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I'm feeling pretty frustrated as I've had a few major life events derail my progress around the 1 year mark. Didn't help the the holidays seemed to pop up and it was one party after another. Before I knew it I had regained about 20lbs. Time to hit the restart and get myself back on track. Any encouraging ideas or thoughts on how or where to start are greatly appreciated? I know I need to get my excercise but I'm considering a restart of the post op program? Anyone ever try this?

You guys rock! Thanks for all the tips! Merry Christmas to you all.

Thanks Misty! I just graduated from soft foods food last week. Definitely gonna take it slow.

Hi all, I'm 9 weeks out looking to keep some quick non liquid protein in my office desk? Has anyone tried beef jerky? If so, how long after surgery did you try it?

Sleeved 10/29/2013 HW 401 SW 386 CW 360 Goal is to be healthy and medication free! Working my way through puréed this week. Looking forward to reintroducing some chewable forms of protein in the next couple weeks.

My gas pains were severe. I was on the table several hours longer than planned (long story) and as a result had excessive amounts of gas pain. If your pains are real bad and the walking/heat pads don't bring you relief, don't let them make you suffer, you can always request relief. You may want to try a combo of GasX/di-gel (simethicone?!?) and a suppository to get things moving. After suffering for 3 days with no relief and countless laps around the recovery floor a new shift nurse finally brought me this combo and it seemed to help get things started again. She also told me the co2 can cause your insides to "sleep" and the pain meds can make you constipated slowing down the absorption process. Just make sure they give enough simethicone it wasn't until I went home and took a double dose of Di-gel before I got any progress. Also my wife bought me a heat pad which helped tremendously even after the gas pains were long gone.