jrm1104

I'm bout 6 weeks out...it gets easier. There's some meats that are harder for me to eat: dry chicken, tough steak. The hardest part of not drinking during your meal (or right after) for me is dealing with mouth burn from hot sauce. The rationale is to not dilute your food so it stays in the pouch longer to keep you full. I focus my drinking (almost exclusively tea, coffee & Water with the occasional 4 ounces of V8 fusion Light if I need a treat & Crystal Light packets added to water when I work) to right before my meals, starting maybe an hour beforehand. I can easily drink 20-40 ounces in a couple minutes at this point.
There's some foods I miss at times, but will eat them again in moderation. Rice bothers me in the mornings, but in the afternoon or evenings I might be able to eat as much as 1/4 cup. Bread was out for me, including flour tortillas, which had me down...I was able to eat corn tortillas and cornbread though until my last fill. Now they are out too, unless I eat cornbread in chili. But other foods, like fast food I honestly am not missing at all. I'm really starting to enjoy healthier choices and tastes. Roasted zucchini, yellow squash, green Beans, and onion has become one of my new favorite foods and I was NEVER a veggie lover!!