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I got my gastric bypass surgery on February 16, 2016. I had been preparing seriously for this surgery for about a year, researching, documenting, and questioning everything from the good, the bad to the ugly, the physical, the emotional and the psychological.

As ready as I was, I was not ready for this. I understood intellectually about the lack of appetite, but I had no idea what it meant in real life. I had never not been hungry. I was not ready for the lack of energy. I was not ready for the distaste of some foods that I truly like (the first two weeks pretty much everything – and I loved Protein shakes/smoothies before). Most of all, I was not ready to give up my vegan lifestyle, stepping on my beliefs and go vegetarian for my health for now (proteins), I was sure I could get through this as a vegan.

I knew it was going to hard, maddening at times and a struggle. But it’s nothing like I imagine, I’m not struggling where I thought I would.

Even though I feel defeated at times, my weight loss is not what I was expecting (yes the week 3 stall), I keep a positive outlook on things. The little things what were horrifying at first are getting better or are gone, so I know things will get better, but I do have to work at it and push myself.

But I’m only 3 weeks post-op J

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Jools64 give yourself time. I'm still a relative newbie myself at 8 weeks and the energy does come back.

I'm still on the learning curve with food and slowly learning what I can and can't eat. So I agree it is a major change; I would have never imagined that I would be the person that would have to remind herself to eat.

I had the 3 week stall, I also put on about 4 pounds during that time (I was ready to throw my scale out the window), but it's now it steadily coming off. You may want to try increasing your Water intake, if you can. As a lack of liquid may contribute to stalls, but regardless I'm sure those pounds will start dropping again!

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