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The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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Somebody brought donuts.
I couldn't help myself.
I ate one.
This will be the first solid food I've had in 13 days, a full 16 days ahead of when I'm supposed to be able to start phasing in solid food.
Let's see if it stays down.
I'm kinda scared.
My stomach is gurgling and hurts a little.
I couldn't help myself.
I ate one.
This will be the first solid food I've had in 13 days, a full 16 days ahead of when I'm supposed to be able to start phasing in solid food.
Let's see if it stays down.
I'm kinda scared.
My stomach is gurgling and hurts a little.
My wife had the surgery. She knows people who had it and are like "but I can eat mashed potatoes or ice cream because it just slides right through the pouch." And she rolls her eyes.
Why spend 16-20 grand (which is about what we spent after insurance) if you're going to cheat? Save yourself the 20 grand, buy a banana split, say "fuck it" and spend the other 19,980 dollars on a new car
GasBandit
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Ok, first of all, I'm talking about smoked ham, which is on my list of things I'm allowed to eat (in two weeks). Just talking about starting on it a little earlier here.
I'm not planning on making donuts a habit
I'M TALKING ABOUT HAM. IT'S LOW FAT AND LOW CALORIE! Aaggh!My wife had the surgery. She knows people who had it and are like "but I can eat mashed potatoes or ice cream because it just slides right through the pouch." And she rolls her eyes.
Why spend 16-20 grand (which is about what we spent after insurance) if you're going to cheat? Save yourself the 20 grand, buy a banana split, say "fuck it" and spend the other 19,980 dollars on a new car
Also, you got ripped off. I paid cash (no insurance) and the whole mess came in just under $15k. That includes continuing access to the dietician and the hospital's rehab center (with pool, weights, etc), and all my followup visits.
YouOk, first of all, I'm talking about smoked ham, which is on my list of things I'm allowed to eat (in two weeks). Just talking about starting on it a little earlier here.
I'm not planning on making donuts a habit
I'M TALKING ABOUT HAM. IT'S LOW FAT AND LOW CALORIE! Aaggh!
Also, you got ripped off. I paid cash (no insurance) and the whole mess came in just under $15k. That includes continuing access to the dietician and the hospital's rehab center (with pool, weights, etc), and all my followup visits.
Need
To
Let
Your
Stomach
Heal
Dumbass
Tell me more about this $20 USD banana split.My wife had the surgery. She knows people who had it and are like "but I can eat mashed potatoes or ice cream because it just slides right through the pouch." And she rolls her eyes.
Why spend 16-20 grand (which is about what we spent after insurance) if you're going to cheat? Save yourself the 20 grand, buy a banana split, say "fuck it" and spend the other 19,980 dollars on a new car
Dave
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I...uh...thought you were being facetious. You really DID write that! I have to watch it again! (Even though I don't watch wrestling and only have a peripheral idea of who most of those people are [yes, I know them from other things, but not wrestling])
I didn't get ripped off. I just choose a higher-paid guy to do her surgery. Since I was paying for it, and I wanted to make sure my wife had the best care I could afford, I paid a little more for one of the country's leading "centers of excellence" to have it done. We have all the followup visits and stuff as part of the package too
As for the banana split, I'm giving you a hard time, mostly. But I will say this: I don't remember if you got the full gastric bypass, or one of the less invasive procedures. My wife had the full gastric. And when she tried to eat stuff too soon, it invariably would end up with her spending several hours in pain, heaving, tearing her stomach, and throwing up blood. So me giving you a hard time comes from a place of love. I'll save you from that particular life lesson, if possible.[DOUBLEPOST=1516128291,1516128160][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit
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I got the sleeve gastrectomy, so I still have a tiny little 6 ounce stomach, it's just there's a line of staples where the rest of it used to be. Apart from literally only being able to stomach 3-4 bites of anything at any given meal, my gastric processes are (or will be) the same as they were pre-surgery.I didn't get ripped off. I just choose a higher-paid guy to do her surgery. Since I was paying for it, I had extra incentive to pay a little more for one of the country's leading "centers of excellence" to have it done. We have all the followup visits and stuff as part of the package too
As for the banana split, I'm giving you a hard time, mostly. But I will say this: I don't remember if you got the full gastric bypass, or one of the less invasive procedure. My wife had the full gastric. And when she tried to eat stuff too soon, it invariably would end up with her spending several hours in pain, heaving, tearing her stomach, and throwing up blood. So me giving you a hard time comes from a place of love. I'll save you from that particular life lesson, if possible.
But the diminished portions will make me prioritize protein ahead of all other nutrients, and multivitamins will be there to pick up the slack on the other stuff.
Last word of warning then. Most gastric bypasses fail. And they fail between the 1 and 2 year mark.
And the number one reason they fail is because the participants aren't 100% committed to the lifestyle change. The stomach/pouch will grow. You'll be able to eat larger and larger portions. Eventually, you'll be able to eat full meals again. If you haven't committed to the whole eating differently/lifestyle change by then, you'll be right back where you started. So, that's part of why I also mentioned the mashed potato and ice cream story. If you start looking for ways to cheat the system (and I'm not saying the ham, which is on your list, is cheating), you're setting yourself up for failure.
My wife is pretty committed. It's been like 5 years now, I guess, and she's at a size 4 maintaining.
And the number one reason they fail is because the participants aren't 100% committed to the lifestyle change. The stomach/pouch will grow. You'll be able to eat larger and larger portions. Eventually, you'll be able to eat full meals again. If you haven't committed to the whole eating differently/lifestyle change by then, you'll be right back where you started. So, that's part of why I also mentioned the mashed potato and ice cream story. If you start looking for ways to cheat the system (and I'm not saying the ham, which is on your list, is cheating), you're setting yourself up for failure.
My wife is pretty committed. It's been like 5 years now, I guess, and she's at a size 4 maintaining.
I'd consider not being able to even wait to eat solid food until you're safely allowed to is already showing signs of willingness to cheat.
I'm not the one who willingly decided to get surgery to lose weight, you are. So follow through. I had several relatives get that surgery, and none of them managed to keep the weight off long term.
So 2 pennies a word? Prices for thoughts have doubled in my lifetime.
And yet the quality of those thoughts has degraded considerably.
I disagree. Thoughts have no better or worse quality, it's just easier for low-quality ones to be seen by a lot more people than it used to be. So total number of PUBLIC thoughts has increased, with a higher proportion than before being bad, but previously more of the bad thoughts were filtered out by the high cost of publication. Now it's cheap to "publish" (twitter, blogs, etc), so we're seeing more of the crap that needed money to get out before.
Goddamn I need that inside me right now. I don't even care what orifice, just start shoving it in[DOUBLEPOST=1516128291,1516128160][/DOUBLEPOST]
To be cruelly fair, if you are a person who can offhandedly restrict your diet to < 200cal/day for a couple weeks at a time, then you are also probably someone who doesn’t need the surgery in the first place.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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I think that today has been evidence that it is ludicrous to expect me, or anyone else for that matter, to keep that shit up indefinitely.
But to be perfectly open about it, the first 5 or so days of that 2 weeks were zero calories, and not by choice. I simply couldn't handle anything besides water. After that, even just drinking protein shake, I couldn't handle more than a mouthful or two at a time, and then needed hours to process it before I tried for more nutrition.
So, it's not exactly like the low calorie intake was by choice.
But the 800 calorie diet leading up to the surgery? Yeah, I did that for 5 weeks and lemme tell you, if I didn't have a surgery date as a goal, I would not have lasted a year doing that, either.
I've done the liquid diet before. I lost 75 pounds on it. It was great. 3 years later, I started putting weight back on again, and got heavier than I ever was. This time, I'm trying for something more permanent.