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Another NON scale victory. grats and keep it going

congrats and get well soon.

Dr, the problem is none of us knew what "normal" was anymore. six plus months out you will look at food so differently and what you eat will be "normal" and it will make you happy. It will not be the same normal but no one in a social gathering will even notice. You will be normal, just a new normal, a better normal good luck and best wishes

burping belches yep very normal. my doctor suggested to exhale before drinking to minimize the air swallowed. i also walk around right after eating or drinking even if just for a minute or two it seems to help me. there is only just so much room in there now and air that made no difference before sure does hurt now. good luck and if the pain continues ask your surgeon about it.

dam its been awhile since i wanted to get in the car drive to someones house ring the doorbell and just punch them in the face. i am nearly as mad at your husband for not stepping up to the task of handling his parents. i am so sorry you went thru this. I just cant imagine my last 7 months with that level of support. so so sorry. it does get easier so try to stay strong this next month and it will get better but your inlaws stay on my **** list that was just tactless and rude.

grats and good luck

got my surgery on my 51st birthday and it was the best present i have ever received bar none.

walk , walk, walk at the start i had to walk around the cul de sac after every meal no matter what. every bit of air swallowed felt like a beach ball in side of me. the walk help everything settle down. Some meats still do this me , yes i am looking at you porkchop lol good luck

Dajoko it does get easier when you get past the liquid diet portion. Please remember that from now forward its more the metal game than the physical one. the surgery delt with so much but the mental aspec is all post op and can be hard as hell. develop your distraction strategies early and use them often. The habits you develop in the next 6 months will be the deciding factor for where you end up on the weight loss percentage. always remember the avg VSG patient looses 60 percent off excess weight. So those that dont win the mental game are the ones that end up under the avg. Hang in there and good luck and if you havent done a Sudoku puzzle give them a try they are very distracting and help me get my mind off of things when i start to obsess.

this seems to vary greatly from reading the posts here. My surgeon cared little for the pre diet that most seem to mention here and cared only about the last 48 hours so i would be cleaned out. I had no issues with surgery so nothing important must have been still in there. That said i have seen post about surgerys being canceled because of pre op diet issues so this one is going to be about your particular surgeon. Sorry could give you a better answer than that

you will be thankfull when that first post op bowel movement comes and you dont pray to god to die cause that hurts so much. Dehydration is both dangerous and painfull post op. Hitting your water goal IS a pain in the ass but so is dehydration. After a while you will get a good feel for how much liquid you need daily and it will get easier. good luck

The thing that is gone is the addiction to sugar and whats left is the joy of cooking and tasting food without the sugar addict monkey on your back. whether it was sweets or carbs(me) it was just sugar. The human brain runs on sugar (glucose) and it rewards you if you give it sugar. thats normal but for some of us it goes way past normal to a level that controls our actions and reactions. If i had a dollar for every time my doctor asked me to cut carbs. Well i would have had a lot of dollars (lol). Not that i didnt try over and over and over but the reaction was the same. Crazy hunger and still feeling like i needed to eat even when i had just eaten a meal. The surgery followed by the restricted diet for 6 weeks let me break thru that and i to feel incredible and so different and while my complete lack of any hunger only lasted 5-6 weeks it was the happiest i had been in years. Now at 7 months i look forward to the meals i prepare and i try for bold strong flavors and i enjoy that first bite very much but by the 3rd i am already feeling that the end is near and the 4th or 5 bite ends it. Sometimes i still feel bad that i just wasted the rest but that is the old me always trying to "clean my plate". I hope i never can eat more than those 5 bites cause it makes me feel real good to walk away and know i did not just do something i will regret the next day.

Bright i think you are going to do amazing after surgery. 72 pounds pre-op is stunning. With that kind of commitment i think you are going to be an amazing vsg story. good luck and i look forward to following your progress.

So some months back i switched to weekly weight checks and have been very happy with decreased stress that the scale was giving me. My time is Saturday mornings and for the first time i am stressing about it and tonight i realized i was worried about my next milestone, dropping under 200. I dont expect to hit that till the last week of the month but for some reason going below 200 is making me anxious and i dont know if its cause i am afraid i wont or god forbid i am scared i will. Very odd emotions with this one. Have certain milestones caused anyone else to feel more anxious than others? Still have so far to go to a healthy BMI dont see why this one is working me up. Hell maybe its just a down week. Having never been a fan of Social Media i hate that i feel better just venting to you guys. LOL Thanks

Thanks Red, I think you hit this one on the head. The weight from 215 to my max of 326 has been weight i had gained in the last 5 years and never felt like that was the me i was inside. However the 200-215 weight range was me for decades and i guess that is the internal me. Now as i move to a place i havent been in decades some part of me has grown much more afraid, of what i am not sure. I also feel bigger than i look. 7 months in and i still wear the same 3x t-shirts i did at 326 pounds. i had to buy new jeans cause they were falling to the floor on me but keep wearing those bagging shirts even tho my wife tells me they look terrible on me. A physiatrist would have field day with my ass i am sure. Well nothing to do but Soldier on. Ok, that is the last of wallowing and self doubt you get from me. Time to move on to happier places and topics. Thanks again and i hope everyone has great month and better future.

Hang in there, i used the soup straining method also and it worked well to get me thru the liquid stage. The cans of broth just sucked but the richer flavors from the strained soup made a big difference to me. I am pretty sure i will never eat jello again for the rest of my life (LOL) good luck and stay strong

let me suggest that from a pure taste standpoint i found that buying progresso soups that i liked and poring them thru a strainer and eating just the liquid was much better than cans of broth. Much richer flavors that made me feel better. its just a thought but might help get you past this stage. good luck

OMG how did i forget the booths. I have been saying table only for so long it is automatic and i still do it even today when i could fit in a booth. i cant believe how ingrained that is. i didnt even realize it till i read the post above. Dam. Its funny the little things that sit you back on your heels.

hey music, i wanted to share a link (youtube). this is not a bariatric doctor but an obesity doctor but what he teaches about weight loss and calorie intake is very useful even for us VSG persons.

So i playing with the BMI calculator today and discovered i only needed to be 8 feet tall and all this would have been unneeded. (this is all for fun, pls dont take this post seriously) today i only need to get stretched 10 more inches to 6' 5" and i would be at my ideal weight. alas i will have to do this the shorter harder way and just keep taking the pounds off. but i have tried to imagine myself 8 feet tall, nah just doesnt work lol hope you all are having a good day today

I know this feeling but in reverse. I never got my ring resized up instead it just went in a drawer in the dresser. The day i put it back on for the first time in many years was more emotional than i care to admit.

copied from my weight diary aug 34 lbs sept 10 lbs oct 11 lbs nov 9 lbs dec 8 lbs jan 10 lbs feb 9 lbs middle of august thru first dec i worked out 7 days a week for a little over an hour. NOT A Good Idea hurt myself in dec, pulled muscle lost 3 weeks in the gym and returned slightly more sane than before and now i take tues and sat. off from the workouts to recover and i feel much better for it. i truly believe that this surgery is second chance to have a life i had given up on having and i just cant waste of a moment of that "golden year" after surgery when dropping the pounds is as easy as it will ever be.

Oh Sara, please don't let someone else talk you out of this. I also had never been "put under" hell i had never been in a hospital except to be born. All my contacts with hospitals had to do with visiting someone and i even avoided that when i could. So i was just a little nervous (insert terrified) about the idea. That One moment of fear has been replaced with day after day and now month after month of improving Health and an improved Life. The last time i was "skinny" i was in 10 grade. 7 months ago i was taking pills for blood pressure and diabetes and my sleep apnea was so bad my doctor said i aged her 5 years when my sleep study came in. The lack of deep sleep for more than 2 years had made me lose large parts of my short term memory. i had to write everything down as it happened to refer back because a day or 2 later i would not even remember seeing someone or having talked to them. Today i take no meds at all and i sleep 9 hrs every night and i havent fallen asleep in the daytime since surgery. Pls dont let a very short term fear about a procedure that has a very low complication rate stop you from having a much healthier and happier life. It will be worth it. Stay strong for a few more weeks and you will have a chance at a different life. This surgery is a chance to live in a different way that is both harder (mental ) and easier at the same time. I had truly forgotten what it was like to go about my day without my weight being a consideration in any way. I still have what i call the HARD 50 to go but i have already won this cause i feel amazing and i feel alive and i could not have said that 7 months ago. Pls dont give up when you are so close.

LB i think your looking at this from a slightly wrong view. the AVG sleeve weight loss is 60% of EXCESS weight. From your post it looks like you are only 8-10 from that so barely under avg for the surgery. To get better than avg results you will have have to commit to above avg control of portions and food choice and at the later stages in time that you are in above avg exercise routine. 1. Are you tracking every bite you eat - if not start - myfitnesspal or any other app. 2. Are you watching the sugar content of everything you eat - food tracking app again. 3. Keep carbs complex and avoid simple anything. 4. Turn around every box in your kitchen and if it has more than 5 grams of sugar per serving get rid of it. There is no good sugar. You are still in your first year and avg weight loss continues -albeit slower - for 18 months so you still have time to push past avg and get your goal. Refocus on the mental game. From here on out it is all about the lifestyle changes you have worked on to make new and better habits. I wish you luck and success going forward

Has anyone tried Monk Fruit as a sweetener. i have learned to enjoy my tea without sugar but black coffee is still rough. i ordered a small bottle (1.6oz) of this liquid monk fruit to try but was wondering if anyone else had tried it.