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. I put hot sauce in my chicken broth!

You should try second hand stores lol that's what I plan to do until I reach my goal. Lol
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Hello! I had my surgery 7 days ago. I had really bad nausea for 3 days hardly any pain because I was on morphine but after 3 days I was cool felt better just drinking lots of clear fluids. You will do good. Good luck!
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I realized that the only way I'm going to succeed long term is to track my food intake for the rest of my life. It means putting in all the Snacks, looking up foods and drinks, and making the choice to put something back if I'm near my calorie cutoff, because without the daily accountability, I slip into eating too much or bad stuff too often.
I don't consider eating whatever I want whenever I want it a normal thing, and I know if I want to make my goal - and be healthy and feel good - I have to throw out the concept of normal. My "normal" made me fat - I ignored things for years and indulged and self medicated with food and in the process destroyed the concept of normal eating for myself forever.
I will always need to be very aware and monitor my food. I don't consider it restrictive; it's just how I will deal with my food if I want to be happy and healthy for the rest of my life. Taking a little time out of my day to log in what I'm eating is a small price to pay to be a decent weight, able to walk for miles, fit into smaller clothes, avoid serious health issues...
You shouldn't feel like you can never have sweets or "bad" foods again. But if you're not tracking how you eat every day and gaining weight, then the bad foods and/or amounts are becoming too common in your everyday diet, and you've lost your way.
Once you start tracking, you can see where you need to adjust - more Protein, more veggies, less fat, more complex carbs... get your diet figured out so you're eating a good variety of healthy meals, and it won't feel restrictive either.
Along with the tracking, be very aware of portion sizing. Start measuring again if you aren't good at eyeballing amounts, and always check the packaging for serving size along with the nutritional values. Getting the correct amount of calories for your activity level means you can eat things that might be indulgent every once in a while - in small portions, for special occasions, if you've managed your calories well, a small slice of cake or a few pieces of chocolate won't hurt at all.
It is simple, but not easy, because it also requires work and awareness and yes, sometimes saying no to yourself. This is how normal non-obese healthy folks do it.
The thing to ask yourself is - are you and your health and happiness worth the small amount of work needed to do this? I think so, and I would hope you also feel that way too. You can do this, and you just need to find the strength and enthusiasm again to get back on track.
So don't think of it as a negative. You're not denying yourself or punishing yourself - you're refocusing on making your life better and gaining control again. And you totally can do this, and it will work and you'll be so very, very happy once you start losing weight again. And even better, you're relearning how to eat and relate to food in a healthy manner as well.

dropped the call button..damn it. haha
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Sip SLOWLY and pay attention to how your body feels. I'm three weeks out and I occasionally forget and just drink quickly. When I do that, I get painfully gassy and it sometimes won't stay down.
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Sounds great. You must be doing so well to be allowed real food after only a week.

I just came from my 1 week post-op appointment. All is good. Down to 266 lbs (on Drs scale). I was able to start mushy food today and enjoyed a little bowl of scrambled eggs for Breakfast. After 3 weeks of liquids - the eggs were exceptional! We went grocery shopping after the Drs and just walking through the store wiped me out. Going to try some refried Beans in a little bit. I am doing great with fluids - not so great with Protein. Ordering some GENEPRO to help with meeting Protein goals.
Hope all the October Sleevers are doing well!

I was super nervous too! Lol Good Luck! You'll do fine.
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Thank you so much for that info. I'm going to have a good night sleep tonight! Yay!! Lol Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using the BariatricPal App

Thanks for responding, oh okay im glad im not the only one and yes I'm constantly drinking fluids. The Isopure makes my diarrhea worse so I just went with the powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury unflavored chicken broth.
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