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Crickets are an awesome source of protein and they're a lot easier on the environment than cows and pigs. Crickets are also a lot closer to what our guts are naturally designed to digest. The great apes eat a lot of insects. Just sayin'

You'll get there, Matty, I'm sure of it:)

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LOL....gotcha. Makes more sense. Thank you for the pix! Hang in there, and feel better:)

Ladydeen, can you share photos? Also, if your current weight is 145, why did you get resleeved?

Oh man...been there, Dude. It's hard. One day at a time is the best you can do. My bestie calls Old Country Buffet "Old Crummy Barf-fay". Hang in there, Mattymatt....you'll make it. Keep your eye on the prize.

Here's the original Youtube it's from: Seen at 8:27

I make a kick arse salad out of Protein Plus Rotini. Tomatoes, cukes, kalamata olives, a little reduced fat hard salami, peppers, feta, olive oil, Italian seasonings, and balsamic. Yum! This one's a favorite at my house.

Yes some programs can include limited amounts of pasta. Mine does:) But pasta is very hard to eat post surgically and you may find it's more uncomfortable than it's worth. If you do eat pasta again, and it's ok with your program...consider Protien Pasta. It's a special pasta made of chickpeas and lentils that gets you higher protein and fewer carbs. https://www.barilla.com/en-us/product-results/pasta/range/proteinplus/?sort=alpha

Q: Can I drink alcohol after surgery? A: Alcohol is not recommended after bariatric surgery. Alcohol contains calories but minimal nutrition and will work against your weight loss goal. For example, wine contains twice the calories per ounce that regular soda does. The absorption of alcohol changes with gastric bypass and gastric sleeve because an enzyme in the stomach which usually begins to digest alcohol is absent or greatly reduced. Alcohol may also be absorbed more quickly into the body after gastric bypass or gastric sleeve. The absorbed alcohol will be more potent, and studies have demonstrated that obesity surgery patients reach a higher alcohol level and maintain the higher levels for a longer period than others. In some patients, alcohol use can increase and lead to alcohol dependence. For all of these reasons, it is recommended to avoid alcohol after bariatric surgery. (American College of Surgeons, 2011) Think of alcohol as being in the same catagory as soda. It does you no good and it has the potential to cause problems. If you think having soda every so often is ok..... having alcohol every so often is ok, too. It's the same thing. If you wouldn't do one...don't do the other.

glad you're on the mend!

I cannot imagine being attracted to fishlips or ducklips. It makes you look like a baby/child. I don't want to have sex with a baby. Nor do I want to attract pedophiley creepers who would be attracted to having sex with someone who looks like a baby. It's super creepy to me. Lips are not my thing. Maybe if they were I'd understand. I don't. My favorite physical feature is weird, so I shouldn't judge, I suppose.

Ah poop...I'm gonna be the wet blanket! First off...I believe in this surgery 100%, have had it, and think you absolutely should consider it. I'm not saying don't do it. That said...I question the timing. If it's going to cause financial stress...you might be a lot better off saving for it and doing it next year...because you won't need more stress after surgery, the lifestyle changes and changes to your body are stressful enough. Also, because of your son's wedding. You really never know when you're going to run into a complication (they're rare, but they happen, and they can result in hospitalizations) And parts of the process are genuinely stressful. Wouldn't it suck to be in the hospital with a stricture, or a leak or an ulcer and miss his wedding? Will you be helping with any of the wedding planning/showers/putting up guests/etc? This worries me, too. Surgery is no guarantee you'll get to your goal weight. Most people don't. Most people lose about 60-70% of their excess weight. To get to goal, it's all discipline, hard work, counting calories, and exercise. Now...on the other hand... Dieting and willpower alone... at this stage in life after this many years of being overweight...is statistically likely to fail. I always tell people considering the surgery....research five year outcomes of people who lose weight with surgery and who lose weight through diet and exercise alone. Who keeps the weight off? (hint....the surgery people have astronomically better chances of keeping the weight off, or more of the weight off) In summary....yes, I think you should get this surgery. But I think waiting a year might be wiser. You need the time to concentrate on yourself and not have added stress of money and a wedding. In the mean time...you could continue your diet for the best outcome when you do get surgery. Whatever you choose to do...I wish you the very best:)

This might be a shot in the dark...but the title of the post was "Big Ward"...I'm guessing that might be the name of your show:)

Pay attention to Jess, too...she's the person you're gonna want to talk to about exercise later in your journey when you stall. There are so many folks here who have been there and done it...really done it...gone beyond the average experience and hit their goal...which is all about amazing discipline. I keep thinking back to what a grouchy butt I was during my liquid diet...and maybe that's part of not being receptive to good advice. Maybe you just want some encouragement...and I think every person here has been there and would understand that. Just please try to reread all this stuff, later, too. Everyone's on your side...even if it doesn't seem like it....they all want you to succeed:) And they're all giving really really solid advice.

Dear Presurg: This surgery will not limit what you eat in any way. Within a couple of months, you can stuff yourself to oblivion and gain weight as fast as you ever did. I'm three months out...and if I wanted to? I could eat 3000+ calories per day easily. Lot of people do this. They start eating crap every couple of hours and manage to gain back every ounce they've lost before they've even gotten to month six. Reeses peanut butter cups go down very easily after surgery, so do potato chips and ice cream and french fries and nuts.... and it doesn't take many of these indulgences for them to add up and turn into a disaster. While you might notice a little nausea after a gut load of sugary things, sleeve patients don't generally dump like bypass patients. It won't be hard for you to overindulge in sweets. Also, lots of people continue to experience lots of hunger. Ask me:) I know:) I had no nausea, never vomited, and was ready to chew my leg off two weeks after surgery I was so hungry. If you do not correct your eating habits and apply a metric feck tonne of self discipline, and work....this surgery isn't going to do squat for you. Some people are looking for a magic cure. If this is you....don't bother. You're still going to have to diet. And count calories. And write down every single thing you eat every day of your life for months and months. You will still have to pay attention to measuring everything you eat. Looking up calories. You will have to exercise...and then exercise harder to break the stall you've been stuck on for weeks. The average experience with sleeve....is to lose about 60-70% of your excess weight in 18 months and then gain about 12% back. If you have 100 pounds to lose, you can expect to lose about 65 in 18 months if you have a typical experience with gastric sleeve...and then gain back about 12 within two years. (and these are people who mostly follow instructions, eat 1000-1200 calories a day and exercise 30 minutes a day) If you want an exceptional experience...where you get to your goal weight....you'll have to work really really hard to get there. And pay attention to what the people who have actually done it have to say about it. I'm a little older than Blizair09...and we have different diet philosophies....but he's one of the hardest working posters I've seen on these boards and I admire the hell out of him and have learned a LOT from his experience. You could do a lot worse than to listen to him. One final word of (unsolicited) advice.... If you smoke again after surgery, you will swallow nicotine. Your saliva will be infused with it and it will wash right down to your stomach. Nicotine impedes healing and is strongly correlated with leaks post surgically. Both in the first few weeks AND in the first few years. Best wishes on your surgery. Here's hoping the peanut butter eggs haven't deterred your liver from shrinking.....many surgeons will just close you back up if your liver hasn't sufficiently shrunk. To get your liver to shrink you have to stop eating carbs nearly completely. You're defeating the point of the diet...by eating that candy.

I remember at the end of clear liquids I was so sick of chicken broth. OMG, it tasted like a sweaty chicken armpit. Bleh! LOL:) I still maintain that the liquid diet before and after surgery were worse than the surgery itself:)

Huh. Nope, can't identify with that. Maybe someone else can? Wait...you're four days out! You shouldn't be eating yet, no?

Nothing helped me as much as walking.

Have been sleeved for three months, have not noticed any cons yet:) Certainly none that outweigh the many benefits:) What, in particular, are you concerned about?

I was starving four days post op. As you add more things back into your diet, you'll feel better. Hang in there.

Yep, I saw it. How sad! I loved Dr. Now's rant about pain pills being given to the morbidly obese to sweep them under the table. He's dead right and the medical community has got to change this. Robert's mom and girlfriend had some obvious animosity going on. I'm glad they both tried to pull together at the end. People don't understand how dangerous being obese is.

I walk with a fitbit and keep track of my steps all day. Usually I have two thirty to sixty minute walks, though. Just depends on what my day allows...how I squeeze it in. If I'm running errands, doing a lot of cleaning, mowing lawns or stuff like that....the steps add up on their own. I started out walking 5,000 steps a day. When my doc told me to cut back I was walking about 20,000 each day. 12,000...which is about 5.8 miles at my stride length...is his goal for me. Swimming more now:) Apparently, it's a good idea to diversify your workout for maximum benefit.

Since this will be unique to your surgeon and insurance company...it's best to ask them. (but in general...yes, it might cause a delay, but you can change your mind)

Don't freak out. Buy a pregnancy test. Piss on it, and feel better:) Yes, it's very common to have menstrual irregularities with any major surgery.