All of my December sleevers...

[ofeliamarin29 86]

Heck yes we do!! Ok so I thought that too about drinking - like there was a 90 day waiting period but I looked through the book that my doctor gave me and it said to just be careful of sugars and such. So I don't drink often or anything but some tequila and lime juice and some other stuff won't kill me or my diet too bad.... Well I hope!!! How far out are you? I am like 6ish weeks!

Friday was my 6 weeks ck up! I'm down 33 from my 10 day liq diet b4 surg! I have a friend she's a year out and she looks awesome and she said she was allowed wine! That's my drank! lol well everything and anything is my drank lol!

[Britty0529 21]

Friday was my 6 weeks ck up! I'm down 33 from my 10 day liq diet b4 surg! I have a friend she's a year out and she looks awesome and she said she was allowed wine! That's my drank! <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> lol well everything and anything is my drank lol!

I love me some white wine!! Wine has the lowest calories (i think) and will be a good alcohol beverage for this lifestyle. I mean, as long as it is not all the time...

[ofeliamarin29 86]

I love me some white wine!! Wine has the lowest calories (i think) and will be a good alcohol beverage for this lifestyle. I mean' date=' as long as it is not all the time... <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote']

Or all the time lol! I ain't telling! Lol

[Britty0529 21]

Haha girl, we should message each other! We both have a similar story and I could really use some friends during this change and you seem pretty cool!!!

[Shelley9 36]

Good idea - replace a meal with more fluids.That is easy for me at work; I'll give that a try, Thanks.

[cuteasabutton 19]

I am thrilled scale is moveing there is hope for all our December sleevers! What I did is cut out all carbs for 2 days started drinking Water through a really thin straw was easier to get the water in scale has moved 3 lbs. Gosh! just hope I did not jink myself, starting to smile again! 5 weeks out started adding regular food . Have had no problems....Had some salmon last night . Think it is going to be alot easier getting the protien in now! So excited!! Hang in everyone , I think they are right it will happen, the scale will move again. What a relief!!

[mwayland 3]

! was sleeved 12/8

surgery date weight........228

weight this am ................208

i have been at a stall the past week and a half ....... !!

anyone else at a stall????

I was sleeved on dec 26 and have lost 20 pounds but I lost that the first week and 1/2 so yea big stall lol

[ofeliamarin29 86]

I stalled for 31/2 weeks! Just keep doing what your doing it will break on its own!

[UndercoverBariatricGal 167]

I read that there are two reasons for stalls one is our bodies have lost so much weight in such a small amount of time it needs time to adjust to the change. and then the second was that since we are taking in so little calories our bodies goes into protective mode and starts taking the calories it needs from our muscles (instead of burning our fat) and it also takes out 8 pounds of our Water in our body we need so once it sees that our diet isn't changing you will get that 8 pounds of water back and it will stop pulling from our lean muscles and the weight will then resume its lost. So with that said between the two i guess your stall is based on how fast your body gets the memo that one this is your new food intake and its not changing and that 2 yes i lost a lot of weight and allow it to readjust to its new environment. I guess some except the change faster then others.. But no matter UNLESS YOU ARE CHEATING! You should resume weight loss no matter what just follow your diet plan to the last letter.. 8 glasses of water and 3 meals and 1 snack to 2 a day no grazing dont take longer then 3 minutes to eat a meal chew chew chew and you should be fine DONT GIVE UP! You did not come this far to let a stall discourage you! December Sleevers best of luck to you all!

[ShrinkyDinkMe22 376]

everyone is doing great! i know the stalls suck. i had one for almost 3 weeks and it was so frustrating. then i lost 4.5lbs in a week. been slowly losing since.

im down a total of 57.7lbs! (17lbs on my own, 15lbs preop, 25.7lbs postop). ill take it

good luck to everyone

[kitkat 76]

BROKEN STALL!!! I hope it keeps going. Down a total of 40 lbs! Sleeved on the 18th. Two week liquid pre op and two week stall post op.

Highest Weight 257

Surgery 235

Today 217

[ILoveMaui 3]

I was sleeved on 12/12 and am down 34 pounds total. Have a couple good weeks then a couple of slow weeks. As long as it is moving in the right direction!

[ivonneh 25]

I was sleeved on 12/11/12 and I have lost 27lbs

[DeeBrownBaker 139]

Congrats Dee. Did you do what undercoverbariatricgal suggested and drink a lot more? Just curious if that is what worked for you.

yes... I pushed the limits on my liquid intake and since my bursitis is better, I got up and moved...so happy!

[cygnusatratus 73]

Since 3 week stall broke about 5 days ago, I'm down 8. I'm happy again. But hunger is always there between meals now. It's hard but I need to keep pushing Water in and avoid temptation to snack. I eat three meals and two Protein Shakes. Meals are high Protein low carb. My carbs are under 20g now. Under 50g / day when I was stalled so I think I need really low carbs.

Regarding alcohol, my docs/nut says to avoid it the first year. Im assuming there are a couple of reasons for that: 1) alcohol is liquid carbs/calories and 2) people tend to replace one addiction with another (i.e. food with alcohol). I've seen some YouTube sleeve blog videos where they stated that they definitely have slowing started drinking a lot more alcohol post sleeve. That being said I don't have an addictive personality and if I want to have a glass of wine or a marguerita on a special occasion, I will.