How do you get all your fluid in??

Laura222
on 9/10/14 9:10 am
VSG on 07/24/14

Especially if there are any teachers out there! Help a fellow teacher out, please! I teach pre-k. I have 16 wonderful kids in the morning and then a group of 14 in the afternoon. I bring a bottle of Poweraid Zero (32 oz) in the morning and I have some more G2 in my fridge in my room. But I'm still drinking on that same bottle of poweraid that I brought this morning when I'm leaving at 6:00. Then I'm cramming trying to get the rest of my liquids in in the evening. Any tips or tricks on how to get all my liquid in? Thanks!

 HW: 275  SW: 267.4 (1st day of pre-op diet)  Pre-op: -16.5lbs  M1:-17.8  M2:-11.9  M3:-12.5   M4:-16.5   M5:-10.5   M6:-5.1

  

Chrissy W.
on 9/10/14 9:17 am - Indianapolis, IN
VSG on 07/01/13

Hello, fellow teacher!  Though I'm not teaching currently, my best strategy for staying hydrated was to just never put the bottle down. I just carried it around with me while I taught.

Honestly, in the VERY beginning post op, it's tough. Just do the absolute best you can (with no excuses) and then try to do better tomorrow.

Good luck!

VSG 7/1/13 with Dr. Jack Rutledge 28 y/o female - 5'10" - HW: 298GW: 174 - SW: 290 (-8) - M1: 262 (-28) - M2: 247 (-15) - M3: 235 (-12) - M4: 228 (-7 ~First Stall: almost 2 wks~) - M5: 218 (-10) - M6: 209 (-9) - M7: 199 (-10) Onederland on 1/31 - M8: 196 (-3) 100 lb total loss on 2/2 - M9: 192.6 (-3.4) - M10: 188.6 (-4) - M11: 182 (-6.6) - M12: 175.6 (-6.4) - M13: 173.8 (-1.8) CW (7/8/15): 167 - GOAL reached in 1 Year and 25 Days! - TOTAL WL - 131 lbs  

greensleeved
on 9/10/14 9:20 am
VSG on 07/10/14 with

Don't put the bottle down. Get used to being in front of a class with it in your hand. I teach 2-3 college classes a day so I'm in there a much shorter time than you are, so I used to not bring a drink with me. I wasn't getting in enough fluids either, so I now just bring tha****er bottle EVERYWHERE. ALL the time. And I just sip, sip, sip all day long. You have to drink constantly, CONSTANTLY and be really mindful. It's a pain but it works. 

     

"Free your ass, and your mind will follow."  HW - 287, Start W - 273, Surgery W - 257, Onederland - 4 months 1 week post op,  100 lbs lost - 8 months 1 week, CW - 162

bigabeeb
on 9/10/14 10:23 am
VSG on 08/04/14

Hello fellow teacher! I teach special ed at a jr high. I have set time limits for myself.  Example I need to be finished with my 1st vitamin water zero by the end of 1st bell and I have to have my shake by 9:30. Otherwise I was drinking so much at home that I was up all night using the bathroom.  Hope you find a system that works for you. 

                 HW-- 322     CW--203

mickeymantle
on 9/10/14 4:14 pm - Eugene/Springfield, OR
VSG on 07/22/13

just sip sip sip all day , it will get easier in a few months

    

   175 lb  lost,412 hw 336sw,241 cw surgery July 22 2013,surgeon Dr Colin MacColl,

 

  

                                                                                                             

 

 

 

Valerie G.
on 9/11/14 12:10 am - Northwest Mountains, GA

Instead of leaving it in your room, carry your bottle everywhere.  Take a sip before you do anything and another sip when you're done.  Take a sip every time you're asked to go to the bathroom, every time someone raises their hand, cries, etc.  Make your own drinking games.  I had a 64oz jug with a straw (yes, you can use a straw.  The no-straw rule is for RNY) that I took everywhere and my goal was for it to be empty that day.  In a couple months it was empty before lunchtime and I was working on my second one.

Valerie
DS 2005

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