royboy

I feel just as you do. I thought I did all the research, asked all the questions, follow the rules and then realized that I used food for a crutch, but didn't relize this pre-surgery. I found this out 2 weeks after. I now know why I was overweight, Alot of my life revolved around food. Every meal, every hard day at work or play, every social event, every time I sat at the puter, TV, etc etc It's been almost 6 weeks post-surgery now and still learning every day about what I did with food in my life now that it isn't their. And making changes to eliminate those bad behavior patterns. Seems that now I have so much time on my hands that food made pass so much easier. it sure is a trip that life throws you. Good Luck on your journey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because someone paid big bucks for a sleeve, doesn't guarentee success!!! Watching what you eat and keeping track of your claories does!!!It's simple math, calories in, calories burned! Most of us on here failed miserably at that in life and ended up sleeved!I see people on this site and others that lost 100 pounds then don't loose for a week and get frustrated and post it! They were already a BIG success loosing the 100 pounds!!!This isn't a race, this is a lifestyle. THATS WHY I POSTED MY FRUSTRATION ABOUT STALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So many people on here have accomplished so much already and seem not to see it.

I'm almost 6 weeks post-op and learning also. Take this morning, I ate 1 egg and was full, 3 hrs later I was cooking a burger patty. small patty and was eating it as I was reading this. My stomach aches now as it was too much. We all have to pay attention to what our body tells us. Good thing is that with the sleeve we eat about 10% of what we used to eat. The first time I got the stomach discomfort I ate 3 heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese, My wife suggested that I try 2 and it worked. Take your time, don't watch tv, read, drive, anything that can distract you from the food in front of you. I just learned this 2 minutes ago. LOL Still learning myself as most of us are. Good luck and we are ALL here to help each other. Just drop anyone a line as alot of folks on here have been where I am and where you are now.

I feel the same. LOL but I think we are jealous of them being able to eat so much and we can't.

4 weeks post-op and seems when I switched to mushies the problem started. When I eat I get a funny feeling in my stomach, with any food I eat. it's different than it was for the first 3 weeks. It feels like my tummy knots up and I get mild pain and some nausea every time I eat. Doesn't matter if it's mushies or yogurt. Could this be a leak? restriction? any advise would help me.

I drive a truck all day and used diet mountain dew for the caffeine fix I needed to stay awake. I drank at least 5 soda's a day. Four weeks post-op and I feel No need or craving for diet dew at this point so I just don't drink it. Weeks 2 and 3 I had to have a afternoon nap and now I feel more energy than I have had in a long time and I think it will get even better as I've read on these forums? So no dew for me. P.S. I do have 2 cups of coffee in the early morning with my protein shake.

What they said. LOL if he is Mr. right, he will feel your pain that you have been thru for many years and understand in a heartbeat! Besides, Your not 18 anymore. LOL I think when a mans heart is in the right place, we can understand more than most women give us credit for. Getting laid is all part of the love that is between the both of you.. Good Luck and I hope he is Mr. Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I chose the sleeve for all the above reasons also. I have 2 friends that had the bypass and they are on liquid vits, and both gained the weight back by expanding the pouch. the sleeve is not reversible and does not stretch much at all as your remaining stomach is the heavy muscle part not the stretchy part. I was on insulin, BP meds and cholesterol meds proir to the surgery and NOne, nada anymore. Only thing that scares me is a leak, but the bypass could leak also. Good luck on your journey!

I'm 1 month out from surgery and it's hard to tell when I'm full. I eat 3 heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese and feel sick and hurt some, eat 2 and feel just a little uncomfortable. I think I will learn in time, what I do now is eat slower and don't eat much at a time. When I'm emty, I feel nausea like drinking to much coffee? I eat a yogurt and feel fine. But last nite I ate a small piece of pork and have had pains in my stomach ever since. I will stay away from pork for awhile thats for sure.

So Sorry for your loss, I'm a Dec sleever also done on the 5th, feeling great until last nite. Stomach hurts most of the time today, like I have bubbles in it. Hope it passes soon, otherwise all has been good the last two weeks, other than the flu I had. LOL As I said earlier, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend.

I waited until I had health issues. Proir to surgery I had diabetes that was hard to control with a 9.4 A1C! High blood pressure and high cholesterol. Day three after surgery they shut off the insulin pump and I'm drug free!!!!!!!! Checked my blood sugar 15 min. after eating 2 heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese last nite and it was 94. Yes you will never eat like you ever have in the past, but with a 31BMI? You could diet that extra weight away. I waited until the weight which my BMI was 37, got to my health and had to go this route. I would consult with your doctor about this decision If I were you. Good luck!

I was sleeved on Dec 5th, I seem to be lucky as there has been no stall for me. down 40 pounds so far, but I'm on the go from 6am to 6pm full of energy as of a week ago. good luck you will lose the weight for sure, your eating less than a 10th of what we used to eat every day. Plus your energy level will soar soon.

I have 2 to 3 cups of caffinated coffee every morning. after the 2nd cup I sometimes stop as I get nausea. I go with what my body is telling me. good luck

wow! alot of pill pushers here. I take a gummy multi vitamin called multivites and nothing else. feel great and lost 40 pounds since my sleeve. Do I need to take more?

4 weeks post-op breakfast- one scrambled egg mid-morning snack greek yogurt lunch kentucky fried chicken original recipe could only eat 1/2 thigh, 2 bites of bun, and three bites of mashed potatoes snack rest of thigh dinner chicken leg and rest of roll snack 1 oz portion of baked white fish seasoned cajun,garlic,onions, and shredded cheese. gatorade as thirst quencher

Wild turkey straight out of the bottle, wipe it off with your shirt sleeve and pass it on while your grilling over a open fire pit with a 150 pound hog on a spit! Thats a manly way to do things. LOL Hope you don't beleive me. LOL

Well I'm gonna be the first man to ad their story to this topic. I'm a 53 year old man named Roy, hence the RoyBoy name. married to a 53 year old wonderful woman named Jean for 11 years now. We are the brady bunch as I had 3 girls and one boy, she had two boys for the perfect six! The family just melted together into one big happy family. All of our kids are grown with the littlest being 20, she's going back to college next semester, so she says but all the other kids have good jobs, nice homes and a wonderful family life. They have given us 12 grandchildren with two kids of our kids to go. Our number two son is getting married this winter in Riviera Maya Mexico for a warm needed vacation from cold Wisconsin and our number 3 son is doing the same next winter in Brazil! I love food and thats how I got to the place that brought me here! But love to hunt and fish with a passion and now I feel better every day so I fish even harder than I used too. LoL I've run and sold 2 companies and currently own a small trucking company with my wife working for a private college. I'm a very thankful man for what God has given us and remember that every single day of my life!

I felt aweful the first two weeks, then the food cravings about drove me to kill for a steak, felt resentment when I came home and my wife and Mother were eating a ribeye with baked patatoe. LOL had to control my feelings on that scene. LOL really I did, felt betrayed. Week 3 felt better and did some icefishing which included lots of walking in snow. Ran out of gas very fast, but much lighter on my feet. then got the flu and spent 2 days in bed and total of 6 days ill. vomiting, fever, chills, yuck! Week 4 Went fishing again, felt better still, flu gone, slight chest cold hanging on. Energy started to come back on Sunday, No nap lol, Woke up at 5am this morning and on the go until a few minutes ago! Still feel good! Tummy still gets the nausea feeling during the day a little, but I'm feeling almost normal. LOL feels so good to say that. Had some friends over yesterday for the game and I cooked baked pike and deep fried bluegills, even had some baked pike, sooooooooooo good. Start foods that I can mash with a fork tomorrow, but I pushed it up 2 days as I feel so good. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell anyone. LOL Friends were amazed at what fills me up. They said "you can't be full, no way" They could not beleive it. But it's all good for me, I was full and that feels so good as I remember when I never got full, well at least until I ate all day. LOL I see light at the end of the tunnel for sure and feels so good, I hope all of you have the same experience as I'm having or even better, because I worried about eatting so little and feeling full, like I was being cheated or something, but thats not the case at all. Feels good and the weight keeps coming off!!!!!!!!

Good luck and Happy New Year for you!!!!!!!!!!!! Have any questions feel free to mail any of us.

Look at how much your NOT eating, your bound to loose the weight! Just relax it will go when it's ready to go. I was sleeved on Dec 5th and stopped loosing yesterday, but it will start again as it has too, I'm eating a tenth of what I used to eat. LOL So will you. Good Luck and stay off that scale ofr a few days.

Sleeved Dec 5th, had a rough first week and a half and feel pretty damn good now. No pain except for minor discomfort where I was cut and some heartburn in the evening. All good so far except my craving for food. I realize why I got fat. I would steal for a deep fried chicken or Grilled steak right now. LOL I miss all the food that I dumped in my mouth. Good days and bad days. Christmas is coming and I'm on puree food. But I realize that I had to change for the better. My diabeties is gone, no insulin! Hooray!!!!! healing faster than ever. Just miss the food. This part of the journey really got me thinking about why I did the sleeve. I was a food addict for sure. Just venting I guess, needed to get that out. sorry

My diabetic numbers are awesome, 84 in the morning, 115 a hour and half after meals. The sleeve did this. I'm so glad I'm not alone on the food craving thing. LOL getting better every day. Been feeling nausea after eating and a tummy feeling like full of bubbles, so today I cut back to two heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese or puree soup and feel better. have to get used to this small stomach I guess. good luck everyone! And thanks for the replies

Why would you skip the puree diet? take any chances? Not follow the rules? This is what got you fat in the first place! the diet your Doctor has you on is for your protection and well being. Why would anyone risk their life for a piece of food? Call your doctor and talk to someone with the knowledge of what may happen if you fail to follow directions. It's only a couple of weeks of puree, before you move to soft foods. I would never advise you to listen to someone on this board and do the opposite of what your Doctor has you doing!!!! Good luck!

Depending on your insurance requirements, it can take as long as they deem nessesary to qualify you for coverage. My insurance company took 6 months of appointments with the sleeve Dr. monthly, then the Dietician monthly, Phy. therapist monthly, then blood work, regular Dr. appoinments with my regular Dr., One with a shrink, more blood work, felt like a pin cushion and all this time, I own my own trucking company and when I'm not behind the wheel I loose money. Was so happy when I finally got the go ahead. Don't give up! ever!

Over the last few months I have had the regular up's and down's of going forward with this surgery. But every time I have one of those moment's? I go to this website and start reading abut the surgery and all those whom have walked in my foot steps and always leave here feeling as I have made the right decision. All whom post on here about their life proir and after surgery have helped me a great deal. I can't imagine my feelings if I had not found this site! Thanks again everyone! Surgery date 12/05/2011