jbraney

How many months post op are you?

Hi everyone! I want to know kinda where people with the sleeve surgery are at with daily calorie count and how many months post stop are you? Please share! I want to know if I’m close to where others might be at. Thanks guys!

Hi everyone! I want to know kinda where people with the sleeve surgery are at with daily calorie count and how many months post stop are you? Please share! I want to know if I’m close to where others might be at. Thanks guys!

Hi everyone! I want to know kinda where people with the sleeve surgery are at with daily calorie count and how many months post stop are you? Please share! I want to know if I’m close to where others might be at. Thanks guys!

Hi everyone! I want to know kinda where people with the sleeve surgery are at with daily calorie count and how many months post stop are you? Please share! I want to know if I’m close to where others might be at. Thanks guys!

If you are stalled out. First thing is to not worry about it. It happens.
If it is *REALLY* bothering you, then you need to make sure you are doing the following.
You need to be tracking **EVERYTHING** You eat Your total calories need to be lower than your BMR You need to be tracking your Water intake and ensuring it's above 64oz, the human body needs water to break down fat, if you don't have enough to meet your normal requirements, fat loss is going to suffer You need to be doing SOME exercise, daily If you aren't doing all of these. Then start.
Also, Weight is just 1 number in this whole process, if you are not tracking fat loss, you are missing out on another important measurement. You can not lose weight, or even gain weight and still lose body fat (if you are working out / exercising)

You don't lose weight as fast with the sleeve as you do with a bypass. It's a better, healthier route in the long run. Ten pounds plus each month is very nice, really. Sure, you will see some who lose more or less than you, but you can't really compare yourself to anyone. Here's some food for thought since food for your tummy is in short supply :). Your body's metabolism is in the shitter 'cause it thinks your dying. Your system is still recovering from major surgery even though the roughest part is most likely past. You probably spent some of those three months less active than normal and you still may need to work in more activity to boost that metabolism. Don't step on the scale as often as you are because stress over progress is not helping your progress! I'd even scale back to weighing once a month. Do things like track calories or take body measurements. Measure your food to ensure continued support of learning true portion sizes. Instead of relying on a scale to give you positive feed back, rely on yourself to "know" you are doing the things you need to do for better eating, and living. If you step on a scale one week and it doesn't tell you the numbers you want to see, then you might actually hurt your progress by refusing much needed Protein, good fats and calories. You actually do have to eat in order to make magic happen, plus you don't want your hair falling out and clogging up you drains!
Oh, and your co-worker is toxic. What a horrible thing for them to say to you. I'd create some distance there because you don't need to be thinking about those words in the middle of the night when you can't sleep. It is normal to have some anxiety about the speed of your progress. You just agreed to have your body cut open, your stomach butchered into a wee little banana, and your whole life changed forever and ever. You want results and you want them right now :). I do too lol, but I know I am doing the right things for my body, I'm eating very healthy, I kayak on the ocean, I walk on the beach, I do my eliptical even though that is way too boring for me and now when I watch tv I work out with free weights mindlessly. I lose 10 lbs a month too and I have so far to go still, but ima not worry about it. Chin up, you will be amazing! Wait, I mean, you are amazing--try to believe that.

I started using this a month ago and me and my whole family love it! The kiddos even enjoy the chocolate milk too!

I started using this a month ago and me and my whole family love it! The kiddos even enjoy the chocolate milk too!

My dr told me I had to wait 4 weeks, which is this Thursday! 🎉🎉🎉😂

Mine hurt for about 4 weeks. I’m almost at 5 weeks and i still feel a little dull pain if I sneeze of cough hard enough.
I think it just depends on the person. Good luck!

Mine hurt for about 4 weeks. I’m almost at 5 weeks and i still feel a little dull pain if I sneeze of cough hard enough.
I think it just depends on the person. Good luck!

Well you are less than 72 hours away! May it be satisfying, smooth and enjoyable for you both. Missionary not necessarily, but do a little improvising, remember it's like riding a bicycle but a whole lot more fun👍🌈. Maybe not rockets🚀but sail smooothly into port⛵Have fun Kiss.

I just past my 2 week liquid diet, i lost about 14lbs. However I honestly wouldn’t worry about your weight in this phase because your are carrying a lot of fluids not to mention people get constipated during this stage as well. So your body is retaining lots of extra stuff right now.
My dietitian put it to me in a good way. Don’t think of this stage or the 2nd one as a losing weight phase but rather your body is healing phase. Which made sense to me.
Hope that helps a little!

Baritastic app is great, specifically design for who will have or had surgery [emoji3]

Just went to the 99 for lunch. They were just plain turkey tips with some cucumber dill sauce on side. Didn’t eat more than a bite of the quinoa and didn’t touch the grilled pita it comes with.


HW 242, SW 236- (Bypass 12/20/17)
GW#1- 199 (2/11/18)
GW#2- 180 (4/2/18)
GW#3- 160
CW 174
5’6”

I have no real advise other then to keep taking a stool softener and maybe a Fiber supplement you can sprinkle in your foods. I went just over 2 weeks without being able to go #2. I feel your pain.

I am post surgery the same amount of days as you! The keeping enough water and food down the recommended amount is hard on me as well. I think in the beginning they know we can only do a little so I just try not to get myself worked up about meeting daily amounts. I keep telling myself it’s going to get easier....I hope it’s true. I do miss chugging lots of water, i am such a big water drinker so having to sip water had def been a challenge.
WE GOT THIS, WE DO!!!

HI ALL! I had my VSG surgery the first week of April and I’m hoping to make some friends on the same journey as me! Any advise on life after surgery?!

Hey there! I’m about four weeks out and I feel pretty good. I’m currently on the soft foods but should graduate this week to all foods.... where are you located?

Welcome!!! So glad you found us!!!

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