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Four weeks out, I was doing purees and cottage cheese. Some pudding on occassion, but that was it. I slowly pureed my Soups less and less. It just takes time. Some of us take more time for our swelling to go down. It will happen.

Everyone recovers at a different pace, but it's quite normal to still be swollen and have difficulties with soft foods at four weeks. You will likely experience a lot of improvement over the next several weeks, but you probably won't feel completely "normal" until close to three months post-op. Hang in there, the worst of it is already behind you.

#1. Dresses without people saying "you dont have long now, boy or girl"

I remember feeling the same way, it just seemed like nothing worked, then a vet told me it usually hits around day ten.....hang in there it does get better, I promise....im at week four and its seems like,my swelling is just now going down....

Everyone has their own feeling and strong opinions about who needs to know what about themselves. I didn't tell and don't plan on disclosing my personal issues with others. Just like I didn't tell others (even though very proud of him), I don't go around telling others about my husband vasectomy. Nor do I tell others about my surgery for a prolasped uterus due to (proudly), having 3 ten pound babies. I also didn't tell others about a wart I had removed from my butt when I was in jr high.. Oh and I don't tell people my front tooth is fake, due to a friend pushing my face into a Water fountain when I was in fourth grade. I'm not ashamed of anything I do or have. I just think its no ones business or for the fact... others probably don't give a $ H I T anyway!

Great idea! How are our Mexico Octosleevers faring with their losses and NSV's?!?
As for myself, I had surgery 10/27/12 with Dr Garcia. Started at 270--now down to 206.5 . So about 63 lbs down and I feel great!!

Hey there OCTOSLEEVERS! I had surgery Oct 27, and Im down about 35 lbs since day of surgery. I had a little stall at 5 weeks, but I've lost something every week. I TRY to weigh once a week only, but sometimes that doesn't quite happen.
Im very interested to see how everyone is doing...also, I find myfitnesspal.com to be incredibly helpful to track my cals/protein/vitamins etc...
Hope everyone is doing well!

Size 14 from size 18!!
Size 14 Jeans and 3' inch heels today on my way to the beauty shop! I feel great!

Still haven't lost any in 10 days.... 3 weeks post op today! I read people say you're losing inches and in didn't think they were lying, just wrong about me... I had a pair of jeans I bought on clearance that were waaaay to small pre-op... I got them on tonight! I mean... I could wear them in public! LOL

Ok everyone. Repeat after me .... This will work!! Your stomach is swollen and you are still recovering from major surgery. I hit a stall at 3 weeks that lasted for two full weeks. Keep doing all the right stuff - get your Water in and do your best to get your Protein in Your body needs to play catch up . You will get there ... I promise! Some lose slow and some lose fast but EVERYONE loses Have faith

I put the insides of a taco in a bowl and add a couple of tortilla chips broken up. I can eat about 3 to 4 ounces of this. It is mostly Protein. If I don't have a couple of chips, I will break up part of a hard taco shell that is about the same amount.

I'm not a vet by any means as I'm only 3 months post surgery, but i thought you might like this perspective as well. I had a hard shell taco from Taco Bell last week while I was out running errands and ate about 1/2. I might have been able to eat more, but that looked like about 3 ounces, which is what I'm supposed to eat each meal, so I just stopped. Knock on wood...but thus far I've not slimed or thrown up and I want to do everything in my power to keep it that way.

I don't always ask questions about tacos...but when I do, its only one....

I can eat about a taco and a half, authentic Mexican taco.

I drink one or two caffeine free diet cokes every day. I love them and enjoy them with no issues.
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Hmmm well, it depends on the taco but I can say that I can eat about half a standard taco (no rice) from chipotle. Thats the only kind I have tried but I would imagine I could probably do most of a regular taco bell taco.
I weighed a taco from chipotle once and if I remember correctly it was a little over 6 ounces - I did that because I was trying to decide how much of it I should sit down with and try to eat. 3-4oz is my standard serving so half was perfect.

At least Taco Hell would clear up any need for a stool softener that day!!!!
that was the ONE fast food restaurant I never went to lol

I am 7 weeks out and last week ate at taco bell... wife was craving it and we were in a time crunch. Anyways, I was able to eat the entire insides of a hard taco supreme and 3-4 bites of the shell. I think by 3-4 months out I will have no issues eating 1 entirely... maybe even closer to 2 tacos a year out.

I don't always ask questions about tacos...but when I do, its only one....

Lol. At 55kgs, I don't take offense to that.

Yes she made my day with the quick response thays why I love this site! They answer and then I am immediately relieved....now im not saying im going to go fix me one taco, but atleast I know down the line one taco is possible!

Lightweight!!

I'm about 8 months out and I'm pretty sure I could eat a taco at this point. Honestly there are days that I can eat so much more in one sitting than I could early on that it freaks me out. I kind of miss the days of only a couple of bites because it was impossible to overindulge at that point. It's very easy to do it now. Enjoy your restriction now and use this time to really get a handle on any head hunger issues you might have because if you have them, I promise you they will rear their ugly heads again.

Lol!