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    Full Liquid - What To Eat?

    I found online this one; Full liquid diet The next stage is the full liquid diet which consists of sugar-free, low-fat milk products and the Clear liquids listed above. You will need to supplement with Protein (drinks or powder) after surgery. Remember to sip liquids, do not gulp. Examples of Full Liquid Diet (No Added Sugar/Sugar-Free, Low Fat): • Skim Milk or Lactaid milk • Soy Milk (non-fat) • Low fat, thin, strained cream soup (smooth, no pieces of food) • Sugar-free instant Breakfast • Protein Drinks – Start daily when you get home from the hospital. (See section on protein and protein drinks) • Plain or “light” (no sugar added) yogurt with no fruit pieces • Sugar-free pudding or custard • Thinned cream of wheat or rice Cereal and this is another one: Stage 2- Week 2: Full Liquid Diet Start high Protein Full Liquids (Pro-complex, Body Fortress, etc.) in addition to sugar free Clear Liquids. RECOMMENDED FOODS:  All food from previous stages  Cream of Wheat  If Protein Powder with clear liquid tolerated then mix protein powder of choice with non-fat milk or Almond Breeze. If Lactose intolerant, use non-fat Lactase-Enzyme treated milk.  Low Fat creamed Soups – thinned (no chunks), check useful websites for recipes.  Natural applesauce  Non-fat Yogurt (sugar-free), Greek Yogurt  Skim milk or lactose free skim milk Fat-free / sugar-free pudding less than 60 calories and 8 grams of sugar per serving, natural applesauce, low fat / sugar-free yogurt (no fruit chunks)  Sugar-free Carnation Instant Breakfast- made with skim milk  Sugar-free Fudgesicles  Sugar-free pudding- make with skim milk and add protein power  Sugar-free yogurt (no chunks) – made with Nutra-sweet or Splenda. Greek yogurt  Unsweetened 100% fruit juice diluted with Water without pulp (no orange juice, grapefruit or tomato juice). Limit to 4 ounces per day.  V-8 juice (low sodium), V8 fusion, tomato juice and all other no added sugar fruit juices. Try light versions sweetened with Splenda.  Thinned oatmeal  Soups with soft noodles
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    You Gotta Get This App

    I complain to my husband about not having the iPhone ( it our long battle android vs iphone) and he found me the very simmilar application for android: check it out: fooducate
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    2 Days Post Op/newly Sleeved

    newgrandma, Finally I found something about you. I was worried. sorry about trouble. I cannot drink water at all after surgery. I mean the clean water but as soon as I have fruit2O water or something like that it going down much better. try....everyday it would be better and better. Keep us posted
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    Sleeping On Stomach Or Side

    I am as well side/stomach sleeper I was able to sleep on right side from day 4 and on the left one only since last night, but what I did. How I started: I take king size pillow and put it behind my back, so when I am laying on it so it like you are laying on the back but because of the pillow it is more like on the side. and yesterday I was able to put it on the side of my stomach and hug it., ( like I used to sleep with pregnancy pillow) so your stomach is laying on the pillow and you are on your side. Yesterday was the first night when I was able to sleep through the night for 5 hours. all previous nights I was sleeping for 3 hours and after need to walk for an hour and sleep again.
  5. as some of you know I had a surgery on September 7. Recovery is good. Have minor acid Reflux but I am on Zantac. Burping slow down and became much better. still have problem sleep at night but this is another story. I am loosing very little weight. I know that we cannot compare ourselves to others, but I do. I know it was a lot of us who did the surgery around the same time. and I read that some lost 10-12lbs for the first week. I weight myself today 1 post op week and I only lost 4.8lbs. Am I doing something wrong? I am walking everyday 30-40 min. I am taking almost all my Protein I should ( 55-65g) and drinking my 50-64oz of liquid intake( including protein). but my scale doesn't want to make me happy with low number. I understand that probably my metabolism is just sleeping and now it's is waking up.... but I always thinking might be I am doing something wrong? I really expected to see a bit bigger number for the first week.
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    Gerber

    I am using the cute kids cup as well. this one and my kids is fighting who will drink from which one
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    Sleeved Yesterday

    I tried gas-x strips but it doesn't help me. walking and burping a lot does. walk walk walk. the pain would be gone. at least 1week post op I don't have it.
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    Gerber

    I still have my twins cutlery but I don't use it. I just using the tea spoon. at least I notice that broth taken by tea spoon go easy and without pain then with tablespoon.
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    Gerber

    I am with you I tried to translate it from English to English and was thinking about baby food as well
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    Help....what Else To Do?

    you know for me it sound that you are dehydrated. go to ER and let them handle that. you will feel much better after. please take care of yourself.
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    Why, I Am Loosing So Little?

    Thank you for all your reply. I just want to tell that I didn't fill discourage. I just trying to understand if I do everything right. I still have a little demon in my mind who is saying to me you can do the same without the surgery. I mean 5lb per week on clear liquid.and I am trying to prove myself that this time it will not be only 10 months and everything would be back. I am such a person who has the goal and go to it knocking almost everything on my way but only if I have support. as soon as I start loosing the support I start loosing the hopes. So this site is very important to me. you are my support group.
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    You Gotta Get This App

    Sound nice, but available only for iPhone not android.
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    Any September People

    Good Luck to all today's sleevers
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    Any September People

    Congrats girls. keep the good vibes.... New grandma? where are you? I hope everything is good.
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    Weight Loss Please Keep Going Down......

    It would. did you measure yourself? s lot of times when weight loss stop the body change their size. so you are loosing inches not lbs.
  16. you can read my story http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/51681-my-surgery-update/page__hl__%2Bsurgery+%2Bupdate I was in the hospital for one night and no pain meds since then
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    Any September People

    YEA!!!! welcome to our side walk walk walk. will help a lot.
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    1St Day Post-Op

    Congratulation!!! Speedy recovery and keep walking.
  19. I am not a good writer so the story would be short I came to the hospital at 6:30 am and they put my IV and took my blood just in case I need the transfusion. I get the one bracelet with patient into and anther one with blood information. after my Dr. shows up he talk to my husband and with me and I was taken upstairs to the preop room. I meed the anesthesiologist there.they feel out some information gave me lovenox and I was taken to the operative room. In the room they try to make me comfortable put my arms on the expended thing and put the oxygen mask on the month. After that I don't remember anything. I wake up in the recovery room with terrible pain in my chest. I was trying to understand why their..... my belly doesn't hurt at all. but the pain between my ribs was ripping me up from inside. I also remember the nurse ask me to breath. a lot of times. probably I did't want to do it I was given the morphine to take my pain. don't remember anything there. after. my husband told me that I was in recovery room 2 hours. and after that when I finally woke up they took me to the floor room. the whole Friday I was mostly sleepy. I know that I tried to make a round walk on the floor but after that I fall asleep for 1 or 2 . the chest pain from gas was bad really bad. after morphine I was able to sleep for 2 hours and wake up with pain again. I had non-narcotic pain killer every 6 hours and morphine every 4 but I didn't have a pump I need to ask nurse to do this. by 7:30 pm I was able to walk much more and after my husband left the hospital my schedule usually was sleep for 2 hours wake up at 11pm walk until midnight. they took my BP+ vitals and give me non narcotic pain killer and I sleep for another 2-3 hours and wake up at 3 walk for another 40 min again bp + vital and sleep for another 2 hours and walk around 6 for 30 min. I was tired and they game me another does of non narcotic med pain killer. after that I slept for 2 hours. forget to say. my mouth was dry but I didn't want to use beotine. I tried gas strips but it doesn't help me. every time I was walking I was burping a lot. I really don't care. I understand the more I burp the less pain in the chest. the next morning they took me for xray to check if there is a leak. Ok girls the staff you need to drink is TERRIBLE. after having nothing in your mouth for a day to taste this..... I had xray done and everything was fine so I was cleared to have liquid diet. they brought me a lot of things but I just ate 3 oz of chicken broth. and went to walk again. ( all personnel in the hospital trying to make me feel better they laugh about me walking saying that I am already started my marathoner and asking how many miles I need to walk to finish ) so at my walk after the chicken broth i burps so many times that I feel nausea and start vomiting. thank's God the restroom was right on my right in the hallway so I just seat on the floor next to the toilet and try to calm down. I was able to keep the chicken broth inside me but it was scared.... after that I get back to the room and lay down....I slept for 2 hours.... later the nurse said that I am good to go home and a t2:30 pm we already left the hospital. when we came home I was so tired that I slept for another 2 hours. no pain killer since 6 am in this morning. the gas pain is still present and I hate it. but I am trying to walk and burp. I was able to drink 3 oz of Water. 2 hours later 3 oz on atkins shake. another 2 hours later 3 oz of Isopure ( I hate the taste but it goes down fine) and another 2 hours later I finish that small bottle of isopure I think another 4-5 oz. still burping a lot but now I am trying to walk before and burp and only after that drink. I really hope that gas pain would go away soon. about my incisions. I have 5: 1 below my chest where they hold the liver. and 4 in the row in the middle of abdomen. one is big and bruise. this is probably one they take the stomach out. I also have pictures of my old and new stomach I asked my surgeon and he did it for me will post it later then will be able to scan them. So this is my experience so far. I hope someone would find it helpful And one more thing. I always ask myself after the surgery is I have any regret. and the answer was NO. I know that all of this would be gone and pain would be forgotten. So now I working on my intake liquid. and another things. because I am crazy scale girl. I step on the scale after the hospital and it shos me less then I was the morning of the surgery. so hopefully wne all swelling would go away I would see nice number change their.
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    My Surgery Update

    Thank you. I notice the liver also I wasn't expected it to be so nice looking. probably 1 week liquid pre-op diet help a lot
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    My Surgery Update

    Finally was able to scan my stomach picture.
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    Any September People

    Good Luck!!! and speedy recovery.
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    Any September People

    newgrandma and ready4change good luck today!!!! keep us posted.

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