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Part of the reason I was overweight was that I forget to eat. I'm fairly intelligent actually. I often work on a project and don't take time to break for meals. It's not that uncommon. It's terrible for your metabolism. I just read a thread about binge eating, which I can't even imagine a person could do or enjoy...and shockingly enough, I didn't think they were terribly stupid....which is stupider? Or are they both bad and maybe not something to question a person's intelligence over?

I am currently a 32h which I had hoped would change with weight loss. I don't know why I hoped that, because I have always been larger even when I was 100 lbs I was an H cup, but I guess I just hoped they'd magically melt away to pert little B cups LOL At my heaviest 180 I was still an H cup, just bigger around. After the disaster of this surgery I'm not sure I'd go in for a fix as elective surgery just isn't worth the risk for me, but I must admit I've always wanted smaller breasts so it sometimes pops into my mind. Mostly when I'm doing things like bending over (wouldn't that be nice without giving a porn show preview?) or running...let's be honest, I don't run much LOL I could put an eye out or kill myself with the blunt force trauma I'd experience being beaten by the dang things! But in a proper bra they do look good. I seem to dream of salad and pert boobs...there's something wrong with that LOL (And girls with H boobs are NEVER pert unless they are surgically altered).

I was hovering around 40 oz of fluids daily and seeing similar weight losses....lose a bit, then stall for a few weeks, lose a bit more, stall...which isn't the end of the world, but yesterday I decided I have to get behind this fluid issue and get them up. Fluid flushes your kidneys out which allows them the ability to process more fat (that means get it through and out of your system). I drank my 64 oz yesterday, AND Had pasta and wine...and lost half a pound overnight. Today I will be eating better (wednesday is spaghetti night for us) and drinking 64 oz again I also struggle with protein so that's another focus I have to have always in sight. Both are really important in the weight loss game!

I was told two months. I had difficulties with the surgery so that 2 months turned out to be three. Oddly my plate was COMPLETELY gone when I tried my first glass of wine which sucked. Since then I have worked hard to get it back (think, drink drink drink LOL). People talk about how it effects them so much more yada yada, but here's my experience. I can't drink as much as I did, not because it goes to my head, but I just drink slower now a days. I often have half a glass of wine with lunch where in the old days with girlfriends I'd have two. But when I do drink more, (I don't drink for the feeling, just the flavor) it does not go to my head rapidly. I'd say that there is no difference there. I had three glasses of wine at a party over several hours recently and it didn't even effect me. At all. I just enjoyed the flavor. I don't get tipsy at all. Previously three glasses would have made me feel a bit different. I also don't get any sort of hangover at all...except I get a tannin headache if I drink more than two glasses of a highly tannic wine (typically that's going to be reds). I have learned this is not an enjoyable thing so I tend to have one glass of red max unless I know the vintner enough to know it's structure. I can't drink port or ice wines (I don't do high sugar concentrations well) and I can't take more than a sip or two of an after dinner drink without feeling nauseous. I was cleared for a maximum of one glass (he said at a time....so no two fisting LOL...I take that to be one glass when champs is served) of champagne or bubbly wine. That was at four months. It does not bother me at all, but oddly if I take a sip of soda it makes me ill. (The big bubbles verses the small maybe?) Anyhoo, I limit champs to special occasions (like when I go shopping LOL) because carbonation isn't the best choice for us all. So ummmm two months and four LOL did you want the short answer? I just thought I'd share my experience because it's a bit different (and yet my doc says totally fine). Oh the one year rule...I was told for WEIGHT LOSS one year is optimal because that's our highest period of weight loss. I calculate every glass of wine I have into my daily intake for calories, carbs, etc. I don't drink wine over Protein etc.

Am I misunderstanding your post OP? You are pregnant two months past surgery or you had the surgery while pregnant and am now 3 months? If you were pregnant when you had the surgery you need to get into an OBGYN ASAP because the anesthesia can damage a fetus badly. I lost a baby that way (I was 12 days pregnant, too early to test even for a hospital). If I'm reading that wrong and you got pregnant after the surgery you still need to get in asap because early out, in the most important time for fetal development you were not giving the fetus proper nutrition. This does not mean it's a tragedy, but you need to check to see if everything is ok (I am sorry but I don't know if it is or not so I'm not going to lie to you about that). Your OBGYN will then help you through this pregnancy so that it's healthy for the fetus. You need to be doing some calorie supplements likely right away because you are too early in to eat properly for a developing baby. I hope everything is well with you, but you really do need to understand that either way, it's rather urgent that you get to a doctor now.

As you know, I regret this surgery, and I'm probably a good example of someone who shouldn't have had it. If the surgery is cosmetic for anyone (from 180 too 280 LOL) than it's probably not the best choice. If there is a need (comorbidities etc) than it makes more sense (ie the risks are worth it). If your friend is a healthy 180 with no comorbidities and no family history of comorbidities with weight, I'd personally say it's a poor choice. But if that's not her story, than it's...well a different story

8/23 first surgery and late sept was the second (I don't know the date...I was pretty sick) but I'm down almost 47lbs. My starting weight is also kinky cuz first surgery date it was 170 then went up 40lbs LOL so I used the last weigh in at hospital which was 182... I'm 4' 12" I have a lot of plateau's but no issues with my skin or hair so I'll be fine with slow losses (in comparison to others) for now. My scale is currently teasing me with the 141's...moving .1 lbs or so every few days LOL I just want to be 130something before I head to hollywood on the 24th (which I know in hollywood is severely obese, but what the heck...I'll like me LOL)

I guess I read that differently than you did. I read he said fat people syndrome then followed up with thin people having it as well. I actually didn't read anything offensive there...sorry.

Shawn, Dr. Hunter saved my life after my first surgery by another doctor (not a VM doc) went south. You are in EXCELLENT hands. He's an amazing surgeon and a wonderful doctor. The hospital is the best I've been in (and with a sick child I've been in dozens). They saved my life, literally. You can't get better care.

BTW there is such a thing as "silent GERD" which is actually worse than typical GERD. The reason it's worse is that people don't know of the damage being caused by the acids until it's done a great deal of damage. (We had that too....we had it all LOL) If you would now like a lecture on eosiniphilic esophagitis (probably not spelled that way) I can do that as well as atypical cystic fibrosis.....you name it, we wondered if it was the problem LOL

You're gonna be great baby!!!!! When you are able, send me an email to tell me how you're doing or post here and I'll follow this thread (just in case you are extra tired). I'll be thinking healthy thoughts and you got one of my special passes!!!!!! Smooches and hugs from far far away!!!

happy birthday darling!!!!!!!!

Sannah I hope you have a restful night and that things settle down. I'm sorry you are going through all of this and hope you get to a good ending of this rocky road soon!!!

The best response to a negative idiot is to confront them back. They want you to feel badly and make excuses so try responding "Yes I had the gastric sleeve, is there a problem with that?" They can then say their stupidity and you should not over react...respond, "Thank you for sharing, you obviously don't understand the process" any other responses can be met with "good to know" or other non phrase that leaves them with nothing to say Keep saying "good to know" without arguing...it blows the wind out of a person's sails so quickly it's kind of a trip to watch

I take a gummy from costco that has all but Iron and b12. I take a sublingual b12 and a separate iron chewable (chocolate which masks the flavor) as well as separate calcium (as you shouldn't take calcium with iron). I like the gummies from costco and they are recommended by my surgeon and nut WITH the added others. It works for me. My blood work keeps coming back great.

I'm with Traci. I haven't had any issues with head hunger either. The discomfort of eating right after being sleeved really takes that desire to eat away. I remember early out from my second surgery thinking what a pain in the arse eating was and wanting to go from five small meals to four because it was such a hassle This was when I was eating about 1/4 cup of food per meal. Three months out from that surgery and I sometimes think that something might taste good. Last night I thought maybe a chocolate might be good and given I don't believe in having this surgery to say no forever to food, I had one. Well I had a few nibbles of a truffle a friend of mine made us for the holidays. A few nibbles...of something that should be one bite LOL and I was happy to enjoy the flavor but had zero desire to finish it! That's a great change IMO And I don't feel deprived at all!

Frank, I believe that toe pain is only a symptom if it's on the right side And maybe you should chat with Liz, who I also worried...she did have a leak and reacted quickly because I'm such a horror. She's just now home from hospital and doing better thank god. I'm sorry you were so worried...and yet not at all sorry that Liz was given she got help quickly. For the record, I've told people many times that their symptoms are NOT likely signs of a leak. I'm very glad that your recovery has been exemplary and you haven't had any issues at all. I wish 100% of these surgeries was like that. I honestly do.

I'm glad to hear that Sarah. I will admit to a high level of frustration in seeing how many people take risks with their lives for a piece of chicken, popcorn, whatever it is, but advancing their doctor's diets. It frustrates me because I don't want anyone to suffer the financial or physical pain associated with making bad choices. It's not a cheat when it's right after surgery...it's Russian roulette, which sounds sexier to play than it probably really is. Best of luck in your recovery! I'm glad it was easy.

Ashlee I wish I'd have had your doctor. He sounds like a great guy. Mine was not so much I had a similar existence to you...I wasn't unhealthy and wasn't having issues. I didn't hate myself. I wanted to be thinner, but I was also socially active, comfortable being in the public eye (part of my life) and my family was finally in a good place after having dealt with my son's illness for six years. In my mind what I think of is how I made my son scared. He's six and life has been hard for him. So I take the one time in his life that things are good and go and mess them up...knocking his world for a loop. Then on a purely selfish level, the pain...the pain I endured was, previous to me, unimaginable. Seizures...full body, laying in that damn chair knowing that my body was going to feel this all over charlie horse like pain, over and over and over again for more than a day...I don't know, maybe 30 hours. I couldn't walk, talk, anything. I would just feel the waves of pain over and over. I hate my doctor for that. There was more pain, but that alert yet helpless feeling...honestly, I feel deep down hate for him allowing that to happen to me. Liz, my family was very supportive, but even my dearest DH was kind of clueless as to what the significance of the issues were. When they were calling in the chaplin my husband was celebrating that we had a diagnosis. "Yea we have a leak" was sort of his focus, which made sense because with our son all we did was fight the lack of a diagnosis, but I knew what a leak meant, so the diagnosis scared the crap out of me. This website was a godsend to me when I was suffering. I'll never forget what people did for me Just a moment of their thought helped immensely.