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At 4 years out the only thing that still bothers me is plain black coffee. Pre surgery I always drank it that way. Post surgery it has to have even just a touch of cream in it or it makes my stomach ache. I know, don't drink it right? I am addicted to coffee. I willingly and for the most part easily gave up everything else…

That is the one suppliment that was increased after my sleeve. I have to take 4 a day, but because my multi vitamin has iron and iron binds the calcium and won't let the body absorb it, I have to wait at least 2 hours before taking the calcium and then take them about an hour apart as the body won't absorb that much…

I am aware that there are different views on this subject and it does depend on if your surgeon removed all the stretchy part or left a little. So what I'm saying here may or may not apply to every sleeve patient. This was my biggest fear and finally my doctor sat me down about a year out and told me he removed all the…

I am 4 years out and have been told twice now that I put myself in starvation mode because I was eating too few calories. I really didn't believe this was real until my nutritionist told me. She upped my calories this last time to 1,200 per day. Like you mentally I'm thinking if I can't lose at 800 how is adding 400 to it…

I didn't get that much, but those that did ask were told the truth. The surgery is about losing it, but also about keeping it off. The tool of the surgery is made to be used for the rest of our lives to maintain the loss. Yeah, I can lose it with the non-surgical weight loss program, what I can't do is keep it off once I…

Awesome results! You have done fantastic! You look amazing! Congratulations!

I couldn't see these on the PC at work, forgot my IPad now let's me into the boards, so seeing these for the first time. All I can say is WOW! I wouldn't know it was the same guy! You have done so well!

I'm 4 years out and find I do much better if I plan food for the day at the beginning of the day. For work I take breakfast, lunch and at least one snack. Dinner the husband cooks, but there's always enough calories left to cover that. Weekends re tougher and then I tend to under eat if I don't watch it. Maybe planing…

Kimberleei1, I went to Alaska at 3 months out. The good thing was we stayed with our son and his family so they stocked the yogurt and things like that I could eat. But we did eat out a lot. I tended to stay with a cup of chili or a small hamburger with no bun as they were the perfect size for my 3 month new tummy. If I…

Dale, a lot of this sounds just like my 4 year check up, the advice I was given by the nutritionist too. I'm not ready for maintenance, my body might be since it's still refusing to give up any weight, but I've found experimenting and regaining is just way too easy. Sounds like you have a good plan and I'm walking right…

I'm 4 years out and have been flucuating between 225 and 230 since the first of the year. Lowest weight was September at 222, and that was the last weight loss as well. At my 4 year check up last month I told the nutritionist that I wasn't ready to be done yet and she modified my calories and carbs and told me to touch…

Absolutely!!!

4 years out here and still working towards goal. My nut recently upped my calories to 1200 and lowered my carbs to get the weight loss started again, so I have the same issues you do. I did add back in protein shakes, but I'm pickey about the brand and flavors. Can't do just any of them. I also like to snack on cold steak,…

I too was off two weeks. No kids at my house, so that wasn't an issue. At the hospital, once they took out the IV pain meds (which I really didn't need after the day of surgery and just made me want to sleep) I really only needed my jammie pants (cause you know your behind hangs out of those wonderful gowns) and my…

I agree about the shoes too. My podiatrist sent me to Gazelle Sports and told me to get a walking, not running shoe, because the walking shoe is wider through the middle, giving more stability and doesn't allow me to pronate (ankles rolling to the inside). Don't know if they have Gazelle Sports where you live, but if not…

This is what my bartiatric team had us doing in the beginning. At about 6 months out, I was told 3 meals a day. I have never been able to get all my calories in in just 3 meals a day unless I'm eating the kinds of foods I ate presurgery. So most days I had some kind of a snack at least once a day. Now that I've been rasied…

Update. My sister weighs in at 300+. Her BMI is way above what every surgeon I've talked to says is acceptable. The fact that we are not removing empty or even near empty skin, but a very thick layer of fat along with the skin, makes the risk for this sugery so high no one will touch it. As I said originally, her…

Update. My sister weighs in at 300+. Her BMI is way above what every surgeon I've talked to says is acceptable. The fact that we are not removing empty or even near empty skin, but a very thick layer of fat along with the skin, makes the risk for this sugery so high no one will touch it. As I said originally, her…

Giving up my seat belt extender in my car and no longer needing one in any car Shopping where I want to instead of just Lane Bryant, the local large lady store and catalogs Being able to purchase clothing when we go on vacation, like a t-shirt from the Grand Canyon Being able to do things like hike the rim of the canyon -…

Once I could eat salad again, it made lunch so much easier. A handful of bagged salad with a portion of some form of protein on top (meat/tuna and cheese). Today is homemade chicken salad over that bagged lettuce salad. Because it's chicken salad, no dressing necessary. If I am adding deli meat or plain shredded chicken or…

I am 4 years out from gastric sleeve and still weigh most foods when at home. It just helps me stay within a "normal" portion easier.

That's awesome! You look great and your progress is fantastic! Isn't it wonderful to be able to shop places you couldn't before?

I am so in awe of you right now! What courage, insight and giving you have to share this with all of us. Welcome back! Prayers for emotional healing my friend.

This! I found if I preface the box request with a compliment on the food and "it's just way too much for me!" I never get asked if my meal was OK. We go to the same place for breakfast after church on Sundays and I love that the staff know me so well now they never give me more than 1/2 cup of coffee and always bring a box…

I only bought after I had gone down 2-3 sizes and then did Goodwill and resale as much as possible. Even then I bought a size smaller than I really wore. It was tight at first, but I could wear it longer that way. After the weight loss slowed down, I still tend towards Goodwill and resale shops, but now can also shop at…

Thanks Thaeda! I so appreciate your continued support and encouragement! I am a prime example that not everyone gets to goal within the first year or even two. That some of us lose slower and stall often. And that's OK. But I also want to be a prime example of getting there eventually!

Yes! At four weeks out I was doing three snacks and three meals, but they were so much the same size that I found it easier to treat them as 6 meals.

I am getting up at 5:30 Monday-Friday, but that's normal for me. What I have noticed is that I am exhausted after the gym on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Going to the gym is really new, I've only been doing it for 2 weeks now so I don't know if this is normal. But I yawn all the way home and really just want to lay down…

That's a really good way of looking at it! Thanks for that perspective. Yeah, I'm sad for her too. She was so excited at the thought of WLS. He just doesn't want her to do it because he thinks she won't feed him the same way she does now and he doesn't want to make any changes in his lifestyle. Unfortunately she allows…

Dale, if you can't find a representative, I have purchased off Amazon when my hairdresser was out of town and I was desperate. Beauty Control also has a firming eye serum I really like. Makes me look a lot less tired as it's used at the brow and seems to pull the lid up a little.