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Post by melanie74 on Mar 28, 2014 13:42:15 GMT -5
I am an occasional social drinker - maybe a sangria out with the girls once a month. I am pretty much a lightweight - one drink and that's it. It doesn't make me drunk - but I don't like drinking so much that I feel "altered".
I am only 10 weeks out - and have no plans to drink right now. I am just curious .... How has it affected you? Do you absorb less of the alcohol? Or more? Does it send you straight to the bathroom with diarrhea?
How long did you wait before having a drink again? Or should I just plan on this being something I avoid from here on out?
Thanks!!
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Post by newyorkbitch on Mar 28, 2014 14:09:03 GMT -5
There are varying opinions and experiences. Some people are adamant about not drinking for a year. I was never told that.
I started drinking wine, in moderation, a few months out. I never had a problem. I don't drink much, never have. I have a glass of wine a few times a week, a beer on occasion, and once in a while I have a cocktail. No ill effects at all. Some people report that they get tipsy faster and much more easily. That has not been my experience.
I've been drinking in moderation, with a DS, for close to 14 years.
I'd say wait at least 3 months, and then try. Have a few sips of white wine and see how it is. Maybe the week after that, have a half a glass and see how it goes. Trial and error. Slow.
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Post by jpcello on Mar 28, 2014 14:11:21 GMT -5
I think the consensus is to wait at least 6 months if not longer (my surgeon's instructions were one year and I followed that).
I do drink - mostly wine. Actually had a glass with dinner last night. It was a friend's birthday and they also brought us each a complimentary dessert wine after dinner. Very yummy.
I will definitely feel a buzz from one drink. Two glasses I'm drunk. Three or more I'm toast.
If I had a cocktail I try to avoid fruit juice based drinks. Too many carbs.
Been known to have a beer on occasion.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Mar 28, 2014 14:13:33 GMT -5
…and I had 2 glasses of wine last night with dinner, and felt nothing. Go figure.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 15:13:24 GMT -5
I drank for the first time two weeks ago (3 Tanquerray & tonics) and it was no different than before..other than jostling the ice around to get rid of carbonation.
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Post by Taterweight on Mar 28, 2014 16:12:08 GMT -5
Yay for this topic...I'm not planning a Spring Break fest, but it's nice to know I can possibly have a "Meeting with Jose" and my gal pals at our stitch n bitch in the somewhat near future!
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Post by Happy DSr on Mar 28, 2014 16:41:40 GMT -5
wait at least a year until you have lost your weight and stabilized
Your liver is working very hard to support the physical demands of your weight loss. It does not need the added burden of processing alcohol.
A drink at a very occasional special event after 6 months out could be OK, but tread carefully, stay away from sugary drinks/mix, and DO NOT DRIVE - you don't know how you will metabolize the alcohol
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Post by newyorkbitch on Mar 28, 2014 18:35:25 GMT -5
Why do you say the liver is working very hard? Harder than usual? Why?
Everything in moderation.
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Post by meq815 on Mar 28, 2014 21:31:44 GMT -5
Timely thread! I am currently on my first real vacation, 11 months post op. I was told (or read-I forget where or by whom) that the standard for abstaining post op is 1 year. My surgeon said 18 months. A month or so ago, I had about 4oz of Sparkletini for the toast at a 60th bday party. I was so tired the next day! Woohoo! Yesterday, I had a piña colada, today, a strawberry daiquiri and a frozen margarita. I ordered a glass of Chardonnay with dinner, but hubs drank most of it, as it didn't taste good to me, and I preferred to concentrate on the amazing antipasto set before me. As far as getting buzzed, I really felt nothing! I expected the quick drunk I've heard so much about. I am really exhausted though. Guess my poor liver is saying "wtf?  " Haha |
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Post by Leonie on Mar 28, 2014 23:47:04 GMT -5
Like with everything else, I never said no. At three weeks out we attended a very special celebration. I had some champagne. I took a tiny sip and swirled it in my mouth till the bubbles were gone. Cheers!
I want to participate and experience the taste. That is enough.
Actually, apart from that very first taste sensation, wine and beer no longer tastes good. A bit like a productive burp.
Now, creamy liqueurs are a totally different matter. I loooooove Amarula, Baileys, strawberry cream etc. At about a year out, I started having a bottle in the house. Love it as dessert. It is dangerous if my stomach is empty, and I am a bit tired. I am a sleepy drunk after two, my board game buddies know.
Confession: I sometimes add a dash of Amarula to my breakfast protein coffee.
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Post by Girlrocker on Mar 29, 2014 14:47:12 GMT -5
As someone who temporarily had a drinking problem at point in my life - a trade from food - it was something I really wanted to be careful of. Plus, after my revision, I thought it was a wise idea to give my insides to heal as long as possible. I didn't wait the year my surgeon preferred, it was more like 6 months, and sipping wine or champagne. I love beer, but it's very filling, I seldom drink it any more, and I do like my margaritas and summer vodka cocktails, a nice whiskey/scotch in the colder weather. But two does the trick for me if I'm not eating too, or more if I am, love my wines with good food, I watch the margs because of all the extra sugar in the mixes; every now and then just fine. I'll also order tequila with club soda and roses lime as an alternative. When I make margs at home I'll use a sugar free marg mix, they've come a long way and taste great; if I drink vodka at home parties, I usually mix with Crystal Light; if out, I'll have a martini, or soda with just a splash of oj or cranberry. I'm now a happy social drinker and enjoy it all in moderation; Tater, love this, "Meeting with Jose" and my gal pals at our stitch n bitch in the somewhat near future! Absolutely you will!
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Post by pandykorn on Mar 29, 2014 16:25:30 GMT -5
i suspect i have an alcohol sensitivity to begin with but it hits me VERY hard if i drink but for a short period of time. I almost never drank b4 surgery and almost never drink now, but 1 sip of beer, i will physically feel disgusting immediatly, same with wine or anything else.
Slightly fermented/malt beverages make me feel uncomfortable physically.
I avoid almost all types of alcohol b/c the sensation is not enjoyable to me and never was. But once again i do think i have some type of underlying intolerance or allergy
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Post by kennyk on Mar 29, 2014 21:22:27 GMT -5
Two White Russians and all is well with the world! But I wi be so we soon.... Or having my 3rd  K |
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Post by PrettyGirlBounce on Mar 29, 2014 22:13:15 GMT -5
Yay for this topic...I'm not planning a Spring Break fest, but it's nice to know I can possibly have a "Meeting with Jose" and my gal pals at our stitch n bitch in the somewhat near future! I have NO idea what a "stitch n bitch" is...but I want to be a part of it regardless. lol |
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Post by meq815 on Mar 29, 2014 22:14:38 GMT -5
Sounds like a quilting bee Lis- I say we're in ;-)
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Post by PrettyGirlBounce on Mar 29, 2014 22:17:57 GMT -5
Sounds like a quilting bee Lis- I say we're in ;-) You just shush over there in Margaritaville...you LUSH! hahaaa xoxo |
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Post by missdee1 on Mar 29, 2014 22:19:32 GMT -5
I'm 3 1/2 months out. I have had 1 glass of wine on several occasions now and don't feel any difference than before. I stop at 1 because it's filling for me. And I'm not wanting to over do it.
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Post by meq815 on Mar 29, 2014 22:30:57 GMT -5
Where's that damn lost shaker of salt...... ? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2014 22:37:38 GMT -5
Where's that damn lost shaker of salt...... ? |
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Post by Taterweight on Mar 29, 2014 23:11:50 GMT -5
Stitch n bitch is uhm...well bunch of my friends from various clubs I've been in...we ditched the dead weight of business meetings and people that drove us crazy and get together once a month with our friends, Jose and Merlot. Some people actually do stitching or crochet...some just bitch about the people we left behind...and I just herd the cats back to the refills! Then we go to lunch and return to our husbands like we learned how to make pretty flowers out of wine dyed (spills!) fabric. It's all good!  Doesn't everyone have these kinds of things??? |
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Post by goodkel on Mar 30, 2014 1:02:00 GMT -5
Why do you say the liver is working very hard? Harder than usual? Why? Everything in moderation. Rapid weight loss stresses the liver because the liver processes all the fat that is being lost. There are scientific studies floating around out there on the effect of rapid loss on the liver. I took Milk Thistle to support my liver whenever I had a drink during the first two years. No studies I saw about that, just read it on the boards and figured that it couldn't hurt. |
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Post by califsleevin on Apr 3, 2014 10:33:04 GMT -5
Why do you say the liver is working very hard? Harder than usual? Why? Everything in moderation. Rapid weight loss stresses the liver because the liver processes all the fat that is being lost. There are scientific studies floating around out there on the effect of rapid loss on the liver. I took Milk Thistle to support my liver whenever I had a drink during the first two years. No studies I saw about that, just read it on the boards and figured that it couldn't hurt. Plus, starting as morbidly obese (or worse,) people, our livers aren't in the best of shape to begin with. Rabkin came to bariatrics from the liver transplant end of things (which he still maintains, AFAIK) so he tends to be a bit anal about liver care, and is one of those in the "none while losing" camp; that is one of the points stressed during the psych eval - can you give up alky for the year or two it might take to get the weight off. Seems he doesn't want to see any of his bariatric vets show up on his transplant table! |
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Post by newyorkbitch on Apr 3, 2014 11:18:22 GMT -5
I was never told to wait a year, and I didn't. I think I started drinking at 3 months out but it was VERY slow and VERY moderate.
I never had any problems.
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Post by goodkel on Apr 3, 2014 14:19:52 GMT -5
I had my first drink at three months out. One shot of Bailey's Irish Cream over ice at Thanksgiving. Drank it with tiny sips, it was a little burn-y in my stomach. Had my second, the same thing, a month later at Christmas. The following March in a 5-6 week stall at 6 months out, I had a minor bacchanalia with the free Barefoot Bubbly champagne they were generously pouring during the Sweet Potato Queens parade weekend. I arrived home weighing 8 pounds less. For some people, Krispy Kremes work. For me, it is champagne and waving to admiring crowds.  After that, I didn't drink again until I was on a beach vacation that summer and had a few cocktails during the week. I have a couple of great tropical cocktail recipes, courtesy of MajorMom/Gina Floyd, that use Nectar Protein. It was win/win. Now, at going on seven years out, I may have 2-3 glasses of wine in the course of a couple of weeks usually with dinner out. Unless I have friends I haven't seen in a long time over to my house and we spend an evening drinking champagne and laughing around my dining room table, I never go overboard. That is moderation. |
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Post by PrettyGirlBounce on Apr 3, 2014 21:02:58 GMT -5
I had my first drink at three months out. One shot of Bailey's Irish Cream over ice at Thanksgiving. Drank it with tiny sips, it was a little burn-y in my stomach. Had my second, the same thing, a month later at Christmas. The following March in a 5-6 week stall at 6 months out, I had a minor bacchanalia with the free Barefoot Bubbly champagne they were generously pouring during the Sweet Potato Queens parade weekend. I arrived home weighing 8 pounds less. For some people, Krispy Kremes work. For me, it is champagne and waving to admiring crowds. After that, I didn't drink again until I was on a beach vacation that summer and had a few cocktails during the week. I have a couple of great tropical cocktail recipes, courtesy of MajorMom/Gina Floyd, that use Nectar Protein. It was win/win. Now, at going on seven years out, I may have 2-3 glasses of wine in the course of a couple of weeks usually with dinner out. Unless I have friends I haven't seen in a long time over to my house and we spend an evening drinking champagne and laughing around my dining room table, I never go overboard. That is moderation. Alcoholic protein shakes? NOW you're talkin'!!!  |
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Post by goodkel on Apr 4, 2014 0:13:35 GMT -5
Here ya go : Gina's (MajorMom) recipe. Healthy Screw: Mix 1.5 scoops of NECTAR Fuzzy Navel 6oz OJ Add 1 shot icy cold Vodka and ice. Read more: weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/thread/5474/healthy-screw#ixzz2xtJ7Ai3rSyntrax Nectar Fuzzy Navel is good with peach schnapps and vodka. Other flavors go well with rum. I know Tropical Punch does. If you are watching carbs closely, skip the juice and schnapps and replace them with diet orange and peach soda. Summer is coming! |
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Post by PrettyGirlBounce on Apr 4, 2014 0:42:57 GMT -5
Mad genius!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 9:04:42 GMT -5
I waited 8 months before I started drinking socially again. but by then I had lost 140lbs. (now at 165lbs lost, and 1.5 years.) It takes less for me to feel a buzz initially, but I'm pretty good about moderating once i reach that state. I never get 'fall down' drunk. I could, if i wanted to, pretty easily though.
I do notice that it takes me MUCH less time to recover, and morning after is better than I remember them being.
I don't drink beer to get drunk. I only drink it in social situations when I really don't want to get buzzed. The carbonation keeps me drinking it slower.
For Parties, and other situations, I drink Whiskey and Diet coke. I have found that if I stick with that, I can keep my hydration level up, and recovery is easier. (that is, if the bartender is making them normal strentgh, and not industrial in nature).
I don't drink at home normally, maybe a beer left over from the last party once in a great while. To me, I am truly a social drinker, thats it. I may have 1 night a month where my DW and I are at the bar with friends, or at our house or someone elses, for a celebration. (hell with it, who needs an excuse to get together? not I!)
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Post by jpcello on Apr 4, 2014 13:25:27 GMT -5
I waited 8 months before I started drinking socially again. but by then I had lost 140lbs. (now at 165lbs lost, and 1.5 years.) Marc - so glad to see you finally put on a few pounds and are no longer below goal. Update your signature |
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