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I feel like lots of walking is the best exercise. If you are bored, download PokemonGo. Anything that works your core risks a hernia so check with your Dr. Jogging at 300 lbs? You weight is probably not up to date, risks injury and if you get injured you will be further behind than if you just walk.

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@@TracyBar Well we start very different than Weight Watchers, we start at 500-600 calories if lucky and have to work our way up. A lot of people hit 1000 calories and never up their calories, then they are stuck there forever because that is what their body adjusts to. When they naturally regain, they have nothing to cut. WW starts people at the BMRish (not exactly sure how WW and points works) and keeps subtracting.

I'm really sorry you had all these issues and I hope things get better for you soon.

@@Recycled Have you had your RMR tested? I think I asked you before but I can't remember.

@@bdfletch I can tell the difference but it looks like you are wearing clothes that are too large for you. You will never see the difference or feel the difference if you keep wearing loose flowy clothes that are too large! Get some clothes that fit, you will feel so much better.

I met and exceeded my Protein goal every single day from day 2 and I still lost hair. And by exceeded I mean I have never had a day with less than 90g of protein the whole time. If you are going to lose hair nothing will stop it. All you can try to do is make it grow back as fast as possible

@@Tami_Lynn If that pain doesn't ease up very soon call your Dr. Making mistakes while still on liquids and making mistakes later on are 2 really different things. You can have food get stuck in your esophagus and cut off your airway. Anything bread or yeasty can expand. Immediately post-op the eating plan isn't a diet, it is a medical prescription. This isn't like going over your points on WW. My BF from college had bypass, advanced her food too fast and ended up on an eating tube. Don't be that person, follow your plan.

I called so I knew right away, but I also got a letter in the mail a few days later so I would have known from the letter if I hadn't called first. Once I got the letter from insurance I called the Dr office to make them fit me in ASAP

It was just one small study, but both surgeries has a hormone effect while the lapband has none.

@@rnstudent343 It is natural to be nervous.

Watch the heat with whey protein, heat breaks the protein down. I would never cook it at a temp over 275

@@Recycled Where are you getting your BMR from? The average BMR for a 64 year old man at 185 pound is 1685, so your eating is right on target. Where did you get 3000 from? That is the RMR of an obese person. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/calrmr.htm http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

@@Recycled According to the studies I linked, it drops to almost nothing day 1 post op, increases slightly at 6 months, and at 12 months is close to pre-op but not quite there. I am sure that by year 2 it is almost back to normal. In one study there was one unlucky person that has higher levels post op than pre-op at 1 year. Another thing that one study noted was the Sleeve and the Bypass have the same reduction levels. The band offers absolutely no ghrelin decrease at all. I'm a year out and I still barely ever feel hungry and to feel hungry I have to go over 12 hours without eating, and at that point anyone would be hungry.

ASMBS is the authority of WLS, this is what they say about Protein... https://asmbs.org/patients/life-after-bariatric-surgery Lots of people use genpro and it works fine for them. The people that run it and represent it come off as bro-science d-bags and I would never give them a penny. What they are claiming doesn't really make scientific sense, unless they are onto some next level stuff that no one else on the planet has figured out. That being said if it works for people, they should use what works.

@@pegrae Did you try google? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22923339 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16105401 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280419/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23832521 https://asmbs.org/resources/sleeve-gastrectomy-as-a-bariatric-procedure http://www.nature.com/nutd/journal/v4/n7/full/nutd201424a.html

@@Jane1979 I had decaf coffee on my tray in the hospital before I left. I have coffee every day, 2-3 cups. I use cold brew coffee to keep the acid low, or espresso. As long as you aren't loading it with calories, you can have coffee. Most of the successful people that post here drink coffee. BTW I used to love ginger ale. I gave up soda a couple years before surgery. I started by giving up normal diet sodas and only drinking Stevia sweetened sodas, they are at nicer grocery stores and health food stores, then I slowly moved off those.

Fat holds hormones, when you dump fat, it releases hormones into your body, floods it really. You can expect spotting and irregular periods for a while. After a lifetime of clockwork periods mine are now irregular.

@@Crystal Ann Keister 2 days after having your insides diced and rearranged, yeah you are in pain. It is only the 2nd day though, give it time. This is major surgery! Just because people can walk and move and are released from the hospital quickly doesn't mean that WLS is not major surgery it is. Rest and give yourself time to heal.

A couple much larger studies have shown that bougie size does not matter, and a smaller bougie increases complications. The issue isn't the bougie size, it is if the sleeve is properly formed. He kind of outted himself by admitting he used larger and switched to smaller later. That doesn't mean that smaller works better, more than likely his technique at doing sleeves improved with time. They just use the bougie as a guide when they cut, so if they are close or further away from the bougie that is all on them and their technique. The differences in sizes is still very minimal, you can't blame regain on the bougie size, unless you can't make a properly formed sleeve.

I am 5'4" femaleI don't track food or calories but my guess is between 900-1200 a day. What's interesting is that I WANT to start running, and I can't find a real, valid reason why I haven't yet. That sounds absolutely ridiculous now that I'm reading it... I am not a gym person at all. Every single person I know that is successful with weight loss long term logs their food. I suggest you weight, measure and log your food. Every single thing. I have been doing it for over a year never missing a day, and I have a complete log of what I eat and that helps me see patterns and make adjustments. If you don't have the data, how can you make adjustments? If you start weighing and measuring your portions and logging you might realize you are under or overestimating your calories. I want to run also. I am choosing not to run because an injury is just not worth it. Dr Matthew Weiner talks about what happens when you have an injury and basically all the normal activity you have, like doing things around the house and shopping nose dive. So an injury and recovery sets you back more. It is better to do something simple and less prone to injury that you can do all the time. I can easily burn 500-1000 calories a day with walking, depending on how far and how much time I have to walk. Walking has very little chance of injury and I can do it all the time. I do really want to run a 5K but I am going to wait until I am much closer to goal and my joints have had more time to recover from carrying so much weight for so long.

This should be a poster or a T-shirt. Well said.

@@Inner Surfer Girl Embracing the stall doesn't apply to everything and it patronizing and dismissive to just drop it in every stall thread.

@@madeline121 All calories do not effect your body the same way. What do you eat?

@@haleymarie I felt that way for years. I am so happy with mine I am really disappointed I didn't get one sooner, but you have to choose what works with you. I can't take hormones at all so this is my only viable long term option while keeping the door open so to speak.