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I was just thinking about it and there are two posts that you should visit to help calm your nerves. One is weirdest non scale victories and the other one is what is your why.

Just a heads up Swerve makes stuff EXTRA sweet. I bought the almond flour for the quiche and it had a recipe on back for brownies. I thought I would do even better and substitute swerve for sugar and they were disgusting. Like biting into pure sweetener. Just a heads up if you try using this, at least taste it first and maybe make a small batch of whatever you are using it for.

Today I took out my size 12 jeans and some of them fit. I am officially out of plus size and Into NORMAL sizes. Woo hoo!!

I agree. I set my first goal at 180 because that’s the heaviest weight where I am still confident in my body (more comfortable going out and liked my clothes, etc). I think if I reach and maintain this I will consider surgery a success. But my goal goal is 160.

I’m sorry to hear this. Have you maintained your restriction. If so, from what I’ve heard it’s just back to the basics. Small portions, Protein first, chew slowly, hydrate well, etc.

Did he have a nurse practitioner. They are usually easier to talk to anyways from my experience. If not I guess I would ask to see another doctor at the practice. You shouldn’t be left all alone just because he left the practice.

I agree with others. It could be because of solid vs liquid and purée but if not I’d run it by your team.

Laurie C. My dr left the goal weight up to me. There are BMI calculators online. They will tell you what the normal BMI range is for your height but also if you complete that info In your profile it will calculate your current BMI for you.

Yea that was a happy day. Congratulations.

Update: Okay so I just learned with the ProCare there is. 4.99 shipping fee but if you spend $75 it’s waived. They also have free samples you can request on their site.

Okay so I just learned with the ProCare there is. 4.99 shipping fee but if you spend $75 it’s waived. They also have free samples you can request on their site.

Thank you for this.

Wow. So happy for you.

Ooh yea. I did use the water bottle with the measurements on it early on as well. It was handy and a great way to know how you were doing at a glance, but now I use the Baritastic app to track 8 ounce increments.

Idk. It sounds to me like you are doing well. I am five months out and I am down only 35 pounds since surgery 50 total. Have you tried crystal light. There are tons of flavors and you have to mix two packets for a gallon so you can even mix and match to make new flavors.

I hope everything went well.

Does that mean you were told you only need one of those a day? I was told I needed to take two. Weird how different the doctors are with where they start us off. Or did you just find it cheaper. I pay $37.95 for 60 (30’ day supply)I take the chewable ones with iron.

I was worried about a lot of the same things. I am five months post op and couldn’t be happier. I am 50 pounds down and I can eat any and everything I ate pre op just in smaller portions. Also, I had very little pain post op. No gas pain. I like to attribute it to the fact that I did really good on the pre op diet and the really shrunk down liver was out of the way so they didn’t have to pump me full of air or bruise my insides retracting it out of the way. I still don’t really know if that had anything to do with it For sure, but i think it makes sense.

I tried it BEFORE the sleeve but I do recall it giving me more energy as well as no appetite.

Check out this thread. ProCare multivitamin was approved by my team and it’s like $11.99 a month (45mg of iron option) and the calcium citrate a lot of veterans recommended off brands and generics. Century 21 was one that I recall. But generic from Walmart and CVS were also mentioned.

I agree it’s best not to over buy because tastes change. I think the disposable cups are good for those of us in the clean your plate club who also don’t have super small restriction. I found that after my surgery I COULD HAVE eaten more at every given stage than I was supposed to be. The restriction was there. Just not AS STRICT as expected so for me those little cups were very helpful. You don’t have to get disposable ones if you don’t want though. Anything that measures ounces and you can wash it, the disposable ones were just handy to portion out a dinner to eat over the next few days.

At that stage they didn’t even give me a calorie goal. Just a quantity goal. I honestly can’t remember if it was two or three ounces.

I would definitely schedule an appointment with your nutritionist or your team. It’s most important that you follow YOUR doctors plan so if you have any complications they can more easily narrow it down because you are in a certain stage that they have seen time and time again with other patients (if that makes sense).

I have experienced this too and my blood pressure at the dr was pretty low. He said it was still within the acceptable range right then but to keep an eye on it. Since I am able to eat more now (at five months out) this has gone away completely for me.for what it’s worth the dr seemed to attribute it more to likely dehydration than low calories though. He said to make sure I am getting enough to drink so I guess that can also be a cause.

Good luck today. ?