elliekay

Breakfast: 2.5oz pulled chicken Lunch: 4oz chicken lettuce wrap (tofu, ground chicken, green onion, cabbage, lettuce wrap) Snack: 0.5 tbsp reduced fat PB, 1oz raw almonds Dinner: 2.5oz pulled pork Probably will end up having another snack later in the evening since everything else was really early. My brain says protein shake but my tummy says cucumbers and hummus.

yes! i LOVE keto! also an easy way to explain your diet without detailing your surgery

I don't understand the mentality that you have to be completely open about your surgery on the first couple dates/early in a relationship lol... there's plenty of other ways to explain dietary restrictions without putting everything out there. it's a sensitive/vulnerable topic. honestly, i'm a bit over 7 months into my relationship (9 months post-op) and he doesn't know and probably never will. it isn't a necessity for him to know. a few people got mad at me for posting a thread here where i was feeling a bit upset that he got me chocolates for vday after i asked him not to but the thing is that that's an inconsiderate thing to do just knowing i'm on a diet and have digestive issues, he didn't need to know i had WLS to know better, you know? it's your business who you share it with. i'd explain that you're on a diet and maybe elaborate that you have a hard time digesting certain foods if you want a more solid reason but if they're worth the time they'll be able to respect that you're choosing to eat a certain way. i don't know what the nightlife scene is like by you and what's accessible but i live inside chicago city limits so generally i like going to cheap shows on dates--there's always cheap improv shows or local bands for $5-$10. if we do get food i make sure i have suggestions in mind for places i can actually eat. bars seem to work ok as well once you're a bit further post-op, if you get 1 drink and drink it slowly over the course of the date.

I've never heard of those, they look really interesting... I'm assuming you've tried BBQ?? That seems to be the cheapest on Amazon but if it's gross I'll see if I can find salt & vin at a store lol

I love those! Unfortunately I don't know if they would survive in the fridge at work though, snacky stuff tends to "disappear"

i can't offer advice but just want to chime in and say i'm in the same boat. im nearing 9 months and i have so much anxiety and bad feelings and i feel like i'm eating too much and i hate my body more now than i ever did before. hoping this is just a phase. trying to focus on the positives.

my thighs have stopped spilling out of my office chair & car seat i'm no longer shopping in the plus size section i bought a mini skirt for the first time in my life and it actually covered everything! this one i guess is scale related but i still think it's a NSV: i weigh less than my boyfriend, who's pretty thin and only an inch taller than me and then also partner related, he's started pulling me completely on top of him to cuddle and he seems totally fine even if i'm not holding myself up at all which is pretty cool still makes me really nervous though lol

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, I'm not sure exactly where it would go So with Valentines day being earlier this week, I had reminded my boyfriend the week before that I couldn't eat chocolate, which he should know regardless because it's something I've told him plenty of times--he doesn't know all the details of my surgery but he knows it affected how I eat, and I've complained to him a million times about how sick chocolate makes me now, and also he knows I watch what I eat like a hawk, so you'd think he'd know better... His "big valentines present" for me was a giant box of chocolates. Like 30-something pieces of chocolate that I can't eat. (also I planned literally the entire evening and bought him like $50 worth of presents but thats not the point lol) Idk what to do. I've spent the last few days feeling really shitty about it, like it almost feels like a personal attack even though I know it's just him being oblivious. When he gave it to me I was just kind of like "Oh... thanks....!" and then later in the evening brought up how it felt like he didn't listen to me and he went "yeah, that was stupid of me" but otherwise it hasn't come up and I've just had this box of chocolates sitting in my room because I can't eat them but also feel bad giving it away--especially since he's been here in the mornings so he would see if I brought it to work with me I was just gonna let it sit in here but chocolate is a total trigger food for me and last night I opened it, ate 2 of them, and ended up puking sooooo... it needs to go. Anyways idk I guess I'm just wondering how you guys handle situations like this. I feel betrayed but also feel like that's a way overreaction over a box of chocolates on a holiday meant for chocolate. I'm not sure if I should bring it up again or just trash it or take it to work even if he sees me doing it or what.

I think you missed the part where I've repeatedly warned him I can't eat chocolate. He doesn't know my surgery was WLS but he knows I had a surgery that affected my digestion and that a lot of foods make me really sick--this is something I talk about with him constantly. I don't think I'm expecting him to be a mind reader so much as just expecting him to listen to me you know? I would have been much happier receiving nothing than something I made explicitly clear numerous times that if I ate it it would make me sick...

My surgery was my moving day--it was stressful but it worked out. Enlist as many helpers as you can and make sure anything you immediately need is accessible because you are not going to feel like unpacking lol. good luck and congrats on the approval!!!

my team said to stick to wine if i drink at all--i think my first drink was 4 weeks out but it hurt and i don't suggest doing the same haha. i'd wait til you're on solid food.

Thank you all for the support. In the end, I told him I couldn't eat the chocolates but appreciated the thought and that I would be giving them to my coworkers--he understood and was fine with that but I think he feels pretty bad about putting me in that situation in the first place. We've decided from now on I'm going to send him my amazon wishlist for ideas lol. All the support here really helped me feel a lot better about the entire situation. When I say he doesn't know all the details of my surgery I mean he knows I had a surgery for something but doesn't know I had WLS--we met immediately after I had the surgery and I wasn't wanting to tell someone I had just met that I had gastric sleeve surgery done (mostly wanting to avoid all the questions). I told him I had hernia repair/acid reflux surgery, and that I had some damaged tissue removed, which is all true, it just wasn't why I was under the knife in the first place--now we're at a point where I've been going with the hernia thing for so long that it doesn't seem worth it to correct myself so things like sitting him down and explaining the ins and outs or taking him to a support group aren't exactly options. He does know I'm on a weight loss journey and that I've lost 100lbs+ (most of which has been during the time we've been together) and is very supportive. I might sit him down and go over my dietary restrictions again, though--I've explained them before but apparently it didn't stick well enough.

I just recently started noticing I could size down in pants--like everything has fit fine until the last 2 months--and I'm at over 100lbs lost. I think bigger sizes have more of a gap between them but I might be wrong on that.

Hello everyone! Sorry for the undies but wanted to drop a progress pic to Celebrate my 6 month surgiversary! (the plan was to wear the same clothes but the bra is too big to stay on anymore... I'm not complaining haha) 5'11" HW: 300.0 (3/29/16) SW: 278.4 (8/1/16) CW: 204.5 (2/1/17) GW: 170 Down 95.5 total, 73.9 since surgery I was hoping I'd hit 100lbs lost/onederland by 6 months but I've been in what hopefully is just a stall for the past 3 weeks... the holidays were a struggle and I think that belatedly set me back a bit but I'm back on track so should see it moving again soon As for actual measurements, I forgot to take them at my highest weight or surgery weight so my first set of measurements is from 8/25 (262lbs) but I've lost at least 6in from the smallest part of my waist, 5 from my navel, 7 from my hips, and then 2-4 inches everywhere else. Still struggling to consistently get enough Protein and avoiding carbs but it's a work in progress! Here's to losing the last 35lbs (or more!) before my 1 year surgiversary

Knowing myself I'll probably have a chocolate or two, feel sick, and give the rest to my roommates/boyfriend lol. I told the boyfriend I can't really handle sweets so hopefully he knows better than to get me anything like that, it's work that I'm worried about. I'm gonna try regifting anything I get, I think if I pick someone to give it to as soon as I get it I'll be less likely to give in and eat it.

Thank you all so much for the kind words and encouragment! Hopefully hitting onederland tomorrow--so excited!!

I think I probably first had sushi 2 months out. If you're doing sashimi (sushi fish with no rice) you might be able to do it sooner--don't force it down if it doesn't feel right though. Just gotta be careful because a lot of Americanized rolls have a ton of extra ingredients in them that load on calories, sashimi will be your best bet until you can stomach rice (may be a few months, I'm just now at 6 months getting to the point where it doesn't hurt to eat rice) and then when you can have rice you'll want to stick to simple rolls with only 2 or 3 ingredients. Congratulations on surgery!

I've been running into this issue a lot lately... it kind of grosses me out how much nicer people are now that I'm smaller (and I'm still big--probably a 14 or 16 in pants) but at least with most people it's subtle. I saw a guy I went to high school with a couple weeks ago and he had the gall to say something along the lines of, "You had a cool personality before but now you're hot so you're actually worth talking to now." I've never been nearly as hurt by anything anyone said to me at my fattest as I was by that. Stuff like that makes it hard for me to feel great talking to new people--I'm always wondering if they would be talking to me the same way if I was still 300lbs. I dunno. It's a weird, unique experience and I think it's ok to be bitter/upset about it.

I saw a sleever on instagram and it just kind of snowballed from there; prior to that the only WLS I knew about was lapband and I had heard horror stories about it so I had never even considered it but after that I spent a few months researching it and lurking forums and obsessing over the before and after pics. I think my final consideration that pushed me over the edge was some stupid thought like, "I wanna look good for a wedding someday" I was about 275-280 so I had about 100lbs to lose and I purposefully gained 20lbs for the sake of qualifying for insurance coverage... counterproductive but I'm now at the lowest weight I can EVER remember being (even when I was a preteen!) and 5lbs away from onederland. Worth it. I chose sleeve in particular because from what I had researched it sounded a lot safer, and I didn't want to worry about dumping syndrome. My surgeon tried convincing me to get bypass by telling me, "There may be a day where you have to run out of an important interview because you're dumping, but it'll keep you from eating the wrong foods!" Yeah... no thanks haha. I'd rather run the risk of self-sabotage than run the risk of dumping interfering with my life.

My surgeon did my sleeve and (small) hernia repair at the same time. Tomorrow is my 6 month surgiversary and reflux is way better than it was.

I don't tell anyone unless I absolutely have to. My s/o doesn't even know--we met post-op so I didn't feel the need to tell him. He's noticed the weight loss but figures it's just because I'm working hard to lose weight (which I am!). I say I'm doing the keto diet and exercising 3+ times a week... which isn't a lie, just omitting the part where I had surgery haha. I say I had acid reflux/hernia repair surgery if I need to explain that part--laparoscopic fundoplication leaves similar scars. Make sure if you tell a story that you're consistent with it though; I've had the same coworker ask me on 4 separate occasions what I did, I think she's trying to catch me in a lie Soooo nosy.

I only visited the one... it probably would have been a good idea to visit 1 or 2 others but I had gotten his name from another bariatric patient and was anxious to get the process started. I had the sleeve done because I was insistent upon it but he was kind of pushy about bypass and didn't listen much to my concerns wrt how bypass would affect me as a college student in particular... and his APN (who I have all my post-op appointments with) seems really against me being on sites like this which I think is kind of weird. So I think I might have been happier with another surgeon/team but my results have been pretty good so it's whatever. If you think the commute might be an issue I'd visit the closer surgeon just to get an idea for it.

What's your height?5'11"

My mom sent me these two pictures today--one she took at the hospital the morning of surgery, and one she took today to send to my aunt (who has also lost a great deal of weight). I can't believe how big of a difference it is at 3.5 months out! When I look in the mirror I feel like I look exactly the same as I did so it's nice to have progress pictures like this. I wish I had pictures like this of my highest weight lol. Surgery: 8/1/16 HW: 300 SW: 278 CW: 224 GW: 170 Also wearing an outfit of jeans and a sweatshirt I bought in 2013 that never actually fit haha. Still a bit poochy in these jeans but they slipped on no problem

8/1 surgery here--down 67lbs total, 45lbs from surgery weight and officially halfway to goal I think I get about 40g of Protein from food a day. The rest is from shakes.