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Yes on Veganism = Bad (Most Likely); the caveat is, that there is a qualifier. That qualifier is "Unless it's carefully constructed and observed." LOL! I'm sorry you are struggling getting into keto. You know, maybe look up The Resetters, Dr. Mindy Pelz on YouTube and FB. She talks alot about resetting the female metabolism (especially if you are pre-menopause), and she has a plan that is ketobiotic, but it addresses the week leading up to Auntie Flo and how you progesterone load for that week using things like sweet potatoes, and other things that build progesterone. You actually eat more carbs during that week. And it's helping turn a lot of women's lives and weight loss around. So the keep for me with weekends like the one coming up is planning. I'm a planner, now. And I find comfort in the planning. Like I know our friends want to stop for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. I just don't hardly do that anymore unless those meals are all very slim type of meals. But I know these are gonna be extravagant places and only one really counts tomorrow. So I'm gonna maybe just have a poached egg and sauteed spinach for breakfast with tons of coffee. Then I might eat a bite of Mr. F.s grits or a bite of his biscuit and gravy. Something I know I can easily do. Then lunch is bbq and I will eat my fill of that cuz they don't add sugar. And it won't take much. Dinner is a hamburger from this joint in Arkansas and I've got no probs doing a lettuce wrap. No need for fries cuz I know what they taste like and they make me feel awful. And tons of iced tea! So I know the day won't be bad. Then I just apply those same metrics to Saturday and Sunday. The reality is I will still come back a couple pounds up. But I shouldn't have too much issue going into my M-W fast next week. *score* And it's IF for the win!!!! Also you are doing WONDERFULLY!!!!! It's ok to take a week off. Just keep flexing and building your fasting muscle hon!!!

Anyone still here except me? I'm fasting today--will do an 18:6 with an FMD type of diet. Have a big weekend coming up of LOTS o'meals! Ugh. LOL. I happened on this YT of a couple of braniacs talking about diet diversity and IF. Chris Masterjohn is a PhD in nutrition and teaches at some big uni--can't remember. And Siim, you know is pretty braniac as well. I've followed Chris' stuff for years especially at Weston A. Price Foundation. See what you think?

I'm sorry you have had such emotional upheaval in your life. ((hugs)) But with all due respect, you and I both know that your reply is steeping in a very large, very hot, steaming cup of rationalization. ((hugs)) Life happens. That's the bottom line. Our resources get taxed. We become emotionally, spiritually, and possibly nutritionally "overdrawn." But here's where the logic error happens: If A>C, and B>C, then A+B>C By this logic, NO ONE would ever maintain their weight loss from WLS because we would all succumb to the stress and inevitably revert to recidivism and the old behaviors that caused us to get fat in the first place. But the reality is that although it often feels like a Herculean task, we CAN change our bodies, minds, spirits and become empowered for those times when we are beset with LIFE. Right? So A+B is not always > than C. But it doesn't happen passively. And as I said above, WLS isn't a passive experience (unless you want to eat and lose as much as you're gonna lose from the surgery alone, then after 3-5 years when life intrudes and diet fatigue takes root, and the poor habits of a lifetime begin again, you just passively allow the regain to occur. We all must devote as much or more time to doing the head work on our inner fat brain. Cuz seriously. Once we have a fat brain, we always have a fat brain. We're simply travel in and out of remission. Right? It's understanding THAT premise, and embracing it, that allows me to work on making deeply ingrained changes in my thinking, emotions, behaviors, with food and in minding those things, it truly allows me to refill my spirit and recharge my mind and energy stores. But we first must START by accepting the premise and stop the rationalizing. Glad you've lost the 2# it's a great start and can't help but give motivation!!!! Woooot!!! WTG!!! Keep doing what you're now doing and you will see how quickly you can regain control and lose the extra fat!!!! Yay!!!

I think you have to ask yourself, what will change with a 2nd surgery? How will YOU treat the tool differently? You are expecting the same outcome from a re-sleeve. I think that's an inaccurate premise. Re-surgery does not carry the same risk/reward return as a virgin surgery: the weight loss is MUCH slower/harder, there is usually LESS weight loss from it, and a 2nd surgery carries significant risks for complication. The surgery is only a tool. Much like a hammer, it won't drive in a nail unless YOU pick it up, use it properly and repetitively apply forceful action to it over time. Our surgeries require our cooperation and repetitive attention to the details over time. It's not magic bean surgery, a free ride, or a passive experience. IMHO, 27lbs is a very do-able amount of weight to lose. You might even be surprised by how much restriction your still have if you go back to the basics you observed right after surgery when you got your forever diet. By not only changing the quantities you eat at each meal, and by ditching the sugar, carbs, and booze, you will reformat your ghrelin, insulin, leptin, PPY receptors. By changing the foods you feed your gut, you can also change the foods you crave. I'm 15months out. I can tell you, if I feed my gut crap carbs for only 1 meal to 24 hours and add a bunch of fat to that (i.e. pizza, high satiety high carb high caloric meal, I will begin craving another meal of just that composition: pasta, pot pie, dumplings, gumbo with rice, hell, anything with rice. But, if I remain consistent with my food and protein, fats, carbs, my cravings and hunger diminish and I actually crave "clean" nutrient dense food. You should also give IF and EF a try, cuz it too will help reprogram your hunger response. I'd also look into counseling and going back to a support group. You can stop it at 27lbs and reverse this! You can do it!

Congrats ladies!! Can't wait to watch your progress!!

OMG!!!!!!! This!!! YES!!!! Am I yelling? I’ve been saying this forevs!! 🥰❤️

Good lord. You can't even see that you set the whole forum up with the question and came across as someone who knows better than everyone else and that you were just waiting to trip them up and confirm your own position? Well, ok then...moving on...

Ugh. So really, I thought your question was genuine. I thought you were genuinely seeking feedback. But it turns out, because you already know everything -- you knew "the answer" to this question before you asked it. You were looking to set people up and receive some "bias confirmation." LOL. *sigh* I sure hope everything goes textbook with your surgery and you have no complications...I fear if you have to contend with any, you will be one hot angry miserable mess.

This is sooooo common. It's the thing I've been yelling about since surgery, but there are very few newbies who want to listen to this. Obesity is a disease. It has many factors. And some of those factors include our own relationships/behaviors with food. It's not just the substance--meaning it's not just "what" we eat, but it's also "when" we eat, "why" we eat, and even more-- "HOW" we eat. Then there is the metabolic derangement that goes along with things that creates obesity. The surgery is just a tool to jack our hormones and tummy capacity for a short window of time, and can help us lose weight quickly, and in the process it hopefully allows us time to gain new skills, develop new behaviors and relationships with food. But the further out you go, the less and less protection it offers. Our tools "mature." Few stretch--minority of the time--most just simply mature to an increased capacity. The doctors expect that. But many do not warn us. So we end up over eating, not learning our lessons up front, or just being human. And we regain. And we feel like we fail WLS. The beatings will never make morale improve. ((hugs)). Make a list of 3 things today that you need to accomplish and CAN accomplish. Make them actionable. Make them attainable: 1. Hygiene: Shower, do your hair, put make-up on, and get dressed in fresh clothes. 2. Plan your meals for the day (protein first 3-4oz + steamed veggies (al dente) + avocado/tomato salad (1oz each). Stick to that plan. (Don't forget protein first and no drinking water with your meal or 1 hour after) - weigh your food 3. Walk 5 - 10 minutes x 3 times today. Check them off your list. Go back to basics. 1 cup of food per meal. 3 meals per day and 1-2 tiny snacks if you can't eat only the 3 meals. The snacks need to be BORING! The snacks need to be <100cals, <5g carbs and healthy (i.e. hb egg, 2oz turkey lunch meat, or veggies with Grk yogurt ranch dip). Go to bed and sleep 8 hours in a completely dark, cool room. You can do this. Do it one day at a time. Join a local WLS support group. Go back to your RD. Get a referral to a counselor!!! Do it!!! It's not too late.

Thought I'd just park this here.

Yay!!! Doooooo eeeettt!

Depends on the antibiotics. I don't think if it's Cipro of Fluorquinalones that you can take them with milk or even with calcium? Sorry you are going through this! C-diff is the infection from Satan's spawn!

How's it going today little IFers? I'm about to break my fast with a 16:8 and do a partial day alternate day style of fast. It's essentially an FMD, from a different doc. This one is from Dr. Mercola with his new book KetoFast. Dunno yet about it. LOL.

Brent, it's hard. This time is really super hard. Try to embrace it. It's filled with ups and downs. The less you eat and challenge now, the quicker the weight loss. I've had MANY docs tell me that the 1st 2 months is when you will lose the most amount of weight in a month. So try to just sit back, embrace the fluctuations of "now you can and now you can't" (food tolerance) and rest assured, there WILL come a time, when you will eat normally again--and prolly a time you will stress that you are once again able to eat too much. It's a dance. And a marathon.

You have a gorgeous graph. I've never seen one with so few spikes! That's amazing! Yay on you for not feeding your screaming 2 year old! I swear, each time you don't it gets easier. You should feed it with something hot like a cup of unsweetened camomile tea or maybe peppermint tea? Or walk for a bit when it happens, Or pound a glass of ice water also works. Also knowing that cravings usually pass in about 20 minutes and don't continue to grow helps. Hang in there! Congrats on your success!!! Tomorrow is a long fast day for me. Haven't decided which one I'm doing. I look forward to my fasting Monday-Wednesdays.

I love that she has done so well!!!! Yippee!!! Love that she feels great and is so happy and that y'all are happy. I truly think IF is a miracle. And I'm glad you are gonna do it! Please jump on board with us and post like a ho!!!! We'll help you get through the no eating after 7pm. I'm gonna join you in that! I want to be able to get to no eating after 6pm. Currently it's no eating after 8pm. 😕 Ugh. I'm so happy about your maintenance and love the idea of only having 2lbs to reckon with at any point in time. Your graph is gorgeous girlie!!!! ((hugs))

Ha! I JUST got this! ROFLMAO. Was struggling not to judge. Cuz I read 10 days after bypass, blah, blah, blah... 👌

Wow girl!! So you had how much left? 1/2cup of the 2 1/2 cups original? Of course, 90% of that is water. Yippee on getting water in! Gosh I want that!! TY for weighing and measuring. Love the scale!

I wish I could hug you. I wish I could eat the other half of your sandwich. It looks AMAZEBALLS!!!!

Ok, so let's get down to brass tacks. We all have to deal with our biggest ally and dementor during this process. Hello Self? I'd like to introduce you to Self. We are our own biggest help and hindrance in this process. But, the morale never improves with more severe beatings. Right? So acknowledge your feelings then set them on the curb for the recycling truck. OK? Now, let's look at your 1st 6 months and evaluate. Right? You are 5'4" and on surgery day weighed in at 236lbs. Your ideal weight is 120lbs (as defined by your surgeon, RD, and the ASMBS). On morning of surgery your Excess Body Weight was 116lbs. That means you have "theoretically" 116 extra pounds packed on your body. Today you weigh 172 lbs. EBW Lost in 1st 6 months: 236-172 lbs = 64lbs (64lbs/116lbs)-100 = 45% of Weight Lost of Total EBW You can see that puts you in about the 35-40% Percentile You can choose how to reframe this situation. You could say you are in the lower 1/2 of the population per the NIH chart. But why? Cuz that's just stinking thinking. Instead. Reframe. You are VERY close to having lost 50% of your EBW! Look at this chart from a source I can't remember: According to this chart, you're above average! Cheers! Congrats!!! Mazels!!!! You're doing great! Celebrate yourself positively! But even more importantly, you had a learning curve that caught you unawares in the first 6 months and I bet you know how you are gonna make changes. Make changes. I encourage you. You still have 1 year left on your "technical honeymoon" period. Go grab the bull by the horns and make it your little bi*ch! And beyond that honeymoon, just look at Jenn and all the other long term success vets here and abroad!!! You can maintain!!! You CAN lose weight after the honeymoon. Maximize every day that you can from here on out! Excellent plan! Congrats on losing 64lbs!!!

Please make sure you have a glucose meter before doing this. It hits suddenly and when it does, you MUST get sugar into you. Carbs won't help cuz they're being blocked. This only blocks starchy carbs. So I took sugar tablets and small spoons of peanut butter (that has sugar in it) to pull myself out before it went into the 50s from the low 60s. It's been as low as 36 before. (Not from a carb blocker, from an unknown sugar in food that didn't taste sweet.) https://www.gnc.com/best-sellers/489822.html?cgid=best-sellers

There should be an MMMMMMmmmmMMMMMMMM, Tasty button here!! And yes. They wacked my bg low and lowered Mr Fs. We tried it on a flatbread pizza this weekend.

Saw this in FB and wanted to share. Powerful powerful magic!

So far I've tried a bite of melon and a bite of cantaloupe. So dang scared of the dump! I had one this weekend that lasted like 6 hours--I couldn't get my bg up enough. Lesson learned...carb blockers and RNYs do not go together.

Yay!!! That seems like a perfect amount that you ate? Were you hungry soon after? Any dumping symptoms? Gosh, I miss watermelon!