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There'd be no question if it was a leak. You'd likely feel pain, nausea, etc. that would easily have you going to a hospital.

I think you're referring to @BigViffer. Yes, his direct honesty has triggered plenty of snowflakes while being incredibly respectful. Generally the most intolerant people are the ones whining about the imaginary intolerance of others, and like some prior posts, try and attempt the "Duke lacrosse" (re: shaming and crying harassment with nothing to substantiate) method to shut people up whose opinions they don't want to read. It only motivates me, personally, to post more.

Indeed, people will find opinions they think are useful and decide if it works for them, regardless of how one deliver the message. If one is utterly focused on how the message is delivered, there's likely no type of delivery that will appease them anyways. Personally it's not an excuse I buy.

I agree particularly about the pudding, look at the ingredients list.. The only nutrition one even gets it if they add milk.. but you get that nutrition by having the milk without the pudding. And far less sodium.

No complications, and no regrets, even if I had them. It's always a risk with surgery.

This thread is specifically about people handling criticism, if you don't like the topic and people discussing it, don't post in it. Simple. You're the one trying to bully people out of a thread because they don't share your opinions. Protip: It's not gonna work. Either discuss the topic or be on your merry way. I'm not going to stop discussing this topic because you wish to cry harassment and whatever other contrived garbage you can try and fling around. This is my last response to your personal attacks.

We can't really motivate you.. you have to find the motivation. Slip-ups are normal especially as people get out of the honeymoon phase, bottom out, and then think they can go back to the habits that got them in trouble.. but it's entirely something you have to correct. One can't rely on the restriction forever.

Right.. responding to someone posting to me = harass. It was a nice effort. And clearly you know who I am, despite me having no idea who you are. Must be harassment.

Mashed potatoes are slider food.. empty calories, will go right through you, it won't keep you satiated, you may find yourself hungry again very shortly after. It impacts your liver because all the carbs get absorbed and it directly impacts how your body burns up fat. In other words, it's asking for a stall. The pudding is just useless calories, even SF. I would Google search a list of protein-laden or nutritious food and stick to things low in carbs that you can tolerate.

I don't get it.. you didn't ask them why the dose changes?

We all have screw-ups, just get back at it tomorrow.

Get offended all you like, people are going to present opinions that you won't like regardless of how upset and how many childish tantrums you throw. Not changing anything. I have no idea what this "proving me wrong" nonsense is, I don't even know who you are. If you don't like opinions, and you or anyone else prefer to take criticism of the things people say or do personally, there's always an ignore function.

Just the thought of the smell of the crap they wanted me drinking grosses me out.

inb4 someone who gets triggered by honesty says you're being insensitive.

If you're not diabetic, sure, only count net carbs. If you are, count them all.

It really depends on their personality. I kinda harassed my wife to start eating better and kept going at her with how many carbs and crap are in the Asian food she was having. Now she's happily doing it after the results I've achieved (she has PCOS), and thus far in a week she's gotten from 206 to 194. Her confidence has skyrocketed and she's a lot more active and positive. I have no idea what would work for your SO but I'd try different approaches.

I'm a little over 1 month. I've not had issues lately with pain, that was at the beginning especially when I was having smoothies via straw. I swallow air all the time anyways regardless of what method I use so I'm used to burping and farting. Edit: I'm afraid to look at that link that just appeared on the word "farting".

I read from others about discouraging straws due to causing gas/bloating. Never happened with me. Just make sure to keep with the sips as one can easily take in too many fluids with a straw post-op and cause pain.

The issue is your liver shrinking. If it's not shrunk enough, and if it's too saturated with fat surrounding it and is too slippery, there's a risk of them closing you up/pulling out the instruments and canceling or delaying it. The pre-op diet isn't for fun, it's to make the surgery safer to perform. I couldn't tell you whether or not your liver has shrunk sufficiently, but if you haven't been following the diet, maybe postpone until you can.

couldn't help but laugh at that part. Best of luck with the rest of the journey.

18 days out on 600-800 cals a day and people are saying you should ramp up your exercise? hell no. Terrible advice. Upping your exercise means you must up your caloric intake. It's really not necessary. If you keep at 600-800 calories (already borderline starvation mode) while exercising like some of these people here suggest you do, your body will be starving, your metabolism will slow down.. you'll stop losing healthy weight because you're already putting a stressed out body into starvation mode. I have no idea what those posters are thinking, but it's awful advice. You don't need to rigorously exercise this early on.. walking is perfectly fine, and it helps to get rid of gas. If you want to work out or do rigorous exercise I'd suggest doing so under the approval and supervision from a doctor or nutritionist/dietitian. The key early on is to do things in a healthy fashion.

The key in post-op during the first stages is making sure you get enough water, protein, and supplements. When you advanced to puree, soft solids, and regular food, it gets easier and easier to meet protein goals.

The psychological and physiological effects of sugar people seem to know about but not understand. It changes the way your body processes taste and causes an addiction -- it's effectively a psychoactive drug. For people who have sugar-laden foods, which include fruit juices, for such a long time, when they stop for weeks or more, they've come down from the effects of sugar, so when they taste it, they're far more likely to realize that this is an overload of sugar. This isn't really a subjective change in "taste" as it is the physiological and psychological effects sugar comprehensively has on the body. An ex of mine from Greece noticed this in all our foods in the US when she visited numerous times. Our food nearly made her sick because it's so carb dense. I mean, I was virtually addicted to soda in the prior couple years up to my 3 month pre-op diet. When I started it, it took me 3-4 weeks to come down from the effects of sugar. About a month and a half into the pre-op diet I sipped my wifes soda and I hated the taste. Psychologically and physioligically my body was trying to tell me to have it, but I no longer subjectively wanted it. Post-op, nothing has changed about my preferences for food.. I've tried a bunch of things I used to hate that I wanted to eat, and I still didn't like them. I still love ground beef, almonds/peanuts, water, and chicken just as much as I did pre-op. Some people have said their tastes change drastically post-op but they haven't whatsoever for me.

For me I was absolutely miserable at my peak weight. In my weight management program I noticed a lot of the people I talked to who were also getting surgery had been overweight their entire lives. For me, this was a new development, it happened so quickly. So many of the drastic changes, mostly bad, were extremely tough to cope with. It only added to the depression I encountered. When I got the word that I was entering the pre-op diet which would mean inevitable surgery, I was thrilled, and it helped put a spark in my ass and I really focused on the changes I needed to make for all of this to be successful. Thus far, physiologically and psychologically it has been an enormous boost. Sure, I'm not a fan of the sagging skin under my belly that I already have, but that can all be dealt with later. The real issue is that I've made serious changes to my lifestyle, I plan on living a long life, and this is just the beginning of the rest of my life of better choices. The idea of getting cut open can be scary, because once it's done it's done, right? But by the time you've gotten to this point of having a pre-op diet or OR date, there should be no doubt in your mind you've made the right decision and that you're mentally prepared. It's perfectly normal to be scared especially in the short time prior to having the surgery.. but the risk is much higher for the vast majority of people trying to live with comorbidities they have, or will inevitably develop (or worsen) with severe obesity. For me, being able to move around with a lot less back pain is a huge plus. Going back to my old clothes I quickly grew out of shortly after buying is a huge plus. While I don't think I'm ready to go back to full exercise (i.e. skating, snowboarding, waterskiing, racquetball, handball, swimming, biking, etc.) until I get back under 200, the fact that I'm progressing so quickly toward it is only adding to the motivation, and a constant affirmation that the changes made were a good choice.

I personally would, because I never over-did alcohol in the first place, but I think people don't understand a few things: - Contributory factors of addiction in many of us who had eating problems shows this isn't a good thing to have post-op -- those who had food addictions are way too susceptible to substituting food addiction with alcohol addiction. This is something my hepatologist mentioned before surgery and I notice this is backed up by numerous scientific journals. - Nextly, many of us know that the surgery puts our body into panic but don't fully understand the extent. The liver, for example, goes into overdrive, producing massive ketones to burn glucose and fat throughout the body as a natural response to lack of carbohydrates to utilize as energy. It likewise has to work extremely hard to produce enough glucose to move through the bloodstream to make up for the lack of glucose due to the extreme carb and caloric deficit, so the body needs to have enough energy to function. This happens all the way until we've healed enough to go to a normal diet. So add alcohol to the stress the liver is going through and it's very easy to cause damage to it without even thinking. This isn't a huge deal for people with normal livers, but for the 20%+ of population who do have liver issues (diagnosed with 1st stage fatty liver or worse), it's not smart. I believe in a recent journal I read that over 90% of people entirely who go through VSG wind up having inflamed livers (showing in their enzyme levels) for a period of time. It needs to heal almost as much as the stomach does. So throwing alcohol into it one or two months into surgery I just don't find to be a good idea. Besides all the carbs in alcohol it's likely to cause stalls and weight gain, never mind the prior paragraph about liver damage. If you want attention find a guy. You've already made enough drama out of nothing. Go away.