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I was told by the psychologist who runs a group I belong to that 20% of people regain their weight.

That is great news! Congrats on your success this far!

That's the toughest part of this journey in my opinion. I am part of a weekly group run by a psychologist whose expertise is dealing with obese people and issues with food. I'm hoping through that group I can learn ways to deal with my mental battle with food. The other thing I do is bring my lunch and planned Snacks to work (mostly) and I've even been known to leave any money I have at home. That way, I can't buy any junk and I can only have what I planned. I'd also like to get some reading material but haven't yet done that. I look forward to other responses too. Best of luck to you!

A lot of nothing! Other tan taking my niece shopping for her birthday, I have nothing else planned!

Nope, your sleeve probably isn't too big. I think mist people have that thought or the thought of whether the doctor removed most if your stomach. Those type of foods you are eating to down easy and a lot of people can eat more than they think they should be able to. When you get to solids and you can eat protein solids, you won't eat much. Congrats on your surgery!

I'm glad you got an answer to your problem. I really, really hope its just some swelling that goes down soon. You might want to start a new thread titled stricture it something similar to increase the odds of others seeing it who've had it. Take care and hang in there. You will love your sleeve one day!

As always, Lissa's advice is spot on. I just wanted to tell you I'm sorry you are struggling but proud of you for taking steps to deal with your struggles! Best of luck to you!

Congrats on your approval!

How are you today? Did you get a hold of your doctor?

Sorry. I misread your post. It appeared to me you were having surgery tomorrow.

I was pretty disturbed as well. I'm glad its working again.

Sorry that you are frustrated. Look at the positive side. You don't have to do the dreaded preop diet. Best of luck to you tomorrow. Check back in when you feel up to it and let us know how you're doing.

I didn't use any of the shakes you mention. I did want to tell you good luck with your preop diet. It can be rough. Just remember why you are doing it and that it is only temporary.

I too love watermelon and find I can eat more of it than other foods. For that reason, I call it a slider food.

Yes, you do as dehydration is the number 1 reason people end up back in the hospital. Hang in there girl. It can be rough in the beginning. You will live your sleeve once you get through the early healing stage you are in now.

Welcome to VST! Im sorry you are having some issue The temperature at 4 days post op is normal. However, my doctor told me of mine went above 101 degrees that was not normal and I needed to contact their office Not keeping anything down is not normal. You will get dehydrated and end up back in the hospital. I would suggest you call your doctor first thing tomorrow morning. Good luck to you and keep us posted.

First of all, I'm only 9 weeks and 2 days out so the perspective I'm offering here is what I call the "newbie stall or gain" and not the stalls and gains of those of you get who are much farther out than me and a lot of us I see post about stalls. Since being released to eat soft foods, my diet has pretty much been the same. I usually eat 600 to 800 calories a day and for the most part, my intake is closer to the 800 calorie mark than it is to the 600 calorie mark. I weigh everyday, but only record my weight on my blog every Monday. When I weighed in on Monday July 30th, the scale showed a gain of two pounds from the prior Monday's weigh in. I had done nothing different that I could pinpoint as the cause of this gain. I wasn't happy about it, but knowing that it sometimes happens, I moved on from focusing on it. Throughout that week, I continued to weigh everyday as I normally do. The scale would show I was up one day and down one day but it wouldn't consistently go down. I was gaining and losing the same 3 pounds all week. When I weighed on Saturday my scale said 261.8. That is only .6 lower than my previous Monday's weigh in. I thought surely I was in for a little loss or a gain again in 2 days when I weighed in and recorded that weight. Sunday, though when I weighed the scale showed me losing 5.6 pounds overnight. It shoked me so much that I weighed 4 more times just to make sure it wasn't my scale going bonkers and yep, I'd "lost" 5.6 pounds overnight. I wasn't sure though that it would stick. I was hopeful, but doubtful. Then came Monday morning. I woke up, peed and hopped on the scale afraid of what I'd see. The scale showed exactly 1 pound heavier from Sunday's weigh in but it gave me a weight loss of 5.2 from the previous Monday's weigh in. It felt really good to put that in my blog considering the week before I had to put a 2 pound gain. Anyway, on to this week. So Monday, I weighed 257.2. On Tuesday, I weighed 255.6. I'd lost 1.6 pounds overnight and was down 49 pounds total. Yay! On Wednesday, I weighed 254.8. Another loss this time in the amount of .8 overnight. I was now only .2 pounds away from hitting the 50 pound mark. And all that brings me to this morning. I got on the scale and it said 253.2. Wow! I couldn't believe it. I'd lost again overnight. This time 1.2 bringing me to a total of 51.40 pounds gone forever. So, my point to this is you have to look at the whole picture of weight loss and not just what happened today or over the past week or two or three. The week I gained 2 pounds was no different than this week where I've lost 4 pounds in only 3 days. I've been very consistent with my program and there just is no logical reason for what has occurred. Okay, yes there probably is but it is probably stuff a scientist would have to explain and we wouldn't understand anyway unless of course one of us here is a scientist. Anyway, I know that sometimes it is hard to look beyond what is going on at the present, but we really need to sometimes in order to keep our sanity. Stalls and gains will happen and we will hate every minute of them but when we step back and look at the overall picture, it will look a lot better than what is going on in the present. I hope I've offered some insight to those of you struggling with a stall or gain right now and that it will give the ones of you who haven't expreienced this some comfort when you finally do.

Wow! That is impressive. I wanna be like you when I grow up. Until then, I'll keep weighing ever day.

Okay, your post made me laugh. I originally typed that no one on here would understand. Then, I realized that may not be accurate since there may be a scientist on here who does understand it. Thanks for sharing the link. I'm definitely going to check it out.

That is awesome! Congrats.

You sound like me. I'm on here all the time! I just tried again and it is still stuck on the "contacting remote site" message. I'll let y'all know when I hear from the Admin.

Yes! Yesterday, my mobile app was hanging on the "contacting remote site" message. Thinking it was my phone I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. It will now let me look at the site but it won't let me log in. I have reported the problem and will keep you updated when I hear back. I also reported that the site is no longer subscribing us to posts we comment on and when I access the site from a desktop (like I am now), I'm not getting messages telling me that people have responded to posts that I remembered to subscribe to.