Mfaulk4506
New Member
Hi my name is Michelle, I had gastric sleeve surgery Febuary 23rd. I have had great success but I am struggling getting down my protien and staying away from the carby sugary stuff. Today was the worse. Me and my husband were out with my brother for dinner and then my brother decides we are going to go to dairy queen. Of course I was like ill just get a mini and eat a few bites. Noooo I go and eat the whole mini. Then my brother and my husband start getting on to me about me not eating enough protien and me eating that mini blizzard. I felt like I was loosing this battle. I understand where there coming from but when I try to tell them it seems that protien hurts my stomach and those carby and sugary things don't they think I'm crazy and it's all in my head. I am at a point where I don't know what to do. I just had my 6mnth follow up with the surgeon and I explained to her my symptoms and told her I mainly get my protien from protien shakes. She told me to try to stop the protien shakes and eat more protien. I told her what happens when I eat the protien and she said we'll we can do an endoscopy and see if there's anything going on but she doesn't think there is. She then proceeded to tell me that from her experience gastric sleeve patients struggle more then gastric bypass patients. If anyone has any help or ways to get through this please let me know. Also I haven't stopped loosing weight. I am down 160 pounds since the 9th of September, so I must be doing something right but I do not want to start gaining and I want to be successful. Thanks again for any advice.