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Ok, I am totally stealing this and putting it on my Instagram. Thank you! Spread Kindness like Glitter LezetteChristineMua
What are your goals? Last year my goal was to be in Onederland and I hit it!! Yay, I was sleeved 12/11/17 at 348lbs My health was diminishing rapidly. I can't believe it's been 2 years but my new goals are to get back in the gym, lose another 15 lbs minimum and Continue to take back my health. I weighed in at 195 and now my new goal is 180. So tell me about your goals and what's your time frame!! Spread Kindness like glitter and be nice to people LezetteChristineMua
I am scheduled to have gastric sleeve surgery in March but I just found out that I need to have a hysterectomy and they are wanting to do it in February. I was wondering if you knew how long or if I would have to put of my gastric surgery?
Weight loss often isn't linear even when we do all of the right things. Small, daily and consistent actions lead up to results in the end. A few days of poor choices won't undo a year of concentrated effort. Stay the course and you will see patterns emerge and yes, fantastic results when the fat has to let go because of all those combined actions day after day.
I am 6 days out and I notice that every time I try to drink I get massive gas bubble that comes up like I took in too much air. Am I doing something wrong or is this common? Thanks!
Try different temperatures. Some people have better luck with warm or hot liquids as opposed to cold or room temp. See what your sleeve can handle!
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Everyone has different pain tolerances. I remember when I was in the hospital, there was a girl who was just chugging away her protein shake lounging in the waiting room that had a view with her leg up shootin the sht with a nurse like she didnt even have the same surgery I just did... meanwhile I'm struggling to walk holding on to my IV pole for dear life...and it took me 2 hours to get my first protein shake down.
HW-430
SW-372
Day of Surgery-347
CW-246
Thank you for the reply!!! Yesssss! I am getting air! Then I burp. I actually didn't gain much! I was super surprised! Only trouble I had was peeing! But once I could it's been great! I will try to only take down the water. I have been trying to do the protein shakes instead of jus****er.
Welcome to the loser's bench! I had a pretty easy time of it too, at least after the first night. The morning after, I felt great, and was begging the nurses to let me shower. I don't know why that was so important to me; I'd had a shower the morning of surgery, and missing a day or two wasn't going to kill me. Anyway, it's great things went so smoothly for you!
I don't know why some people have an easy recovery and others don't, but I suspect it has something to do with your anatomy; the less the surgeon has to move organs around, the better. Also, if they need to repair a hiatal hernia or something, that seems to make recovery a bit more painful.
What you're describing is quite normal. Your stomach has been through a lot, so be patient. It sounds to me like you're swallowing too much air when you drink liquids. If you try to focus on just swallowing water, that should help. But in any case, you should find things become easier over the next few weeks. Just keep drinking fluids; that's your number one job now. I was feeling so good after surgery that I got a bit lax with my fluid intake. I was in the middle of the supermarket checkout when I needed to sit down now. It was a little embarassing sitting on the floor of SuperValu. (The staff were lovely, though.) I learned my lesson after that.
If you haven't been on the scale yet, be forewarned that you probably have temporarily gained weight from all the fluids they pump into you. It may take a week to 10 days to lose tha****er weight.
I feel guilty because I did AMAZING. I was up walking around so fast after surgery and while everyone else was screaming in beds I was dancing with the nurses. I even asked the doctor if she was sure she did the surgery! Now the only problem is I take liquids down and I get sharp pains and then I burp. Is this normal? Just trying to get all the liquids down.
