Rainbow_Warrior

I find that unless one is a strict vegan/vegetarian, almost anything can be obliterated to tiny particles in an excellent blender then mixed with 25mL, 50mL, 75mL, 100mL or 125mL of pourable raw egg whites. These amounts of egg whites offer an extra 15g, 29g, 44g, 58g or 73g of extra dietary protein respectively. Egg whites blended into anything else are near to neutral. Makes swallowing anything else easy for most people. My dietitian and surgeon applauded this idea for protein building. Each 55g (2oz) egg only adds 7g protein plus a whack of fat and may kick your cholesterol count way out. Egg whites are negligible to zero cholesterol depending on brand or processing.

Yes! Qualifies as a strenuous effort job. My jobs/roles (described elsewhere in this thread a few minutes ago) are low sedentary to medium sedentary. They are also limited public presence to open public presence (as I also described). When I am working on Skype/FaceTime, I have a "optional pants" or "optional slacks" rule. I often just operate in my tracksuit bottom with a neat polo shirt ... but, heck, only my upper head and chest show on those services.

I am a retiree ... but I have a skill set in high demand ... so I get plenty of offers of work for $$$$. The one restriction was that my surgeon and clinic said, "Ideally, don't plan to do anything strenuous for at least 7-10 days post-op. And, please, try not to drive in the first four days post-op as you may have residual anaesthetic issues." - - - My work is such that I am: (a) registered with a professional body and can be offered single days or multiple days filling in for other full-timers who need personal leave or sick leave. (b) registered with four local service go-betweens who take bookings for work (2hr, 3hr & 4hr temp blocks) and assign it to people like me. (c) able to be phoned by former or ongoing clients and to provide them ad hoc help and guidance via Skype/FaceTime (d) can be referred by former clients directly ... they pass my name and role onto friends and family and I step in and work fee for service to address their current needs. So, before the sleeve op mid October (Thur, 12th Oct), my work week looked like this: Monday - provide two hours on site at a professional business showing young executives presentation techniques and product skills (3:30pm-5:30pm) Tuesday - engaging at a business premises (2pm-6pm) owned by a fee-for-service franchisee showing school-leavers "the ropes" to getting employment in a range of suitable industries. Wednesday - 5pm-6pm - sitting in an easy-chair at home on Skype/Facetime with two people in remote Australia who need development and use this hour every week to ask me questions and seek my advice. (THIS ROLE CUTS OUT NEXT WEEK.) Thursday (1) - provide two hours on site at a professional business showing young executives presentation techniques and product skills (3:30pm-5:30pm) - same people as Monday Thursday (2) - 6pm-7pm - sitting in an easy-chair at home on Skype/Facetime with two people on the far south coast of my state who need development and use this hour every week to ask me questions and seek my advice. Friday - a young man with a chequered personal history comes to me home office to seek my advice to rejoin his career full time from next year. His family are paying me to help him "clean up his act" with some stable advice and tips to get him back to full accreditation. Outside of these actual hours, I spend about 10-20 minutes per individual client reading/writing/tracking progress for them (and for my benefit too.) - - - The hard one was the Tuesday job - I stayed away for it for two full weeks and did just a half session on the 31st Oct. I went back to it for full session yesterday (7th Nov) and did okay. The Monday & Thursday identical jobs (where I drive across town) I missed on the Thursday of the op and the Mon & Thur the following week. The Wed and Thursday online jobs I resumed the week following the op - hey, I'm just sitting home in my own comfy chair ... little energy expended and limited risk of pain/trouble, I thought ... I was right. I missed the Friday job at my residence on the 13th (the day after the op) and the 20th Oct as I wanted to be settled in my post-op diet and toileting to be sure. So I resumed that from 27th Oct and again last Friday (3rd Nov). - - - You just have to consider whether you need to allow yourself any time to cover pain and adjustment, I guess. Are you right to drive or catch transport to work? Be your own best judge, Ms_Meli.

"REALISTIC" is, in this case, a non-objective opinion. You might favour using straws and prefer to be backed up in your choice by your nutritionist's/clinic's choice of advice BUT this is not the best information for gastric surgery patients post-op. Long-term experience shows that the vast majority of previous comfort-eaters tend to be 'gulpers' when it comes to consumption of drinks and liquids. Just because an 'outlier' in advice confirms your preferred choice does not mean that its good advice. It really is best for most (recovering) obese and overweight people to learn to sip liquids in very small amounts at a low rate of swallows per minute (ideally two or fewer). Using a straw for the vast majority of people adds extraneous air into the mixture of liquids going into a now smaller stomach pouch. By all means, drink through a straw if you wish to. Your choice. But it still remains as poor advice for the majority of post bariatric surgery people. This is not an attack on you or how you will do what suits you. It is merely saying that most people need the best of mainstream advice which works for the great majority of people.

I just today, Monday 6th November @ 6am, received news of the latest T.E.D. TALK ... and it has great connection to the last two weeks discussion in this thread. THE SURPRISINGLY CHARMING SCIENCE OF YOUR GUT from May 2017 by Dr Guila Enders is well worth your attention. The spell/blurb says: Ever wonder how we poop? Learn about the gut -- the system where digestion (and a whole lot more) happens -- as doctor and author Giulia Enders takes us inside the complex, fascinating science behind it, including its connection to mental health. It turns out, looking closer at something we might shy away from can leave us feeling more fearless and appreciative of ourselves. There's a lively ongoing commentary/discussion too. She calls the gut: "Our Most Under-rated Organ". The 14-minute video can be found here: http://bit.ly/2y3rx9D

I just today, Monday 6th November @ 6am, received news of the latest T.E.D. TALK ... and it has great connection to the last two weeks discussion in this thread. THE SURPRISINGLY CHARMING SCIENCE OF YOUR GUT from May 2017 by Dr Guila Enders is well worth your attention. The spell/blurb says: Ever wonder how we poop? Learn about the gut -- the system where digestion (and a whole lot more) happens -- as doctor and author Giulia Enders takes us inside the complex, fascinating science behind it, including its connection to mental health. It turns out, looking closer at something we might shy away from can leave us feeling more fearless and appreciative of ourselves. There's a lively ongoing commentary/discussion too. She calls the gut: "Our Most Under-rated Organ". The 14-minute video can be found here:

Eeeeek !!!

EVOO (extra virgin olive oil is effective ... bang for buck, it's relatively cheap too.

Monitor your progress. If you see facial changes starting that worry you, consult your family doctor or weight loss clinic. You may eventually need supportive massage therapy.

My nutritionist and the clinic dietitian said (VERY EMPHATICALLY), "No straws! You risk adding too much air to your intake which will risk much burping. Sip slowly from a cup/tumbler or put each sip on a teaspoon and have ONE to TWO teaspoons per minute."

50m pool? 30m? 25m? I usually spend 80 to 150 minutes in the water SIX days per week. Its a 25m pool so 80 laps is 2km and 124 laps is two miles. I normally breaststroke 60-90 laps and wade as fast as I can manage (chest deep) for 24-36 laps. My lung capacity is quite good for a morbidly obese man. (My anaesthetist from this year's three ops says so too.)

No, horror story here ... in fact, it's very much a polar opposite. I have been in the 135kg to 176kg range the last ten years. (i.e. about 297 to 388 pounds) My wife has been in the 91kg to 126kg range in the same period. (i.e. about 201 to 278 pounds) After my son died in March this year (industrial accident on a construction site), I crept up to 176kg again (by July) and she was about 125kg (by late March). She'd already arranged a gastric balloon to try to help lose weight. After her initial success of losing about 16kg in 17 weeks, I decided to ask my doctor to refer me for a gastric sleeve. (I felt I needed to be lighter and fitter to honour my son's memory and to be around to assist with the raising of the toddler and the baby he left behind.) She's now at 90kg as of November 1 and has just had a brand new 2nd gastric ballon inserted. I am already in the lower half of the 150s and today the first time in eight months that my BMI has been under 50. We're good friends first. We married December 2007 ... as we'd become separated (then divorced) from our FIRST spouses. In high school (1972-1973) my wife was the best friend of the sister my then girlfriend. She told me in 2007 when we reunited for a few social events that she had always liked me at school and wished I'd paid more attention to her when she was shy and timid. After her 50th birthday party (her 99kg, me 128kg) I asked if we should move in together. She took it as a marriage proposal. We just celebrated her 60th and my 61st birthdays. We are sort of "rocks" for one another and we are both sorting out our health and fitness separately, IN DIFFERENT WAYS, but together in spirit. So, in answer, no change in the love and respect departments ... but we are becoming better people for ourselves first and one another and for all our combined 11 grandchildren. Our two exes are now very respectful people and we are all involved together in supporting one another and the children and grandchildren. Life's too short to be upsetting others and causing rifts, eh?

Me ... Apixaban (Eloquis) 5mg at 6am & 5mg at 6pm daily. The anaesthetist asked me to suspend it from 3.5 days before op until 1.5 days after op. All back to normal now 22 days post-op.

I'll contest that! My dad was a professional painter. One of his specialties was REDOING the work of amateur home-painters and low-grade professionals. It's not as easy as it looks. In saying that, there is improved paint technology and application techniques that allow conscientious and careful amateurs to do a good job. (The big failing in most bad home paint jobs is lousy preparation of walls, ceilings and surfaces.

Do what the ancients used to do ... it works for me. Massage your skin with kitchen grade EVOO. Pat dry with a paper towel. Rub with grainy salt ... table salt will do. Reapply EVOO. Massage skin. Wipe off with a paper towel. Within 30-45 minutes, have a warm shower.

Exactly three weeks post-op, I had my first reflux experience at lunchtime Thursday Nov 2. I was slowly sipping some soup and took a short break to listen to a news item on the radio. As I sat back down, some soup and 'stomach acid' (?) came back to the very top of my throat. Unsettling couple of minutes ... I eventually instigated a couple of deliberate small burps to alleviate. Waited about 35 minutes then cleaned my teeth, gargled and drank about 100mL of chilled water.

Massive change. Well done. I'm three weeks post-op today and just hit 20kg [44.1 pounds] off since I met the surgeon; 6kg [13 pounds] since the op. Thanks for the inspiring photo.

You have a very pleasant personable look about you at any weight ... but you added 'visually stunning' when you appeared in this picture. Be very proud of your ground-breaking self-improvement. WLS has given you access to a better life and a comfortable body.

My worst fear would be to find out that I was allergic to these four or garlic, mushrooms, avocados and onions.

Really? 8oz [225g] ? That is one to two fish meals per week. That 225g should be a minimum for meat eaters ... more fish would be better for a lot of people.

Is this sort of advertising/promotion allowed on this website? I thought not from the rules and T&Cs at the time of joining.

Is this sort of advertising/promotion allowed on this website? I thought not from the rules and T&Cs at the time of joining.

Your problem is that day to day perception of oneself does not change much. You think you are not seeing or feeling an expected quantum. So, start taking a photo one day per week in the same T-shirt/top and the same slacks/pants. Wait about three weeks and line the pics up ... the change should be more noticeable over 21-28 days. Also ... watch for non-scale victories. Belt notches closing in, loose arse area in your slacks/pants.

8oz-12oz ? 225 grams to 330 grams? Geez, I eat that much fresh or canned fish every 36 to 48 hours. I must have a fair quota of good oils and DHA.

Being tried in the UK and Australia already.