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What are BEST side effects of WLS for you besides the WL?
Kukubari replied to mamabear_2_2's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Doing amazing! I hope you have been too. In fact, I have something additional to post in this thread that I only just experienced tonight.. like 20 mins ago. I LOVE EXERCISE NOW. Really, it's true! I'm not able to go all out yet, but I just did a 30 min power walk at night when it was like 50 degrees. I felt alive for the first time in a long while. Mind you all, I live in a REALLY safe area so I'm not too concerned about walking at night. Also about the weight loss, I lost the 30 pounds in the pre-op diet and the post so far. 33 pounds today since Feb. 2nd when I last weighed in before starting the pre-op diet. -
Hello, I’ve been doing research for years now on the pros and cons that come with WLS as a whole and I finally decided to make an appointment and see what the doctor says. I thought of going with VSG, that’s what I found more research on from actual patients, surprisingly since RNY has been around much longer. I’m on the lower BMI side without too many medical issues so I didn’t think they’d agree at all. But the doctor gave me a surgery day and all the tests and pre-op things to do. She also told me the requirements are the same for both surgeries and somewhat hinted the weight loss would be larger with RNY and just went along with my choice of VSG, now I’m questioning if I didn’t do enough research and if I should pick RNY instead. How did you made a choice? How did you know it was the right one? These are pretty serious surgeries, I want to know I’m making the right choice long term. What advice would you give your pre-op self about what’s to come?
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feeling defeated
LoveSimcha replied to Hello_Pumpkin's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I am sorry this is going on with you. I don't know much about your state's health insurance but I know a person here in NJ that did not have coverage for anything bariatric and decided to go to college (he took one class) in order to buy health insurance through the college - the health insurance from the college offered bariatric coverage. Apparently a lot of people do this in order to get some covered items like fertility treatments, weight loss surgery or even eye corrective surgery. Might be something to look into. -
Congrats! I'm looking forward to being where you are, staring down that first 50# loss. Thanks for the inspo.
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I had type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. I also did not feel good about myself, at all. I used to joke to my husband that if for some reason I weren't around anymore, they'd have to use my driver's license to remember my face. I lacked the energy and stamina to do much with my kids, too & I felt it wasn't fair to them (and myself) that I wasn't taking care of myself. About three months after surgery my diabetes was in remission (my cholesterol was still high & I don't know what it is atm), and I feel a lot better about myself. I still find it weird having pictures taken and still tend to avoid it. And, I am sorry for your loss. It is great, however, that you are still managing to take back your life and your health.
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That pink colour is so lovely on you @kristieshannon & @Dtrain84 looking smoooooth. Congrats @ANewJourneyAwaits on your weight loss. And such a bright & cheerful colour to celebrate. I love red. A face to face would be fabulous but I’m not intending to board a plane for some time yet even with the vaccine - flying incubators - shudder - especially with the number of hours I’d be trapped on board. Maybe one day we’ll be able enjoy travelling safely again & we won’t have to quarantine whereever we go. Damn virus. It’s sucked the joy out of so much. Waaah!
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Hardly any weight loss after week 2 post op? Is this normal
Hop_Scotch replied to Fati64's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
It would be useful if you filled in your profile: weight and height, helps with context to some questions/posts. I wouldn't say it was slow either, 6kilos in three weeks is good, you are doing great. Your body has been through a surgery, there is swelling and inflammation, its healing. If you read through a lot of the posts here or use the search link for stalls you would see that stalls are a common factor in weight loss surgery even in the first few weeks. The infamous three week stall that can happen at two or four weeks too, for some people the first stall may last a short time for others it can be a few weeks. There will be other stalls along the way. If you lost a lost of weight pre surgery in the pre op diet, this typically lessens the weight loss in the immediate post op phase as you've already lost all the bloat and fluid retention. -
Am I doing this wrong??
Jaelzion replied to LonglivetheGranny's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Your experience is actually pretty typical. Right after surgery, you can have a lot of water retention and internal swelling, which can skew your weight. And just when that resolves, it's common to hit a stall at 3-4 weeks and it may last anywhere from 1-2 weeks. It's not a sign that anything is wrong, it's just your body first recovering from surgery and then adjusting to the radical change in your food intake. After the 3 week stall breaks, most people start seeing a steady drop in weight for the next several months. I wish weight loss surgeons would warn patients that the number on the scale may not drop a lot in those first post-op weeks, it would save so much unnecessary stress. You're probably doing fine, just stick with the plan. -
I'm also a hobbit. Breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, supper, dinner...lol. My total daily calorie intake is about 1400-1600 a day and I maintain well. (I'm pretty active, lotta muscle mass) But yep, I can't put more than 200-300 or so calories into my sleeve at a time (unless it's a slider food)....so I eat more often. Meh...it works for me. Like Jaelzion says, everyone's different and finds their groove:) Example of my weird eating habits: Breakfast...whole grain english muffin with one tablespoon peanut butter 200 calories. (or two packets of reduced sugar oats, or a big bowl of coco wheats) Morning snack one ounce of chicken breast, one ounce swiss, 9 reduced fat whole grain crackers (or some other snack that has over 10g of protien)... 200 calories. Lunch...food on the run, maybe half an Impossible Whopper at Burger King 315 calories (I eat this in two sittings, a quarter of a sandwich at each sitting, and the other half of the sandwich goes home or is given to a friend), Fuit in the afternoon...two pieces...200 calories (or one fruit and a cheese stick or a hard boiled egg), Dinner I like to start with eating veggies, potatoes and beans. I eat a 200-300 calorie plate of veggies first (I like a small baked potato with 1/3 cup of black beans dumped over it with salt and pepper). Then I make whatever the family likes for dinner and eat a 200-300 calorie portion of it. And that leaves a hundred calories or so to satisfy my sweet tooth. A little square of dark chocolate, a Yasso bar, or a sugar free pudding. I aim for 50-60g of protien a day, 25g of fiber, less than 1600 calories. This works good for me. *For weight loss, I was eating about 1200 calories a day....so portions were a little smaller back then.
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Hardly any weight loss after week 2 post op? Is this normal
Fati64 posted a topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Hi so in the first week after surgery I lost 6 kg, but then in week 2 I lost about 0.5kg and in week 3 barely 0.5 kg. Starting week 4 and feel a little upset because so hear about how people literally shed weight first few weeks. Why is this happening so slow? -
Not EVER feeling full 😢 (conversion lap band to bypass
The Greater Fool replied to Cara Mia's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Everything varies by the individual so YMMV. The explanation that pureed digest better than food makes no sense to me. Pureed is only slightly finer that chewed food and that difference would not affect digestion or absorption. RNY bypasses a small portion of your intestines, the part that does some of the heavy lifting of nutrient absorption. So you absorb less calories, pureed or chewed the malabsorption is pretty constant. You leave a lot of information out that would make giving a specific guess at an answer for your situation. You say you lost 130 on the band, but don't indicate how much more (if any) you have to lose. The smaller the weight you have to lose the slower the weight loss generally is. Fullness is going to feel different than with the band. The band was at the top of the stomach, so food backed up basically in your esophagus. With RNY you have a small pouch that dumps directly into your intestines, so 'full' will be lower than you are used to, and it will empty out a bit quicker, or perhaps more correctly, easier. Follow your plan. I would doubt your plan says 'eat until you feel full' but rather 'eat this much of this' or 'eat these many calories, grams, whatever of that'. Feeling full is a cue to stop before you've completed the meal. For me, feeling full happens when my pouch isn't thrilled and says enough is enough before I've eaten my meal completely. Most often I complete the meal without feeling full. Eating constantly to fullness (and beyond) is what got me to needing RNY. Bottom line is you have to learn your new situation, the new sensations. Your new reality. -
3 month post op appointment with labs
mae7365 posted a topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I had my 3 month (actually 4 month) post op appointment with my surgeon yesterday and he was very please with my progress - no more GERD, 42 pound weight loss and a 24 BMI. He reviewed my lab work and said to just keep doing what I'm doing - one Centrum fruity chew 50+, one sublingual B12, one 65 mg iron and 2 Viativ chews daily. No super expensive vitamin regimen for me - all over the counter and cheap at Walmart! Although my doctor wasn't concerned, my Zinc level is low. I did some internet research and saw that Zinc, like B12, is often low in gastric bypass patients and sublingual supplements may be needed. Does anyone else take a Zinc supplement? If so, do you take a sublingual version? Has the supplement improved your lab results? Overall, I'm thrilled with my health since surgery. I actually sleep without waking up throughout the night with acid reflux, I walk 5-6 miles - five days a week and have tons of energy for working in the yard (which definitely needed my attention)! -
How long after your sleeve sugery did you experience no hunger?
Tim C posted a topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I am not talking about head hunger or just wanting to eat something. Like no hunger because of loss of the hunger hormone in the portion of your stomach that was removed. I am hoping this last a good while because well...IT IS AWESOME! -
Facial Hair
butterisnotacarb replied to HealthyLifeStyle's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I don't have a lot of all over facial hair but I do get them under my chin like crazy and have one or two random super long hairs in my cheek area. I'm almost 40. My mom gets the single long hair too so it's genetic I'm sure. I finally got fed up and decided to dermaplane. I do it myself with an eyebrow razor called Tinkle you can buy cheap on Amazon. There's a few great YT videos with 1 million+ views that show how to do it. No shaving cream, just damp skin. Never looked back. It also is a great way to exfoliate. Sent from my SM-N981U using BariatricPal mobile app -
Intermittent Fasting- Anyone?
catwoman7 replied to Tim C's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
stalls are a normal part of the weight loss journey. Just follow your clinic's program and stay off the scale. The weight loss will start up again in 1-3 weeks. I wouldn't do anything but continue to follow your program. -
Intermittent Fasting- Anyone?
Hop_Scotch replied to Tim C's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Stalls are normal for weight loss surgery,they are nothing out of the norm. It's early days for you, I don't think i would be trying IF just yet, particularly on the low calorie amounts in the early days, and particularly moreso, if you haven't run this past your surgeon or dietician. -
Intermittent Fasting- Anyone?
The Greater Fool replied to Tim C's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Tim, You're going to ignore me, but I'm gonna try anyhow. This period is called the honeymoon period for a reason. No matter what you do, no matter how well or badly you follow your program, you will lose weight. The honeymoon can teach you one of two lessons: 1) You can follow your program and you will receive the wonderfully positive feedback of losing weight. It's a great motivator to continue and to get the feedback. Month after month of staying on program and losing weight is a great teacher and motivator. By times the weight loss slows you will be at or near goal and you've built your lifetime habits so you won't regain. 2) You can do whatever you want and you will receive the wonderfully positive feedback of losing weight. It's a great motivator to continue and to get the feedback. When you leave the honeymoon and stop losing weight, or worse, gaining weight, you are now where you were pre-op: Working to learn a diet with little to no positive feedback. Make a good choice. From what you've described so far, you are basically in starvation mode. Even if you worked to follow your program you would be near starvation. Starving yourself for 8 hours then worse for 16 hours a day just puts that much more strain on your body. You NEED protein to heal and right now you have to do the absolute best you can. This was supposed to be an action to get healthy, not, well... Keeping your scale moving via starvation is not healthy. Watching the scale is screwing with your mind. Talk about this honestly and frankly with your medical team. Listen to them. -
What to expect on first consult
Creekimp13 replied to NorthernMaine's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Can't speak for Maine, I'm afraid. My surgery was 6 months after initial consultation, but it didn't feel like a long time at all because we had a massive checklist of things to get done before we were approved. This will vary a lot by surgeon. My surgeon wanted 10% weight loss through diet with the help of monthly PA and Dietician appointments. We had to take a fitness class, attend a support group meeting, take classes that covered our pre surgical liquid diet and our diet after surgery. Had a whole bunch of medical tests and stuff, two therapy visits, and healthy cooking classes were also strongly recommended. Lots of appointments, lots of hard work on your diet to get ready. But again...some surgeons will just schedule you and that's that. My experience was pretty involved, but I'm really grateful I had that much support and preparation. It has been invaluable. Your first visit, you'll likely get measured and weighed, talk about your BMI and comorbidities, talk about which surgery is the best fit, get an outline of your program and get a feel for the timeframe. -
RNY because of GERD, not weight loss?
estudley replied to AmandaQB's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
I had surgery 6 months ago (8/24/2020), due to GERD and what the surgeon refered to as a huge hiatal hernia. The acid had eroded by throat so badly that I could not physically swallow some days. Nothing was working, max doses of both Omeprazole and Famotidine as well as swigging Malox nightly and still having break through acid, I also required a muscle relaxant to allow me to eat. Gastric bypass was my last resort (and actually started out as kind of a joke -"remove my stomach and the acid will stop") Until a surgeon told me that thay might be the ultimate solution for my problem. While getting use to this new way of life has been difficult at the beginnig. There were many day I cried "why did I do this" it is a vast improvement from the possibility of worsing dysphsia and esophageal cancer. I no longer require any medication, have not had any reflux at all and while the quantity is greatly deminished I can eat almost anything I want. The bonus is i no longer require BP medication and the weight loss of course. 80lbs down and I feel better in my own skin, as well as being healthier and happier. -
So sorry for your loss. 💗
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What an amazing story I'm so happy for you. My fiance suffer with cellulitis and gout and it can be very painful. He would get the edema with that as well. He was also diabetic. he passed away in November of 2019 from complications of his weight loss surgery unfortunately. But when he died his diabetes and his CPAP prescription numbers were down to a healthy amount. ironically enough when he died he was the healthiest he'd ever been and he had lost 140 lb in 4 months.
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What are BEST side effects of WLS for you besides the WL?
NovaLuna replied to mamabear_2_2's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
All of this. I'm very proud of how far I've come, relieved that I don't get gawked at when I go out in public now (when I was almost 400 pounds people would stare. I hated that), and being able to fit in something that I buy off the rack without having to actually try it on and it looking GOOD! (that was rare before my weight loss. I'd try on a dozen things and be lucky if I like even one of those dozen things. Now everything fits and my problem is deciding what I want and since I'm still losing to try to not buy too much because I'm likely to go down at least 1 or 2 more sizes. I figure with the way my clothes are fitting right now if I lose another 5 pounds I'll be in a different pants size and another 10 for a different shirt size) -
Thank you! I even curled my hair and put on lipstick for the first time in a year 😂
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What are BEST side effects of WLS for you besides the WL?
mamabear_2_2 posted a topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hello friends! I am about halfway through my weight management program and am looking forward to (fingers crossed!) being approved for RNY in late June. My question for you all: I read these boards daily and I read a lot about the struggles and challenges after surgery (let’s say first six months) - I’m trying to keep a positive mindset about the first few months and was curious if you’d share besides weight loss what have the BEST side effects been for you? What can us newbies look forward to in those first six months outside of weight loss? I know a lot of this is going to be a mental process so appreciate you sharing! ❤️ -
It's usually 2-3 hours post last meal when I feel it. I'm also chronically under-hydrated, but drinking water makes it more pronounced. I'm not particularly extra active, but the day I was ravenous I had done a 30 min super light exercise and stretching routine before lunch. I know other people subsist on 600 calories, but as soon as I went back to work, even though it's desk work, that hunger kicked in. Mental work takes calories? Idk. As far as weight loss it's been down maybe 1 lb in the last week. A friend who had this surgery said she stalled and then got her period and weight loss kicked in again. Maybe I'm retaining water?
