GradyCat

Does it feel like it's distended? It is warm to the touch?

Thanks for the links. I am never hungry but I eat when I'm bored.

This is very interesting. I have tattooed eyebrows because I lost most of them and they were thin to begin with. I've had thin hair problems all my life (anemia, thyroid, bad luck).

I'll still get them if I eat something my stomach doesn't like, even 3 years post WLS (sleeve). My stomach doesn't like tortilla wraps, potatoes, or pasta.

I used to be an insurance adjuster, so I know a little bit about this. Secondary won't pay anything that primary doesn't cover. They just prorate the underlying coverage.

No regrets here. My only barrier was myself. The sleeve still works when I don't screw up.

That's not dumping. That's overcarbing. It'll pass with time.

Interesting. Good to know.

That's interesting how each person is different. Yeah, yours is slightly different from average, but I guess you'll have to adjust for that with your mental willpower. Good luck on your continued WLS journey.

The struggle is real. I remember when I had the WLS thinking, "What dummy would eat crap again and gain weight after this?" Well, I'm that dummy. It happens. We just have to refocus on the basics again.

Been there, done that, still there. I gained 30 pounds back during COVID but the good news is I just recently re-lost them. So there IS hope and the WLS still is a tool to use. Don't feel defeated.

It's not a clique but it's not a bunch of teenagers chatting either. We generally post a topic and people respond if it relates to them. It's different from other social media.

Okay, I was about to say, "What the hell?" Funny!

What's an 1199?

No, I didn't do my sleeve there, but I wanted to say hi because I spent 4 days in Singapore in 2016 and loved it.

Three years post-sleeve here and my body still doesn't like tortillas and I can only have a forkful or a single spoonful or potatoes, rice, or carbs.

Congratulations! What a great feeling.

I'm sitting here this morning reminiscing and I can remember three times in my life when men, two of them my boyfriends at the time and the third one my boss, told me I was "big" and needed to lose weight. At that time I weighed about 160 which I would kill (not literally) to weigh now. I wasn't fat then. I was just on the bigger side but nice and curvy. As I am sitting here drinking my coffee, I am realizing that I've NEVER told anyone they were fat or suggested that they need to lose weight. It's not my job. They have mirrors. They know if they're big. It's their business. So I wonder why some people think it's okay to tell other people about their weight. And I really would have thought it would have been women to point out being fat, but in my case it was men. It made me come to this thread to ask you if anyone's ever told you you're fat or suggested you lose weight? Oh wait, I just remembered another one, again a man, a co-worker who told me "You know you're getting kind of big, right? You need to lose some weight." So how many times have you been told you're fat?

I decided after a trip when I felt too big for the airline seat and was breathless walking through the terminal.

Hmmm, tried a lot of the sugar-free stuff and if it contains malitol it makes me have diarrhea. I am eating high-protein sweet snacks lately like Kodiak Bear Bites (graham crackers)

First focus on the great success that you've had. You've done well. Next, think about how this is going to be for YOU (while I realize it effects your kids too and you said you want to do this for your kids, do it for YOU!). Now, get back to the basics like right when you had the surgery, counting calories, protein, and macros, drinking your water, not drinking while eating, etc. It'll jump-start you back to losing again.

It depends on what the results say and whether or not they'd impact your surgery in any way. Mostly it won't just pop up in your bariatric surgeon's screen but he/she can see most records from any and all of your doctors and labs in the system, so you should know that if for some reason you're trying to hide the results.

I average 1100 calories.day

How are you feeling now post-surgery? Sorry you had such a frustrating experience.

So I had been taking the medication (Omeprazole/Prilosec) for 5+ years. About a month before the sleeve surgery I was required to stop taking it for 2 weeks in order to take an H-Pylori test. I stopped cold turkey and never took it again either before or after surgery. I had an endoscopy 18 months after WLS, I can't remember why, and my surgeon showed my evidence of GERD anymore. I never restarted taking it.