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Hmm I'll have to try those from Costco! How many calories are in one?

I agree with a previous poster ...the band is a nightmare! I had mine for 3 years, lost 40 pounds but gained it all back and then some. I, like you, never found a sweet spot, it was always horrible one way or another. When they took my band out, they found nothing wrong with it... I was like, "really? seriously?" oh well..I'm glad it's gone and now i'm on my sleeve journey!

Yep..I am the same. I'm having to flavor my water with crystal lite

Just wondering what types of Vitamins everyone is taking. My surgeons office highly promotes Bariatric Advantage but their chewables are YUCK. I know I won't stick with them. They have these capsules, I am considering ordering them, but hten I worry what if they are too big to swallow? and it is 6 a day of those... I want something I can stick with.. They also have these crystals that you can dissolve in your drinks, which sounds great, but dang they are expensive! Calcium I think I'm gonna have to go with the fruit chewables..had some samples...they taste like starburst from bariatric advantage, but I see bariatriceating.com has some good lookin ones too. What about Iron? And I am freakin out about getting Protein in. I'm only almost 2 wks out..so I only am getting in around 27 per day. I don't wanna lose my hair! Suggestions? Thanks!

So I was really looking fwd to starting puree food today. I'm 10 days out and sick of shakes. Anyway... I sat down with my little 1/4 cup of ricotta cheese with a little spaghetti sauce and ate it over the 20 min time frame as instructed. I'm still hungry. I didn't even feel hungry after my Protein shakes! But I was drinking 8 oz of those over 1 hour. But I'm scared I didn't feel any restriction..maybe because I was eating so slowly? is this normal?

ikwym, I keep worrying like "ack what if my sleeve isn't as small or rextrictive as I was told it would be...how will I stick to the diet?" I'm really worried about that..worried about failing, again....

how much does your doc/nut want you eating at one sitting? Ours says 1/4 cup 3 times a day! Is'nt' that so small? lol but they say the stomach only will hold that much... wow

So I was sleeved on Monday. I've been doing pretty well getting in my 3 Protein shakes a day and fluids in between. But to be honest I don't feel that different! I still think I feel hungry, everytime my husband or kids eat it makes me wanna eat, (which I haven't at all of course), And when I'm drinking my shakes and fluids I do 2oz over 15 min... nothing feels different. If my tummy wasn't all colorful and bruized and steri-stripped I'd question I had surgery! LOL When will I be able to FEEL my sleeve? Not until real food? I'ts making it hard!

Ok here it is...and I have already left a message for my doc too.... still on liquids. last night...2am...bolt upright awake with a SEVERE pain in my stomach. Like, seriously it felt like someone was grabbing the inside of my stomach sleeve and ripping it out. At the same time , I felt burning in my chest area, and tasted what I thought was blood...felt an intense urge to start coughing, but stomach pain was ripping me apart so I was trying to get to toilet. I sat in front of the toilet thinking I was going to vomit, but the pain was so bad, I got all sweaty and tingly, and felt like the room was spinning, felt like I was gonna pass out! I felt like I couldn't catch my breath for the burning in my chest and tried to cough just a little, which burned like terrible and coughed up what looked and tasted like stomach bile. I was almost crying, my husband was about to call 911... I kept saying "somethings wrong, somethings wrong" I seriously thought I was gonna die. Then, as quickly as it came on, the pain subsidded. However....I still had the burning in my chest, and now this morning, it still feels tight in my chest and rattly ... ok, just heard from the doc, they want me to go have a chest xray.. sigh..... nothing can ever go smoothly for me.

Stacy160...I totally think that's what happened too. it was so scary and painful. But I'm not sure what the initial stomach pain was.

Thank you all...well they did an Ekg, Chest CT, bloodwork...all came back ok. Which bothers me...because it was very very real and very very painful! My self-diagnosis maybe a severe gas pain? then when I sat up I refluxed acid and it burned my chest and throat.... not sure where the blood taste was comeing from though... Oh well..I'm ok. guess that's all that matters. though I felt like a dummy at the ER.

LOL so my Nut called back...says do not start purees/mushies til at least Thurs! She said "don't listen to the surgeon, he doesn't know anything about the diet!" lol She said progressing the diet to quickly can actually cause your pouch to stretch.. So no matter how much I THINK I am hungry for mushy food...I wanna do this right! I'll wait. :-)

I was sleeved last Monday, so tomorrow will be 1 wk. The class I went to, and the instructions they sent me home with both said full liquids 10-14 days, then start mushies.... Well..... my surgeon just called to check on me. He said I can go ahead and start mushies now. What? LOL I mean, trust me, I want something besides liquid. But it threw me for a loop because that wasn't what I was taught. He said to start with yogurt. Anyone else start mushies 1 wk out? Or was it more like 2 wks? I'm not sure what to do.

Thanks guys! And would you consider soup (like Tomato, smooth no chunks of anything) a liquid or a puree? I just can't figure out if I should sip 2 oz every 15 min...over 1 hour....and get 8 oz of it (like the protein shakes) or if I should just drink a max of 1/4 cup of it in like a 20 minute time frame for a MEAL. Which seems like sooooo little of soup that is draining right through you.

Thank you!

Yes, it is in a blue box..actually it was one thing my surgeons Nut recommended getting... I found mine just at the grocery store, King Soopers, which is a Kroger store.

ahh Thanks Tiff, so does that hormone eventually go away? Right now it's just lingering? Yeah, it's totally in my head too.. even when my tummy doesn't FEEL hungry..all the food smells make me wanna eat! I never thought I'd say I'm looking forward to Puree food! LOL

Becca, we were sleeved on the same day! :-) ikwym..jello and broth make me wanna gag. So I am doing 3 protein shakes a day, (8 oz over 1 hour each) and inbetween those I've been doing Crystal Lite lemonade and fruit punch and water. That is the diet my surgeon puts us on...

Tiff, how can you tell if you're having a leak?

Hello Friends, Well I was sleeved on Monday. I got so sick from the anesthesia that I couldn't keep anything down sO I had to stay an extra night. ... but it seems to be better now.. now for the question...The morning of my surgery I weighed myself 260... today I weighed myself 265! Is that just from swelling or something?? AAAHHH!

Hey cool! Do you ever go to the support groups in Denver? I went to the one at Swedish for Dec, I am gonna try to go for Jan also

Thanks! I just can't wait to see that number going DOWN!!!

I just posted this exact question! Same thing happened to me! I was sleeved on Monday also, came home today 5 pounds heavier! lol

Hi! I have posted a couple times and lurked and read alot! I got my approval and am scheduled to be sleeved on December 27th! I am so excited, and a little scared! I'm scared of surgery and anesthesia itself...not of being sleeved... It seems like most people on this forum have a pre-op diet? My dr doesn't do those... just a big bowel cleansing the night before (YUK)! Guess I need to get my protein and vitamins ordered!!! AAAAAHHHH!!!

Anyone with Aetna and doing the pre-surgery 3 month requirements? I am so worried... these past 3 months have been crisis after crisis.. Sick baby in and out of Children's Hospital, Teenage child drama drama, illnesses, you name it! I haven't been able to lose any weight. In fact, I have gained 10 pounds since my initial consult. There is no real stipulation saying how much you have to lose to be approved...but the nutritionist says they want to seem SOME loss... I am so scared I'm going to get denied. I don't think I could handle that on top of everything else....