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You can still binge eat if you want. Get into therapy and get to the root cause of why you binge eat. Once you understand that and fix that, then have surgery. Once you can stop binging on your own surgery will help you support that. It is very easy to eat around you sleeve and binge especially if you like carbs that break down to nothing.

This is a really limited time problem. I never went out to eat at 10 days. The further out you get the more you can eat. I went to waffle house at like 6 weeks. I was able to make a decent dent in my food. Scrambled eggs are the worst eggs to try and eat. You can eat a lot more of a fried, or poached egg. Scrambled eggs are dry and dense, I still can't deal with them. I can easily eat 2 fried or over easy eggs. 2 poached eggs. At a year and a half out I can eat a 2 egg omlette if it isn't over packed with stuff. The key to being able to eat with your sleeve is a higher moisture content. I go out to breakfast with people all the time and my plate looks pretty normal.

3 or 4 months. Just be careful with Protein bars. Early on they trigger restriction. Once I healed they are basically a slider. I eat them now for emergency protein but they don't trigger restriction and provide zero satisfaction. I'm still hungry feeling after eating them. They are also entirely fake and they can make you stall, especially early on.

I slept on my stomach on the 4th night. It was heaven. Helped with the pain and pressure. I highly suggest it.

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@@Selvia At one year I realized I could chug pretty well. It gets better every month. I am sure I will be able to chug 16 ounces without taking a breath again by the 2 year mark. I don't drink carbonated beverages. I have had a couple sips a few times by accident, like not thinking about it or paying attention, but they were fountain which are not as strongly carbonated at can or bottle. I don't think I have issue with carbonation, there just aren't carbonated drinks that interest me, I gave up sodas long before surgery.

@@chase67 It will have to be tomorrow, I ended up having something different for dinner tonight on the go. Tomorrow I will post my pork chop dinner

I had surgery in the summer so by the holidays I would be semi healed. I changed my attitude about food and my tastes so I didn't binge or anything last year and I am even less interested this year. I would never have surgery this time of year. If for no other reason it's too close to the end of the year and taking the change on have to start over on deductibles etc if something goes wrong and surgery is delayed. Plus your freezing at surgery, being colder in the winter, no thanks. @@Finding_Stacy yeah a lot of place don't do the liquid diet, for the most part it is useless and all it does is weaken people before surgery by starving them.

I wonder if the answer from your doctor would have been different if you drank carbonated drinks instead of coffee. I'm curious. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Probably. I don't drink soda. Haven't in years. Just coffee and tea. I totally get the acid in coffee thing. Early on your tummy can't handle the acid in coffee, but if you have cold brew it can. I'm almost 1.5 years out and since I am freezing this winter I basically drink black coffee all day, we'll for about 8 hours then I switch to hot water. The first 9 month I only had cold brew because of the acid. You can warm cold brew up, but the cold brewing process doesn't produce the acid I also want add that I never get caffeine withdrawal headaches. Most of the time when people think they are getting caffeine withdrawal headaches they are just dehydrated because they don't replace their normal caffeine liquids with water at the same amount. Also another reason they say no caffeine is because they think most people load their caffeine with calories. You have to read between the lines, when I talked to my Dr about it, it is more about calories and appetite than it is about actual caffeine as a drug. When I convinced him that I don't add excessive calories to my caffeine drinks he was like okay.

I'll post tonight. I weigh my food before I cook it so I eat everything

Talk to your dr. I flat out told my Dr I was not giving up caffeine. It doesn't make me hungry it does the opposite actually and I find it helpful for concentration for work. My Dr agreed with me and didn't make me give it up. Before I could drink coffee post-op, I just took caffeine pills until 6 weeks. The I started with coffee.

I need to start dating multiple guys at a time. I just don't have time to manage them, they want to text all day and I have a business to run. So for now, no dating.

Yeah that's exactly what my acid felt like. I never had GERD before so I didn't know what it was. Once my acid production caught up with my new stomach, it stopped.

I spent way more time running the streets fat than I do now. I partied a lot more.

The pill is fine for a sleever. A lot of people get pregnant because they were infertile before and don't make much of an effort to avoid pregnancy afterward. Getting knocked up is 100% preventable in 2016, so if someone is pregnant it is no accident.

Once a day? Maybe you need more? Have you discussed this with your dr?

Dating right now is terrible. I think I am going to look for someone active in their 60s. These guys in their 40s are a mess.

Change your hair. I am natural and I used to always rock my hair or kinky curly weave. Since losing weight I have been wearing kinky straight or yaki wigs and the sleek hair looks feels sleeker and I feel like a smaller person. I have a friend that lost a lot of weight and she told me changing your hair helps a lot, so I tried it and it worked.

Grill any meat, cut it into strips. Now it's finger food and you can eat it on the go. And early on good quality lunch meat like boars head is an awesome solution

I'm really proud of you for sticking to your plan during an emotional time like this. I will say if you look good and you are over 40, you pretty much have your pick of men. I'm a super model around these parts. Lol

Everything you listed not being able to eat is not essential. You didn't say anything about Proteins at all. I am guessing you eat a lot of carbs? Also if you take a PPI and an antacid, you should probably be able to eat those foods. Corn however is a starch/grain not a vegetable so I would avoid it or eat it in moderation

In the beginning I was doing 90 with shakes. I get between 110 and 130 a day with just food.

In what world is 28 pounds in a month considered slow? Unless you weigh like 600 pounds to start, that is very fast weight loss.

@@xogipsy The last thing you want when you are still healing is to feel full. It will hurt like hell. A few pieces can mean anything, unless you have the exact weights of what you are eating no one is going to be able to tell you if it is normal or not. The amount of food you can eat with the sleeve is directly relational to the denisty and mositure content of the food. Most rotisserie chickens are overcooked and mushy in texture which being very juicy, so I wouldn't be surprised you could eat a decent amount if it was fresh. Again you need to weigh measure all your food. It is the only way you can keep track, just randomly eating things and not knowing the amounts is going to be very bad down the road once you are healed.

@@Lori Franzen I thought 180 would be good because I was 180 in HS. Now that I am almost 190, and I see how clothes are fitting me and the wide world of fashion, I am thinking I want to aim for 165. I have already achieved my health goals so everything else at this point is just gravy.