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Once your stomach is healed liquid protein is like water, it provides zero fullness or satisfaction. Going on a liquid diet for a long term person is useless and not utilizing their tool in the way it is intended. Eating dense protein, meats, tofu, beans whatever is always going to be better than liquids. Full longer, more satisfying, takes more time to eat, and people enjoy chewing.

Once you can eat more with more variety it gets better. Everyone hates living on air.

@FatPharm I just grabbed my book to check. Nothing is said about fats except they are essential part of a diet. Nothing about excluding butter and nothing about using sprays. At 10 days post op I was still on full liquids. I didn't start soft foods until week 3. My program doesn't do "stages", just weeks and months. I have a shopping list for each week, and suggested meals. @Sosewsue61 Where are you getting trigger fish in Illinois?

The only study is the one they sponsored, and they are also being sued over it. First lets start with that hilarious thread from the body builders forum, where their attorney showed up... https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=162454451 Then their sponsored study (it doesn't count if it isn't independent, everyone with a college education knows that) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02919657 The lawsuit https://www.law360.com/articles/865678/protein-powder-maker-accuses-rival-of-false-advertising If they could really do this, NASA would be beating down their door and Elon Musk would have purchased the company. They are just taking advantage of the fact most people suck at science and math. @Sherrie Scharbrough If these studies were so great or you were a real person, people wouldn't have to PM you for the information, you would just post it.

That isn't his real plan though at all. That is the most hilarious part about it. He has one of the strictest plans, even limiting veggies. It is posted NO WHERE and his patients don't even follow it.

My surgeon is well a surgeon, at a center of excellence, and the food program looks NOTHING like that food program posted on his website. The food plan on his website is a generic food plan based off the food pyramid, AKA the food plan that has everyone in America fat. http://www.drnowmd.com/hos/Pages/OutreachPages/Nutrition.html That isn't a real bariatric post-op plan at all. In the years that I have read here, people ask this question over and over about his post op plan. I have never seen anyone that used him ever respond. They do on another forum that I am on and if you do a google search you can find his patients on another forum. The most hilarious thing about it, his patients are posting on forums asking what they should be eating just like 90% of other WLS patients. Did you know his immediate post-op plan is not to have protein shakes, and that people should be getting all their protein from food? That isn't even possible. He doesn't have a magic weight loss plan. Just eat dense protein. Have your BMR/RMR tested so you know how many calories you are burning each day as a baseline. ETA: Amazon reviews of his book. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-Live-Younan-Nowzaradan/product-reviews/0997225203/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent&pageNumber=2

Tilapia is pretty much the worst fish you can buy. If you don't like fish, the strong fish flavor and scent of Cod is going to turn you off. Perch bakes perfectly and is a good place to start. Everything tastes good with enough butter. The first 3 months post-op I basically ate nothing but baked fish. So yeah if you can enjoy fish, fish is a really good way to go. Easy to digest, lots of protein, low calories. Just don't try to force yourself into things you don't like you will just feel miserable and deprived and that isn't how you want to feel.

Most of them don't have good results though and their diets are terrible. Eat dense protein.

Mine went like that. Boom! The longer it stays in the low range, the more you can see your body repairing itself. It is really amazing.

It depends. Do you have a high pain tolerance? I was able to quit my meds when I got home (within 36 hours) and drive. I think you will be fine at the tournament if you can sit most of the time and its not too hot. It is just really hard to say yes or no because everyone is different. I had very little pain, and since I live alone I was back doing things quickly. Everyone is different though. Just make sure you walk as much as you can as soon as you wake up from surgery, it makes everything easier.

I love water too, and I have always drank it very fast. I grew up in a town where the tap water is delicious, so I guess that helped.

Hell no. Things I didn't like before surgery I hate. Things I loved I really love. My taste buds have not changed, they are just more exaggerated and I have a different outlook on life. I don't do anything I don't want to do. If I taste something and it doesn't taste good I spit it out. I went some place a few weeks ago, and when my food arrived it was terrible. Luckily I paid before I was server, I took one bite, spit half of it into a napkin and spit it out. We only get to eat so much and we only have so many calories, I can't force myself to eat things I don't like. I tried to like yogurt, nope still nasty and as useless as ever. Since you are an adult you might find your tastes are more refined and you like seafood, but I don't think anyone should force themselves to eat things they don't like. Our stomach space is too precious

@SEAHAWKS FAN! Before surgery I could drink a 16 ounce bottle of water without taking a breath. At one year I could do 8, I think I am up to about 12-13 now, but I haven't pushed it lately. Once I go to 8 I was really happy though. I love chugging water, it is something I have always done.

Never, my Dr said no cream based soups, too high in calories, not enough protein.

Just walk. That is the only way you are going to get relief from the gas pain. It isn't normal gas, it is the gas they use to raise your organs to make surgery easier. Just walk.

Just read forums, you will get a better idea. The people that are going to answer are either going to be people that never got to goal and are complaining or you are going to get the people that are super responders to surgery and got to goal super fast. You won't get a realistic idea. If you need to lost 110 pounds and you lose normally, it is going to take you are year. If you are super responder to surgery, it might take you 6 months. You have zero information posted about yourself so it is impossible to guess.

Walking is the only thing that works. The worst part of my recovery was when that gas hit my shoulder and stayed there for 2 days...

12 grams of protein isn't meal replacement level of protein. Get the regular quest bars.

They are useless for post-operative gas. It isn't even within your intestinal tract it is in your abdomen. I don't know why this Gas X myth keep persisting.

The type of surgery wouldn't really matter. RNY recover is more complicated than Sleeve. As far as spicy foods, are you taking an antacid and a PPI? I had spicy food the whole time. At one month you can't really assess what you can and can't tolerate. I'm not really sure why you are eating chicken skin at this point anyway. Revisit it at 3 or 6 months. Most people don't dump, just like most people don't get GERD. If you already have GERD then choosing RNY over the Sleeve is a no brainer. Choosing based on dumping doesn't make sense because most people don't dump and even people that do dump, only dump early on. That is why its funny to see people choosing RNY hoping it will help their sweet tooth. I just read someone today who had RNY around the same time I had the sleeve that eats candy bars and drinks full sugar soda EVERY SINGLE DAY.

@Sosewsue61 I just buy whatever meat is on sale that week. Sometimes I end up with things I normally wouldn't buy which is nice, then I have to find new ways to prepare it. Just eating meat and veggies is really cheap. The biggest issue is preventing waste, not the costs.

What you are experiencing is just from swelling, drink slow and drink constantly Also it is just a different feeling. I was trying to explain it to my friend the other day. When you have a normal size stomach, it goes off to the side and down, so things sit kind of to the lower left of your rib cage. With a sleeve, all of your stomach is just in the main part of your chest with your other organs, so you feel it more, because it is right by everything else. so if I am greedy and over eat, or my sleeve is just feeling tight that day it feels like a baby elephant is standing on my chest.

Buy a food scale and start weighing all your food for proper portions (this is good for anyone, surgery or not). Track all your food and condiments, with an app, just find one you like.

That is not a long flight and you can walk. Also write the alphabet with your feet. Blood clots wouldn't be my concern, fatigue would. Get a skycap and get a ride through the airport, don't walk.

That is your answer. Also that is a pretty crappy program. I have a food plan that goes out for the first 6 months and then for life.