LorenaVaca

Ive seen a lot of protein shake recipes with dry pudding mix. Does this have to be sugar free? I did not think about that when buying it and thats what i have been mixing my shakes with. Help please

Good luck!

Hope all is well wishing you a speedy recovery!

Congrats!!!

Oh good i was hoping so! i really enjoyed my first protein shake this morning... I mixed it with a two tablespoons of whit chocolate pudding mix and it was really good. I appreciate your feedback its hard when your overloaded with info and you seem to forget lil details. Thank you!

It has 2g sugar a serving, 30g protein, 8g carbohydrates and 170 calories

Good luck to you! I am getting sleeved next tuesday! Keep us updated on how your doing!

I start tomorrow as well...i have to say that i too have had these mixed emotions even more then before being since my surgery got moved up a week and so i only had 4 days verses 11 days to decide what i wanted to eat before surgery. The only thing that keeps me going is by repeating to myself that it is all worth it...3 weeks liquid is nothing compared to losing my life due to high blood pressure. Cant wait to be healthy again! I wish you the very best!

I started my vitamins over the weekend and I already feel more enerjetic. I had my first protein shake this morning and i have to say it was not bad at all. I mixed the chocolate protein mix with two tablespoons of white chocolate dry pudding added some ice shook in my shake bottle and enjoyed gives me a lil something to look forward to during my 7 days. By the time i know it next tues will be here and i will officially be a sleeve sister! I had my last hoorah today 3 ozs of steak and sone chicken penne and i was very satisfied with my last meal choice before surgery :-)

Wish you the best! Keeping you in our prayers!

That makes a lot of sense...the healtgier foods arent normally on a kids menu so i could see not really using it. I never thought of it in that way. Thanks I think im just feeling so very overwhelmed right now. Surgery is nine days away and my liquid diet starts this Tues. Anxiety has kicked in and im starting to have cold feet...i am not scared of the procedure part i am more scared that even though right now i am trying to think of what i would want as a last meal i cant put my finger on any just one thing that i have to have. But i worry that once i start my liquid diet that all i am going think about is what i should of had...

When my mom had WLS 9 yrs ago she was given a card that was pretty much a pass that should could order off kids menu. All she wohld have to do is show it to waiter and they automatically have to let her order of the kids menu. Does anyone know if they still do this?

Really? Oh no... Where can i find a chewable multivitamin that isnt a gummy or gum?

So i went and got all my vitamins (i hope childrens multi chewable vitamin works) but i vould not find the biotene spray. Where do i find this? Ive pretty much got everything i need for hospital bag will be packing it soon to get it over with..

Ok thanks yeah ive seen a lot of ppl talk about the biotene...looks like i will be picking this up this weekend since my surgeey date has been moved to the 7th! I feel like now i have no time to get all i need but it jas to be done clock is ticking away

Aww thanks ladies!! Yeah i start my pre-op diet the 31st :-\ but it will be worth it because i know only great things will follow! Its crazy all the mixed feelings i am having but i am so glad ive made this decision. Well looks like my hubby owes me that steak sooner then what he thought lol Thanks again ladies i will keep you all updated!

Im so excited!!! I just got a call from my dr office and they asked if they could move my surgery from Aug 15th to Aug 7th? Uh of course you can!!! Lol she said oh my you have made my day everyone else on scheduled for the 15th were mad as mad can be at me...i told her no way that she just made my day my week actually lol. So now i have 11 days left rather then 19! Whoo hoo!

Im getting more and more anxious for for the day to be here...Im so excited yet nervous too. Any tips on what I really need to have to prepare myself for pains once I make it home?

My surgery date is Aug 15th so i am 28 days away. I only have to do my liquid diet the week before surgery. I decided i would start preparing myself now and start liquids 3 days on 3 days off all the way up until the week before my surgery. Hopefully this will help to prepare me...and hopefully i will benefit from it and lose a little LBs lol. Good luck to you!

Wow ok yeah i will definitely go for the sample packs. I am going to Max muscle within the next week to have taste test. They will let you sample anything in the store so i hope it goes well. I am glad to hear i will only have to bear them for so long. Thanks everyone your responses have been really helpful! 28 days to go before i become a sleeve sister!

How long after surgery do u have to drink the protein shakes for? Or is it for the rest of my life? Trying to prepare for post op so i want to know if i buy one- two buckets of protein mix will be enough or is it something i will be buying using for the rest of my life?

Thank you all you have all helped me open my eyes a lot more. As far as the HIPPA LAW i was so close to bringing it up to her but didnt, just to stay on good terms. I really am so very proud of having my surgery i know its the best for me and my health. I appreciate all of your advice... There are times i feel like ppl are going to judge me and say im lazy and that i am taking the easy way out but i know that that is absolutely not true if anything this will probably be ten times harder because you have to have strength will power courage and so much more... You women are awesome and i know now in my heart i truly have a support group, thank you!

I have only told my parents siblings and my sons godmother about having surgery. How do i answer to my co workers and friends and other family about why ive lost so much weight all of a sudden? Its not that i am ashamed its all the negative responses im worried about. My supervisor has asked several times whats wrong and i tell her i am fine its just a medical procedure im having done but i will be fine. She proceeds to give me a the ugliest look and says that i sure am being real secretive but that if i say im fine then she just wont worry for about me then.(grrr it was so rude of her!) Its not like it is their business anyways, right!?!? Please help!

@Highschoolfigure yes me too...my mirena will be up sept 2013 so my husband and i planned to start trying sometime after that. I want to plan this pregnancy so that i can have another summer baby! I wish you the best!

Thank you! I didnt even realize it was there! There are so many different forums you kinda just pick one lol and dont really keep scrolling...