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Just got my surgery date! Please share any words of wisdom you can about surgery day and your recovery. My surgery is on a Monday. Expected hospital stay is 1 night. Any advice on how many days I will need round the clock care? And for those who have done the Robar diet ahead of surgery please share your fav foods and the worse one. TIA!

Dover also. Surgery just got scheduled for 10/29!

I had 2 sets of dumbells, a 10lb set and a 20lb adjustable set. I needed 10 lbs per arm for some things (like arms strait out to the sides, or strait out in front) but the 20lbs per arm for things like pushing strait up over my head, or holding and stepping up on a step. I have hurt myself a few years ago and am afraid to use my left arm with heavy weights. Need a refferal to a physical therapist to see what is safe and best given my arm's new anatomy (clavicle is disconnected, as in in two non touching peices)

Yes ... almost exactly my (male) experience. * Down to just one medication now ... apixaban/Eloquis ... and that won't change any time soon * My knees and ankles appreciate that I've shed more than a third of my mass/weight in 52 weeks * Yep ... the bath-sheet is too big now when it would not quite go around me 15 months ago. A regular-sized towel is enough to dry me adequately after a bath or shower or time in the pool. * Aeroplane and bus seats have room left-over * My driving position in the car is not cramped by my obesity like 12-25 months ago. My seat belt is NOT all the way extended as in the past. * My shirts/tops are down from Australian 8XL/9XL (USA 5XL) to 2XL/XL (USA XL). Ditto underpants ... from 7XL to 2XL now. * My slacks/trousers are down from 177cm/172cm [about 70 inches] waist to 122cm/117cm range [about 45 inches] I gave away 19 shopping bags of "super big" clothes and 22 pairs of slacks/trousers to the charity shop in the last few months. Once the plastic surgeon removes my excess skin before xmas 2019, I expect to shed another two to three pants sizes. I also noticed that my feet lose weight/width proportionately with my upper body. I no longer need 4E shoe widths. I can get by with E or 2E in leather shoes and regular joggers/trainers/tennis-shoes.

I find that the crockpot (a.k.a. bench-top slow-cooker) is great. I can toss in a range of medium to high fibre vegetables and a few 40 gram home-shaped meat-balls and cook them overnight and divide them into small and medium meal-lots. Some are casserole consistency while others tend to be more like soups. I can usually aim to have 10-15 serves done overnight about once every two weeks.

It has been a long time since I posted anything as there were not too many in their 60s or above. I had a lap band prior to me turning 70 (69). At 73 discovered it had slipped, new doctor removed it and 10 weeks later had gastric bypass. (Other dr's office never checked the band except day of surgery). Gastric didn't cure too much, as prediposed through heredity per the surgeon, but with that said it has helped and have maintained my weight loss below a 30 BMI. Would I do it again, you bet. Had a heart cath that prompted the lap band an another last month my heart is doing well. No change. That is a positive as have outlived Dr's predictions hadn't I not done either I probably not be posting today. So anyone considering this do it. You will have a new life. Thus my name here.

I can understand that. Mentally and job-wise, I feel like the same person I was a year ago ... competent, capable, busy, etc ... BUT NOW NO UNDERLYING WAY FOR CLIENTS AND COLLEAGUES to assume I am a lesser person BECAUSE I am now much closer to "normal" size. It should NOT happen but people do treat me better now than a year or two years ago. As I shrink month by month, I am very aware of just how much verbal and visual discrimination there is targeted at FAT/OBESE people ... much of it by people who are themselves increasingly oversized or overweight compared to a generation (or two) ago. Physically, of course, I feel like a legend ... I can breathe really well. I am quite fit as, between two to three hours per day (seven days per week) of swimming and three 90 minutes (or longer) gym sessions per week, I am stronger, better balanced and quite muscly. Many of my bones now appear "at the surface" of my skin. I have some quite hard upper body muscles and a very hard, strong chest. I am off all but one medication and will be looking to steadily stabilise my mass/weight between 84 and 89 kilograms (185-195 pounds). The surgeon says he will put together a plastic surgery team in 10-12 months to remove my loose abdominal skin and some remaining stubborn "hard" fat.

I hit two-fer-ville (299) on 10/1. I am currently in a stall at 297 but so happy with my progress. I am seven pounds away from my first goal of 100 pound loss from my highest weight. I hope I can make it to onederland and will join you in a Happy Happy dance! At least now we can say we are closer to that goal. Taking one day at a time. Best wishes to you too!

EGD will on for Friday, if I had cancelled.I would be SO out of luck. They are now booking elective procedures into Thanksgiving, and it's possible not until January 2019. Do I want another 2-3 months of bland.runny tasteless flop and slip? Don't think So! People ask does THIS scare me? Nope this will be my 3rd since June 2015, I'm in the USA where I get to go Sleepy'-'Bye, at least that's better than some places in Europe where they sit you upright in a dental chair,spray some numbing solution in your mouth and do it while you are fully conscious. Now THAT would be scary!

I was sleeved on 10/1 and physically I feel fine as far as pain but I just don’t feel right. Nauseous and starving to death and lightheaded. I have been such a with because all I want is food. I am going crazy on liquids but I feel like I want to puke when I drink but yet I feel like I could eat a whole pizza at the same time. So many emotions and questioning my choice to do this. And yes I totally have chewed food and spit it out!!! Ugh this is so hard

Update: after nearly exhausting all ideas, I called my late husband's 1st girlfriend. Well she really was,but there is more to the story. Kay and I had been friends long before I found out they used to date. I was getting pretty sad, all the people who I had numbers on, seem to have them changed or disconected. I think many are discontinued their. landlines and going with cell alone. So I called Kay to ask if she could think of anyone, and she said "Why not me?" Gosh I wasn't go8ng to ask because I thought she'd be busy. Funny she had been thinking about me, before I called So yes,i am going. Asked on Tuesday, and they said if I missed Friday, they were booking out until after Thanksgiving, and into January 2019. No thank you very much! Up to 3 more months of a bland liquid diet, I am not sure I can handle that. So think good thoughts on Friday and hopefully there w8ll be answers.

I ahd my surgery on 10/4... does anyone else chew food and spit it out, just to get some taste and chewing going on??? GAWWWDDDD this is so hard! I want to punch anyone who says this is the easy way out right in their judgmental noses!! My poor kids are feeling the wrath of my hanger... I have never salivated over the thought of scrambled eggs before. The pureed food stage sounds like a dream come true at this point. Anyone else in the same boat as me?

Wait until 1 month, or maybe even 6 weeks, after surgery. Every day someone new makes a post freaking out about a "stall" in their first month, and "oh no the surgery isn't working," but it's just their body reconfiguring and getting used to its new normal. It happens to everyone. I don't know about you, but I have an appointment ~10 days after surgery and another ~1 month after surgery, and those seem like fine times to get official weights recorded. (I do own a scale now. I had it before surgery. But if I didn't have one, I wouldn't buy one now.)

Aspirin and ibuprofen (and naproxen and basically every pain medicine except Tylenol/acetaminophen) are super dangerous within a week of surgery, both because it interacts with blood thinners and because it impacts your stomach lining. My team wanted me off them for 10 days before, but 1 week is the minimum. If your surgery is on the 17th, you can't have any more of them. If you do, you need to delay the surgery. My team did allow Tylenol the week of surgery, so if you have pain, try that. The cheats and the alcohol have to stop, too, immediately. More than a week before, eh, we're human. But within a week of surgery, no, you have to follow your team's rules. You've got one week to make your liver as small as possible. A large, slippery liver makes the surgery more risky, because it gets in the surgeon's way. It's a week. (And then another week or more after surgery.) You can do it!

Has anyone here been diagnosed with pseudotumor? I was diagnosed with this in July of 2017, and my neuroopthamologist said it would go away if I lost just 10% of my body weight. Well, I lost way more than that. That year, I lost 60lbs and NOTHING changed with respect to my optic nerve swelling and diagnosis (I have since gained all that weight back). After you had the surgery, did the pseudotumor and optic nerve swelling resolve itself? That is one (of many) of the primary reasons I am opting for surgery.

There are cases were it's just a mistake... but there are some folks that go to the depths of this site and necro a post from over 10+ years ago... that, is absurd.

I had my surgery on 10/8 (it was bypass but that post is so quiet... [emoji852]). Hoping to get discharged this morning. I have had no urges to consume anything but I'm making myself drink some warm decaffeinated tea right now. I just cant wait to be in my own bed! Sent from my SM-G960U using BariatricPal mobile app

Lol a diff article first. News > Medscape Medical News > Conference News > EASD 2018 Cutting Carbs in Morning Equals Better Weight Loss, Waist Size Becky McCall October 09, 2018 0 BERLIN — Restricting carbohydrate in the morning, in addition to a low-calorie Mediterranean diet, led to improved weight and fat loss, lower body mass index (BMI), and a reduced waist circumference compared with the Mediterranean diet alone, shows a novel but small study from Greece. Both diets had the same effect on glycemic outcomes in obese and overweight patients, a third of whom also had type 2 diabetes, but the so-called "morning carbohydrate restriction diet" produced slightly worse outcomes with regard to lipids compared with the Mediterranean diet alone. Dimitrios Tsilingiris, MD, from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, presented the findings here at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2018 Annual Meeting "The morning carbohydrate-restricted diet might offer certain benefits by favoring compliance...and the rapid weight lowering seen with this diet might be used in the induction of longer-term diets, or be an add-on feature in weight maintenance, even though it wasn't tested for this," he remarked. It is known that carbohydrate-restricted diets achieve rapid weight and fat loss, as well as improve cardiovascular risk factors and hepatic stenosis in the short term. "As such, they might be helpful in the management of obesity-related type 2 diabetes. However, these diets often have limited versatility and the availability of low-carbohydrate food can impair compliance. There have also been reports of long-term safety concerns with nutritional deficiencies and mortality," explained Tsilingiris. He described the rationale underpinning the novel diet, which restricts the amount of carbohydrate consumed before lunchtime. "Normally, overnight we fast and in the morning, with breakfast, our insulin rises and then drops again towards lunchtime. As insulin drops, the fat stores tend to mobilize and act as energy substrates," he explained. "Theoretically, inducing a lower insulin response after a low carbohydrate breakfast should mean we can prolong the low [overnight] insulin and fat mobilization state, resulting in a net effect on weight and fat loss." Session moderator John Nolan, MD, from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, pointed out to Medscape Medical News that there is a good biological basis for this experimental diet. "The approach to carbohydrate restriction around breakfast time is supported by the physiological argument that you would have less insulin and that might be the basis for the weight effects. Most people need more insulin at breakfast, so this is a distortion, but maybe it's a good one." "It's a very practical diet, and if [these findings] can be reproduced, then there could be lots of clinical implications. It's exciting, and it's something to watch," he added. Mean Calorie Intake for Both Diets Was 1300-1500 Kcal The study aimed to compare the effect of an 8-week "morning carbohydrate-restricted diet" to a standard hypocaloric Mediterranean-type diet (control) on changes in body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and body fat mass (somatometric parameters). Changes to glycemic markers (fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c) and insulin sensitivity (homeostatic model assessment — insulin resistance; HOMA-IR), as well as lipid profile, were also monitored. In total, 70 patients (58.6% women) who were overweight or obese, around a third of whom also had diabetes, drawn from obesity and diabetes outpatient clinics in Athens were enrolled in the study. Participants were a mean age of 50 years and had a mean BMI of 34 kg/m2. Twenty-four had type 2 diabetes and had been on stable treatment for at least 3 months. After being allocated a daily caloric intake, each participant was randomized to one of the two diets: For the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet, participants consumed between 300-500 kcal of very low carbohydrate foods (for example, eggs, hard cheese, ham, sausage) divided between breakfast and midmorning snack. The Mediterranean diet (control) comprised 300 kcal of typical Mediterranean foods divided between breakfast and midmorning snack. The two diets were identical for the rest of the day and comprised typical Mediterranean foods; remaining calorie intake was divided into lunch (45-55%), snack (10-20%), and dinner (30-40%). Participants were asked to keep a stable level of activity throughout the follow-up period. Mean calorie intake was between 1300 and 1500 kcal/day for both diets. "From baseline to 8 weeks, both groups showed clinically meaningful improvements in somatometric parameters with statistical significance in both groups," reported Tsilingiris. However, there were also differences. "By study end, there was a mean 3.5 kg (7.7lb) greater weight loss for those on the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet versus the Mediterranean diet [P < .001]; and a difference of -1.05 kg/m2 [P < .001]; -3.21 cm2 [P < .001]; and -1.45 kg [P = .032] for BMI, waist circumference, and fat mass loss [respectively], all in favor of the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet," added Tsilingiris. And more patients in the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet group lost 5-10% of total body weight than in the Mediterranean diet group, both by end of week 4 and 8 (at week 8: 77.1% vs 31.4%; P < .001). Everyone in the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet group achieved loss of baseline body weight of ≥ 5%by study end compared with 65.7% in the control group (P < .001). Does Lack of Effect on Lipids Negate the Findings? With respect to the other measures, including HbA1c, the results showed no significant differences between the two groups. Finally, regarding the plasma lipid profile, high-density lipoprotein (good) cholesterol declined in both groups, from 1.28 to 1.21 mmol/L in the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet group and from 1.4 to 1.33 mmol/L in the Mediterranean diet group. But triglycerides fell a little, and to a greater degree, among those on the traditional Mediterranean diet, from 1.51 to 1.19 mmol/L, than among those on the morning carbohydrate-restricted diet, from 1.33 to 1.16 mmol/L. Following the talk, an audience member commented on the lack of any meaningful effect on lipids: "There is a modest beneficial effect on weight with the morning carbohydrate restriction, but the lipid results were less encouraging. So if we look overall, I'm unsure it is worth having a small effect in weight reduction versus a less beneficial effect on lipids." Tsilingiris and Nolan have reported no relevant financial relationships. European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2018 Annual Meeting; October 4, 2018; Berlin, Germany. Abstract 193. For more diabetes and endocrinology news, follow us on Twitter and on Facebook. 0 Read Comments Medscape Medical News © 2018 WebMD, LLC Send comments and news tips to news@medscape.net. Cite this article: Cutting Carbs in Morning Equals Better Weight Loss, Waist Size - Medscape - Oct 09, 2018.

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I advise not buying things before hand, but in the case where you are on your own, only buy things that are very bland/mild and don't over do it, your intake is going to be greatly reduced, you can plan out meals in advance based on what you are supposed to consume size wise, post op for me, I could eat chili, 1 can equaled out to like 9 or 10 servings. The other side is, with the limited amount you'll be consuming, things get old quick. That 1 can of chili didn't even get finished because I was so done with chili after 6 meals of it....

I'm 6 weeks out. I'm having no issues getting water in, but eating is a whole other story. I'm really struggling. I'm lucky if I eat one small Okios 15g protein yogurt a day. I have tried new foods, but 95% of things tend to cause pain in my stomach area, and then about 10 minutes later, I'm vomiting. I'm almost scared to even eat anymore. Does anyone have suggestions for me? Do you all use Genepro or Isopure? Yogurt and Potatoes are really the only thing my stomach likes. I'm getting scared because I know my body is not getting enough nutrients.

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Let's take a look at these: #1: most patients will lose 10-15 lb on any substantially low calorie diet, whether solid or liquid. #2: liquid or solid is irrelevant to protein content, though lean meat and green veg will have better nutrition than most any protein drink. #3: liquid or solid diet is irrelevant to change in liver condition - it's the carbohydrates, or lack thereof, that counts. #4: how does one gain a /mental awareness of calories, portion sizes and ingredients when restricted to liquids? #5: so this is just a test or challenge for the patient? #6: it only takes a few hours for the stomach to be empty for surgery, not weeks. This is why most gastric scopes or surgeries simply require no eating after midnight prior to surgery. #7: unless one has to buy a proprietary diet product from the surgeon! Overall, I prefer bariatric surgeons who know their way around obese patients and who prefer their patients to be as strong and healthy as possible going into surgery - which multi week fasts don't do. If a surgeon is intimidated by fatty livers and needs help in working around them, then by all means do everything necessary to make him feel comfortable when he is rootin' around on your insides, but he should also do everything to help the patient feel comfortable with the process - at least let them have some steak along the way!

I'm scheduled for my sleeve surgery on 10/29. I live alone so I will be taking care of myself on my own. I was wondering what you all would suggest that I have around me while I recover. I already have all my meds so I'm good there. Are there products that you used that really helped you or maybe soft foods that you had available. Right now I'm feeling a bit unprepared and could really use some advise. Thanks in advance.

You look stunning!! How were you able to treat hairloss?? HW 230 SW 218 (10/4/2018) GW 130