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Almost being 5months out its easier now that I have learned to readjust myself socially. But at the beginning was very hard because my friends and family didn't understand that I couldn't eat the same fatty unhealthy foods like before. I eat before going out, i kept a protien bar in my bag, always have a Water bottle with you, or try for crystal lite they have different flavors incase u get tried of plain water. Take control When I go to parties I serve myself because I want to have control what and how much I put in my plate. The most important thing is aways plan ahead and make the people around understand what u going through. One more thing congratulations :-D practice some of these tips now so when the time comes it wouldnt hit u as a surprise good luck

@ Gastricsleeve4me your very welcome

Whoot whoot that's what I'm talking about

I had the same problem I bought prunes and I put about 4 or 5 in a cup of water and let it sit there until they get soggy and eat them that way plus the water another thing I use is fresh papaya my doctor recommended milk of magnesium but I don't like it

I started out with a bmi of 48.4 and I'm currently in a bmi of 36 with a 73 lbs lost in 4 months

On May 23rd I will be 4 months

Congratulations!!!!! This is the time take the dust of the rock and make that diamond shine. Its amazing what the tool can help us with. I was sleeve on January 23 2012 and I lost so far 70 lbs I started at 299 and now 229. Again congratulations with an high five rock ur sleeve girlfriend

I also have bad pcos a lot facial hair that is so embarrassing. Talk your doctor or ob/gyn about low doses I use the nuvaring before and in the pass I used provera I'm almost 4 months out and down 70 lbs and and still no peeping Tom I have to wait to see if my weight lost will trigger it.

OMG I did this recipe twice in one day because is was not enough for my family and friends I eat 1/2 of one was delicious thanks

Everybody is different some loose fast and others slow at 5 weeks I lost 35lbs not including the pre-op remember to do ur walks and take in ur liquids plus if I get constipated trust me I will see a stall so make sure u got fiber in ur food choice

Hello curto I do have a regret, I regret that I didn't get it sooner I love my sleeve I follow my doctor plan and exercise I started at 299 and now I'm 231.6 so yes I regret of not getting it sooner

I had really bad back pain that it was even painful to stand, walk, sit, or even lay down so I took action and went to physical therapy and they told me since I lost A lot of weight what was working before was my fat and not the muscles so now that we are getting rid of the fat our muscle are lazy and don't want to do the work. Action I took I don't hold my stomach in any more rather I push them out I do thigh and butt exercises like the clams hope this helps you

I agree both of you guys

Hello my VST family before surgery I used to eat special k protein plus which I loved but being out for 3 months I have not tried it I was wondering if anyone have and what was ur experience

Thanks everyone for ur kind words. Just an update Everyone at work stop what they were going to be looking at me and I was ignoring them I was acting like nothing had happen suddenly I will hear whispers and murmurs about me loosing the weight so the few people that did asked me I told them that I had a breast reduction (which true because of the weight lost) and I'm going to zumba classes 5 days a week my grand total of weight lost is 68 lbs but I told my coworkers it was round 25-30 lbs the funny part about of this was when my coworkers started talking about food everything sounded so good while they were munching on some chocolate and I was eating my Protein bar before I took my medical leave I looked like this [ATTACH]3028[/ATTACH] and now [ATTACH]3029[/ATTACH]

non-scale victory...anything that represents something good happening that doesn't have to do with the numbers on the scale, like a compliment, wearing a smaller size clothes, etc.

@ Ssilian NSV means non-scale victory

@ Lissa my doctor gave me this list in binder I can only eat 1 1/2 mini light babybel when I went to talk to the NUT they said if can't eat example 1 pure protien bar + 1 banana try to eat protien first and like then in a later snack ill eat 1/2 the banana but I'm lime I can't get all at the sametime

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Today is my 3 months post-op and for a couple of weeks I've been loosing a ton of hair everyday I take my vitamins and 70-80grams for protein everyday but still my hair is coming so I bought biotin yesterday I hope that this will help with hair lost or and promote more hair this an example of my hair lost