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typical keto is low carb and low protein with high fat and that is more outside the most common WLS diet. If you looked up a low carb diet it would match up better with most of the plans given by the different surgeons. It mostly about cutting out the sugar and refined carbs. These tend to be the trigger foods for most of us. Most obese people have damaged metabolisms and sugars and highly refined and process foods play to most damaged parts of our hormonal system. Don't fear the fat but to much of anything can work against you. always remember there are essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat that you can not survive without But there is no essential Carb. They just make you feel like you cant live without them and that is the very sign that you need fewer of them. good luck

What kim says above in BOLD!!!!!!! what you feel right now is normal and lots of people feel it. You had Major surgery and did it on purpose Now try to remember what that purpose was and keep it in the front of your thoughts till you get past these rough few days good luck and grats

Relax and Heal this was not minor surgery and on the inside your body is in WTF did you do to me mode. Some get past this in a few days and other need a week or two. glad to hear you are doing good post op. keep moving and drinking. walking moves the gas out and promotes healing and the water will keep you hydrated. This first week or two dehydration is your enemy. Follow your post op plan and be proud of yourself for taking control of the rest of your life. The weight loss will follow naturally and the less you stress over it the better. Post op is more Mental than anything else so keep your head on straight and let the sleeve do its thing while you work on building new habits that will carry you forward when the sleeve restriction is smaller in the years ahead. grats and good luck

since you asked LOL 1 hydration 2 protein 3 no sugar 4 no simple carbs - get your carbs from your veggies 5 no fruits if your gaining weight 6 no snacks 7 no calorie intake after dinner till you break your fast the next day - start with 12 hours and work it out to 14 over a month or so. whatever works with your schedule. 8 being hungry is normal and not a sign you are ill. 9 never eat before you get hungry - then drink a glass of water to see if you are hungry or just dehydrated. 10 work to get your mental focus off food. distract distract distract as for exercise. walk walk walk if nothing else.

Reach out to your Surgeon's office for a councilor recommendation and get some help with the emotional issues. Right now you need to shore up your mental game. cut the sugar out. not reduce - cut it all you are on a roller coaster and need to get the high and lows evened out. Lastly download a food app and get back to tracking everything you eat maybe the act of tracking and seeing your numbers will help you make the hard choices ahead. Don't wait. the more you delay the harder everything will get.

Set a timer on your phone to beep every five minutes to remind you to sip again. Two 16oz bottles in a full day seems like you have the water available but maybe let time slip away and dont sip. divide 32oz by the number of hours your awake and you will see you just how often your not sipping. dehydration is a big problem post op. nothing matters more than water intake in the those first weeks.

normal? 6 weeks problem with wings is the sauce - pure sugar -

10 months out and after first month i have lost 8-10 pounds since including May which started out my slowest month so far but had a big drop in last 10 days to get me to my avg (8-10). I consider myself very very lucky because my weight loss has been very steady and not had the soul crushing stalls some have had to fight thru.

I just assume they say it or do it or hell both to make themselves feel better. I never actually care if they are doing it or not and i dont begrudge someone else the need for the emotional support i assume they get. like water over a ducks back i just let it roll over me. If you get angry or upset you just give someone else emotional leverage over you and i see no point in that. If you dont believe then they are just words like "how you doing today" when nobody actually wants to know how your doing they just say the words. Learn to let it go and be happy they are not going home to stick pins in a elforman doll. to each his own on their own journey.

Its the flour that makes this bad. If you peel off the coating the chicken is great but we all know just how addicting that crispy fried skin is. be careful going down that road.

wow, i don't know what to say to a husband that says no surgery cause you will just fail anyway. Well i do know what to say BUT no i will not. I am sure you know now what type of person you are married to. I am sorry you will not have his support thru this. I hope you can other family or close friends to be there for you. You have to do this for you not for him, he does not live your life and sometimes you just have to do the most selfish thing in the world and save your own life with or without his support.

sounds about right even if the timing is a little early.

1. hydration 2. protein 3. NO Sugar - not just reduced No sugar 4. No simple carbs - that's ALL the highly refined foods you find in the center of the store. 5. Get your carbs from veggies 6. While you are gaining weight no fruit - in moderation if your losing weight 7. no snacks after dinner Don't eat anything marked low fat - when fat is removed sugar is added to make it taste good. All of the above are goals they are not all or nothing. the closer you get to each goal the easier the weight will come off. good luck and welcome back

this needs to move back to the top for all to see and take heart from. NSV are important and each is personal and important to our mental health so i will share a small NSV this morning. Out of habit i sit here with my feet elevated as i have for years cause i need to keep the swelling down in my feet only as i look at my feet i realize i haven't need to do this for a while and i am doing it now out of pure habit. I have lost 2 shoes sizes in the last 10 months and the bones in my feet show now that the fat is mostly gone. The left foot is still larger than the right but it most likely will always be due to circulation issues that don't have anything to do with my WLS. So i sit here looking at my own feet and smiling cause i can see them sitting and just as importantly when i stand up.

never under estimate the truly amazing power of NSV. enjoy and grats on your progress

keep up the great work and in no time you will be just overweight. as someone pointed out to me recently this is the one place that being overweight is cause for celebration.

walking is free and is the best overall exercise you can give your body. step back from a counter top and do push ups at a 45 degree angle. i do these all day just to work my arms and i have a gym available. the post above about sugar is on the mark. there is no good level of sugar. whatever works its way into your diet will stop your weight loss. The goal is to get as close to zero as you can. The second goal is the same as the first except its simple carbs - they are just a form of sugar. Dont do low fat. fat makes you feel full and has a place in your diet with protein. foods that are labeled low fat have sugar add in to replace the taste lost from removing the fat. get that protein in and get carbs from veggies and leave the sugar and breads and pasta's behind and you will be on your way. good luck

keep in mind most everyone here has years upon years of weight loss / weight gain and try and fail. This pattern is ingrained and can be our undoing if we don't recognize it and guard against it. Post op is a mental game and we are the enemy. build a plan around your doctors instructions then work out how to do this day in day out without huge effort. The key is it must work with your life or like a DIET it will fail over the long run. Everyone will have a slightly different plan that fits the life they are building. good luck and i hope you have a great week and get back on track.

welcome

start with some meditation. Followed by deep breathing exercises. I am not making fun of what you are going thru just trying to get you to relax and step back a little. Follow your program - completely - The weight will start to come off again. At this point i would very much recommend you stop weighing yourself daily. Switch to once per week and stop the daily mental torture that is the scale. Please read the ongoing post about NSV (non scale victories) there will be times in this process that all you can hold on to are the NSV. Don't look down on all the great things changing in your life as you go forward instead hold these little wins close to your heart and let them carry you till the weight loss returns. good luck and grats on the great progress you have made to date

clear liquid's only 2 days out from surgery that was it.

grats, stay positive

not the fluctuation that will be the deciding factor. Every Insurance company has a policy with the min. BMI and number of comorbidities required with each BMI level. The lower your BMI the more other issues you need to get approval. Don't know Aetna's policy but the weight fluctuations will only an issue if you happen to drop below their cut off BMI.

I would not tell anyone at this point. You dont need there approval or opinions. Decide at a future date what to say if anything at all. it will be months before they will know something is different with you and you can decide at that time what to say and to whom. Remember you can never untell someone

when you add in those carbs and sugar you start that cycle of sugar rush sugar crash/hungry as hell all over again. Sugar and simple carbs make you hungry as hell. Break away from them. There is no safe amount to eat for the vast majority of us or we would not have needed the surgery in the first place. You know what to do No sugar No simple carbs water protein track your food with an app and know your macro's