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This is my first cycle since I was sleeved. I have always had one or two days each month when my appetite is markedly increased. I am having those days right now. I have noticed that my mind is wandering to carbs. I am just filling my belly with protein on a regular basis. I have also been stalled for several days. I am hoping that once I start, my stall will end.

Do take out. My husband orders a meal and adds on snow crab legs for me. All I want Is the crab anyway. He doesn't eat bread so we just tell them to leave the biscuits behind.

I am three weeks out. For the first couple of weeks I had no hunger at all. Within the last week, I get some sensation in my belly that I associate with waiting too long to eat. It does not feel like hunger as I remember it. It is sort of a hollow feeling but not insistent like the old hunger. Just a signal that I need to eat. And then, 2oz is all it takes to fill me up. Since I am eating to reach protein goals right now, I choose things like cottage cheese, a boiled egg or some deli chicken. I will occasionally throw in two pretzel sticks or a saltine cracker. I miss the crunch. If I want something sweet, I have a SF popsicle. Food right now is really just a means to get to the protein goal end. I predict you will feel much the same way.

I think Gemini is talking about what I also read. Telogen Effluvium is the temporary excessive loss of hair which is in it's resting phase. The issue for us, I guess, is trying to determine if the precipitating factor is something we have control over. In other words, can we do something to insulate ourselves from this shock that causes a bunch of hair to suddenly, simultaneously enter the resting phase and thus be irretrievably doomed to fall out some weeks later. The hair loss is so normal to WLS, I have to conclude that it is inevitable and I will just have to live through it.

My "softs" started at week 2. I eat quite a bit of cheese. Mostly cottage, fresh mozzarella and Colby-jack squares.

There are a bunch of theories on here about why. A different thing I read said that at any given time, 90% of our hair is actively growing and 10% is dormant. The individual hairs, I mean. It is a constant process. Approximately 120 days after going dormant, the individual hair falls out and a new one starts actively growing When your body has a shock, I.e., the surgery and several days of starvation, about 50% of the individual hairs go dormant all at once. So about three months or so after the shock, a bunch of hair falls out. The article I read said if your hair falls out two to four months after surgery, it is the shock. After that, it is probably protein/vitamin deficiency.

My surgeon permits crackers and pretzels at two weeks out. As long as you chew them to a paste they should not hurt you. But carbs like that often don't feel good and feel stuck. Maybe just one cracker to start the next time you want one. I am in sympathy with you. I REALLY wanted a cracker by two weeks out. I ate one and had no ill effects. I eat one with my cheese sometimes.

I am 47. There are bunches of us. I had no difficulty with the surgery. Doctors are strange. Mine told me that he expected me to do well because I am "young and free of cardiac complications". So remember, by medical definition, you are young.

I had blood work and an EKG plus the usual vitals. Also a little interview about history and meds for their chart.

Starr, I agree with the poster who said her inability to get food down coincided with constipation. That happens to me too. Very frustrating. I actually get nauseous.

That is so awesome! Congratulations. I home my stall will end soon.

Oops. I just noticed I misread your question. I had pain meds (lortab), nausea meds (phenergan) and nexium as my post op meds. I then added a sugar free fiber supplement. Also, vitamins twice a day and calcium. I think that is fairly common amongst most new sleevers.

My surgeon always calls in the post op meds prior to surgery. He says he does not want his patients having to go out to get them after surgery.

It is totally obvious! And you are losing it all over. You have lost a bunch of weight in your face.

You may be craving salt. When that happened to me, I sucked on a dill pickle slice and that took care of my salt craving.

I am in my first stall. I will be at three weeks tomorrow. The first two weeks I lost 18 pounds but since day 15, nothing. So, I have no advice for getting out of the stall, but sure look forward to others answering.

I think it was a reasonable assumption if the surgeon didnt mention it. Also, doctors are so different, anything could be true.

I don't think my staples will ever dissolve. The surgeon told me they were titanium.

I am not diabetic but I was heading in that direction. In fact, that was my main motivation for surgery. My fasting blood sugar was running between 100 and 110. The day of my surgery, they came in and checked my blood sugar and it was 170! I had been fasting for a day and a half at that point. They gave me a shot of insulin (my first and last) in the hospital. It started trending down after that. By the time I was released, it was in the 90s. Did anyone else see their blood sugar shoot up after surgery?

I see two things on your list of regularly eaten foods that may be causing you problems. The first is Soup. What kind of soup. That is a slider food for me because it is liquid. I can drink, ounce wise, way more than I can eat in solid food. 8 oz versus 2 oz. The other is "tuna salad". What is in your tuna salad? Mayo? You can be getting huge amounts of fat and salt in your diet from both those things. Are you using something like myfitnesspal.com to track your food? I have to be careful because I have a fat tooth and it would be really easy for me to double my daily calories with fat.

Tannak, Did your mom diet all the time when you were growing up? My mom did. She was always dieting. I don't ever remember that she was overweight. She just thought that since she weighed 112 pounds when she was 20, that shoul never change. One of my friends was obsessed with her weight. She lost a bunch of weight at 15 and then just struggled for the next 30 years to keep it off. Needless to say, two kids and it was a losing battle. Her daughter, who is now 24, grew up with a mother obsessed with her weight. By the time her daughter was 7, she was obsessing about her own weight. It was heartbreaking to hear her crying and saying she was fat. My friend and her daughter were sleeved four months apart four years ago. They are both great today. I think our mothers are the biggest influence on this issue in our lives. That and TV.

Someone asked me the other day how I was going to deal with being thin. Well, I am only 19 days out from surgery so I feel like it is way too soon for me to worry about. Even so, the question confused me. I finally realized why. Since I gained weight, I think of myself as a thin girl in a temporarily fat body. I still have trouble believing this will work. Especially since I think I am in the dreaded 3 week stall. The scale has not moved in 4 days. I am just pushing on and waiting to see what happens.

I think about eating something specific now and then. It sounds really good and I think about how good it used to feel in my mouth and how good a big bite tasted, but in a way, I feel very removed from it. It is very hard to describe. I am not hungry, so it only feels distantly appealing, like the next time I am hungry, THAT really sounds good. Then I eat a tablespoon of cottage cheese and the disinterest returns. I love my sleeve.

My husband accused me of being self concious about eating in publis since I was sleeved. I eat very lightly while out because I fear having an "incident" at the table. I told him that until he knew what it felt like to have 80% of his stomach cut out he could keep his amateur psychological analysis to himself. That story was awesome!

I was on a CPAP for almost five years. I spent the last few months before I got my machine sleeping sitting up in the bathtub. I had all the symptoms you talk about. I had headaches everyday, was foggy headed and eventually, I started falling asleep anytime I sat down. Including at work. I am 18 days out and as of day 8, I no longer need the machine. They did have me bring my machine to the hospital and they had me use it there and when I went home. No one ever mentioned any danger and I had no Ill effects from the 8 days I used it. Good luck with this. I feel for you because I know how bad it can be.