SilentBotts

I'm glad it worked out. I'm actually baffled that they scheduled you before getting approval from insurance first.

That's an interesting food plan. They wouldn't even let me leave the hospital until I showed I could drink at least some of a Protein shake. You could try Isopure, it's a clear Protein Drink. Comes in a bunch of flavors.

It definitely gets better. Pain was very manageable by the end of the first week. Walking and moving helps a lot with it. I had the exact opposite problem with urinating. Once they took my catheter out because of all the fluids from the IV I had to pee about once an hour. This meant getting up alot, and on the second night it meant getting up out of bed every 1-2 hours.

I was told to stick to three meals a day at regular meal times. The idea being to avoid getting back into grazing habits. I do occasionally have a little extra bite. Something like a pinch of shredded cheese, spoonful of peanut butter

My recovery was fine. I only had real pain for about the first two weeks but it was very manageable, I stopped taking pain killers on week two. Never had issues with hitting my Water and Protein goals, only food I've had any issues with so far has been any kind of sugar alcohol sweetener.

I was on clomiphene which was great because I never had to take testosterone.

The carbonation and the sugar. In theory diet sodas should be fine if your plan allows other sugar free artificially sweetened drinks. The carbonation can be irritating to some sleeves, so check with your surgeon or NUT for their opinion on it. My instructions where to avoid it for the first few months.

Double check with your doctor, but you'll probably want some milk of magnesia or miralax. Also a softener like Colace. This next part is a little gross but you'll probably also want to get some sterile latex/nitrile gloves in case it's impacted you'll have to manually help it pass. This happened to me middle of my second week home.

Met with my urologist this morning and I am now officially off my meds for low testosterone!!!

I'm at the point where I'm almost not even paying attention to liquids because I haven't had any trouble hitting my daily goal. Soup is a once in a while meal because I can eat about twice as much as something solid.

Sashimi is probably fine, I was allowed fish on softs, as with everything you'll know pretty quickly if your sleeve doesn't like it. Definitely avoid rice.

Unless I know them well enough to know they are going to react in a not great way I've just been telling everyone. I've had really great conversations about it, people seem curious for the most part. A surprising number actually already have friends and family who've had some kind of weight loss surgery.

I had the same problem, I was just hungry all the time, always foraging for food. The difference between then and now is amazing. I have to be careful or I forget to eat.

I keep Peanut Butter on hand, I find one or two teaspoons is very satisfying. coffee should actually be fine, caffeine can cause irritation after surgery but a few months out shouldn't be an issue. Just stay away from cream and sugar. A medium dunkin with milk and artificial sweetener is only around 50 calories.

I've noticed that I seem to have a regular stall every fourth week I don't loose anything for about 5-7 days.

If you blend it anything is probably going to be tolerated. The sugar free ice cream still might have too many calories to be a good choice, I think it's something like 70 calories for 2g of Protein per service. A yogurt smoothie might work well for you. The tuna blend looks fine, keep an eye on the amount of mayo and relish you add since those are just extra calories. Ricotta cheese and cottage cheese are also really good for the pureed stage. There's a recipe floating around for a ricotta bake which is basically a lasagna without noodles that I mostly lived off of during the pureed stage.

Look into switching to the under the tongue B12s. B12 is much more effective when it's absorbed directly into the blood stream.

Fish, ricotta, cottage cheese worked well for me until I could handle solids. Peanut Butter has around 150 calories for 7g of Protein so isn't great as a main source of protein.

Once I stopped the pain pills I didn't even start taking Tylenol. The pain wasn't bad at all, just tender enough to let me know it was there. I was driving and back at work after two weeks.

You'll want to just plan your portion sizes and meal times around hitting any Protein or calorie goals your surgeon/NUT gave you. You want to try to stick to three meals a day with no more than one snack, grazing through out the day can lead back to bad eating habits.

I was off the pain pills by the second week. It was still tender for about a month.

I took Miralax and Colace for about the first month, I still take the Colace now. Walking is the best way to get the gas to clear up. You should try to walk a few times a day.

You will also probably be very surprised at how satisfying small portion sizes are post-op. I'll make chicken cutlets and pre-op I could eat anywhere from 2-4 of them. Now one of them leaves me completely satisfied.

We loose the most weight in a period right after surgery that lasts six months to a year, depends on your body and starting weight is a factor as well. During this period you absolutely want maximize your weight loss and avoid anything that isn't helping you hit the Protein and calorie goals you set with your surgeon and nutritionist. The sleeve gives us a lot of flexibility in our food choices but we still have to make sure we are making good choices. It's a personal decision to try anything that could be called junk food. But it should be done with a lot of fore thought. You need to consider how it might affect your weight. If it's something that might be habit forming for you and could lead to reforming bad habits you had pre-op. You'll also need to make sure you are still meeting your dietary requirements as well. The real permanent change is that you are always going to be planning your food and putting a lot of thought into what you eat. The days of just eating whatever is at hand or whatever you are craving are done. For me personally I don't plan on experimenting with food choices until I've hit goal and proven to myself that I can maintain. pizza is something I may try a year from now and even then it'll have to be thin crust, and I know I can get some protein out of the cheese and adding some toppings like chicken. Chinese food is out forever, too starchy, too much MSG, too many calories, not enough protein. I also know that because of the bread I'm probably never eating a burger or hot dog on the bun again. Your example of chicken wings is a good one, chicken is great for protein, generally you'll be able to eat any comfortably sized portion. It depends more on the sauce you are using. Most sauces are loaded with sugar and calories so you'll want to pay attention to that and find alternatives. I'm five months out at this point and also honestly I don't even find my self craving this stuff anymore. I'm very satisfied by the foods I've been eating. Lots of chicken and fish, some beef and pork, lots of eggs and cheese. Nuts for an occasional snack.