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Food and Nutrition

This forum is for questions about food and nutrition before and after all types of weight loss surgeries. Check out the sub-forums to see if there is a more specific place for your post, to help people find information more easily.

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  1. Pre-op Diets and Questions

    This forum is for questions about the pre-op diets before all weight loss surgery types. This is not for recipes. Use the Recipe Sharing forum and sub-forums instead.

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  2. Post-op Diets and Questions

    This forum is for questions about your post-op weight loss surgery diet. The post-op guidelines may vary by surgery and by surgeon. This is not for recipes. Use the Recipe Sharing forum and sub-forums instead.

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  3. Protein, Vitamins, and Supplements

    This forum is for questions about protein shakes and powders, vitamins, and other supplements for weight loss surgery patients.

    21,323
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  4. Vegetarian or Vegan Eating

    This is a place where the emphasis is on supporting vegetarian and/or vegan styles of eating in terms of bariatric surgery and nutrients. No meat vs. non meat bashing, trash talk or the like are allowed. All are welcome in support of getting in your healthy veggies and fruit. Please feel free to ask questions.

    1,668
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  5. Recipe Sharing

    The sub-forums here are for sharing recipes. There are two different main sections: diet phase and special diet needs. Note that in most cases, a higher diet phase allows foods from lower phases (you can have a full liquid even if you are on solids), so put the recipe in the minimum phase where it can be eaten.

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  1. I'm bad at liquids.

    By ash,
    • 33 replies
    • 4,274 views

  2. Full Liquid Recipes

    By *susan*,
    • 13 replies
    • 3,912 views

  3. "Magic Bullet" twin

    By BobBayCityMI,
    • 5 replies
    • 1,394 views

  4. Hard Time With Food

    By Lisanne,
    • 11 replies
    • 1,890 views

  5. A couple cool web sites

    By Oregondaisy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1,679 views

  6. I just realized...

    By WASaBubbleButt,
    • 22 replies
    • 2,807 views

  7. Great New Find

    By Malaika,
    • 2 replies
    • 1,203 views

  8. Diet off track

    By DeannaS,
    • 44 replies
    • 6,224 views

  9. In Your Opinion

    By Malaika,
    • 22 replies
    • 3,808 views

  10. My Weird Food

    By WASaBubbleButt,
    • 43 replies
    • 5,010 views

  11. Crashing

    By Jane_J,
    • 8 replies
    • 1,518 views

  12. Protein Powders

    By learned2bskinny,
    • 13 replies
    • 2,262 views

  13. Is there alcholol at all after the Sleeve?

    By attitudefree,
    • 7 replies
    • 1,647 views

  14. Artificial sweetners

    By techgurl1988,
    • 22 replies
    • 2,734 views

  15. Post Op diet

    By *Lib*,
    • 8 replies
    • 1,671 views

  16. Two New Discoveries (at least new to me)

    By Malaika,
    • 9 replies
    • 1,782 views

  17. Some doctors should not be doing sleeves

    By Rosebud2,
    • 3 replies
    • 1,377 views

  18. I can't believe it

    By Rosebud2,
    • 3 replies
    • 1,300 views

  19. What is with this lactose intolerance?

    By Oregondaisy,
    • 12 replies
    • 2,342 views

  20. All liquids

    By Rosebud2,
    • 65 replies
    • 7,881 views

  21. Steak n veggies

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 640 views

  22. movie munchie idea

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 942 views

  23. Caffenated tea

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 616 views

  24. Okay, post surgery peeps....

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 781 views

  25. Rate your liquids

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 826 views

  26. Fiber One Protein Bars?

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 898 views

  27. Best Protein Bars

    By Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 1,401 views

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    • BeanitoDiego

      BeanitoDiego

      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
      A looong story short, is that an assistant surgeon that was in the process of accepting money from my insurance company touched me while I was under anesthesia. That is what the bill was for. But hey, guess what? Some federal legislation was enacted last year to help patients out when they cannot consent to being touched by someone out of their insurance network. These types of bills fall under something called, "surprise billing," and you don't have to put up with it.
      https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises
      I had to make a lot of phone calls to both the surgeon's office and the insurance company and explain my rights and what the maximum out of pocket costs were that I could be liable for. Also had to remind them that it isn't my place to be taking care of all of this and that I was going to escalate things if they could not play nice with one another.
      Quick ending is that I don't have to pay that $7,000+. Advocate, advocate, advocate for yourself no matter how long it takes and learn more about this law if you are ever hit with a surprise bill.
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    • BeanitoDiego

      BeanitoDiego

      Some days I feel like an infiltrator... I'm participating in society as a "thin" person. They have no idea that I haven't always been one of them! 🤣
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    • ChunkCat

      ChunkCat

      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
      I haven't been able to advance my diet past purees. Everything I eat other than tofu makes me choke and feels like trying to swallow rocks. They warned me it would get worse before it gets better, so lets hope this is all normal. I have my follow up on Monday so we'll see. Living on shakes and soup again is not fun. I had enough of them the first time!! LOL 
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    • BeanitoDiego

      BeanitoDiego

      Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
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    • Onedayatatime365

      Onedayatatime365

      Looking to connect with others who are also on the journey of better health. Post-Op Gastric Sleeve (4/11/24).
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