BeccaS

janeta16 - Sometime I eat canned pumpkin to get my bowels to cooperate. Pre and Post surgery, this has helped for me! Newbie here! I was sleeved July 18 and am currently down 20lbs. At two weeks. my incisions look good. At one week, they were really red and itchy. The doc suggested I must be allergic/sensitive to the surgical glue they use. Slight discomfort in my right abdomen occasionally. I don't see much difference in the way my clothes fit yet, but I am looking forward to it! The main challenge I'm really trying to get my head right with is the constant barrage of ads for indulgent foods. EVERYWHERE! I see this culture as the biggest issue going forward.

I just joined, and I can't tell you how much reading this post and the comments echo what goes through my head on a daily basis. I have not told many people I have had the surgery 2 weeks ago because of some misplaced fear of judgement. I think to myself, if I can control most things in my life, why can't I control my weight/eating. It's far from easy to admit that this is something I couldn't solve on my own. It's far from easy to make the decision to have WLS and to learn to live with the new digestive system post-surgery. To see commercials in every direction selling foods that are desirable but not healthy is hard as hell!! Still working to get my mind right and embrace this new lifestyle, but it helps that I already feel so much better and have more energy.