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Congrats! It will be here before you know it!

Well hi there Rose...welcome to the boards. We're neighbors. I live in Mandeville. I had surgery 2 days after you on the 28th. You're doing great with your loss. I'm only at 22 lbs since surgery. I hope you stick around...there are several of us who had surgery around the same time. We're all in this together!

I felt hunger a little bit around that point when I was drinking mostly Protein shakes and creamed Soups. I don't feel it anymore...unless I go for a long time without eating something. In fact, I'm finding it harder to get in the necessary calories and fluids now that I'm on more solid type foods. Are you drinking all your fluids? I find if I keep sipping on my crystal light throughout the day that cuts down on the hunger too..or I drink the 100 calorie muscle milk light RTD drinks. That cuts down on the hunger for me too. All I can say is hang in there...it does get better.

well steve you should be sleeved by now...I hope everything went well.... Best of luck to you for a smooth and speedy recovery!

I hope this doesn't prevent you from having your surgery! Good luck!! Have you called your surgeon's office?

At my 1 week post op appt. the PA asked me if I was having any problems with acid...at the time I wasn't..hell I wasn't having anything at that point but Protein and fluids and I was taking the PPI. She told me to stop taking them. I've not taken them real regularly..maybe every other day...every 3rd day or something like that when I start the feel it burning in my stomach. However; I have two pills left and I don't want to get it refilled as for some reason it was ridiculously expensive AND it was generic (protonix). So I think I'm going to get the OTC prilosec or something. Are there any differences between the OTC brands that I should know about? Is one better than another?

This is going to sound harsh...but honey, this is YOUR problem, not his. He may be a total jerk and may not be the one for you...but he's not holding you down and making you eat things. He may not get it..may not care...whatever. It doesn't matter. This is YOUR body, your problem, and your CHOICE as to what you put in your mouth and when. You making poor choices about what to eat, you deciding to go on a trip your body wasn't ready for has not one damned thing to do with him and it's not his fault. Those are your problems. Every one of your posts has a common theme..you're blaming him to justify different things. You need to work through these things. I hope you can figure out how to do that before you sabotage yourself.

Great picture! You're doing awesome. Love reading posts from those further out.

Wow...that's awesome! It seems so slow going that I wonder if I'll ever get there! Did you ever feel like that in the beginning?

That is fabulous! I'm 5 weeks out and I've only lost 22 lbs since surgery plus the 24 I lost before surgery. I did do measurements last night and I've lost 24.25 inches since the night before surgery. Pretty weird.

Well I talked to my surgeon's office today and she told me they want me to stay on the chewables for at least 3 months. U G H.

Awesome loss so far! Congratulations and glad things are going well for you! When is your hubby having his surgery?

moving right along huh? Sounds like you're doing great! Congrats!

WOW! I wish they had something like that here! Even though I"m not much of a cook, I still think that would be fun!

I'm glad you called! Thanks for the update too. I was just worried because my nut made a pretty big deal about not eating the skin off of fruit for a good long while. I'm glad your doc says that's not a problem for you!

I can swallow pills just fine....I really want to know if I can go back to the swallow kind. I think I'm going to call my surgeon's office and ask them or wait until my next appt. in a few weeks. I didn't even take them the last two nights because I was already not feeling good because of the pain I'm in due to my back. UGH.

Today is 4 weeks out for me....my one month will be on the 28th. I hit my goal of losing 20 lbs in the first month this morning for a total of 44 lbs lost since I started on this journey. I'm still quite tired most days but my back is out and being in constant pain is just exhausting. Other than that everything is going great and I'm loving my sleeve!

Wow...that's AWESOME!! That's a lot of weight in a short amount of time!

Way to go! Congrats!

Congratulations!! Welcome to the "other side"! :crying:

Are you sure you can have that? The skin?

Does anyone know if it's ok to take a muscle relaxer? I bent over to pick some clothes up off the floor this morning and felt my back go out. I went to a new chiro today and he took a bunch of x rays. He actually thinks we can reverse some of the damage of the degeneration and also the bulging disc. He noted that my right hip is lower than the left and that the pelvis on the left side is tilted and that my left shoulder is higher than the right and rounding to the front instead of straight. Also the curves in my spine aren't where they're supposed to be since I'm all out of whack. What does all that mean? EXTREME PAIN! I normally don't like to take things that make me feel cuckoo but I'm really hurting here.

well I took a Robaxin...hopefully it will help some. I'm a big whiny baby tonight. Can't get comfortable at all...this sucks!

Glad to hear everything is going well for you. That's awesome about your dad coming home early.

Lan..I just realized how close to your goal you are!! Awesome!