Going to Bahamas One Month Out
No alcohol. Zip, zilch, nada. Your body is still recovering from surgery, and your liver and kidneys are working overtime while you are burning excess fat.
Fiid a better way to have adult fun.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
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VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
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Alcohol is very hard on the stomach under normal cir****tances. You risk getting a bleed or damaging the healing gastrectomy. Our sleeves actually take months and months to heal properly.
Sure, something may only happen 1% or less, like a stomach bleed, but it sucks to be that person especially if you are overseas. I have been in the 1% before - I got necrotic MRSA in a surgical wound at one of the best hospitals with the lowest MRSA rate in the entire Midwest. It sucks and it happens, even if we do everything the right way.
Look at it as an opportunity to reframe how we enjoy things. What do I mean? I asked myself, soon after my surgery, why is it I always want to eat or drink to enjoy vacations? I honestly had no answer. I found that I often made such things a central part of the experience, even on expensive trips, to my detriment. I am not saying you do this, by any means! However, it might be quite a fun trip even without adult beverages is what I am saying, in unexpected ways :)
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Thank you Donna for taking the time to explain.
im no stranger to bariatric surgery as I've been successful with band for 10 out of the 14 yrs I had it. Lost over 130 lbs.....put on 65 in 4 yrs......
My band gave me so many complications I had it removed and now have the sleeve.
I just can't remember that long ago about the alcohol.
again I really appreciate your reply and I'm gonna try!ð??'
