NSV, broken stall, and a few questions.

Hi all!  Ok, first off, the NSV.  My wardrobe consists mainly of yoga pants, t shirts, and simple dresses.  I love the yoga pants because they allow me to do a lot of stuff comfortably (we just moved into our house and have a lot of projects) but I have to wear long tshirts because they always slouch or roll below my belly because of my size.  Well, today we are walking around Target and I realize I HAVENT HIKED MY PANTS UP ONCE!  They are exactly where they were when I put them on this morning!!!  

And my stall is officially broken!  I have gone from 341 to 339 and back to 341 and back to 339 over and over for about a week.  Just not cool.  I hated every minute.  Still continued to do everything right, and one day it went to 338  and I got excited, but then it went back to 341 the next day.  So this morning when I woke up I was so happy to see 337.1 on the scale!  It was fantastic!  I felt so happy!  I was on top of the world.  My stall is finally broken!  Thank God it happened, too, because this pre op diet is killing me and making it hard to get through the day.

Ok, on to the questions.  

Sugar free gum.  It has sugar alcohol.  Is this a yes or a no?  I have HORRID breath from the ketosis and I need something.  Is this a bad idea?

I have 3 opti fast shakes and a gallon of water allowed each day.  Anyone have any ideas on how to liven these up a bit?  Or make things better?  2 weeks of this is going to get old. 

I already went through hell with the carb flu when I changed my diet before the pre-op diet.  I was basically eating the post op diet.  Protein forward, eggs, meat, cheese, green veg.  No carbs over 20g, gallon of water.  Do you think I will go through a change over period again where I will get tired or feel sick with the optifast?  I'm only getting 480 calories a day.  That is about half of what I was taking in before.  

I'm so excited to step on the scale tomorrow morning!  Its like christmas!!

I chew sugar free gum without any problem. I know some say "no gum" but that is one thing I can't go without for long. It helps with the taste and breath. I have been a gum chewer since I stopped smoking in 2009. I have some say that the reason they say no gum is because of fear of swallowing it. JUST DONT SWALLOW YOUR GUM!!!!! LOL

I'm not a gum chewer but I can see the need for it right now.   My doc says it's fine.   But I hear so many people say no.   My husband said to limit the number of pieces to 2 a day so at worst I have 2 sugar alcohols. 

I'm 11 months out and I can chew gum, but it gives me gas and makes my stomach make all these noises. So I stick to breathsaver mints.  only once in a while though.

Good to know.   I wonder if that is from the saliva and digestion prompting gum causes or swallowed air. 

I think it must be swallowed air because it happens almost immediately. But it's not painful or anything, just annoying. 

I'm not/wasn't a big gum chewer, but my problem is I can't stop at one piece. It loses flavor very quickly and so I spit it out and pop another one. So the one piece with only two sugar alcohols leads to more...the sugar alcohol doesn't seem to effect me adversely but I'd rather not get hooked on anything foodlike. So gum is a rare thing for me these days.

That is exactly why I'm not a huge him chewer.  I hate popping a piece and in 30 minutes later I'm chewing a tough piece of tasteless rubber.   The orbit gum I got today doesn't seem to do that too bad.   I got 3 hours of flavor from it.   And only 1 sugar alcohol.   I was already starving for something because of the pre op diet so I'm not sure if my cravings were from the sugar or not.