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I’m on my 4th day of the 10 day pouch reset, it’s been good for me. I’m feeling better and trying to break the bad habits I picked up. I down 4lbs. I know it’s just water weight, it makes me happy that I’m putting my needs first.

Hi all, I’m currently 7 months post op, and wanting to know what everyone’s meals are like quality and quantity wise this far PO. I believe I’m still eating very small for someone this far out. I’m having 4-5 small meals a day 4-5 ounces roughly 120 grams. A normal day for me consists of multiple cups of coffee with skim milk 300-500ml of skim milk a day. Breakfast: Oats with blueberries and strawberry Mid meal: Protein shake 20g protein Lunch: Meat and veggies 100-140 grams (Chicken, Fish, Prawns, Beef Tuna etc) Afternoon tea: 30 grams of nuts Dinner: Meat and veggies 100-140 grams (Chicken, Fish, Prawns, Beef Tuna etc) I’ve reached past my goal weight by 10kg so I’m more after the answer as to whether the amount I’m eating is sufficient enough (quantity). Cheers.

January 2019 weight loss challenge starting weight 142 Weight goals - Holiday indulging is over. Clean up my diet and get back to my maintaining weight. Fitness goals - Build strength in my upper body. Train for Vegas Mt Charleston in april.

Ah Darlin', this is not a normal and logical situation sweet Frustr8 is in. I am the rarer , watch out for your surgeon might have skimmed over talking about. I have a stomal stricture in Precious Pouch, and she has 2 ulcers also, on the back wall of my jejunem- the portion of small intestine the pouch attaches to, I have 3 more angry ulcers and the potential to ulcerate on down toward the ileum. I have had 4 endoscopy scopings, on every EGJ is still was not healing up, solider foods can't pass through, so I was on a liquid diet and still am, in theory. After my last scope I was hospitalized, that was November 28th, on the 29th a PICC LINE was established in my upper left arm, snakes through the venous tree, 48 cm, roughly 19 inches long, the tip is located in my superior Vena Cava, and rests only a couple inches from the right atrium , the upper chamber of my ❤. The line rested for a day then on the 30th TPN, which stands for Total Parenterel Nutrition, I get a feeding solution pumped in, I was on 14 hours on, 10 off daily, I just graduated? to a 12-12 cycle on January 1sr, I can try 1 meal of liquid something daily if I desire but the solution supplies my nutritional needs as it is. 1430 calories of goodness, Wowser that's about twice what I was taking when I was feeding by mouth. I simply count not ingest the 90-120 grams of protein Dr Noria says I needed to heal the verdompt ulcers, so this is an easier way for me. Oh I wasn't TOO THRILLED to have this happen to me, my son and I learned the steps so we do it all ourself, no stupid home health nurses having to do it. Twice a week I have blood draws, luckily they can remove blood from the PICC line, better than having someone go up and down my arms looking for an non- rolling surface vein. I used to look like someone threw rocks at me. I have lost over 100 pounds from my highest weight, lost 15 pounds on my liver shrinking diet in August , and close to 50 since my surgery September 5th, for a while I was protein poor and nearly malnourished , I was losing weight like a sea-sick anorexic sailor, nice losing but it was pushing me me into a depletion corner. Weighed myself last week at my Primary Care while my son was doing his appointment, looked like I was stalled by came home , did a giant #2, had to flush 3 times so I have to weigh less, tomorrow is blood draw and then appointment at Primary care for me, why they couldn't have booked us same day, is beyond my comprehension. But anyhoo, I shall weigh and see.And PICC stands for Peripherally Inserted Central Cathetern see you're getting a mini-tutorial today. How much longer will I have it? I have a surgeon appointment the 15th, another endoscopy the 25th with his Partner Dr Noria who love love loves doing them, she is also is a super competent Bariatric, Gastrointestinal and does do General Surgery but Endoscopy is her " Bang Zone" I really like her and Dr,Needleman, and have to believe they have a Plan of Care and have my best interests at ❤ but this sure is not the scenario I had planned for myself.👈😡👉💉💊

It's preferred to eat your protein as much as possible then supplement with shakes. https://eas.com/advantedge-products I like all their AdvantEdge products! The RTD is not thick or chalky. Powders are great for shakes or recipes. Only ones I haven't tied are the high protein RTD & the soy powder. What helps with making shakes with powder is using something like this, adding crushed ice if you like it like a milkshake. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Farberware-10-Piece-Single-Serve-Blender-Set/146468554

Thanks for this! I am up over the holidays-7 lbs. lost 2 lbs today, and want to lose another 10 to be at goal, which will be 110 lbs down from highest weight. I am purging the house of sweets post holiday and I’m going to do a dry January. Had a few cocktails and glasses of wine over the holidays.

Ok, I'm in! SW: 287.4lbs CW: 150.4lbs GW #2: 140lbs GW #3: 130lbs 10.5 months post op RNY I'm at #1 goal weight, but I want to lose more!!! I want to see if I can destroy my thunder thighs once and for all! Goals Consume 60-74g or more Protein per day Take all my Vitamins Get in 100+ oz Fluid a day Start logging faithfully Start exercising again today! Walk 1hour 6 days per week, and add in strength training and core building exercises 3 days per week. I too have grown complacent over the holidays and it shows. Even though my weight and waist size are stable and the same as they were pre-holiday, from looking at my pics, it looks like I'm "soft" and spongy? Like my tummy is bigger and my thighs look flabbier!! Grrrr!!! More thigh rub! Ok....I'm a do this thing! (Sorry, I still have 1 MORE Christmas to celebrate this weekend and presents left to be wrapped. It's the Christmas that never ends! *sigh*) Here's my starting pic - 1/1/2019

Im January 21, 2019. Hiatal hernia repair and sleeve revision to roux en y gastric bypass, at Anne Arundel Medical Center w/ Dr. Gandsas Sent from my SM-G965U using BariatricPal mobile app

Any surgery date twins, advice, lessons learned? Thanks in advance. Sent from my SM-G965U using BariatricPal mobile app

I'm in! SW: 243 CW: 137.8 GW: 135 11 months post op Small caveat, my current weight is last time I weighed myself on 12/27. I won't get back to a scale until 1/4, and I'll try to remember to weigh in. I'm at goal weight, so I don't necessarily want to lose more (unless I can choose where the weight comes from ). The 135 was my recent post WLS low weight. Goals Consume 50 g or more protein per day Take all my Vitamins Get in 64 oz fluid a day Start logging again I know, back to basics. I've gotten very complacent the last few months as I approached goal. But I know for my long term health I need to get more protein in and take my vitamins. On a practical note I have a sh*t ton of protein supplements, so I need to get through those. Pantry clean out challenge as well! The hydration thing, meh, I'm not a true believer , but I do know if I drink more, I eat less, so there is that. And I need to start logging again so I can find the balance between losing, gaining and maintaining. Here's my starting pic - 1/1/2019

Challenge End Tally: Challenge Starting weight: 148.4lbs Current Weight: 150.4lbs Curre1nt weight lost: 138.6lbs (Beginning Wt. 287lbs) Losing or maintaining weight: Losing!!!!! (hopefully or at least maintaining) Working on Goal#2 - 140lbs Fitness/exercise goal: Exercise 6-7 days per week with 3 days being strength building with bands Total weight loss at the end of challenge: (Post January 1st 2019) 151.4lbs (+2lbs) Check in: Tell us how you are doing - (How is your diet and exercise plan going? Any struggles? Stress level? What have you overcome? Any strategies that have helped)--I'm finished the challenge strong, but sick with a yucky cold. Very little stress heading into January. Don't have any worries about over eating or eating "the wrong things." Although, clearly I indulged over Christmas. In between indulgences I was able to modify my eating and make "cuts" to keep cals/carbs low to try to offset the more liberal "treat" meals/alcohol. Very little exercise during this time, because our schedules were so busy and I didn't have the energy to exercise on top of how active I was. Am off all meds now except Letrozole, thyroid, and supplements. BP is in remission, blood sugars/insulin in remission, cancer in remission, asthma in remission, degenerative arthritis in remission, pain is reduced over 50%, sleeping has improved 100%. Thank you so much for doing this challenge @Healthy_life!!! Although I suck at them (as you can see), I do think it helped keep me from going completely off-track this holiday season!!! I'm actually pretty proud to only be 2lbs up after Christmas. I'm used to it being 10lbs at least! So I kinda feel like I was able to "maintain my current weight" even though I'm not at goal yet. You rock girlie!!! Happy New Year to you my sweet friend!!

SweetP79, I hope your 2019 will be dynamite, and things go well for you and everyone else.

So were you in a stall and you have resumed losing? Or @tsking, is it more of the Same Old Same Old. They have cut my TPN cycle from 14 on,10 off to 12-12, this should help me resume losing better without making my nutrition suffer.

And Happy Happy New Shiny 2019. My TPN company took me from 14 on,10 off to 12-12. this should diminish my calorie intake down enough to avoid a stall without losing the nutritional benefits. Next endoscopy date open Is on the 25th, Dr Noria wants to see how 2 months of therapy has affected me, I am almost ready to start my 4th month of Carafate, let's see if it is as healing as we are hoping for. And I see Dr Needleman on the 15th for my scheduled appointment, this month I see my PCP, sleep medicine doctor, cardiologist, possibly lawyer, twice weekly blood draws, for a person who goes nowhere I seem to be Busy Busy! But I tell myself it's all good, at last weighing I had lost over a 100 pounds from High Weight but alas still another glob of weight to go, maybe 80 pounds. till I approach my goal. Oh I shall not give up, I am in it to win it and I still believe I can do it! And Plump Princess will become the Empress of All That She Surveys!👈👼👉❤🏆

I got gastric sleeve about 10 months ago. I feel like I'm eating too much and haven't really lost any weight for about a month now. So I'm worried. I have my next appointment soon, but I figured I'd ask people here. ❤️ If you're 10+ months post op, how much do you eat in one day?? Any tips on how to keep losing? I'm starting to exercise more too! I just get hungry easier now!

The problem for me is I can gain quickly and the regain comes off slow. I went back to basics to lose the weight. **The just give me ten days weight loss challenge** The Challenge #64 starts on January 3rd. I will post the link soon You will need to use the myfitnesspal food log app to join. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myfitnesspal.android&hl=en_US _______________________________Example of the challenge below__________________________ Round # 63 Please join us! Starting on 12/24 JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS, we will begin Round 63 Anyone can join us at anytime during the round. Join us! If we stay mindful we can do this, you can do this. Welcome back past members, welcome new members, let's keep each other accountable for another 10 days! Here is what you do: Post your daily weight and add little comments along the way of how your day went. Post everyday to let us know how you're doing! Copy and paste the days in your response--tell us how much you lost and other non scale victories (NSV) you'd like to share. FOR NEWBIES - I find it easiest to copy the dates to a document or note in my device and edit it each morning. Then copy and paste to the message board. MFP will return you to the spot on the board where you left off on your previous visit which is nice to know if you like to scan all of the posts. Day/Weight/Comment 12/24 12/25 12/26 12/27 12/28 12/29 12/30 12/31 01/01 01/02 👍🏼👍🏼 This is NOT A DIET. It’s a LIFESTYLE. 👍🏼👍🏼

I am a pretty private person, I only told the people I know and trust. I am in a group of 10 people who are in the same phase. One of the women is from the home town of my parents. Boy, do I regret telling her that! Apparantly she gossipped and my mom, who was doing grocery shopping, got asked by a someone random if I were to have the gastric surgery 😕 Why, oh why do people talk about other people.

My doctor has me on liquids for two weeks post surgery, then puréed food for 3 more weeks, then soft food for three more weeks then FINALLY, slowly starting regular food. Today was day 6 post surgery. I’m having zero issues! Feel great! I’ve lost 10 lbs since surgery, 16 since my last weigh in one week before surgery. Yay me!

I was sleeved December 19. I have lost 21 pounds since I started the liquid diet before surgery. I am starting my soft diet tomorrow, and I am kinda worried. I don’t want to over eat, and I’m afraid that will happen. Has anyone found different meal plans for us sleevers yet? I would like to find different plans to help this soft diet along.

I was sleeved December 19. I have lost 21 pounds since I started the liquid diet before surgery. I am starting my soft diet tomorrow, and I am kinda worried. I don’t want to over eat, and I’m afraid that will happen. Has anyone found different meal plans for us sleevers yet? I would like to find different plans to help this soft diet along.

I should start this out by saying I am not looking for any medical advice, this is mostly just to vent because I am frustrated and scared. I was sleeved on 10/15/18 and have not had any complications except for a kidney stone 1 month post op. For the last 2 weeks however I have been feeling extremely run down, muscle aches all over and daily headaches. I definitely felt like something was wrong with me, but in my head I thought it could be low vitamin levels or just my body adjusting to the weight loss. I am scheduled for my 3 month post op appointment on 1/22 and had my 3 month labs drawn last Friday, mostly expecting them to show low vitamin levels (although I have been compliant with my vitamins) and maybe that my thyroid medication would need to be adjusted (I have hypothyroidism). Well, the lab results that have come back so far have me really worried (lab results get auto released to me on mychart). My labs show that my B12 level and Ferritin level are higher than the normal range. My TSH was low, which i did expect. The most alarming result however is that my ALT, AST and Alkaline phosphate labs are significantly high. I know that those labs have to do with liver function so I am pretty worried. Also, the Vitamin A and zinc labs have not resulted, which is unusual for them to have not been released by now unless they are "critical" results (at least this is what I understand from the way things result to mychart). The only thing I can think that may have caused this is that I was taking additional Vitamin A on top of my bariatric multivitamin as instructed by my NUT, because my Vitamin A labs were under the normal range before surgery. I stopped taking the additional Vitamin A mid Dec. as instructed. I do know that Vitamin A can cause liver problems in high doses so maybe that is what happened... I have only taken a couple of Tylenol and I have not drank post op. Most frustrating is my PCP looked at my labs and said the surgeon "definitely need to review them". The problem with that is my surgeons office has terrible follow through. I called first thing Monday morning and conveyed how worried I was about the labs and I was told I would need to send them the results to review (even though they ordered them and should have gotten the results faxed from the lab). I sent them over and confirmed that they were received but did not hear anything back, and now here we are with them closed on the holiday. I do understand I am not their only patient and they are understaffed currently. I will call again tomorrow afternoon if I haven't heard anything as my surgeon only works M-Wed. Sorry for the long rant, I am just really worried about the potential for any liver damage.

Consider this: you can be 10 times more likely to achieve your goals if you make New Year’s resolutions than if you do not. That statistic may motivate you to take a little care in setting your goals for this year. So, here are a few tips for setting resolutions that you can keep. Make Them Realistic We all want to hit goal weight and stay there, but is that realistic for you? Probably not, if you are more than 70 to 100 lbs. overweight and have not yet had weight loss surgery. A more realistic resolution might be to schedule your surgery and then lose an average of 5 to 10 lbs. per month after surgery. These are some additional examples of unrealistic and realistic resolutions. Get to the gym every day. Work out at the gym or walk 5 days per week. Follow your diet perfectly. Get back on track within a day of losing control. Avoid all restaurants. Check the nutrition facts beforehand and make healthy choices when you order. Plan all meals and snacks ahead of time. Keep protein bars and other healthy protein snacks on hand for when you need them unexpectedly. Make Them Specific Yes, you want to lose weight for example. But how much do you want to lose? Your resolution might include the number of pounds you want to lose or the BMI you want to hit. It might be to lose back the pounds you regained after weight loss surgery a few years ago. Here are some other examples of specific resolutions to consider. Drink at least 64 ounces of water per day. Attend two support group meetings each month. Eat at least two servings of fish per week. Eat at least 65 grams of protein per day. When you make your goals specific, you know whether or not you are making progress towards them and when you hit them. That is motivating, and it keeps you honest with yourself. Consider the Process A goal is an endpoint. Your resolution might be to achieve those goals, but it should also include the process, or “how” you are planning to get there. If your resolution is to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, your process might include storing canned and frozen vegetables so they are always available, keeping washed and cut fruits and vegetables in the fridge for snacks, and adding a half-cup of vegetables to your omelets. Here are some more examples of ways you can focus on the process. To hit your pre-op weight loss requirements, swap water for soda and side salads for fries. To get to the gym more often, lay out your clothes and shoes the night before, and figure out which workout you will do once you are at the gym. To move closer to your weight loss surgery, find out how to get approval for insurance reimbursement (or how you will finance your surgery) and which surgeons are your top choices. To get your blood sugar levels down, healthify your carb choices by identifying which are sugary and refined, and swapping them with high-fiber, unrefined whole grains, beans, and fruits. Stay Accountable Your resolutions are important to you, so make them a priority and hold yourself accountable. One way is to use the buddy system. You can either find a buddy with resolutions similar to yours, or just use a buddy who is willing to hold you accountable. Check in regularly with each other on your progress, encourage each other, and ask the tough questions if either of you are falling off track. Another way to hold yourself accountable is to use a log. Use an old-fashioned pencil and paper log, or opt for an online or smartphone app. Depending on your resolution, you can record thoughts, feelings, and progress, as well as food intake, weight, and exercise. Seeing your efforts in black and white can keep you honest and motivate you to keep going. Be Patient with Yourself Recognize that you won’t do it all at once, and that you will make mistakes. Set smaller incremental goals so that you can see progress in January, but keep the big picture in mind and realize that your resolutions are long-term. The big payoffs will come later in the year if you stick with your resolutions. Also, have a plan to forgive yourself, because things will go wrong. Dust yourself off and get back up, because you can achieve your goals!

Ain't this the truth! Resolution 2019!

Not much of a writer but these are from 2016 and 2018. March 2019 will be 3 years post-op.