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Experienced the "unconscious" eating yesterday and I'm almost 6 months post op. You are SOOOO right about PRE-planning portions. Spicy foods gave me ALLOT of trouble initially too. Eventually found, I had gallstones and have had gallbladder removed. You are also correct when you say they don't seem to understand, My fiancé didn't either. He tries, but usually my "meals" are separate small tidbits of this and that while friends and family sit with the full plates that include pasta, rice, bread and everything else. BUT... I'm down 100 pounds today, am SOOO much healthier and that makes it worth it!

Oh we CAN take B12 and vitamins. It keeps most of us from being judgemental.

There is a 1000 sublingual? Hmmm. I did not know that. May have to look into it. I Have tried the nasal spray once a week. It irritated my nose and it's extremely expensive.

I'm 5 months post-op and picked up my script today for the 1000mcg shot that I'm instructed to take once a week. The pharmacist said it's water soluble so whatever your body doesnt need, you will urinate out.

Thank you! That makes a little more sense. My co-worker is a year and a half post-op. So I suppose she is able to consume more dietarily then I can. And her stomach is probably a little bigger now that she is fully healed.

I've heard of several of my co-workers taking the B12 shots but most are on the 1cc a month scription. I've just been prescribed 1cc every WEEK. Any possible explanation of why there is so much of a difference?

I work in EMS. It's an extremely easy occupation to gain weight. 12-24 hour shifts where your usual places to eat would be fast food or convenience stores. Our company has decided, with very much intuition, that we cannot help our patients if we, ourselves, are unhealthy. Being over 300 pounds was difficult for me to try to jump into a car that has been rolled over to help a child. Much less carry the usual 90 pounds of life sustaining gear that we carry on a daily basis. Who would you trust more with one of your family members if they were unresponsive to get them onto a stretcher and to definitive care? A 300+ person that is sweating and out of breath by just getting to that person, or the healthier person with more energy and that does not look like a health risk themselves? It was very much a reality check to have the physical limitations that I had progressively done to myself.

SOOOOOO True!!!!

Lanette, I miss my carbonated drinks too. If I get a craving for too long, I'll take a sip and the. Try to let the bubble expel before swallowing. It came back up a couple of times. Like I said, everyone is different. Our company has had several people with the surgery but they have gone back to their old eating habits and are now larger than before. I refuse to allow that to happen to me.

I've been told to be extremely carful with them. Check the sugars especially the coated ones. I've eaten about a handful of pistachios at a time and as long as I chew well, I'm ok. But at first I threw up ALLOT!!!!! It was from gall stones and after it was taken out, I haven't thrown up hardly at all. Gallbladder issues are usually common after gastric sugery because te bile that it creates is not needed to digest as much and it just sits there and inflames the organ. Not every sugary is going to advance in the same way, of coarse. But if you attempt any new food, try it with caution and, just like a baby trying new foods, take it slow. It's DEFINITELY a relearning experience about how to eat. 90 pounds down for me. And if you hate to take Vitamins, as I do, I FORCE myself to take the b12. B12 is imperative to protect our brain function and to help avoid brain shrinkage. It also increases the metabolism and is responsible, by the most part, for reproduction of red blood cells. If our red blood cells are not replenished, we can develop anemia. Tilapia is ALWAYS a good choice as long as it's not fried. Greasy fried foods may not sit well. But everyone is different. Personally, in my opinion, it was the fatty, fried, foods or sweets, along with my addiction to food that drove me to needing an "intervention". my crutch was not alcohol, drugs, smoking, or anything else that you can go cold turkey. How can you go cold turkey with food? It's impossible if you are to sustain life.

OH, and anything carbonated is off limits. Arizona makes an amazing diet peach tea. The new MiO water enhancers taste pretty good too and they don't break in your purse like the "to go" packs. Sip, sip, sip on water!!!!! But no drinking within 30 min of eating. Before or after. It sounds restrictive BUT your HEALTH is worth it. I would rather have a voluntary healthier lifestyle chage now compared to a mandatory quality of life change later from obesity.

If you have an iPhone there's an app called Myfitnesspal. It's for diet purposes but it also tracks Protein and sugar amount. There is a bar code scanner that is pretty cool! I was told not to eat salad either. No bread, rice, Pasta, or beef for at least a year. But Idk. I missed it at first until I noticed my clothes "were stretching out". I was also informed to not eat more than 10g of sugar at a time. It can make you dump, sick, or just feel horrible. As a snack, the low calorie cheese sticks work amazing and they are high in protien for their size. I'm 5 months out and the snack sized lunchables work well. There are 8 sets of crackers, meat, and cheese. I fit three of each. The trick for me is to stop when I find I've eaten enough to fill my stomach, NOT when I feel full. A portion of a scrambled egg works well or a half a pack of grits. As for fruit, it's as tolerated with pretty much most things. With the exception of things like strawberries with the little seeds and oranges/grapes because of the membrane/skin. Those didn't work for me AT ALL. Beans of any kind are usually high in protien, as well as mushrooms. A little note for post-op people. If you begin to start having pain around the appendix area or a little higher (upper right quadrant of abd) and perhaps some right shoulder pain, have a doctor check your gallbladder. Sleeve surgery was March 29, gallbladder surgery was July 15.

Kaehl, I have just found this forum and was wo Wondering the same thing. I'm 5 months post op and my Dr has just changed me fro sublingual to IM shots. A friend of mine 1cc once a month but my script is 1cc once a week. Does anyone know?