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Has anyone tried OPurity Vitamins? I love TwinLabs Bariatric Support, but they are getting hard to find, both locally and on the Internet. I tried Bariatric Advantage, but I would vomit a few minutes after taking them. BA does make the best calcium chews, tropical orange is the best!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I started at 285, got down to an unhealthy low of 143. Sitting around 160-165. I still think I'm fat, but I feel great, and everyone, including my surgeon, tells me this is the right weight for me to maintain. (18 months post surgery) Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

About a year post surgery, life hot in the way, and I started smoking cigarettes again, after a little over 2 years without a cigarette. I'm at just under a pack a day now. Planning on quitting again (yea right!!! Who am I kidding). No problems, but like I said, I was close to a year out. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I started out having a difficult time pooping, but now I have a very different problem. I'm a little over 1 1/2 years post surgery, VSG, and for the past couple months, I mostly have diarrhea. The odd thing is I will go to the bathroom, think everything is out, but then with in 5 minutes of leaving, I am running back in for a second wave. Happens EVERY time. Anyone having a similar thing happening? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I've had both, and will never give up my sleep number bed, she can have the dog, I'm taking my bed in our divorce. .. lol

That part about not gaining weight is a little crazy, we wouldn't be here if we could just stop gaining weight on our own.... just saying... my wife and I were both approved, and were sleeved last December. At our last weigh in prior to approval, she was 10 lbs up from where she started, we had both been on that rollercoaster all our lives. A quick trip to GNC for a 7 day cleanse did the trick! We are both down over 100lbs now, and living much healthier lives!!! FYI if this happens to you, don't let Aetna hold your past against you!

So true! Lol! Congrats!

My only regret is that I waited so long to do it. I wish I would have gotten sleeved 10 years ago! Every day, I wake up full of energy, enthusiasm, and a real love for life. I used to kind of look forward to my first heart attack, so I could just be fat and lazy and have an excuse to lay in bed, now I look forward to every day, and can't wait to live it to the fullest! I love the new me! I am looking forward to a long, healthy life now. In the beginning I had regrets, like that I could only eat a few bites of pizza instead of a large pizza, but I look back now at the old, fat me, and can't believe I ever did that to myself. Sure I loved food, and that's why I was fat, but now I love running on the beach, swimming in the ocean, and smiling at the pretty girls so much more! Lol. Just do it, your family and friends won't understand,but they don't have to. This journey you are starting is about you, not them. Do it for yourself, do it for you significant other, if you have one, do it for your kids, if you have any. That's what matters! Neither my dad sisters understood why I did it, and now that I am skinnier, they are haters waiting for me to get fat again. F*@# them, my wife and kids are proud of me, I will live to walk my girls down the aisle, and see my grandchildren (hopefully not for atleast 10 yesrs), a year ago I didn't think I would see grow up, I was a ticking time bomb. Now, I will grow old with my wife, who, btw, got sleeved the same day I did!

I just got a new job, and am being fast tracked to GM. When I get promoted, I'll get a company car, a choice of an Explorer, a Fusion, an Escape or a Mustang. The old, fat me would have taken the Explorer, but the thin me is getting the Mustang!

@@OKCPirate Cool, I used to fence in college, for University of Michigan, but my target area got too big... lol

Got a new job, couldn't break away from preconceived notions of who 'fat Dave' used to be. Heading down to Florida for 5 weeks of training. Gonna run on the beach every day before and after work!

Yep, I thought reading about this before surgury was just a lot of hype, but it is definately true! Not only is it longer, due to fat loss hiding some inches, but thicker. Biggest change for me has been being off of diabetes meds which were effecting erections as well. For those of you lucky enough to have a partner who is also losing weight, her fat loss combined with yours means you can get in alot deeper, too! When our increased libidos are in sync, OMG!!!

I'm like 8 months out now, and have found that if I am really craving pizza, I can eat 1 or 2 slices as long as its thin crust pizza. The days of eating my own larger pizza ate gone, and I'm glad that they are!

I used to use the excuse that I wasn't fat, I was just big boned. Now I know my bones ate the same as everyone else's. Lol. I probably won't look like a super model, but I am healthier than I have been in the last 30 years! That's all that matters to me! (And being skinny is cool, too. Lol)

Don't worry about soccer, you will be an all star after you recover! Give it time to heal, but then, you won't believe how much energy you have, or how you ever managed to play before! I'm 47, from 280 to 160, and just had the best time ever at a color run with my 3 kids last Saturday!

I'm down 120lbs, too. Biggest areas of saggy skin are my stomach, arm pits and inner thighs. What bothers me more than the saggy skin is the fact that my arm puts and waist are always itchy! No redness or rash, just constant itchiness.

Taking my shirt off at the beach... oh yeah, that skins gonna burn, but gonna feel so good to bake in the sun!

I'm a little over 5 months post-sleeve. I've done great so far, losing around 100 lbs, at my goal weight, and a healthy BMI. Diabetes controlled without meds, life has been good! 4 days ago, I started getting lots of abdominal pain, I've had a little hear and there since my surgery, but nothing like this. Yesterday, my wife took me to the ER, got blood work, a CT scan, everything was negative. They gave me some anti nausea medication and said to follow up with an enterologist if it doesn't get better. Anyone have anything like this? What was the cause/solution? Dave

Really getting frustrated now! Being bounced between specialists, now waiting for an MRI...

So, a long holiday weekend spent in the hospital, another evening in the ER last Saturday, and I finally got in to see a gastroenterologist yesterday. Now I am back surgeons office, they suspect pancreatitis, which didn't show up on the endoscope. Possible laproscopic exploratory surgery in my near future...

My 30" waist shorts are getting baggy now, glad they were cargo shorts that came with matching belts... lol. Cooler morning today, and I am wearing some super baggy 32" jeans. Hard to believe I was wearing 44's just a little over 6 months ago!

On my way to my first 5k

I, too, had 5 or 6 cans of Coors Light in my fridge when I came home from getting sleeved in December. I put then on my back porch to make room in the fridge for clear liquids, and watched them freeze and explode over the next few weeks. I'm done with beer, but, the occasional single malt scotch... now that's a different story. Lol

Got my 1st 5K tomorrow, running with my 9 year old daughter and Girls On The Run. Hopefully gonna make it. Spent Friday - Tuesday back in the hospital with abdominal pain. They did a good job of ruling out that out had anything to do with my vsg, but never gave me a real reason for why I have been in pain for the past week and a half. Following up with surgeon in 2-3 weeks.

I can eat a few ounces (3-4) of fillet, the only cut off beef I can tolerate, but do better with shrimp or lobster tail. Can usually eat 4 grilled shrimp (size 21/25) or one 4oz tail. Chicken and pork still not really agreeing with me. 5 month out.