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I'm on my 7th day post op so it's going to be a while before I get any new progress pics. I did have a 120 lb loss on my last weight loss push a few years back. There are pics of that in my profile. Sadly....I let a surgery and some developing ailments to be excuses to being active and gained most of it back. I'm grateful that the sleeve surgery was a success and I'm on the mend. My ailments will all be "healable" and I'll be feeling much younger by my next birthday in 11 months. Hugely grateful.

Your program nurse/administrator/director can tell you exactly how much you can lose and still qualify.

Outstanding !!!!!!!! Tell your kids to be careful when giving you hugs for a few days.

You've got this. Everyone that goes in is nervous. Very normal to feel that way. All I can say is that 7 days ago I was going in, too. The recovery has been great and I feel really good. I know now that it was the best decision I could have made. Getting this surgery and losing this weight and maintaining it will help me be a better father, husband, son, brother, uncle, employee, church member, friend.........better in everything I do. You'll do great. Keep your head up and keep making progress. Get up and walking when they tell you to do so. It'll make your healing speed up and you'll feel better every time you do it.

Today is my 7th day. In fact I was sitting in the recovery room this time 7 days ago. There is no way I have any expectation of golf, working out or much bending over at this point, although I highly admire your enthusiasm. I can say that coughing and sneezing suck outright. I even got a reload on the pain meds yesterday due to a simultaneous abdominal hernia repair. Every day is better, but this will just take some time.

Thanks! I tell ya......food is tremendous part of our culture, our family history and even a source of braggin rights: Uncle Gene's BBQ Sauce, Grandma Clyde's Carrot Cake.....etc. I can think back to a lot of big family moments and tell you what was being served. It took me a while, but I now see how I can still be a part of all the fun times: family gatherings, going out with friends, tailgating at ball games, etc. Just because I"m focused on losing weight and getting healthy I"m not being limited. It's the opposite, in fact, the healthier I become the more fun stuff I can do. The OP sort of scared me in that it appeared she was also thinking along those lines....struggling needlessly. She'll be able to better do all her many roles and activities with her new body.

The difficulty and delays that many of us faced while trying to get into the programs was excruciating. Finally getting those appointments was a major breakthrough. Making those appointments was THE priority. We rescheduled our lives to meet the appointments. For the surgeon's workshop I'd worked a 14 hour night shift, slept 2 hours, attended the 3-4 hour workshop and went to work for another 14 hour night shift. The girl sitting in front of me did the same type thing during our nutrition class. Sorry if you don't receive a lot of sympathy from folks about this. There are likely many folks waiting behind you that are ready and waiting.

3 weeks to lose 4 pounds ? You can easily lose this and much more. Did they give you a diet to follow ? If not, then as folks have suggested above there are ways to drop off weight really fast. The pre-op diet many of us followed dropped off a pound per day. It works due to calorie deficit and ketosis. You've got plenty of time to lose the weight. You can do this with great success.

You shouldn't have to deal with that kind of crap. So dang wrong. What will be cool, though, is your great success. You'll reach your goals and those idiots opinions will never matter.

I regretted surgery for about 4 months, I had a stricture that's cause me vomiting, pain, etc etc. I'm not 7 months and super happy! Just hung in there, give little more time. I know it's hard but that's all you can do now. Call your doctor if you worry something it's wrong. It's not an easy journey but it's worth it! I am just now 1 month and 5 days out. I've dealt with constipation (not really, still have it) and at close to one month started getting food stuck, salivating like mad and vomiting. After about a week of this nonsense, I got re- admittied (three hours from home) for IV fluids and astimosis dilation. I had a severe 3mm stricture that was dilated to 10mm on 10-15. He said there is a possibility that it will have to be repeated and I believe him. Not something to mess around with. I was sent home on Friday and today, Monday I felt that same tight, stuck pain right after trying to eat. Thinking it might be time for stretch out #2. I'd say discomfort and vomiting on the same food you were able to tolerate a week or two prior is cause for concern. Also.. when or if liquid causes pain and also shoot back out- GO TO THE DOCTOR. Now I know.. Hope this helps someone else. I wish you the best. Thanks for posting. Hopefully folks will read and stay in close contact with their surgeons.

I'll look later when I can get to my paperwork that the nutritionist gave me....maybe I can snap a pic and post it. I'm hoping you are working with a nutritionist in your program. There really isn't much debate about vitamins.....we have to have them....period. End of story. I was told what to take and when (this is very important, too) and that lab work would be done down the road to see where I was nutrionially. That did some lab work in the hospital. If I remember correctly they did it at 3:30am in the morning after surgery when I was finally sleeping. Seems like they were in and out every few minutes for some reason. sleep was the only thing I craved when returning home. All my vitamins are currently chewables and they all taste great. Finstones (2 per day). No kidding.....same ones I loved as a kid. Iron B-12 D Vitamin Calcium chewables (the ones I'm taking are the Bariatric Advantage Chewy Bites 500mg). The chocolate&Peanut Butter and the caramel are each like little Desserts. Who would have thought we'd have treats like these. Great product. I know there is something else but I just can't remember at the moment. Not much debate around here on the need for these. My surgeon's office sales everything I need and I'll simply be buying them from the office in the future. They have simplified it, too, with some new chewable tablet that has everything in it but the calcium. I'll be going that direction once my current supply runs low.

I'm a dude who didn't care for yogurt. It's something I sidestepped and reached for other unhealthy garbage. Once I entered the diet prior to the pre-op liquid diet, I gave Greek yogurt a try due to it's higher Protein content. I'm a big football fan and had seen Cam Newton's Oikos Triple Zero Greek Yogurt commercials and figured I'd give it a go. I was very impressed with the flavor and thought it was great. Every flavor was really to my liking. I gave other brands of Greek yogurt a try and never found one I liked as much as the Oikos Triple Zero. None were as healthy, either. Give it try if you don't get dialed in on another brand. I'm 7 days post-op, 3rd week of liquids with a few more weeks of liquids to go. I am very much looking forward to the days ahead when I can have my Greek yogurt. It's going to be awesome..

Made a video about you ? F*%K that B!#*h. No way, shape, or form that can be legal. Sorry, I have no advice, but that blows. You should get a free pass on pimp-slapping that worthless piece of crap for as many times as you'd like. Manipulative, petty, low-class heifer. I'm very sorry you had to be subjected to such a spineless piece of garbage.

I can't tell you how much better my knee feels now that she's been laying on it for a while. Therapy dog in so many ways. She's seen me through three surgeries and I've seen her through two of her own. I've been close to all of our dogs......but this one is really special. I hope she lives a long and healthy life. I just leave the pillow across my abdomen and all is well. My first day home she jumped up in the recliner and stood there looking at me. I pulled my shirt up and showed her the new holes....she leaned in....leaned back.....looked up at me and raised her front left paw and dropped her head down. She's stayed off my abdomen ever since. I keep the pillow there to safeguard against the younger dog....she's wide open and full of adventure and wouldn't know any better. Plus.......that pillow feels great as it's warm and provides slight pressure.

I'm mighty tempted to buy one of these things: http://direct.ninjakitchen.com/products/ninja-coffee-bar-cf080/12/cpc/ogxiv/?&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=CF080W_ogxiv

You said a mouthful right there ! I said the very same things, yet there I was....addicted and having to quit. Cigarettes are hugely addictive but just like OKCPirate said.....after a while the desire goes away. I quit several years ago, but were I quitting now.....I'd pursue the vaping thing. I've known some guys at work who quit this was recently with great success. I wish you the best.

I'm truly sorry for your gas pain.....but reading the unedited version had me hurting from laughing. 6 days out, here, and laughing is not fun......but damn that was funny. Laughing may work the gas loose, too. I don't know. Last week when I had my VSG they had me walking within 3 hours as a safeguard towards warding up this stuff. I really feel for you and hope that you can get some relief swiftly.

It's normal to be antsy. I know I sure was. You say it's getting real now. Think back to when you made the decision to have surgery.....remember your rationale then...your motivations. It'll bring things into focus. One thing that made the jitters more for me on this surgery, was that it was the first elective surgery, other than a vasectomy, that I've had. All the rest were to repair stuff I'd torn up through one some misadventure. This one, however, was of my own choice. For some reason this kept me churning until I thought through it all over again and connected back to the "why" I chose to do this. I wish you the best. This surgery, by the way.....has been as easy for me to recover from as the vasectomy I dreaded and delayed on for years.

Wow. I was unaware they had made changes other than adding new flavors. How long ago was this ?

The surgery is a paradigm shift for many of us, I suppose. My passion to grill and cook for my family is still very strong. There is just a much improved menu that I'll be working with. My Grandfathers were both very lean and athletic men. I suspect that their gin & whiskey must have cut through the artery killing stuff my Grandmas cooked. ???? I'm grateful that my generation knows better and I'm really proud my son is lean and healthy. My nephew and my three nieces are each very active, involved in sports and dance and each like my son.....lean and trim. I know they each were never introduced to the Kool Aid monster or Capri Suns or any more of that garbage. No sugar Water. They all grew up eating and drinking healthy stuff and make their own choices. I feel really good about them in terms of healthy weight and healthy lungs.

@@ssflbelle thank you very much. You have come so very far. Clearly you are a determined soul with a winning spirit. I'm glad to have met you here. I am really looking forward to seeing you reach your goals. I know its not a matter of "IF", but simply a matter of "WHEN". You are going walk through every step like a champ. @Blairwithme we are all thinking about you with prayers sent for your success today.

I just had my sleeve on the 13th and heck yes had bad leg pain. The only other pain was the gas they use to expand the abdomen that cause the worst pain I have ever had. I'm going to ask my doc in my appointment this morning what he did to keep me from having gas pain. I'll report back what I find out. It never presented itself. I have no idea how he worked that magic but I do remember a ladies voice with her hand on my shoulder saying "You are going to feel good, Dr Glass was very careful to get out all the gas." while I was in the haze of the recovery room. He told me the first thing he did was perform the sleeve operation and then he went to the umbilical hernia repair. I wonder if the gas was voided during this step somehow. As far as the leg pain.....it cleared up in just a couple days. It was inner thigh region and what I'd classify as heavy soreness. The only cramping or near-cramping that I experienced thus far were both calves. They felt really tight and on the verge of cramping. Again this was something I experienced the first two-three days. The past three days have seen my water intake over 3 times the minimum recommended amount. I think this improved hydration was the key for solving the calf cramps. He told me just prior to being discharged from the hospital that proper hydration and getting my 3 shakes in would solve many, if not all, the complications I may encounter. He was spot on. I really wish there would have been a way that I could have improved my fitness level prior to this surgery. Daily time on the elliptical the month prior to the surgery would have most certainly made the rebound afterwards even easier. I'm trying to rectify that now and not lest rust set in while I sit around. We are blessed with some beautiful weather this week (just cold to this Southern guy). I plan on walking some laps around the neighborhood every day. Now it's all about getting in the best shape I can over the next two weeks so that my return to work goes smooth. I've been getting calls and texts and know it's piling up on me there, but it's just going to have to pile up. I'm very grateful.

I am in no way complaining here nor do I worry about something being wrong. I'd been warned about this happening. I just find the phenomenon to be interesting. I weighed this morning, my 3rd day after surgery. The scales read 6 pounds higher than on the morning of my surgery. I've been getting 2-3 Protein shakes plus 60-120 ounces of Water down each day. I'm trying to get my water intake elevated today (40 ounces already at 7:00am) as well have more mobility than yesterday. I'm sure once my body adjusts and the abdominal swelling goes down so will my weight. Do you remember how much, if any, that you picked up from the surgery? How long before you body flushed the fluids out ? I'm guessing that at some point during his coming weekend I'll have that breakthrough and see a big drop on the scale.

Ask yourself how bad you really want this surgery? Ask yourself why losing weight is important to you? Ask yourself if you understand the pre-op diet is for your safety. Compromising it can be dangerous. You are about to have significant internal surgery. Do I really want to jeopardize it ? Ask yourself if you are truly ready ? You've got this. Through all the candy in the trash to avoid temptation. The rest of the family will just have to understand.

Sorry for her harsh reply. You clearly have a lot of hurdles that you've been jumping over. I guess what you caught was the venom that comes from being asked all sorts of "why can't I have pancakes and ice cream" so freaking often. You didn't deserve that, but you've got your eye on the prize and will be benefitting on your own very soon.