I am scheduled for February 18th. I will be first in. Wow, this process takes forever.

On 03/26/2019 at 19:07, froufrou said:

I'm finally on the move again. Broke through the elusive 280 barrier, which took a gastric sleeve AND a bypass to do!

Yes!!!!!
Love to hear that.
When I stalled for 3 weeks, my body was hanging on with a death grip to the 220’s.
My stall started at 221.8 and 20 days later I was at 219.6.
Then suddenly the next week I was dropping again.
All I can think is that many times when I would diet in the past, I would get down to the low 220’s before I would plateau and start to slowly regain.
I’ve only been under 210 twice in the last 22 years, and I think it was for about 5 minutes each time. Sunday when I weighed in, I was 213 so it’s freaking me out that I might stall again.
Fingers crossed that doesn’t happen.

Weird how our bodies do that kind of stuff

On 03/26/2019 at 20:31, Colchabay said:

Anyone else have a constant bad taste in your mouth that makes everything you eat taste the same? IDK if it's from the Vitamins or what.

Honestly I haven’t noticed that.
I’ve always loved really spicy food and I’m still using lots of spices. Right now I’m on a wasabi mustard kick: I’m putting it on tuna and salmon and I even put it on some steak the other day.
When I do eat eggs, I use Tabasco and I loooooove roasted Brussel sprouts with some habanero sauce on them.
Sweets I haven’t (and honestly have no interest) tried so I can’t vouch for their taste.

Honestly I haven’t noticed that.
I’ve always loved really spicy food and I’m still using lots of spices. Right now I’m on a wasabi mustard kick: I’m putting it on tuna and salmon and I even put it on some steak the other day.
When I do eat eggs, I use Tabasco and I loooooove roasted Brussel sprouts with some habanero sauce on them.
Sweets I haven’t (and honestly have no interest) tried so I can’t vouch for their taste.

I'm only on soft proteins phase, so just meats and cheeses basically. I don't eat anything that doesn't count towards protein because I really don't care about eating anyways.

Love that someone else is found spice crazy as well!

Yeah, I love things that zest it up without adding calories.

On 03/26/2019 at 20:31, Colchabay said:

Anyone else have a constant bad taste in your mouth that makes everything you eat taste the same? IDK if it's from the Vitamins or what.

yes! I had a terrible taste in the back of my throat and horrible breath. At first I thought it was a sign of ketosis, but I read somewhere that it could be a sign of dehydration. So I upped my water intake, supplemented with some G2 Gatorade for electrolytes, and it magically went away. Of course, I can’t tell you for sure if the fluids helped or if it just went away over time.

VSG 2/13/19

It is always nice to not be concentrated but diluted down. Your kidneys will be thrilled you requested their help and then best " People Engines" succeed on Fluid Drive!

Ugh. So today was one of those days that I’m super-glad is almost in the rear-view mirror.
Slept like crap last night despite being in bed before 10pm, and fought sleep all night.
I’m thinking it might be because I hardly ate yesterday and my brain just wouldn’t forgive me for it.
Work was beastly (3rd double digit shift in 3 days) and then I went straight to Pilates and there was a last minute instructor change to one that is notorious for having the toughest classes.
Oh yeah.... totally kicked my butt and I started getting muscle cramps 5 minutes in.
I used to take magnesium and I think I’m going to have to start again because I couldn’t get ahead of the cramps tonite.
What’s the most frustrating about that is that I drank over 80 ounces water before 5pm today.

Well tomorrow is a new day, but unfortunately it also brings yet another 11 hour shift (goodness but I hate my 44 hr week) but at least I’ll get a 3 day weekend out of it.

I’m emotionally and physically drained right now, and I’m also feeling really full because I ate a whole tuna packet along with 1/4 cup cottage cheese.
The protein load was awesome, but I feel like I just ate thanksgiving dinner and I finished eating over an hour ago.
Also my feet and ankles are HUGE. must be retaining at least a few pounds fluid right now.
Overall it’s made me feel fat fat fat tonite.
Lol, I’ve probably only had around 400 calories today, but I feel like I’m completely full of food.

So, I hope all you lovelies have a great day and I will try to be in a better mood tomorrow!

Had an absolute melt down at work today. I chose not to tell anyone except my mom and my wife about my surgery. Explained to my work I was having some digestive issues where they would have to re route a portion of my stomach and small intestine. Fast forward 6 weeks and 30 lbs lost and one of the older guys makes an offhand comment about me getting lap band surgery and I was dead silent. A couple minutes go by and I decided to erupt like mt Vesuvius. My reaction probably told everyone all they need to know and yes I regret it but I just didn’t know what else to do.

My boss tried to buy beer to smooth it over but of course WE CANT HAVE THAT

On 03/27/2019 at 20:41, Dubchild said:

My boss tried to buy beer to smooth it over but of course WE CANT HAVE THAT

Oh man! I’m so sorry. I was really hoping that I was the only one here having a really crap day.

Thanks Sheri , hope you didn’t have the same exposé I did today ?

I was feeling fat tonight as well after seeing a 2 lbs weight gain on the scale but I just got in the tub with a glass of Shiraz and remember how much more ROOM there is in here

On 03/27/2019 at 20:48, Dubchild said:

I was feeling fat tonight as well after seeing a 2 lbs weight gain on the scale but I just got in the tub with a glass of Shiraz and remember how much more ROOM there is in here

Lol. Okay. Jealous of the Shiraz for sure. ???
I didn’t have a big meltdown....just the whole day was a bunch of small failures that all stacked together.
The worst part was when the instructor tried to tell me “good job” after a class where I spent exactly half of having to massage out one muscle spasm after another.
I managed to say “thanks, but I know I did pretty awful” and get out of there before I could break down in tears. Honestly not breaking down and crying felt like a victory at that point.

My coworkers all know about my surgery because it is pretty much impossible to pull this off without them knowing and in the months leading up to surgery, I had to trade out shifts all the time to make doctor appointments, etc.....
I do admit to being apprehensive about what some customers will start to say once my loss becomes noticeably obvious.
There are a few that it takes every bit of willpower I currently have to be civil to in the best of times. If one of them pops off with the wrong statement, I can see an eruption.
Here’s to hoping that doesn’t happen because I need my job. ??

Hi guys, I did the sleeve on February 6th and have lost upwards of 25 lbs since then. Something that's worrying me is how easily I can eat all food now, at 7 weeks post-op. True, I can only eat small portions but otherwise I eat like a normal person and can easily drink beer or other carbonated drinks (just very slowly). For example, yesterday for lunch I ate more than half a plate of spinach ravioli. It might be a much smaller portion than pre-surgery, but definitely not a tiny portion!

What's ironic is that just two weeks ago I was depressed because I couldn't eat all my favorite foods or drinks, etc. Now I can, and I do, in small amounts, but I'm afraid of this being a very slippery slope.

And for all the people who are feeling low because of what they can't eat/drink -- you will be able to in the future, and then you'll worry about that too! Lol it seems like there's always a catch 22 to every stage of this.