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I am 6 months post op and I slid off for a bit and then I got angry at food for taking over me and being in control over me. I have to put my recovery over drugs/alcohol/food first or I can't be the wife/mom/friend etc. It's crazy living life on life's terms and doing what's right, but I have to be selfish or I can't be there for others.

The alcohol content of it is very mild so I wouldn't worry about that. The fizziness might irritate your tummy so I would go slow with reintroducing it. You could also try letting it sit out before drinking although I don't know if it goes flat like soda does.

Just on a hunch, there was another person that had this issue, and ended up being allergic to whey protein. This could be why your nutritionist mentioned milk based protein drinks- sensitivity to whey protein is actually a thing. Find some not based on whey- look at ingredients. Do small amounts at a time- most people it takes about 2 hours to drink a single 11oz. premade shake. You also could have issues with artificial sweetners, which all of them have. Look for some with monk fruit, or stevia, or specifically try to avoid sugar alcohols.

I am MagnoliaMiss because I live in the Magnolia state. I took this name after I divorced my abusive alcoholic husband..so the MISS part..I wear with pride.I am a survivor..and I will conquer this weight thingie!!!!

I avoided alcohol for about 6 weeks post surgery, but have drank like I did pre-op ever since. I'm a bit of a drinker (and don't apologize for it), and despite drinking I'm basically at goal. I will say that it took a while to get back to my old tolerance, but once I got past six months or so it wasn't an issue. I'm glad for those who don't drink, but moralizing teetotalers need not try to sway me.

I was allowed wine since six weeks post-op (well, alcohol in general, but for me that's mostly just wine). I don't have any problems drinking it, doesn't make my stomach hurt -- but it DOES make me drunk way faster and I get worse hangovers than I ever got before and from far less alcohol. Good luck!

I took a two-week cruise two months post-op sleeve and it was easy to watch what I ate by focusing on staying hydrated and making good choices of protein before anything else. I don't drink, so alcohol wasn't an issue for me. I think you can do this!

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Hello All my VSG family. Hopeing I can get some advise here. I will be goint to Vegas in July and I will be 13 weeks Post op then. How did you handle eating and alcohol over there.

I did drink alcohol early post WLS. My job actually involves a lot of drinking (entertaining customers). But a coupe of months in I decided to stop drinking nearly entirely. It just wasn't worth the added calories. I might eat 500 calries for the day, but then have another 500 calories in alcohol. It just seemed like a waste. I was working too hard and didn't want to undermine my weight loss. So while I doubt it will do you any physical harm, it will most likely negatively impact your weight loss in the short term.

1 more thing.... I do not believe at all that your first bit of alcohol consumption should be at a college grad party.... Uncontrolled environment with college kids just wanting a kick ass party for their accomplishments.... People no surgery have died at these types of things from alcohol poisoning... If you should vomit or be sick you might just party through it and is their any one really going to safely help you monitor yourself and reactions???

This is going to sound judgmental and condescending, but let me preface it by saying that my husband is the child of alcoholics. His mom is in assisted-living because of one too many drinking episodes, his aunt (who raised him) essentially died from alcohol poisoning. I also encounter the negative affects of drinking alcohol in my job, so yes, I'm very ANTI drinking. You've just made a HUGE decision to improve the quality of your life by having sleeve surgery, and you're thinking about how much it'll take to feel drunk at a graduation party? Did it occur to you that, while drinking, you might not make the same wise food choices that you otherwise would? As in, eat something that you shouldn't and create a sleeve leak? What about the EMPTY calories in alcohol? Did you want the sleeve to limit your food while you continue to drink your calories and kill brain cells? Look, I don't have a problem with social drinking. But drinking to get drunk...yeah, I do. Because it's when you're drunk that you can make a lot of poor decisions and some of those can be life-threatening. So why not go, instead, with the thought of enjoying your weight loss, eat mindfully, and just enjoy the party?

be careful. It takes a few months for your new stomach to heal. You can easily have problems with alcohol. Ulcers for starters. Gastritis. Transfer addictions. The bad empty calories that will stall weight loss. The list goes on. I was in a hurry too to get back to my alcohol. but iam going to wait exactly 6months.

Just putting it out there I'm not some alcoholic that some of you are acting. I'm in college, practically every person drinks and goes to parties, it is just the lifestyle. I know I have a lifestyle of my own and I know what to do and what not to do. All I was asking is if anyone has consumed alcohol early on like that. I actually just spoke to my doctor and he said by that point I should be fine for a shot or two, but just to be careful. Seeeeesh

Amanda, I in no way made it sound like I thought you're an alcoholic. I even prefaced my post with explaining WHY I have such a strong bias against drinking. But no, not practically every person in college drinks. It's NOT a lifestyle and it shouldn't be.

How your body reacts to sugar alcohols is hard to tell. It's not the same in every person. Some people find it makes them crave the real thing more, some people find it satisfies the sweet tooth and no longer want sugar. Some people experience *gastric distress*, some people don't (stick to the portion size, or a little less and you'll likely be fine). Some people claim it makes their body react as if they had regular sugar, more people however show little to no change in blood sugar after having sf candy. Really you're the only one who can answer whether or not it's a good idea for you. I don't know when your surgery was but I would personally suggest waiting at least a few months to let your stomach heal and then... it's up to you.

I agree totally. Once I get the carbs out of my system, I have no desire to eat them. Carbs are the enemy. They are like an alcoholic with a drink. One is never enough. Once you eat them, you crave more.

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So since my great doctor's appointment I've had really good restriction. I'm not hungry very often and when I do eat, if I don't chew well and eat small bites, I get a very painful feeling in my chest. I thought I was going to have to throw up a deli sliced piece of turkey for lunch on Monday. I waited it out and it went down. I lost another 3-4 pounds after the fill, and then after a weekend of eating some lemon bars that I made for my boyfriend (bad idea to have some left over) and drinking three marguaritas Sat night and 1 big alcoholic drink on Sunday, I was up the 3-4 pounds again. :thumbup: I cracked down this week and am now eating like I do when I'm serious about losing and that is coffee, yogurt, cottage cheese and a healthy dinner. Last night I had broiled fish (orange roughy) and broccoli. I've been to the gym every day so far this week and am actually headed there now. I'm down 2 of the 4 I gained back. It's scary that I can gain weight so easily. I know that my weight fluctuates with water and throughout the day so I try not to be too hard on myself, but I can't let myself get off track. I think some of it may be due to only eating liquids right after a fill and then switching to solid foods. I'm staying at 1200 calories a day, so I should continue to go down if my metabolism functions like it should. It's so easy to get addicted to sweets, so I'm outlawing them again for awhile. I really have been having trouble eating a lot of different foods, but I need to just remember to eat slow slow slow. I'm going to church with my bf on Sunday and then we're going to sunday brunch, so I'll need to really be careful about eating slowly. I've been obsessing about how bad my boobs look and I'm getting saggy skin fears. I know I'm happy about the weight I've lost and sometimes I feel that I look really good and then other times I'll catch myself in the mirror and get horrified. I know I need to concentrate on losing and working out and see what happens, but my arms look really bad. They just hang. It's not all skin, there's a lot of fat still in them, but wow they look bad. If the excess skin was gone, they would be pretty small and toned right now. Oh well, I guess you're supposed to wait until you're at goal for year to give your skin time to shrink back, so we'll see. I'm just impatient and want to look good now! Here's a new pic I just took.

I am almost 2 years post-op and I drink a 16oz latte every morning. At first after the surgery I couldn't handle coffee at all. But eventually I started easing myself back into my morning coffee habit, the only modification is I make a latte with skim milk which I heat in the microwave. The milk buffers the acidic coffee and is yummy and comforting. I like to use a sugar-free syrup to flavor it too. Everyone is different in what they can tolerate post-op and that can evolve quite a bit as you go forward. As for sodas and carbonated drinks I can't drink them. It's like my sleeve just rejects it. However I can drink a beer, no problem. I guess the alcohol in the beer relaxes my tummy, along with the rest of me (LOL) but it is quite filling.

My oldest stepson moved with us from Mississauga to Fenelon Falls (2 hours n/e of Toronto, small village in the country). He wanted to finish his last 3 years of highschool in a small town environment. He had a learning disability and while in the big city his Mom had him enrolled in special ed....he hated it. We were confident enough that he would survive quite well taking regular courses and went to bat for him to be enrolled in those courses here. 2 years later he met a girl that was one grade ahead of him. Up until that point he was coping very well with the regular courses and getting above average grades. Then....once he started to hang out with the g-friend that all changed. She graduated one year before him and decided that she was going back to the big city to live with her Mom. Ben decided that he was going to follow her and not finish high school....they were going to get an apt, he was getting a job, etc, etc. It didn't matter what his Dad and I said to him, he just wouldn't listen. He became very disrespectful and it got to the point that he disrupted our entire household...I didn't really want him around any longer....he took away what ever harmony and order we had in our family, he was horrible to his Dad which I would not accept at all....and his attitude towards me changed dramatically. His Dad and I decided that he had no sense of reality and that maybe he needed to hit rock bottom to realize that it isn't all that easy out there in the real world. So...off he went to the big city, followed the girlfriend.....it lasted 2 months....he hated that she had other friends and some of her time was spent with them, he hated that she worked full time to help pay the bills while he worked 2 days a week and sat on the computer for the other 5.....blah blah blah. He ended up in a rooming house for men that he hated even more.......roaches, loud music, alcoholics.....and more....he begged to come home! At first we said no....we didn't want to make it that easy for him....then he would get the sense that anytime he was in a bind we would quickly bail him out. We told him to go get a better job.....the more money, the better the place he would be able to rent. He hated us for a while.....but now....5 years later he has a full time job as a security guard, has taken part time courses to get his HS diploma, and is now enrolled part time in Culinary School to get his Chef Training Certificate like his Dad. He knows the meaning of responsibility and reality now. Carol

where to start - well about 70 pounds down I had to have my gallbladder out - guess thats a trial - 4 month plateau has been "fun" NOT - the food battle continues - 1 thing I've noticed is I'm a stress eater, so I'm trying to find other ways to deal without eating - not having soda for a year not as hard as I thought ( I totally don't miss it at all ) caffiene is another matter - went about 6 months and then . . . I discovered green tea lattes at starbucks - not as much caffiene as coffee - but then I started back on that too - a year in - starting to realize what an emotional attatchment I have to food and how much being the "big guy" is part of me and my personality and coping with that - still wouldn't change any of it, I'm definately so much healthier now, so much more energy - a new lease on life if you will - I can swim farther, bike farther, with less effort than ever before - it is a change in lifestyle, a lifelong journey with weight loss - I equate it to being an alcoholic - addictive personality - at least for me - food will be the thing I have to be ever aware of and vigilant about because it's too easy to slip back to where I was - the band is only a tool, I still have to make the right food choices and follow the rules or it won't work. Kudos to all who have started this journey, it's not an easy decision, and it's not a "quick-fix" as some would think - it's hard work and determination but very worth it.

I honestly wouldn't even do 1 a night, GOOD LORD, they're like 300-500 calories each on a cruise ship -- which is like half your daily calorie intake, I dare say! Of course you're an adult, who can make your own decisions, and usually I'm one of those people who's very flexible on taking little breaks (I love a square of chocolate in the evening) but....these are just a terrible idea. They're everything we're not supposed to do: high sugar/carb, no nutritional value AT ALL, liquid calories.... seriously, you're better off just drinking actual alcohol.