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I love all these stories!! makes me feel "normal" lol! I am only 4 days post op right now, I do not like milk which is half my battle although I can tolerate flavored milk SOMETIMES. so I spoke with my doctors office today and asked them what I should do?! she said trial and error, keep trying new kinds and also said it was ok for me to get one of my shakes via coffee! that excites me a lot as this is the only way I have gotten them down. now I just need to figure out some ways to do the other 2 each day lol. next wed I move to the mushy stage or stage 2, I look forward to this because I was planning on putting the shake in sugar free pudding!!! yummmmmmmm!

what different ways? give me some examples, I could use some help in this area!!

I don't understand what my problem is, when I was buying my Protein Shakes I went to the store and bought a few kinds to try, I taste tested each then chose the one I liked the best. I had my surgery on Monday July 8th... and I can NOT stand the shakes!!!! The smell of them makes me wish to hurl! Why? what happened? how do I fix it? anyone else have this issue? This morning I mixed the powder in decafe coffee and that seems to be not so bad but takes a very long time for me to drink (over an hour) any suggestions?

thanks Kelsa! Good luck with you surgery keep us posted on how you do... thank you for the words of encouragement. I really need that right now, I have been having a lot of doubts about myself and a very hard time making up my mind about things. I know my so called support is tired of hearing me go over and over it with them! I was doing great with my choices until the day before yesterday when I shared my surgery news with a friend who has had the lapband. Her response to me was "my friend had the vsg and only lost 30#" which almost sent me into a panic attack! can you imagine going through all of that only to lose 30#!? so I have been reading about failures ever since, I don't know if this is helping me or making it worse?!

so here I am! In Oct. 2012 I went to see my PCP for a follow up appointment after having his help for over a year in trying to drop this weight I had gained almost instantly! I guess I really should begin before this point. While growing up my whole family was "big boned" I have many family members well over the 300# mark, I was one of the smaller ones at age 14 I recall being 180# and 5'7". When I got married at age 19 I wore a size 20, I had my first child at age 20, while I was pregnant I only gained 9#! While breast feeding I had lost a considerable amount of weight! I don't know how heavy I was but I know I got into a size 12! I regained after my son got older, he is autistic and I stayed home with him, I spent most of my "free time" caring for him... very little on myself. It wasn't long before I was a size 24! I went to the doctor and was put on a diet and some medications ect. I lost a huge amount of weight, got down to a size 16, only a month in the new clothes and I found out im having TWINS! I gained 19# with my twins, I lost very little from that point, I maintained around 230# for about 3 or 4 years. I wasn't unhappy there. I went through a divorce and got remarried, had another baby, this time I went from 231# to 252# during and lost next to nothing after! I stayed at 252# for about a year, and then in a two month stretch I went to 279#! at which point I went to the doctor for help! He tried everything he could and I did the same, I was living on rabbit food, my bloodwork always came back great. A year later he said I was a perfect case for WLS. I was shocked and scared, also slightly excited? After much research I have chosen to do the VSG, just got my date last week. I will be having my surgery on July 10th. 2013. Since I began this whole thing I have quit smoking which added weight ... and my heaviest point was 306#. I have been working on some weight loss on my own. I am not taking any prescription meds for it anymore, I am going on counting calories and making good choices of foods. So far, in approximately a week and a half I am currently at 300# I never thought I would say this but I can not wait to see that 299 mark again! My self worth went through the FLOOR when I crossed over 300#, it made me so depressed because I was and AM trying to make good choices for me and my family, I give up smoking and gain almost 30# it seemed all the good choices ive been trying to make have been leaving me so miserable! I sure hope this is my turning point! I am going to make a video journal starting this week, I want to capture this whole thing so I can show my children and so if I ever fall off the right path (start smoking again, gain weight ect) I can look back at how far Ive come!