Lolo 2020

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I am 57, 5’9, 231 on day of surgery with a BMI if 34 or so . High weight of 243. Very similar story , years of managing weight in my 20’s and 30’s and 40’s through starvation and extreme exercise. Post menopause the wheels came off and I just couldn’t lose and kept gaining . This was only and best option - was sleeved Thursday the 20th and feel great . Have lost 12lbs since the start of my Pre op 2 week diet . Walking a lot and hope to spin next week - go for it !

Congrats on weight loss! I am lower BMI, self pay and did the sleeve Dec 20, hoping for good results, am down 12lbs since last week. I do love to work our though and am keen to get back to spin and yoga sonhoping I am healed enough to do light spin in a week to 10 days . I know working out and particularly weight work really help - thanks for sharing

I was pretty much back to normal 4 days post op , and would agree that walking and sipping are important . I would say to not stress day 3-4-5 post op when ur home about getting full 64oz of liquid . U will be super bloated from IV and sore in the esophagus and stomach so swelling is super hard . Just do ur best . I just finished day 5 and feel normal - walked 2.5 miles today and easily got in liquids . Good luck ! 🍀

Wow 60lbs! 💃💃💪. You rock !

I did heating pad for 2 days after I got home and have been doing tylenol , back pain went away on day 3

Tomato and chocolate cause heartburn . I had acid reflux ( which causes the heartburn) before the surgery and also had a hiatal hernia repaired . I take Prevacid and gas x first thing in the am . That covers me for the the day . Not sure the acid reflux will actually go away with the hernia repair , but I will be pleased if it does

Is 800 our target calorie intake ? I thought I read somewhere that we should do 500 calories a day for the first 3 months ?

I just had a sleeve done by dr Shillingford near boca on Thursday the 20th. Self pay for $10,500 and included 2 nights in hospital . I can’t say enough about how great the doctor and hospital were -I strongly suggest you consult with him. I flew down from NJ to do it and am totally happy with the outcome , walked 2.5 miles today and feel great , am 12 lbs down from last week . I hear nightmare stories about Mexico . Dr Shillingford created a special discount price just to keep self pay people from going to Mexico . Hospital is in margate. I did a consult over the phone

It was a little difficult to be around all the Xmas food but happily mom didn’t make the cookies I love and I’ve never been that crazy about turkey..I just told myself it was one night , one year , next yr I can have little tastes if I want .

Bariastic

They suggested the app bariatic and its very good to track all ! I also use the “lose it” app

I just had surgery on the 20th, am on 5 days post op today and walked 2.5 miles and feel great ! The day of surgery sucks, no way around it, but morphine helps . Day 2 is tuff as well but get up and walk every few hours and stop morphine midday . Liquid Tylenol will help u sleep that night so ask for some . Will be hard swallowing day 3-4 when u r home , warm chicken broth works and micro sips . Just make sure u walk 5-15 minutes once u r out of hospital , try to work up to 2 x a day . Really helps with gas pain and bloating from IV. Make sure u use gas x, Pepcid and zofran anti nauseau post surgery - u will do great ps, I wasn’t perfect on the 2 week liquid diet prep and all was still good !

Everyone says grazing is a sure way back to weight gain. My skinny friends never eat more than one piece of pizza

I decided not to risk it at Xmas dinner am sticking to chicken broth 😬

No problem ! Feel better

The burning is acid reflux , they should have told u at discharge to take gas x for gas pain and Prevacid for heartburn . Take both ! Don’t fear taking am and pm at first to get it under control

I am 5 days post op too! I had that yesterday - I took chewable gas x in the am and pm plus a lansaprozole. Much better

These recipes sounds great ! Does anyone know if it is ok to do a soup like this on 5 days post op ? I am liquids for 10 more days before puree

Yup I was thinking I will make my own ! I also got cream of chicken soup , it only has 9 carbs and 1 sugar per serving so that may be better overall .

Shoot I almost did Campbell’s but so many sugars and carbs I got a progresso tomato soup but it has a lot of carbs 23 and sugar 9 maybe I shouldn’t try?

I started last July and did my dietician meetings and did as well as I could to make changes, lost 7lbs. Psych evaluation is no biggie, don’t even think about it . Lost 8 more lbs on pre op liquid diet and I wasn’t even perfect - but had surgery on the 20th and doc was super happy with my liver. Am down another 5 lbs today, 5 says post -op. Yesterday felt great but let’s face it , it is major surgery and days 2,3 and 4 post up suck. Day 1 is not bad mevause of the morphine !😊 absolutely do a 2 night hospital stay Here is what u can do to prepare - hopefully U already work out - ramp up ur cardio and make sure u do tons of weight work and core work . Planks , crunches, etc . U can’t use ur core post surgery so U need a strong lower back to maneuver urself from lying down to sitting . And post surgery u have to move! Walk walk walk in hospital ! Then it’s over and all good! Good luck ! It’s worth it !

Good for u ! Of course it counts! I am 5 days post op and I count a little 15 minute stroll as my exercise 2 x per day . Today a going to try to walk 20-30minte straight

Well done u !!💪

Surgery on the 20 th, home on the 22nd and reallypainful doing everything , drinking, moving , etc until the 24 th when I woke up fresh as a daisy . Did a fair bit of walking every day , that really helped gas and chest pain. But sneezed last night and it was excruciating!!! Owwww! Feel like I will try to extend walks now and get to 30 min continuously - hope to spin in a week to 10 days . Using liquid Tylenol to sleep at night