I agree, I am so glad I did this, remember how excited you were to to do this, all this ambience will pass, I'm 56 and a slow loser, but I'm still happy I did it. Just takes time and some adjustments.

I felt that too because I had hiatal surgery repair too at the time I had surgery, I'm a cardiac nurse and I kept thinking..am I having a cardiac event too, but it was just the surgery, and it passed...

Hiatal Hernia would be best since you are going back to work so soon you will be going back with weight lifting restrictions and your employer can decide whether no not they can accommodate those...

I work at at a construction/mining site and my work area is literally about a 1/4 mile from security checkin and I have found it so much easier to walk that distance without feeling I'm going to...

sometimes water gives me heartburn..so weird as I always was a big water drinker, now I have some difficulty getting in the required 64 oz, when the heart burn starts I stop and take my acid med if I...

Scarey!!!!

One word...Awesome!!!

My surgeon rec daily No Grit Benefiber, mix it in my coffee every morning, can't even tell its in there. Someone else posted about something called Ultra 5 Billion CFU's Probiotic Comlplex with fiber...

Thanks Tinman..I was getting lentils confused with legumes, which is where Pintos fall into. I'm not sure what Anduille sausage is, are they something common to find?

Tinman which lentils did you use? In New Mexico Pinto Beans are prevalent..just curios what you did.

LOL..my Boss looked at me and said "We need to give you a sandwich", I said why and he said because your getting too skinny!! I just laughed and said not skinny enough!!

Thank you mem222 I will try to find it:)

So sorry to hear about your're experience...mine came close to that and I had bad bleeding hemmhroids..and that when I started faithfully taking the Benefiber daily and things have improved...

Thank you all for the reponses..the one I take are Bariatric Advantage and at first I could tolerate them, but now I find myself more and more skipping them just like I do with the Bariactric...

I'm almost 8 weeks post op and I can't stand the Bariatric Multi Vit my surgeon recommended, any advice on what I can change it to would help.

My surgeon rec Benefiber no taste, I put 2 tsp in my coffee every day and it helps, if I have a need for something else I use a ducolax supp. I pretty much go every day.

I had to travel 2 1/2 weeks after my sleeve, since I had a blood clot before from another surgery, my doc gave me a lovenox shot to take before my trip and for the return portion of my trip, but it...

I was a big eater, not a grazer or snacker and I too worried about what life would be like, but I find now almost 8 weeks out that I just don't have the same relationship with food anymore that I had...

Right now I'm just excited shopping in my closet.. getting into things I couldn't fit into for years that I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of..can't wait till I run out of things and have to...

I was really nervous and scared and thought I would probably get to the op table and jump up and run but I kept telling myself I have to do this so that I will be healthy and not get diabetes like my...

Congrats to you!! That's awesome!!

My advice (for what its worth) is to quit weighing so often, set a week or two before you weigh, don't get scale obsessed...you didnt put it on overnight and it wont come off over night...but I...

My US doc gave me pics of my stomach and the hiatal hernia he repaired. I could see my liver and OMG..all the sick looking layers of yellow fat..I remember my husband telling me right after the...

So funny, but I think I would have been mortidied and proud at the same time!

I'm 6 1/2 weeks out and I don't really feel hunger..I just eat cuz I know I have to get the protein in.