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I guess my question would be how much experience do they have in terms of weight loss surgery? Every dr will have a "first" but it all really goes down to how much experience they have in general. You could also ask some questions as to what additional complications are possible with your size as well as what they think should be done before surgery to prevent those. Asking those questions will be good to help you understand what you can do to help your surgeon with your surgery.
It is normal to be nervous about something like this but I would call your surgeon and try to talk to his nurse or pa and let them know what happened and they can tell you what to watch for. I am sure if something "tore" you'd have significant pain and bleeding. But be safe and call it will also calm your panic.
I am just at a year out and I have had my food scale since before surgery. I use it to weight out all my foods that I eat or use in to make something so I can keep my portions/calories in line. I mainly use it for meats, cheese but I have started using it for recipes that are in grams. I find it is very helpful for me to not have to guess how much and risk increasing my calories by accident. We were told by the girl who does nutrition at my program to weigh your pasta out before you cook it. There is one woman who is 11 yrs out at our group and she uses her scale daily and also plans her meals. She has maintained her 200lb weight loss by doing it.
My personal experience with this question is ABSOLUTELY NOT.
For instance... I can choose a five hundred calorie meal of salad ... fat free dressing... fat free feta cheese ... tzaziki or salsa or a couple of stuffed grape leaves ... an egg beaters omelet w fat free cheese some freeze dried butter seasoning for taste and fat free half n half , ketchup , hot sauce and ( for me not most folks here ) some fresh bread or French toast .
A big meal like this will literally get me through the day . ( and help me exercise the next morning) ( and I can still eat dinner because I have eight hundred calories left over ) . I?m full ( stuffed ) all day and all nite ... never hungry.
Or I can eat junk ... and then half an hour later crave more junk .
There are a million tasty healthy meals you can choose to eat .
First , in a lot of cases we need to learn how to cook ... not order out ... restaurant meals provenly contain far more fat ( and meat ) than we would normally eat at home .
This reminds me of Weigh****chers meetings were before the meeting, I'd overhear conversations between friends about donuts having the same amount of points as "blah blah blah", so they were going to have the donut instead!
yes - I do suppose that if you're just looking at calories, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. But nutrition aside, two items that have exactly the same amount of calories can have very different effects on me that may have an impact on weight loss/gain. For example, a 300-calorie item that is mostly sugar is going to have me eating more later, because it causes my blood sugar to spike and plunge - so I'll be hungrier sooner. A 300-calorie item that is mostly healthy fat, fiber, or protein won't have that effect - I'll stay satisfied a lot longer (for me personally, something with a lot of healthy fat lasts me a L-O-N-G time...)
Nope. You can never join. That?s why I dropped the option.
Quick question. And this is relative to weight loss issues ONLY and has nothing to do with health, nutrition, etc. So, as it pertains to weight loss/gain it has always been my understanding that a calorie is, indeed, a calorie regardless of its source or health benefits/liabilities. Thus, you will lose or gain the same amount of weight by consuming x# of calories regardless of whether those calories are in the form of crispy cream donuts or lean fish and chicken. CLEARLY, we all know what the better choices are from a nutritional standpoint, but this question is directed only towards whether calorie A differs from calorie B in its impact on weight loss/gain.
I'd be interested in hearing from others on this topic.
Thank you.
Some people develop strictures. It is just the way their body heals. Some people have it happen two or three times before it is healed up. Stretching them out again is a simple procedure that your surgeon can do quickly. Just be on the lookout and get help right away if it happens again. Hope you feel much better soon.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I ended up not going to the Emergency Room, just the doctors. They said that if I start getting dizzy when I stand up, etc. to go straight to the ER.
I believe it is a stricture, I'll be calling my surgeon first thing in the morning. My Family doctor couldn't order then endoscopy because she wasn't the one who did my surgery.
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