WendyH89

I had to get my gallbladder taken out about 10 months after my surgery. I was having really bad gallstone attacks that at first I thought were heart symptoms. After it was out, I took about a week off work to recover, I've felt so much better!! No more random middle chest pains!

The only thing I was bummed about was having two surgeries less than a year apart, but I guess feeling better is the main goal so I can't complain. My surgery was outpatient, I was home the same day.

9 minutes ago, Jnfinney said:

Congrats on your weight loss! I am only 3 months post op, so I cannot comment directly on your experience, however, I’ve always been a big snacker so I thought I’d share the information my dietician discussed with me. She told me some people have an easier time eating 5-6 small “meals” throughout the day versus 3 regular meals. She told me it’s okay if I eat a snack or two - as long as it is Protein focused or a vegetable. So things like cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, cheese sticks, etc are good snack options.
The other thing I’m curious about is if you are counting your calories or logging your intake in some way? That has always helped me to see what I’ve eaten and make sure I stay within my calorie limit.
Anyway, I hope you can get some answers. Keep us posted ☺️

Hey girl! Congrats on your journey! I do track, I use the Baritastic app. I'm pretty good about meal planning during the week, and I've been averaging around 1000-1100 calories per day, and I'm averaging about 80-90 ounces of Water, not including other fluids like my coffee or my sugar free Gatorades. It's just after dinner, when I'm relaxing, watching TV, reading, these hunger pains hit and I'm like must.have.something.... so it's been either a piece of PB and banana toast, a Protein Bar, etc... It's not like I'm going completely off the rail, but I also don't want to graze to the point where it's killing my progress, ya know?

Hey all.

So, I was sleeved on 6/11/2020 and altogether, I've dropped a little over 120 pounds. I'm so grateful for this second chance at life but here lately, I feel like I can mess it all up. I am having an extremely hard time with hunger in between meals and ESPECIALLY at night. So, a year out, I can obviously eat more than I used to. I still get full rather quickly, but it's like an hour later and bam- I feel like I can eat a snack. I'm usually pretty good during the work week because I'm on a schedule, and I know I'm not dehydrated because I sip on m Yeti all day and am done with 2 by the day is done. But when I'm home at night, all I want to do is snack. Sometimes, I can just tell myself no and I'll go to bed. Other times, I'll break down and eat. It's definitely made me go into a maintaining mode I think, because I've been stuck at the 205-207 pound mark for the past 6 weeks. I was reading through some forums and people have said it's been their stomach acid making them think they are hungry, so I am starting to take my script for Prilosec again. Just reaching out to see if anyone has had a similar issue and what they did to break through it. I am terrified of stretching my stomach back out. Luckily I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week so I am definitely going to talk to her about it. Anyways. Thanks for letting me rant. Have a great week, everyone!!!

I had my gastric sleeve surgery on June 11th and I’m currently on the full liquid diet. I’m struggling a little bit with the Protein Shakes because they seem so sweet to me now, but thankfully my dietitian said I could thin them with the fair life skim milk. I’m ready for the puréed stage, I’m definitely going to enjoy those scrambled eggs! 😂