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I’d been disregarding the advice to wait 30 mins before drinking water till I got to soft foods, and then it REALLY hurt if I drank water right after eating. Re 64 oz, most days I do the best I can. I really only get 64 oz in on workdays, and that’s if I carry a water bottle around with me to meetings all day. When it warms up, I’ll start carrying water with me on the train to/from work and that will help.

OP, think of it this way: It’s 2018, and we know soda is bad for us, so grocery stores have shelves of flavoring you can add to water that makes it into something delicious that isn’t soda. Once upon a time your choices would’ve been Crystal Light or Kool-Aid with no sugar! I recommend finding one you like.

I called after it had been a month and it had been approved. I called the surgeon to tell them I’d completed all the necessary steps before I went om vacation, so I wasn’t staring at the phone waiting for it to ring or anything. Remember that your surgeon may not submit the request for pre-approval the day you call them and tell them you’ve done everything, there may be some lag time there. .

I started walking on a treadmill almost immediately after getting home from the hospital. I haven’t been cleared to do much more and won’t be until the 6 week appt.

Thanks, all. I took the maximum dose of Senokot last night and things were back to normal this morning.

Check with your surgeon to see if they run a support group. My surgeon’s practice does, though I won’t be able to go to a meeting for the first time post-surgery until March.

Yes, they’re allowed by my specialists. 2 a day at night.

I took a sip of Caffeine Free Diet Coke from a Freestyle machine on Friday night and dumped the rest out. Did NOT sit right. Had Minute Maid Light instead. I’m thinking diet soda is going to be my birthday treat from now on, but not till next year. If you miss the taste of soda, the Orange Crush powder you can add to plain water is good and only 10 calories per packet (flavors up to 20 ounces). They also have grape and strawberry.

Yes, two Flintstones have everything I need except for the calcium citrate and the B12, which is a sublingual tablet I take once a week. You need calcium citrate such as this, https://www.bariatricadvantage.com/item/calcium_citrate_chewable_500mg/, not calcium carbonate. I shudder to think what’s happening to you’re stomach when you’re taking 3 Tums a day you don’t need.

In 2014 I had an anal fissure repaired surgically that had been around for close to a year, and I’ve been taking a high dose of fiber (12 psyllium husk tablets a day) to ensure that everything keeps moving and I don’t get another one. I stopped the day before the surgery and have been struggling with constipation pretty much since starting the puréed diet. I’d been stopped up for a few days and probably had a blockage, which passed yesterday, though not without quite a bit of straining (it was diarrhea fiirsr and then the blockage needed to go, which is why I was straining). Anyone have any recommendations? Senkot hasn’t done anything, though I haven’t tried the max dose, and I was taking Miralax when I had the fissure and built up a resistance to it pretty quickly. Thanks!

That’s about the same price as Flintstones Chewables (definitely the same price as the store-brand version), you still need to take calcium citrate, and that’s way too much B12 (my post-surgery program recommends 1000 mcg a week).

It’ll get better once you progress to the next eating stage n

The weight loss has slowed for me, but not stopped. I just added ground beef, turkey, and chicken to my diet and that is keeping me full, which is good. It’s possible that consuming a couple hundred more calories per day will speed up the weight loss.

Good post-op choice, too; eat the meat and veggies, skip the rice.

I’ve found the whole thing to be a struggle, honestly, in terms of not being able to eat whatever I want. The pre-op Diet was definitely the worst, but only because I was starving the whole time. After the surgery, it was just walking through a grocery store and being pissed off about not being able to eat the foods I was looking at rather than walking through a grocery store and being pissed off about not being able to eat the foods I was looking at rather AND being starving. The results have been impressive, but I got down to this weight using Saxenda two years ago without so many food restrictions (and then the medication quit working, and then I put it back on, but that’s another story...). It’s been a mixed bag so far.

Re #2, she isn’t 122 pounds, either. And “before” woman was a lot better at keeping her roots covered up. By tomorrow, she’ll tell us she’s a distributor for those vitamins.

Yes, they sell it as their gluten-free pizza. That’s a good idea too.

2 weeks is way too early for rice, even well-chewed. The BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) diet they normally recommend when you can’t keep anything down doesn’t apply for now.

I’ve tolerated a square of plain cheese thin crust (think cracker crust) pizza from Domino’s, so it’s probably the case that the thinner the crust, the better. Which sucks for me, living in Chicago. When I tried a keto diet last year, my wife made pizza using scrambled eggs for a crust, THAT was tasty.

My dietitian recommended I move to ground beef, turkey, and chicken (I was complaining about feeling hungry), so I had a plain Five Guys cheeseburger, no bun, for dinner. It didn’t sit right, but I kept it down ok and felt all right after a while. Then again, the protein shake didn’t sit right the first time I had one, so maybe it just takes time.

It took me hours just to fill out all of their paperwork! I had an appt in the middle of the day and ended up having to come back later in the day to finish it! They never told me if I passed or not, but I had the surgery done last month, so...I guess I did.

I still get a little nauseous when I take my supplements, especially if I take the supplements and then pills. It passes quickly, though.

Yes, mine was: Days 1 and 2 (day 1 was surgery day) - clear liquids Days 3-14 - full liquids Days 15 and 16 - pureed foods Days 17-28 - very soft foods Days 29-42 - soft foods Days 43+ - general diet I'm considering starting soft foods this weekend (should start on Wednesday the 17th) bc I've tolerated else I've tried and I'm starving eating only very soft foods.

I've only been tracking protein at this point, but my goal is 60-82 grams and that's about how many calories I take in in order to get to the top of that range.

The strangest thing happened yesterday, my fingers swelled to the point where my wedding ring wouldn't come off (and it was pretty loose prior to that). I have no idea what, if anything, I ate on Wednesday that would've had a lot of salt.