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Mine was the size of a football probably. More like damned impossible instead of near impossible. I have heard the wallet analogy? comparison? before and it makes sense. My surgeon does mostly RNY and tried to tell me that I wouldn't lose the weight without the threat of dumping syndrome and malabsorption. He said that I would probably end up at 189 or so. Boy, did I ever prove him wrong! I'm still losing.

"After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery patients are left with a tiny new stomach - often called a "pouch." Although the pouch starts out very small immediately after surgery, it changes over time. The remaining small intestines also change..." http://voices.yahoo.com/understanding-roux-en-y-gastric-pouch-3161015.html?cat=5 We have a sleeve. We have our original stomachs with the stretchy greater curvature cut out.

Sleeves don't stretch. If you can handle 4 oz at a few months, you might be just over a cup in 1-2 years. The stretchy part has been cut out. I drink a soda every day and I still have massive restriction. We have the capability to burp. Any excess gas from the carbonation is expelled. Yes, the nutritionist will tell you not to drink diet soda, but sometimes I swallow more air with my Crystal Light. You can stretch a pouch, but not a sleeve. A pouch is made from different tissue. P.S. I am a year and two months out. What makes you gain weight is eating slider foods like chips, milkshakes, ice cream and junk food. Also cake, pastries, white rice, white bread and other nutritionally devoid foods. What makes you gain weight is returning to the habits that got us here in the first place. Protein first, then a little veggie and fruit and if room a bite of two of healthy carbs.

I certainly That's pretty absurd to come to that conclusion. Not so free if you turn over all of your freedoms to the government in the name of security. I'd certainly rather live here, but I want to keep it free of socialism and any form of totalitarianism. “Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"--Benjamin Franklin.

Ah, but see, that's why children have parents. WE are responsible for them; not the government. We can limit their TV time, teach them to not watch smut and encourage them to eat healthy. Eventually they get out into the world and we can only hope that lessons stick. It's called personal responsibility. Handing life decisions over to the government creates a tyrannical government and that impacts my liberty and that of my children. Yes, it's enough to get angry about. Of course I care about the health of my brothers and sisters, but it is up to THEM. Let's keep it that way.

Companies advertise to sell food period. It is their right. Frankly, cigarettes are legal and there is no good Constitutional reason why they cannot advertise. If a picture forces you to eat to obesity, I suggest that you work on your impulses. Ban this, ban that, censor this, censor that, save THE CHILDREN!!!!! Imagine! - the government telling people what they can or cannot say -- what they can and cannot eat. Turn off the TV. P.S. Ban smells.

I still don't eat white flour tortillas. I have one corn or whole wheat tortillas once in a while. Noodles are mostly out except for whole wheat and carb control once in a while. Chips? Pretty much never - maybe a few on a special occasion. White rice and white bread are out. I will occasionally have a slice of oat or whole grain bread. I do eat a lot of popcorn, but I think I waited 4 or 5 months. Do not rely on restriction alone. You need to take this time to modify old easting habits that got you to obesity in the first place.

You are overly defensive. I was just saying that based on my own experience and that of other sleeved people I know, there is no limit to the weight you can lose. Many are still losing over a year out. What needs to happen in the first six montsh is a complete overhaul and change from old bad habits so you can be fit for the rest of your life. Think about someone at the six month and one year time frame. People have just told them basically "game over" and it's not true at all. I think you are projecting the catty and snarky. The church comment is in incredibly bad taste.

I don't agree at all. I have about the same restriction I did at 4 months. I measure, weigh and log everything. I suppose if you went back to grazing and eating the wrong foods then it would become impossible to lose without getting back on track. I don't ever plan to eat like a "normal" person. White rice and flour, fast food and junk food will always be off my menu. I don't miss it at all.

Just saying, Its been a year and a month since my surgery and I'm still losing. It's very slow because I am close to goal. I don't believe in any time frame. Wow, 2000 calories? My weight and height of 5'1" would never take that much. I'm still at 750-800.

I've got Disneyland right here. It might be cheaper to go to Hawaii.

I had my one year follow-up and my surgeon upon hearing that weight loss has stalled and slowed said that I might be done losing weight, but for maybe another few pounds or so, He is happy with me. He doesn't want me eating too little trying to force weight loss because this may be where my body is happy. I suppose I could live being a bit overweight according to the charts. I'm not sure. I know what he means about not starving myself and trying to force the issue. That could backfire in some some yo-yo stuff that I'd rather not experience. Today I am starting a strict Vitamin and Protein regimen. I already started with the Vitamins last week. Labs were normal, but my cholesterol is still way up there. I have been hit or miss on both protein and vitamins. Turns out that my levels were fine. D was a little low, but still. I think I will relax, but stay with what I'm supposed to be doing, i.e. getting that protein in.

True. I did lose a couple more. It's really slow going though.

Tsk tsk tsk. You really do need to take a cool trip though. Route 66?

What I really want to do is go to Maui. What I really need to do is to fix the roof.

I don't believe it for a second :-)

If I eat it all at once, too fast I am guaranteed to get sick. I can eat anything, just slowly.

Wow Cheri! In the 1970s and earlier, kids like us just used to either run away or endure it. Even when family members found out about the scale of the abuse, they pulled back even further - expect for my grandfather and his wife who saved my life. My mother had two, yes two personality disorders. What I am now if a person without a whole lot of self confidence. It trips me up a lot. It had also taken me years to hug without flinching. It's still there on the edges. I don't really know what caused the obesity other than the fact that to me food = love and safety. I guess it still does and I still love food. I can just get by with a whole lot less of it and make better choices. On a lighter note - I want to get a size 20 pair of pants and put them on. Just yesterday I put on a pullover hoodie that I haven't worn for a year. It hung on my ridiculously. I kept looking down at myself in disbelief.

A year out I still can't handle more that 2-3 oz of dense protein. I have to eat it VERY slowly. Meals for me take an hour if there is very dense protein. I weigh and measure my food and eat it slowly over the course of the day. It's 2;09 PM and I still haven't finished my lunch or part of my breakfast. That's just the way I do it.

I plan to: 1. Get a small tattoo - a Chi Rho. 2. Go hiking down Havisupai creek in the Supai Reservation and to the Grand Canyon down and up the Bright Angel Trail. 3. Go to the Glen Ivy spa for a massage, and pedicure.

Take your wife and the Harley to Sturgis.

I am a current smoker, but I certainly stopped a month before and then waited until healed. If they say they will do the test, I suspect that they will keep that promise. Tell the surgeon or you will otherwise be wasting everyone's time. Either he will start the clock from your last cigarette or warn you not to do it again. Just don't do it again.

I so much rather have this bit of extra skin than that weight any day, but I just had to share. I have the panni apron that I will have surgery for in another year. I have empty tube sock boobs that look fine in a bra. I have bat wings, but they aren't that noticeable. I have inner thigh skin that will keep me from wearing short-shorts or a bikini. Thank goodness for that because a 47 year old shouldn't go there anyway. Here's the rub though. Lately I have been noticing extra skin in weird place. It not gross or anything. It's just weird. I have extra skin I can grab on my back and poor butt. Here's the weirdest: I have extra skin ON MY FINGERS!!!! My knuckles are baggy!!! I can tell you that I never expected THAT!

Sleevers do not have pouches. We still have our stomachs, albeit smaller. They do not stretch per se. As you heal the sleeve will give a little bit, but not much. The stretchy part was removed during surgery.

It all depends on how far out from surgery you are. Just curious, didn't any of your surgeons give you post-op eating directions?