abefroman329

Maybe if you were retaining a whole lot of water on Saturday and shed it all by today?

When I talked to my therapist about it prior to surgery, she suggested I keep in mind that my wife was with me at my heaviest and loved me the same as she does now, so I should keep that in mind if I'm considering leaving her for someone who would then leave me if I got back to my heaviest. That's why one of the most important pictures to me right now is a picture of my wife and me, taken when I was 60 pounds heavier than I am today.

One you add red meat and a bun, it all goes to ****.

Speaking from personal experience, eating a cheeseburger and puking it back up is worse than not eating a cheeseburger. It gets better.

I don’t think you’ll injure yourself by laying down and sitting back up, but it’ll really hurt at your incision sites when you do.

Never experienced anything like that, but I didn’t go home with a drain. I had a lot of trouble getting restful sleep on my back and was very pleased when I could sleep on my side and then on my stomach. I was able to start sleeping on my side a little earlier than I might have been able to otherwise by propping up my (since-disappeared) belly with a body pillow.

I had GERD for 15 years before the surgery and I have it now. The surgeon is hoping that it will go away given enough time after the surgery and enough weight loss. I’m well below my weight when I was first diagnosed with GERD, so I’m hoping it’s just a matter of letting things heal some more. Other side effects I’ve experienced so far include having to get your pants taken in by a tailor, fitting comfortably in seats in theaters and on airplanes, and my wife being able to wrap her arms around me.

Insurance approval took about a month. That was late September. I think the earliest I could have had the surgery was late October or early November, but I opted for December 20th so that I didn’t have to go on the pre-op liquid diet over Thanksgiving and so that I could spend the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s recuperating.

My food in the hospital was definitely in sync. The menu said something like “bariatric post op” and it was broth, diluted juice, and diet Italian ice. And there was a note on my chart that they needed to check with the nurse before serving it to me.

I’m not sure what I’ll drink if I start again. Beer and carbonated mixers are out, wine makes me sleepy, and I can’t drink martinis for several hours.

So far the only med I’ve stopped completely is the Farxiga/Invokana (I used to switch between the two based on which one Caremark was gonna cover that year). For the Cozaar, the Bystolic, and the Janumet, I’ve just cut the dosage in half. But I have my annual physical in a month and hopefully some go away then. Once upon a time I was taking Tribenzor for my systolic, which is 3 medicines in one, so to go from that to one pill is nothing to sneeze at. Plus I’m no longer taking any diuretics, which means I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to pee any more. Between the new vitamins/supplements and the addition of the anti-gallstone medication, I’m probably taking more pills than I was prior to surgery, which is disappointing.

Sounds like your scale hates you.

1) You're 8 days out from surgery and you're eating things you shouldn't be eating 8 months out 2) Prior to surgery, you were talking a really big game about how you were gonna stick to your recommended diet and looking down your nose at people who don't.

Try ground turkey or chicken and make sure you're using a moist cooking method..

It’ll take you longer to notice because you see yourself every day. I think it’s a little easier for men because we wear belts to hold up our pants and one day you notice you can pull it an extra notch. Or that you’ve run out of notches and need a smaller one.

You’re supposed to be able to eat 4 oz of solid food at a time (2 oz protein and 2 oz fruit/vegetables). Have you tried replacing the batteries in your scale?

It was 5 weeks for me yesterday. Had my 4-week follow-up with the dietitian, that went well. Can not wait for General Diet next week!

Cream soups are filling, oatmeal is filling, yogurt is filling...Cheetos are not.

I don't like mayo, so chicken/egg salads are out. My dietitian recommended using unflavored Greek yogurt to make chicken/egg salad, though I ate a hardboiled egg at lunch and did just fine. The consistency of the chicken didn't matter, when I puked it back up, it was basically the pureed chicken I was eating a few weeks ago. Canned chili with beans is super-high in protein and I tolerated it just fine.

Confusingly, I can have nuts starting at 6 weeks, but then it's listed later in my binder as food I could have trouble with later. Nuts are just difficult to digest in general and basically any nut that isn't an almond is a little carb bomb.

Congrats! I haven't been able to kick the Prilosec to the curb yet.

Soup or chili. I tried chicken cooked in a slow cooker in broth and that was really hard to digest, although apparently it was cooked on high instead of low.

As soon as you stop taking pain meds.

I weigh myself daily because I have a Fitbit scale and I like having lots of numbers for the graph the app maintains, but I can see how harmful it would be for some people to do that. Sometimes if I'm discouraged with a number I got on a particular day, I compare it to a number I got a week before and it's always smaller.

I was getting really dizzy a few weeks after surgery and finally collapsed and then went to the doctor. According to her, it was one or all of the following: 1) Hypotension 2) Dehydration 3) Standing up from lying down too quickly