KarenLoh

I've been stalled for weeks but people keep telling me I'm looking fantastic so things are shifting around or something. Need to buckle down and get that walking in to see the scale start moving again.

You are correct that just being sleeved is not going to be enough. I still crave and graze and overeat for no reason I can identify. I also still get hungry but it takes way less food to satisfy me. Less than I ever could have imagined. So I'm very glad for the sleeve as an extra tool for weight loss but it is not enough by itself. The mental is the thing.

I'm with I'm with the DJ. Can and do eat too much. Have no trouble getting down 8-12 ounces of meaty Soup or 5-8 ounces of meat (like pulled pork or chicken). It's depressing. I'm still doing pretty well but it's all discipline, not the benefits of surgery. Well, surgery probably has me down in calories some but still too high compared to what I am seeing here.

Physically, I would have felt fine getting out and going for a short time - but it would be impossible for me to not explain why I was sipping Water and Protein shakes instead of eating. I guess you could say your stomach is upset and you don't feel like eating anything... And personally, I told everyone. Don't care about comments and didn't get hardly any anyway. Good luck.

You are not being selfish nor a bad friend. You have good reasons for not spilling the Beans to her it sounds like. She will see your success after the surgery and it will be more difficult to keep the secret but you will find that the TRUTH will be "I'm working hard at this" and that will suffice.

It happens to me when I eat too fast. I get fuller than I should and get the hiccups. Lesson for me is SLOW DOWN and feel what's happening.

Sounds horrible. I can feel your pain and I hope it gets better before you actually go in. Are you trying positive self-talk at all? It can help a lot to re-adjust your automatic thinking. Good luck to you. Let us know how it goes.

I vote for lucky. I've had no problems either and felt great from the beginning. Keep restricting intake as long as you can. I regret not having stuck with fewer ounces of food when I found out I could eat more.

VSG is such a great tool to have in the toolbox. People who don't struggle with weight don't understand how much it helps to have this surgery and to limit how much you can eat for a time. I hope you go for it.

I'm thrilled with my goal of 221 and would settle happily for 245. From 417 and with a very large frame, I don't think I am settling.

As one of those people who didn't have family to hang out with, I went to a movie with a friend and then ate Chinese food at the only open place. It was delicious and I ate about 1/3 of it and saved the rest for later. It was a fun Thanksgiving. :-)

It sounds like you are even hungrier that I am and I'm hungry a lot. I do take 40mg of omeprazole and that helps some (takes the hunger from a 9 to a 5) but I'm still hungry. It sucks because that was my main goal for this surgery - to not have hunger anymore. I've always been a person with ridiculous hunger (were you?) and my doctor thinks it is just that I have an acidic system and so the omeprazole is the best bet. I have no answer for you and I feel your pain. I'm hitting my Protein and Fluid goals. Instead of 800-1000 calories a day that I should be eating, I find myself at the end of the day at 1,600 to 2,000. Major bummer!

I found ground meat (hamburger) much easier to handle than chicken. Don't know why.

The comments actually bother me. I don't know why - and I think it depends on who they come from - but I find it embarrassing. Am I weird, or does anyone else feel this way?

Babbs' Glycogen post really helped me during my stall. It needs to be repeated over and over gain. Thanks Babbs.

I know some people who faithfully do the 301 thing (three meals a day, nothing in between, one day at a time) for psychological reasons but I don't know how helpful it is for WLS patients.

Jessi01, I wish I had had your creativity when I was in the puree stage! Sounds delish.

I was told after my surgery that this was completely normal and to expect it. It is an incision on the inside on the left that is hurting. Ask your surgeon to be sure but I was glad they told me in advance so I didn't worry about it.

I'm down 41 since my surgery on 8/11. It doesn't feel like enough but I haven't been exercising the way I should. I know I could do so much better if I just got myself out there and walked. I can do a half mile now without stopping and can do a mile with a break during. I just need to do it. The eating is going pretty well, following my routine and getting plenty of Protein and fluids. Taking my Vitamins and other supplements also. That's a chore but I get it done. It's just the exercise I dread.

I started on unsweetened applesauce then graduated to yogurt then refried Beans. Didn't have eggs for a while but I didn't enjoy them either. I still have some trouble with eggs at four months. It does get better. Puree is the WORST stage. Hang in there.

I was glad to have unsweetened applesauce, refried Beans and Greek yogurt (in addition to my Protein shakes) so I didn't have to go out to the store for a while. It was so strange eating 2 ounces of food and then nothing for four hours. I was so glad I had done the pre-op liquid diet to prepare myself mentally for this change of lifestyle. Good walking shoes and a place to walk that is warm. I go to the local mall. It's a mile inside roundtrip with benches to sit on along they way for needed rest breaks. For me, I had books and movies in abundance. Needed some distractions. Good luck!

"Drinking WHILE eating allows food to wash through your stomach more easily and quickly, essentially bypassing the restriction, which was the whole reason you got sleeved in the first place right?" I have found this to be true for me. If I drink during or immediately after eating, the restriction is much less and I can eat more food. It has been a discipline thing for me to not drink during or right after so that I stay full.

When I saw my NUT for my 3 month post-op visit, she said that new guidelines had just been published and said that 16 ounces a day of caffeine is now allowed. I don't drink coffee every day but it's nice to have a cup on a cold rainy morning and not worry about it. Bubbles are still out though, so no soda with caffeine.

I was right around 600 at your stage also. It felt right - I wasn't tired and I lost weight. I was getting in a lot more Water than you are though - I had no trouble getting my 64 ounce in. Good luck.

Hey Babbs, can you think of another food this would work with? I can NOT eat cottage cheese. I accidentally drank some curdled milk as a kid and the thought of it makes me gag. I can eat a banana and a yogurt at the same time and just feel mildly full. Haven't tried two bananas but that might be a good test.