muppet _74

I had my surgery on May 6th in Mexico. I went to Go Lightly Baratric clinic and now I'm home (came home Sunday). Drinking enough.. oh ya.. def hard to do!

I'm at day ... 5 going into 6 tmr and I only got in one Premier protein shake, and one Gatorade Zero with a sugar free freezie. I mean I was tempted to eat a piece of string cheese but nope. I didn't. So that's less than 300 calories right there...

I had the same thing. It was excruciating. Some night it would take me almost 5 minutes to get in bed because it hurt so bad. It's your abdominal muscles. It's totally normal. It will gradually go away. Mine took a good 3 weeks before I didn't notice it anymore. Hang in there.

If you really want the science of it all its here
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761298/
in my program we had to go through a class that talked about it. I am not going to slaughter the spellings of the hormones and proteins that are disrupted after weight loss surgery but your body has a new norm or "reset" that changes the way you burn your carbs and fats. The Ghrehlin (hunger hormone) is decreased a great deal with the VSG and ultimately you do not eat as much but the WAY your body is actually seeing and burning the calories you do ingest is being looked at differently as well.
The science is actually super interesting.....

Your stomach is much smaller now, so you shouldn't have much hunger and your metabolism has been "reset" so it shouldn't set your metabolism into starvation mode. That's the whole point of the surgery; it resets your metabolism so you can have a lower set point and feel full on fewer calories.

I had my surgery on May 6th in Mexico. I went to Go Lightly Baratric clinic and now I'm home (came home Sunday). Drinking enough.. oh ya.. def hard to do!

I had my surgery on May 6th in Mexico. I went to Go Lightly Baratric clinic and now I'm home (came home Sunday). Drinking enough.. oh ya.. def hard to do!