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Crazy? *scratches head* Celebrate Multi Capsules serving size is 3 capsules Celebrate Calcium Citrate serving size is 6-7 tablets to give 1200-1500mg cal cit per day Bifera Iron is for 8-18mg per day by my doc and ASMBS dependent on menopause status B Complex 50 is because I'm low in B1 and B6 without it (very common in RNY pts) B12 per my doc and ASMBS is 500mcg every day Vitamin D3 2000iu per my doc cuz I'm low in D and have had BC and thyroid disease Magnesium Citrate 400mg is so I can poop post RNY Vitamin K2 is cuz I want my calcium to go to my bones not my arteries or vessels. You can do what you want with your health. LOL. But I've been around here and other places long enough to witness the carnage that comes from people being blase about their vitamin and mineral routine. Ultimately I am a super-follower of my doc's orders and plans for me that are based on solid lab testing every 6 months.

I make it with Fairlife Fat Free Milk, not that many more calories but way more protein and calcium per serving. (If you aren't lactose intolerant.) Try your store brands of soups-butternut squash, lentil, any flavor that thrills you. Then puree the heck out of it. Use Fairlife FF milk to thin them to your tolerance and add extra protein. Also add protein powder to the room temperature pureed soup, then gently heat it in micro up to 140degrees. Protein will coagulate over 140 degrees and get yucky clumpy. Also egg drop soup blended to an absolutely smooth texture.

Yeah I take more than most maybe? Per my surgeon and per my vitamin and mineral labs Celebrate Multi Capsules x 3 Celebrate Calcium Citrate Tablets x 6 Bifera Iron 38mg every other day x 1 B Complex 50 x 1 B12 x 1 every other day x 1 sublingual Vitamin D3 x 1 Magnesium Citrate Tablets x 2 Will be adding K2 soon.

Yeah, KISS. Don't focus on food. Focus on drinking your fluids. Go to protein drinks for the drive there and back. The last thing you want is to get something stuck on the road and feel miserable and have to pull over to puke. Make sure you bring plenty of water to stay hydrated. I love iced protein coffee in a huge thermal cup. Or iced protein tea. Premier Protein Peaches and Cream or Strawberries in Cream are awesome in iced tea or iced green tea! YUM! Goes down easy. All you really need in life are your liquids and protein. Everything else is lipstick on a pig.

Part of what you are experiencing is the natural and normal phenomenon of post surgical bowel sounds and gurgles. LOL. I have it and I'm 18 months out. It does usually get a little better. Stick to easy. Protein Smoothies Protein frappacinos and teacinos Iced protein coffee Blended soups (added protein powder) Canned cream soups (added protein powder) Ricotta Bake Cottage Cheese + apple sauce or sugar free preserves Greek Yogurt + apple sauce or sugar free preserves Making tuna or chicken salad then whizzing it up in a mini food processor. So good actually. Just a smooth texture. But taste is awesome!

Go back to eating like you did when you first got WLS forever diet. Follow the do's and don'ts to the letter. Grab your mojo by the balls! And follow your rules. Congrats on losing 140lbs! Congrats on maintaining your restriction.

I swear if you give it 4 days, with water only and unsweetened black coffee and unsweetened tea...try to minimize the sweet--then also go keto. You will feel such sweet relief from the hunger. It takes 3days to 2weeks for some... But once you feel that absence of hunger...man. It's a no-brainer! I still have times when I have to do that...

For sure!

Oh yeah. For reals on the seaweed bulking up at your stoma! Ugh. And food poisoning is like being "a little bit preggers." It generally is never that. It either IS or IS NOT, like Yoda. LOL. Cuz you'll know. You would be spewing from both ends simultaneously. That's how a doc once described how I'd know it was food poisoning versus a 24hr virus.

You are starving all day, cuz you are on a slow drip of sugar (aka cranberry juice). It keeps your insulin elevated and keeps you starving. Which do you want worse? To be thin without constant hunger? Or to not be able to comply with your plan and continue to see your weight go up. It's a very simple option.

I had the go-ahead at 4weeks to move to my forever diet. But my instructs were to follow my dietary guide for quantities, measurements, etc and with tips for success and sample meals. Also had the instructs to try only 1 new thing at a time and wait a few days before adding another new thing. To go very slowly. And if something didn't work, then to try it again in a couple of weeks.

Maybe all of this plus the rice. I've heard rice can be very difficult for some and that it "might" swell in our tums? You might have even temporarily blocked up your stoma with the seaweed or the rice.

Write down the question, then ask each one by mouth (read it to them). Have your mom take notes. Keep the notes. Also, all my docs give me visit summaries printed with my follow-up actions and instructions. So maybe ask for that from your docs. Now days most practices are on Epic or MyChart so you can go in and access your information and get printed summary reports. I ALWAYS take someone with me to my appointments cuz of chemo brain. Also you can ask if you can record them so it will help you remember. You can explain your spectrum challenge and communications. Most docs just want to know how to help us as quickly as possible.

Dunno.

Hey sweetie. I REALLY didn't mean to "point fingers." I was just making an observation based on that day of food when you said you only ate to hunger. And sometimes we're not even aware we're doing something--which I was I highlighted those events--not to be food policey or Ana PoPo. You know? I only mentioned the Ana thing, cuz I recognize this behavior in some of my meals where I'm trying not to eat food cuz I don't want to let my hunger go cray. So I sub in things that fill me without being caloric or food based. Like my Herbox Soup, Green Tea, Earl Grey Tea, tea with psyllium husks, cashew milk with a few drops of chocolate stevia, That sort of thing. I definitely think you may be in a vicious cycle of sleep deprivation, exhaustion and hunger. The bad thing about eat so late at night then staying up later and messing up circadian rhythms is that it raises your cortisol which raises leptin and grehlin and downregulates the satiety hormones. So you really are hungrier! Then your brain clues in that if it raises only a little ruckus, you'll give in and eat snacky/high reward food giving it big calories and also big hits of dopamine and seratonin...so it gets fat and high. And the longer you do it, the harder it imprints the behavior in your brain and body. ((hugs)) No preaching. Swearsies. I've been being bad about snacking at night too. And am trying so hard to break up with it. I still eat mostly low cal foods and no sugar sweets, but I still am getting a cephalic insulin response from it--even if sugar free. My first step to quitting should be cold turkey, but instead, I have to use reason to determine if I'm legit hungry and if I am, my choices are now either decaff coffee, Herbox soup, egg (hard boiled), or cucumber/radish/Greek Yogurt mixed with WF Dressing, or a turkey rollup, sf jello cup, sf popsicle. That's it. That's all I get. And if that doesn't do me, then I'm not truly hungry. Loved yesterday's meals!!! Textbook perfect you rockstar!!!

Everyone looks so fab!!! @Sheribear68 You are absolutely shrinking in front of us! Congrats on 10s!!!

^^^Exactly! And the changes happen almost immediately--in the abscense of actual weight loss. These gut hormones (ghrelin, leptin, glucagon, cck, insulin, ppy among others) rebalance and that allows the hypothalmus to defend a lower weight.

Does a happy medium exist for you? The reason I ask, is that when you indulge, many of your meals still represent very wise healthy choices. Then you fall to the otherside with seriously craptastic extravagant calorie dense sweets. So in this menu, here's what I see...you say you are "only eating when hungry" and yet, I see some signs of anorexic style behaviors. Instead of legit eating something with dense nutrition and more high cal, you choose instead to indulge in relative innocuous "tummy filling stuff" that takes a person's edge off their hunger. Examples: 10am - peppermint herbal tea (you sometimes do broth here). Either of those will delay my day of eating with satiety. 2pm - where is your full fat vinaigrette dressing a few seeds or nuts? where is an ounce of avocado and a couple of olives? None of those are volume centric but they will add fantastic amounts of calories with little effort. 4pm - 1 cup almond milk...again, so few calories and a full tum afterward and relative few nutrients in almond milk (per my RD, it's like drinking water basically). So if you're gonna do that, why not add some PB2 and a little protein powder to it, or a squeeze of hershey's syrup (the sf syrup is pretty awesome), but do something to up the cals in it or switch to another type of meal with dense cals 5pm - see comment on 2pm meal 11:30pm - where are the calories in this? 1/2 cup full fat milk? Why not ditch the almond milk and go for full on full fat milk to up the cals? Add nut butters, or eat a handful of almonds and a 1/2 a banana with it. Blend in 2oz of avocado for a creamy smoothie. The other thing I see is that you are a late night eater. I really caution you to break that behavior now while you still have your surgical advantage. Cuz think of the **** show on your hands when you start the regain phase and you are still eating a big proportion of your meals late at night right before bed. That's just so hard on our systems. The rule of 3 hours before bed is a real one that has to do with circadian rhythms which highly regulates our metabolisms and cortisol. Just thoughts here. Not trying to slam or criticize hon! I know people see things in my meals that I don't see cuz I'm just too close to the issue. Right? So feel free to ignore my remarks!!! ((hugs))

It's highly unusual to have GERD with RNY. Not impossible, but it usually signals a different problem. But it is possible to have gastritis with RNY. That's likely what you have and that's gonna take a while to resolve. You need to talk to your doc. You're about the time to have a stricture show up. ((hugs)) and hang in there.

Until a few days ago, it's 103 here...fall...schmall. I might wear white shorts tonight and give the finger to Labor Day. ha!

Ok, so you know the drill... What are you eating and drinking...how can we possibly give you info without knowing the deets, girlfriend. Stalls suck though, I will say that. Are you weighing, measuring and logging every bite? If you are not, you know the drill. Are you drinking any calories? If you are, you know the drill. Are you on any medicines, what age, and menopause status are you. Do you have any medical probs? (ie PCOS, thyroid) Are you sure no weight loss NOR loss of inches this past month? Cuz sometimes the scale lies and the inches move. That isnt't a stall.

How tall are you. More info please about the first surgery. Why do you think that eating cereal and milk is a recipe for anything other than regain (and then some) and hellah GERD? I had RNY and before and after surgery, if I ate a meal like that I have hellah GERD. Just asking cuz there are no magic surgeries. And typically revision surgery doesn't imbue the type of weight loss you see in virgin surgeries--especially if there are emotional food eating behaviors that have contributed to the regain. Regardless of which surgery you choose, the main question should really be--where can I find the best RD and best bariatric counselor to work with on my eating program? Welcome! And I wish you all the best.

Interesting Study on Mice and Humans! Relative to IF and EAE eating and protection against neuronal diseases such as MS. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413118303139?fbclid=IwAR15_4zB8d4QWr8bFauUmK67ae7XKAdHSTcpNcOVZa5aS8GUAdAouDFAESI

Yeah! It's like, most of us are big time bad ass losers. Right? We can lose. But keeping it off...well that's a whole other story...