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Are you treating the ADHD with meds? Luckily I could stay on Strattera after the surgery.

Way to go! I was a 46 before the surgery, now I'm a 44, and those are too big (but 42s are too small). I saved an artifact from way back when I first started losing weight when I was at my peak, size 52 waist jeans. I hope to bring them to a support group meeting one day very soon.

I’m not sure about the accuracy of the body fat percentage readout on the scale. For starters, I have no idea how it’s calculated. Anyway, I’ve lost a pound since yesterday, so things may be back to normal.

3/4 c puréed vegetable lentil soup. Dinner was 4 sections of a Philadelphia roll and a Babybel.

I ate 5-6 kernels of popcorn earlier today (the pre-popped kind that comes in a bag) and tolerated it fine, but I did chew each kernel at least 20 times.

10 lbs max for the first 2 weeks, then 20 lbs max till 30 days after my surgery. I don't know what happens then.

My stall just started this morning! We'll see how long it lasts. If my Fitbit Alta is to be believed, my body fat percentage is going down, and I feel like I'm already ready for the next size down in jeans (already down one size since surgery), so there's that.

Just go slow and you'll be fine. You know when your body is telling you too much is too much now.

Never, according to my surgeon and nutritionist.

Did your surgeon's office send you EMMI videos to watch? Did you watch those? Those will tell you all you need to know about possible side effects.

"12 consecutive months of active engagement in weight related treatment" That's not 12 months of weight loss, that's 12 months of attempted weight loss. They really want to make sure you can't lose the weight on your own before they'll pay for your surgery. FWIW, I have BCBS of IL and only had to complete 2 months of supervised medical weight loss, and that was the surgeon's requirement, not BCBS'.

It’ll get better but it still blows. Sorry.

Yes, I started mine on Friday and have to be on it for a total of 3 months. I have not noticed any side effects yet. So far it’s effective, as I don’t have gallstones.

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My guide says 2oz protein and 2 oz veggies, so 4 oz at a sitting. I ate 3/4 of a cup of soup today and it took about 45 mins to eat it. Takes about that long for me to eat a jar of baby food. Any faster and I get pain. I found a way to eat so little with each bite that I can constantly eat without any pain, which is less frustrating. I say if you can guzzle water with no pain, guzzle it. I cannot. I feel like each week I can take one more swallow at a time without pain, but I can only take about 3 sips at a time now.

Oh interesting. I assumed the issue was the consistency.

My post-bariatric surgery cookbook has recipes with corn in them, which surprised me.

Both my nutritionist and my surgeon have explicitly stated that gummies are not acceptable, so check with them if you haven't.

Monday I was up a pound, yesterday I'd lost most of that, today I'm down a half pound. Today is also three weeks to the day since my surgery. I guess we'll see if the stall has started when I step on the scale tomorrow morning!

I could drive as soon as I stopped taking pain meds, but I don't think I drove for the first time until about day 10 or so.

I've thought about re-joining WW and going to meetings since a) my employer will reimburse me for it if I go to X meetings in Y months (don't recall the specifics) and I like it when people applaud my weight loss, but it seems like I'd have an unfair advantage over other members. I also think that, particularly in the early months after WLS, you're losing weight at a rate that's much higher than what WW recommends, and may get you flagged in their system.

I've been taking mine for a week and still get a little nauseated. This morning I tried chewing the calcium citrate tablet 30 times like I'm supposed to with some food and that helped a little. Tonight I'm going to try taking the calcium citrate tablet 2 hours before the Flintstones chewables, taking all 3 at once was making me really sick.

Yes, that is sashimi.

You can still lose eating anything once in a while, surgery or no surgery. A few years ago, I lost weight while eating prime rib and In-N-Out Burger once in a while. You just need to make sure it’s actually once in a while.

You didn’t miss out by not gorging yourself at a buffet, IMO. No need to remind yourself later of what you can’t do anymore. I had one night after being approved by insurance, but before the pre-surgery diet, where I ate a 20-piece order of boneless wings by myself (and I don’t think it was a gym day, either) and just regretted it later.