forensicmary

It is so weird reading both your replies because It is exactly what I am going through right now. I am 12 days out. I ate some grilled tilapia tonight. It was awesome. I am supposed to be on purreed in two days but I wanted food so bad!. I dont feel hungry either. I just want to chew! Sometimes I have to decide food or fluids. I really try to get my Protein in because I really dont want to lose my hair. I take gummy Vitamins. I get uncomfortable if I eat too fast or over 2 oz at a time. That means I eat small meals throughout the day. I eat cottage cheese, carbmaster yogurt. EAS Protein shakes or atkin shakes. sugar free oatmeal thinned with skim milk. Three and a half weeks ago I was drinking one 2 Liter of Diet Mt Dew a day. Now I just drink Vitamin Water, crystal light or water. No caffeine! I have had some second thoughts but too late now:) I did feel a little anger at myself for spending the money but again. I can see and feel the difference so very worth it! I am back at the gym. Today was my second day. I have lost 17lbs including preop. I am going to make sure I am successful! Good luck to both of you too. I am so glad you posted!

At 11 days out. I can eat the same amount of yogurt over a half hour. I eat liquid sugar free oatmeal over a half hour too. I do feel when I need to stop. I cant just eat three meals. I eat about every 3 hours. I only have sugar free popsicles close to bedtime. You sound about right to me. Other things make me full sooner like the 3 soft fair fries I cheated with yesterday. That was my limit.

Well I have done really well after surgery. I am eating full liquids without nausea and maintaining my protein intake. Now I am able to take in my full calories which at this point is about 956 per day. Understanding protein dense foods and shakes helped me. My fluids are about 60-64 oz when I carry a vitamin water with me throughout the day. I cant wait for pureed on Wednesday. The scale watching can get bad for me. I have to pull myself back to reality and say that 17 lbs in 2 1/2 weeks is awesome. I did cheat. I ate ritz crackers on occasion and I had 3 soft fair fries. Neither upset my stomach but I didnt push it either. I have a need to chew. I chew gum occasionally to help. Each day I am stronger and walk farther. Plan to go back to the gym and weights on Wednesday. Lesson Learned: Surgery has helped me reset my portion size. Livestrong.com has help me track calories which keeps me ontrack. There is a lot of sodium in food when I hit pureed I am going to focus on lowering my sodium intake. I have had some doubts, anger at not being able to lose weight by myself. But I am dealing and all is good.

I had my gall bladder out a long time ago. I know the surgeon could have taken yours out when they did the plication but it probably wasnt on your consent form. Knowing ahead of time would be good knowledge so that you could have one surgery not two! I am interested in the fact that he thought your stomach was not very restricted. This is just 5 months later right? It must be very easy to stretch the stomach back out again? I am just a week out and that information is very sobering. I spent a lot of money for it to just be for naught. Good luck postop. I had random reactions to certain foods but generally felt 100% better!

I am down 14 pounds (5 lbs postop). I went to work with my clear liquids and protein shake. I kinda felt out of the loop just being gone for four days. I walked at lunch but then I became tired, diaphoretic and had a headache again. Not sure why the headaches but the only thing that took it away was Excedrin migraine. I did read some studies that migraines get better after WLS but the only patients in the study were bypass patients. I had to leave work after 7.5 hours due to tiredness. My work was okay with that. I have had some problems with blurry vision since surgery, probably the medication side effects. I am not hungry but want to eat. There really is no other way to describe it. I daydream about comfort food. It is not sweets that I want but meat and mash potatoes:( It really hit me today that pizza wont be on my diet anytime soon. Also I find myself worrying about stretching out my stomach and wasting my money. Tracking my calories on LiveStrong helps keep me in line. Tomorrow is Full liquids woohoo! There is a lot of internal dialogue with myself. I focus on how my stomach feels, whether I am full, what to eat next... The scale reinforces and validates me which gives me courage to stay on track.

I like the GNC chocate protein powder the best. The HMR ones have too many carbs.

I am using the HMR protein shakes which are dairy based. Hopefully this okay. I went out today and bought sugarfree pudding to flavor the shakes and some other flavoring. I also purchased some soups with low sodium (broth). I make one shake ahead so I have one ready. Going from an all inclusive to 1000 calories per day. I am concerned about work tomorrow but will keep my head up. I want to make sure they can do my surgery so I want to make sure I follow the diet!

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. It seems we are all a little different in our bodies response to this surgery.I was so gun shy when I got on the operating table I ask had anyone decided to not do the procedure and leave. They laughing said "not lately".

I have been eating 800 calories and have only lost 5 lbs in 7 days. I started at 220. On Sept 20 I was 218. Preop diet started 2/21. My Sept 24 weight is 213. What if I dont loose 10 pounds before surgery? If my metabolism slows down this much at 800 calories am I really going to lose that much after surgery? I am tracking everything faithfully on Livestrong.com so I know I am not cheating. My protein is 70-120 gm per day. Everything is low carb that I eat. I am wondering if I should do the vertical sleeve but my surgery is paid for and the date is looming ahead... September 28. I am drinking the protein shakes without difficulty as they taste fine to me. Just really worried that I will not be successful after surgery or that I will be spending a significant amount of money with very little results. I guess second thoughts are normal . I am not questioning my motivation to maintain the postop diet but I am wondering how my body is going to respond to it.

I was able to get 62 gms of protein. I had some stomach cramping today so maybe should not have started protein shakes so early. The oddest thing is that I have minimal abdominal pain but my left side of my neck is aching. Maybe positioning during surgey? So I have takenmeds for stomach cramping and pain meds. I have walked both days. I feel lucky that I had no problems with the surgery and I am going to try to rest my neck. I am scared because I dont seem to know when I am full. Dont want to stretch anything out right out of surgery! still planning on work on Monday hopefully will be better everyday!

I am using GNC powder which is very concentrated. It took all day;)

Well I was hoping to go to work today but woke up three times in horrible night sweats. I had to change my night clothes each time. I am not running a fever. The only pain I have today is a migraine which I have had for 7 hours now. I have some sinus issues today too. I do not have a fever and my incisions look good. I read that some protein shakes are connected to migraine headaches. I started eating chocolate flavor GNC 100% Whey protein shakes mixed in milk and blended with ice yesterday. I have tolerated Atkins and EAS shakes without problems. I may need to go back to the other shakes. At least GNC gives your money back. Other foods I am eating: popsicles sugar free, broth, and sugar free pudding and yogurt. I had some tomato basil soup but then read we shouldnt have that until further out because it irritates the stomach lining. I just ate a cup of pudding over a half hour which I should not be able to do! Craving chedder potatoe soup and ice cream but I am staying away. So, I stayed home again today. Hopefully back to work in am.

It feels like your stomach is rolling. It doesnt hurt too bad but you are not able to control it. It made me nauseated.

I am on Day 3 postop. I can drink anything that fits through a straw. In fact, I forgot I had the surgery (early am sleep walk?) I drank 3 oz of tea in a hurry. So now waiting for stomach cramping to settle down.

I had my surgery yesterday. I felt like leaving the moment I got to the surgery center. But I went through with it! Today is just dealing with throat soreness, gas pains and understanding how much I can take in. Dr. Watkins fixed my hiatal hernia in addtion to the plication. Dr. Watkins is very nice and spent time with me going over discharge instruction. I will be able to email pics of my stab wounds rather than traveling again. I made myself drink 64 gm of protein today but other liquids beside this are hard to get in. I am halfway there. I walked thorugh the IKEA store with my husband and that actually help me more. I am hoping that I can drive home comfortably tomorrow as it is 3 1/2 hour ride. Otherwise unremarkable post op.

Hi, I had my surgery yesterday. Stayed in hospital overnight. Was able to drink with no problems. Today sore due to gas pains. Walked through IKEA. I taken in a Protein shakes that puts my protein at 64 gm. I am not sure I will get the 64 oz of liquids in. I am taking something to stop the stomach cramps, antinausea patch, liquid pain meds. I will looking forward to hearing your stories post op too.

Finished the 9 days of liquids, 2 weeks of antibiotics and lost only 7 pounds following the diet and staying within my calories. I felt the best I have in 9 days. I think I was in a brain fog without a lot of carbs. I am still leery of my surgery and the result I can expect. What I have learned by reading the blogs is that it is hard work no matter how you try to loose weight. WLS vs trying on your own... Both depend on your mind set and will power. It is hard for me still to accept that I am doing this as it feels like I should have had enough will power to do it on my own. Saying a prayer that all goes well and that it is worth it!

Spoke with the surgeon's office today. Too many carbs in HMR protein shakes so I switched to Atkin's shakes. I had a headache all day. Carb withdrawal? I also found out I can only eat 800 calories not 1000 like I thought. Okay now I am hungry. I am confused about the carb intake preop so more exploring on that. On a positive note I have lost 5 pounds so far. Oh I learned how to set up my weight loss ticker which is fun. I also am tracking on livestrong.com which has helped me log my water, exercise weight, calories, protein and carbs. at lunch I went for a walk because everyone was eating pizza. I also walked for 40 minutes with my friend tonight.

That is awesome! It sounds like we really have to work at this but it is definately worth it!

I am a registered nurse and I read the article. The quote is that "Although sutures disappear after 4 years but based on endoscopic data folds are remained at place." per the article. So the stomach fold still stays the same although the sutures are gone. Still some restriction especially is you can only hold the equivalent to a can of pop. Different surgeons use different sutures. This article is from Iran. You will need to talk to your own surgeon to see what they used but I still believe the anatomy of the stomach maintains some restriction. I will speak with my doctor about this too. Can wait to see what you all find out.

Had my phone interview today with Dr. Watkins, nurse, counselor and scheduler. I am scheduled for the the gastric plication on September 28, 2011. I have to start my prep pack next week while I am in Cancun. I have been very stressed at work but this decision feels right for me. I will need to do one week of 800 cal per day liquids prior to the surgery. I bought a chewable vitamin. Worried about being able to take my medications after surgery. On September 20 will have a history and physical done with my primary doctor. Supposed to get height weight and neck size. My husband is coming with me to the surgery and I am glad he has been so supportive! Dr. Watkin says he advises a week of of work to heal. I am having the surgery on a Wednesday and want to return to work the next Monday. So successful day!

Great job Jen!

I am on day three of preop antibiotics and I am in a Cancun all inclusive. I am starting to have loose stools so it's anyone's guess which one of these may be the cause. I have horrible taste in my mouth in the AM that taste like the Biaxin. Yuck. Not starting liquid diet till Sunday Sept 18, 2011 as I only have to be on liquids one week prior to my surgery. I am on antibiotics and prilosec for two weeks so hopefully I will be able to tolerate this especially switching to liquids which I believe will make it worse. Maybe that is how I will be losing my preop weight. Bowl Cleansing. LOL

My main fear is that I will fail. I am a stress eater and I dont have to be hungry to eat. I am looking at different ways to take my life back from job that I allow to use me up everyday. I belong to Urban Active so I will be exercising daily there. I just need to get some positive hobbies:) Otherwise over the next week and a half I will be playing with different kinds of Protein shakes and planning how to incorporate the liquid, soft and pureed meals into my diet prior to my Sept. 28 surgery.