ellie123

Glad you are not stuck though. Just wondering if this is the first time you feel full since surgery and how that feels like?? I can’t feel full on fluids and wonder if I’ll ever fell full and satisfied again

Mercy!!! Hold up while I wipe the drool off my face!!!!

Mental note to self: Contact Megan for recipes once I go to food.

Hope you get to feeling better

Just heard from her son! Hallelujah @Frustr8 made it through and is resting!!!

Just heard from her son! Hallelujah @Frustr8 made it through and is resting!!!

I really think the post surgery pre food period is the hardest...you've not lost a ton of weight yet and you're not exactly full on the liquids and you're not sure if or how you'll experience satiety in the future and you're still healing and not feeling too good and learning what your body can and cannot do...the physical surgery is behind us and now we have to do surgery on our minds to adjust to this new lifestyle and be okay with it. Hang in there, indeed it is a marathon and not a race, and you are doing fabulously.

Yay! So excited that you get to use those mandibles again!!! I can't wait to join you... my two weeks is today too, but per plan, it will be a while before I can have soft foods Next week I should be cleared for full liquids and that phase lasts another 3 weeks!!!! WOA? Then pureed foods and then soft. I think he makes the opening extra small or something but given what I just went through, I think I'll be too scared to progress any quicker. I wonder if the Portabella pizza you hyave been describing can be considered soft food?? hmmm.... Let us know how your first soft food goes...I'm going to eat vicariously through you!

All, Let us please bear up our dear friend @Frustr8 as she undergoes RNY Surgery today. She is 73years young and has been an amazing support to me and to so many others as we went through our procedures. She has had so many personal, financial and other attacks leading up to the surgery and is really going through a tough time, many have tried to desuade her from going through with it, but she is resolved to trust the Living God and go through with it. Spirit of the living God, do what only you can do. Please bear our beautiful sister @Frustr8 up today and always. We ask that you bless her from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. That you give her peace and encouragement going into her procedure and that all things coming against her boomerang right back to where they came from and away from your daughter. We pray for everyone who is going to come into contact with her or touch her, we pray and plead the blood of Jesus on the facility, over the check in clerk, over the nurses who tend to her, over the surgeon, over the anesthesiologist, over the the medications, over the equipment, God even over the linens that will touch her body and the, and the sutures and bandaids, we uplift and exalt the whole procedure, that you yourself with masterfully operate on your daughter. We pray everything goes without a glitch, we pray for her to wake without any complications, and for it to be like from a sweet sleep, we pray that she is in no pain and discomfort and that she is soon able to be up and about to everyones surprise and delight! And that her short and long term results are marvelous to your Glory! We thank you in Advance Lord for your mercy's for we know that you are MORE than able! In Jesus Name, Amen.

Hello Dear Bari Brothers and Sisters! Ellie123 is back!!!! I am have finally been released from the hospital and am back home. Thank you so so SOOOOO much for all the well wishes and prayers you sent my way during my scary ordeal!!! You all are so supportive and awesome! Here is what happened: On Sunday, (11 days post RNY op), I had half a Core Power Protein drink and a cup of fish broth with about a tablespoon of avocado blended in for texture and a little bit more substance. Still not sure if these food items were related but shortly thereafter I started to have horrid stomach pain in the general area above my belly button. It would tighten painfully then release and got progressively worse. I began to pace, hoping it was gas and will pass. I paced for 3 hours straight and it was only getting worse. I took some hydrocodone and felt a little better but 3 hours later the meds wore off and I was in bad pain. Called the doc on call and was told to go straight to the bariatric ER. There they gave me contrast, by now the pain was almost unbearable...I began to shake all over. Felt like a horrible Gallbladder attack (I used to have those before it was removed, so I know...). The CT Scan revealed a partial obstruction in the small bowl and swelling. I was put on IV, protonics, anti nausea meds, nothing by mouth and pain meds, but I continued to feel awful. through out the night I was violently vomiting, blacking in and out and ....well lets just say in that terrible horrible state none of us ever wants to be in... They let is ran it's course and yesterday it finally let up. More imaging revealed that nothing by mouth for a few days helped and my body seems to have resolved the obstruction. they slowly introduced clear liquids back, and finally sent me home back to a clear liquid diet. That specific hospital is owned by Dr. Alexander but totally out of network for my insurance. Glad to be alive, but dreading the bill for this setback... Anyhow, sending you all HUGE love and thanks for your support and prayers. I'm exhausted and a bit bummed about the ordeal, but grateful this did not happen during one of my trips abroad where no one would have known what to do! Hope everyone is doing great.

Hello Dear Bari Brothers and Sisters! Ellie123 is back!!!! I am have finally been released from the hospital and am back home. Thank you so so SOOOOO much for all the well wishes and prayers you sent my way during my scary ordeal!!! You all are so supportive and awesome! Here is what happened: On Sunday, (11 days post RNY op), I had half a Core Power Protein drink and a cup of fish broth with about a tablespoon of avocado blended in for texture and a little bit more substance. Still not sure if these food items were related but shortly thereafter I started to have horrid stomach pain in the general area above my belly button. It would tighten painfully then release and got progressively worse. I began to pace, hoping it was gas and will pass. I paced for 3 hours straight and it was only getting worse. I took some hydrocodone and felt a little better but 3 hours later the meds wore off and I was in bad pain. Called the doc on call and was told to go straight to the bariatric ER. There they gave me contrast, by now the pain was almost unbearable...I began to shake all over. Felt like a horrible Gallbladder attack (I used to have those before it was removed, so I know...). The CT Scan revealed a partial obstruction in the small bowl and swelling. I was put on IV, protonics, anti nausea meds, nothing by mouth and pain meds, but I continued to feel awful. through out the night I was violently vomiting, blacking in and out and ....well lets just say in that terrible horrible state none of us ever wants to be in... They let is ran it's course and yesterday it finally let up. More imaging revealed that nothing by mouth for a few days helped and my body seems to have resolved the obstruction. they slowly introduced clear liquids back, and finally sent me home back to a clear liquid diet. That specific hospital is owned by Dr. Alexander but totally out of network for my insurance. Glad to be alive, but dreading the bill for this setback... Anyhow, sending you all HUGE love and thanks for your support and prayers. I'm exhausted and a bit bummed about the ordeal, but grateful this did not happen during one of my trips abroad where no one would have known what to do! Hope everyone is doing great.

Hello All, Surgery for me in 1 short week....dealing with a mixture of excited butterflys fluttering and heavy worrying rhinos thumping in my belly. The big thing is coming out of Surgery. I don't usually do too well with Anasthesia. I linger FOREVER between here and there, in pain, nausiated, trying to come out, suffering, ringing in my head, struggling, its AWFUL! I dread it, and it's keeping me up tonight... Any tips for how to elegantly wake from Surgery? What helps you? Comforts you? Looking for anything to help me coup with what is ahead? Anything that helped you? Any thoughts, techniques or things you discussed with the Anesthesiologist? Grasping at Straws here, trying to mentally prepare...

Heading to the ER, been suffering for 8 hours straight. This was my first diary.

That is what I fear too. That was my first diary since surgery

Help, I’m in so much pain. Feels like I’m having a gallbladder attack, except mine has been taken out so I know how an attack Feels... I had a Core Power Protein drink which is milk based and now my stomach is hurting and bloated and spamming like the dickens. Belching a lot too. Took 3 gasex and I'm pacing the floor hoping it will pass soon. This is not a good day. Anyone experience such??

Hmmm. I need to remind myself OFTEN that this is not a crash diet, it’s for good, I’m doing the best I can so whether I stand on the scale or not... it will not change how I eat for the day but it could really ruin my mood and make it difficult for me. It’s hard not to be a Slave to that scale though. We did something so drastic, we want results and we want them NOW dangit! About to go weig myself now. As of day 10 post op yesterday, I had lost the 9lb IV fluid I gained at surgery and was a mere little 2lb down from surgery day. Talk about aggravating especially when I’m on clear liquids only... but I’m reminding myself, it’s a marathon and not a race. And steady wins the race. Rate of loss is different for everyone, we just have to accept and love our bodies for even giving up the weight following the years of food abuse we have put it through.

Could this be around the monthly cycle time? I always again around that time.

Here you go... https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZrA4fgn_eg?feature=oembed

@mercmerc did u see the video on not going to gym in first 6 months after WLS? I posted it yesterday in this thread. Dude may be onto something... I’m thinking your body is in shock from too much with too few calories in starvation mode. Starvation Mode is a real thing folks! We’ve got yearsvof evolution perfectibgbit. I would rather try meditation and stretches to calm your fight or flight response...

Wow, now that’s what I’m talking about! So frustrating how it varies! Can’t they decide on a standard already! if I may ask, how is your weight loss going on real food?

Oh no, that’s cruel and unusual to have to cook, luckily my hubby took over and I don’t go to the kitchen at all. Sending you positive thoughts energy and patience for today

Low carb pizza, pray share when u figure it out. There is a place here, I forget it’s name that makes the crust from cauliflower and eggs. Yummy stuff. What would I give...

All, dies yhe wster in your decaf and water to mix soup etc count towards the daily total? Cuz if not, I’ve been doing it wrong...

That does it!!!!!!! I’m getting Jello!!!!!

See I called my doc office and they said I can’t have jello..... why???? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy????????