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I hate to be the bearer of. As news but if I was In your shoes I'd want to know so here it goes..... I also started w the premier Protein shakes from Costcoi only had the vanilla and it was doable I had no complaints but thennnnm I noticed the label said it was made w whey protein CONCENTRATE not whey protein isolate who j is what we need. Skipping to the chase I called Premier Protein and asked whAt grade pdcaaas score their shake was and I was surprised they admitted their score was only s ONE out of 100. What does that mean? In short it means that Ur not getting the. 30g of protein the can says you're getting. I researched and found that most if not all Protein Shakes r also concentrate. So I called injury who scores 100 out of 100 and I ordered that. It hasn't come yet do I can't comment on if it tastes good or not but at least I'll know I'm getting 21h per drink ...if anyone wants more inf google pdcaaas scores and feel free to call the co that makes Ur shake and ask w what their score is. I'm so upset I waisted 5 weeks getting duped w how much protein I was getting. I hope this helps someone xo

Sorry that loser said that to u.....what u should of said was "oh my. .u must have misread your jockstrap size for my shirt size...."

Did u mean older guys that look like the pretty young boys? If so I left the word "look" out and it sounds like Ur stalling Him a pedophile

Just had a thought. Is anyone savvy enough to make a grid of all of our Wt loss for jan sleeves? If so it would be a great motivator for us to report our wt loss along our journey. Any thoughts?

Hello everyone. I was sleeved 3 weeks ago in jan and im down 13. 3/4. Since morning of surgery. Lets keep going!!!!!

Janette---im 2 weeks out today and I totally hear you......nevertheless.......dob't forget that 6 mos out youll beeating much more than u r now--it takes 6-9nos---andsometimeseven longer for thestomach to land on ultimate size itll be---the goal isnt forusto live deprived-thegoal is that we eat anything we want in moderation......for now.....put some a-1sauce in your burger to hold u over....

thats a great system grey bc i was thinking samething-that once i get leftovers home id be able to eat more by then so waiting till next day as per your rule is a great idea! but u let yourself have it for lunch right? which would be say 18hrs not 24......you're not literal about the24 hrs r u? also....mizz...i was wondering--do u stop eating bc youre full or bc u cant fit anymore in? i ask bc when i was preop everyonesaid id be 'full' after couple of bites----but nowthat im postop-2 weeks today---i find that my hungerissame as before----butthen i eat--and several bites in i get this feeling of-----almost bad indigestion and i haveto stop eating bc of it----so im stopping bc of that uncomfortablefeeling NOT bc i no longer feel hungry.................im still on purees and hoping when i moveto solids itll bedifferent------does anyone identify w my experience?

dana...i wonder if aybeu need either a higher dose of the prevacid or maybe a different brand......r u making sure ur taking it on an empty stomach and then not eting for at least 30 min after taking it???

Am I undertanding correctly...you lost 14 lbs in one day..the day of surgery??? I'm also a few days post op and as i was leaving hospital I was shocked that the clothes i had worn to teh hospital 3 days earluer no longer fit me....bc they were TOO SMALL!!!.....I was so upset.....in the 12 days priot i had nly eaten twice...and i'm bigger?...i snuck on scale in hospital and i was only down 1lb...1lb aftwe 12 days of no food???............the nurse talked me off the ledge telling me that my stomach was very swollen from surgery and further distended from all the IV fluids and no bowel movement in 3--4 days......so ok...i had to actually wear a hospital gown home as the shirt i wore to the hospital was now fitting like a half shirt and i looked 9mos pregnant.......so anyway....here i am now home from the hospital couple days and that same shot just cam eout of the wash so i tried it on and it fit again!......i gavent weighed in yet but im hoping things r movng in the right direction..............bu i still cant get over that you lost 14lbs in one day...was that a typo???...if not....can i ask if youre ocming form a higher number?...sometimes higer bumbers lose faster.

I haven't been in this grou since I joined it...ha sthere been any activity?....As for me...i'm getting sleeved in about 12 hrs..tick tock tick tock...............Is tere enough of us here that someone can start a spreadsheet chart to document our wt loss?...It would definatey keep us motivated..i'm not computer savvy enough to do it...anyone here up for the task???? Wish me luck...i'm goin in!

Oakley Girl......this is the exact same struggle I have battled..going back and forth with the whole 'how can i mutilate a perfectly healthy stomach'?...but then i thought about it..how healthy is my stomach really?...more often then not so many with food issues lay in bed feeling bloated and barely able to move from having overeaten....the hormones in this healthy' stomach make people hungry all day long and push them to binge.......and feeling so bloated and overwt makes most withdraw from social situations..photos....events..parties...jobs...vacations....etc......and when i put it all together like that i realize..hey...maybe my stomach isn't as healthy as i thought it was....now i think of this surgery more of a 'corrective surgery'.....it's actually a pretty simple surgery...all theyre doing in making your stomach smaller. and your new smaller stomach actually WILL be healthy. Besides...think about it..the reality is that if youre going to lose teh wt you want to lose you'll have to go on a strict restrictive diet--with without the sleeve---either ay-youll have to restrict--with the sleev though youll restrict without the hunger so it makes it so much easier....then...in about a year or 2 once youve settled in with it all and youre ready for maintenance....the added bonus is that your sleevd stomach will adjust with you as by then youll be eating the way a naturally thin person eats....You went thorugh all the hoops to get approved by insurance...and im sure u researched it beforehand.so obviously you want it....youre just getting scared..I totally get it...it's natural.....I say feel the fear and do it anyway!.....feel free to send me a msg privately anytime.....xo

gmanbat,,,,,you know taht old adage...'teh definitoon of insanity is trying the same thing over and oevr and epecting a different result'?....well......would diet and eercieto loe wt not fit erfectly under that?.....if i put my hair in a pont tail holder--it will gather together...but the inute i remove the holder my hair will fall freely once again. Diet and eercise is no different.....so long as one is doing it it will keep teh wt down....but it is not realistically sustainable and as soon as we revert to a more realistic way of eating teh wt will return. this isnt a weight struggle....the wt is a side effcet...in those with lifelong struggles w wt this i a metabolic imbalance...no different than diabetes...except the imbalance is in different horones (though often including insulin). The only way that wt will stay off will be if she engages in a low carb lifestyle.....as carbs alter our hormones and eating low carb alters hormones in favor of wt loss an dwt maintenance. Notice i said low carb lifestyle not low car diet.....teh difference? a diet implies a begining and an end....a lifestyle is an acceptance that she can no longer eat large amounts of carbs if she wanst to sustain her wt where she wanst it. The first 3 days on low carn are the hardest as you need to 'deto yourself..after that the cravings go away and you can coast and teh binges go away. For me i had to go very low carb for it to work...i did Atkins years ago and for teh first tie in my life the binges and onsession to food stopped....i ate all i wanted but no carbs...bevr really getting much past induction (the strictest low carb phase of atkins)...i actually stayed on that way of eating for 15 years...yes YEARS....15 years!.....during that tie i was able to maintain my wt in the 170s for the most part.....150 is a bikini body for me due to my frame and muscle mass from years of hard exercising. I pretty much worse a size 10 and a medium/large....my downfall?......i got pregnant and drs forced me to eat carbs......i did....and now almost 3 ys later i havent been able to get back on the low carb wagon as being without carbs so long i was able to stay away...but once i got a tast of them again my addiction to them went into full swing....today i am at my all time heaviest...i weigh 226....thugh last year i was 200....for the firt time in my life i have not 'dieted or watched what im eating ' and in fact i have given in to every damn craving i have had......i suffered a great tragedy a year and a half ago and it mad em just give up and give in.......so here i am....at my all time high....soeone who has worked out enough in their lives to be an olympic athlete (2 hrs a day 7 days a week for most of my life.....though olympic athletes do 6hrs a ay....u geteh idea)...anyway....youd think that someone like me would never be this overwt let alone need wt loss suergery.......yet i am... and i do.... Sadly your daughter...like most people...will have to accept that she has a choice....either struggle with these 30lbs up and down for the rest of her life.....or decide she can live a low carb lifestyle........and while tehre are many who eat lareg amts of carbs and stay thin by losing on jenny craig or other low calorie diets....they likely do not have a metabolic imbalance......if she has been struggling w her wt her whole life...or for many years...she likely does...especially since both of her parents had problems in this area. sorryto b the beareer of bad news......but the upside is that science is now accepting that ghrelin and leptin are hormones that play a large role in wt regulation (which wls auto corrects)....and as such tehy are working on new mdications that will be ghrelin 'blockers' and wor similarly the way diabetes meds work on insulin. Nevertheless.....dont epect any meds of this natur eto be out for at least 10-15 years as the wheels of the FDA work very...very slow.

ayyejayce.....i get how you feel bc i don't have any support either....but look at it this way....in everyone going through vls there are 2 voices...one that says go for it...thi sis the best thing u could do for yourself....and teh other little voice that every so often pops up and asks if im crazy for doing this...am i mutilating myself?...panics that its not reversible...fears complications...etc etc tec....but then the 1st voice ultimately prevails in those that go through w it bc w ethink of teh daily suffering...teh countless indignities....the lack if living afull life....the sheltered bubble we more and mre put ourselves in as the humbers on teh scale climb............so ok....imagine if we only had the 2nd voice,,,the one with all teh doubts....but we didnt have teh 1st voice......and tehre was no promise of the freedom that would finally come for you after years of suffering....would u do it then? if it was all doom and gloom without any upside?....NO...ofcourse you woldb't...none of us would....well guess what...your MOther...your husband.....etc.....they only have the 2nd voice....what is something happens to my wife? my daughter?...and they don't have teh other voicee combatting teh doubts with the possible taste of true living awaiting in the wings......your mother and husbnad only stand to 'lose' in this equation.....if you don't hav eteh surgery they don't have to worry and possibly lose the life tehy are used to.....if you do have the surgery they only stand to 'lose'.......and they have nothing to 'gain' from u doing it. nOne of this happens on a conscious level...but automatically we are all wire dto protect ourselves and your doing this surgery can only pose a threat to them and them needing to worry about you. ...and lets not forget that your husband has the added quotient of your social acceptability factor going way up and thus posing a threat to his losing you. i'm sure thanksgiving eve is the least wanted day for this surgery as everyone looks fwd to pigging out on tday.....but believe me id grab that date if it was offere dto me....im still preop and hoping for a jan 2013 date. years from now it will seem like pure ignorance when peopel look v=back at the constant ridiculous 'dont be lazy just diet and eercise and it will come off' routine thrown at those struggling w their wt.....it's pure ignorance......we all have a metabolic disorder no different than diabetes...ecept instead of just insulin disregulation we also have ghrelin and leptin imbalances.....(studies have shown that now).....and this surgery corrects that on 2 fronts....by removing the grelin the leptin is automatically elevated... .DO IT. I'LL SUPPORT YOU....WE ALL WILL. ....email me anytime...xoxoxoxo

Hello everyone....i'm still pre-op and hoping for a Jan 2013 date...... I was actually thinking of asking the surgeon if he could give me a 'larger sleeve'......this is my thinking....I wuold love to eat the amount a naturally thin person eats and be full....but i wouldnt love to eat 1-2 tablespoons and be full.....i mean that would be ok for the first month or so in recovery but i wouldnt love that for the rest of my life..... i know many women who r tiny and eat slice of pizza either alone or maybe with a salad and are full...menawhile i need several slices..usually 4...sometimes 5....and i have many times eaten the entire pie in one sitting...(but only when i order it delivered---if i eat out i get 2 slices and sometimes go back for a 3rd).....9i mention this so u all can see the carn moster i am dealing with)... having said that.....i would love to be able to eat 1 slice---or 1 slice with a side salad and be done.......so is asking for a larger sleeve a reality? is my thinking flawed? will a larger sleev slow my wt loss? I see you all have stressed that there isnt much difference in the bougie size and it depends on if its a tight stitch etc......i understand that.....but having said that....and correct me if i'm wrong....but wouldnt those extra mm left behind allow for more stretching whie eating so maybe while not allowing for stretching its only 2tsp or 2tb difference---once food is ingested is it accurate that those few mm would allow for say 1/3 or 1/2 more of a sandwich? i don't want to overeat anymore but i dont want to et like a cancer patient either......i there ny way of adjuting the pouch so i can eat less but normal??? any insight would be appreciated...thx

you know what.....it's nothing more than ignorance....people that have resorted to wls do so not bc they are lazy...but just the opposite...lazy would be doing nothing....rather...resorting to have wls takes much courage..strength...and fortitude...qualities thtare rarely found. It has been my experience that many who condescend wls patients do so bc they lack the courage to do it themselves. Furthermore...i have found that just bc 2 people weigh the same does not mean that they both have the same underlying issues thatgot them to that wt and as such..just bc their wt is the same does not mean that they r both appropriate psych candidates for surgery. For instance--thereare many my size who are that size bc they culturally enjoy big meals with family..cooking...and all that goes with the family tradition....i know many who tell me they havent even tried to diet since they were teens and now theyre in their 40s--50s.... in fact... my friend growing up was never overwt--i always was...she has never dieted in her life---i have never not been on a diet....we go back to when we were 15...she would go back and forth bwn being in a bikini to being just over that......i woudl diet like crazy and struggle every day of my life just t maintain......anyway...flash over to now and shes approx 350lbs.....how it happened i really dont know but it seemed overnight---anyway...guess what....shes never once even thought about going on a diet....when i try and gently nudge her to watch what she eats for her healthy she couldn't be bothered...she says that shes going to continue to eat what she wants and the wt will be whatever its meant to be..it surprisingly doesnt see to affect her at all and she never once complains about it and never once in her life has she exercised ...yet i average 1-2 hrs a day of exercise 7 days a week for most of my life....as such......even though i weigh about 120lbs less than her...I am a wls surgery candidate...and in my opinion...she is not. or would she ever even consider wls). Lastly...I was reading a medical journal recently that said that wls will no longer be called wls inteh s=future and instead it will have a more fitting name of 'metabolic surgery' and it said that many hospitals have already changed their units name to accomodate for the shift in thinking and teh realization of how sugery can drastically help diebetes patients. WHether many realize it or not---wls is mostly about teh hormonal shift (ghrenlin removal/reduction) than anything else....and in teh fiture the article said their will be mediaction that will 'block ghrenlin' production much like insulin is given to control diabetes. So in conclusion....i stand ny what i originally said...it's nothing ore than ignorance....and its quite sad that it is teh last bastion of acceptable discrimination inyhis country......but you know what....go ahead and let those nurses 'die fat' as they said.....you'll be out shopping for your skinny jeans and too busy to even notice.... xo