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Where do I but this Bio Oil?

Have you gotten it yet? Do you like it?

Im glad it was helpful! Hopefully more people think so as well..

I let myself get too full one time (from four chicken nuggets mind you) and that is all it took for me to never want to do it again. So now that negitive feeling of pain goes hand-in-hand with over eating. So now when I think about eating more my flash back changes my mind real fast and I do something else to get away from being bored. Happy dance for pre op diet getting you one step closer to your new life. I know it is hard now but when you look back it is all going to be worth it!! Keep us updated!!

How did eating popcorn at the movies go for you? I'm a month post op and I'm going to the movies tomorrow.

I had the hiccups a little at first BUT now I get them when I'm full. It is my sign to stop eating.

If you were given the choice to have wls in your 20's would you have done it?

So I'm a month out and I tried it a few days ago. Now I'm wondering if I should have waited but I didn't so here is my two cents. I felt it a lot faster than before wls and couldn't drink much anyways since I can only hold 3 oz at a time. My drink was warm by the time my stomach let me get more than that few oz. I honestly wouldn't do shots if I were you and I would take it slow.

I, like a lot of people, when I get bored I want to eat something. Now that I can't do that I find myself less and less bored. Instead of eating I seem to be changing my habit to simply get busy. LoL why didn't I think of "if you eat when your bored, then dint let yourself get bored" before? I'm finding myself being more active, happy, and even social! Has anyone else started to see positive changes in some habits that you can't do anymore?

If you stick to anything at all in your pre op diet stick with the low carbs. They don't want your liver to be fatty since it puts you at risk of them bumping it. From what I read if they even bump your liver it can bleed making your recovery much slower. I promise they have their reasons be hind it. I'm one month post op and I still do low carbs. I don't eat bread or pasta and I'm down 27 lbs in 30 days.

Make sure you read the forum in the post op forum that is always on the top that talks about depression after wls. Sometimes when we have if onlys and we get those if onlys we just come up with new ones. I'm not saying you are depressed or that you will be but just make sure to read up on it. On the note of getting sick I did have alot of dry heaving but as weird this sounds I was dry heaving gas. Make sure to take gas-x strips with you. They are how I got the dry heaving continuously to stop. As soon as I felt the pain coming back I would take one. Also make sure to take a heating pad with you. You will have gas pains and the heating pad really helps with them. When it comes to going back to work it is really up to you on how fast you will be ready. The more you walk the faster you will feel better. You won't feel like walking BUT DO IT ANYWAYS!! The more you walk the faster the gas will move out of you. Most of your pain will come from the gas they put in you. On eating post op, I know right now this sounds crazy but you will have to force yourself to drink something let alone worry about food. The only reason I drank something finally after two days is only due to them saying they would not let me go home until I did. After a few days I tried brooth but that was only due to the fact I was told something warm helps with the morning pain which is very very true!!! And finally about your pre diet. You can do this! If you don't with it and don't make your liver smaller then you can run into the problem of them bumping your liver while in surgery. If that happens then that means more pain and it slows down your healing time. I know you don't want that! I don't mean to scare you too much but fear is what kept me on track with my pre-diet. PS I'm writting you on my Iphone so if there is a mistype Im very sorry!

With Dr. Rod there was no worries on gown sizes. I think since we were all getting wls it would be silky of them to not have large gowns on hand. And after surgery I honestly didn't care what I looked like. That was the last thing on my mind lol.. I just made myself take my walks so I could go back to sleep. The only reason I even put shorts on was so could look at my stomach easier. If you buy a gown it will be a waste of money. I'm one month post op and I'm already down 27lbs. I brought a robe with me and never even used it. If you are going to take anything with you make it gas-x strips and a heating pad.

I haven't really been watching my carb intake since I made the choice to not eat bread or pasta of any kind. Tomorrow I will be one month post op and I am down 27 lbs. My avg loss per day is some where between 0.5 and 1.0 per day.

This is not me or the dr I went to or even the hospital I went to BUT I was amazed on just how much a like my trip to Mexico was with this video. Honestly if I had video taped my trip; 95% would have matched this youtube clip! I wish I had seen this before I went since it would have answered a lot for me and calmed my fears. SO I'm sharing it with all of you!!

I dont think it will be as great as you think to sleep on your stomach. It took me two weeks before I even tried it BUT I sleep on my side. What I did was I sat on the bed and then lay down on my side. I wasn't able to lay on my back and then turn to my side since it hurt to much. BUT I agree with Kymmi12: I am only a month post op and already Im starting to forget the pain. It is so worth it!! If you dont believe me just check out my tracker!!

I got the TGVP with Dr. Rod in Juarez and it was wonderful! Just make sure to take your gas-x strips n' your heating pad and you'll be good to go!

Hey all you 20 something’s! I am wondering are you guys talking about having WLS or just keeping it to yourself. I have only told a hand full of people and those that I told weren't always supportive of the idea of someone having WLS at such a young age.. So now I’m not talking.. What about you? How are people reacting when you do tell them? Do you tell everyone? Do you just tell close friends? Do you tell people you start dating after the weight loss?

Oh wow that does sound fun at all! If they put an NG tube in me it was gone by the time I woke up. I'm sorry you had to deal with that!

The VSG cuts and removes the unwanted part of the stomach and the TGVP just takes that section that is unwanted and folds it over. If you look up super sleeve in the search it should bring up where me and others have posted the info about it.

I depends on what I eat but I haven't had much heart burn at all and I'm sure if I was better about taking my acid reflux meds I wouldn't have any at all. I guess I was scared that since I'm 23 I'm going to have this new stomach the rest of my life and in time it might get a little bigger. So I wanted to start out small in hopes that when I'm in my 40 I will still have my smaller stomach. But I would just talk to your dr about it more. I'm only a month out and he has a lot more insight than I can give you.

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I did see that one but I dont know how to delete this post.

I have been losing about .5 lbs a day but on my pre-op diet I couldn't eat and now that I am post-op I haven't started it back up. I get full so fast I cant imagine adding bread back into my diet. BUT even still last week (3rd week) there were a few days I gained half a lb instead of lost. I know I shouldn't scale watch BUT I cant help it.. lol.. Now I am a month out and it is back to half a pound a day.

I am just a few days short of one month post op and I thank God every day that I finally made up my mind. I felt like that only way to lose the weight was to be up happy and diet every day of the rest of my life. Well I was half right. I do have to diet for the rest of my life but being unhappy while doing it is no longer a part of that deal! I have made the choice to no longer eat bread and a guess what I?m STILL HAPPY!! I am starting to get so much more energy and smiling more. When people I don?t want to know how the WLS ask about my weight loss I just say I?m not eating bread anymore. I?m sure it is helping take the weight off but being full from 3 oz of Soup doesn?t hurt either lol. When I first started looking into WLS I was 210 but I couldn?t pay to have the surgery in the states and I was scared to go to Mexico so I tried to lose on my own. Over the next year I did every diet and every weight loss pill out there. Phentermine was the only one that helped me but the moment I stopped taking it I started gaining again. I was always hungry and still over eating. I felt hopeless and weak! I looked at my family and felt defeat since everyone in my family is overweight and most are obese. After a year of hating myself thin (I'm sure some know what I mean) I got down about 30 lbs which I was starting to gain back slowly. So once again I found myself looking into WLS and I e-mailed BeLiteWeight. At that point my life started to change. I had some money saved up and my Mom was in a place where she could loan me the rest. On 7-12-10 my life became forever changed. I went to Dr. Rodriguez in Juarez Mexico and got what is called Laparoscopic total gastric vertical plication (TGVP) aka Super Sleeve. In one month I am only a few pounds shy of I lost in one year. I wasn't super obese when I had the TGVP but I was obese but a week and half post op I became just over weight. I am losing an average of .5 lbs a day and I am starting to have so much energy. I only need 11 more lbs to be a NORMAL BMI! ?NORMAL? Isn?t that exciting?? Me Normal! Before my TGVP every day was a fight to lose weight and even if I lost the weight the moment I would let me guard down the weight would come right back. Right before I made up my mind on have the TGVP I started thinking about the two times in my life that I did lose the weight and it hit me the only reasons I thought the weight was due to being sick or surgery. I never really lost the weight myself so I finally said yes to Mexico. Let me tell you IT WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID FOR MYSELF!! The other day I got really upset with myself since I felt like I had been eating all day. What the heck was wrong with me I just paid to get a smaller stomach and here I am stuffing my face! I have an app. on my Iphone that lets me put in what I have eaten and it tells me how many calories I have taken it. I thought I was going to up with joy once I was done entering in the food. I had even eaten 400 calories and I thought I had over eaten! Only a hand full of people know about my WLS but now that I don?t eat bread (you can eat bread if you like but it seems like a waste since I can only eat 3 oz) I get that the credit for my weight loss to those that think I am being unhealthy. So since I am keeping this to myself I THANK ALL OF YOU for being there for me to talk to! I don?t know what I would do without this site. It is nice to be with people that understand me and what I am dealing with! YOU ARE AWESOME!

I hated those hiccups but they seemed more of my body trying to get the gas out. Once they were done I would always feel so much better. I would even wake up to do it which I thought was weird. If you brought gas-x strips take one when you get the hiccups and they will go away faster!