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Yeah PHD brand natural is grosssssssssss its kinda creamy tasting and sweet but not nice like drinking sweet creamy milk – I actually hate milk hate full fat milk even worse so to try this creamy thick sweet stuff was nasty did try and put it in things it just overtook everything but ready brek lol i give it away and stick to chocolate orange and chocolate cookie flavour

I use hazelnut milk which is pretty much made from water and hazelnuts because I am lactose intolerant I use that for some of my shake flavours to give it more interesting flavour. Never liked the almond milk it was too watery. I have eaten some almonds though I had no food by me and had that empty thing going on and they were there unsalted plain almonds so I ate a few chewed up really really well! Oh I have eaten hazelnuts in my muesli when I have had it. but i didn;t eat the nuts till well intot he solid food stage

Drink some prune juice every day or every other day you don’t always go but it sure helps keep things moving!

Bread dreams!! The carb nightmares lol Not dreamed about food but I do look at and smell the fresh bakery loaf mum buys on a Saturday and think mmmm so wish I could even just a hot slice of buttery marmite toast would be nice butttttt nope!

Not a morning person either never was so this is crap I did try to eat when I got up pukesville so now I just wake up and have my decafe cup of tea allow that to settle my tummy down take my vits my liquid calcium then after about 2 hours eat some cheerio’s no its not protein but its what I know I can eat to start the food off in my belly without puking or pain. Never been a day person really I could go all day till like 5pm without eating pre sleeve it just never entered my mind I work all night anyway so I was always kinda back to front on eat lol oh yeah just to add i have to drink a hot cup of tea i tried other drinks cold ones its a no go has to be hot and tea

The only new thing I have bought is 2 bras lol Ok so yes some pants do fall down when I am going up and down the stairs and that’s no joke lol But I refuse to buy clothes! Thankfully I had a range of sizes from before anyway uk 26-38 so I am covered by a bunch of stuff I refused to get rid of when I outgrew them! I also thank god for draw strings lol when I am just slobbing about I just wear lounge pants with draw strings and just pull the waist tighter lol

They gave me some to put on some paper things that didn’t go past my hips so I had nothing on lol I asked if I could wear my own they said no it’s a sterile room and they don’t allow it they even give me foam throw away slippers to wear while walking down there that were removed and binned.

Thanks I didn’t know who the coal rakers were and wasn’t going to speculate on it either! Just make it clear that wasn’t MY intention with my post even if i was a poster who thought they were not in the wrong.

Speaking for myself I wasn’t raking anyone over coals or being mean, more realist and asking if she thought about it not in a annoyed or bitter mood as she posted she was in if they had eaten salad would she react the same, if they have always eaten at desks and its not anyone’s choice or fault that we have the op or anyone for that matter is on a diet etc Also to simply say it’s going to be worse after the op and will she get upset at everyone eating around her. It was a stop and think about it post not a how dare you post.

I don’t think you should be upset at other people or expect people to leave a room and not eat in front of you because you can’t have it or it might tempt you. I bet you all always eat at your desk? Can I ask if you would have asked them to still leave the room if all of them had been eating chicken salads that had no tempting smells, or was it just this time because it was burgers and fries? A person’s personal work area is theirs if they eat at it and have done for months or even years you really have no right to be sensitive or ask them to not do it anymore, or not to do it when its something not considered healthy because you’re on a diet. You could have still got on with your work at your own desk regardless, them eating isn’t interrupting you if you got on with your work. What are you going to do after the op when every single person around you is eating food you can’t eat? Tell them all to leave the room because you can’t have it? I may sound a little heartless but this is how it is and how it will be after the op other people are not going to change how and what they do or eat because we had the sleeve. they didn’t make us do this they didn’t have the op as well, so imposing what we want on them to make our lives easier and do that whole “out of sight and smell is out of mind and temptation” to help us not break a pre op or post op diet isn;t fair. It isn’t fair to do that to people just because we had this op.

I’m a week infront of you may 15th I was sleeved I too can’t eat 4oz at a time 3 times a day plus snack! No where near that! I can eat 1oz at a time and it takes about a hour, if its soft and easy like fish if its denser like turkey mince 1oz takes longer to eat. I don’t do rice pasta potatoes at all so I pick what I am going to eat like right this 1oz will be fish then in a couple of hours I will eat 1oz of veg I don’t mae all my meals protein only I need some veg. I try to eat 3 times a day but its about 1oz at a time and on top of the food I eat a nectarine that’s about my food intake. Typical eating day for me is cheerios, then fish, then some veg and I will eat a nectarine. If its not fish its half a can of baked beans and cheese or some turkey chilli if I do chilli I will finely dice mushrooms peppers and onion like really really tiny so I will bypass the veg 1oz meal slot and have 2 lots of chilli. For me when I brought this up last month to the doctor because I was being sick so much and not pushing portion sizes or anything and even fluid was making me puke like soup and stuff, she told me end of this month I would be scanned and checked for scare tissues in my esophagus which could be why food is harder to eat and get more solid food past as it’s a smaller opening acting kinda like a band that the food has to slip past. The reason I had to wait is because scare tissue doesn’t build up enough to see till a certain amount of time post op so maybe you want to ask for the scan to check.

I have been sick a lot so lets seeeeeeeeee! One way for me I will suddenly get like a heat rush and break out in a bit of a cold sweat and a odd feeling in like stomach diaphragm area and my mouth waters, I know I am gonna puke so I go bathroom this does happen in a matter of second the signs. Another was that’s not happened in a while was when I was first on solids and trying meats there would be heavy pain in the same area and my mouth would start to Water like pre op when your gonna puke and it floods with spit so you know oh some time in the next 20 seconds your gonna be puking so you go to the bathroom. The tried to eat to much and didn’t realize puking is more instant I find like I was eating a pear once and another time a nectarine not at the same time different days both of them were pretty instant thankfully I had a empty plastic jug on the side grabbed it and just puked it all back up in the jug. I find I puke 2 different ways I can be silent not much effort its just like gagging and its coming up the other is deep heaving painful hardcore retching, but neither have acid or smell like puke! Its pretty strange to puke a pear up and its just pear and smells like pear lol That’s me and how I puke dunno if its exactly the same for other people but they are my signs of a ut-oh

I was in pjs soon as they took me form recovery to the ward still all groggy I wanted my clothes on and that’s what I did lol I also don’t; have tight pjs I like them loose so mine never hurt me by digging or anything

I’m lactose intolerant anyway not just because of this I use lactose free products like milk cheese and yogurt. You just have to look out for milk sugars in things that’s what disagrees with you, so you don’t have to switch to like soy or anything you can if you want (but I find it kinda yucky) I can have some normal stuff in really small amount like if I run out of my milk I can have a cup of tea with normal milk or if I want some cheese and its not mine I can have it but if you try too much or everyday your going to suffer for it.

i have twice! it was good but just about a tablespoon of it each time

For me I can eat 1oz at a time if its soft maybe as much as 1 and half or 2 like yogurt but if its more solid no way plus it takes about a hour to eat that! The one time I put 4oz of chilli in a bowl I still had some over 6 hours later it’s a little pathetic at times lol Your not meant to starve yourself, so if you think your eating too much just call the nurse or nut and ask them they will tell you if its ok. I think you have the choice too of 6 small meals or 3 larger meals and a couple of little Snacks or you can cut snacks out its how you want to eat the little and often or bigger and not so often. Honestly I would rather be able to eat more than this little its very time consuming and I am sick a lot because i can’t hold very much, can’t even drink a full cup of tea in one sitting lol

Read all 3 for me the sex was dull and shes so annoying that she cums all the time every time on cue blah blah Its not really kinky exciting or risqué sex it’s a bit of tying up and spanking so I would skip the sex a lot 8 or so pages of blah bored me. I did like the story didn’t think it was too bad but honestly do not get the major hype over these books I only read them because I had read 22 books had none left and my sister already had all 3 recovery was a bookfest for me lol

Me personally no and I can’t even eat a slice of toast and a egg in one go right now at 13 weeks! I do think you have to not force food in but not wait till your hungry to eat you should eat at set times waiting till your feeling hungry (which you won’t) can make you try to eat more and then be sick. I posted this the other day it might help you and know that not all sleeves are the same size even if they take the same amount away

I’ve had that talking a lot dry mouthed just gag a bit then it turns to dry heaving, wake up dry mouth gag start dry heaving. For me it was nothing soon as I sipped on a drink I was fine, if your worried call the nurse and ask her if they are worried they will have you come in and be looked out.

I’ve not been out to eat at all yet no clue how that will work when I finally do! We also don’t really have the take home thing here in the uk its pretty much if you don’t eat it its binned, so eating out and picking steak is so not ever on my menu again lol Upside to taking home steak if you have a dog they are one happy pet! lol

That’s sucks! I was a massive steak fan before the op not fancy sauced up steak just how it comes meaty steak but everything was killer even chicken it wasn’t as hard but 1oz of chicken even takes me about 3 hours to eat! When I tried minced lamb (don’t like roast lamb or anything its too fatty for me) pork and beef it all was so painful and I puked 1min later then felt the after waves of pain for a couple of hours so I just didn’t try to eat red meats again till just now! Maybe it’s the cut of beef or how its cooked? Hopefully you will get to grips on beef! Thanks to the other 2 it’s strange the things that make you go haha yes now lol

So I am on the tail end of week 12 post op coming up to my 13th week and today I managed to eat 2 bites of steak! (about 1 tablespoon) I brag because food has been hard for me everything other than fish and some turkey mince has killed me and made me sick! Mum made everyone steak for dinner and I thought ok try a bite see how it goes…. It was good it feels a little heavy but thank the lord no puking and bad bad pain like when I tried beef casserole 3 weeks ago! Not that I will be eating steak everyday but just a little smile on my face that maybe finally I am at the stage where I can start reintroducing meat into my diet and not just be eating fish because its all I could handle! So I say woop woo! lol hope this is an ok place for this post!

i watched this youtube clip and found it interesting with regards to size

Not me I always said if it come down to it and I got to the point where I had to do it I would. About 100lbs lighter than my highest I was going to have the one weight loss thing not listed and that’s the ball they put in your stomach for 6 months its non evasive it takes up 3/4 of your stomach and pretty much has the effect of a smaller stomach but max length of time your allowed it in there is 6 months. Then I messed up my back and some other stuff happened and I packed on 70lbs in 5 months then some more so it wasn’t really a good idea and something more drastic was needed.

I think the reason some co workers ask is they think you have a bad/long term illness when you suddenly lose weight so they ask out of both nosiness and fear like oh my god if she/he’s off for 6 months for a bad illness then what! If you have said you are fine not to worry they should take you at that and let it be. My best friend is currently pregnant and you can clearly see she is but no one has asked and no one will ask because they by law are not allowed to. She has told her direct boss she actually told him Thursday and said do NOT tell anyone, if people start coming up to her or other members of staff say her boss said something she can sure them. No work place NEEDS to know anything if your not taking days/weeks off sick all the time and its not effecting your work they need to keep out of it.