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Some soda - makes me sooo hungry and makes my pouch very insensitive to full/empty signals. Other - like brand name diet tonic (the one with aspartame as a sweetener) does not do that.
Also- diet soda like Pepsi or Coke or Sprite zero - irritates my bladder and ..I become semi "incontinent". stopping diet pepsi for a week - fixed the issue....
I may drink one (1) small diet soda a week without noticing its effect on my bladder...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
the patches work for some people and don't work for others. The only way to know if they work on you - is to try it.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Miralax is the only thing that really work for me painlessly.
I had to increase to pain that I was having daily runny BM for a 2-3 days - then slowly decrease my daily morning dose when I have BM everyday - and it is neither hard or too soft.
on days I feel I did not have a complete BM I may add some extra Miralax (1/3 cap full) or evaluate if I drank enough water and ate enough food.
Fiber constipate me. Some of us - too much fiber may have just the opposite reaction to the one we wish for. I had to make sure I get enough fat in my diet - low fat diet - constipate me...
There is even study that shows that some people do much better with low fiber than high fiber diet.
"Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
I have been stalled between 187-188 for almost 2 months now. Have you ever been stalled this long, and started losing weight rapidly again? I'm trying my best to not get discouraged, because it's so nice to be back in the 100's. I'm still having bowel movement issues, and am only going 1-2 times per week. My doctor is trying to find medicine that works for me, since Benefiber and other things aren't working.
One of the other members had a ferritin of 6, which is dangerously low. She was taking a few hundred mg of elemental iron every day for a year, and the ferritin didn't budge. After three months on the patch multi, and an extra iron patch, her ferritin is already up to 28.
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.
I agree that using Myfitnesspal and weighing every morsel is your best starting point.
Eating more food will not make you lose weight. Eating more makes us gain weight. You've been eating extra calories already. Identify where those extra calories are hiding, and cut back.
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.
Hi! I don't have an answer, but just wanted to suggest you post this on one of the main boards. This one doesn't get much traffic!
RNY Sept 8, 2016
M1:23, M2 :18, M3 :11, M4 :19, M5: 13, M6: 12, M7: 17, M8: 11, M9: 11.5, M10: 13, M11: 10, M12: 10 M13 : 7.6, M14: 6.9, M15: 6.7
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My iron is low and I'd like to bring the levels up.
Chewable multis with iron taste terrible to me, and it's important that I take my chewable every day, so I went the route of the non-iron version so I'll actually take it.
The Iron Plus patch doesn't seem to have any reviews yet.
Before I cave on Iron chewables: has anyone actually used the Iron Plus patch and had their iron levels go up to normal? http://www.obesityhelp.com/profiles/product/iron-plus-topica l-patch-30-day-supply/
Band removal & RNY Feb 1 2017
I recommend that you start using something like MyFitnessPal to track everything you put into your mouth. It'll be easier to troubleshoot what's going on if you know what's going in :)
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
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
Its important to remember that in order to absorb D3, you need K2 with it. NOW makes a combo tablet that will help you better absorb the D3. I've been low vitamin D since my RNY 6 years ago and tried everything including prescription 50,000 IU 1x a week. I then switched to 5000mg 1x a day and still was low. It wasn't until I added the D3 combined with the K2 that I saw improvements in my numbers and my energy level.
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