Ok, so I see on here all these people that totally change their eating habits, which is great! But I see people on here who come on asking about pizza or sliders or anything else and people get mad.

When I decided on this surgery, I choose it for a few reasons. No dumping was one, not as much of a chance for malnutrition. and the main one was because I wanted to live a NORMAL life. I didn't want my life to revolve around food, I didn't want to have to worry about what I ate because I could only eat a little bit of it. My dr thinks that is pretty normal for a girl my age.

I have a family and I follow the rules. I will eat Protein first, but if I choose to have a snack and it doesn't happen to have all protein then I don't see whats wrong with that.

I am glad to see there are some people who feel the same as me but when I come on here all I see is don't eat this, don't do that, eat this first, don't ever touch this...

I am 5 weeks out and I am hungry, I have had 3 pretzels with my cheese and I have had a roast beef sandwich, but no bread. I had potato skins but not the skin, I eat full fat sour cream, and butter and I haven't had a problem yet.

Anyone out there like me, who has decided that they had this surgery to help with portions and not just never have certain things again... Would just like people who believe how I do to talk to..

You know you just made me think of another aspect we all deal with differently. The "aftermath" for lack of a better word, of surgery.

How our body reacts to this surgery is the luck of the draw! You, as I remember had a rocky start and your intake is limited even at 10 weeks. Whereas some come out of surgery with "sleeves of steel" (me) and can handle everything. Our sleeves are all different. I had a girl several months ago here gasp in shock that at 7 months out I can eat a whole banana, she was almost 2 years out I think? There is also the fact that some of the vets throw up if they eat to much, and some of us don't.

I would imagine if you have the throw up thing happening it would keep a person in check pretty well alshano. That's why I always kid around that I got jipped because I didn't get the automatic emergency shut off valve

Ok Cindy back to you original topic! Sorry about the hijack

That is it! Laura you are correct, I am one of the ¨ lucky"ones whose initial experience in the form of an ¨ emergency shut off valve¨ . Thanks for giving me an appropriate title for it, because I tend to call it something a little less polite most days. But I truly believe that if I´d had an easier transition to my sleeve, I may not have had as much weightloss in these 10 weeks. I figure this is just a part of my personal journey... trust me, those first 9 weeks I envied everyone who celebrated their easy transition. I had a few pttty parties and had to find a way to accept my reality because the other side would have left me reeling with my new shut off valve talent. Sorry Cindy for my hijack... back to the topic at hand.