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Here you have a choice of 3 pre op diets: 5 ready to drink slimfast 5 bottles a day and 1 salty drink and Water. Or 4pints of semi skimmed milk a day plus a salty drink and water. Or A food diet they give you the what you eat for each meal like 2 lots of Protein no carbs and fruit/veg 2 lots of carbs 1 protein 1 veg etc and list the amounts your allowed and whats in each section like 8 cherry tomatoes is one portion on the fruit/veg section. I picked milk being that it to me was the easiest to do and cheapest, well as I don’t drink milk everrrrrrrr don’t do milkshakes hot chocolate hardy drank one cup of tea in 3 months didn’t do much dairy I didn’t know I was actually lactose intolerant so as the days went by and I kept on doing 4 pints of milk a day I was getting sicker and sicker and in more and more pain till after 5 days my mum kept telling me if you want to go to ER I will take you she thought it was a appendicitis I knew it wasn’t that low it actually felt like gallbladder pains but mine was removed years ago lol So when I spoke to them day 6 told them whats going on I was told to stop drinking milk right away and switch to the food as I am lactose intolerant and all that will do if I keep on is make me sick and could jeopardise the op because there is not telling what is going on inside me with me drinking the milk. So yeah that’s our choices in the uk and let me tell you food is soooooooo much easier to do I didn’t mind the milk I never felt hungry but its boring compared to the food and you feel normal on the food too lol

I do hazelnut milk for mine

Why would you even allow yourself to put 8oz in a bowl or on a plate and eat it? You should have been told 4oz max so to double it and just keep going is doing yourself no good. Some people do infact have bigger pouches some smaller if your stomach is bigger pre op they don’t take extra away they still only take the same amount away which means some people do have up to a 10oz holding stomach after. This doesn’t mean you eat 10oz of food each time your on a diet even with the sleeve you don’t eat till your full/puking/in pain/stuffed you eat the amount your told to eat. You’re also told to slowly eat 4oz over 30-45mins so 8oz in 15mins is far too quickly your not giving your body time to register your eating and possibly are full and to stop. If after eating your advised portion you still feel your not full wait 30mins and drink some water/juice etc to help fill you up. The sleeve isn’t a magic wand it won’t suddenly stop you craving things you used to crave it won’t let you put anything in your body in any amount and just vaporise it and you loose weight you have to be responsible with it and follow the rules you are given to have the sleeve work at its best.

i am thanks hun!

106lbs as of last week Tuesday when I was at a check up and got weighed

The first thing I think most of us can eat is seafood fish was my first ok I can eat that and it doesn’t hurt/make me sick food. Prawns are a little denser so you might have the heavy fuller feeling with them than fish I did but it’s not painful. Honestly DO NOT rush trying to eat take it from me as someone who had to back track just go slow and don’t rush the stages. I didn’t rush, I did exactly as I was told and still needed more time to adjust to my new stomach so skipping or rushing ahead isn’t worth it.

Yeah I am on normal food, well what I can eat lol It was a little hard had to back track and go back a few stages and work my way forward again to solid food as I was being sick a lot and I don’t try to eat 4oz at a time because I can’t so I do 1oz at a time which was part of the reason I was being sick its just too much food for me to eat and was taking too long so to eat so I was scaled back. They are fine with that my blood work is fine for vitamins and such protein is still a little low my weight hasn’t stalled nor am I drastically loosing weight so they are ok with how much I eat a day. I think the pre op diet is harder simply because you know you can still eat everything your not meant to with no issues after you don’t try or hardly in some cases because the simple things like eggs or red meat is such a ordeal (for me anyway) its not even worth trying to cheat!

had it already it was 15th of may lol

You were allowed carrots?! First week of mien was milk milk and more milk 4pints a day I rang them and asked if I could eat a couple of sticks of cucumber I got told NO! I badly wanted something crunchy I was craving apples true fully but wasn’t allowed it lol I cheated in my first week but I was also really sick on the milk diet in the end so bad infact I was taken off the milk diet and switched to a food diet which was fine my second week I was good and never strayed from my diet.

i had ready brek in my soft stage with more milk to make it less paste like and more runny I would put in a tablespoon of protein powder too. Its pretty much powdered oat flakes it was on my list of what you can have examples, now I just have cheerio’s.

I have had some stewed fruit I made in the pureed stages which were a mix of things like peaches, pears, gooseberries, apple and blackberries. I have tried normal pears no skin one type made me sick every time I tried to eat another was fine. I eat nectarines 1 a day while they are in season no skin. Just this past week tried banana that was fine. Had blueberries, strawberries, blackberries spitting out the middle part and raspberries. had a little bit of pineapple with no issue. Tried kiwis and puked haven’t tried that again.

Also know the lighter your hair the thinner it will look not suggesting going black or anything but the lighter it is the thinner it looks. My friend has baby blonde hair and its fine I was with her once for a haircut and her hair dresser was talking about her hair saying its not as thin as it looks its just so light the blonde makes it appear thinner because of how much easier light penetrates the hair So maybe go for low lights not high lights to give it more definition.

I don’t mind personally it’s a affection thing around other people. Either way guy on girls lap girl on guys lap to me its just affection or there are no seats and you want to sit down lol

i eat using a teaspoon so its smaller mouthfuls to stat with and chew the crap out of it because I puked a lot I still can’t eat 4oz in one go so I do 4 teaspoons in a 20 min or so sitting and stop. They know can’t eat 4oz of food in a sitting so just from me not trying this much food any more and knowing I can do 1-1 ½ oz at a time I got it down where i know exactly how much I can eat in one go with no puke from it being too much/too fast/not chewed enough.

I was 412 and I smoke! I was fine I walked into the operating room got on the bed had a chat they were hooking stuff up to me tried and failed several times to canula my left hand switched to the right some joke telling then it was time to put me under I started to get drowsy an they put oxygen mask on me and poof out like a light woke up in recovery all hot and dry mouthed!

Can I ask what made you decide to get the DS? I ask because as I understand it that’s for people like 500lbs and over who need 2 stages for weight loss even here in the uk it’s the one used for really big people who need one stage of the op to get them low enough for the other stage to get down to what is considered a “normal” weight. It’s generally done in 2 stages because its for the heavier people I didn’t think it was meant to be done together. I don’t want to appear as a know it all (I’m not at all) or condescending or anything just interested in why you settled on that one and not just bypass or sleeve as you fall in the weight ranking for those over the DS as far as my understanding of the DS goes. Like I was told by one consultant that they do bypass on people because they don’t want to have to redo wls in 2 or 3 years because the patient didn’t loose enough weight or put weight on, that’s when she was trying to talk me into bypass thankfully I never saw her again and my consultant has operated on me before and knows me better and agreed I was perfectly fine for the sleeve.

You’re told not to lift more than 2lbs for 2 weeks anyway, your not cleared to work out other than walking for a few weeks and I was told if I go out if I am knocked by someone too hard on my side/front I could damage my stomach. I wasn’t allowed to go swimming till after 4 weeks out on the condition that I was careful and if I was knocked to make sure I was checked out. Having said that I slept on my front after 10 days with a pillow for support but I did heed the lifting and working out no no’s till I was told it was ok. I didn’t take medication much for pain when I got home what they give me was disgusting so they switched me to kids calpol which is like liquid pain meds/fever/cold medicine and its super sweet and thick so I just give up the pain meds and dealt with it.

For the most part I agree with the follow doctor’s orders thing. I see some posts on here where some people will switch the post op diet stages or what they were told to do or not do like starting protein shakes a week earlier than they were told too because others are doing or not doing it, for me protein shake was considered a full liquid so I wasn’t personally allowed them till stage 2. For me I feel its wrong your medical team have all the info on YOU- blood work, tests results, saw inside of you, know how big your stomach is now, if there were complication other medical issues, they know your relationship with food if your emotionally attached to it or use it or addicted to it etc etc So for me I did as I was told and wasn’t swayed by posts I read here or what others said to do at what stage. The first stages you are meant to go through I think you should follow your personal medical teams advice once your past that and back on solid food then yes you can take tips and advice from other people because your over the healing reintroducing stomach phase and it won’t be harmful to do something too early any more. I personally think when some are trying to help they are not at all they are just saying hey it worked for me so you should do it because it will work for you too! Not knowing anything really about the person and all because they had the sleeve and are further out.

Your pre op diet isn’t about weightloss not the 2 week pre op diet before surgery its to shrink your liver it’s a completely different thing to a loosing weight diet to reach goal to get the green light for surgery and its different to the post op loosing weight diet. This one for 2 weeks is just for shrinking the liver don’t jump on the scales and keep checking yourself out its not for weight you will just go crazy trying to make the scale move when its not for that.

I don’t like mac n cheese but I have had cauliflower and broccoli cheese since the op just a few spoonfuls for people wanting the alternative to pasta. You can make your own cheese sauce with milk and grated cheese/s that you like and do it I just steamed the veg then poured over the cheese and baked had my little bit the rest of my family had the rest for dinner.

About 10 days after is when I went flat out not propped up my loads of pillows and folded quits I have 2 body pillows so had one either side of me to cushion when I tried to sleep my normal way I was fine did it that way till I was 8 weeks out then moved them back to just prop my leg and elbow on. I sleep with body pillows to support my leg to help my lower back and hips.

No one started out by even asking what kind of milkshake. I typically think Protein shake on this forum when someone says shake or milkshake not automatically full of crap make you fat shake. For me they are never on my list for a different reason I hate them! Don’t care what flavour type made out of they are disgusting its all I can do to drink these Protein shakes everyday! They were never on my list before and wont ever be now but that’s personal taste not diet choice. But you can make a healthier milkshake look for sugar free flavour mix use semi skimmed milk maybe throw in a banana and some blended ice to make it thick and creamy. A milkshake doesn’t have to be ice cream/cream and sugar loaded or however they make them things. My take on the in moderation vs never again it’s the same thing, personal choice and what works for you, what works for you may not work for me and vice versa. Now if you pretend it’s in moderation and it’s actually not and you just lie to yourself to explain why your knowingly eating not so good choices too many times a day/week that’s when you start to slide back into old habits. Like a in moderation person may eat 3 pringles they wanted them had 3 that’s it done not just for the day but say for that week that’s all they needed. The person lying to their self will eat 3 pringles 30 times in a day and say well I never ate the whole tube in one sitting like I would have pre op I ate them in moderation just 3 at a time! There is a difference between responsible moderation and lying to yourself to explain away why you are doing something.

I saw your title and was coming to post bones if you didn’t mean something serious lol

I know in my local swimming baths there is one that goes up really high when ever we would go on holiday we loaded the car with the cases dragged them in there and said can we just use the scales to weight these 20p a pop checked the baggage weight and left. I don’t have scales either and don’t intend to get any this whole jumping on the scales everyday or several times a day is not good and not a habit I want to get into. Both my docs and hospital have many scales more than capable of going to even my highest which was 425. Maybe there is a gym or some sort of local centre you can go where they have scales big enough to hope on and check maybe fake it with a suitcase then do yourself too.

I suggest making your own broth you pretty much make a big pot of soup and drain he broth off into containers/bags etc freeze most of it and keep out a couple of days worth. This has a good upside the broth you make you know whats in it no extra added crap and loads of salt, and the meat/veg that’s left in the pot you also portion off for the pureed and solid food parts of the diet. So your not constantly reheating broth what I did was get a thermos and put a full days worth in it and have it with me it was a lot easier.