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How far out are you that your doc expects you to get your protein from whole food sources?

That's a great goal, but hard for many of us to do especially early out. And to the poster who said too many carbs/sugar you aren't eating the right protein bars you're looking at the mass marketed ones. I'm four years out and added them in at about four to six months out. Still use them a few times a week.

My "heartburn" never felt like a burn it felt like stomach growling hunger! If your doc won't prescribe one try an over the counter like Prilosec

Search week three stall. It's infamous. Hang in there and stay the course!

Yes on the acid!!! Make sure you are on an acid reducer and if you are ask that the dosage be increased!

Weight loss is unpredictable. Stay the course. As long as you are following your plan it will happen. My loss was stair steps. A few weeks of very little then a big drop. Follow your plan. Eat properly and exercise. For me personally the too few calories thing was a myth. I did just fine and couldn't get above 500 for months.

That's why the suppositories. They can't cause ulcers

Everyone is different so don't let her experience scare you! I had had several abdominal surgeries (gallbladder, c section, kidney stone removal) and for me the sleeve was much easier. I was up and going quite soon after. So your experience wont necessarily be hers. Be there for her and support her. I hope she feels better soon, but it doesn't mean YOU will have as hard a time of it!

It actually causes my stomach sharp pain so I avoid it.

Interesting! Re the clothing size... yeah the sizes vary, but I can typically see when I grab something off the rack if it's gonna fit. I can eyeball which 4's will fit and which won't. I could never do that when I was larger. And more 4's fit me than don't. Perhaps it's the brands I chose.

Google Cushing's symptoms, they are very distinct and specific.

To clarify... eating too little would never stall me. Only eating too much. There were times I was doing 4-5 hours a week of power yoga and running 20-30 miles a week and was taking in 500-700 calories per day. Never stalled me. So yeah could be either end of the spectrum, but tracking needs to happen to determine which... or if it's the wrong type of calories (carbs versus fats versus protein).

Interesting! That has NOT been my experience. But perhaps it's because I am not and never have been aggressive/assertive! Maybe that's a personality people like better in larger women and they like smaller women quieter and more reserved (which was me before and after). Because my experience has been the opposite of yours. Would be a very interesting thing to try and sort out!

I am a runner too, about 20 miles a week. My suggestion is to track because I didn't have that under eating problem that introversion did. For me the "rungries" made me eat more and my weight did stall. Most people I know who haven't had WLS and run (I'm very active in a running community and know a lot of runners) even say their weight goes UP when they marathon train. So if you aren't tracking, maybe start again. See what works for you. If your calories are up for a week, see what happens that week. Then try a week going up (as introversion suggests) and see what happens. Then if that doesn't work, try going back down. For me I was able to run that mileage and still be around 700-900 calories per day and lose. If I went up to 1500 or so I stalled. Now on maintenance and I'm around 2000 when I run a lot. That's where I maintain.

I can't speak to that, I've never used those. But I can say that energy wise the second week was by far the hardest for me! It will get better! Hang in there!! I would ask your doctor about the supplements and whether that's recommended.

My fitness pal lets you scan the barcode and t finds it automatically.

Well I won't weigh in on the chicken wings because I didn't like them before and I don't like them now (I also don't like macaroni and cheese, my kids think I'm from an alien planet). But yeah if you have the sleeve there's no reason you won't be able to tolerate anything. I have a few things, but most stuff is just fine! Early out its different but by about six months most of us can tolerate anything.

Love my Ninja!!! Got it at Costco also!

This is a GREAT thread. Lots of good insights. Yes on people treating you differently! I hadn't truly realized how invisible I was when I was fat! Now people make eye contact, smile, approach and offer assistance... but they also hit on me (despite my obvious wedding ring)! I love shopping now. I can find things that fit anywhere I go. Which is wonderful but as has been said, expensive to replace EVERYTHING! I'm active and run marathons. I play and participate in life (water slides, zip lines, trampoline parks) with my kids rather than sitting on the sidelines watching.

Yeah my loss was like stair steps all along the way... I would go for a time with no loss then a big drop. Just be patient!

Started at a TIGHT 18w should probably have been a 20. I said when I started I would be THRILLED to make single digit sizes. I am now a 4!

I packed a ton and needed very little of it. What I used: -phone charger -my own pillow (hospital one had plastic icky noisy cover) -chapstick -scrunchie -yoga pants, underwear and t shirt for when I left. The hospital provided everything else from ear plugs to toothbrush to tissues. They wouldn't let me use anything even remotely medical I brought like cough drops. Those had to be approved and provided by them. You can use any type of shampoo, but while in the hospital if you are there long enough to shower they will provide. I am four years out and can eat almost anything in moderation. There are a few things that don't sit well, but they are the minority. But the key for me is I don't care. Seriously. Never would have imagined that a bite or two of something would do it for me but it does. And most of the time, I don't even want that. I eat to fuel my body and my choices are governed by that not what tastes good. Plus what tastes good has changed for me, again something I never would have imagined. You will get through this and it will be amazing! Hang in there

Grin and bear it? It gets better. For the nausea scopolamine patch and zofran. The stomach will growl and gurgle and talk to you. Maybe forever. Mine still does at four years out. You get used to it. It doesn't mean anything is wrong. Sometimes it means you're full. Sometimes it means it digesting. You get used to it. Food is fuel. It doesn't need to be appealing or taste good all the time. Sometimes you just eat to give your body what it needs to function instead of for pleasure. Just do it.

Yes a pituitary adenomas can cause cortisol problems as well. I'm glad your stomach is getting a cat scan and that would find an adrenal hyperplasia or adenoma, but not a pituitary one (that's in your brain). Have they actually MEASURED your cortisol though? They can do that with a 24 hour urine test. That will also measure other endocrine functioning and determine if they also need to look at your pituitary glands or elsewhere in your endocrine system.

That is a myth that real science has disproven.