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I posted a while ago about my weight loss, and regain and taking control again. Started at 320 or there abouts 5'2" and 54 years old 10 years ago. VSG. Lost weight and got to 180 pounds. Over 8 years I regained to 220. Started slow weight loss / getting back into control in mid July this past year. I have now lost 30 pounds. Back to 190. I started my weight loss with a BMI over 54 in the 300's. I am still considered obese at 190 and a BMI just under 34; but darn it, I am so flipping proud of myself. Yes, I am 64 years old. No, I can't really exercise ... but I do some short walks and I garden and vegetable garden, take care of my chickens. I had to get a local teen to help me lift 40 pound bags of feed this year; but I can still haul the 25 lb bags.... and I continue to work full time in my career. Life is good. In my weight loss journey this time out, I stopped at 20 pounds lost and took a break. I experimented with adding in more foods, and balancing out what I needed to do to maintain that 20 pound loss, and did that for a month, then decided to lose some more. I think that i never really paid all that much attention to how much, what kinds of foods how I Prepare them.... and exactly how my body reacts to it. I use very little salt at home. When I eat out, I gain weight from the added salt. Yes, it is water weight from the salt; but being on lock down at home and working from home, with no lunches out for meetings.... going to have to find places to lunch that cut the sodium out !!! Going to continue what I am doing. Taking breaks, slow weight loss and maybe make it down to overweight, or not.... but will be pleased to keep that 30 # off !!! Still using my VSG. 10 years later.

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I'm still pretty new to this (4 months post OP), but this has definitely been the best decision I've ever made with regard to weightloss. I had GERD prior to surgery (which is why I chose RNY vs Sleeve), and it's completely gone! I haven't even needed a TUMS since having the surgery! I haven't had dumping, but I also don't crave sweets anymore which seem to cause people to dump. I have had "the slimes" which is when I eat just one bite too many, and I end up hypersalivating, and sometimes throwing up. That hasn't happened in over a month though, probably b/c I'm better at listening to my body. As for loose skin, I'm sure I will have it, and I look forward to getting a tummy tuck/boob job someday!!

I was only given somac for heartburn, I'm 6 months out with no gall bladder issues. I'm in Australia though.

that doesn't sound like it would be anything related to your VSG surgery. Did you injure it somehow? I had that issue (foot drop and balancing issues) for several months after I sprained an ankle because the fall damaged my peroneal nerve (the main nerve that goes down through your leg). It did eventually work itself out, though - I had physical therapy for it which I think helped. I'm not sure what's going on in your case, though. If you didn't injure it somehow, I'm not sure what type of condition would cause that. If it IS due to injury, the injury could have been in your hip because that nerve goes all the way down your leg. My leg was pretty numb because of the nerve damage, and that's what was causing the foot drop and balance problems. Hopefully you'll be able to find an answer. I'm sorry you're going through this.

I also got prescribed Ursodiol, they were huge! I had zero gall bladder issues and I stopped taking them because I lost weight so slowly. I had zero issues and it’s been over 17 months.

I love bucatini, I think it’s because one of my favorite things as a kid was Beef-a-Roni. (With Fritos on top) I was a thin child with an awful diet! Crud, now Beef a roni with Fritos sounds good.

Agreed. My 3 week stall lasted 3 weeks, from about week 2.5 to about week 5.5. I was SO frustrated. But it broke and I've been losing since. At that time I went from weighing daily to weighing weekly. Doesn't change the numbers but at least I could not focus on them most of the week and just focus on eating my plan and walking.

I think we all know/knew good food too well, lol 🤣🤣🤣!!!! Your salad dressing is worth a try, definitely as a marinade for chicken or shrimp, as well as a salad dressing. Thank you

You didn't wreck it, but you're going to have to go slow on the alcohol from now on. I'm guessing you're in the UK and this is going to be hard, since pretty much everything is centered around drinking in a way it isn't in the US, but your tolerance for alcohol is going to be radically different from what it was before. I'm ten months out and can get knocked for a loop with two G&Ts. Three months is still pretty early for reintroducing alcohol, talk to your doctor about when you can start drinking again - and obviously your changed drinking tolerance is going to impact decision-making... and that's where the coke comes in. Because you know you shouldn't be doing that with a compromised digestive system and surgical healing. Talk to your doctor about the recreational drugs too. Or, if you think you're going to hit a judgement wall there, talk to another health counselor. If it helps at all, there's a significant cultural difference US/UK when it comes to talking about drugs, and I think you accidentally ran into the buzzsaw with your original post. The puritanical streak in the US is considerably wider and more opinionated than in the UK. There are a lot of posts around this forum about how people's social lives have changed now they can't drink much and it's changed the way they experience the bar, so maybe look up some of those to find fellow travelers?