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Welcome to Team July!!

@catwoman7 Thanks for this. Your success is an inspiration!

I am scheduled for July 7th.

Scheduled for July 20th!!!! I’m so excited

Welcome to Team July!!

I just got my surgery date for July 12th at 10AM. I'm so freaking excited!

After a long six months, I finally received my surgery date for Wednesday June 9th. I'm absolutely thrilled! Anyone else joining me in June?

I’m scheduled for July 8th. Nervous and excited! So glad to have found a group of people who will be going through the same thing. Good luck to everyone! 😃

True but I was hoping for more recent, specific Sadi updates, a lot of them are quite old posts now.

Just took this after PS in a swimsuit photo this afternoon. As you can see both upper and lower belly bulges are gone :)

1) unless you're the size of someone on "My 600 lb Life", your weight loss so far is very normal. Most of us lose 15-25 lbs in the first month after surgery. Yes - you will find people who lose more or less than that, but they're the exception. You're in that range, so you're perfectly normal!
2) you're in the infamous "three-week stall". Almost all of us go through that. It's not ALWAYS the third week, but it is for most (hence the name) - but it can really happen any time within the first 4-6 weeks after surgery. Just stick to your program and stay off the scale if you need to. It'll last 1-3 weeks, and then you'll be on your way again. If you want to read more about it, do a search on this site for the three week stall. You will find about 17,000 posts on it (and no, I am NOT kidding...). It literally does happen to almost everyone. No changes necessary - just stick to your program and wait it out. It WILL break.
oh - just re-read your post. Thirty grams of Protein is too low. Most surgeons recommend at least 60. So THAT is a change you should make. Otherwise, you're good. Just hang tight!

Provisionally booked for July 4th - saw my surgeon today and that’s the date we agreed upon now to wait and see if the approval comes through.

Welcome to Team July!!

I just got my surgery date for July 12th at 10AM. I'm so freaking excited!

Thanks for all of this detail, it's really appreciated! Good luck on your journey!

110 lbs lost. Sitting at 184.

Duodenal. Sorry

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@STLoser Many thanks for this! I had read one other place only about the "old blood" so that is helpful. I'm oddly good at remaining calm, but I can imagine vomiting blood would freak me out.
I'm all set for a traditional DS on July 12th. I am so dern excited!

NovaLuna explained it all so well. I just want to say I also had the Loop DS 10 months ago.
Just like NovaLuna, I have a lot of constipation.. In fact it has caused an umbilical hernia I already had to worsen, and now I have to get it repaired. I have had diarrhea as she described also, but it has been a while.
I also vomited old blood for the first 3 days after surgery and had to stay in the hospital and extra night for that reason. I was also not told this might happen.. I am a nurse, so I didn't panic too much, but it did scare me at first.
Otherwise, I have felt great, and don't seem to have any symptoms of a wheat allergy or celiac.
I did pay out of pocket for my surgery, which is one reason I chose the Loop DS. My surgeon calls it the most powerful operation and I knew I needed powerful with over 200 pounds to lose!

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The Loop Dueodebal switch.

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Terrific job! Which surgery did you do?

Slv 9/23/19 5’3” 67 yrs
HW 285
SW 245
CW 152
GW 140
“It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be “

Being able to give myself a pedicure for the 1st time in over 15 yrs.
Getting in and out of the shower without having to hold on to something because I would be afraid of falling down.
Walking around without being out of breath and having to sit down somewhere to rest.
Being able to do housework and keeping my house clean.

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These are my absolute favorite! This flavor particularly is the best of all of them in my opinion.