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<3 I feel you so much - totally different senario but, damn do I love food "/

I absolutely think that weighing once a week is smart!! Stalls are crazy annoying and it's just better to not know and be suprised at the end of the week... You've lost a ton of weight already! Focus on how much you are down not how much you have to go <3 GOOD LUCK!!

Vanilla will always taste chalky and terrible! Switch to chocolate asap, even if you're like me and like vanilla better than chocolate regularly. Can you eat sugar free pudding? That stuff saved me the week before surgery- It's like 65 cents a box, plus the cost of 2 cups of milk.. Whisk powder into cold milk for two minutes and you can eat the whole dang bowl for like ~ 400 calories :B Go for the chocolate fudge flavor it's def the best.. If you cannot eat pudding, I am truly, truly sorry GOOD LUCK!! <3 Remember, this stuff sucks and its gonna suck for a while but, you're gonna be a healthy skinny thang soon!

Happy Belated Birthday! I'm going to join a cute gym in March on Livingston at the Collier Park there.. its like full of old people. I had a membership at LA Fitness before the surgery and went maybe 7 times over 4 months. Everyone there was like trying to have sex with each other... it was really awkward just being an average person there lol.. I got the sleeve and I'm very happy, I've lost 24 lbs. since beginning the fast a week before surgery. The surgery was SO painful I had no idea it was going to hurt that bad! Any my nurses were... busy is a nice word for it. Been home a full week now, walking everyday, lol I've done this workout video for bariatric patients I found on youtube twice now. I feel like a dope jazzercising but, it makes me sweat! I am not a big exerciser either but, I I'm stubborn and will get out and do it. No kids, moved back in with my mom last Oct and she has a dog. I'm an elementary school teacher and I'm subbing till I can snag a classroom next school year.

I figured that I would write a little about the weight I have lost so far. During the first all liquid week I lost 11 lbs. I am now a week and a day post-op and I have brought my total up to 24 lbs! 24 lbs. in 15 days I think has made my body freak out though. It's my week off so I exercised like a fiend yesterday and Sunday- I didn't lose any weight and this morning I had only lost 1.5 lbs. I know that I am going to have periods of time like this where I don't lose any weight- I've been able to stay positive by thinking about how I am now lighter than I was when I arrived at my moms house here in FL in October STAY POSITIVE!

Just had my first bad experience... Forgot I wasn't suppost to drink with my food... took two sips of water and had to puke up my tuna salad. Tuna salad is awful to puke up

You can do this! Tell your body- BODY. WE ARE DOING THIS. And have a nap And a walk

So this Monday at 6 am I went to a lovely hospital about a half hour from my home and had my surgery. I am not sure how I went in thinking I would only have three scars and would be able to leave that same day. First, they have you strip and pee in a cup. Then they give you the first of many shots that help to prevent blood clots (ask them to give them to you in the thighs/arms bc the tummy was very painful). Then they take some blood. Three or four different people will come in and ask you the same set of questions over and over again- who are you, what are you here for, etc. It's sort of funny as long as you don't get annoyed. Then you get your IV in your hand and you are all set to go. Then you are wheeled away and asked to count backwards from ten- I got to four. Then I was dreaming. Then I was being shook awake from lovely sleep and was in more pain than I have ever been in before in my life. I immediately started dry-heaving, nothing came out of me. It was incredibly painful. They wheeled me into post-op where I would stay until a room opened up for me- this was the worst part. They were not allowed to give me the "good stuff" because I had just come out from anesthesia. I lay there for hours- until 1 pm- all the while doing some combination of sleeping, waking up from pain, hiccuping, moaning, crying, asking for meds, and dry heaving. I felt as if I had been hit by a train. I felt as if I wanted to die. Finally, they wheeled me upstairs and I was able to get some real meds and some real sleep. I was able to get a dose of meds every two hours but, for that first day I could sleep for an hour and then would whimper for an hour, trying not to watch the clock. They also gave me nausea meds every six hours. My nurses were... how do I put this nicely... Very busy? All throughout this day you are so thirsty that you would do anything for a drink or an ice cube but, NO WATER FOR YOU. NONE. I was able to get up and take a walk this first day and was encouraged to do so again during the night- I tried but, couldn't I needed pain meds more than a walk. Through that first night you are woken up by pain, and an endless stream of nurses who give you clotting shots, take blood, and pain meds. That second morning, I knew I was in for a tough day- when I woke up I felt like I was going to puke everywhere. I called the nurses station and told them just that and they showed up- twenty minutes later with not even a bowl for me to retch in. Luckily there was nothing in my tummy so I dry-heaved into a tissue and cried as they slowly made their way to my room. That morning I was up and walking about and was lucky enough to run into the xray woman who told me I could be first on the list because I was up. About an hour, a tiny cup of horrible tasting dye, and three x-rays later my doctor was visiting me for the first time. He told me that everything looked good, that I had minimal swelling, and that if I could keep food down I would be released in the afternoon. Unfortunately, he did not say this in front of a nurse so I waited two hours to have food delivered to my room- they brought me a cup of tea? Not water? Really? Broth and a green Jello. I asked for a cup of water and it was like milk of the heavens. I could have cried over this water. After finishing my meal my mom came to come see me so that we could start the process of getting home... This process took hours. My doctor came to see me around 1 and cleared me for release but, somehow didn't complete all the paperwork till about 5. There was another woman on my floor who had the same surgery after me and while my mom and I were cruising the halls we saw her leaving. Luckily my mom is super pushy and we made phone call after phone call till my release was sped up. All in all, very painful, and full of red tape BS that made a slow process even slower. Also, very glad to be three days out and to only feel like I got hit with a bowling ball- it went train, car, moped, bowling ball.

Are you getting the Protein that you need?? You can't just starve yourself or you'll fall over <33 Good luck I've been drinking Isopure premixed drinks in glass bottles and Muscle Milk.. both have a ton on protien and are low sugar low cal

I'm with Dr. Bass too!

Hi I live in Napes and have a Feb 09 surgery date.. I'm new in town and I'd love some contact with the outside world. I'm 24... I'm an elementary school teacher, I like dogs and crafts, I'm looking forward to changing my body. I hate exercise but, this is happening so... idk what else to say

Thank you for this! I am nervous about starting the preop diet tomorrow but, it's made better knowing there are lots of other people out there that are going slightly crazy at the same time I am! GOOD LUCK!

I don't have too many suggestions but, I thought I would reach out and tell you that I know a lot of kids that are struggling with their weights and you and your son are not alone. My littlest sister was a food sneaker and a snacker (she is 11)- as was I when I was young (I am 24). I think that the difference between her and I- she is in basketball and soccer whereas, I quit tennis and basketball at around her age. Get your son into basketball! Soccer! Something indoor that is played thru the winters (I know they can be tough!) and involves runnning around like a madperson! Swimming? My little sister is playing both soccer and basketball right now (she lives in NJ both are indoors). In the summer she does swimming and she's thinking of joining cross country like her (underweight but, that's a whole different story) older sister. All that I can tell you from my own experience is that a child who is nagged or pressured unduly will start to rebel- just as I did against my mom. You are doing right by keeping the house free of junkfood! My mom tried to say "these snacks are only for your sister"- NOT GOOD. Good luck!!!