bcullen1

Follow what your surgeon says to make things smooth. I couldnt drink the protein water makes me sick I just sipped water till I could do shakes. I had trouble I do mean a lot of trouble with my liquids. Just didn't feel right. I had my surgery may 23 and today was my first day almost feelin bak to 100% hang in there hun gets easier :-)

Sorry! Keep ur head up. My surgery wasn't a breeze I had a lot of pain. Feel better hun!

K bare with me because it might take experimenting with pudding flavors and Protein powder flavors and amounts of each on your end to make this work! In a blender I mix one scoop of Protein Powder. One cup of skim milk. One-two cups of crushed ice (blends better) blend all together. Then I add some pudding (your flavor of choice sugar free fat free) to help with the crappy Protein shake flavor that most don't like. Blend up nice and u have a wonderful shake. It even helps if u freeze it for a while before consuming. The smaller the shake easier to consume to get your protein. Sometimes add less liquids to your powder to help make it smaller an more "do able".

Would be Kind of deadly if I were to drink all I want now... Lol

WOW. I am sorry to hear that. I was praying I won't end up back in the hospital that Is no fun! I sincerely hope you get back to 100% soon.

It does it's the best motivation a person could get aside from all the support from my family friends an this website has been a blessing to find so much help an support!

Thank you all! I appreciate the uplifting comments.

Since I started my pre op diet on MAY 16 I am officially down 25 pounds total. Ahhhhhhh. Excitement. Pre op I lost 12 lbs on my strict clear liquid diet. I had surgery on May 23 and was up 2 lbs from the gas and fluids etc. I came home from the hospital on May 24 and since then I lost 15 lbs!! Loving my sleeve.

Lol

Is that why ur thumper cuz ur a big bunny lol.

:-)

Lol. Glad I'm not the only one !

I feel the same. It has been difficult on me this summer. I have completely stopped going to my parents lake house because all my family and friends do up there is party. HOWEVER the look on their faces when they see me next summer will will make it well worth it. Lol. The alcohol I will hopefully learn to drink in moderation cause in the past that never worked for me. Being 21 is prolly much harder then me being 23 and semi over partying as much as I use to. But I still feel for ya. Anyone who loves their alcohol feels for ya. In the end they don't want you drinking a lot because of liquid calories. In the beginning I think it's ulcers right after surgery. We will all eventually learn to adjust. Good luck!! :-)

I'm sorry girl. Just TRY not to let him bring ya down. :-)

My pains are less and less. I guess I just needed to be patient lol. I just had a mini break down thinking omg im going to be miserable forever. I'm so pumped about recovering now I don't care what I am even missing out on food wise. I wanna get back in the gym and get this weight off. :-) :-) By the way I found this kind of funny so I thought I would share. Im not physically thinking about food at all or missing it etc. but apparently subconsciously I am worried about screwing this up because the past 3 nights I had a dream that I ate something I wasn't suppose to and totally ruined my weight loss. I feel like such a dork dreaming about food but I guess when you have gone this long with out any "real" food silly things are bound to happen. At least this liquid diet is way easier after surgery.

Does that hurt you?

Ok thank you all. I just gotta hang in there. The only reason I was concerned is because I have a high tolerance to pain and this just stinks. I'll give it another few days. I'll most likely have a totally different attitude.

No I don't have a drain .. What's that for?

I was just sleeved Wednesday and have questions about the way i am feeling and if it's normal. 1. I am taking very very small sips but still have pain in my chest like its trying to filter down a tiny pipe (sounds gurgley sometimes) these small sips are making it impossible to get all my fluids in. Will this get better and can I take larger sips in time because now its like drops of Water to avoid pain. 2. My main incision stings like crazy sometimes but the others are just fine.... Is something wrong?? 3. I have no desire to have anything in my stomach not Jello not broth not even liquid. I'm only sipping water because I have to. I'm starting to feel discouraged because I was hoping things would get better but is this what im going to battle the rest of my life? This sucks. I know it's still soon I guess I just need some reassurance that it gets better. The thought of any food makes me sick :-(

4 days ?!?!? Really? That would be fabulous but I just had surgery Wednesday and can barely even move around with out pain. I can't imagine having sex already.

I had a one week strictly clear liquid diet.

Wow. Sorry to hear that. Your very Strong!

Wow. That's horrible. I hope u get better. Sounds like you didn't have a good medical crew workin on ya.