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I am six weeks post op. I am a teacher and have to be at school from before 7 am until 3 everyday. I am also on my feet 90% of that time. I have plenty of energy in the mornings but by the time I get home in the afternoon I feel like a dish rag. I am doing good if I get dinner cooked. I know that some of the problem is getting used to a new schedule and doing it with about 1/4 of he calories I used to take in. Any other suggestions? I am whooped......

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I am six weeks post as well. I am a hairdresser so on my feet all day too!! I have to say that each week, I feel better and able to make it through the long day. I am told that getting ALL of your Protein and Water in is the key to getting your strength back and losing the weight.

You'll be in the same situation as me, I'm guessing. It's hard to have a water bottle in my hand at all times. :)

Hang in there! It's getting better every day!!!! :)

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I'm 7weeks and have good and bad days. I Ana artist with my own biz, and I am busy all day, but around 4:00 I just kind of wither. I tend to go to bed at least an hour earlier than pre op.

I keep waiting on this big increase in energy that people talk about to happen, for me it hasn't happened yet. I walk 30 minutes almost every day and that feels like that is all I can do at this point.

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My Nut put me on Vitamins and especially B12.< p>Talk your Nut and physician. Even now if I slack up off the Protein though I get slowed down too.

Good luck

Thanks... I am on Vitamins although I don't take them as I should- and I take a b12 shot every month. I think I should probably start tracking my intake...

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The B12 shot has helped the most with energy. I can tell when I'm due for my next because my energy levels completely drop. I also drink coffee my drs office okayed it after a couple days post op.

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Get tested for Vitamin D deficiency. A few years ago my doctor put me on 5,000 IUs of Vitamin D a day because I was deficient. And after about a week -- zowie! -- energy to spare! I call Vitamin D my "little capsule of sunshine."

Make sure you work with your doctor on Vitamin D. Too much can cause heart fibrillation. I started with 5,000 IU, had to cut back to 2,000 IU. Since my sleeve surgery, I am back to 5,000 IU. Just got my blood tests back and I am right in the middle of the Vit D range. And I feel great!

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My mid day exhaustion was due to super low Iron levels. I was taking what I was supossed to but at 6 months was draggin by 2. My doc has incresed my iron supplements in an effort to avoid transfusions. This has helped a lot but looks like I may still end up getting more.

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I am six weeks post op. I am a teacher and have to be at school from before 7 am until 3 everyday. I am also on my feet 90% of that time. I have plenty of energy in the mornings but by the time I get home in the afternoon I feel like a dish rag. I am doing good if I get dinner cooked. I know that some of the problem is getting used to a new schedule and doing it with about 1/4 of he calories I used to take in. Any other suggestions? I am whooped......

I ask 6 weeks post op and just within the last 2 weeks have a burst of energy that makes me not go to bed until about midnight and then I get up at 5..that's kinda frustrating but I do like the energy! I take a B12 lozenge in the morning with my Calcium and I haven't been taking my Multivitamin like I should because they make me throw up. I have recently ordered some Celebrate Vitamin so we well see how it goes.

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Get tested for Vitamin D deficiency. A few years ago my doctor put me on 5' date='000 IUs of Vitamin D a day because I was deficient. And after about a week -- zowie! -- energy to spare! I call Vitamin D my "little capsule of sunshine."

Make sure you work with your doctor on Vitamin D. Too much can cause heart fibrillation. I started with 5,000 IU, had to cut back to 2,000 IU. Since my sleeve surgery, I am back to 5,000 IU. Just got my blood tests back and I am right in the middle of the Vit D range. And I feel great![/quote']

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Get tested for Vitamin D deficiency. A few years ago my doctor put me on 5' date='000 IUs of Vitamin D a day because I was deficient. And after about a week -- zowie! -- energy to spare! I call Vitamin D my "little capsule of sunshine."

Make sure you work with your doctor on Vitamin D. Too much can cause heart fibrillation. I started with 5,000 IU, had to cut back to 2,000 IU. Since my sleeve surgery, I am back to 5,000 IU. Just got my blood tests back and I am right in the middle of the Vit D range. And I feel great![/quote']

You know, while you're at it, get all vitamin leves tested-- Iron, B12, potassium, sodium and a CBC. Also, thyroid.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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