isolate is more "pure" 

It contains more protein and less fat and lactose per serving. 

 I don't eat 100g of protein I drink 150 in shakes every day and take my vitamins and then eat what I feels like mostly. 

 I don't miss anything. I eat everything and anything. I have very few intolerances and it seems my recently completed pregnancy cured me of my lactose issues (for now); hooray for ice cream. 

I certainly eat far fewer of whatever junk food I inulge in. I mean, I used to eat four or hell lets be honest, six, oreos at a time. Now I'll have one. I used to be able to eat a whole large pizza hut pizza and some cheese bread now I can get down two pieces. I used to have a HUGE bowl of tortellini or mac and cheese now I have a cup's worth. 

This is how I wanted to live though. I wanted to be able to enjoy food and enjoy it socially with my family (elephant ears and scones and fried twinkies at the fair for instance). 

 Your surgeon is my surgeon. I am two years out (as of April) and I am pregnant (30 weeks). I have seen him once during this pregnancy, earlier on in my pregnancy for my yearly with him, everything was fine. When I got my glucose tolerance pulled I also got second labs for late pregnancy drawn. Everything was fine. 

That said, I take what might be called WAY THE HELL over what he recommends and have been doing so from the start. I added Folic acid and four prenatal vitamins to my pill box as well and I take all of this daily, without fail (okay who am i kidding once in awhile I miss that last sacking out before bed dose, I'm not a saint).

Ultimately you don't need to see him. You just need your labs done and an OB/midwife/GP can request those for you, call up his office and tell them you need the lab order. You don't even need to specify really why you need it they will fax it to you immediately. 

I don't even have a high risk OB.  I deal with a midwife who works for the women's health services branch of Franciscan Health (the same hospital/medical group that Srikanth works with). It's a matter of staying on top of things and getting your ducks in a row.

While I am suspicious that your labs are going to remain fine and dandy taking little to no vitamins while NOT pregnant I can tell you that pregnancy is going to suck every single thing out of you. I didn't even have surgery with my last child and wound up anemic, B12 deficient, and partially from the merit of living in the great gray northwest, "criminally low" on Vitamin D. 

If you are keeping this baby you need to get your butt in gear, one way or another.  

I got one, they told me not to take any pills larger than my pinkie nail but then gave me this antibiotic for h.pylori that had in RED on the box that the pills were not to be cut or split and they were larger than the dang multis and calcium.

I called, they said, absolutely do not cut the antibiotics in half or crush them EVER so I just shrugged, figured what the hell and started downing pills whole at three days out and never looked back.

I did crush one multivitamin, and if you were wondering, they are made of unadulterated evil the kind that makes you wish you didn't own a tongue.

 On one hand you do say you are going overboard on the carbs. On the other hand...some of us are hungry. 

I am Nic and I am a hungry DSer, I don't consider this a problem. I put away food (especially now that I am pregnant, and still losing through pregnancy hah figure that out) like it is the last food I will eat. And I have been eating since I had hamburger and beef jerky at three weeks post-op. 

The hardest part of my day is trying to figure out if what I am eating is third breakfast or first lunch sometimes. And I eat decent portions, whole BLT sandwiches (with what might be pleasantly described as a fuckton of bacon), a bowl of bacon and walnut topped oatmeal, Three eggs, a quarter of a thing of pork sausage, and a slice of butter drenched high fiber toast are all common single 30 minutes tops sittings of food for me. And I will eat no more than two hours directly after that, earlier if it's really early in the morning. 

So, it is possible to eat and eat and still lose. 

 Yes it's normal. Especially if you are keeping yourself well hydrated. A pint of water (16 oz) weighs a pound. 

The large part of your weight "gain" over a day is water, but also you are likely carrying around food mass still in your stomach and intestines.

It would be nearly impossible to gain 7lbs of fat in 12 hours and then lose it all over night.

Heck, I went to the fair and "gained" 11lbs that day...that was all gone by morning.  

 "As a man ... you will most likely still experience weight loss consuming many carbs ... if you are also working out. "

DAMN YOU MEN *fist shakes* 

 Mostly just milk (or too much ice cream). 

AND oddly enough Carb smart tortilla shells or low carb pasta/bread. I can eat all the whole wheat pasta and breads I want but if it says "Low carb" on the package it's some kind of weird voodoo by where my digestive system is like WAIT WAIT GO BACK THAT IS CRAZY!

Although, I rarely have gas that hurts, more I just have to sit at my desk with the air freshener heh. 

 It's really mind boggling how quickly everything can normalize. I go about my life day to day as if nothing about me is different, or changed. Things don't strike me as amazing anymore, I don't look toward goals, or think about how I used to not be able to do this! I just buy clothes, eat at restaurants, and have fun with my family like any normal person. I know people who don't know I had surgery, I don't feel compelled to tell them unless they see pictures of me, I'm forthcoming with the information it's just...not important day to day. 

That is until I try to get into a concert with my ID (which doesn't expire for another few years as I renewed it RIGHT BEFORE surgery) and the guy brings me inside, makes me take off my sunglasses, and scrutinizes every detail of the thing. Concedes only after a little bit that "It's you, you can tell around the eyes...but boy is it a different you."

At this point there isn't much new to tell: I lost over 220lbs, I hit goal, I wear a size 12 pants and a size 6 top (It was the same when I was heavier, I wore a size 26/28 top and a size 38 pants).  I'm currently 5 months pregnant - I get to find out if it's our fourth girl or a boy on the 29th, all my labs are spectacular. I eat what I want, it's kind of like a fun hobby, as my nutritional needs are largely addressed by the protein shakes and vites I take. I never have gas or loose stool that I either 1. can't predict or mitigate and 2. is so bad it'd make me stop eating half a lemon poppy seed muffin with my coffee in the morning. I'm pretty reactive to milk, my stomach gets gurly, but I buy darigold 100 percent lactose free and am back on the fruit loops for dessert trolly. I can eat salad, chicken breast, white rice, pasta, sugar, basically (and this is what my surgeon promised me with this surgery) what I WANT like an adult who is allowed to make food choices for herself. 

I am enjoying being pregnant this fourth time around, It's like getting to experience pregnancy fully for the first time. Every previous pregnancy I was 300+ pounds (All of them were spectacularly healthy, there is no reason a heavy gal can't be perfectly fine while pregnant). People comment on the fact that I am pregnant, Older ladies have started to try to touch me, I get to buy maternity clothing: Funny aside here, all my Small and Medium tops were starting to fit tight across my stomach or rolling up so I went to get maternity clothing. Well since Small and Medium in my regular clothes hadn't been fitting correctly for some time I pulled Large in Maternity. Silly me; they fit like tents! I had forgotten my size. So, I went and pulled some Small maternity tops, and LO they fit like magic again!!

I mean all in all this surgery gave me the ability to feel on the outside like I did on the inside. I feel more like myself than I ever have in my life. I feel free to express myself more with fashion; even if it's because there is simply more available in my size, I feel more able to get out and be with my kids. I have more energy, I keep a cleaner house (I think before I was tired and didn't know it, I thought I cleaned, I thought I was pretty on top of things but man, you should see my home now). I'm just ME now, everything is right and people see me for who I am, or at least I do when I look in a mirror.

And now the requisite pictures:

This was snapped by my now 7 year old when I was pregnant with my now 2 year old, not that you can tell I'm pregnant at 450+ lbs:



This is me this morning:



Edit: Man, I even KNOW the HTML code for posting pictures and OH makes it damn near impossible!

 Generally you will hear that Mag Citrate is "for" cramps and twitches and mag oxide is "for" laxative. 

HOWEVER, you get enough of any kind of magnesium it's ALLLLLL "for" laxative. 

Could very well be you don't NEED it. We don't necessarily have the exact same vitamin requirements. I don't take Mag citrate unless I experience night leg cramps. 

 With the DS, there are no foods that are restricted or prohibited.  We are able to eat what we want. 

I just wanted to highlight this. On my Surgeon's little comparison chart each surgery had a column for post-op diet. And each surgery (band, sleeve, and the two bypass surgeries listed) each had a list of foods to avoid (milk, potatoes, rice, bread, chips, crackers, sugar, etc. basically mushy things and white things). I remember very clearly the DS chart simply said "Quantity and Type of food is least restricted with this surgery." I assume it said quantity since he makes DS sleeves what he calls "considerably larger" than VSG sleeves. 

But yeah, everything else had this long list, whereas the DS had nothing but a statement that food was least restricted. I really keyed into that and liked it.