overweight my fat was pressing against my lungs and restricting my breathing. I have managed to get down to 248 pounds since my surgery 14 months ago. Now I can walk 6 miles up and down hills without even getting out of breath.
I just had the first of many plastic surgeries on June 5th. It was just an interim surgery since I am not at goal yet, but losing over 290 pounds will affect your skin drastically and I needed my stomach hang removed for quality of life reasons.
I want many more plastic surgeries. My thighs are my biggest concern. My plastic surgeon told me he wants me to get to goal and wait at least 9 months at a stable weight before we do any more though.
My doctor’s just want me to get to a size 12 or 10 as my goal. I started at a size 38/40 and now I am a size 14/16. That is insane to me honestly. I don’t think I have been a size 14/16 since I was 10 years old.
Now, to be clear, I am a huge self-sabotager. I have been challenged by this since I was a kid. I have been in therapy since I was 6 with various issues and still see a great therapist every week.
For over the past month I have not been cooking. Mostly because I had no energy and I was in pain still from my surgery. I don’t heal that great after surgery and it lasts with me a long time. Instead of meal planning and cooking I have been eating take out, sweets, and junk and I know it’s not helpful. Thankfully I have only gained about .8 of a pound with my self-sabotaging ways.
Honestly guys, I think it’s because I’m scared. I’m scared of what it will be like without my fat around me. I have been overweight since I was 3 years old. It’s all I’ve known. I used to have day dreams when I was in school of just getting on the bus and unzipping myself from this fat suit I was stuck in and everyone being amazing at this beautiful girl I actually was.
Here I am at 30, basically doing that and it terrifies me.
I’m not saying I’m unhappy with the weightloss, not at all. I am ECSTATIC! I can actually live my life and join in on the world instead of being trapped in my body and only living as a shell of a human being.
I can go to amusement parks and fit on the rides. Which is what I did this weekend as a kind of declaration of freedom and just a time to enjoy myself with friends.
I can be active, I don’t need to worry about if I will fit in a small space (but still my mind tells me I won’t and I’m scared every time that I won’t fit. I was terrified to get on every roller coaster at the park. Not because of the ride, but I was afraid I wouldn’t fit and the embarrassment would kill me).
This has been a draining experience, both physically and mentally. But for me, the mental part has been the hardest.
I was able to recognize that I was self-sabotaging out of fear though. I was able to get up, shake myself off, and start again. Because that is what you have to do. I have meal planned, weighed and measured my food, tracked everything, and started more activity.
I will not let my manipulative brain win this time.
I have come too far to stop now. I will not give up and I will NEVER go back to the girl who couldn’t live the life she wanted.

I am taking 4 weeks, because I can and I wanted to. I am 4 days post op and feel like I could go back to my desk job tomorrow.

But, I'm glad I will be home to focus on getting new habits built.

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Both of you are really the norm. Yeah, we think it should fall of because we are eating so little. I promise it will come off - the body is doing some readjusting. It works, just stay on the plan and you have to work on the Protein, even if it is sipping Protein Shakes all day long, which I had to do for the first 3 months.

Thank you for the information. Good to know. No milkshakes this way. Good thing is i really don't have a sweet tooth. Just a potato lover

600-700 calories is fine starting off, especially since you are only 5 weeks out. You just need to concentrate on Protein and fluids.

I feel like I have been in a stall my entire journey. I recently was in a 2 1/2 week stall. Started eat around 1,100 calories, instead of my usual 800, and stopped exercising. I have lost 5 lbs in a week!!! For each person it is different and sometimes you just have to shake things up. Though early on, it is VERY normal to stall, then it will start falling off again.

my surgeon office is great I asked for them to extend my leave too so I just have to give the extra dates to my job

So basically its just the normal body performance. It's nothing I'm doing?

It's called the 3 week stall. It usually starts around 21 days postop (anywhere from day 14-28ish), and can last for a week or two. Any day now you should start seeing things move again.

Ugh tell me about it, I've been in a stall for like 2.5 weeks now also...it's super frustrating. I wanna know toooo lol

Just think about why you are doing it and the outcome...slim thick...yasss. Stay positive. your emotions are normal

My boyfriend or whatever you call him...lol and my best friend recorded me. Girl I was a complete mess. Once they start pumping those drugs in you...you will have no worries. Everything will be fine. It is like they rolled me into a party. lol. It has taken some getting use to. i was 3wks post op yesterday. It is a struggle finding pureed foods for me but I'm making it. Also only being able to eat about a ounce and a half of food seems a little weird.

Hello Monique. Hope you are doing well. I didnt tell many people either

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All the people that post they feel their body needs chicken and potatoes with gravy 3 days post-op (totally happened here) or candy a week out.
When see someone that seems successful talking about they are "intuitive eating" it is just giving a green light for bad behavior.
Life post-op should not feel like you are on a continual diet. That is why changing your attitude about food, learning nutrition, and find a way of eating that does not make you deprived matter.
Intuitive eating for food addicts is just a crock of #$@^

Exactly.
And she has a long history of lying here, and she previously admitted that she lied. So how can anyone believe anything she says at all?
Almost everyone that was here when she was spinning her fantasical lies and called her out on it are gone. So she feels perfectly comfortable to come back, reinvent herself as some new age eating guru and spew more BS. If anyone dares to call her on her BS or remember all the lies she told she just plays victim.
She is completely toxic.