FluffyChix

Before 287lbs; Surgery Weight 222lbs; Current Weight 142lbs.

Yall are in last year's thread hon. You may not get the support you want/need here cuz most of us don't come back here to this much. Look for February 2019 thread.

Here's my 1 year to add to this thread. Still working on my last 7-12lbs. Exact aren't I? And here's how I spent the last year (and my summer vacation)... ha!

You need your own 1 year thread woman. We also want pics of your journey. I'm gonna selfishly make my own 1 year thread and post like a ho.

Thanks, I'm gonna make a 1 year thread so we don't clog things up in here. And cuz I'm gonna be a pic ho.

Oh sooooo many stalls. It's hard. They suck. They will continue to suck all the way through the journey. Search for 3 week stall.

Hi Tammy and welcome! So sorry about your struggles!! ((hugs)) How scary! Give us some info about yourself! How far post op, what stage you're in, what you're eating, how much, what your doctor recommends. If it was me, I'd make sure to involve not only my cardiologist but also my surgeon and RD with formulating this plan and also a plan for PT and then daily movement and exercises! You need all of those things and it's way more complicated than I can probably tell you. I know you will get it figured out!! We're here to help you!!

What is your BMI now? Mine was 49.3 BMI. I could have WLS with anything >BMI 40 for no other reason. At 35-39BMI I needed 1 other co-morbidity. I had a crapton of them. LOL. Again, betting you are over 300lbs, let's pretend you are 350lbs and are 6'0" even. Your BMI is calculated around 47.5BMI. You have AMPLE room to lose weight. And not trying to do that with a doctor and monthly recorded weight loss attempts is cray and rationalization IMHO.

Wait. How fat are you? I think you said you were over 300-400lbs? (At this weight--you are right now a ticking time bomb without ever putting that blender full of sugar and carbs and inflammation down your piehole!) Facts are...you could bust your ass this year and lose 50-75lbs and be in BETTER shape to qualify for surgery. Just ask your surgeon's office about that. I have lost 80lbs in the first year post op. BUT, I lost 65lbs in the year preceding my RNY surgery by getting rid of addictive foods behaviors, changing how I ate/what I ate/how much I ate. And through it all, I STILL had co-morbidities out the ass that allowed me to have my surgery! AND was still >35BMI!!! Start visiting your PCP monthly for a weight loss program! Never miss a month. Go in each month and get your weight documented and document your commitment to change your lifestyle and diet. Show food logs and exercise logs. Above all else, they MUST weigh you monthly and make monthly doctor's notes about your weight loss efforts and how the losses are going--even in months where you show a gain, or no loss. It needs to show uninterrupted attempts every month for as long as it takes for you to get surgery. Don't waste an entire year!

Your time is now. Today. Not some point 1 year in the future. The more work you can do to develop new habits and review and understand what goes into prompting you to make the choices you make today are going to impact the long term effects of your surgery (not to mention the safety of having your surgery). If you mistakenly believe you can sit back and enjoy this year as a free ride of food then let the surgery do the "hard work", you're sadly mistaken.

Dude, don't blame the tool for a ridiculous recipe! LOL. Blenders rock. The thinking that went into formulating and executing that recipe needs to study how to eat before and after WLS!!! Seriously.

Blenders are great ideas. That recipe sucks big green donkey dicks!

This is an absolutely RIDICULOUS recipe and ill-advised for normie (pre-op) and most especially post op peeps! First off it follows a premise that "If a little is 'ok' or 'acceptable', then a f**king CRAPTON of the same things shouldn't be any big deal." Bull caca. Let's take a look at this recipe from MFP: That jug of liquid sugar/ "milk shake" probably makes a quart of drink, maybe only 28oz. And I will bet you dollars for donuts you drank it in 2-3 sittings within 2 hours of each other. I bet you did. You sent your blood sugar and insulin on a roller coaster! 123 carbs and 61g of SUGAR in it dude! Welcome to the obesity ball! Seriously! If you try to do that after surgery? OMG. I would be spiraling from dumping. WAYYYYYY too much sugar! WAYYYY too many carbs, and so many many many useless calories! GAH! Here's a very thick, lovely alternative that is more in keeping. It makes about 20oz. At 1 year, I will drink the whole thing as a meal then not eat or drink for 4-6 hours after that.

This is so sad! And the big take away for each of us should be, that they said “people who have regains of large amounts of their surgical weight loss may have a much higher risk of mortality within 2 years of the regain.” This is very sobering isn’t it? In other words, the stakes are very high in our obesity intervention, and we must change our lives for the better to guard against regain and high risk of death.

Congrats to both of you!!! That's fabulous!!! WTG! IDK what to do about summer beach body. I'm doing my walking and that's about it. I need to get back into doing resistance bands/exercises.

@Alpaca55 I'd talk to your RD if your program has one that works with the team? Or call your cardiologist's nurse maybe? I wish I could tell you but I just don't know! ((hugs))

Any protein clumps up in super hot things. Protein powders coagulate (looks yukky, tastes lumpy/icky, but is relatively safe) at around 140degrees. So you should only drink it "medium warm". LOL. I use an instant read on those occasions when I'm using it in soup.

Wow girl! Be so careful! I don't know about how this stuff affects A-fib, but you should def be working with your cardiologist's full knowledge of what you are doing diet wise! A low carb diet is very dehydrating. So you could have lower-ish potassium and electrolytes. Or it could set off electrical storms from the hormone disruption and increase in things like cortisol, norepinephrine, those things! Be careful and keep us tuned into how the ablation goes!!! I'm so happy you are seeing results and are happy! Just please be careful! (Oh, and post more!)

Wooohoooo! Congrats girl!!! That's fabulous news!!!

*drool* More soup for me tonight on account of cold, but next Tuesday? Color me taco flavored!

I promise I'm not judging anyone. I promise, this isn't in response to any particular thread already existing on this forum. I'm genuinely confused. I "think" in the US that most of us who are in programs paid by insurance, must go through a supervised weight loss period prior to insurance approval. It ranges from 3-6 months or even longer--maybe even a year or more? During that time, in my plan at least, we painstakingly go over my doc's pre-op and post-op diet regimen along with the vitamin and water schedules so that there isn't any doubt about what I'm supposed to be doing at any point in time after surgery. So how is it that I read all over the internet (not just here on BP) about patients asking what they're supposed to eat immediately post-op, or x days post-op, or x weeks? I swear how I don't understand this scenario? Is it different if you're self-pay maybe? I'm sure it's quite diff if you have surgery out of the country through medical tourism, perhaps? Do surgeons really put their patients through this life-changing, anatomy-altering surgery without fully explaining what to do once the surgery's over? It just seems so scary larry sketchy...as in a recipe for disaster!? So confused and concerned about these peeps! (don't mind me...I'm easily amused by the googly eyes on these guys!) kthanxbye.

Wooohoooo! Good morning World! I'm dressed, make-uped, and adulting this morning despite fighting a fierce cold! It's 6:22am and I'm having a cup of black coffee and waiting to leave for the doctor's office for my 1 year check-up. Thanks to 3 solid days of 18:6 with great food behaviors, I am down to 142.2lbs this morning and met my "mini goal" for this check-up. I'm gonna call it as 80.2lbs lost since morning weigh in for surgery. That morning I was 222.4lbs and could not even imagine what it would feel like to weigh 150lbs. Now days, every pound lost in this weight bracket is a milestone. I haven't been this weight since that one week as a senior in high school, hopped up on Ionamin (legal weight loss drugs we called yellow mollies--maybe it's phentermine or some derivative--dunno--just say, "Speed" and you'll get it) and eating ice cubes, lettuce leaves and air while playing varsity tennis and swimming. Oh lort! I thought I was so fat then, cuz I outweighed any other female classmate by at least 20lbs if not 30! Feels good. I probably won't do a "1 year" post until I meet my 2nd goal. I hope that's by early next week, but who knows. The one thing I've learned in my life is that I cannot attach a goal date to a goal weight. The two never coincide! Nevs! How are each of you doing?

Show me tacos!!! How many can y'all eat? (crispy beef or chicken tacos) How much until you are "just" satisfied rather than "finished"?

Just lazy for me. Plus trying to refocus my brain to think: How much nutrition can I get into my body, for the least amount of food per meal? (ie How small a volume of the most densely nutritious and satisfying food can I get away with to take my hunger away for the longest amount of time?) rather than... How much food can I get into my body at 1 meal?

Wow @James Marusek! Great great responses!!! Sorry OP for the troubles you are having!! One thing to also bring up...is that GERD has a strong component in lung health or unhealth. GERD contributes or can cause pneumonia (from aspiration and micro aspirations of acid and food). It also keeps too much mucus going and can cause your body to ramp up the inflammatory process. All of it increases asthma/colds/pneumonia/infection, etc. My GI guy wants me to take my 40mg of prescription omeprazole by emptying the capsule onto a single teaspoon of unsweetened applesauce cuz it's easier absorbed. Since doing that, I feel my esophagus feeling better and my cough going away again.