Some hard truths in this article

I may not agree 100% with everything said in the article but most of it is right on and needs to be taken seriously by all pre-ops and new post-ops.  

Hear me now and believe me later!

That was great. Thanks.

So true!

My only beef is that they link to a "48 hour pouch reset," which won't do squat. Just another "nothing but shakes and you'll be magically fixed" fad diet.

That part was especially hard to get past.  Plus I got a little defensive about VSG being called as "invasive" as some of the other procedures.  But I get what she's saying. 

I agree on all counts.  

Good article aside from the pouch reset thing.  

GREAT article.  I don't agree with everything she said either.  I specifically hit up my surgeon on the soda issue, and he said as long as I don't have a problem with bloating or gas, it's a go.  I only drink the diet stuff, and not every day.

I love this comment since I've read several posts lately claiming this exact issue:

8. I’m picky and can’t tolerate protein.
People say they are picky with great pride as if it is a good enough excuse. With all due respect, you don’t have a ‘picky palate’, there is something wrong with your thinking and you need a ‘checkup from the neckup’. You are not five years old and it’s not cute. You just had your stomach cut apart with bariatric surgery and picky no longer matters. It got checked at the door to the OR. People get sick from post op deficiencies because they don’t get that supplements aren’t a joke or a suggestion. (and then their hair falls out… which normally straightens them up a tad but not fully) Protein and vitamins are something we have to suck up and do no matter what they taste like. Good bariatric vitamins will always taste a little like sucking on a penny. Oh well.

Oh but I'm so very sensitive and special!

They are in business to sell protein shakes.  I used to be part of their online site and they did not like it when I said that protein shakes were not a magic weight loss tool.  They did not want to hear that it takes cutting calories to get rid of regain.

Yep. She is definitely trying to sell her stuff. Interesting that she still posts advice since I don't think she has posted a picture in years (since she started regaining).

GREAT article!