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I am struggling lately with wanting sweets. I have been staying in a good calorie range and loading weight, but fear getting out if control because of these cravings. Does anyone have any tips? Just fearful of triggering old habits and going back to where I was.

Good Luck! It gets better after the first few tough days! Ask for the gas meds. , walk like crazy, and a heating pack helped the gas pains in my shoulder!

Good Luck! It gets better after the first few tough days! Ask for the gas meds. , walk like crazy, and a heating pack helped the gas pains in my shoulder!

Try adding Isopure nonflavored protein to any mushy stuff you eat like Greek yogurt. You add one spoonful and get 26 extra grams of protein in .

That was my numbers to at my first post op

I tried Bariatric Fusion right after surgery and could not do them at all. I am now taking Twin Labs Bariatric Support. They are a chewable about the size of a quarter and taste a bit like a red Flintstone.

Okay tomorrow is my 40th birthday and my surgery, getting a bit nervous but need a change!

Well here are my tips for the liquid diet or conclusions-days 1-3 were hard with headaches even though I drank lots of Water, 4-6 easy, 7-8 okay, 9 real hard. If you are doing Bariatric Fusion shakes, I found the vanilla too sweet unless I mixed it with cold black coffee or unsweetened ice tea and orange creme was the best, and Cappuccino okay. There are awesome shaker bottles I got at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. There are clear ones with a metal spiral orb in the bottom, but the best ones are the more colored version, they have a cup thing on the bottom, and one inside, that screws to the bottom, the cup fits a perfect serving of the bariatric fusion, and can hold Vitamins in the inner lid. I left a case of Water in my car to always have it and if the water is too hot, I found a unsweetened ice tea from McDonald's worked well to mix it with in a pinch. Mixing it with hot stuff did not work as well. I was allowed a cup of non-starchy vegetables a day, a bag of baby carrots, and a salt shaker helped to have on hand for bad salt cravings. The sweetness the first few days really got to me and I craved the salt. The cravings get better as time goes by and things kind of lose their taste if you cheat anyways. Not to be graphic, but it cleared my system good the first few days and then occasionally after that I would end up with near "shart" emergencies. If you are allowed your own liquids, the Mio water enhancers and Special K Protein water packets were nice to have as the nutritionist said we should start to give up pop/soda because carbonation makes your sleeve grow if you drink it after surgery. I honestly started to find a ice water with a straw a treat in a drive thru when I had to pick someone else up something, it was just different than a bottle of water. Hope this helps!

I'm kinda nervous but no turning back now, I'm here at the hotel in the hospital and in less than seven hours I will began the journey to the rest of my life!!!! See you soon sleevers

M4buf I think I might be stealing fries too if my son threw my iPhone and broke it.
You can do this, we are in this together. I don't have a 10 day liquid diet, just one day liquids. Don't beat yourself up.
The best decision you can make has already been made. This is not the easy way out, it's hard and we will work hard at it to go where we could not go before. The liquid diet is supposed to give your liver a cleanse and a break from the work it has to do, so any help you can give it will be appreciated.
Hang in there, and get a new phone GF!

My doctor said it is because people are dehydrated, but that was not the case for me. They went away eventually, but I only took Tylenol because I was told that one was okay. It helped a little but not my Migraine meds. I red that the sleeve can actually reduce Migraines looking forward to that. Just hoping I don't fail miserably on this liquid diet because I am really struggling. I want to change my life, have energy, be a more active more, and not feel like my life revolves around food. I hope God gives me strength through this process.

Don't worry I am struggling too! I had the bad head aches from the shakes the first day. I keep trying not to cheat but lick my fingers after giving my kids food or grabbed one mini-donut when they did! I just suck at this which is why I need to surgery! It's also like the world is trying to sabotage me, my nieces Birthday, then get home and the neighbors bring over cake, then my brother wants to meet for a picnic. Why does this whole world revolve around food? My poor niece is 9 and over weight and my mom have her a box of chocolates for her birthday, seriously! I find that one if my motivators to jump out of bed in the morning was what I was going to have for Breakfast, now I stall because I don't want one of those dumb shakes.