Orchids&Dragons

Scary. Thank heavens you're all right. Did you call the dr's office?

You've definitely lost the weight the hard way. The doctors definitely make it all sound like sunshine and daisies, but on this site you see a wide range of experiences. I haven't been around all that long, but I haven't seen anyone post about a bypass reversal. I looked through the site and found a couple of threads you may want to look at. They're kind of old, I don't know if the posters are around anymore. https://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/362637-rygb-revisionreversal-into-a-sleeve/?tab=comments#comment-4098099

I can't imagine having to deal with customers every day when you're feeling so bad. This site is a really good place to just get some of this off your chest and get some support. Hopefully someone can give you some helpful advice.

Wow, this is just tragic. I feel so bad for you. ((hugs)) I hope they find some way to make you feel better soon. Can you not change to another surgeon?

I am very sorry to hear about your Day. Such a difficult time for you. I don't have any great suggestions for the eating, but I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts.

And we're all super glad that you bit the bullet and had your checkup. I do realize (and did at the time) that the only person I was hurting was me, but I did it anyway. Never said I was particularly bright

Not offended, just avoiding temptation! LOL!

Happy Birthday! Bet you feel so much better this year than last!

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Definitely! It's a small step when you're already having a Thai curry to add the rice!

Fingers in my ears - "la la la la la"!

Sometimes it's not even delicious. Sometimes I open a can of string beans and eat a third of the can. Nobody considers canned string beans delicious! But they do fill up my "void". No, not hunger, but still a mental need to put something with substance into my stomach, if that makes sense. I think the therapist is so freaked out by the fact that I can't eat solid protein, that she's missing the bigger picture. But also, she normally treats anorexics who won't eat anything, or overeaters who won't stop eating, so that she can't really see the problem with how I'm eating. To her, if I'm getting all my required nutrition and taking in a reasonable amount of calories, what's the problem? And, of course, outside the WLS world, there is no "honeymoon" period.

Omgoodness, what a difference! Congrats! Why aren't you smiling? I'd have a grin from ear to ear with those results!

I really have no physical hunger. Whenever I think I feel hungry I take a Tums and it goes away. So, plenty of acid, no real hunger.

First off, Congratulations! Not specifically related to WLS, just pregnancy, but we were told that the baby will pretty much always get what it needs, even if it robs it from you. With my twins, I puked my guts out for 18 weeks straight and they went full term, full-size. At this point, the baby is the size of your fingernail. It's requirements are minimal. Try to find some form of protein you can tolerate - shakes, protein water, shooters, Fairlife chocolate milk, whatever. You may have to eat more slider foods than are normally recommended to get in enough nutrition. You can usually eat more shakes and similar than solid foods and you can get plenty of nutrition there. Good luck and best wishes!

No, this is what the therapist didn't understand. Maybe 4 "meals" are for protein (counting protein water), but the other 2 are all about the party in my mouth, and that's bad! Even if they are "healthy" choices like the curry or cooked veggies. Like you, my capacity is very small, Unless it's totally liquid, I can't usually get more than 12g of protein at a time (hi-pro yogurt). So, it takes a lot of meals to hit my protein target (75g min) and I'm really wasting 1-2 with fruit or veggies or SF fudgesicles.

Weigh all your food. Our portion sizes tend to inch up over time. Log every bite! I know I'm not a long-term WLS vet, but this applies with regain after any weight loss.

This would work better if "search" searched the entire site. But it only searches the forum you are in at the moment unless you go to the home page first. So, someone can search for "recipes" in the nutrition forum and not find an awesome thread under "post-op discussions". Not really user friendly, imho.

I follow the forums on a PC. My points show on a pink banner at the very top of every page (even above the BP banner). I'm sure they're trying to get me back into the store. I got about 3 cases of protein shots for free about a week ago, just shipping.

Really? That's interesting. Why?

Thanks, Kitty! I just worry that I'm ingraining the wrong habits because I pretty much eat all day. But, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. (I do follow 30-10-30. It never takes me more than 10 minutes to eat because, for the most part, I don't chew!) On the plus side, I'm not brave enough to try many tempting foods to see if they'd be ok. I did talk with my therapist last night (her specialty is eating disorders, not bariatrics) because I'm concerned that some bad behaviors are starting to creep back in. She really didn't get it because the choices I made were "healthy", or at least not bad. Like, for instance, the last 3 days I had veggie Thai green curry for lunch. (One order split over 3 days, no rice). It was probably under 100 cal. per day, but I doubt there was any protein in it at all. (There wasn't enough liquid to stir in protein powder) To the therapist, this was perfectly fine, but I tried explaining how important it was to eat the protein first for meals. Especially those of us who are chronically short at the end of the day and have to knock some down right before bed. Oh, well. I guess she'll be more helpful when my issues are more mainstream.

That's me as well. I think it had been 5-7 years since I'd had a well-woman check because I was so disgusted. I didn't start going to the dr. again until I had decided I was going to have this surgery and I wouldn't take no for an answer.

Well, if you figure it out, do a facebook video and let it go viral!

Maybe it's a Mom thing, but I kinda thought that's how it would work, too!

I totally agree. I loved being pregnant, felt it was as close to a miracle as I would ever experience. And I loved breastfeeding. Wouldn't have traded that for the world.