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Everything posted by GreenTealael
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Food Database?
Keto calculator, macro calculator, digital food Journal, MyFitnessPal, Baritastic, etc But you may have to write things out until you have a handle on it
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Does your Total Daily Energy Expenditure change after WLS?
Reach out to your Surgeon/NUT/Team if you can for clarity, everything here will be mere conjecture based on personal experience Sorry
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2nd day post op
? CONGRATULATIONS?
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Swimming - 3.5 weeks after sleeve op
IMHO always listen to your surgeons instructions immediately post op.
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Scopolamine
The patch works quite well
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Food Database?
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6.5 months post op
? CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERYTHING ?
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Food Before and After Photos
As promised a wrap using lettuce: pastrami/turkey/gouda I left it opened/unrolled for the pic to show the size of the lettuce leaf (A really large Tupperware top for scale ?)
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Food Before and After Photos
Where are the yams ?!?!?! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I must announce....
? CONGRATULATIONS?
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Post op
Collagen proteins work well too. You can make your own jello from pure gelatin and popsicles from whatever you will drink Good Luck ❤
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Food Before and After Photos
I was just eating them randomly ?
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Maxing out my 700 calories for the day and still hungry
Nuts are super calorically dense, way less bang for your caloric buck at 3 months post op. If you are ok with this, understand that your daily calories will likely be higher that what your NUT standardly recommends (for someone who is eating mostly proteins and nothing else) Good Luck ❤
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Oh, Just Another Plastics Story
Shhhh... don't tell anyone but those are fancy waters ??? I'm still on that b*******
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Maxing out my 700 calories for the day and still hungry
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Tried of not being able to go!
L*A*X*A*T*I*V*E*S (ASK YOUR SURGEON)
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Saggy Sophie no more. Plastic surgery to the rescue!
Oh, I WILL take you up on that offer, I'm SHAMELESS ?
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Oh, Just Another Plastics Story
1 month + Update: Life is progressing along, some days it like I never had surgery other days a sneeze leaves me incapacitated ? Belly button is coming along better now. My Primary swapped it for kicks and giggles to run a culture because she is that thorough. Turned out positive for an infection... no doubt from my inability to keep the area dry during showering. No problem, messaged my surgeon to keep him in the loop and set up a follow up visit some time soon. Received a rx for antibiotics and I'm using a wound wash after I shower to clean the area as well as bacitracin. I am so glad I have a surgeon and primary who are consistently accessible. Current weight today is 152 but 2 days ago ot was 162 because of water retention and swelling ? this is exactly why you cant always trust the scale. I'm sure ill be something else tomorrow. Sadly with the water weight/ swelling I developed really nice curves and now they're gone again ? Bathing suit pics below (this suit didn't accommodate my breast pre surgery but now its slightly loose)
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Constipation
L*A*X*A*T*I*V*E*S Ask your surgeon what's the strongest one you can take. Don't try to be a hero ?
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OOTD
Very eloquently said! ❤
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Food Before and After Photos
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OOTD
?But will I love Me ? Joking Joking Joking
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OOTD
Awwww thank you so much However my BF laughed so so much this morning as I threw a fit because of this new development... Or lack there of ?
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Advice needed regarding which surgery to get
Your Surgeon is absolutely spot on, IMHO go with the RNY bypass I chose VSG originally as I had no precursors to GERD/Reflux but I developed it along the way. I had to be converted to RNY. *Please note: It doesn't happen that way for everyone* The decision you may have to weight is if you are at a higher risk (which you are) will you be comfortable having a second surgery (revision/conversion) Good Luck❤
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OOTD
Well bad news bears, deflate gate happened overnight as I lost 4 more lbs of water weight and as the swelling subsided my newly lauded hips disappeared. Back to square one So plastics it is.