34 Year Old Male. Battled my Weight All my Life. After Years of Yo Yo Dieting I Am Getting the Sleeve.

So like today. Had 2 eggs and 1 piece of turkey sausage for breakfast. 230 Calories. Had a jolly rancher and a vitamin d gummy. Those two together 30 calories. Had a piece of baked chicken and steamed veggies for lunch with sauce. About 350 calories. Will have a yogurt for snack later. 120 calories. And tonight I am treating my self to a Philadelphia sushi roll. 8 piece. Will take an hour to eat. lol. 410 calories. 1140 calories 60+ grams of protein. Sometimes I may be a little less. Other days I decide to have frozen yogurt and I am a little more:). Hope this helped. FYI. I was at 800 calories forever. Then moved to around 1000 and now 4 months out 1200. Going to stay here for awhile.

Awesome. Thanks for this.

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Thank you!!

Congrats on the weight loss. That's awesome. Keep up the life saving work my friend!!!

First 6 weeks can be hard. It gets better! Keep up the good work! Trust it will get better. I'm 4 months out and all though so much easier I now have to watch my calorie intake. Gets easier everyday to eat. Which is good. Means things are healing! With that being said still so much easier to not eat as much. Keep your head up! You're doing great!

Thank you so much - my gut feeling!!!! Is that you are correct. I'm heaps better now than a few weeks ago. I need to get used to smaller potions, eating slowly and not eating and drinking together.

Thanks for the positive words! So one thing that drives me nuts is the inconsistency from one Dr to the next. My Dr told me I could start riding my bike at 2 weeks and start a light lifting program at 3 weeks. Then I will read something that says wait 6 months! Lol! I concentrated on walking the first 6 weeks then started on the stationary bike. Started light lifting at 8 weeks. Now I ride miles at a time after a day of already being on my feet for most the day. No problems. I lift pretty hard now too, but being a guy who is already muscular I concentrate on lower weights and higher reps. Like if I do a curl I may only do 45 pounds but I might fit it 50 times. I want to tone right now not get bigger. When I get to my goal weight I may begin to experiment with bulking up a bit more! Another thing that drives me nuts is I read one thing that says 800 calories a day. Another that says 1200. Another says 1800. One may say around a thousand calories a day. Yeah okay but does that mean the same for a 60 yr old woman and a 35 year old 6'1 man? Just have to do your research and find what works for you. Don't over do it. Nothing is worth injuring your self. You have plenty of time to work out. Healing is number one right now! Keep your head up and keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for your insight it's greatly appreciated. Yes I'm a 45 young woman so I need to heal and I still want to exercise some but I'll keep with the walking for now. I have been to the pool a couple times that was great, I took my grandchildren to an amusement park once since surgery that was too hot and I was exhausted to say the least. I have rode my bike once but I was so tired I didn't make it far. I think I was doing it too soon. I go back to the dr on the 23rd so I'll see when I can do what. I'm not in a rush just trying to tone some. Yes all Dr's say different things but everyone is unique so I'll have to go by dr orders. Lol, I wasn't muscular so I'll have to see what works for me. But you are encouraging so keep up the good work I know you're enjoying yourself!!Stay strong!! Thank you again, have a great day!!

That's awesome! Good luck and I hope you have a speedy recovery. It's hard work but the reward of it is amazing. The surgery is a great tool, but to be successful you will need to get a plan and stick to it. You still have to work hard and have discipline. You will do great. Look forward to your progress. Take the pre op diet serious and get a organized! Good things coming buddy!

Thanks I appreciate that.

Thank you! Feeling much lighter! kinda like the opposite of getting out of a pool after hours of swimming! Been pretty awesome!

Awesome question! Okay for first off. I had high blood pressure. I'm sure it was kinda high for years but did not become an issue until the last 6 month prior to surgery. I was around 159 over 100. I had headaches and felt like crap. I was on medication for 3 months and post op have not taken one pill for HBP! I checked mine at lunch and it was 127 over 63!

Sleep apnea, not gone, but getting much better and I expect eventually to come off the cpap machine.
My settings were at 15. Over the course of the last 2 weeks I have been adjusting my machine down. A Dr should really be doing that for me! lol! I am now at a level 10. My throat had became so much more open with the weight loss that at a level 15 it was shoving the air down into my stomach. Not a great feeling! But the cool thing is that it is direct proof that the weight loss is unconstricting my airway! In December I am going to have another sleep study done before the new year and get everything reset by the Dr. Things physically have been changing so fast that I can't afford to go to the sleep Dr every two weeks and have machine adjusted. Long story short! Yes it helps very very much and I hope for it to go away completely!

Fortunately I somehow did not have diabetes. Although I'm sure it was on the way. From everything I have read one article after another it is supposed to help with that dramatically and in many cases take it way completely!

I have had heart palpations since I was 18 years old. They come and go and are sometimes worse than others. I have a family history of them. They are not gone but have decrease by like 95%! At my heaviest I barley do any physical activity with out my heart going crazy. Now I Can do 5 mile bikes rides without a single palpation. Awesome stuff!

One last thing! Lol! I have always had flat feet and horrible ankle problems. At times it has gotten so bad I have had to crawl to my bed after a long day at work. Intense level 8 pain. Now I can got to work at 7, stay active all day come get home around 7pm. Stay active at home until 9 or 10 and go to bed with little to no pain at all. It has been a miracle for me. I can't begin to tell you how it has changed my life and were just 3 months in! I do exactly what I'm supposed to do and work my butt off, but the surgery is the tool that makes it all possible for a food addict like me!

This is all awesome to hear! Thanks for your feedback! I'm very excited to have this surgery done. I know it will literally be life changing!