batgirl

Even if it didn't feel bad, please don't do it. Your sleeve is inflamed, full of stitches, and healing, so it's important to take your post-op care guidelines seriously to avoid complications. Don't think of it as a diet at this stage...It's a post-surgery recovery prescription.

I'm not trying to pick a fight with you @OutsideMatchInside. I see no difference it the processing of whey Protein Bars and ice cream bought in a store. And unless you are growing all of your own food, everything is made with chemicals. Literally everything you buy has some chemical either coating or ingested by the animal the meat was cut from.
Blocks of cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, coffee creamer, butter... all of these dairy products will have chemicals traces in them from the cows that were most likely on antibiotics at the very least. There there are the preservatives and the thickeners and the color enhancers. Do you like hot dogs or sausages? All processed and frankenfoods. That being said, I think they are safe foods.
On the other hands, Velveeta cheese, pop tarts, dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets, the powdered flavoring on potato chips, boxed macaroni and cheese... those are truly foods that I believe should be avoided at all cost as they are unnatural.
If you want to lump all Protein bars in with the latter group, that is fine. But don't present it as fact to people who are new to Bariatric Eating. It is not fact, it is opinion. We are all entitled to them.

I'm with ReneK, I wouldn't do anything differently. I did what my Surgeon's Guidelines told me and I followed his instructions totally. I hear people saying all the time that they wish they would have done their Surgery sooner, but for myself, I wouldn't say I wished I had done it sooner. I did check intoit but never had insureance and was raising our family of 4 so there was no way I could pay for it. I truly believe that if I would have had WLS earlier I WAS NOT ready!! Waiting until I was 57 years old. I had grown up so much and was ready to commit to myself. My kids were grown with kids of their own. So for myself waiting was a GREAT GREAT thing for me. I don't even know if I would have had the GRIT to do what I needed to do.