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I had surgery 10/24 and I'm down 60lbs. I'm doing well and enjoying new adventures. I try to get out of the house on weekends to avoid sitting around and snacking, plus I get extra steps in. I'm still 20lbs from the doctor's goal and 60 from my goal, so I still have a long way to go. But I'm excited to be on this journey! Cheers everyone

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I had surgery 10/24 and I'm down 60lbs. I'm doing well and enjoying new adventures. I try to get out of the house on weekends to avoid sitting around and snacking, plus I get extra steps in. I'm still 20lbs from the doctor's goal and 60 from my goal, so I still have a long way to go. But I'm excited to be on this journey! Cheers everyone

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Doing amazing had surgery 10/28 down total of 81.5lbs since surgery day. feeling great

I'm really glad that I'm not the only one facing the tell/ don't tell challenge. My surgery is tomorrow, I'm nervous but looking forward to it.

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I'm really glad that I'm not the only one facing the tell/ don't tell challenge. My surgery is tomorrow, I'm nervous but looking forward to it.

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Doctors' philosophy on this vary from a few weeks to never again depending upon their experiences. The basic issues are:
Healing - alcohol is somewhat corrosive to the stomach lining so one needs to give things a chance to heal first,
Alcohol tolerance - rapid stomach emptying means it tends to hit faster, and with less (i.e., a "cheap drunk") so care must be taken there,
Transfer addiction - we can no longer satisfy whatever addictive tendencies we have with food, so it is easy for transfer that addiction to something else, like alcohol, drugs, shopping, gambling, etc. What was a casual habit of a glass of wine with dinner occasionally can easily turn into full blown alcoholism.
Liver health - starting as morbidly obese, or worse, our livers are not usually in very good shape to begin with (hence the "liver shrinking" pre-op diets that are often prescribed) and the liver is further stressed from its role in metabolizing all that fat that we are rapidly losing. It doesn't need any more stress from ingesting a known liver toxin like alcohol (not a judgemental thing, just our physiology at work).
My surgeon is also a biliopancreatic (livers and pancreas) transplant surgeon, so he is in the no alcohol as long as we are losing weight camp (and ideally forever) and indeed we sign a contract to that effect - he doesn't want any of his bariatric patients coming back onto his transplant table!
Those are the issues in play, and some aspects bother different surgeons to different degrees, so they have different policies. Check with what your surgeon's policy is, and decide for yourself - we are all adults here.

I am so glad it's over! Now, I don't have to think about backing out. My toughest decision today was deciding between grape or watermelon Liquacel!

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I am so glad it's over! Now, I don't have to think about backing out. My toughest decision today was deciding between grape or watermelon Liquacel!

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I'm really glad that I'm not the only one facing the tell/ don't tell challenge. My surgery is tomorrow, I'm nervous but looking forward to it.

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I'm really glad that I'm not the only one facing the tell/ don't tell challenge. My surgery is tomorrow, I'm nervous but looking forward to it.

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November sleeves my surgery is scheduled for the 7. At times I feel nervous but mostly I just keep busy with the business of life while I continue to change my diet habits, get bad food out of my house, not let bad food in my house, "trying" to make healthy choices everytime and prepare for the 7. It's scary

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I'm scheduled for Nov. 13th. Nervous and excited. I know its 2 weeks after yours but I can be your support if u will support me.

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I just had my sleeve done on the 24th but If you need some extra support I'm here for you!

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any one having a sleeve done in nov mine nov 1 I need a buddy to help me along on this journey