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It was sugar add more fiber and avoid sugar (fruit) You can test out fruit again in a few months

Deep breaths, in thru the nose out thru the mouth, it will be ok and the results will be worth all the mental stress you are feeling right now. The Doctors and the hospital do this on a regular basis and all you need to do is show up on time and follow thru with your decision. Good luck on Wednesday and we look forward to seeing around post op for the updates on your progress.

I would say something about women and there clothes BUT the day i put on my 34x29 button fly 501's you couldn't get that **** eating grin off my face with a dozen funerals grats

have you had surgery before? everyone reacts different to the surgery. some bounce right back and the only thing holding them back is the time needed for all those stitches to heal. others react poorly to being put under and take longer to recover from the stress your body is put thru by this procedure. Only you can maybe know how you will react if you have been under for another reason. desk job with fixed hours and no lifting - 2 weeks would work manual labor with heavy lifting - 6 weeks easy look at your daily routine and decide then take all you can and be nice to yourself for a few weeks

ok music i'll take a stab at it. You don't mention medical conditions or meds so i will assume you dont have either issue. 1. hydrate - water water water - zero soda even the fake sugar **** 2. protein 3. veggies - green first followed by a mix of other colors 4. no added sugar - none at all - the closer you work towards this the easier it will get 5. no processed carbs. you dont eat from the middle isles of the store, only from the 3 walls. 6. no fruit if you are stalled 7. no snacking after dinner - nothing but water 8. if your exercise does not leave you a wet mess just like your first week you are doing it wrong. work out in a fasted state for more fat burning. resistance training first to burn down blood sugar then treadmill Do with this what you want but you did ask. Nobody starts here it is what you work towards week by week. it will not happen fast you have to keep it up for several months to get results. good luck

nothing i posted was about what you know or dont know i was just seeking info not included in first post. There is unlikely to be many who have your level of post op sensitivity. i wish you luck and hope you find the answers you seek.

have you talked to your surgeon. you should not be vomiting at this or any other stage.

i know it is an individual decision to tell or not to to tell but i strongly believe the less you talk about it pre-op the better off you are. you can always talk later but you can never untell (i know its not a word) someone and you are vulnerable pre-op to the extreme and sometimes nasty comments of co-workers and sadly family I am sorry you are surrounded by so my idiots, hang in there and in a few months they will be pulling you aside and asking if was hard cause they are thinking about it now. The best revenge is success.

6-9 months depending on other needed procedures and your access to them

i would say that maths was not the nurses best subject. But someone has to graduate at the bottom of each class. and on a more serious note: you are in charge of your health, speak up when things are wrong or just not understood. These people are human and make the same mistakes day in and day out that all of us do except you will pay the price for their errors so speak up for yourself.

ok, I enjoy the small meals mostly. Sometimes when its an old favorite i have a twinge of loss. i have not found any food post op that i cannot eat. just small amounts of it. however i didn't like Brussel spouts before and dont like them after i try to make everything as flavorful as i can cause when its that small there is no room for bland. i eat everything from a salad plate so it looks fuller (Jedi mind trick ) i still have restriction at 11 months and i like that alot. i am around and mostly under 1000 calories a day. bathroom issues come and go mostly an issue with fiber intake. I am very happy with my surgery decision and hope everyone has as good a post op as i have had.

search out and find that help. take up meditation, Post op is mostly a mental game and you have a tough situation on your hands. This emotional trip your on will show up in your weight but the cure is in your head so please seek out that counseling. as for a reset i would recommend 16/8 IF I am sorry for the things you dealing with right now. I know both the pains you are dealing with and it is not an easy time to work thru. good luck and i hope the wedding gives you a new start.

ok thats a little low, if you sip 1 oz every 5 minutes that 12 oz per hour you need only 6 hours to get hydrated. you really have to sip sip sip all the time during the first months. It will get easier but you have to make hydration the number 1 thing from first moment up till bedtime.

sounds normal but you dont say how many ounces all those sips add up to. and what food stage are you on this early, at almost 3 weeks i was still on liquid but all programs are different. dont worry about what the calories add up to. we all have an over supply of stored energy (fat) so you dont need that right now. if you are not dehydrated then you are fine. everything else will come with time. the dehydration can put you in the hospital so that is your priority. track the ounces you are sipping

once you get down in size i find clothes are much cheaper now that i dont look for 4x. if you go out and get clothes every time you drop a size in the beginning it will break you. i went thru 4 belts but that was cheaper than new pants over and over.

I put 2 oz of my premier in each of the 5 cups of coffee i drink a day. all coffee after 3pm is decaf i was between 3 - 4 months post op when i started this. also i make rather weak coffee - 2 tbls of coffee for each 10 cup pot

it is amazing the amount of water we can store in our bodies. never use day to weight use at least weekly averages to even out the up and down of the water. at 8 lbs per gallon water can really move the scale on a day to day basis.

Set a time and go just like any other appointment you have. Dont think about it just go. I find once i am there and start i feel great. Its just that moment when you have to go that can jam you up. I always feel so much better after the workout than i did before. For me at least it kills any hunger i had before and i dont want to eat for a couple hours after i workout

it can be very hard to believe that this time will be different but it will be different. The sleeve is an amazing tool to reset your life and reclaim your health and mobility. You have so many small and large victories ahead of you. i encourage you to look for the NSV -non scale victories - topic located here and read thru it and see all the great things you can look forward to post op is very much a mental game so keep the reasons you did this in mind and look forward to the good things ahead. good luck

you can never untell so i prefer to limit the number and the constant negativity of some you tell will wear on you pre op is a long process and they will have a lot of time to pick at you and cause you to doubt yourself

i was going to tell you to not say anything to anyone but i dont think you can go that route. You will have to tell and just hope the support you need is forthcoming. good luck

you have a better chance of getting a glass of ice in hell than you do in getting the the insurance to speed up. The process is by design long and tedious. If they can get you to give up by wearing you down they will be money ahead and never ever forget it is always about the money when it comes to insurance. The only fast way to surgery is self pay. whip out the card drop 18-25k and you can be in the surgery room as soon as the next spot opens. for the rest of us its just hang in there and stay on top of everything you need to do and do them right away and always follow up that the results of each procedure gets sent to your surgeons office.

I know what you mean Dubbs, in my garage is a large blue tote packed solid with my 'FAT' cloths. i sit here at the same weight i was during my 20's but i still haven't let that tote go. The mental games we play never cease to amaze me. 1 year just does not feel real enough i guess. after a lifetime of ever slowly increasing weight it is difficult to believe this wont end the same as all other attempts to lose weight ended. I know its different and i can tell myself all the reasons that it is different this time but that tote still sits there waiting for me to f**k this one up like all the rest. screw the pre op diet lets go with the post op counselling for all the mental gymnastics we put ourselves thru. post op is all mental and i just hope at the end of the day to shot par for life's course. good luck on your next round.

hang in there Tracy. nothing easy or fun about the pre op diet. and the carb/sugar addiction withdrawals are crazy hard. the better you do at getting them out of your system the easier it will be post op when you can do real damage to your wl progress if you eat those kinds of foods instead of the healthy choices you will need to make going forward. Do the best you can and understand that it will all be worth it very soon. day to day this time seems endless but it is a very small part of the rest of your life that you are reclaiming and you will barely remember this week a few months from now. good luck

these are the basics 1 protein 2. veggies hydration remove sugars from your diet, notice i did not say decrease them i said remove them. your carbs should be from your veggies cut out the processed carbs eat from the 3 walls 1 veggies - fruits only if your weight is going down 2 meats 3 dairy avoid the middle of the store like it will hurt you cause it will. NO snacking after dinner good luck