Got my surgery date: October 22, 2018....and now the wait... Would love to gather a cohort here to go through this with!!!

How do you keep track of your Protein, Water, and Vitamins?

I use my fitness pal. I love the app because I put in my goals and it let me know when I hit my targets

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6 minutes ago, junesturm said:

How do you keep track of your Protein, Water, and Vitamins?

I use the Baritastic app for protein. It has a built in counter for water, too, and reminders you can setup for vitamins, though I actually created a widget on my phone with a checklist for my vitamins (from my Business Calendar app), so it's staring me in the face every time I pick up the device. It was a pain to setup, but I love how it works and that it repopulates every day.

On 01/12/2019 at 09:34, Chrissy C said:

Are you getting all your Protein? My surgeon said my hair would start to fall out if I don't get the required amount of protein every day. So far I'm getting around 80 - 90 grams per day

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Yep. Have been getting all my protein, liquids, and vitamins since the day after I got home from the hospital. My doc said I’d be less likely to lose hair if I got protein/vitamins, but that there were no guarantees. Just hope it helps to limit the loss. I have a lot of hair, so I’m not too worried. Just weird to see whole curls come out.

On 01/12/2019 at 09:43, junesturm said:

How do you keep track of your Protein, Water, and Vitamins?

I use Sparkpeople for food/nutrients. For vitamins I have an app called good habits and have a check box there for every vitamin I need to take.

Here's the protein screen from Baritastic.

1 hour ago, notmyname said:

Well, my Hair loss started this week. I have curly hair and so far I’ve lost several of my nicest curls. This too shall pass.

Mine too! Mine was already thin because of birth control, now it's going to be twice as bad. I'm in lots of different groups/forums and it seems to be most common at the 3 - 6 month mark. Unfortunately, it also seems that there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. It just happens and can happen with any type of surgery. The good news is that most people said it does grow back in, and things like vitamins, protein, and biotin might help the regrowth, but of course that takes time. If mine gets any thinner, I'm going to have to go wig shopping! Lol

I have literally lost no weight in a month!! What is going on? Any suggestions???

I saw this thread was bumped and literally thought, "I wonder when some of us are going to start losing our hair?" I haven't lost any yet, but I'm nervous. I do eat a ton of protein.

4 hours ago, supreme83 said:

I have literally lost no weight in a month!! What is going on? Any suggestions???

How many calories a day are you eating?

6 hours ago, junesturm said:

How do you keep track of your Protein, Water, and Vitamins?

Sorry for the double post. I use the Baritastic app for protein and water and the Medisafe app for vitamins and all my other medications. Medisafe is awesome. It beeps when it's time to take something and also warns you when you are taking two things that might have negative interactions.

I saw this thread was bumped and literally thought, "I wonder when some of us are going to start losing our hair?" I haven't lost any yet, but I'm nervous. I do eat a ton of protein.
How many calories a day are you eating?

I'm not sure. I'm going to start tracking tomorrow

Hi everyone!! I had my 3 month check in at my surgeons today and it went amazingly well. I’m down 61 pounds and have another 30 or so to go until I’m just “overweight”.

Just wanted to see if any of you are having check ins this month and how it’s going??

I had my 3 month post op appt yesterday. Surgeon was very happy with my results and said I was doing better than most which was a relief as I always feel I'm a slow loser. I've lost 37 pounds since surgery date and 72 pounds since my first meeting with surgeon last April.

My only issue is hair loss. I get 60-70 grams of protein daily but he suggested I up it to 80 grams. Due to my sleeve restriction I really can't eat more protein so he suggested an unflavored protein powder I could add to my food or drink.

What do you all recommend as the best unflavored protein powder?

This is what I am using 2-3 scoops in my teas daily 4,4 grams of protein in every scoop. I am ordering it online

14 minutes ago, kathy060464 said:

I had my 3 month post op appt yesterday. Surgeon was very happy with my results and said I was doing better than most which was a relief as I always feel I'm a slow loser. I've lost 37 pounds since surgery date and 72 pounds since my first meeting with surgeon last April.

My only issue is Hair loss. I get 60-70 grams of Protein daily but he suggested I up it to 80 grams. Due to my sleeve restriction I really can't eat more protein so he suggested an unflavored Protein Powder I could add to my food or drink.

What do you all recommend as the best unflavored protein powder?

I use UNJURY unflavored protein powder fwtw.

I had my check up yesterday and have also lost 37 pounds. My doctor said I was losing a bit faster than average which shocked me because it seems so slow in here. That will teach me to compare myself to other people.

No hair loss. I do get around 100 grams of Protein + about a third of the days. We talked about dropping my iron and vitamin D supplements based on my bloodwork.

I need to drink more water, other than that everything is fine.

I had my 3 month post-op last week (even though I'm not at 3 months until the 29th). So far, I've lost 64.5 total, 57.2 since the pre-op diet, and 43.2 since surgery. Averaging 3.1 lbs weekly - including the week after surgery when I lost 8 and a coupe weeks when I lost 1-2. Lost 34.2% of my excess weight. So far, I'm pretty pleased with my progress.

I have reflux (not a big surprise, but sucks anyway) and my hair has started to fall out (I have curly hair and I've lost a couple of complete curls). But, other than the fact that I can't yet eat cruciferous veggies, I'm doing well. I miss eating more veggies (I'm a pescatarian and my dinners used to be huge stir fries), but I'm slowly able to increase my veg intake. So, all in all, so far, so good.

A couple weeks ago a friend asked if I was happy with my decision. I had to answer that I really won't know for a couple years. For me, it's pretty easy to be happy with these early easy losses. The proof will be if I can use this tool to keep it off.

Edited January 17, 20197 yr by notmyname