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Bagels used to sit on my stomach like a brick pre-op. I'd be terrified to try one now. You learned a hard lesson. Keep something with you to eat at all time, protein bar, nuts, protein chips. Something. I have to eat pretty often and I always keep something in my purse. I can eat pretty much anything, but there are lots of times you get trapped some place with no good options. Just make sure you always have a good option on you.

Depending on the yogurt it might have a lot of sugar. Do they have more than 5g of sugar per serving? Everything you are "eating" is a liquid. So there is no reason you shouldn't be able to have them. Depending on the type of yogurt it isn't much thicker than a protein shake. You don't lose every day, or every week. I would just check the nutritional value of the yogurt.

Recently I had similar issues, from eating protein bars. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expert-answers/reactive-hypoglycemia/faq-20057778 I gave up protein bars, no issues.

No. Call your Dr.

No, I'm almost 2 years out, not pain. What did your surgeon say about it?

Find a new surgeon. They are charging enough. My coordinator returned calls in a few hours, or at least next business day and they are very busy. This is business not charity. Make them treat you like a customer. Where I live there is no shortage of bariatric Drs, they have to compete for customers, so they treat people better.

It sounds like your Dr failed you, not that you self destructed. Dr Weiner says you shouldn't even feel your band, they are not supposed to be tight. Anyway good luck. Have you considered a revision from the band to something else? Is your current weight on the site accurate?

GO TO THE ER. Don't ask for medical advice on the internet, go to the ER. The longer you let this go on the worse it will be. This isn't like asking which protein shake tastes better. I am baffled at all the hospitals releasing people who can't eat and drink. I had to be able to eat and drink and make a decent dent before they would release me. They don't want to release people and have them go home and dehydrate.

Find a therapist ASAP. You literally just risked your life for food. Get some help, you are worth more than candy.

Wait until you are a year post-op, then date.

I didn't have a dog pre-op, I adopted my dog less than a month out from surgery. I knew a dog would force me to walk and not let up. It has worked perfectly. At a minimum every day my base line exercise is at least walking a couple miles with the dog. Rain or shine, hot or cold. We walk. He demands it.

@mi75 Some people in my facebook keto groups have been able to see some tumor shrinkage eating Keto. If use facebook, look for some Keto groups, there are lots of cancer patients seeing great results.

I rarely ever have cramps, but I had cramps and a heavy flow the first 6 months when the weight was coming off in big chunks. Then my periods got lighter, but I has having a period every 2 weeks with spotting in between for like another year, so it was basically 18 months of a very active uterus. I'm back to normal since my weight loss has slowed down.

Dr Weiner's plan, with that level of veggies, you wouldn't regain. I don't eat that much in veggies just because I don't have the time, but I seriously ate a pound of veggies a day, it would be impossible to regain. If I get bored this summer I might try it for a week. At 2 years out I could definitely do it and get my protein in, but I would just have to eat in a 12 hour window instead of my usual 8. When I read a pound of cure I knew it was pretty much impossible for me to follow his plan because I would be miserable(i'll starve before I eat beans), but I did what he suggested and incorporated some other things. I wish more people would think of veggies and salads as snacks. You get to eat a ton of volume for basically no calories. My issue is when people say complex carbs, and are vague AF about it, that usually means junk science "healthy" carbs. Not vegetables and legumes. @Travelher You are also a RNY patient. You have malabsoprtion on your side and sleevers don't, being less than a year out, your malaborption is still in full tilt. If you can eat carbs like that when you are over 18 months out and still lose, I would love to see it. We have to be stricter with out nutrition, because while we have restriction, we have an otherwise normal anatomy. Also the technical part of our surgery that helps us, which is the valve we have at the bottom of our stomach, is something RNY patients don't have. That valve is why eating dense protein is more productive for us, and works with our tool instead of against it. Also no offense to Dr Weiner because I like him and I think he has a lot to offer people but he looks haggard and so do most of his patients. My Dr eats Paleo and looks a lot better, he has about 2x the muscle mass Dr Weiner has.

They never show up until they have regained 75% of their weight. Every flipping time. The one vegetarian that used to post here that was sleeved around the time I was never got goal or anywhere remotely close. I don't think they ever even lost 50% of excess weight. Prove us wrong carb people, prove us wrong. I'm rooting for for you.

Everyone has different instructions. Those were my instructions and most instructions are written like that. I also feel like that is an easy way to be successful. WLS is an amazing tool to lose weight, and it seems like a lot of people are hell bent against using the tool to the best of its ability. Also for me, this is basically how I grew up eating. I forgot about it and didn't think much about it until Post-op for surgery. I grew up in a family of thin athletic people, even into old age. Which also reinforces to me this is the correct manner in which to eat. Additionally, a lot of my family is Native American, straight on the Reservation, and we value the sacrifice that animals make to provide us nourishment, so it makes sense to eat protein first. I spent a lot of time with depression era Grandparents who saw meat as a luxury and a blessing not something to be wasted. People can eat however they want and do whatever they want. There seems to be some habits that long term successful impose. No one has to follow them or even care. I took notes and decided to go the easy route. I didn't spend tens of thousands of dollar and get chopped and screwed to fail. I follow best practices in IT, I will follow them in my post-op life too.

My improved yoga poses and just the general feeling that I am getting a lot more from my yoga classes is one of my best non scale victories. I would say yoga is even more useful than just going to the gym because the stretching helps with your skin, helps with muscle recovery and the relaxation helps keep your stress down which helps with losing weight also. So keep up with the yoga! The more you lose the better it gets.

Walk and try heat. Nothing really helps though. You just have to tough it out. That was the worst pain of the whole thing.

I used to fly every day, sometimes 2 times in a day at 330 pounds as a business traveler for years. I only had a couple bad experiences. Flying now is worse because the TSA gets to molest you and you can't do anything about it.

I mean you really don't know. You are asleep. you close your eyes in the operating room and wake up in the recovery room and it is like zero time passed. It had to be less than an hour, maybe more than 30 minutes. I really didn't care, my lips my dry and that was my major concern when I woke up.

I also don't know if you retain water but I retained a ton of water when I was over 350, 10 to 15 pounds in the heat. I would swell terrible. So you might be retaining water also, since it is warm weather.

It doesn't matter if you are gaining weight if you are sticking to your diet. The diet is to shrink your liver. Period is 3-5 pounds and a stall for me every time.

@new Well people on 600 pound life weight 600 pounds and lose 30 in a month, you were in the 200s and lost 19. That is awesome. Your body is healing from major surgery, let it heal. Good Dog! You'll never be able to quit walking now.

@slimmingsteff Bread can be filling because it can expand in the stomach for some people. Maybe rice does, I don't know, I'm not vary familiar with rice. Anything thin and dry is going to break down to nothing. So things like crackers, thin crust pizza, chips, crispy cookies. They break down to mush basically in your mouth and you can eat unlimited quantities. They are called sliders. It is going to depend on the density and the fiber in the carbs. I feel like this thread should be retitled, making the case for carbs.