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I don't k know what to do with that information. Lol. Is that good, bad, !? I think you're right though, I'll set attainable goals. Makes a lot more sense.

Oh my gosh! Did everyone survive? There are some crazy crazy people in this world.

Dr. Garcia, 200%

Why are members here so against people saying they are hungry? It does happen. Not ALL sleevers come out on the other side free of hunger pangs. I know the difference between Hunger and head hunger. I don't so much know the difference between acid and hunger though. I can be walking with my daughter and not even thinking about food in the least, and feeling hungry. Wanna scarf down a whole turkey hungry. I'm on Dexilant, have been for almost a month now. Maybe I need a new ppi? Actually, I have to becaise that stuff is $40/ month with no generic. Or maybe, just maybe, it's actual hunger!? Wwyd?

I could stop it for a few days and see what happens. Maybe. That way I could closely monitor hunger vs. acid. I don't know of I'm that brave. This feeling I have is empty, a little bit of a burn and a lot of times it's burpy/bubbly. Does that sound like hunger? I've recently started working out and I'm almost 6 weeks. I didn't notice this at all during my liquids phase, I was so amazed that I had NO hunger. Started the Dexilant a week and a Half out. I'll try nexium next John.

I take it. I've never had actual reflux bit I do feel hunger and hoped it was just acid. Seems that I'm actually hungry. I just deal.

Thanks for the pics!! Look at tiny you!! You also look super fun!! Way to go!! Last night I laid out my socks am hoes for my workout this morning. Got up at 6 am and did it!! I even slept in my bra. If I'm not wearing it I'm WAY too comfy and I'm afraid I'd skip out and just lay in bed and read vst. I'm Happy to report that I did not get sick this time! I made it through the entire video. I think it is because last week I wasn't getting in near as much fluids as I am now.yay!! Now. I still don't love the actual exercise. It's a lot easier to sit on the Couch. But sitting on the couch is what got me to where I am. Yesterday I did arms. Tomorrow I do lower body. Thursday I walk away the lbs again and then friday is suppose to be my off day (w sat and sun) but I don't know, since I just realized I don't have a core day. Friday will probably have to be that. (Oh, also went for a slow paced walk w my 4 year old daughter, pushing the baby, today) This will work for a while. Then I'll have to find a fun way to spice it up.

If you're just starting out, Leslie sansones walk at home DVDs are good. I'm about to go do mine.

That's cool Amanda, I'll check it out in depth later.were pretty far from anything unfortunately, so the stuff on the list wouldn't be able to be done often. Oh how I wish we lived closer to places to hike etc. SO FUN!!! Anyone wanna be my "fake it til you make it" partner?

Hahaha I'd probably watch and say "dang! Look at that guy go!!! At least he's doing something about it!!" 20 lbs is very impressive. That's actually a really good idea. thanks!

Oh and I DO feel amazing after a workout! Maybe I'll learn to love it again!?

I walk at the lark w the kids about once a week. I could make it more often, maybe twice a week. Any more and I'm afraid ill burn myself out on it. With walking in the park, I can stop for a minute here and there and I don't get my heart rate quite as high as it gets w walk at home dvd's. those are good workouts but sleevie starts feeling all kinds of pukey. Maybe I'll try again now that a week has passed. Things change quickly in these first few weeks after surgery. . I don't mind cardio, I really don't, it's weights that just bore me to tears. I have ADD though and find it really hard to focus. Bad thing is, I need that the most. I'll probably just fake it til I make it. I always wish I was moving more when I do weights. I'm in Missouri. I take my kids as my buddies. I have an 8 lb kettle bell I've never really done anything with. Maybe I can find some moves to do with that on YouTube. I also have a flight of stairs in my home I can run up and down x Amy of times daily. Gmanbat- GREAT INFO!! I'm so using that. I appreciate all the input and ideas, and kicks in the rear. I really do. (Hug)

I'm 5 weeks out and as far as family gatherings and food, I'm in LOVE with my sleeve!!! I don't know about you, but I've been on a diet for my entire life, or since I was 12. I would go to family functions during all these different diets feeling strong willed & crash and burn and feel like crap about myself every time. It might or might not set me into a spiral that included a ton of gorging myself on stuff that's led me crave more junk and more more more until i hated myself. Again. Today my dh bbq'd and I made all the fixins last night and today. Things I Love. I have done really well on this new way of living and I thought last night I'd indulge in some suddenly salad. Complete junk, but I'm a firm believer in moderation. Anyway, got myself 1/4c and before it was gone, I was done. I gave the rest to my son. I remember when I was pre w my first daughter, making suddenly sala an eating the whole box. I call last nights "cheat" a success. Today was the BBQ. I made the deviled eggs low carb and had one deviled egg an the filling from 1 1/2 eggs. Then I very slowly indulged in one chip. I'm not even kidding. After this BBQ, I was telling my dh how much I looooove my sleeve. I would have eaten 2 and a half plates in the past. (Back up, I would have "licked the spoons" to everything I made) and then dessert. Probably a lot of leftover Easter candy. SUCCESS!!! I don't miss pigging out and feeling like a slug. I do enjoy being with friends and family, tasting this and that, eating my healthy meal and being done. And feeling good about myself afterwards. I looooove My sleeve and can't imagine ever going back even if I were given the opportunity.

??? this is news to me. why are people trying to scare me? can someone shed light on this?

Lol this thread is so old.

SURE goodness, phone.

It would come and go from painful to I'm pretty sire I'm dieing over that week and a half. Not all are painful. My blood clots were rare, apparently. There was a fancy name for them but I threw away my discharge papers. I am pretty sore "mesenteric" (sp?) portal vein thrombosis was one. I mean I know it was but I'm not sore how you spell that. Yeah. The drs here are less than smart it seems. One dr. Literally told me "it's heartburn, you just need to let your pouch heal". He refused to say sleeve. Even overheard him outside the door say she had (whisper) gastric bypass" No idiot. I didn't.

Yep, in the hospital I was on a heparin drip an thy checked my blood uh, thickness? Every 9 hours I believe it was. I'm now on a blood thinner for 6 mos or so.

Mine was intra abdominal. I was fine until a week out. It actually started when I ate puréed cream of chicken Soup. I had maybe an oz of it and as soon as i was done it felt like someone was ripping apart my bottom 3 ribs on both sides. Very painful. I could tell that my spleen and pancreas weren't happy. A Protein drink did it the next day an then after a couple l days of everything making it happen I just stayed with clear liquids. Then I had extreme abdominal pain for about another week and a half. By extreme I mean nothing made it stop but one of dh's percocets and I hate taking narcotics. It took 3 er visits and a pointless visit w a jerk dr. To find out what the problem was.

For me, I really hated myself and hated my life. My self esteem was so low that I would barely leave my house. I was embarrassed to go to my kids school events. My weight (and super short height) made it VERY hard to buy clothes that fit or that reflected who I am. I literally had 3 t- shirts that I bought at Walmart in the men's department for 3 at 4th of July. 2 were exactly the same and one was a gray version. These shirts were also seen on just about every far poor man in our town. (Navy w a us flag) I felt frumpy and dumpy and ugly. I was a shell of who I once was as a younger, thinner (but never skinny) more active me. I had serious depression from all of this and was becoming more of a recluse and fatter because of it. What else is there to do? Guess I'll eat this whole box of Cadbury eggs. The week before surgery I went into a store in the mall becaise I saw hot pink t shirts that made me happy. Nothing in my size. It was a great big smack in the face, reminding me WHY I was going to get surgery. I wanted it so bad I could taste it. MY POINT BEING: maybe those that regret the surgery just thought "oh my gosh ill be like SO skinny like SO FAST!! I can't wait to be skinny, yeahhhh". Maybe they didn't hate their life and really would be ok with themselves if they were just living in the fast lame again. I didn't get this surgery to be skinny, (although skinny would be nice, yes?) I got this surgery to save my life. To get Amy back. And I was willing to fight for it dang it. I knew tere would be pain. I pictured myself laying in a hospital with blood clots. I pictured myself w a structure. Envisioned being miserable with a stent for 6 weeks and every move making me nauseous. I knew this was my answer and that even if I suffered all of the above, I'd still be a better me in the end. ***. Side note to Laura, some of the Protein drinks don't just taste bad, they are repulsive. Sometimes My body yells that is not food, it's poison!!" And I get a nauseous feeling with every drink. So I kinda get where the Protein Drink haters are ck oh my gosh from. Also, I did not proofread becaise I'm lazy and I'm on my IPHONE. lol our pc's are lame and the screens screw with my eyes. Such is life.

The stuff that happened to me didn't have anything to do with dr. Garcia. Even though the nurse here in the US in the ER wasn't being completely nice about the fact that I got my surgery in TJ (" so were you just in TJ and decided to get surgery?" Uh. Sure. We were vacationing and just got wild hairs up our.......) she did have to admit that "this complication has nothing to do with surgery technique though, actually, your body just wanted to clot." And dr. Garcia and Luna both, have been emailing me about my progress. Super sweet. I'd love to go back in a year and just have lunch w dr. Garcia and his wife.

I LOVE dr. Garcia. He's he sweetest, most soft spoken humble man. Seriously. And he still responds to my emails. His wife helps him answer them sometimes because his English isn't as good, but he speaks English good enough to get a point across. . My favorite emails from dr. Garcia are the ones he actually answers himself with the typos and silly mistakes. <3. Seriously, can you tell how much I like him? And I'm the type of person that doesn't trust anyone, and I 120% felt at ease letting him take out a big hunk of my stomach. Hehe. Can't rave enough about him.

I loved dr. Garcia and Ready 4 a Change and would definitely recommend them again. I had my surgery at mi, apparently right before dr. Garcia started working at florence hospital. I wouldn't recommend Mi doctor. It's so small! Like of you think small, think smaller. When i walked the tiny L hallway & would get to the tinier end I would wonder every time of it was actually worth it to walk there because there was so much stuff put there that should be behind the nurses station instead of in our way where we have to walk w our fat butts + iv poles. My room. I'm pretty sure us girls that went alone got the crappiest rooms. My room was SO tiny. Like I couldn't get between the foot of the bed and the wall without turning sideways and even then I was squeezing. I am a fatty bit my bmi was only 39, to give you a visual. Oy. The noise. sleeping next to the border was near impossible for me. At night, sometimes I'd come out of my room for something (like tp) and there was noone to be found. Good thing I didn't have an emergency. I just walked behind the station and grabbed some. Paper towels. Sigh. Whatever. There was good too though. Some of the nurses didn't speak English but I mean. I was in THEIR country so I kinda expected lt. They were really sweet and one in particular got her laptop out and showed me that she had a translator on it. So sweet. She was really pretty too. Anyway. They were all very sweet. When I woke up in recovery I was actually next to a girl that was fast asleep with bandages all over her nose because shed just gotten a nose job. Awkward. As I came more to, I got to watch the monitor that dr. Garcia was using for another surgery. So cool! Now. I've never been to Florence Hospital, so I don't know how it compares. Isn't there another surgeon here that works there? Is it Kelly? But ready 4 a change was AWESOME, even after my surgery when I had complications and called alma, she still helped me get ahold of dr. Luna. Who by the way is a total cutie. <3. I love that I met some vsters and sleeve sisters. The whole experience will always be dear to my heart. <3

Man it's hard not to! I've had a pretty hard time in the three weeks and I think my weightloss is pretty good. Literally 21 lbs in 21 days. Truly, I'm fine with that. But then you log in and see someone whose breezed through everything and lost 50 lbs in 6 weeks. (Halfway to goal which means she had 100 to lose just like me) I'm positive I won't lose 30 more lbs in the next three weeks since the dreaded stall is about to find me most likely, and even though inWAS just fine with my weightloss, now I'm dissapointed. Lol. I try not to read those threads but sometimes it just creeps up on ya. So. I'd love to hear from others whose weight isn't just falling off them.