weight gain disaster

[ygmir]

Well folks, I just got home from Mexico and gastric sleeve surgery. I now have only abut 15% of the stomach capacity I had before. Was pain free after 5 days. Should be up to a normal diet, albeit in much smaller quantities, before TTITD. Hoping for about a 60 pound or more weight loss by then. No more Fat Sheik!

holy crap!! the cut that much of your stomach out? wow!!

[digital]

Yikes! Good luck in your recovery and weight loss!

[Thecatman]

Wishing you the best Sheik

I've lost 10lbs since the second full week of January when I was working nights. And I've kept it off. I'm on again nights for this coming week. It's mostly because my eating habits change. Usually a bowl of cereal or oatmeal around 10 or 11 in the morning and a salad around 8 or 9 in the evening with plain, bland, no sugar according to the ingredients ice tea. Snacking is fruit, almonds-walnuts-raisin mix, carrots and celery etc. And sriracha flavored sunflower seeds. I don't care much for diet soda.

[Patsh]

Well folks, I just got home from Mexico and gastric sleeve surgery. I now have only abut 15% of the stomach capacity I had before. Was pain free after 5 days. Should be up to a normal diet, albeit in much smaller quantities, before TTITD. Hoping for about a 60 pound or more weight loss by then. No more Fat Sheik!

Yikes, Sheik! It's amazing that this can even be done! Does the resected part disintegrate and be absorbed and disposed of by the body?
Wishing you the best of luck toward your goal. Makes sense that this will work. I hope the recovery is easy, painless and thorough!

[Molotov]

They take the part of the stomach removed out through a 1" slit in your abdomen. This surgery is done with scopes and internal tools and cameras and does not involve major abdominal surgery. The actual surgery took 35 minutes and left me with four one-inch incisions and a drain hole. I sort of looked like a victim of a Bourbon Street knife fight. But I was pain free from the fifth day on. Google "gastric sleeve" for more details. Doctors say it is one of the most overlooked procedures for rapid and permanent weight loss with minimal risk. 100+ pound weight losses are common within 18 months after surgery.

[robbidobbs]

Good luck Sheik!
I bought a scale yesterday. I weighed myself this morning.
Now I know how long this winter has been in real numbers.

[tatonka]

This is what I would like to look like again , I was 175lbs at that time and 33 years old , now im lucky to hit 140

[vpismo]

Maybe you just need some "bad shit".

A woman has dramatically gained weight after a stool transplant from her daughter, doctors report.
It is a genuine medical procedure to transplant healthy bacteria into a diseased gut, but US doctors think it may have affected her waistline.
She quickly gained 36lb (16kg) and is now classed as obese, the case report in Open Forum Infectious Diseases says.
A UK expert said the link between gut bugs and obesity was still unclear.
A faecal microbiota transplant - also referred to by some as a "transpoosion" - is like an extreme version of a probiotic yogurt.
The aim is to introduce good bacteria into the gut and it was officially backed by the UK health service last year.
New treatment
It is used when people have stubborn Clostridium difficile infection in their bowels.
This can cause vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain and cannot always be treated with antibiotics.
The 32-year old woman, who has not been indentified, had an infection that could not be treated with even the most powerful antibiotics.
Dr Colleen Kelly, from the Medical School at Brown University, said the option of a faecal transplant was discussed and the woman wanted to use a relative - her daughter.
The daughter was overweight at the time and was on her way to becoming obese.
The procedure did clear the woman's infection.
But Dr Kelly told the BBC News website: "She came back about a year later and complained of tremendous weight gain.
"She felt like a switch flipped in her body - to this day she continues to have problems."
She started with a Body Mass Index of 26. Sixteen months after the procedure she had a BMI of 33 and three years after it, a BMI of 34.5.
Caution
Previous research has shown that transplanting gut bacteria from obese people into mice led to the animals gaining weight.
Dr Kelly said limited conclusions could be drawn from a single patient, but called the case a warning as "there's not a lot on safety evidence out there".
Dr Kelly has now changed her practices and "as a result I'm very careful with all our donors don't use obese people".
Dr Andreas Karatzas, from Reading University, said: "You have to bear in mind that this person was saved.
"If you run the risk of losing a patient, you don't bother about what could happen 20 years later."
However, he said the evidence that gut bacteria affected human waistlines was still inconclusive.
"There is some evidence in animals, but we have to be careful - it is a different organism. Just because it happens in animals doesn't mean it happens in humans as well."
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31168511?print=true

[Elderberry]

This thread has gotten rather educational.

[Elliot]

Elephants have been observed eating such "yogurt", presumably by instinct to improve their digestion.
The human appendix is believed to be there for a reason, to serve as a reservoir of beneficial organisms.

[Dr. Pyro]

to serve as a reservoir of beneficial orgasms.

There, fixed it for you.

[tatonka]

i will look into the orgasm thing , thks

[AntiM]

Well darn, that explains it. They took out my appendix along with my carcinoid. Life just isn't then same since then. Hmmm.

[Elderberry]

I thought I remembered that the appendix was a vestigial organ used to help digest cellulose from plants, which is seemingly confirmed by this article:
http://www.livescience.com/32105-why-do ... endix.html

Then I found this article when I was double checking http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... tion-of-t/ which seems to attribute it to having far more value to the human body than I thought. (This was surprising to me; as was the fact that the article was dated 1999 and the first article 2012.)