strellalight

You look great, keep up the great work!!!

I had the same issue, my doctor recomended me benefiber it really helps me

Hi guys! I am in Berkeley CA

I have 5 more days until I am sleeved!!

I am a Kaiser member

Nice, I had my surgery done at the west los Angeles 5 weeks ago.

San Fernando, ????

I have not had any type of bowel movement since last weekend which was prior to Surgery on Monday. I had to do a bowel prep of magnesium citrate so was pretty much cleared out. Yesterday I did have my husband pick up some Milk of Magnesia to help get things moving - pretty sure it's the oxycodone that's making me a bit constipated.

As for liquieds - my Dr says that 64oz of liquid is the ultimate goal but most people can't do that in the first couple of weeks so he told me to shoot for 32oz a day and to focus on the liquids first then on Protein which should be anywhere from 40 to 80g a day. Once I'm through the first two weeks then the focus moves to the 64oz a day plus the Protein.< /p>

It's normal to not have bowel movements, we are not eating as much I started taking benefiber per my doctors advise. I'm 5 weeks postop.

I keep wondering the same thing. I read some can only eat 1/5 of a cup of something where I can easily eat 1/2 cup of sweet potatoes! I have also tolerated everything I put on my mouth! I'm beginning to wonder if I was really sleeved <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I was advised we can fit more food in our sleeve because our stomach is not swollen anymore and as time passes we can now eat more.

I'm in

I had the same thing happening to me and the doctor said its an indicator that my stomach it's full. Really? After two spoons of Soup, that was my answer. It it will go away after two weeks or so.

I started to have the same pain, I was advise to drink more liquids and is helping a lot. We are probably not taking all the Water our kidneys need.

Sorry for such a late response' date=' I ended up falling asleep 20 minutes later. Can I take pills now? I wanted to try some melatonin but didn't know if I could take pills.[/quote']

As far as I know we are only allowed to take pills if they are the size of a regular m&m if they are bigger we need to crush them.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will start with little pieces of banana and watermelon.

I was sleeved on 5/4, after the 8th day I really felt better I was able to get up from bed with out a problem my energy keep increasing. Trust me the old habits are coming back try to pick on foods that are not in my diet. I have cheated acouple of times and trust me the experience is horrible from chest pain, vomit and also I have lost the good taste for it. Once I had the bad experience its like my brain does not crave it anymore. Hang in there we are still in the recovery mode.

whey Protein vanilla 120cal, 24 grams of protein.

I buy the Vitamin zero Water @ Sam's club. Also sometimes it will go on sale at target as buy 10 a dollar each and get a $5.00 gift card. That can also help.

Hello all, my wls was on 5/4/12; (little over 3 weeks) I'm not sure if is ok to start eating fruits?? I know some fruits are high in sugar, what do you guys recommend me?? I'll appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

Thank you so much, yeah was starting to freak out. I'm so glad I found this forum. I'm so much relieve now. I haven't measure my self but it's a good idea, I will start today and focus in my Protein intake, liquids and Vitamins even though i been having trouble with the vitamins. Thank you again all for your help. ????

Hello! I had the sleeve surgery on 5/4/12 I lost 20lb the first two weeks, I have not weighted my self I'm scare in getting on the scale. My problem is that I can now tolorate more food in my stomach and I'm scared I already stretched my pouch. Can someone please guide me in what to do I don't want to fail in this, please help??