Hello, all!

I had gastric bypass on December 29th, so I'm only 6 days post-op, but I hit my first personal benchmark of losing 20 lbs since my 2-week liver shrinking diet pre-surgery today.

If you are a visual person who is still on your weight loss journey or are looking to gain muscle, I wanted to share an awesome FREE app that helps track your progress visually and automatically takes measurements for you. It's called Me°-Three-Sixty. (No waiting for a partner to take your measurements or trying to do it yourself while holding one end of the tape measure awkwardly in your teeth or armpit.)

As you continue to take scans, you can compare two scan dates side by side, both visually and with measurements.

The measurements are approximations from taking a front facing and side view photo, but as long as you are consistent in where you stand & distance from the camera, the progress will be the same but may differ from actual tape measure.

I took a scan pre-surgery and then took another one today. The app calculates the change in inches and percentages between any two scans. You can also use the slider tool and see what your body might look like with a weight gain or weight loss up to a certain pound percentage. Anyway, I thought you might like to try it out while you have something to compare a "Before" photo and it can still be in an anonymous way.

I also loved Baritastic app, so if you know of other awesome apps we could benefit from please drop them in this thread!

Edited January 4, 20233 yr by Kimpossible00
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Kim this is so cool! I'm definitely going to try this out.

So you guys, I had my first dumping incident this morning and I'm shook. It was so, so horrible. I woke up at 2.30 am with stabbing pains in my stomach, sweating profusely, extreme weakness and retching. I actually thought my pouch had burst and I was going to need an ambulance, the pain was that bad!

Thankfully it passed almost immediately once I went to the toilet, but man that was scary stuff!
The culprit was the soy milk I mixed my protein shake with, since it's all I had within 4 hours of the episode. It's the only thing I've done differently. I thought dairy alternatives would be fine and picked soy because it's so high in protein. I had 200ml. The fact it caused me that much pain means I'll never gamble on skipping ahead in the food stages, anyway [emoji23]

An inconvenient lesson, but not one I'll forget!!!

I'm also not allowed coffee during the liquid phase, but wonder if it will taste ok, reading the thread!

Hope everyone is doing great [emoji3590]

Baritastic is pretty good, I used to like My Fitness Pal before they started to charge a subscription fee of $20 a month to scan food barcodes. I mean it’s still a good app, but not nearly as good.

21 hours ago, cici88 said:

Kim this is so cool! I'm definitely going to try this out.

So you guys, I had my first dumping incident this morning and I'm shook. It was so, so horrible. I woke up at 2.30 am with stabbing pains in my stomach, sweating profusely, extreme weakness and retching. I actually thought my pouch had burst and I was going to need an ambulance, the pain was that bad!

Thankfully it passed almost immediately once I went to the toilet, but man that was scary stuff!
The culprit was the soy milk I mixed my protein shake with, since it's all I had within 4 hours of the episode. It's the only thing I've done differently. I thought dairy alternatives would be fine and picked soy because it's so high in protein. I had 200ml. The fact it caused me that much pain means I'll never gamble on skipping ahead in the food stages, anyway

An inconvenient lesson, but not one I'll forget!!!

I'm also not allowed coffee during the liquid phase, but wonder if it will taste ok, reading the thread!

Hope everyone is doing great

Oh, Cici, you poor thing. I empathize with you so much. I had a dumping episode tonight that was maybe only 20% of yours. I didn't have any sugar-free hot chocolate and thought I would sub with a no-sugar added fudgsicle, which is a horrible choice in case you were wondering!

My stomach is cramping so bad, and it feels like I'm going to have the dumps but I can't get it out. I guess we will just have to experience small episodes of dumping to remind us that we have sensitive boundaries.

I hope you'll be able to try soy milk, again in a few weeks and tolerate it better. I'm so sorry. Sending you well wishes, my friend!

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by Kimpossible00

On 1/4/2023 at 7:23 PM, Kimpossible00 said:

Hello, all!

I had gastric bypass on December 29th, so I'm only 6 days post-op, but I hit my first personal benchmark of losing 20 lbs since my 2-week liver shrinking diet pre-surgery today.

If you are a visual person who is still on your weight loss journey or are looking to gain muscle, I wanted to share an awesome FREE app that helps track your progress visually and automatically takes measurements for you. It's called Me°-Three-Sixty. (No waiting for a partner to take your measurements or trying to do it yourself while holding one end of the tape measure awkwardly in your teeth or armpit.)

As you continue to take scans, you can compare two scan dates side by side, both visually and with measurements.

The measurements are approximations from taking a front facing and side view photo, but as long as you are consistent in where you stand & distance from the camera, the progress will be the same but may differ from actual tape measure.

I took a scan pre-surgery and then took another one today. The app calculates the change in inches and percentages between any two scans. You can also use the slider tool and see what your body might look like with a weight gain or weight loss up to a certain pound percentage. Anyway, I thought you might like to try it out while you have something to compare a "Before" photo and it can still be in an anonymous way.

I also loved Baritastic app, so if you know of other awesome apps we could benefit from please drop them in this thread!

Developing an application of this level is not an easy task, so https://ddi-dev.com/blog/case/how-weve-created-a-fitness-app/ articles like this can help you get started. Give it a try and learn more!

Wow, that app looks like a fantastic tool for tracking progress, especially when it comes to seeing those visual changes that might not always show up on the scale. Thanks for sharing this with everyone!

Edited August 13, 20242 yr by Alfred_Wilkerson