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Congrats to you! I also hit onederland at 199.2 this morning! Yeah us! HW 259 Preop weight 221 SW 205.6 (june 13, 2013) CW 199.2

So I was sleeved on the 13th of june. 4 days out and I feel pretty darn good except for the CONSTANT gas. Does this subside at some point. Any pointers of how to handle it. Doc says no meds that coat the tummy....help! Lol

Well today was a bad day because we ended up in the airport and in planes for 15 hours. Tomorrow I will walk my ass off Thanks

Has you doc or nut given you measurements of how much to start out with. I think mine is 1/3 cup to start and chew a lot and go slow. Measure measure measure! That way it's easier to avoid over doing it. Good luck!

Thanks!!! And congrats on your success!!!

Lol Surgery went well, but last night was one of the worst nights of my life. I was going to ask one of the nurses to put me out of misery. I had horrible gas , vomiting, and hiccups all night. My stomach was so soar that I did not sleep at all. But as soon as she took my catheter out and took me to shower it was a miracle how much better I felt. Today truly is a new day! Officially a sleeved!

I was having that issue preop, but when I moved to full liquids I was drinking low sodium v8 with fiber and it totally did the trick!

Get well soon! I am at the airport heading to Tijuana for surgery tomorrow Speedy recovery to you!

Good luck! I'm right behind you! Have to travel tomorrow. You'll do great

Hi there, Hair stylist or anyone in the service industry too! My surgery date is June 13 and I'm scheduled to be back to work June 25th. My concern is water consumption while working on clients. I was seriously considering a sports beer drinking helmet, but then realized I can't use a straw. How have you coped with this challenge. I was thinking that sucking ice cubes would be better than stopping a cut or color every every 3 minutes to take a sip of water... Help

I used to love pudding pops, so that would be an awesome treat!

I've booked 12 days off...everyone is so different so I have no idea what would be good...my week back I booked pretty light though, so it should be ok. And then summer is not as busy for me so it should be plenty of time to ease back in. I keep hearing people are so tired after surgery and some for. Long time, and that freaks me out.

Thanks! Keep me posted how the syntrax works out

Any suggestions for good sources of flavorless protein that can be added to any other food?

Freeze these into pudding pops!!!! Yum!

I realize you are just repeating what you were told, so please don't be offended, but I call BS on her doc. I would love to know how he would know that the HCG specifically advanced the cancer when he didn't know she had it in the first place? I know women who had cancer while pregnant, where their docs knew they had cancer at the beginning of their pregnancy and their cancer didn't grow faster during pregnancy with 100X more HCG hormone in their bodies. It seems like another doctor talking about something they don't understand, not to mention, so nice of the doc to make the patient feel like it's all her fault. I lost my first 45 lbs on HCG and I looked fantastic, I wish that docs would just admit they don't know things instead of the know it all accusatory crap I so often hear about. I feel really bad for your friends mom, that's a terrible story, and the HCG is not the villain in it.

I was wondering the same thing. I haven't been sleeved yet. But I was wondering about it for stabilizing at my goal weight more than for stall breaking though....If you find anything out let us know. My biggest concern with it would be that if you've altered your hormones through this surgery, screwing with your hormones again might be tricky, but I guess if you can get pregnant after the sleeve, then why not HCG? But for sure talk to a doc.

Yep, first day of liquids and I was quite gassy all morning. I bough a premixed clear protein drink and I don,t think my tummy likes it at all, so will have to ditch those! Tomorrow I will try the suggested protein powder instead.

So June 12thers. Did you start your clear liquid diets today? How did it go? I start tomorrow and am a bit nervous.

Probably because your body needs to take a break from losing 3 lbs a day...? Could also be hormonal. I was clipping along during this preop dieting, losing1-3 lbs a day and then screeeetch-2 days before my period started came to a dead stop for 5 days. Now I'm back to losing again. Your body is just doing to what it needs to. You're doing great!

I'm hoping for no appetite That would make healthier food choices easier for me I think.

I am June 13th...can I come to the party. I travel to mexico on the 12th, does that count

I really can't imagine that if it took that many years off people's lives or any at all, that docs would be sleeving people in their 70's...that doesn't make any sense