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I had a bit as well, but like you it's vert fine and lots of it, so noone really noticed anything but me. It started growing back almost immeditately and refilled out without any problems. So keep in mind that it could be just you who is seeing it.

Ive been randomly watching all of Youtube. hehe

I totallt agree. I ate McDonalds for the first time since my surgery last year and it wasnt anywhere near as good as I suspected it would be. Apparently, once you get away from fatty, salty, processed foods for a while, it seems like the body resets the tastebuds. I watched a tv show before that talked about it taking up to about 6 months for a product (in this case cereal) to lower sugar and salt so that customers adjust to the taste. Foods are really engineered to get us stuck on them.

Low blood pressure has become a way of life for me. I always have to get up slowly (10 secs or so) or Im on the floor. I think this is from dropping weight so quickly and hope it will get better when my body gets more used to the change over a period of time. Ill keep you posted.

I gave up diet coke before my surgery as well and boy did it make a difference. Oddly enough, diet coke is too fizzy for me to drink, but the carbonated water at home is just fine. I think it isnt as fizzy. BUT getting off 95% sweeteners (natural and man-made) really helped with craving sweets

Im sitting in the same position but wanting to go to Japan. Think of it this way, it gives you more time to save up some money. Why not start up a virtual vacation and plan it in detail? Save all the sites, videos etc and make yourself the perfect vacation. Worse comes to worse, you are more than welcome to come visit me in Sweden (once this all blows over) and walk to your hearts content. I have plenty of space here for peeps and vacationing here is quite reasonable if you have someplace to stay. Stockholm isnt anywhere near as hot as Spain during the summer and we have the Midnight Sun! PS I also work for a school.

Im almost 11 months out and I eat a bread that has chia etc in it in order to get more fiber. It's rather small but since it's rather moist, I really like it. I use it to get more fiber since im still having constipation problems.

Thank you so much for the explanation. This really explains why some docs say no to it and others dont really care when it comes to unflavoured carbonated water-

Hehe, I'm 10-11 months out and I still have that problem. It's just us getting up too quick. I hope that after my weight stabilizing for a while that it changes. I talked to my doc about it and it's quite normal. We just have to get up slowly or stand in place for a few secs before continuing on.

Yeah, I so hear you guys on that one. Sometimes i forget now that when I "screw up" it's not even anywhere close to what it would have been without the surgery. I sometimes think that Ive overeaten on some days and when I look at my food journal, it's just that ive eaten a small bit more. Obviously, I dont want to keep that up, but it's reasuring that my body tells me now instead if having no feelings before.

Oddly enough I have problems when I drink a diet coke directly from a bottle. I think it's because it's bubblier than what my Soda Stream does.

On the other hand, I have carbonated water every day. We make it ourselves with a Soda Stream and it's not flavored. So it's not got sweetener or anything in it that makes it "addictive" in any way. I just like it for the less sweet taste and freshness. Keep in mind though that Im 10 months out definitely dont recommend this in the beginning.

Just saw this on Youtube: https://youtu.be/mxHvjV1cH3M

I think your energy will come back once you start eating a few more calories. If you are out walking say an hour, you will burn around 250 calores and if you are eating only 600-800 you dont have much left to have energy from. So watch out for eating too few calories as well. The first few weeks or so are your body taking the energy it needs to heal so dont overdo it.

Your hashtag is soooo on point there!

I think every 5 minutes is a bit much imho, but 1 bite every 1-2 should work. That way 20 bites is about 20 mins which is the time needed to "feel" your stomach which may not happen for you for a while. My whole slow eating approach is to take small bites and keep it mentally slow. In the beginning I was literally nibbling on things. So eating half a banana took forever. To help me along the way, I also bought smaller kids/dessert sized knives, forks and spoons. (Ikea has a dessert set called Dragon which looks very nice and has a matching normal size as well.) I also use only small dessert plates which research shows fools the mind. (https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/use-smaller-plates-smaller-waist) Just some ideas..welcome to the club!

I've upped my walking to twice a day as well. The dogs absolutely love me now. But checking your weight twice a day? If that's what works for you ok, but watch out for the mind games we can start to play with ourselves.

This would be a dream to me! This might be the ONLY way I could stay away from breads! (Notice the buns and rolls sign.)

Sorry, but for me kale is bleh.

Ive had sort of the same thing happen for surgery on my foot. My thoughts are to take the same pre-surgery steps but just a little bit longer. For my foot, it's still getting out there walking, but for WLS it might be working on a 1500-2000 calorie diet. There are so many things we can do given the right mindset. Ive seen so many people out walking recently and even the New York Times has mentioned an upswing in people running.

I misunderstood one of the notes about taking my vitamins after my surgery and mistakenly took a double dose of iron which led to severe constipation and black poo! Nothing serious, but it was a pain in the ass. hehe ...oops

It has been taking me forever to find my feelings/appetite since surgery and feeling "full" only came recently. So it's a long process. For me hiccups also told me I was full. Just keep to the program and keep track of the amount of food and u will be ok. It's still really early out for you.

I water down all my protein shakes by half otherwise they are too sweet for me as well. At the moment, im drinking ensure cafe mocha and enjoying it.

Cry..we dont have that in Cleveland... :C

What is HEB?