michele911

I agree you should do your best to follow the doctors orders, they are after all the experts. However I wouldn't beat yourself up to much. We all have food addictions, and your doctor is well aware of that, or you wouldn't be trying to get the surgery in the first place. I wasn't on a liquid diet. Just told to watch what I eat and no caffeine for a whole week before the surgery. Unfortunately I was addicted to caffeine what I call a Pepsi-aholic. 7-9 cans of regular pepsi a day. I broke and had couple cans a day. I was afraid They would cancel my surgery, but they didn't. I told them the day of the surgery my last can of pepsi was at 4pm the day before, they went ahead with the surgery anyway. I haven't craved a pepsi since, and because I was having issues with the anesthesia for a couple of days, I didn't even have to go through the caffeine withdraw. ( if I did, I didnt notice because I was to busy being sick from the anesthesia) I don't know if your doctor will go through with your surgery if you continue to break your diet. My advice is to follow your doctors plan, or expect that it may be a real possibility to have to reschedule your surgery. But rest assured he knows some of the people that say they follow the diet, really didn't. I would always tell the truth, after all your life is more important than pulling the wool over your doc's eyes.

I ate watermelon about 4 weeks post op. I figured since it could be easy to mush up and its mostly water, it would be ok. I did have some discomfort but nothing to serious. I found that all I had to do was wait a few more weeks and I had no problem. At 6 weeks post op I could tolerate about anything, Though I am still taking it easy on a few things that I got some stern warnings about like bread and the skin of fruit and vegetables. Sometimes I'll even eat a few bites of that just to see how well my stomach can tolerate it. So far so good. I'm almost 8 weeks out now, My advise is to try things slow, just a few bites just to make sure your stomach is ready for it. Soon enough you'll be doing great.

I'm 6 weeks post op today and have lost 37 pounds. I get to start lifting weights today cant wait, I actually enjoy lifting, I know that is weird for a girl but I'm 5'10" and never get bulkly. Plus a little muscle would look great compared to the fat I've been carrying around for 20 years. I'm not as psyched to start cardio. I'm still 294 lbs and Cardio is still very hard for this weight on my knees. So I'm going to try hiking, zumba and rowing for my cardio, instead of the usual treadmill and arobics. I am hoping with the weight lifting and my version of cardio I can tighten the skin and not have so much, if any skin hang. I think I'm doing pretty good weight loss wise. I'm already fitting into my old clothes I've been saving for years just in case I lost the weight. If my weight loss keeps going this way, I believe I really have a shot at loosing 100 lbs. in 4-6 months. That would be amazing. Congratulations to all of you who are making weight loss progress no matter how fast or slow.

I'm 3 weeks and 1 day out since my surgery. I have lost 30 lbs today. This has been amazing, my future looks bright again.

I'm only 3 weeks post op, so I dont have any facts yet, but I am hopeing that it will enable me to reach the big "O" easier. It was easier before I gained all this weight, but I dont know if its a physical thing or just a self esteem issue.

I understand where he's coming from. I married and not interested in dateing, but people who treated you bad just because you were heavy will not get a free pass when your skinny. They are superficial and shallow, and I dont want to be friends with people like that.

I am only 3 weeks post-op, I dont have dumping syndrome, apparently it could happen but is rare. everything is going fine. Ive lost 28 pounds so far. I did alot of research myself on both surgerys. All the research I have read indicates this is equal to or safer than RNY. Which makes sence, since they are sealing only one potental leakage spot with this surgery ( stomach ) and several in the RN (the pouch, the rest of the stomache, the intestine conection and disconnection locations) I was also not wanting to get to skinny. I know several people who got the RNY and they look deflated, and sunken in. RNY surg can bring you to 95% loss of exess weight loss, and the sleeve is estimated between 85 and 80%. I still want to have a little softness, I dont want to resemble skelator.