ElectricBoogaloo

Are you getting all of your water in (it would help with hunger, too)? You can do this!!

You have to prioritize getting your meals in, if you want to be successful. Set a reminder and just do it!! One more week? You owe it to yourself to follow the plan. The potential alternative: you haven't done enough to shrink your liver, they go in and can't do the procedure...with all you had to go through to get to this point, not following the plan isn't worth it!

Why aren't you eating anything during the day? What are you parameters?

You look great (and younger)!!😊

Your presence is missed. Take care of yourself, sleevetwin (on a different date)😊!

My first thought was "FU and the horse you rode in on!", but since I am now no longer indignant for you...what she said.^^

Stunning! @mylighthouse

Looking great! @insta_adventurer

Happy Surgiversary! Beautiful then, beautiful now!!

@FlyAwayFree when I was at my pre-op psych eval, the psychologist asked me on a scale from 1 to 10 how certain I was that I would get to goal. I said 8. He looked at me and was a little surprised. When further prompted, I told him I had been on many diets since I gained 65 pounds during pregnancy, even had the lapband placed (lost, then gained when the fluid had to be removed), never seemed to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, and once I approached it would maintain that weight for about an hour before my weight increased again. I am pragmatic and even though I see so much success here, I wasn't sold because I can lose weight like a champ...maintaining it is a-whole-nother story...but now I am convinced. I have NEVER lost 20# in the first month (have your EVER lost 50# in a month?!), never been satisfied with such little food, never not (forgive the double negative) craved chocolate, pizza, chips or ice cream....UNTIL NOW! This time really is different. I am really taking advantage of this tool that has been given to me (I had better since I electively had a procedure to remove 70-80% of my stomach), internalizing the new healthy habits and while I am just a month out, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...and it is not a train! Here's to 15 years of weight to lose (my baby is no longer a baby)!!! In addition to the support you can get here, therapy is a good thing! Take advantage of any resources at your disposal! You can do this!

Surgery date: 10/10/18 Height 5’3 SW: 210.8 (+8 pounds added fluid weight in hospital) CW: 191 GW: 140

The struggle is real...

You look fantastic! Congratulations!

Although I have yet to accomplish our daily goal, I am more focused on trying. Perhaps today is my day!

At first Flinstones were approved, but per my surgeon it has fallen out of favor because there wasn't enough thiamine. FWIW, when they were recommending Flintstones, they had patients take two a day.

Although it may be difficult, try not to compare yourself to others. Your body will lose weight in a way that is specific to you! Also, try to keep your weight loss in perspective...have you ever lost 15 pounds in TWO WEEKS(!!!) on any weight loss plan that you have tried? If yes, then your body is following its normal course. If not, then this process is already different for YOU. Onward!!

I am having a difficult time with Opurity MV. While they don't nauseate me, they taste gross and are difficult to chew and swallow. Of course I have a three months supply😒. What I have been doing for the last couple of days is suck on it for a few minutes, use my teeth to kind of crush it (not chew), trying to keep all it contained, then swallow all of it...if that makes sense. 😊 I am awaiting my Fusion MV sample order.

Check with your team, experiences shared here may not align with your team's wishes. For example at my first week follow-up, my surgeon said I no longer have to sprinkle omeprazole on a spoonful of yogurt, but could swallow whole and I didn't have to cut tablets in half, while @Lynnlovesthebeach is okayed at 6 weeks. Do you mix them into the entire container of yogurt, applesauce? If yes, don't do that!! 😊😁 For the omeprazole, I dipped a spoon in the yogurt, carefully poured it all on the yogurt on the spoon and swallowed the entire dose at once. The nurses mixed the meds in the jello and it was difficult to get it all in because it was disgusting. Yuck.

I plan to eat turkey (dark meat) with gravy, the cooked veggies (collard greens), and maybe a bite of sweet potatoes. I am on soft foods.

Seriously?!?!! Stupid computer.

Double post

I didn't have a drain. I had glue and within a week two fell off, then by week two they were all off. When I had my lapband placed, they used steri-strips, which I like better (incisions seemed better aligned and scars looked better/invisible).

I would like to co-sign and add to CM's list: If you work in an office, full spectrum, happy lights can be installed overhead (it is slightly blue tinged). I want to second getting outside during the day, especially if you go to work in the dark and leave in the dark (a Minnesota special!) Make sure you are not just going to work and coming home. Continue activities (DATING!!!) and make good use of weekends. I try to vacation in February, which is about the time I am so ready for winter to be over that I could scream. Minnesota has 7 months of winter, 4 months of summer, and two transition periods called spring and fall! 😊 Take care of yourself!

Ahh...powder form. I was thinking bone broth soup. I actually used the bone broth as the base for the cream soups I was allowed to eat. 8oz bone broth (unsalted) with half of the small can of low-fat cream of chicken soup (didn't eat the chicken chunks, because I wasn't allowed to). To me sipping the bone broth by itself was kind of gross, especially the smell.

I wouldn't think GNC would sell it. Does GNC sell other food?