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I start and end my day with 8oz of water. That really helps me mentally to know I only have to fit 6 cups in throughout the day. I'm either eating or drinking all day long,nit seems. Honestly my biggest struggle is vitamins. I have to take with food in order to not get sick, but I also need to drink water after for the same reason. Vitamins have been my biggest struggle post op.

I had surgery on July 27. I was given purees in the hospital, and was on them for 2 weeks. Now I'm eating "soft food" which basically means no really fibrous things, only really well cooked veggies, canned fruit, or veggies. For dinner tonight I had turkey meatloaf and like 2 pieces of green beans. It's crazy to me how different the plans are, but I'm following mine to the letter, so I'm ok with that.

I do hot protein coffee. One scoop of protein powder mixed with a little bit of cold milk (1/8 cup or so), and mix until it is smooth adding more milk as needed. Then slowly pour hot coffee in to the mix while stirring constantly. Works great and I love the comforting feeling of my warm cup of coffee in the morning.

I was sleeved on July 27. Prior to my preop diet I weighed 249 pounds. Today I weigh 227. I'm amazed with the feeling that real, sustained weight loss may actually be possible! I'm on purees, and have been hitting my Protein goals, but falling short on fluids. I am really going to focus on that today. I finally started to feel a little hungry yesterday. It was a nice change from feeling like I never wanted to eat again. I still have some significant pain, but am trying to wean myself off of pain medicine. I'm gaining more strength every day. I plan on going back to work a week from Monday, and I do a significant amount of walking at work, so I've been walking (slowly) on the treadmill each day. And, I have a job interview on Tuesday! Crazy timing, but I'm hoping I can be off the pain medicine in time, have more strength for sitting up in a chair, and the stamina to be "up" for it.

So far plain Greek yogurt with a little crystal light is sitting well. I've also had retried beans with melted cheese and scrambled eggs with melted cheese. I cannot eat enough to get to my protein goals, so protein shakes are a must.

Fruit juice. I also savored one last sprite. It was delicious.

Beautiful!

Hi everyone! I'm doing good. Pain is under control. Just had breakfast of puréed eggs and cream of wheat. Hoping to go home today!

Good Luck tomorrow!

My post op diet is 2 weeks of purees, 2-3 weeks of soft foods, and then regular diet. It is amazing the differences!

I'm scheduled for July 27th too! Glad to have a sleeve buddy!

I am excited and nervous to have my sleeve on Friday. Im so glad to be done with my pre-op diet, but super proud of myself for how well I've done. It really gives my confidence as I get ready to embark on this journey. I had a bit of a strange experience today. So, not only am I a bariatric patient, but I'm also the administrator of a surgery department which includes a bariatric surgery program. Essentially, the program coordinator and nurses are my employees, and I work very closely with my surgeon on program development, operations, and marketing. One of the reasons I'm having this surgery is because I have spent 20% of my professional life over the last two years focusing on how to make my bariatric surgery program better. So, anyways today I was in a meeting with the surgeon who will be operating on me on Friday talking about business operations. He was giving me this whole list of things that he thought needed to be done, and I had to remind him that I would be out after the surgery he'll be performing on me on Friday! It is definitely helping my nerves because my surgeon knows me, I know his outcomes, and would recommend him go anyone. I joked it's him when I left that I was a little nervous, but assumed he wouldn't kill me. He replied that he thinks he can manage that! I can't wait for this to be over and to be on the other side!

I just discovered the bariatric foodie website too and I love it.