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Hiya! I didn’t have a band but my original surgery was a plication several years ago. It was still newish where I lived. While it was in place, it was great, but after time the stitches came undone and I had to have the whole thing reversed ( like the whole thing, it was not safe to keep it). After a few years I decided to have a sleeve done. I had the same doc both times and he no longer does the plication. Not fully sure why, but I think he thinks it’s not reliable long term. When I was in hospital for my sleeve however ther was a woman who was operated on the same day as me by the same doc and she had a band to bypass revision.

Bodiez protein water. There’s two kinds though, one is 30g protein per bottle and the other is 15g. I always go the 30g one.

I don’t have a treat per se, but am trying to incorporate more tasty foods that I like into my diet (currently minced and mashed stage before normal food stage). One of my problems in my old life was that I felt I needed to eat healthy foods that I didn’t like, instead of ones I do like. Eg I hate apples but used to eat them rather than fruits I genuinely liked but which took more time to prepare (eg slicing up a watermelon). So now I am adding little bits, which are within the dietician’s requirements, to make everyday more nice.

I was glad to find bodiez protein water which is 30g per 450ml bottle. I would drink one bottle a day plus other liquids with protein.

I still have head hunger /desire to eat when not hungry and I’m due for surgery soon. I’ve tried psychology but it didn’t work. Half of me wants to delay it, but I know I won’t lose the weight by myself.

Ugh I find non food rewards really hard to do! I am so used to just buying things and doing things when I want, not keeping it as a special reward.

Having previously lost weight, I knew my skin wasn’t going to bounce back and I would have some extra. My goal weight was a previous weight I had been which seemed to be a comfortable spot that balanced looking good with not having too much loose skin.

I’ve actually ordered his book recently.

Clean your house and do all your chores before going to hospital as you won’t feel like doing them the first week back home. Have all of your dieticians guidelines on hand in the hospital to review and again when you come home. Do a big shop of protein items and other items. Buy different flavours and kinds as you don’t know what you’ll be in the mood for.

An update on my post now that I’ve had my sleeve. When I was in the room just outside the operating theatre, my surgeon came to see me and said that if he goes in, and it looks like I need a bypass, then he’ll do a bypass. I told him no bypass; if you go in and can’t do the sleeve, then do nothing and come out.

It’s not a liquid diet, it’s a keto/low carb diet. Most VLCDs used in the pro op diet just happen to come in liquid form or mix into a liquid form. My VLCD came in shakes, soups, mousse and bars, which is supplemented by lots of low starch veges. I liked the bars so that’s what I used. No liquid for me. When I mentioned to my dietician that I couldn’t mix the shakes properly, she offered instead that I could do a keto diet which was real food just low carb.

My first time, getting a plication, I only got the shots in hospital and they stuck me in the belly. I didn’t have to continue when I came home.

When I had my plication done, i wore some but I can’t remember if they were my own or those disposable hospital ones. The plication came undone so I had to have it reversed, and I remember I didn’t wear any for the that procedure. I was unsure if I was meant to or not.

Yes my surgeon also thinks RNY is the gold standard and better than the sleeve. I saw a lecture he did on YouTube at a conference and he said people choose the sleeve because they understand it more easily.

I took Saxenda last year for six months. It did very little for me. I followed the dosing instruction and got up to the highest dose for the majority of the six months. The first two days I had some nausea so wasn’t hungry. After that, I felt fine and as though I wasn’t taking anything. I got no restricted feeling from using it after the nausea was gone.

I had always called it gastric plication, sometimes gastric imbrication. My doc always called it gastric sleeve plication. I think though that is partly so that people understand what it is - it makes a skinny sleeve stomach but there's something else - the plication.

Rice and eggs are fine for me. I find a problem with "juicy fruits" - not the chewing gum, but fruit such as oranges. I feel like I've drunk a whole litre of water. It's like my stomach can't understand it's food not drink!

Just putting it out there This is it - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/tinytum It's called tiny tum. Get it? Cos we now have tiny tummies? Oh gawd, that is a terrible joke ... I'll keep my day job I think.

I'm one month post-op and haven't had any cravings for potato chips or bread. My dietician and surgeon have both said to cut out junk food completely. We might be eating less, but we still have to eat smart.

First things first: I'm not a doctor and I believe I did a decent amount of research before deciding on which option was best for me. However, my research may be flawed or incomplete, I don't know. The options for me were lapband, sleeve, bypass or plication. I was not comfortable with getting a sleeve or bypass because: - too much cutting and stapling - so a much higher risk of leakage and higher mortality rate - I've read a lot about bypass patients getting extremely smelly gas (google it and you'll find a lot about this) - the nutrient malabsorbtion in some patients is so extreme that they have died and I'm not seeing why this happens to some and not others (eg seems like chance) - dumping syndrome - yikes! I don't like the idea of being incapacited in public with the shakes and needing to lie down, especially if this is coupled with vomiting or diahrea (sp?). Bypass patients can also experience hairloss - the pics show women going bald in the middle of their head like men (ie, not thinning hair). Apparently this is only temporary. This wasn't a factor for me but I know some women would freak out. The lapband idea I discarded because there seemed like too much restriction on what you could eat afterwards. Plus I am likely to move away from where I live in the future so won't be able to go see the same doctor all the time for fills. Using all of this, plication was the way to go for me. I really liked the idea of it being reversible "just in case" and the stomach not being cut. I lost 3kg pre-op. I'm less than 2 weeks post-op and have lost a further 10kg. Very happy with the surgery now that I'm out of hospital. Those first day or two after surgery were hell though!

I found in the first few days post-op that I could drink maybe one cup a day. Had to take tiny sips and wait at least two minutes between sips as there was a lot of rumbling going on inside. Luckily I was on an IV so I could keep hydrated that way. By day 6, I found I could drink about 1L a day and didn't need an IV. It's now one week post-op and I am drinking fluids of about 2L a day. No pain. I've also stopped drinking at least 30 mins before lying down as otherwise that sometimes triggers nausea. I take Nexium in the morning, Maxalon morning and night, and if the nausea is really, really bad, I'll take Zofran (but man that Z isn't cheap!!) Lost 8kg so far

Normally my dietician would recommend Optifast, however I found OF really difficult when I tried it earlier because I couldn't stomach the shakes - no matter what I tried (ice, berries, blender, etc), they were still too powdery and gross. She put me on a low carb / high Protein diet instead. I spent most of the two weeks eating eggs for Breakfast, snacking on yoghurt or a dry salad, and fish and salad for lunch and dinner. I actually threw out all of the food I wasn't allowed to eat - even now my house is only stocked with liquids (I'm one week post-op) and some foods in preparation for the mushy stage next week. I knew that if I had other foods in my house while pre-op that I would just devour it. I didn't take any Vitamins.

Hi! Six months out and you're doing well! Can I ask what you eat in a typical day? I am still on liquids and looking forward to the day when I can eat normal food again!

There's another one which I've just reported to the moderator. He's done about 4 posts of inapporpriate stuff

Dr George Hopkins in Australia His website: http://www.obesitysurgerybrisbane.com.au/