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The chart doesn't actually have you running the whole 5k in 20 minutes. The last month has the speed up, and then working for distance.. ends up being 26.5 minutes at 7mph or 28min for 6.5mph.. So Jess broke 30 minutes in 6 months and this plan has you break it in 7 months. Sounds ok to me.

It is a lot of food.. but even if you only eat half portions now and add a protein shake.. it gives you a framework to work with that will grow with you.. (I thought that I made that clear, but maybe not...) These choices are not random. Each item has protein, variety keeps the day interesting, and there is a wider range of nutrients (than, say, chicken, chicken, chicken). They are all pretty soft, and for the most part there is minimal cooking. Eggs need to be cooked each day or hardboiled a couple times a week. Tuna and beans.. just open a can. Other meats prepared as desired. The only way to meet your goals for the day is to eat very frequently. I made my goals early on by eating this quantity of food.. split up into 6 or 7 meals. I never could do protein shakes, so that was how I met my goals.

Yeah.. the 10% increases really seem to ratchet up the speed very quickly. 3 months getting up to 4mph, and only another 3 getting it up to 7. I dunno. I'll try it out myself since I'm out of shape but otherwise healthy, and am only about 50lbs from goal. So I'll give it a shot and see what happens... seeya in 7 months.. lol!

I'm 7 months out and have eaten that menu the entire time. I've added fruits and veggies as I gain room. I add my milk to tea and coffee through the day.

Ok, here's my plan: Meal 1: 4oz cottage cheese (13g prot.) Meal 2: 3.5 oz black beans and 1 egg (14g) Meal 3: 4oz tuna with a little mayo (25g) probably have to "finish later" Meal 4: 1oz nuts or seeds (7g) Meal 5: 1.5 cups milk (12g) Since milk isn't really a meal, and the nuts are a snack... it all works. You can switch out the fish for other meat and change up the type of beans. If you can't fit in this much food, make it a goal and drink a protein shake.

I picked 7mph because 6mph is jogging (and I thought we were talking about running), and an Army PT test (for a 45 year old soldier) has him running 2 miles at 6.5mph. I just rounded up. But sure.. jogging 4mph is awesome too My heart rate is around 80ish and walking 3mph gets me almost breathless.. so.. yeah....

I had a family reunion coming up and couldn't stand the idea of skinny aunts silently tsk-tsking at my weight.

Considering D.V. of biotin is only 30 micrograms, 5000mg is plenty. 10,000 isn't going to be more effective and is just going to cost twice as much (and could potentially be less well-tolerated). 1-2 egg yolks meets your daily requirement.

If you are drinking enough and getting some salt, and your BP is still low, you should go get checked at your doctor's. If you develop a high fever or start feeling really badly, be sure to seek treatment right away.

Make sure you are meeting your goals. Then just ride it out...

Hi and welcome! I'm sorry to hear about the regain. I hear good things about SIPS, though. (I am 7 months postop with a sleeve). In general, revisions don't pack the same punch as a virgin procedure, so you may notice slower weight loss than last time. But if you stick to your program, it'll come off. I had the opportunity to speak with a DS patient who was 5 years out of surgery. She had lost 1/2 her excess weight, then stopped losing for a couple years. She was following the plan, but didn't understand why the weight loss stopped. An external influence came along, and got her to count her calories. She was eating over 2500 calories in meat, fat, and veggies. Too many calories! So she cut them down, and started losing again. Hit goal less than a year later. These surgeries work (partly.. and I daresay mostly) because we eat so few calories postop. The couple instances I've heard where the patient ate maintenance-level calories right after surgery... the patients didn't lose any weight! Hopefully someone with a SIPS will be along soon. Good luck!

As for sleeve vs bypass.. they are both good, effective procedures. With preexisting GERD, bypass may be a better idea, unless doc thinks the hiatal hernia repair will solve it. So far I'm happy with my sleeve.

Fluff... I wonder if it would be possible to give you an xl sleeve... so you'd get disruption to your hormones, but it wouldn't be the high pressure environment. There wouldn't be restriction, so you'd still have to control your portions yourself.

Nope. It happens because of the shock to the body. Some people don't seem to lose much, so you can hope you're one of them.

Wilsonnnnn!!!!!! (Reference to the befriended volleyball in the movie "Castaway") Ok... yeah, the enema thing is probably too much. But the medicine ball gag could be hilarious! Love it!

Yep, definitely have to relearn. I was never a clumsy person, but now I am! If you start working out doing yoga type stuff, it will assuredly help. I don't work out (yet), and I know that's a lot of my problem.

Sooo funny... just don't let 'em see you eat for the first couple months! Instead of medicine balls.. do enemas! Mom calls and says your brother is obsessed with enemas! And look, he's dropped 50lbs in a couple months!!!! Oh man, there was a show.. strange addictions or something like that.. people do the craziest stuff sometimes! (There was a couple that were addicted to coffee enemas.. they did it like, I dunno.. 3 hours a day or some such thing...).

I'm always finding out new stuff. But here is a really nifty calculator. http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/information/planner+results.php Scroll down a bit and put in your preop weight, height, and start off with 65% excess body weight. See how closely the curve matches your current weight trajectory. If you change 65 to 60 or 70 or 100, it'll change the graph. My personal stats: 5'7 female Started at 305lbs Lost 16lbs on preop diet Month 1, lost: 17lbs 2: 13lbs 3: 8lbs 4: 12lbs 5: 14lbs 6: 7lbs I'm almost 7 months out and have lost a total of 96lbs. My losses seem to be pretty .. median. Some lose faster or slower, a lot seem to lose at the same rate. When I type in 87%, the losses on the graph mesh up with my current weight (which means I may well be WELL above the 65% average). My final weight according to this graph will be 168lbs. Another calculation is to simply take your starting weight (for me, 305lbs) and multiply times 0.6. 305x0.6= 183lbs. (Which is 77% according to the graph calculator). So many different ways of calculating potential losses.. and none of them agree with each other! The real answer to your future is what your body and mind can work together to produce. Statistics, charts, averages, calculators.. these things take hundreds or thousands of people, and lump them together to figure out how bariatric folk, as a population, fare. The individual trials and triumphs are erased. I have 3 surgery-buds that all started lighter than me, but our weights have all tracked along, sometimes to the pound! 2 had sleeves and one had a bypass. By 6 months postop, they were all within 10lbs of goal. Since I started out 50lbs heavier than they did, I still have quite a ways to go. A couple of them exercise a lot, one exercises moderately, and I don't exercise at all. But we all have lost the same amount of weight (to this point). I do believe the surgery is what does the work for the first 6 months. After that, it's more up to us to effect the change we want.

Aww shucks.. what's the fun of the high road? Yeah.. 2 week liquid h*ll... oh, I meant diet. Tori.. thanks for chiming in. Half the reason I post when I do is to see others' responses. As for my "yesses" and "noes"... during the first 2 months postop it was all constantly evolving. By 9 weeks, I had tried out most foods and had a handle on what baby tummy liked and didn't. Then a week or so after that, someone on here asked "what a typical day" looked like. So, dutifully, I thought about it. And I realized through answering that question, that there is such a thing as a typical day. The clouds rolled back, and I could SEE. My yesses are always yes (but I count and measure.. yes to one apple, no to two). My noes are a bit flexible. Special occasions permit special accomodations. And if I want a 10 calorie lick of my hubby's ice cream cone.. I do it! And I don't feel guilty. Lol. But, just because we went out for ice cream doesn't mean I need a cone of my own. It's not a birthday. If I'm busy sipping on water, then I have something to do too. Ice cream isn't about ice cream.. it's about "going out". But, say it IS a birthday. I take a full size serving of cake and ice cream and eat what I want. If it's a sheet cake of grossness I'll probably abstain and eat gently fried-in-butter sweet potatoes at home instead. Mmmm... sweet potatoes... Yes, I've become a good-food snob.

Preop, eating just happened willy nilly, with little thought or plan. Hungry? Just go grab something. Immediately after surgery there are rules. We have to consume just so much protein and water, while minimizing carbs and calories. Eating becomes work. Goal-oriented, structured, planned-for, routine. Now I have to plan ahead for the day. There are "yes" foods and "no" foods. I finally feel some relief... probably because hunger hasn't reared its ugly head. And I always know what I'm gonna eat. Hey.. off topic! My MIL brought like 16 kinds of junk food into the house one day while I was on the preop diet. Now SHE is on a diet (jealous, much?).. and I could care less about cakes and such. Should I bring that stuff into the house? FIL and the kids can eat it... *evil laugh* muhahaha muhahaha!

Anyone having this difficulty should ask his/her family doctor for a test to make sure there isn't a UTI. Once I lost about 80lbs, I noticed I started having trouble. I seriously think it's to do with the loss of the fatty tissue, so my urethra is flopping around (getting pinched off). Lol! Ok, so that's just a guess and I'll ask my primary doc about it at my next checkup.

My family finally is willing to eat something better for them. Raisin Ezekial bread. So happy. Tastes good to me too, but I'm not at goal yet.

Miss Robin is at goal, so she gets peanut butter. For anyone wanting to keep losing... fill up on non-starchy veggies. Don't add fat unless you're keto. My favorite way of preparing veggies.. Uncooked: pick up a tomato or bell pepper and eat it like an apple. Cooked: boil things like green beans and broccoli in an inch or two of water (covered). When its pretty much done cooking, let the water cook off and the veggies brown (not burn). It caramelizes the naturally occuring sugars and yum yum. I frequently don't even have to add water to frozen veggies cooked this way. ... maybe not as healthy as lightly steamed, but I'll eat a bunch more of it and not feel deprived.

To lose all her teeth, in a short period of time, only a year postop tells me there was something else going on.. not just surgery. Surgery may have been the straw, but not necessarily. My FIL did the exact same thing. Lost all his teeth, suddenly, in his 30s. He was a 2-pack a day smoker, didn't brush or visit the dentist, drank nothing but coca cola, and became diabetic a few years later. (In other words, he was a mess).

If it feels right.. then do it! It won't hurt anything. Just make sure this is a celebratory endeavor and not some sort of self-flagellation. I would recommend adding either low sodium v8 or coconut water because most protein shakes don't provide the electrolytes you need. If you feel badly then you can always stop and re-evaluate. Congrats on your 1-year surgiversary!