I'm 14 weeks nearly 15 weeks post op, I have only lost 19lbs overall, I was on holidays and have had a some social occasions, I started at 93.6kg, I'm 85.5 this morning, my calories intake is only every 1200, I'm hitting my protein target, I walk 4 to 5km a day and started doing couch to 5k. It's so frustrating, is it alcohol stopping me losing weight? I have an active social life I thought the sleeve I would be able to lose weight and maintain that. I know other people's surgeons said no alcohol for the first 6 months, but my surgeon was like go be free live your life, maybe I'm expecting too much?

Just now, Chatterboxdea said:

This makes me so nervous that the sleeve wasn’t the right choice for me and now I’m going to have to have a different surgery! I am losing more than the person in the video but it’s definitely not at the rate I thought I would lose it.

I didn’t want to scare anyone, just give the perspective of a surgeon who sees many cases. The doctor speaks on average outcomes.

Your surgeon can speak to the specifics of your case which is why you should raise your concerns with them as soon as you have them.

On 9/24/2024 at 3:46 AM, Cat2336 said:

I'm 14 weeks nearly 15 weeks post op, I have only lost 19lbs overall, I was on holidays and have had a some social occasions, I started at 93.6kg, I'm 85.5 this morning, my calories intake is only every 1200, I'm hitting my Protein target, I walk 4 to 5km a day and started doing couch to 5k. It's so frustrating, is it alcohol stopping me losing weight? I have an active social life I thought the sleeve I would be able to lose weight and maintain that. I know other people's surgeons said no alcohol for the first 6 months, but my surgeon was like go be free live your life, maybe I'm expecting too much?

I am 8 weeks out from the sleeve and I am losing slower than I would like too. I am not drinking (but sometimes I will take a sip to try my husband’s drink- it keeps me from missing it so much). I think sometimes it’s genetics. I’m on average getting about 1000 calories a day and usually hitting the 60-80g of protein every day. I try to make good choices but it’s frustrating not to be where you want to be.

One thing my friend tells me is that me losing weight slowly now validates that I needed the surgery, because of how hard it was for me to lose weight without it and that I never would have been successful without it. I don’t know if that makes sense, but it helps me feel like I made the right choice when I’m struggling with not losing more.

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Edited October 28, 20241 yr by GreenTealael

6 hours ago, AmberFL said:

oooo yes!!!

For the cinnamon sugar bowls, I mist avocado spray on both sides and sprinkle a mix of swerve brown sugar, cinnamon and regular granulated swerve then I toast it up on the pan and then what you do is your put it in a oven safe bowl (I use glass ramekins) and then cook for like 5ish min and they make a bowl you can add ice cream or a good one is heating up apples cinnamon and swerve like an apple pie and putting it in the bowl with a little sugar free cool whip.

I use a pizza cutter and make little tortilla chips, mist with avocado oil and a little bit of salt. Put in an air fyer and crisp them up, you can do this with the sweet mix from above and have little sweet chips.

you can do smash burgers with them too! those little guys are awesome!

Well it looks like I got my Walmart cart ready now. I was waiting on my egg whites to get to $35 to avoid the pickup fee. Those are all great ideas but the little apple treat with the cinnamon bowls sound amazing. The ramekins I just added to my cart say oven safe to 350. I wonder if I could do that part in the air fryer as well to avoid heating up the oven for just one. Does anyone know how hot the air fryer gets??

42 minutes ago, ShoppGirl said:

Well it looks like I got my Walmart cart ready now. I was waiting on my egg whites to get to $35 to avoid the pickup fee. Those are all great ideas but the little apple treat with the cinnamon bowls sound amazing. The ramekins I just added to my cart say oven safe to 350. I wonder if I could do that part in the air fryer as well to avoid heating up the oven for just one. Does anyone know how hot the air fryer gets??

oh yay! lemme know how you like them! Airfyer I would just try doing it at 350 just bake for a longer like 8min then go from there. Its not super crunchy unless you like it like that then bake for longer.