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Kathleen come on behave, the liquid diet is to give your poor stomach which has been sliced and diced time to heal. Give yourself the best chance of success by doing the 2nd week of liquids and your poor body time to heal properly!

Kathleen come on behave, the liquid diet is to give your poor stomach which has been sliced and diced time to heal. Give yourself the best chance of success by doing the 2nd week of liquids and your poor body time to heal properly!

This is a right of passage y'all. Embrace the suck and jut get through it! It lasts ONLY a short time! These first 2 months are the time when you will LOSE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF WEIGHT YOU WILL EVER LOSE IN 2 MONTHS. You do that because of your surgery, recovery, and the liquid diets! TY docs! You're eating 300 or so cals per day. That's HOW you lose so fast. It's not magic bean surgery. Embrace the suck! Don't advance your surgery schedule! Just do it and get over it.
Jaze! We all had to do it. It's part of living the forkin process!

I love chicken pad Thai so much, but I haven't had it in months. I used to eat a full order in a sitting at least once a week. Last night i asked if they could replace the rice noodles with bean sprouts and ate 1/4th of an order (about 1 cup). My husband's full order is included for comparison. It was amazing!

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It sounds like you really should look into therapy. Cuz it kinda sounds like you are having emotions at night in response to being alone (or maybe even boredom) and then are using food as a coping/comfort mechanism. And once you start, you eat to sick. It is possible to injure and alter your body. You MAY stretch your pouch or your small intestine just below or your esophagus above. Any and all of that is not good with habitual repeated binging.
Please get help 1 on 1 and in group. And try in the meantime to figure out incremental activities that will keep your brain and hands occupied until bed! ((hugs)). I love the coloring app on my phone! I color a couple of picks a night plus walk or run for 5-10 minutes! It works. I also pound a glass of Water quickly when feeling like I "MUST" have food. And I also do the CBT head work, 4 square breathing, and tapping (EFT).

At my last post op support group, the nurse told us that a “pouch reset” does not prevent or fix stretching. Once you’ve stretched it out, that’s it...it doesn’t go back. Something to think about

I'm not suggesting giving up exercise. If you draw real benefit form it, just do it!
BS. "Being lightheaded" is not normal.

I've met Jason he is great and I met the diet Dr. So much info out there about how we have all become so fat, sad state of affairs really. Still, people out there saying the current food pyramid is the correct one. Prof Tim Noakes said the current 'old school' head honchos would have to kick the bucket before we see proper changes to how our diets are managed/promoted because they are paid huge amounts by big pharma. The whole thing is a huge mess. Even with NO medical background anyone with half a brain can see that treating diabetes with high sugar foods then administering insulin to lower that sugar level makes absolutely no sense and the longer you do it the more and more sugar lowering meds you need! CRAZY!

Many have come back and posted after weight regain. You are not alone. Your options are to have a surgery revision or Get back on track.
The only way to know if you stretched your sleeve is to have it diagnosed by a surgeon. Many sleeves have less restriction years out, but our stomachs are not back to full size. I can hold more food volume. I had to find strategies to fill the extra space and satisfy hunger with out regain.
Many people confuse grazing/ eating around your surgery with stretching.
Grazing is eating many small meals healthy or unhealthy choices that total over your weight loss/maintaining calories. When you eat small meals, you don’t feel your surgery restriction. The calories quickly add up and you will gain weight.
When you eat around your surgery the sleeve will no longer works. If you get back to basics and control what you eat again, you can start losing weight. Getting back to basics and finding the right mindset and discipline is not as easy as it sounds years out. I would suggest getting a counselor and dietician to support you through all this.
Bariatric Basics. Eat your bariatric real food plan - Weigh your food on a scale, log your food in a food app,(my fitness pal or baritastic) drink a minimum of 64 oz of Water, exercise.
**stay within your weight loss calories and macros ** You can ask a dietician for a meal plan and calorie range. Other people here that are years out are willing to share their plans.
I'm five years out with the sleeve. Some do the pouch reset suggested above. Some find it too restrictive. Real food plan can be more satisfying.

I am one year post VSG & achieved my goal and then some. It has been a remarkable transformation. I have to rant about how some people, especially family members react to weight loss. I cannot tell you how many times, most recently, someone has asked me "what's wrong with you?", why are you so skinny, or are you sick? Or "I think you should gain some weight".
Where were these people when I was close to 300 lbs, unhealthy, pre-diabetic, depressed and spiraling into an early death? They kept their opinions to themselves. No ones, said, you don't need to drink that extra soda, or eat that cheeseburger, so why do people act like weight loss is because I am sick? Can't I just want to be healthy? Rant over.

NEVER!!!! I JUST THINK ABOUT HOW MANY 80 YR OLD 300 POUNDERS I SAW WALKING THE STREETS!!!! NONE!!!!!! I'M GOOD ON THE BUYERS REMORSE....

Honestly, I never had any buyers remorse. I went in knowing I was having major surgery. Just because it is done laproscopic and had small incisions it is still MAJOR SURGERY and isn't going to be without some pain and exhaustion, even chances of complications. Its something I knew I had to get through but that I would get through it. The pain only lasted a couple days. The exhaustion was longer, maybe 2-3 weeks.

Never. There is nothing about my life that is not better now.
I'm very lucky too that at no point (even immediately after surgery) did I have any significant pain. I've never vomited. Once or twice I've eaten too fast or overeaten and was uncomfortable for 15 mins. I have no food intolerances.
I know many aren't as lucky.....

7 months out and do not have one single regret!!! However, I did a lot of research before going into this as i was self pay and wanted to make sure i knew the ins and outs of what i was getting myself into.

I was back to work in 2 weeks. The first week is the hardest, for sure. Hang in there. This is major surgery. It may look like little holes on the outside, but there was major work done on the inside!
Absolutely no regrets. My life was on a dead end path. I am getting my life back and it is worth it!

very common. Another often heard reason is that estrogen is stored in fat cells, and when you start losing weight quickly, the estrogen floods your system. Whatever the reason, it'll stabilize after awhile.

I stop before I feel full because the sensation of full is different now and I don't want to stretch out my pouch. Here is my Portion Control guidelines. Hope this helps 😊