Can you believe we all have tini-tiny stomachs now? What a week its been. Some have had remarkable painfree success and some have been downright miserable. At this stage everyone is in totally different places as far as food/liquid/nutrition. For those on Clear liquids for awhile longer, if you didn't know, Isopure makes a clear drink thats 40g Protein. Its sold at some GNC stores. Might help get some protein in while being kind to your new stomach.

I hope by the end of this week everyone is feeling fantastic!

Here is the run down! I have an idea, let me know what you guys think... What I can start doing next week after we all lose the excess surgery Fluid... so everyone can see easily how much everyone has lost, is each week we can weigh in Mondays and I can put it after your name on the new Tuesday thread. It would be great to be able to see how everyone is doing at a glance - ie (lylabelle -6). It will be fun the first few weeks when we will probably all be dropping really well (except week 3 is typically a stall). You guys can message your number to me if you want so we keep our thread clean and filled with tips, tricks, recipes, annoyances and NSVs! Let me know what you think. Love this group!

Tuesday May 27th

danila

Derouin4

Sh3iz

NewTee2014

sleevin' it in Jersey

Monte0828

Sissy02

Vikki59

mylife70

abrooke1976

lilliebug

Cdixon99

PatrickinTX

Seazee

**Haven't heard back post surgery from cnilson, dmolly

Wednesday May 28th

kungfuaaron

WhoKnows

jajmj

Nicci829

Krystal0528

par1959

Nellani78

Vikki59

pmassey64

Annemone

SkinnyAna

**Haven't heard back post surgery, My Journey, motivated76

Thursday May 29th

swedishfsh1020

SingleMom33

sandDuneHill

bella328i

hrhlaurie

MiraNJ

tiredtwinmommy

Nicole518

*Haven't heard back post surgery from SlimDownThick, jme621

Friday May 30th

lylabelle

McLuvin

devint

momofthree123

barbbcute

JenLyn03

Boccob81

*Haven't heard back post surgery from Speeder, bonniebeth001, shavbarn

Saturday May 31

habsi

TippyLou

Edited June 7, 201412 yr by lylabelle

Post op. Everyone has a completely different pre op, some did it for months and some didn't have one at all. We can't compare those. So the number we look at is after surgery.

As of day 13 post op I am down 32 lbs which include the 1 week pre-op diet. My energy is a bit down but I find good thick coffee which I am limited to 2 a day helps. Tomorrow, I am switching over to sqishy foods, cant wait. An egg will never taste so good:)

After 3 days at the same weight, I'm down another pound today, 13 total since surgery on 5-29! What's great is that I'm down 33 pounds from my highest weight of 270 when I weighed last March. I think I'll try on those size 20 clothes today and see what I can get rid of.

Funny that I only used to weigh once per month or so, when forced to by a nurse, with my eyes averted. Now, I'm weighing each morning during these early days after surgery but at some point I think I'll just weigh once per week to keep track of progress.

Now, to get rid of the itching from allergic reaction around incisions and take care of the little problem of constipation...

Nicci my highest was 270 too. I am down 13 from surgery also, but my surgery weight was 260. Not a long pre op. I would like onderland to hurry up and get here. Lol. Hopefully by labor day!

want some inspiration .. followe me! IG: @_charantoinette

Ok how about really bad heartburn acid reflux or gerd or what ever they named it. Any one have it ? My Prilosec is not working ..it feels like the same thing I had when I had the lap band put in but that turned out to be h pilorie or how ever it's spelled I think it's back how are you all dealing with your acid pains ?

Ok how about really bad heartburn acid reflux or gerd or what ever they named it. Any one have it ? My Prilosec is not working ..it feels like the same thing I had when I had the lap band put in but that turned out to be h pilorie or how ever it's spelled I think it's back how are you all dealing with your acid pains ?

My surgeon had me do an endoscopy prior to my sleeve to see if I has any signs of acid reflux. He said that if you have it, the sleeve can actually make it worse and not go away. I was told if I showed anything suggesting to it, he would only to the bypass. I passed and haven't had one bit but I do take a Prilosec in the am and pm. Hope you feel better soon. That is the worst.

After 3 days at the same weight, I'm down another pound today, 13 total since surgery on 5-29! What's great is that I'm down 33 pounds from my highest weight of 270 when I weighed last March. I think I'll try on those size 20 clothes today and see what I can get rid of. Funny that I only used to weigh once per month or so, when forced to by a nurse, with my eyes averted. Now, I'm weighing each morning during these early days after surgery but at some point I think I'll just weigh once per week to keep track of progress. Now, to get rid of the itching from allergic reaction around incisions and take care of the little problem of constipation...

Good job! Excited the scale finally moved. Can you take a benedryl or Claritin. That should help the itching.

Pre surgery highest weight 213

Pre op day of surgery 207 5-27-14

Post op one week 193

NSV: down a size in pants to 14 and rings barely stay on.

High weight 309

Starting weight before preop diet 288

They didn't weigh me at surgery so weird!

Today 267!!

Highest weight 276

Dos 261

Today 248

Update on my doctors followup visit today... One of my incisions had the glue fall off of it and it was gaping open a little bit, 1/2" or so with some stitches from underneath poking out. My doctor numbed it, snipped the stitches "bunny ears", and taped it shut to heal together properly. It's not infected and I am praying for a clean heal without a heinous scar (anymore so than the rest, I guess) I also got pictures of my surgery showing my stomach before and after. It was so strange and cool to meet my new stomach face to face!

Cool!! So you got a barium swallow pic?

No I got three color pictures of them performing the actual surgery and a picture of my stomach mass in the disposal bag! Gruesome and so cool! The staple line looks nothing like I imagined, it looks like a metal foil zipper.

I asked for a barium swallow pic but they didn't have that ready for my arrival and said they'd work on it for my next follow up.

Can you add me too?

I had my Lap-Band converted to a VSG done on May 26th.

On the day of surgery, I weighed 185 lbs.

I weighed myself yesterday (2 weeks post-op) & weighed 169 lbs.

Goal weight is 135-140 lbs.

Now I'm starting to struggle w/ the liquid phase because I want some applesauce or yogurt or something I can kind of chew! Grrrrr..... But happy w/ my results thusfar!!!