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Wishing all a happy Chanukah and a happy New Year. My NSV was being able to get down on the floor and play the traditional dreidel game with my kids.

Hi!! I am looking for someone to be support buddies with on this life changing journey. My doctor recommended it to me! So if anyone is interested I would love to share ideas worries stress success And hard points!! I am having surgery January 14 Height 5’8” Highest weight 326 Current weight 277 Goal weight 155

Reading all current literature, it appears that your case is what typically happens about 50% of the time. There isn't a lot of data as to why, because everone is different, but logically it would seem many people go into "maintenance mode" (eating an amount to sustain current weight) long before they should. So first the weight stops coming off, then people slowly go above maintenance mode, and the weight starts creeping back up. Alcohol is pure calories, and mixing a drink is double calories. A lot of people for example drink things like vodka and cranberry and think it is "low cal". Nothing could be further from the truth. Bar cranberry juice is like drinking raw sugar. so might I recommend, stop drinking your calories, and then drop to 1000 cal total per day (like the diet you probably had which worked for you) and crush your weight back down over 2 months. Then watch your maintenance mode, to make sure it isn't to many cal's per day. Best of luck !

Yes we did everything yesterday too and it was such a struggle not eating anything. I had about 1oz of very soft meat basically puréed with salsa to help moisten it and got very full. I ate that twice and was full. I have so many leftovers today it’s ridiculous. So much was food was already taken. Hoping my husband and kids eat through the food quickly.

Disclaimer: I am in the industry . So yesterday/Christmas day at a family party I had some wine. I just filled 1/4 of a glass, and then added the same amount of water. Note: that is how the Roman senate drank their wine, so they would not get drunk (as the alcohol killed the various microbes in the water). This while virtually everyone else was drunk on wine or beer, as there was very little pathogen free water in the cities. so anyway, I sipped that amount of wine in that social environment over aprox an hour, holding it primarily in my mouth, to absorb the effects of the alcohol. An hour or so later I did it again. So over a two hour period I had basically a half a glass of wine, and quite frankly it was little more than mildly intoxicating, with no adverse affect at all. I AM NOT advocating drinking alcohol. I am however not so naive to think that people are going to obstain completely. Just be smart and quite frankly, you don't need to get drunk in life, to enjoy life

Congrats. My chanukah NSV was only eating 1 donut so far!!! Sent from my SM-G950U1 using BariatricPal mobile app

Thanks so much for your knowledge, If I drink it is always with a zero cal mixer but the Rum has calories so 2 drinks is over 200 cals. Not many more parties in this year so it will be easier to refrain. I know I need to drink more water and good thinking on going back to the 1000 cals rather than 1200. I also need to exercise more consistently. Thanks again for your feedback

Look in the sidebar for a thread calling out all January 2020 sleevers. You will get your "whole January class" of WLS partners that way! It's fun to get and give support to each other especially in those early days!

I also received a tummy tuck with lipo suction to my flanks (love handles) on Dec. 11, 2019. I'm doing well. The first week was rough. So much pain! In the past, had four c-sections and by the third day I was off all pain meds. --Not with this surgery! However, I'm very satisfied with the results and feel after losing 80 pounds that this was very needed.

Yes I have been taking them for years. Continued with them last year with my sleeve and now with my bypass as well.