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Getting along
Life is moving on and the incision sites are healing pretty nice. Only complain is I can hardly keep anything besides water down. I tried cheating and chewing very well but it all comes back. Really looking forward to being able to eat.
Still hate protein shakes and hardly do it these days. I mostly go on a 16oz Milo drink and about 16oz water for most days. Once in a while, I throw in some yogurt. Now I am mixing some chocolate shake in my oikos tripple zero shake.
Not started my vitamins yet. Not feeling lethargic yet and very active. Walk a minimum of 5000 steps daily.
Just found out today that my home scale is giving wrong #s. Was at Kroger's today and was able to get an accurate reading.
Friends and family are noticing the weight loss but I am not telling the tool yet.
Ht: 5'8
HW: 267lb
SW: 235 lb
CW: 212 lb
Still hate protein shakes and hardly do it these days. I mostly go on a 16oz Milo drink and about 16oz water for most days. Once in a while, I throw in some yogurt. Now I am mixing some chocolate shake in my oikos tripple zero shake.
Not started my vitamins yet. Not feeling lethargic yet and very active. Walk a minimum of 5000 steps daily.
Just found out today that my home scale is giving wrong #s. Was at Kroger's today and was able to get an accurate reading.
Friends and family are noticing the weight loss but I am not telling the tool yet.
Ht: 5'8
HW: 267lb
SW: 235 lb
CW: 212 lb
Ariel Ortiz, MD, FACS
20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018
Thank you for the stars!
Frustrated!!!
I am sooo tired of drinking!!! I want to chew,eat. Not because I am hungry but because I am feeling depressed with the drinking.
So my confession is this- I cheated a couple of times with fish and egg. Like a bite here and there when dishing the kids food. The first time, it kept coming back to my mouth. I am confessing cos I don't read much about sleevers cheating in the full liquid stage and I am sure it must have happened (I don't think I'm that unique).
All in all, I haven't started feeling hungry yet. I am almost 2 weeks post. I have struggled with my liquid intakes and just started my protein shakes on Wednesday ( still nursing my cup of shake from 2 hours ago). I have resulted to mixing my plain non fat yogurt with my shake so I get 40g of protein in a cup. I don't do puddings or creamy stuff so I am limited to my Powerade, soup, yogurt and shake. At this point I am asking myself how am I going to survive this liquid and puree stage? It's so difficult cooking all these beautiful meals for the family and not been able to eat of it.
The scale started moving anyway. So, that's something positive. Been walking a minimum of 30 minutes daily since I got back home. The other day, I did about 5000 steps around the block.
Finally told one of my sister's about the surgery and she couldn't believe I went through it. Had to send her some pictures. Felt good talking to someone else about it besides hubby.
I am so cranky, am like a roaring lion.
Ht: 5'8
HW: 267 (May 2015)
SW: 238
W 10/23/15- 237.6
W 10/28/15- 229
So my confession is this- I cheated a couple of times with fish and egg. Like a bite here and there when dishing the kids food. The first time, it kept coming back to my mouth. I am confessing cos I don't read much about sleevers cheating in the full liquid stage and I am sure it must have happened (I don't think I'm that unique).
All in all, I haven't started feeling hungry yet. I am almost 2 weeks post. I have struggled with my liquid intakes and just started my protein shakes on Wednesday ( still nursing my cup of shake from 2 hours ago). I have resulted to mixing my plain non fat yogurt with my shake so I get 40g of protein in a cup. I don't do puddings or creamy stuff so I am limited to my Powerade, soup, yogurt and shake. At this point I am asking myself how am I going to survive this liquid and puree stage? It's so difficult cooking all these beautiful meals for the family and not been able to eat of it.
The scale started moving anyway. So, that's something positive. Been walking a minimum of 30 minutes daily since I got back home. The other day, I did about 5000 steps around the block.
Finally told one of my sister's about the surgery and she couldn't believe I went through it. Had to send her some pictures. Felt good talking to someone else about it besides hubby.
I am so cranky, am like a roaring lion.
Ht: 5'8
HW: 267 (May 2015)
SW: 238
W 10/23/15- 237.6
W 10/28/15- 229
Incision sites healing up.
So am surprised that my incision sites are healing up pretty quickly. The smallest one is barely visible now.
Provider Review
Bariatric Surgeon
Paseo de los Héroes 9111 #100, Zona Urbana Rio, Tijuana, Baja California
All the staff of the OCC I met were super nice and very attentive. I met Dr. Martinez before my surgery and he was very informative and patient with all my questions. I met Dr Ariel Ortiz after surgery and he was as super as Dr. Martinez. I highly recommend the OCC .
Ariel Ortiz, MD, FACS
20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018
Thank you for the stars!