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Listen to your body and be mindful of your calories. Use an app like my fitness pal.

On the positive side, you know your sleeve works. Lesson learned

Go to your surgeon. They can fix it.

I got to the gym 4 or 5 days a week and I do 30 minutes of cardio (elliptical, treadmill, or recumbent bike) and 15 minutes of strength training machines at the gym using 40 pounds for my arms and 150 pounds for my legs.

Try chewing parsley if you can stomach it.
Also instead of just drinking Water, whish some of it around the mouth for a few seconds before swallowing.

Baritastic is another to try

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Does the hospital where you had the procedure have a post op support group?

You might be able to find someone in your area there.

I am three weeks out and that is my biggest complaint. I am still really sore at my large incision site. Almost all movement has me in pain. Getting out of bed, up from a seated position and bending or twisting is extremely uncomfortable. The waist binder works well to hold everything together but u am still moving slowly because of the pain. Tylenol helps but I don’t want to take it everyday. 😕

Mine took 3 weeks to all come off, it was really hard to not pick it especially when the edges came up.

Hormones?

For Breakfast I have either eggs or yogurt.
lunch is often a P3 and raw veggies.
I have a Quest bar for an afternoon snack - thats when hunger comes roaring in and the chocolate in the quest bar helps tame the beast.
Then for dinner its lean meat and veggies and sometimes a small high fiber/high Protein tortilla. (Right now for dinners I'm working through some shredded pork roast I made last weekend - yum!)

This has happened to a lot of WLS patients. The scale isn't going to show your true weight right now because you've just had surgery. Your body is healing, inflammatory processes are going on and your body is holding onto Fluid it normally wouldn't. My advice is don't get on the scale for a couple more weeks. Seriously its a distraction. The weight WILL come off but your focus right now needs to be getting your fluids and Protein in.

I weigh once per week on Saturdays.
For me daily weighing would be a source of stress. I try to burn off that stress with my daily walk.
I had surgery two days after you. Hope you're doing well!

I TRY to only weigh once a week so I won't get discouraged with the daily fluctuations or stalls, but I find myself weighing every morning . . . and regretting it because the numbers don't change enough. I was having my husband put the scale on the top shelf of the closet so I couldn't reach it and only getting it down for me on Monday mornings.

I completely understand!!! I just started week 4 today and I am finally now on soft/pureed foods. For lunch I tried 1/4 cup cottage cheese with 2oz of sliced Turkey and just a few small pieces of pickles. I also added pepper for flavor. I could only eat like 4 small bites, but it was so nice to eat actual food!!!

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Oh that's odd. My surgeon and I'm sure many others say YES to Vitamins for life.

Thank you for your message. It totally makes sense and I appreciate your thoughts and your support. I’m thankful for dialogue like this. It’s helping me keep focus on the facts and to remember that not two experiences are the same but it is in big part what we decide to make of it.

So depending on your recovery process is your mind may be the same, but you need to know that it's mind over matter. If you try to eat something that you shouldn't be or too fast or too much, your body will punish you. This is where this tool comes into play.

Congrats on the news. Make sure to take your Multivitamins and take supplements with dha and folic acid for the healthy development of the baby. Your OB/GYN might be able to more insight on the rest.
My cousin got pregnant at 40 for the first time after her procedure, and she had a healthy baby girl.

That sounds so good I’m going to grab that on my next grocery trip. Looking forward to eating other things and see how I do with them

I had my surgery 3/26. Everyone is different, as I found out. While some have no hunger and no cravings, others still do. I happen to be the unfortunate one that woke up hungry still crave food. However, when you are recovering from surgery, perhaps watching more TV than usual including all the food commercials, it's kinda hard. At least for me. The full liquid is probably the hardest part, and I have confidence that as I get to the next stage, it will get easier.
I might still get hungry, but I also get full with very little. After a few months, if I have a tremendous craving for something, I will be able to eat it, but only a very small amount. Portion Control is a huge help.
Bottom line, imo, is that no. The surgery may not rid you of obsessive thoughts, but again it could! If not, what it will do is give you time and tools and a head start to tame those thoughts. After all, you may want a big fat cheesburger, but your stomach will make you pay dearly if you have it! So it's not so much 'you shouldn't', but more 'you physically can't'.

Lentils and chili, just blend it with an immersion blender... so yummy. Just make sure it's chicken or turkey meat and not spicy.
Buy plain yogurt and organic fruit crusher pouches and add a tablespoon of that and also very delectable.

I find this a bit worrying for you. I am 13 months out, 80 lbs down, and no way could I eat more than 1 egg in a meal, let alone 2 plus sausage. I find Protein SO filling! Are you getting enough Fluid? Thirst can be mistaken as hunger. A good Protein Shake with all the Vitamins would be a better option rather more food.

You are right to feel concern!
Are you following your surgeon's and rd's plan? Are you weighing measuring logging all your food? Hard to comment. To me it feels alarming. Since you're about 3 weeks out from surgery. That feels like a lot of food.
But sometimes you're restriction signal takes a while to work itself out with your brain. I've heard of people taking 2-3 months to start feeling their restriction.
Because of this you simply should never "chase that full feeling." Just because you can doesn't mean you should. So when your doc tells you 1/4c of food at 3 weeks post op. He means business. You can seriously eff yourself up that way! So eat ONLY the volume they tell you and of the foods that only they list.
*Edit: Oh and don't forget, to take tiny bites with tiny silverware and chew chew chew. Take 20-30minutes to eat if you can--especially in the early days. And no drinking with meals or after meals! I tried to keep it 15min before and 30min-1hour after.
Focus on your Protein first. At this point, that should be about all you're eating. Call your doc's office and schedule with the rd.