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I'm only 4 days out and they sent me home with recipes. One is: 1 ounce turkey breast, 1 table spoon pepperidge farm stuffing mix, FF cream of chicken soup, chicken broth to thin it out. Everything is in the food processor until smooth. I had 3 medicine cups of it this morning. I also like refried beans, salsa, sour cream and chicken broth. Blended til smooth. Both served warm.

Mine is gas. I guess they put air in you or something, but I wasn't passing any of it and it was making it hard to breath and making me sore as all get out. I'm still sore, but I think that's to be expected. I finally started passing the gas and noticed how much better I can cough also

Well mine is over. I had it Monday. Having trouble coughing and breathing due to soreness. How much soreness is expected?

She did! I think you need to be super clear when dealing with others....sensitive bits. I'm not putting it ...there, tonight though. I wash with regular soap then put that on. You know...It makes me itch and dries my skin. Ashy, no nail polish, no makeup, NO BRA. I hope I look better coming outta this than going in.

My best friend had a bypass 6 years ago. She eats sushi all the time. I wouldn't worry about that.

I have to be there at 7:30, mom and my Mister are going with me. Ugh. THIS. IS. TERRIFYING. Thanks for the well wishes!

I ordered mine from Celebrate. I also got the ones from Unjury. They don't have copper though. http://www.celebratevitamins.com/

I haven't been there, but I'm having surgery tomorrow. I'm excited! *and freaking terrified* but I think we'll both be fine.

Nothing made me feel better than a bag of oreos or a 5 pack or cadburry eggs. We had a place in town that had Cake in a Cup. It was cake. In a CUP. It had a lid. You could sneak it home in your purse and eat it while the fam watched tv in the front room. You could even get two. No one judges you at the local bakery. Fat or thin, you're indulging in something really meant for special occasions. When I was a kid, mom and I would make a Jello cheesecake and split it. Just split it. That's not normal. All the times I walk into a room and know people are judging my weight, all the times I said no to going out because I didn't want anyone to see me now that I'm fat again....all the times I didn't go on trips with my family because I was self conscious of my weight...all that was because of the unhealthy and destructive frenemy relationship I have with food. I'm scared to give it up....but it's got to go. Hopefully, I am dreaming here, I'm one of the non dumpers that can, in time, enjoy some things I love in moderation. Right now I don't have moderation...well NOW I do. I'm on the day before liquid diet....but I do want to break up with food. I hope that breakup gets easier for us both.

I'm so glad she was nicer after.

lol, skip the girly bits. As soon as I read that I thought: Please please please don't let me have an allergic reaction and have to reschedule surgery because of my hooha!!!

:ahem: this will make me blush while typing. So, my hospital wants me to wash with some soap for 2 nights before surgery, then on the morning of surgery. It is some vile, nasty, pink, open the shower curtain and hope you still have lungs when your done, disgusting soap. She told me "put it everywhere from the neck down and wait two minutes". So I said, Everywhere? "Yes, everywhere and wait two minutes before you wash it off. We're trying to keep you from developing staph and everyone has staph on their skin. So it's a good precaution" and I'm thinking...I bet I don't have as much staph as this place, I hope you washed the place down too...but of course, that's me being bi**chy and nervous. I know that. So I read the label she put on it. Put on the neck down wait two minutes before rinsing. Okay. I put it EVERYWHERE. Then I was like....man. This kinda burns. So I leave it on two minutes and rinse....then I look at the bottle. "Do not use on genital area." Oh. I really do hope my lady bits are going to be okay. It made me itch all over too. Still itching. So not a fan of that soap.

I've never had one while awake and I'm hoping I don't....but I think it's just the idea of them having to remove it. Ouch. I understand the worry. I'm probably making it more than what it is.

I heard about this. She said that you cut all the nerves in your stomach when you do this...and have very few that are functioning. You don't feel your stomach right until it heals. She said sometimes there are people that still have such bad head hunger that you never feel full and that this wasn't a guarantee to feel full, but that once I hit the solid food phase, I won't be able to overeat. It will come back up and if I try to eat then flush it all through to eat more, it will come back up. She also said sometimes as nerves heal and you start learning what full feels like on your new pouch, you gain the full feeling. So I don't know. I just posted to let you know what my i heard. I was very concerned about still being hungry...I starved myself for years to be thin and finally with GERD and almost being 40...I just can't do it anymore. I'm tired of being hungry...so I'm hoping to gain the satisfied feeling from small portions. It's just not guaranteed. I'd wait until I'm on solids and at least 3 months out before I really started to worry.

Good Luck

I'm so jealous of you right now! lol and that's kinda messed up, huh? Happy Easter!!! Mine is tomorrow. The actaul surgery. I'm so looking forward to not being hungry!

and yes, getting your protein from one place is not good. Meats, cheese, protein drinks, eggs. Other dairy such as fage yogurt or any greek yogurt, sour cream, milk.... *be careful, they add horrible stuff to yogurt. Just cuz they call it cane juice, doesn't make it any less sugar *

Ricotta isn't that great for protein, but it's the stuff you see inside manicotti and ravioli... 1/4 of a cup is 70 calories, 6 grams of protein and 4.5g of fat. So, it's not impossible. If you have unflavored protein powder you can add a bit of that. I like ricotta. It's even good with some pasta sauce and some meat mixed in. You can raise the protein up pretty high.

Yeah, eggs, cheese, yogurt, skim ricotta?

I went ahead and told everyone. I had a few that weren't all that supportive...*one is the girl that slathers peanut butter between two eggos and eats it like a sandwich before starting on her poptarts. She eats constantly and had the nerve to say weight loss is all about discipline. Pfft. Like she'd KNOW* I don't really care how supportive they are. If they have something nice to say, good. If not, forget about them. I'm not huge on caring what others opinions are in relation to me. Comes from being large all my life. Their opinion isn't any better when I'm fat.

No, I saw it too. It's in the "what are you eating" thread....I think. They were actual prepackaged crackers. I don't know the original thread, but these are them. http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/products/gr/gourmetcrisps.htm

I heard that you should wait 18-24 months after surgery.

My surgeon put me on them on 3/20 and my surgery is 4/1. That's 11 days on "supposedly" 5 protein shakes a day. Now....your body only absorbs so much protein at a time. Unfortunately I can barely choke these down. I finally ended up drinking them 3 times a day, but now I mix with TWO pouches the first two shakes of the day. Last shake I just use one mix. So I'm getting all 5. Now. First at about 10 am. Then next at 3, next at 8.

I like a lot of them. The nectar samples are good. I got 2 sample packs of them and I seem to like the juice ones best. i also really dig the unjury chicken Soup. Unjury has the unflavored one to use in Jello and such if you'd like. with the chicken soup you have to be careful to not get it too hot.

You look great! And that's kind of amazing! Now sorry to do this: Now dish on the food situation. How is it going? Are you having any issues? I'm having mine monday and I am TERRIFIED.