liquid diet huh. Popsicles really got me through it and Jello. chicken broth when I needed something savory. But it was still hard. Especially after surgery cause the taste of the whey made me cringe and my blood sugar was so low I would just lay around. x.x BUT the popsicles were a godsend XD;
SW: 328 CW: 256 GW: 150 Surgery date: January 12, 2017
Thank you for this post, and congrats on your success thus far!
I am having my sleeve surgery on Wednesday, May 24 and plan to take advantage of the Memorial Day long weekend to aid in my recuperation.
I am 4 days out, and so far having no complications. Im getting my fluids in, but having to sip all day. I have no pain, and havent had to take any pain medicince since leaving the hospital. Ive lost 20 pounds since starting the preop diet, and 30 at my highest. Im excited for my new life
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If you are a foodie, like you actually have good taste in food not just eating lots of crap, you are going to LOVE foodie life post op.
Most of the time for myself I have the same simple things all the time. So when I go out, it is a real treat, especially since it is fairly rare I go to a real restaurant now, compared to the past ( I used to eat out a lot, now just a couple times a week maybe).
After going through the food stages and adjusting your relationship with food. You learn to love food as fuel. Then when you do eat delicious things out, you can totally be satisfied with a taste. Food to me tastes far better now than it ever did before because since I know I can only have a "little" (and that isn't really true anymore, depending on what it is, I can have a almost normal portions of things that are not dense protein), and what I have has to be good. I won't waste room or calories on bad food. I went somewhere last week, had half a bite of food, decided it was rubbish and walked out (I had already paid my tab before the food came). At least that is my experience. I can have a little bit of everything and just enjoy the taste and the flavors and not try to eat to be full. So all the fancy restaurants that I used to feel starved after I ate there, are completely satisfying now. It is really hard to explain to someone that hasn't experienced it but some of the other vets that used to post here have expressed the same kinds of feelings.
I went from first visit to surgery in 8 weeks. No time to get cold feet, plus my BFF bought a plane ticket to be with me and spent her own money so I couldn't back it. I purposely did it all very fast so I wouldn't have the option of talking myself out of it.
No regrets about surgery not one second.
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