jess9395

Yes isopure, unjury and quest are all great!

Dumping is rare with the sleeve so you may be fine with sweets, it's more of a bypass thing (though not unheard of with the sleeve). Spicy is fine for many of us. It is for me. The things that cause my stomach issues are carbonation and rice. Those are very painful for me. I also don't tolerate bread very well. None of that bothers me though!

Yes the adrenal glands are next to the kidneys. A cortisol problem would likely be from them. But they can do a lab test that looks for excess cortisol. A cat scan will find adenomas or hyperplasia, but you can have increased cortisol in the absence of those but it wouldn't show up without a 24 hour urine collection. Are you experiencing other symptoms that makes him think it's cortisol?

Cortisol problems usually come from a problem with your adrenal glands. Either a tumor or a hyperplasia. Have you seen an endocrinologist and been evaluated? It's usually found in a 24 hour urine collection, that's how they found mine. I have a true "gland issue" and that is how they assessed it. I do have excess cortisol and it did cause low iron and several other more serious issues including racing heart, cold sweats, headaches.... but my weight loss didn't slow.

The slurry thing? No. That's all foods.

Think foods that crush down to nothing.... chips, toast, crackers... they take up no real estate, so the amount you can eat far surpasses what you would imagine. What might take up 2-3 cups crush down to maybe 1/4 cup. They slide IN. Then you have the liquid type foods like broth and other things... for some people yogurt or ice cream or shakes... they side THROUGH. Sliders are foods you can eat more of than other more dense foods.

This thread took a left turn from the carbonation issue [emoji849]

I still think the "you know your body best" is a dangerous way to think.

OHHHHHHH maybe you were referring to the alcoholic who only eats gummy bears and drinks beer post LOL

And I responded you will have to try it and see some people can tolerate it, some (like me) can't, it's painful. My response poster who said "you know your body best" was that that kind of thinking was dangerous because it was what we all went by before surgery and it left us obese. It wasn't aimed at you. It a dangerous way to think. You wanting to have ginger ale once in a blue moon when you're sick is unrelated to that way of thinking. That said, there are lots of other remedies. Ginger candies (which can be sugar free) pickled ginger, crystallized ginger... all good alternatives if the carbonation doesn't agree with you OR winds up being a trigger for more cravings for sugar or whatever.

This is a dangerous way of thinking. Knowing our bodies better than anyone got us all obese. You trusted your doctor enough to let the doctor cut you open, trust your doctor enough to follow your doctors plan.

You will have to test and see. It is painful to me, but some people can drink it in moderation.

Make your own popsicles with crystal light or even Greek yogurt or protein shake! (I make them with coffee too, but that's not on everyone's plan). Or get the sugar free ones from the store. Try planning ahead and having protein bars in the office instead of an "energy bar" which is almost always mostly sugar. It's not the CALORIES that are awful, it's the sugar.

So awesome! Thanks for sharing. A testament to you, to your mom and to the medical professionals who recognize that this is a medical problem not a moral one and that it can be life changing even in young people!

Quest makes an unflavored I use. There's also one by Unjury.

Well I wasn't gonna SAY it, but I'm glad you did!

What? They do? I'm gonna get that today! The ones I make are good but quite labor intensive. Thanks!

I'm not convinced by the science behind this stuff. Do some research before you rely too heavily on it.

Their salted caramel comes in a tub size! And you can get it on Amazon! My other favorite is syntrax matrix peanut butter cookie. Their mint cookie one is pretty dang good too.

My comments were mean for the OP. You do you!

Well crap! Wish I'd known that before I lost my 135lbs using protein shakes with artificial sweeteners. SMH I guess I could stop drinking them now.

I had never hear of SIBO but have now googled t and I hope you find something that works for you to help you deal with that difficulty! As for the fundus... If your sleeve surgeon didn't remove that with your surgery then your capacity can increase. If it's gone your capacity can only increase so much. It's the stretchy part. So once the swelling is gone, your stomach should forever restrict you. So unless you are eating slowly for a long period of time your sleeve should stop you from consuming the quantities you did before. Not as much as it did in the beginning (swelling, healing, pain) but still should restrict. Do a search on here for sleeve reset or just try going back to basics--liquid or soft/purée diet for a few days. You may be surprised to find you regain your restriction or at least you tune back in to it. If not, it's possible your sleeve was not properly created and the stretchy fundus was left at least partially intact and that's why you can still eat large amounts. Those who "eat around" or "out eat" their sleeve either graze all day or find liquid or slider foods to get the calories in. That isn't stopped by the anatomy. But consuming large amounts in a discrete meal time should still be quite difficult.

Yes....BUT.... None of us have walked a mile in anyone's shoes but our own. No one can say how much of it is one part or the other. Or who needs which. Some people can do it all with therapy. Some can do it all with diet. I'm gonna buck the trend and say some can do it all with surgery. Some people need varying degrees of each one. That's what's getting lost here and why no one seems to be having a meeting of the minds and so much misunderstanding. I honestly believe my surgery and the accompanying biological changes (gut bacteria, hormones, physical restriction) was by far and away the largest part of my success. I haven't reverted to old patterns because the cravings and drive is gone. It allows me to eat the way I've always known I should. And my weight loss has allowed me to exercise the way I always knew I should. I firmly believe most of my binge eating was a biological mechanism that then became a coping mechanism. So the biology needed to change or all the therapy in the world wouldn't have helped. And I didn't have half the therapy many on here have had. We can't judge why anyone else fails.

I make cauliflower crust! Lots of recipies for that if you search on here!

Follow your plan. You trusted your doctor enough to cut you open, trust your doctor enough to follow their plan!