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I’m 13 months past RnY. Sugar doesn’t give me the dumps, but I get the sweats and the mouth slimeys and I feel terrible. I have found that chewable vitamins (calcium chews, multi, vitamin C) and sugar free popsicles help with the sweet tooth. I can have a bite or two of baked sweets, but I usually pay for it after and tend to avoid it now. Carbs only get me in a bunch when I drink too much liquid after. It is a good thing for me. You’ll have to see how your body adjusts to the surgery. Everyone is different and you may lose your sweet tooth or be just fine. Good luck!

You look fantastic. Ultra adorbs. My nutritionist said that biotin in high concentration is supposed to help with hair and nails, but that works for you. Rock it!

I had a man like that in my life who gave me the same ultimatum. He thought that people who couldn’t make change thru self-discipline had a character flaw. He also distrusted modern medicine. In retrospect, I think he had good intentions but now that I’m 100lbs lighter a year after surgery and he is gone, I joke that it was the first 185lbs that was the hardest to lose. The rest came right off! Lol! I don’t regret choosing my health over his fears. My body was crushing under the weight and I was on a slow and painful track to death. He may have had good intentions but he went about it in the wrong way, was negative, and a lot of the reason I gained the weight in the first place (I’m not shifting accountability, he just supplied the trigger). He also gave me a hard time when I quit smoking. During the wedding ceremony, he vowed that he would stand by your side for better and for worse. He needs to get to it.

I’m an atheist too. When someone tells me they’re going to pray for me, I just say ok. If they want to waste their time, then that is on them. If someone told me they were going to light a bonfire and dance around it for me, I’d say the same. If they told me they were going to sacrifice a chicken for me, I would put my foot down. If it doesn’t impact me or harm anything, then whatever. I haven’t had that happen to me in years, tho... I get that the thoughtless and inconsiderate casual announcement that you one is a God believing praying Christian in a public forum directed at someone who may or may not be is arrogant, inappropriate, self-centered, and enormously irritating but we live on ground zero for Christian egotistic fanaticism. The more their membership numbers fall, the worse it gets, too... Didn’t Jesus tell Christians to pray in private? Too bad Christians aren’t more like their Christ, eh?

I had Dr. Quilici in Burbank. My insurance is Facey.

I’m starting month 7. After a steady 10lbs a month weight loss, it has slowed to a snail’s pace for the last 2 and now has just completely leveled. Some days I even put 1-4 lbs of weight ON. I want to be under 200lbs by my mid June check up. I’m walking and eating a low carb, lean protein, < 1000 cal a day diet and am getting really really frustrated. *Frustration = if I’m not going to lose weight, then I will just eat what I want! I thought I would keep losing weight for a year and it looks like I only get 6 months... Any advice or words of wisdom?

Thanks Sprinkles. There’s nothing wrong with therapy for those who need it. I don’t act on it my bad thoughts. Luckily, sugar and carbs make me hurl like the exorcist child.! Lol I am getting all my minimum nutrition and I’m not ever starving. I just HATE the foamies and want to keep my food consumption sensible and get the most out of this surgery. I eat veggies and take my vitamins like I’m supposed to. I’m just venting and frustrated with the big lull in weight loss. I appreciate you advice.

I would talk to your Dr. He or she will know how to advise you on how to take meds. They took me off my pain killers for a while but all is well now. Your ability to absorb meds will change after this surgery, so you need everything to be chewable, Might be different for you but chocolate milk makes me HURL like the Exorcist child. Maybe a protein smoothie? I’m surprised that they’re giving you a bypass surgery at only 150lbs?!! My understanding was that you have to be obese for RnY surgery... It may not be worth it to have the surgery to lose only 20 or 30lbs if the meds are this important to your daily quality of life. Maybe I misread tho...

I had trouble with the no/low carb thing too. It got a lot easier for me after not having them for 3 days. Even easier after surgery. I LOVE carbs, like doughy white bread and potatoes, rice, pasta. My dietician would not say it was ok to eat cheeseburgers, bun or no bun. I want that person’s dietician! Lol

It is completely natural to feel like giving up after consistently eating small quantities of food that don’t taste very good - especially after passing up so many bad food choices for so long and when the sacrifice isn’t making me lose weight or feel better. That doesn’t merit a need for therapy. Yes, stalls happen but this is a 2 month stall with set backs. I’m 50% to goal, and they said the average person is 70% to goal, so maybe this is it for me? My stomach capacity is still pretty small and I eat til I’m full, no more. The foamies are miserable for me so I don’t push it. I’m still eating mostly liquids with small quantities of lean protein, fruits and veggies, but solid food, sugar, and heavy carbs are unpleasant for my digestive system. Also, if I eat more, I’ll start gaining weight, so I don’t want to do that! ? My problem wasn’t food choice, it was serving size. I have a pretty inflexible work routine, so I do what exercise I can, when I can. Summer vacation is coming and I will double down on the activity after Friday. Hard for my joints to do a lot more when I’m dragging this amount of weight around, but I’m going to do it. Thanks Bryn910.

I stalled at 215. I started with post-op liquid diet again to shrink stomach down and increased walking to kick start loss.

My Dr. says they absolutely don’t work. Vitamins and minerals don’t pass through the skin and blood barrier like nicotine. Please ask your Dr. or surgeon first.

I'm very frustrated. I'm 2 months post-op and have only lost 6lbs!!! I'm eating very little, walking a minimum of 8 miles a week, and not losing weight like I had hoped. I lost 17lbs on the 2 week pre-op diet, so I'm going to go back on the liquid diet hoping that will start the weight loss but I'm so disappointed with the results of this surgery I could cry. I know that any weight loss is good, but I was hoping for more than a 1% loss per month!!! I don't understand why I'm not losing more. It isn't the whole "muscle weighs more than fat" phenom either. I look no different. You'd never know I even had the surgery except that I'm taking loads of vitamins and have scars on my abdomen. I'm beginning to worry that instead of slowing from here, I'll actually gain it back before my honeymoon year is up. Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks everyone. I did the liquid diet pre-op diet yesterday, walked 4 miles, and as of this morning I have lost a half a pound (could be legit, could be water weight). I think this is just going to be harder and slower for me than others and than I was hoping it would be. I’ll talk to my Dr. at my next check up and will do whatever she says. I’m hopeful the nutritionist will give me a menu to follow because I seem to do better when I follow a rigid restricted menu, clearly. Mostly, I needed to vent my frustration to people who would understand and sympathize. Thank you for all for reading, lending some thoughtful advice, and having my back. I was really hoping for a bigger loss by now and just haven’t had the same experience as other testimonials I read. I’m losing, even if not quick. The disappointment overcomes me sometimes... *I am weighing at home. It is linked to my Dr’s record via an app. Batteries are good. **I eat 1 or 2 dried prunes occasionally to keep regular because my bowel movements are few and far in between. ***I have a mobility-limiting degenerative spinal birth defect so many physical exercises are off limits. It is a contributing factor to my weight gain over the years and limits my exercise options. I do as much as I can within my limits. In addition to walking, I have a Wii and do the bike ride, marches, yoga, and balance related games. My job involves walking all day, across a large campus, and going up and down flights of stairs all day. I only wear my Apple watch when i walk at the park. The miles I list here are above and beyond the usual 1-2 miles I do in the course of a day at work. I’m not sedintary but I don’t do Zumba, ya know? ****I don’t measure inches, but clothes all fit exactly the same and nothing is looser.

Not that I’m aware of. I have my thyroid checked every now and again because I’m on levothyroxine and am hypothyroid.

Was not taken off diuretics after surgery and I do use MyFitness App to track food calories. My protein source is Pure Protein, Premier Protein, I have Isopure high max protein powder, unflavored protein powder, isopure zero drinks, and chicken, turkey, fish, low fat ham, eggs, etc. I drink water pretty much all day. Rarely carbs. Maybe 1 slice of bread in a week...small quantity of rice once. My plan is to see nutritionist at beginning of next month at support group meeting....

Between 50 and 70g of protein a day per Dr’s orders. I shoot for under 1000 cal a day. Sometimes I am a little over, sometimes a bit under. I expected 5% a month, so I should be down 26 lbs over 2 months, not 6! I’m wondering if it is because I wasn’t a big unhealthy eater prior to the surgery and have never been big on junk food, so I am eating basically the same healthy foods only a little less in quantity than before. Thought I was fat because I was eating too much, but obviously not. Now wondering if I have a metabolic issue. So heartbroken right now.

Hello! I have finished the mandatory classes, got approved, and am booked to meet with Dr. Quilici tomorrow at 2pm in Burbank! I struggled with weight my entire life, so I've decided on the RNY. 5'1" and the highest weight in my life is 285lbs in my early 40's. I am now 46 and weigh 268lbs have chronic lower back pain (congenital), HBP, and have hypothyroidism. I am on day 1 of my pre-op liquid diet. My lowest ever adult weight was 112lbs and that was in my late 20's to mid 30's and was not a diet any nutritionist would approve . I'm a teacher on summer vacation and was hoping to have the surgery well before school starts so that I can recover in relative comfort, but it looks as though I may not be able to do that and that will have only a week to recover. I can complete a lot of my classroom set up before the surgery, but I'm now wondering if I should prepare to have a sub start the year (which is not ideal and starts the year off on a bad foot). Any teachers out there who have had this surgery with suggestions or advice?

Ok. A colleague of mine said she went shopping to two stores afterwards and didn't have much pain at all, but that sounded suspicious to me so I'm glad I asked on here. Thanks guys!

Not digging holes, no. I will be moving 250 text books up two flights of stairs, arranging 40 desks, setting up 18 science lab stations, and decorating bulletin boards by going up and down a ladder a bunch of times. Hauling stacks of papers and files from one place to another, moving tables and chairs, pushing carts of equipment from storage and into my room. My job is actually very physical and involves a lot of heavy moving, especially at the beginning and the end of the year. A sub won't do that for me, but I can postpone it until I'm able to do it, perhaps?

Ok. I'm going to prepare sub lesson plans just in case. The first few days of school require a lot of energy and I don't want to chance it. Thank you!!!!

I'm so cal! Pre-op diet day 1.

Good luck!