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you are so soon after surgery. Please read the part i quoted above. a pound a day is simply not sustainable. 1 plus a week would be a much more sustainable goal and would not cause you so much mental anguish. try to weigh only weekly, the daily thing works against you after that early weight drop. You need to avoid the negative feedback from fixating on the scale everyday. Look for NSV (non scale victories) and enjoy those. Hows the mobility, the gym, how about how your clothes fit. Did you get to drop any meds or reduce them. Try to step back for a bigger picture and let the weight loss come to you in the many many months ahead. good luck and grats on your surgery

great job and can easily see the difference. It is so much harder to see it in ourselves.

About half of all the people that start the process give up and the insurance companies are in the money business not the save your life business. So a few roadblocks here and there a couple of paperwork issues and there expenses go down as people give up. grats on getting your date and good luck

weighted blanket or get tucked in real tight

i would hope that anyone giving themselves insulin shots would be better at monitoring there blood sugar levels than that. From a purely fat loss point any snacking is going to reduce the number of hours you will burn fat instead of whatever food you just ate. If your medical conditions prevent that then you will just have to accept those limitations and work from there on your goals. It simply does not change the fact that if you add hours that your body has ready available food in your system you will decrease the time spent burning stored fat. The body uses the sugar in your blood first Then the stored sugar in your Liver. Then finally it starts breaking down stored fat to replenish those levels. If you pop food in your mouth every 2 hours you never get past step 1. Failure to understand the how and why of this process will just set you up for weight regain when the volume control introduced by your sleeve is slowly reduced over the first couple years. Anyone with medical conditions that prevent them from doing this will have to work to those limitations. If this upsets you so greatly i would suggest you add me to your ignore user list.

its not medical advice its fat loss advice and you should always follow your doctors instructions but he didnt ask his doctor he asked here.

diabetics have higher insulin response to any eating and a slower return to normal blood sugar. a snack is just another meal that your body responds to with another insulin spike. Insulin is the hormone that causes fat storage. If you have an insulin spike, as you do during any calorie intake your body goes to fat storage mode and cant burn any stored fat till insulin levels return to normal and for diabetics that can be several hours. So snacks just add more hours to everyday that you will not and can not burn body fat.

did you have high blood sugar - diabetes or pre diabetes before WLS if you did you should avoid snacks during the first year or so and very little after that. If you had no blood sugar issues than just keep it healthy.

Head hunger and the food addiction that is the root cause will do some strange things to you. Please take this post op time to try to break thru all that. Distract Distract Distract You have to move the mental focus away from food. While it my be true That "Its all in your head" or not it does not make it easier. Post op is mostly a mental game and you are being put to the test right out the gate. The skills you learn to deal with this head hunger will help determine how easy or hard the rest of this goes. Also mild dehydration will mask as hunger so try to increase your water intake. medical issues like the IBS do not make any of this easier and just add a layer of difficulty to an already tough time period. good luck

I am not trying to make fun of you but that line made me laugh my ass off. i am just picturing the nurse removing the leg since it was the only one working anyway.

FREEZE THIS THE BARIATIC POLICE. NOW STEP AWAY FROM THE SCALE. (JK) do consider giving the scale a break and move to a weekly weigh-in vs the daily mental torture you do now. Not every victory in this journey comes from the scale and even when not losing weight other good things happen. There is a whole thread on NSV - that's non scale victories - give it a read and see how many apply now and what you have to look forward to.

Just as a point to show the crazy variability in this process i had the exact opposite post op reaction. I was scary hyper for months after my surgery. It was between months 4-5 i guess before i started to feel what i considered normal energy levels. Pacing around bouncing off the walls, going to the gym 2 times a day 7 days a week and my poor wife just looking at me like i some crazy guy that broke into the house. While it might seem like a great thing i didnt like the no OFF feeling i had.

you are doing it.

there is so much variability in the pace of weight loss. It is important to have goals but be careful of setting a timeline that could cause you to doubt yourself and the process if you dont hit your schedule. grats on your getting a date.

grats and hang in there it gets better everyday for next year +

if you can find some place to buy just 1 and see if it is the same.

I was actually on the bypass path at the start and got moved to sleeve due issue's with my circulation below the left knee. I am very happy with the sleeve and hey 9+ months out i still got both legs. that's a win win in my book.

cant say i have. what flavor are you buying? i use the choc and the caramel in my coffee. never noticed a odd smell

my doc ok'd the gym at end of 3 weeks but they are all different. call his office and ask?

Try to keep all the reason you are doing this in the front of your mind. Do not let yourself dwell on the very very small 1% complication rate. This is a very safe surgery and you will be fine and so much happier when you get this part behind you. it is the what ifs that will drive you nuts. try to stay busy - 8 kids that should not be hard

This is the reason that the -dirty little secret- of WLS is relationship breakups. You are in a very different place now than you were before and it happened very fast and offered little to no time for adjustment for either of you. You cant and don't want to go back to the place you were before so he will have to decide if he is willing to join you in the journey you have started or you will eventually go on with your lives but without each other. If you give in and go back to the way it was before you will blame him and it will drive you apart. So really it does depend on him. He will adjust or dig in his heels and you will either change back and hate him for doing that to you or you will continue on this journey without him. It sucks it really does. You can support him all you can but you have to draw the line at giving up your own health and happiness. Try to find a local support grp and go to a few meetings. good luck

Profound copy /print /post this to your bathroom mirror and every morning as you brush your teeth or shave or do make-up read those words over and over.