Tell the truth..... I double DARE YOU!!
I still use my Premier Protein Shakes from Sam's. The lastest ones are thinner and tast great. Kinda like a Yoohoo.
I read a post a few months back that I thought would interest you... it is from disabled_nurse’s Posts. The post of interest is dated 4/23/11. She talks about what happened to her when she did not get in her protein...
Muscle atrophy is real. Do everything you can to prevent it.
All my best to you.
I read a post a few months back that I thought would interest you... it is from disabled_nurse’s Posts. The post of interest is dated 4/23/11. She talks about what happened to her when she did not get in her protein...
Muscle atrophy is real. Do everything you can to prevent it.
All my best to you.
Glendary 
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on 6/7/11 9:45 pm - Woodbridge, VA
on 6/7/11 9:45 pm - Woodbridge, VA
I want to add a note here that with the VSG, since there is no intestinal bypass, most patients think they absorb everything they eat 100%. However, that is not always the case. Because of the removal of a large portion of the stomach, two things are happening:
1. Food travels through the stomach faster. Yes, the pylorus is still intact and in place, but there is essentially less room for food/drink to slosh around in the stomach, and it's a very quick vertical path from the top of the stomach to the intestines. When dietary intake spends less time in the stomach, that means less time for the body to break down that food/drink, so some of it may leave the stomach under-processed for full absorption.
2. Smaller stomach = less gastric acid. Additionally, many are taking medications to further decrease acid levels. Acid is needed for the breakdown of many things we eat/drink in order for proper absorption. Less acid can lead to less processing in the stomach.
As a result, even some folks who eat and/or supplement to meet the minimum daily requirements of protein may really still not be getting enough. The only way to know for sure is from your labs, and by that, I do NOT mean having a doc/NP/surgeon/nut tell you everything is "fine" or "perfect." I mean you get copies of your own lab results and track them for TRENDS, not just to see if something is normal at that one point in time. Even if your protein level comes back as "normal," you (YOU, not anyone on your medical team - YOU) should notice if your protein has gone from 8.0 to 7.6 to 7.1 to 6.8...ALL are "normal" and "fine," but there's obviously a trend that could indicate a potential future problem, and no surgeon/doc/lab is going to sit and make those comparisons for you; they will just tell you everything is "perfect," and you'll go on your happy way with declining protein levels until it's too late, and you eventually end up with a deficiency.
BTW, this is all true for things other than just protein - it is beneficial to personally track ALL of your lab results for trends. I happened to catch my own declining iron levels this way. My first and second sets of post-op labs showed that my iron level had fallen by more than 50% in just a few months, but since both results were still within the normal range, no one said anything about it to me, just that everything was "fine." Since I was doing my own tracking, I saw the potential problem in that downward trend and started supplementing my iron differently since what was in my multi was clearly not sufficient for me. And then at my third set of labs, my iron had still slumped a little bit more, so I switched to a different type of iron supplement, even though, again, my docs just said all my lab results were "fine." I'd much rather PREVENT a deficiency than try to recover from one; fixing a deficiency can be quite difficult, and you can suffer from side effects of that deficiency until it's fixed (assuming the effects aren't permanent, which some can be).
1. Food travels through the stomach faster. Yes, the pylorus is still intact and in place, but there is essentially less room for food/drink to slosh around in the stomach, and it's a very quick vertical path from the top of the stomach to the intestines. When dietary intake spends less time in the stomach, that means less time for the body to break down that food/drink, so some of it may leave the stomach under-processed for full absorption.
2. Smaller stomach = less gastric acid. Additionally, many are taking medications to further decrease acid levels. Acid is needed for the breakdown of many things we eat/drink in order for proper absorption. Less acid can lead to less processing in the stomach.
As a result, even some folks who eat and/or supplement to meet the minimum daily requirements of protein may really still not be getting enough. The only way to know for sure is from your labs, and by that, I do NOT mean having a doc/NP/surgeon/nut tell you everything is "fine" or "perfect." I mean you get copies of your own lab results and track them for TRENDS, not just to see if something is normal at that one point in time. Even if your protein level comes back as "normal," you (YOU, not anyone on your medical team - YOU) should notice if your protein has gone from 8.0 to 7.6 to 7.1 to 6.8...ALL are "normal" and "fine," but there's obviously a trend that could indicate a potential future problem, and no surgeon/doc/lab is going to sit and make those comparisons for you; they will just tell you everything is "perfect," and you'll go on your happy way with declining protein levels until it's too late, and you eventually end up with a deficiency.
BTW, this is all true for things other than just protein - it is beneficial to personally track ALL of your lab results for trends. I happened to catch my own declining iron levels this way. My first and second sets of post-op labs showed that my iron level had fallen by more than 50% in just a few months, but since both results were still within the normal range, no one said anything about it to me, just that everything was "fine." Since I was doing my own tracking, I saw the potential problem in that downward trend and started supplementing my iron differently since what was in my multi was clearly not sufficient for me. And then at my third set of labs, my iron had still slumped a little bit more, so I switched to a different type of iron supplement, even though, again, my docs just said all my lab results were "fine." I'd much rather PREVENT a deficiency than try to recover from one; fixing a deficiency can be quite difficult, and you can suffer from side effects of that deficiency until it's fixed (assuming the effects aren't permanent, which some can be).
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