Hi all. Just an update. 16 weeks since surgery and here are my stats. HW 322, pre-surgery w 280, sw 257, cw 214. Feeling great.

Hi everyone
Here's my 10 week update.
HW 322 lbs
Pre surgery diet weight 280
SW 257 lbs
CW 222.9 lbs.
I am .9 lbs away from losing 100 from my highest weight.
Yea.

I've been visiting my...

Great work.

I'm 28 days out and boy howdy the over full feeling is nasty. I tried puréed chicken with a little mashed potatoes and the potatoes were like lead weights. Had foamies for a half hour. Hopefully I...

Good luck.
Word of advice, keep the elastic waist pants until you recover from surgery as they are a blessing when you come home from my he hospital and while your incisions are healing. I threw...

Congrats!:D

Good luck!

Hi. I asked my surgeon about traveling at 5 weeks. He recommended taking a regular aspirin every day for a week prior to flying. This helps for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms. Walking...

Congrats.

:) way to go.

So true.

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:D good work

Only you can make the decisions you need to make for your health. My excess weight/eating caused my liver to behave like I was a heavy drinker. That's why I decided to get the operation. Everything...

I don't have a recliner so I'm trying a bed pillow for reading in bed plus pillows under my knees. Will be happy when I can slept only stomach.

Other than my GI sounding like a grumbling bear it went well. God bless pain meds.

Just got home from hospital. Tired but feeling good ( relatatively speaking).

You are an inspiration!

It's two days before surgery and I'm getting nervous. What did everyone do to calm your nerves.

I use the fitbit and got the premium version to track my meds and supplements.

Have anyone been having strange dreams while they are on the pre-op diet?
Mine is liquids only for 28 days.
At about 18-19 days I was dreaming that I was about to eat a hamburger and as I got it...

Best of luck. :)

I'm from Halifax, Nova Scotia and live in British Columbia, Canada.

I went on a course called "Craving Change". It helps you to identify the types of hunger. Heart hunger, mouth hunger and stomach hunger. Mouth hunger is what I suffer from. Crave the pleasure of...

I had diarrhea when I drank more than one serving of Glucerna a day, seems I have food allergies. Have you been tested?