September 2017 Gastric Sleeve Surgery!

[Callisto 79]

3 hours ago, leahkatehanks said:

My weight was down 4 pounds yesterday, but back up 3 pounds this morning. I cried. I saw a Red Lobster commercial for endless shrimp last night. I cried. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

I totally feel you. I am a daily weight checker type of person and I was down and then up and down again - it is nerve wracking, we are going to drive ourselves nuts. I am obsessively looking up pureed food. I think when I go back to work it will help me get my mind off my food crush. Breaking up is hard to do, right?

[Callisto 79]

I still have not lost since coming home from the hospital.

[Booandfrida 37]

19 hours ago, Callisto said:

I still have not lost since coming home from the hospital.

Are you eating enough? How about walking? Do you still feel bloated from gas?

[Callisto 79]

10 hours ago, Booandfrida said:

Are you eating enough? How about walking? Do you still feel bloated from gas?

I feel like I must be eating enough because I feel satisfied. Although, what is satisfied after surgery, right? For sure I am having two Meal Replacements a day and two Snacks as well as one "meal" now. A meal would be what I puree and is on my list of acceptable foods. I feel less bloated. I have not been exercising much because my back still hurts a lot. My back hurts on a regular basis anyway because of back problems but any time I have had abdominal surgery it hurts more because I compensate abdominal muscles using my back muscles. I walk around a lot, though.

Maybe I am eating too much. I am going to keep going doing what I am doing for at least the next week and then reevaluate, probably putting exercise back in.

Weird, huh.

[leahkatehanks 17]

I am so afraid I'm going to fail. I am down 12 pounds since surgery day, 35 overall. But I constantly craving the bad foods. pizza, cheese, sweets, you name it. I move to stage 2 foods today and I'm hoping that just having something more substantial to eat will help. But I'm terrified that once I can eat other foods I won't be able to stop myself.

Edited October 2, 2017 by leahkatehanks

[ZinNH 173]

On 10/2/2017 at 11:40 AM, leahkatehanks said:

I am so afraid I'm going to fail. I am down 12 pounds since surgery day, 35 overall. But I constantly craving the bad foods. pizza, cheese, sweets, you name it. I move to stage 2 foods today and I'm hoping that just having something more substantial to eat will help. But I'm terrified that once I can eat other foods I won't be able to stop myself.

Do you have the option of seeing a therapist? Talking to a professional really helped me start to get over my food addiction. Then I read a book called Never Binge Again, and that made all sorts of light bulbs go off for me.

I think we all worry that we are going to fail, so now is the time for us to fix our mindsets, so our sleeves can help us more!

[leahkatehanks 17]

I'm feeling better lately, thanks. I'm down 35 pounds total and am in sort of a stall, but I'm hoping that's ending soon. What are you guys eating during the pureed stage? I go to the next stage on Tuesday, but I'm getting a little bored with cottage cheese, yogurt and cream Soups. My nut says no meats in the pureed stage. Anyone having any luck with pureed veggies though? I did try some mashed cauliflower that was great.

[Pastor Doug 9]

My stage 2 plan includes canned meats such as tuna, chicken or ham. Can mix with a small amount of low fat mayo.

[leahkatehanks 17]

2 hours ago, Pastor Doug said:

My stage 2 plan includes canned meats such as tuna, chicken or ham. Can mix with a small amount of low fat mayo.< br />

That's stage 3 for me. Soon!

[Callisto 79]

Stage three for me is tuna also but I have had some without an issue. I have been eating an egg that's really finely chopped up with the yolk. Scrambled eggs were a no go. Mostly I am eating my shakes and I will eat some baby food but I don't like the bland taste unless I am really hungry. It has to be something low in sugar and that's hard to find in baby food.

[Ninakrns76 0]

On 10/10/2017 at 10:57 AM, leahkatehanks said:

I'm feeling better lately, thanks. I'm down 35 pounds total and am in sort of a stall, but I'm hoping that's ending soon. What are you guys eating during the pureed stage? I go to the next stage on Tuesday, but I'm getting a little bored with cottage cheese, yogurt and cream Soups. My nut says no meats in the pureed stage. Anyone having any luck with pureed veggies though? I did try some mashed cauliflower that was great.

Really my dietician recommendation puréed meat like tuna or puréed turkey meat on the 7th day after surgery and then 3 days later told me to go to chopped I haven’t lost a pound since I’m hopeful that will change soon I’m getting so disappointed in myself

[leahkatehanks 17]

Don't be too discouraged. I ended up not losing one pound on pureed. I switched to stage 3 (soft proteins) on Friday, and I've lost a pound a day ever since!

[Macy Gray 50]

hi september sleevers how you all doing?

Edited June 19, 2018 by Macy Gray