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Thank You Everyone! I'm making sure I get enough Protein and started drinking more Water. I eat cottage cheese which helps me get the Protein in. Drinking 64 ops of Water is difficult for me. I'm used to sipping coffee all day. I have more energy since getting sleeved, which is great.

Wish it was warm outside, I'd love to go for a walk.

Spring can't come soon enough!

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I was told that much like any weight loss, you need to look at this as kind of a stairway. You will loose, stay still...loose...stay still. and so on......it will depend on the diet and exercise of course. My surgeon requires support groups and a body pump class post op. Can't wait to start those.

Body pump class?

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Yes...to keep muscles strong...unfortunately there is also some muscle loss with this surgery so this class is required as a starting point for exercise. We can go to more classes but he requires 8

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Thank You Everyone! I'm making sure I get enough Protein and started drinking more Water. I eat cottage cheese which helps me get the Protein in. Drinking 64 ops of Water is difficult for me. I'm used to sipping coffee all day. I have more energy since getting sleeved, which is great.

Wish it was warm outside, I'd love to go for a walk.

Spring can't come soon enough!

Do not wait until Spring to exercise. Do something indoors, or join a gym or even take a brisk walk outside!

Yes...to keep muscles strong...unfortunately there is also some muscle loss with this surgery so this class is required as a starting point for exercise. We can go to more classes but he requires 8

It's an exercise class? I had no idea what it was.

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I was sleeved 11-4-14 and wasn't released to do any exercise until 12-22. However my dr did advise to walk walk walk. Not run but general slow paced walking. It helped prevent gas and kept my body moving and healing. Sitting doing Absolutly nothing is never a good idea. I do understand it's cold outside. However you can always walk in place for 15min ever hour. Those steps add up! Trust me. Before I was discharged after surgery I got up and walked. Just a little up and down the halls. The. I would rest and repeat. The day after surgery I walked 1/2 mile and two days post op I walked over a mile. Simple short walks rest and repeat. I wasn't running a race. I was just moving. I think that helps. I'm down 35lbs but I'm in a stall . :( lack of getting in enough Fluid and calories will stall out your weight loss also. Stay focused and try to add something new each day. If u simply walk to the kitchen to get an ounce of Water or fluid then you will be walking to the kitchen 64 times during the day :) challenge yourself to take 10 more steps today than you did yesterday. Things will fall into place for you.

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Water aerobics was perfect exercise when I was in the early stages of getting fit.... I waited about 6 weeks post op to start. My sleeve was Dec 2011 and I lost 160# and maintaining.

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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      1. summerseeker

        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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