Sleeved!
I'm happy to announce I was sleeved earlier this week. Thankfully everything went super well and am feeling pretty good, overall. I do get tired by early afternoon, but that is to be expected. I had great care from Dr. Court, his fellow, Dr. Toumi and the nursing staff at Lachine Hospital. Nothing but a positive experience!
I am also proud to report that I have lost 19lbs since my opti which started Aug 2 (I only did 9 days of opti because I was called in after a cancellation). I lost 9 lbs on opti and 10 since surgery. I'm pretty darned happy with those results!
Question time! How much water/ fluid did you get in at a week out? Right now I'm able to get apprx 24oz of water plus protein shake (more on this in next question!) and 1/2 cup broth. Do you find that sufficient?
And protein? I bought the beneprotein but gagged on it every time so have been doing one Premier Protein (costco) in the morning and am only able to get about half in the evening. What do you think about those numbers? Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks for your input!
beneprotein is kind of nasty. you can add it to warm soup and other things and it's passable. all the ready to drink shakes (premiere protein or muscle milk) are really a bit too thick for early post-op IMO. Head out to your local Popeye's protein shop and get a tub of a flavored whey isolate (ISO) and mix that with water or milk. You can even mix that with 50% or double the protein recommended and its still not as thick as the RTD, much easier to get that down. The fluids, you just really have to keep on it, set a timer for 5 mins and take a sip or 2 every time. keep a water bottle or shake with you all the time. it's work, no doubt about that.
grats on your sleeve!
its not a whey isolate and has 30% more calories than an ISO. then you add a nebulous tsp of peanut butter which makes it much higher calorie (100-200 more depending on your teaspoon'). probably not a good habit to get into and you are kind of committed once you buy a tub of it. calories arent a huge deal right out from surgery as you are lucky to get anything in ... so do what you like. but it's not a good plan for long term.
Hello I was going to self pay which is $18,500. If you go to this link http://www.weightlosssurgery.ca/about-us/dr-nicolas-christou/
they will give you the info of what's included in the price. I recommend this surgeon. His very nice and did this surgery a million and 1 times. I ended up going through Medicare. At the time I weighed out the time it would take to self pay as to the wait time through Medicare. It was like 2 months difference. So I went the free way. I applied in March with Oliver court at the royal Vic and I'm now going to my next step in meeting the surgeon.
