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💝💜 MOTIVATIONAL CHALLENGE TIME 💜💝
Let's keep everything positive and productive with an easy self guided photo challenge for April. It combines fitness and life motivation to stay balanced. Set your own goals and smash them! Participate as much as you like. Lots of side conversation is welcome!
Start by posting your starting weight, goals, surgery type and where you are in the process (preop, post op losing, maintenance)
💝💜 ENJOY THE MONTH OF APRIL 💜💝
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I will go first:
Starting weight: ? (On vacation will check when i return)
Goal: lose 5 lbs this month/find maintenance & walk more now that the weather is improving
Surgery: VSG 17 months post (maybe in maintenance)

Hi Everyone! I know I came to these forums to help prepare me for the surgery, so this post is about helping you be as prepared as possible and know the nitty gritty.
I was sleeved Wednesday 1/24 in Chicago. Your mileage may vary.
The night before, I was NPO after 9PM and was the first surgery of the day, so I had to be at the hospital at 5:15 am. Have a backup ride ready because you might not know this until the day before, and my husband had to stay home with our kids. Pro Tip: You can reserve a cab or Lyft ride in advance, so I had a lyft scheduled at 4:30 AM.
They do weigh you at the hospital when you arrive. Pre-Op was a breeze. I have a high BMI so I had a shot of a drug to prevent blood clots, if you don't like shots, ask for it in the thigh. I had mine in my right shoulder both days and it was fine, nothing more than a flu shot feeling.
Post op your mouth will be DRY. DRY DRY DRY DRY DRY. Bring lip balm to keep your lips moist and you will, will, WILL get through it. If it's really bad, make sure you are not getting dehydrated. Late on the night of my surgery, my heart rate and blood pressure went way up, so they gave me a "BOLUS" for dehydration, which is a lot of IV fluids really fast, it did the trick and by morning I was fine.
WALK! Get up as soon as you feel able to. I walked and walked, and peed and peed. They will measure your urine so don't flush it, there will be a measuring thing in the toilet, don't put paper in it because you want credit for every ML of urine you produce! And did I mention walk? It's so easy. I was shocked that I was the only person walking around the floor. It really helps with that gas pain.
The morning after surgery I did a "water trial" where a member of the doc's team brought in two thimbles of Water. I had two hours to finish them and it took really about an hour. Go slowly. After that, I was not brought a tray of anything, just a FULL styrofoam cup of probably 20 oz of water and was told "this is what is between here and home." It took me about 3 hours to drink it, and then I was finally discharged around 3PM. Walking around in CVS on the way home is when the farting began. It hasn't stopped but I'll tell you I have zero gas pains!
Get the liquid Tylenol. You will want it when you are home, even if just one incision hurts (I have five "stab wounds" and only one is really bothersome at all - and the liquid tylenol is enough.) Now I am home and am slowly sipping Premier Protien Clear (yum) and water (yum) all day. TIP: Don't buy the orange Protein water sold at Target, order the Premier Protein clear online. They are vastly different.
TL:DR? You will fart a lot. That's good. You will burp a lot. That's fine. WALK A LOT. Stand up a lot. You'll do great.
Ask me anything!

I was a vegetarian also and slowly working my way back
I eat mostly fish as a source of non plant protein but here's a list of plant based sources :
Lentils 1cup 18g protein
Black Beans 1cup 14.5g
Sunflower seeds 1cup 31g
Tempeh 1cup 31g
Quinoa(cooked) 1 cup 8g
Egg 7g protein
Cottage cheese 4 oz 13g
Edamame 1 cup 18g
Greek yogurt 5.3oz 13g
Hummus 4 tbsp 5g protein
Spinach (cooked) 1 cup 6g
Tofu 1/2 cup 11g protein
Sources :
Weightloss surgery for dummies cookbook
The everything after weightloss surgery cookbook

Hello Everyone! I am scheduled for RNY surgery February 15th! #ready! #newbeginnings

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Just got a call from the office coordinator that my revision from band to bypass has been approved. Scheduled for February 8 surgery. Just need to work on pre op stuff now.
Surgery request submitted Monday, approval received on Wednesday. Had to do psych, 3 nutritional visits and medical 2 Year history. Surprised and pleased at the quick process. On to the next step.

Hello Everyone! I am scheduled for RNY surgery February 15th! #ready! #newbeginnings

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Hello Everyone! I am scheduled for RNY surgery February 15th! #ready! #newbeginnings

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Hello Everyone! I am scheduled for RNY surgery February 15th! #ready! #newbeginnings

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Hey guys! @mylighthouse and @Tealael inspired me to Celebrate my 130 pounds lost. Here I was 11 months ago and the other day! Hoping to drop another 55-60 lbs.

I’ve started the dreaded preop diet today! Which means I’m officially two weeks away from surgery [emoji28]! Here’s hoping it’s a smooth (and not too hangry) two weeks. The nerves are helping with suppressing my appetite at least [emoji23].
All the best to those who have just started or will start their preop diets!

289.7LBS on the left.
138LBS on the right.
16 months post-op.

Thanks God today I had my echocardiogram in the morning, at 3 pm the doctor called me and said everything is okay!!!
And in the afternoon I got the letter from my insurance saying that THEY APPROVED MY SURGERY!!!!!
January 12,2018!!!!
My new history begins!!!!

Hi everyone,
Merry Christmas, today makes 4 weeks post op, my SW was 248 and as of today, I weigh 227 which is a 21 lb loss. The first week I lost 9 lbs, 2nd week 5 lbs, third week 4 lbs this last week 3 lbs. I started exercising after 2 weeks 3-4 times per week for 45 mins was was a little bummed that I didn’t lose more weight but overall I’m satisfied, just wanted to share my progress.

So I was living in NYC when I decided to get sleeved. Went to Texas to have my surgery done because it was about 1/3 of the price in NYC. 1 month after I was sleeved I decided to move back to the Caribbean and just chill out and focus on myself for a while. So now I'm living in St. Vincent struggling with my old habits because obviously missing the local food from living away it's hard to resist lol. So it's definitely been an interesting journey lots of things to adjust to. But I've definitely been working my ass off!! I'm back playing sports and in the best shape of my life. I currently work out 5-7 days a week. I play rugby Monday, Tuesday Wednesday I go to the gym on Thursday and play tennis with a coach on Friday and yoga on weekends.
Since surgery I have stopped snoring! I have more energy. I no longer have insomnia, sleep sound every single night.

If snap a lot about my weight loss. What I eat and my work outs. So if anyone wants to follow me on Snapchat and engage join the club snapchat# mzlala784

HW: 330
Sleeved: August 31 2017
SW: 305
CW: 257
Total weight lost : 73 pounds !!!!!

I just wanted to share some progress. I am post VSG 2.5 months and have lost 87 pounds total. I'm doing fairly well, I didn't have any complications. I still consider myself pretty darn lucky.
SW- 386
CW- 299. 
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Feeling great!

Hi and thank you for sharing. Your doctor may not reschedule you but strongly advise that you are strict with the liquid diet before surgery. Stay positive because the 18th buys you more time to make it work. I know we both can knock these last few pounds off. Good luck!

Hi and thank you for sharing. Your doctor may not reschedule you but strongly advise that you are strict with the liquid diet before surgery. Stay positive because the 18th buys you more time to make it work. I know we both can knock these last few pounds off. Good luck!

And that’s what I need to keep in mind..a tool. It begins with me. Thank you!

I had my surgery yesterday morning!! I feel great today. A little sore but so glad I went through it. He found a large hiatal hernia and a whole in my esophagus. But he patched me all up and I am doing great. Just waiting for my leak test, then I can go home!!

One of the hardest things for me to adjust to is learning not to drink with meals or for 30 minutes after meals. I just saw this video on another social site and it really helped me to understand why it’s important not to drink during/too soon after meals, so I thought I’d share! (Sorry if this has been shared on here a lot before...I’m new here! )