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I made my own with egg whites and it tasted horrible.

I've heard that age has a lot to do with it too. The younger you are, the less likely you are to lose your hair. At least, that's what my surgeon said.

I'm actually glad that this topic involves shrimp. I was just wondering today how many I should be eating. I decided to limit myself to two ounces, which was 3 shrimp. While I wasn't hungry, I felt like I was under-eating. Perhaps tomorrow I'll up it to three ounces. I too could probably eat 10 shrimp before I started actually feeling full. I really don't feel much restriction.

My NUT recommended Omega Superb and Amino Complex to prevent hair loss. She said that Biotin doesn't really work for it unless you already have a biotin deficiency, which I thought was odd, because everyone I've ever known who has had weight loss surgery has sworn by biotin. Anyway, I'm taking all three, just in case. I still have a ways to go before I start losing hair, since I'm only two weeks out, so I honestly can't say if these other things help or not. But I thought I would just throw the info out there.

Yeah, this is me as well. I can easily take down 8oz. of refried Beans in a 30 minute sitting. A whole portion of yogurt, no problem. I'm a little over 2 weeks out, by the way. I got sick of eating softs and tried some chicken yesterday. While I didn't feel full after 2oz. I still limited myself, just in case.

@@lexiemustang I don't think parm is bad for you. If I remember correctly, it's one of the allowable cheeses when you get on solids, so you didn't do too badly.

@@kahuna25 I thought about how my life has been and how it would continue to be if I stayed overweight. I avoid social situations. I don't date. There are places I just don't want to go(like the mall), because I know that it will be hard to find clothes that fit. Everything I wear now is big and baggy and not flattering, and I know that won't change until I lose weight because I feel like I want to hide my body's imperfections. I NEVER take full body pictures. And the pictures that family take of me make me cringe. I had never had surgery before getting sleeved. Complications and the possibility of death have scared me away from getting the surgery for several years. Then one day I woke up and said, I would rather die than keep going on the way that life is now. Is taking a chance with the surgery worth dying for in an attempt to better my life? The answer was yes. If I died from the surgery, I didn't care. Even when they wheeled me back into the surgery suite, all I could think was, "Well, if this is it, then I died trying to better myself." Apologies if that all sounds depressing, but that has been my thought process and story through this whole thing. I did not value myself, and I'm hoping the surgery changes that. As for how things have been so far, it has pretty much been easy street for me. The only complication I've had so far is my own paranoid mind that drove me to go to the ER yesterday because I thought I had a blood clot in one of my legs. I'm a relatively healthy person, and my surgeon told me that he didn't expect me to have any complications. When I went to the ER yesterday, the doctor told me the same thing, that I need to stop worrying about complications because I'm in really good health and it's obvious that I responded to the surgery well. My only regret at this point is that I didn't do it sooner. I kept trying to convince myself that I could lose the weight on my own, and all I was losing was time. Time that I could have spent happy instead of holing myself up inside of my house because I didn't want the world to see me. You can't get that time back, and if you failed at dieting before, you're probably going to fail again. My advice to you is to just do it. It's about a week and a half of discomfort, and then you practically forget that you had the surgery done. The weight comes off so quickly, and I already feel a lot better about myself. It's one of the best decisions I ever made.

I've decided to buy new clothes on a monthly basis. Not a whole wardrobe, just a few pieces to get me by until the next drop in size.

My uncle calls me "skinny girl". It annoys the crap out of me. I just got the surgery 2 weeks ago. I'm definitely nowhere near skinny. I'm not even out of the obese range. I know he means well, but every time I hear it, I just cringe.

My surgeon cleared me for any cardio equipment after 1 week post-op. Absolutely NO abdominal exercises until you're 6 weeks post-op. When you had the surgery, they cut through your abdominal muscles, and it takes longer for the inside to heal than the outside. As for weight lifting, my surgeon said that I can lift anything below twenty pounds. You might want to ask your surgeon before lifting more than that if you're not 6 weeks out. Some will approve you for it, others won't. My surgeon said that when I do go back to regularly lifting weights (which I'm not going to do until 6 weeks post-op, because I want to make sure I've given my body long enough to properly heal), to start with half of the weight that you'd normally lift and work yourself up from there. I went to the gym yesterday and did a bit of weight lifting with 10lb. weights, and it's incredible how much strength you can lose in such a short amount of time. I'm itching to get back into it, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. Remember that you just had major surgery and should give your body the proper amount of time to heal. When in doubt, call your surgeon and ask. Hope this helps.

I absolutely LOVE Starbursts. Especially the pack of reds. It was one of my food funeral choices. I huffed a whole pack a day before starting my pre-op diet.

It lies. lol I'm not sure why it says 2000. I'll have to go back and find where to change that. I actually had my surgery exactly two weeks ago today.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate and say that I agree with pretty much everything in the article, I'd just never have enough balls to blatantly write it out like that. I went to my first support group meeting last Thursday and was alarmed to see that there were a handful of sleevers there that had re-gained quite a bit of their weight. My aunt is also currently struggling with keeping the weight off. I think what happens is that people follow the diet for a while and then perhaps they come online and see other people talking about how they're veering off course and still losing weight and so they use that as justification to start eating the wrong foods again in smaller portions. And sometimes it does work. My cousin who had the surgery said that she lived off of McDonalds cheeseburgers for the first 6 months post-op of her surgery. Guess what, she still lost over 100 lbs. So yes, while some people do have to put in a lot of effort to make their sleeve work for them (particularly the light weighters), a lot of heavier people don't. The restriction on the stomach does it for them. Having said all that, I think that the "The first hundred pounds is the surgery" saying really depends on where a person started. Someone larger will obviously lose weight faster and with less effort on their part than someone smaller. Ever since gastric bypass first came out, I've always heard skinny people say that bariatric surgery is the easy way out. At first, I followed that belief too. Then I met someone who had the surgery, and I saw how little she ate, and I thought "Damn, that must be hard." Since then, I've met several other people who have had various bariatric procedures done, and they've always told me how difficult it is. That the surgery is a tool, and you have to put the work in. That the operation was painful and hard to recover from and that new eating habits were hard to adjust to. Then I had my surgery. And I have to say, for me, it has been the easy way out. I didn't have any pain post-op, and my recovery has been almost flawless. I'm never hungry, and eating the small portion sizes doesn't bother me at all. I've never done anything easier to lose weight before. Ever. And I've done it all. So again, I think that particular statement is really based on each individual person's experience. Obviously, for someone who had a difficult recovery, is hungry all the time, and still plagued with cravings, it's not easy. To each his/her own.

I'm having a similar issue. I almost never drank 64 oz. of Water in a day before surgery because it made me feel waterlogged and ill. Post-op on my liquid diet, I could easily get in 64oz. of water a day with no ill effects. Now that I've started on soft foods, I just can't seem to get that much water in. Between having to wait 15 minutes before meals and an hour after meals before I can drink again, I've only been getting in 32oz. of water a day. I think today is the first day that I've gotten anywhere close to 64oz. of water in, and I've admittedly been doing a bit of chugging to accomplish it, which I know isn't good. I do like BBtravel's suggestion of setting an alarm and trying to get in 6 ounces at a time. I might have to try that.

I had a one week post op diet with 2 protien shakes a day plus 1 small meal. I lost 5.1 lbs.

Height: 5'4 Sleeved on 5/12 Starting weight: 198.9 Current weight: 187 Weight lost so far: 11.9 lbs.

I probably would not be able to resist a chocolate cupcake either. Or chocolate cake. Or any kind of cake, really. :-p

How did the soda make you feel? I would have thought that would have made you sick before the chicken nugget would.Believe or not I just burp... I was kind of OMG!!!.. I'm not fan of soda is just that stuff temp me and that hasn't go away... I want to eat and try stuff so bad.. I'm the same way. While I never get hungry anymore, the craving for bad stuff is definitely still there, especially when it's right in front of me. I'm going to the movies with a friend in about an hour, and I know she's going to order a giant beer before the movie. It's going to be a hard thing to sit through, knowing I want one so badly.

How did the soda make you feel? I would have thought that would have made you sick before the chicken nugget would.

She started out at 300lbs. Got down to 170lbs and is now three years out and maintaining. I think it slowed down her weight loss, but it definitely didn't stop it. Please note, I do not advise that ANYONE tries to live off of McDonalds cheeseburgers just because they can get away with it and the portion size reduces the amount of calorie intake. We all know this is not healthy.

You Sir are a brave brave man. lol I did something similar with some Won Ton Soup I had about a week post op, except I chewed up all of the vegetables in it and spit them out. To be fair though, while certainly unhealthy, my cousin, who also had the sleeve done, said she lived off of McDonald's cheeseburgers for the first several months after her surgery as soon as she was able to eat solids. I get scared anytime I put anything in my mouth that I know I'm not supposed to. At this point, I'm more worried about rupturing my staple line than anything else. I imagine that 6 weeks out(when I should be able to tolerate most foods), I'll start being a lot braver, which could be a dangerous thing. I think the key is to reign it back after you mess up. Knowing that there can be dire consequences to bad choices helps with that.

lol I would be the happiest person on the face of the planet if I could eat chocolate and not gain weight. I probably won't try my luck until next Valentine's Day though. I used to wait until the day after and stock up on Whitmans.

@@Miss Mac That sucks. I was a bit scared that the same thing might happen to me, but I figured that smashed avacado had a semi-simular consistency to refried Beans, so it would probably be alright. I took one bite, then used the 60 second rule before I went on to gorge myself. I did feel overly full when I was done, but I think that's because I was snarfing down the bowl of tortilla Soup in front of me like I'd never eat again. It took about thirty minutes for the completely miserable feeling to go away.

My latest freak out was about a sharp pain in my calf. It seems to be reoccuring, and there's a small bruise that I never noticed before. I called my surgeon, thinking it might be a blood clot, and he told me that unless the leg is swelling, I shouldn't worry about it. I can safely say that this ongoing paranoia I have of something going wrong is far worse than anything else related to the surgery.

Thanks. I feel like I'm counting down the days until I feel normal again(in the no wierd pain sense), and there are a whole lot of days to go. :-p