sparksrn

I messed up, it is 6 weeks I get to try real foods, slowly. I was doing ok with several things until about a week ago and all of a sudden everything I eat upsets my tummy. Hope it goes away as weirdly as it came on!! How's the weight loss going? Are you able to do any exercise yet?

Well to add insult to injury, I got a stress fracture in my heel back when I first started this process in February. I was in a orthopedic boot for 9 weeks (including while I was in the hospital for surgery), so the boot is off but I still have pain which they think is plantar fasciitis. I have walked and rode a bike. There is a gym close enough to my home to walk, so Sunday I walked up there and rode the bike and walked back. Good workout but boy did I hurt later. Maybe not quite ready for 45 minute work out. All to say, I have not been consistent for sure. Tough to do when you feel like crap! When I do though, I lose more! Re weight loss not as much since surgery date as I hoped - I think it's 16 pounds? Since pre-op liquid diet, it's like 26 pounds? But all the way back to February when I first had my apt and started the 3 month NUT visits, I am down 42, so I am happy with that number. Just surprised it's not more since surgery given I am only eating about 600 calories a day! Oh well.... it will come off. I haven't seemed to hit a stall like everyone else has week 3, so maybe that's a good sign that it is just steadily coming off. Glad to hear it is only 6 weeks. That's much better! Hope the upset tummy goes away for you soon! Not fun!

I had plantar fasciitis before, had to get steroid shots in my foot before I would go on vacation just to make sure I would be able to walk and enjoy vacations! Then I started wearing Crocs all the time during the week and it healed up. Wore them for about two years and now I wear whatever tennis shoes I want to wear with my scrubs. Did they give you exercises to do to stretch the ligament? Try wearing Crocs or shoes with really good arch support. WOW 45 minutes is awesome, were you doing that before surgery? If not then you probably should back down a bit. What gym are you walking to? I have a membership at LA Fitness out there. I've lost 15.9 since surgery and 22.5 since the week before surgery when I started the liquid diet. I had hoped for more also. I wonder how much I have to lose to change pants sizes? 42 pounds is a lot!! Your doing great! Hang in there!

Yes, perfectly normal.

I would say yes. I am three weeks post-op and after I had switched to soft foods, I had ate 1/2 cup of creamed soup a couple days in a row, then all of the sudden I got that pain. The following day I cut back to 1/4 cup and have been fine since.

It is so hard to eat more often and follow the 30/30 rule, because now that I am eating, I am not getting 64 ounces in. It's a catch 22!

Try eating less and eating slower, even when it's something like soup. Also try standing up and walking after eating.

Haven't had that problem. How far out are you?

19 days now

Hmmm...did they ask you to use an incentive spirometer? Are you moving around as much as you can? It may be from the anesthesia, sometimes that affects people's lungs and deep breathing helps clear it out. If it continues call your surgeon's office to ask.