Weight Warrior

I went in on a Wednesday Morning at 600AM and was release on that Friday. at 12PM Wednesday: Day of surgery: up and walking 2 hours after i woke up, ice chips only .... back to bed ..... Thursday : Down to x-ray were they check for leaks , no leaks back to room start on full liquids ... more walking ,more liquids ... bed Friday : Jello , yogurt , i was ok with this ... surgeon signed off ,,,, discharged. Good luck on your surgery. RJ

im 3 months out so this just started. doubt the anesthesia is the culprit but i see my surgeon on the 27th ill ask. thanks for the input :-) RJ

Thank you everyone for the input. i was not sure if it was just me. im cool with the change , just wasnt expecting it to change so quick. Thin, healthy & grey i can live with:-) have a great day RJ

Julee. ill tuck that suggestion away for later. having issues with all items with yeast .....strange stuff. i tolerate flat bread. Meet with my Nut on the 23rd and the Surheon on the 27th hopefully get some answers but not upset can eat all of the things i need to. ......still lamentimg over the loss of salads, they no longer are my friend.

Has everyone noticed we are are a great looking group of people? and we smile alot..... have a great night A poem: my protien is high my carbs are low. ill be down another size before the first snow. RJ

Excellent....ooooh thats a lie :-). had a breakfast disaster yesterday. me and my adventerous side decided against the better judgement of my sane side to try a turkey sausage, egg white on a tiny whole wheat bagel.for breakfast. had two very very well chewed bites and it got STUCK like a car on the Schykill expressway (philly ref) it was so bad i had to get off the trolley to get "relief " ....took two hours to get my shit back together again. i really hate these eating lessons ....... oh well back to scrambled eggs. Damn you Bagels !!!! lol

Awesome! have a great day RJ

Rhyzell, i do a similar thing. i wear military style belts and the tail keeps getting longer and longer :-) great to see your doing so well . save that belt as a future trophy

my team has said the more protien the better. I average 80 to 100 g per day. from my understanding that hair is basically protien the more you feed it the less the hair loss....makes sense. the biotin. came from a fellow RNY patient who had the surgery 8 months before me and she had had minimal hair issues. so it comes from actual experience. and Cathy has a powerful head of red hair :-) hope this helps.

How is your daily protien intake? taking Biotin?

looling great Julee, i can see it, cheeks, jowles, eyes,shoulders and neck. these are only head shots so its a tough question to answer. i struggle with the the same issue then i check out my hiney in the mirror and lots of action going on back there :-) have a great day RJ

very excited for your and congratulations on 19 years. and that is very sweet of you to say so. i have been helped on this site and i pass it along . but again...thank you :-)

Sara.....im over the moon happy for you. i was very emotional when i cracked the 100 barrier....i am emotional now reading this. a big virtial hug from me. RJ

Protien shake. its easy and i can grab on the go. its fills me up and helps burn fat.

vitacost.com is a great source for Protein and Vitamins at very good prices and more than $35 and shipping is free. ( not trying to sell you anything) just a tip until you find local shops and they have some great natural foods that are hard to find. I live in the Philadelphia area and natural foods can be a challange :-)

I was surprised how spices do not bother me. maybe because they are in smaller portions. i use Lousiana hot sauce in lots of dishs... great on eggs . Again since you eat in such smaller portions you may find, like alot of your fellow RNYers that you want very bold, spicy , savory, tastes. since the majority of sweets are off the table for a very long time if not forever is my understanding.

I lived off of Hummus and started day one of the soft food phase also refried Beans are also great. I would add unflavored protien powder to them, at that stage if you are going to the trouble of eating make it count as a protien