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    Re: What's On Your Menu Today?

    B - oatmeal .5 c with 2 top brown sugar and 7 walnuts
    L-3 oz chicken breast and 2T cauliflower
    S- protein shake
    D-3 oz flank steak 2T mixed veggies
    S - protein bar

    80 oz water
    58g protein
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    Re: Protein powder for Coffee?

    I have read that most will clump due to temp. If you let the coffee cool to 140 then mix it in that should work. Not sure if you heat it back up it might clump up.
    I like the powdered milk idea to...
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    Re: What's On Your Menu Today?

    I have been struggling the last couple of weeks with making good food choices, so I'm going to start posting my meals here to help me be accountable.

    I usually eat more regular foods but today...
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    Re: Artificial Sweetener Issues

    I do not tolerate most artificial sweeteners. I can handle Splenda (sucralose) but try to avoid it also as much as possible. I buy Stevia sweetened products. It takes a lot of research to find...
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    Re: December 2013 Sleevers Check-in!

    I was sleeved 12/10/2014. I am down 37 lbs since I started the pre-op diet and 23 lbs since surgery. At 6 weeks out I'm finally starting to not be tired all the time. I've been doing water...
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    Re: Stressing about eating

    Does your gym have classes? I know I enjoy it more as well as workout a lot harder when I take a class. If you're worried that you won't know how to do the stuff in the class, don't be, most...
  7. Thread: Dear Coffee

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    Dear Coffee

    Oh how I have missed you.

    I am 5 weeks out today and after lunch I got a small decaf skinny latte.

    Oh how I have missed you.

    Though I have decided I'm not going back to the addiction. No...
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    Re: Discouraged.....

    I have found that putting a few slices of sliced fruit into my water changes it's texture/viscosity and makes it easier to drink.

    I also had severe acid reflux the first week and that was with...
  9. Thread: Questions

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    Re: Questions

    Vitamins - Your body has stores of many of the vitamins and your body will use them if you do not consume enough of a vitamin in a particular day. Eventually those stores will be gone tho. This...
  10. Thread: I'm so hungry!

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    Re: I'm so hungry!

    Acid reflux and thirst can both present as thirst. Are you taking any acid mess such as prilosec or pepcid, if not talk to your surgeon? Fat cells use water to get the fat out to use so you may need...
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    Re: 1 week post op today!

    Thirst often presents first as hunger. I'm 3.5 weeks out and never feel hunger unless I haven't been drinking enough.
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    Re: How does the fat leave ?

    HowStuffWorks "How Fat Cells Work"

    Pretty good explaination.
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    Re: Question my fellow sleevers! RE belly button

    If you want to try and get insurance to pay for skin removal then document the infection with picture or by going to dr.
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    Re: 13 days post op and only down 9 lbs :(

    Same here sleeved Dec 10th and down 8 lbs since surgery and 22 lbs since starting pre-op diet. I have not seen this number on the scale in 10+ years.
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    Re: Supplements/Vitamins

    I use Opurity multi-vitamins, it's from the same company that has Unjury protein. They also have calcium, B-12 and Vit D tho I did not get the calcium or B-12 from them. B-12 I bought at Whole...
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    Re: How do you get 64 oz of water down?

    Always, Always, Always have a glass of liquid next to you to sip on.

    All liquids count. Broth, protein drinks, popsicles. Also plain water can be difficult, so adding crystal lite, mio, etc can...
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    Re: lapband revision to gastric sleeve

    I was also a band to sleeve conversion, tho my surgeon does it in 2 surgeries. First remove the band, heal for 90 days and then do the sleeve surgery. According to my surgeon, depending on the...
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    Re: Acid Reflux/GERD

    My surgeon considered switching me to nexium, but decided a med to coat and protect my stomach and esophagus was better choice for now.

    Recommendations... talk to your surgeon, but prilosec twicea...
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    Re: Acid Reflux/GERD

    Yep, the 2nd med is sucralfate and I'm supposed to take it 3 times a day (every 8 hours), and the prilosec every 12 hours.
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    Acid Reflux/GERD

    I've had GERD for 20+ years. Pre-sleeve I took Prilosec once a day and have been taking it twice a day since surgery. Since my sleeve surgery it has been worse, even waking me up at night. I had...
  21. Re: is this much pain normal after having the gastric sleeve?

    Could you be taking too big of drinks? I know my stomach hurts and I burp more if I take too big of a drink.
  22. Thread: two week diet

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    Re: two week diet

    It might me sugar withdrawal. I had horrible sugar withdrawal the first few days of my pre-op diet.
  23. Thread: Amp up activity

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    Re: Amp up activity

    I would go for the yoga. It strengthens all your muscles including core. It also improves balance and stretches muscles and has the emotional component of releasing stress and relaxation.
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    Re: 3 weeks post op gastric sleeve surgery

    I use the Jay Robb unflavored and mix it into things to up the protein. If it is something hot let it cool down to eating temperature before adding the protein, also don't heat up anything that you...
  25. Thread: BM or not to BM

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    BM or not to BM

    So all morning I've had some generalized discomfort in my lower abdomen. Since I hadn't had a BM since Saturday morning I was guessing it was the cause and had been thinking about taking a dose of...
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