JaspersGirl

I am approx 5wks post op. I have only lost 26lbs, is this normal? I have seen other people have lost approx 40lbs , I feel like a fat looser. Not even surgery can help me loose weight. It really made me depressed. I feel like a whiny little brat but it's house I feel. I need some words of encouragement please. Seriously, how much did everyone loose?

congratz!!!!!!

For a snack I had a small slice of rolled up ham and plain Fage 0% in it, yummy I only use it as sour cream substitute, I can't eat it alone... bleh

I could not drink anything at all for the first 2 weeks!!! My dietician told me to eat sugar free popsicles, that went down so easy. Third week I was able to drink liquids like nothing. Hope you doing good now.

thanx everyone for your advice, I shall call. Hopefully it's nothing!

I don't know if my incision areas were asleep and numb for the past 21days after my surgery? As of today they are kinda hurting Before they were numb to touch, n now they are just ouching away. All my steri strips fell off and everything seems fine. One of them has a huge bump around that area, but it was the biggest incision so it maybe because of brusing? If it was a hernia, it would be painful right? It doesn't hurt when I touch it, only if I press on it. Should I worry, or is this normal?

my post op dietician gave me a list of stuff I can eat during mushy stage, hot sauces, chilis, peppers are all on it. I have been having them since I got on mushy stage. I have some beans over some hot sauce. Yesterday hubby made mole (I am mexican so we cook mexican everyday, but now I will have to make it healthy), so I ate mole with greek yogurt instead of sour cream and some beans. it was yummy

r u sure it's not cravings instead of hunger? I see a commercial and want to run to the fridge, then I stop and say.. wait I am not hungry.. just a stupid doritos craving because of the commercial, lol

I am still on mushy food. When I have broth I can down 3-4 oz, when I have anything more solid/mushish I can only get 1/2 an oz of food. That is why I go back n forth to broths and soups.

oh my! glad I am not the only one then. I have a birthday party to go to this weekend. I am very close to these people and I know during dinner I will forget. I will have to have my husband or daughter nudge me or kick me under the table if they see me over eating again, lol.

wow, 5wks and you still can't eat. I am 21days post op and I can't eat anything. After a couple of small tiny itsy bitsy bites I get super full. I am worried when I return to work I won't have energy because I can't eat. I work in direct patient care and run around all day sweating.

I am itchy too where the other strips fell off, I am slightly allergic to latex, I hate that itch, sometimes I forget not to itch so hard, lol

I go to a WLS support group in my area and there are people there who said they sell Grapefruit juice type of Protein drinks at Trader Joe's. I want to go look for some, I hate the shakes! Before surgery I loved chocolate, I was a addict when it came to chocolate. Now the smell of it makes me gag! I purchased a huge chocolate Protein powder jug. Now I can barely drink it!!!! Just letting you know, hopefully you have a Trader Joe's by you so you can try the drink.

my doc said let them fall off on their own, the stitches desolve and the strip will fall off. I am 21days post op, and I had 2 (the bigger ones) still on, I pulled one of them in the shower, and I bled! I said damn, I will let the other one fall off by itself instead. I guess everyone is different?

OMG!!!! I just post a new topic asking the same thing!!!!! I am 21days post op, this weekend I went to a party and had something I shouldn't have had (I tend to forget I was sleeved when I am talking and hanging out with people) I have had this pinchy feeling as well, I too am freaking because it's been 2days and I get that pinchy feeling every few hours! I am glad to know if it's a leak then we would have a fever, I thought I ripped my incision and I am leaking, lol. That is what I get for eating like a fatty, well it was just one bite of a tostada, the bite was like a mouse size bite. Please keep me posted, hopefully your pinch pain feeling goes away soon!!!

Since Sunday morning I woke up with a pulsating pinch pain around my tummy sides area. Sometimes I feel it on my left back side. I am not sure if it's because maybe I slept wrong. I woke up on my side with top part of my body twisted (yes I am a crazy wild sleeper), or was it because I was at a birthday party on Saturday night and had a bite of a tostada? Not sure if it's stuck somewhere, or did I pinch a nerve in my sleep? Has anyone felt this before? The pains come and go every few hours.

I worry about my hair as well!!! My hair was thinning before surgery, so I am afraid it will get worse. I hope not!

that reminds me, lol. This weekend at my friend's bday party, her sister is a baker in a some fancy bakery and makes the bestestestest cakes. I knew I couldn't have cake, so I licked the ribbon the cake had as a decoration, lol My daughter looked at me so shocked and said mommy you are going to get sick. I said no, sleeved people don't dump and winked.. I am bad!

I am 21days post op and can't even finish 1ounce of food! (unless it's just broth) I get full but not satisfied I hate that part, but 1 time I did continue to eat my chili and boy did it hurt! It was an hour of pain!! I ate 2oz of chili beans. Never again. So now if I have to get up and leave my family alone at dinner, well then I get up and they understand.

I had a constipation problem!!!! I take 1oz of prune juice a day, it works. Yesterday I took 2, I was in pain, but it worked

Hi!!! Happy same sleeve day to you! lol, I don't exercise, I plan to maybe in a week or so, just the treadmill for now. To answer your typical eating day.... sigh.. I can't eat much!! I will give you an example of what I ate today so far. I woke up and around 8am had 2 oz of double Protein shake, I was turbo full. For lunch, at 12pm I had 1/4 of a poached egg, I can't fit anything else around 1pm I had 6oz of Sobee 0Calorie fiji apple/pear Water thing. Right now I am mega stuffed, for dinner I will have maybe 2oz of chicken broth. When I do have pureed or mushie food, I get stuffed very easy, maybe even 2 small fork tip bites of food. This weekend I went to my friend's birthday party, I was told to bring a dish (it was a surprise party so we all took something to make a buffet) I made a high protein bean salad. So my hubby and I ate in the corner alone just so I won't have people asking me questions or making faces to see how little I can eat. My brother ended up joining us in the corner and he had a tostada.... well as we were eating, talking and laughing, I grabbed a piece of his tostada and ate it!!!!!! I don't know if that is why I have a deep pulsating pinch feeling since then. I hope it passes, I feel so stupid for doing that. I hope I didn't do damage. urgh! I need to not forget I was sleeved!

Today I went over my mom's house and she had guest. The guest had her 2year old son and he gave me a piece of candy! I forgot about my sleeve surgery mushie food diet!!! 1/2 through my Laffy Taffy yummy strawberry chew candy I felt so full and uncomfortable, then I remembered... I was not suppose to eat that. Lucky for me being 16days post op, I am now use to eating little itty bitty bites, I ate that half of the candy in about 1/2 an hr mostly by letting it disolve in my mouth. I was so worried I would get sick, 2hrs later, here I am.. fine have any of you forgotten as well?

I am on mushie foods as well, I am16days post op, I can only eat 2-3 little fork fulls of food as well. Sometimes I just have broth with a noodle or something, lol. It goes down way better and I don't get that yucky feeling that is going to come back up your throat. My doc said that is the sign that you prob ate to fast or over ate.... 2-3 little fork full size? Can't wait to start eating normal, I worry myself that I am not getting enough... oh wait... I forgot to take my Flinestone vitamins today!!! it's 10:18pm where I am... brb gotta eat Fred Flinestone!

excited for you!!!!!!!! good luck

I will look into getting this book, I am lost on how to cool or what to cook now that I am sleeved.