sarahSingh91

Hell yea I did! My surgery was Jan 14. And I had all the holidays to enjoy. I ate EVERYTHING in sight. It was fantastic. I didn’t morn the loss of food at all. But it sure was great not to worry about weight gain etc and just eat!!!! Kind of like the all in diet a lot of professional fitness people do! :)

Awesome!!!! Rock it girl!

Idk if you can eat this but it is a soft food and omg it is AMAZING!!!! But it is not 4 servings for me. I freeze it and it is 12 servings lol is the size I can eat.

Yea sometimes I just find that certain foods like hit my stomach harder. When are you able to eat real food? One thing on my 6 week list was salad. And I am so bad and I tried it yesterday :/ it was amazing. And it didn’t make my stomach upset. I love salad and my hubby was eating it!! I was so happy to know I tolerated it ok. Today at 3 I have a class for nutrition and I’m going to ask them about it and why we have to wait til 6 weeks etc. yea my mom had bowel obstruction colon cancer actually and it was horrible. My surgeons nurse actually had the bypass and recommends the sleeve if her patients have the self control or can learn the self control because she has had a lot of bowel obstruction and twists. She said her problems started 10years post op. She is running out of bowel and she is pretty scared about it. It such a. Horrible thing. My mom was so sick. It scared me. What protein shake are you drinking? The only one I can stomach is the ensure MAX PROTEIN. I have tried a lot of them even the plant based protein mixes and I just don’t like them. But I don’t drink milk etc cause I’m lactose intolerant so yea. Protein drinks just aren’t for me. I try to get in a whole piece of tilapia cause one 4 oz price has 20 grams protein. I am trying to get my protein In Through food plant based and animal based.

So I started soft foods at 2 weeks post op and I still have some problems. For eggs I learned the egg whites r the only things I can handle. The yolk has too much fat and it makes me feel horrible it hurts and I feel sick. So I only do a soft scramble egg white. Tofu I can not do. I can do 1/4 of a price of tilapia sometime I will mix it with black beans for extra protein. What silverware are you using? I use my babies spoons lol so they r tiny and I can have about 4-5 bites of that size. If I was using a bigger spoon it would probably be one bite. I learned also that chewing really good helped me ALOT. I thought it was BS at first but then I tried to chew really good defiantly like meats and eggs etc and it helped ALOT!! For comstipation my surgeon and his PA recommends taking stool softener everyday ever 4 hours until you become regular. And if you don’t have a BM within 3 days then take a stimulant laxative to get things moving. They really push push push us to take a stool softener. Because it is not healthy to be backed up and can cause “weight gain” on the scale and get u upset. Due to it being waste weight. Also a lot of high protein diets will make people constipated because we are not getting enough fiber because fruits and grains are off limits. My surgeon only recommends 45-50 grams of protein a day. He said our bodies will not absorb more than that. But follow what your surgeon suggests. There are also DR V videos on protein intake that support my surgeons theory also where too much protein can be a pain with gout etc. anyways off topic lol I agree not a bowel blockage as you wouldn’t be able to keep anything down. It would come up and bile would also come up. Hope this helps

Yay that’s great! I’ll private message you.

Kind of what I thought. Plus he was over weight. He isn’t my usual doctor. But I have seen him a few times. When my doctor isn’t available

Yayy! Thanks I will check it out.

Omg! I am sick with a cold :( a bad one. And no medicine is seeming to work? I know medicine gets absorbed in our bowels and not our stomach and I had the sleeve so there shouldn’t be any absorption problems should there? It just seems to not be working. The Tylenol in the medicine is helping with body aches but I can’t get my cough under control or get my mucous to dry up? It’s been over a week!!! I went to my doctor and he told me it’s a virus I told him I know it’s a virus. And I tried to explain that the OTC is not helping me dry up or lessen the cough etc and cough drops make my stomach so nauseous!!! He had no advice :/ (note this is my family doctor not my surgeon.) and my doctor made a rude comment saying well u messed with how ur body functions with the surgery what did you expect to happen. (Ahole)

I may have to try that cream. The lovenox shots bruised me so badly. I had to do them for 21 says. Tomorrow is my last day. My bruises are almost gone. The one by my belly button was the incision they removed my stomach. He tries to dot he tiniest incisions. I didn’t have bruising around any other incision only the biggest one.

So I have to incisions up high between my breast almost. Then two on the left side one on the right and then one at my belly button. The one at my belly bottom bruised extremely bad and the bruise changed a weird pink color. In the pic looks red but it’s a light pink.

Omg that’s funny. Yea today is 70 and tomorrow is snow here. So I totally Understand lol

Omg we have not had any snow all winter in Colorado!!!! I love winter (I’m the girl walking in the freezing cold) but I also love our summer. Hope everyone enjoys the game today!!!!!

O goodness. That’s very low which means like internal bleeding. Keep us updated and posted. Best wishes.

I had my surgery Jan 14!!! My incisions are healed. I still have my blood thinner injections. But no pills except vitamins. Glad your doing great!!!!!

Yayy everyone is post op for our January group!!!!!!!! That is so awesome!!!! Congrats to the new January baby stomachs.

Yes dr v is straight forward but I love it cause it’s what we need!!! My surgeon also worked with him in some things so you may see him lol he has YouTube videos that’s are education. And like his sleeve and bypass is filmed and put on YouTube.

I like doctor V but he tells it how it is so warning for anyone that is sensitive. I love it because I am straightforward also! My surgeon also agreed with a lot of his info.

I think it is I’m also sleeve and my surgeon doesn’t recommend exercise until 6 months after honey moon phase

What r ur food stages? I also started at a BMI of 43? And I think the higher the BMI the fast u lose weight. Is what I have gathered.

Yea of course. So in the hospital I was allowed clear liquids and my protein shakes which where ensure max protein. Also the first 6 weeks they push that they do not wnat us eating low carb. They do recommend sugar free for sweets so that you don’t “dump.” So when released we can have full liquids and some purées soups beans ricotta cheese etc. then on our one week post op appointment. We are allowed all soft foods. Just not meats yet. Two weeks we can have soft food plus like soft cheeses, fish ground meats Three weeks we can have lunch meat and cheese roll ups cheddar cheese etc. week four post op we can have cucumber and tuna boats etc. 6 week normal eating they just push to listen to our bodies. Obviously if your new belly is not liking something don’t eat it. Also they don’t push for extreme amounts of protein because our body can only absorb so much. They recommend the first 6 weeks 45-55 grams of protein a day. They also don’t resend working out really hard until after the honey moon phase. Because our bodies are not taking in enough calories to work out. After about 6 months when we can consume enough calories. Then we can work out and work on building elan muscle not cardio since our bodies are still in a huge deficient. Also they said if we r in the habit of working out. Then we can but this is just what they recommend for the best results. As per there program. My surgeon also said. If I want to explore with a food eat a tiny bite and see how it “hits” my stomach. Like the first time eating salad. Eat a bite. Wait and see how your stomach reacts. Etc

Yayy!! That’s great. I am almost 3 weeks. 2 weeks 5days. And I am down 27lbs. Idk why I am losing so fast. I think it may be because I was on a more solid diet pretty fast. But idk.

I can’t even imagine. :(

Omg!!! I clicked don original poster name to see if she has posted and she posted I think the 23 of my memory is right and her son was murdered!!!! She is postponing her surgery. Omg I’m so sad for her!! I felt like some thing was wrong and for some reason she was on my mind a lot!!! Prayer for her

Omg!!!! Heck yea girl I started at 289 after holidays lol (my original was 275 yikes holidays) and now I am at 264. I had VSG Jan 14!!! Yayyy