Chelly

Did your nutritionist give you guide lines of what to eat and what not to eat?

IMO it was to soon to eat bread even if it is toasted.

Contact your nutritionist and refresh the guidelines for each stage after surgery.

I was going to suggest those.

I think they are the best to use and I happen to use them still on occasion to help me when I need it.

Walking as much as you can will help too to release the gas from your body.

Congratulations on doing this for yourself and the best of luck to you on your journey to a healthier and happy you.

You will after surgery be able to build up to that again without a problem.

You need to consume that much water on a daily basis after surgery.

You also will probably decrease your meds as you progress on your path to healthier and smaller you.

Don't worry about it everything will fall into place.

Congratulations on going into this next stage.

Happy Birthday!!!

Was it worth the calories? Was it the best you ever had? If the answer is no then don't do it again.

Having a party is to be with people you care about not about the eating of the food, IMO....

You've have come such a long way and remember that the next time so you don't go there again to eat sweets.

You worked so hard at your achievement that it's just not worth eating sweets.

The end of the lecture for today.

Keep going strong.

I am too a Chicagoan and the teams are a mess. LOL

I hear you...

Shame on them for playing so poorly and upsetting you.

Hi, and congratulations on having the surgery. For now just have your pain meds handy and keep them in your system until you feel better and then slowly scale down on them so it won't be a shock to your system. The pain will go away and you will feel better. Take it easy and have your protein and your water just like you were instructed and you will be fine.

L'Shana Tovah!

Really you should take to your surgeon's office about the swelling and ask them what they think about it.

I don't remember having swelling like that.

Take care.

Most excellent!!!

A happy and a healthy new year to you and yours.

This must be such a high for you.

Way to go....

I hope this is the beginning of a positive turn for you.

Be well and feel great.

Hopefully the bariatric meetings you go to will always add new information for you.

I go every month and there is a different speaker there each month and it's geared to the new pre op people and also the vetertans of post op.

I hope you get what you want from it.

When I got married to my husband I was obese and was our entire married life until I decided to have surgery last year. Before surgery over a 7 year period I lost 68 lbs without putting much effort into and knew if I didn't start myself on this journey in May of 2013 I would never get healthy without surgery. So from May to September surgery I lost 40 lbs. I watched what I ate and exercised. I am now 190 lbs lighter and my husband is thrilled because I'm healthy for the first time in our marriage. Your hubby to be loves you for you and all of you. He's probably your best friend and that's the greatest thing of all to marry your friend because it lasts much longer and is more intense of a love. Be happy and enjoy all the precious moments you have together. Take care.

I eat quest bars all the time. I love cookies and cream, chocolate chip cookie dough, vanilla almond, coconut cashew, apple pie, banana nut muffin, cinnamon roll, and a few others. You are right with these around who needs other sweets.

That's excellent!

That's great and congratulations....

That's very exciting and wonderful.

Also never ever skip a meal that's a no no.

You MUST EAT ALL OF YOUR PROTEIN!!! It's a without a doubt the most important thing to do or you won't heal properly and you will start to loose your hair from the lack of it. To add flavor to your food use seasonings at this point. You could look up recipes for different foods on The World According To Eggface. It's on google to find.

Oh I would contact your surgeon and ask this question immediately to ease your mind about it. I'm sure they have an answering service to get a hold of them.

That's the best info I can give you or anyone can give you.

Protein is number one in priority....

If you don't get in all your protein you will have problems with hair loss and not healing as well as you're suppose to.

Just thought I would remind you.

Just so you know wine contains sugar and lots of calories so be careful.

I agree it's a great feeling to be over half my size smaller from my original weight of 8 yrs ago.

I'm so glad I did this surgery last year.

You look wonderful.