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I hate that whey protein flavour too. Have very sensitive taste. How do you get on with milk? I had 300ml semi-skim or 1% with 30g skim milk powder and no added sugar milkshake flavor or decaf coffee espresso shot. Sipped over time That combo gives approx 22g protein and counts towards fluid intake. At this stage sounds like any way to keep you nourished is the right idea.

To those who have said they look forward to summer it has given me some hope for many things including not sweating my way through everything in summer and not sweating when I am asked to do presentations for work. Part an anxiety flop sweat cos it involved standing up in front of a 90% male dominated group of peers to be judged, and part a fat sweat cycle as venues were always boiling and knowing how bad the sweating fat woman optic was made me sweat more, and so on. If that cycle gets broken it will be worth every gas pain, pureed meal, and frozen extremity.

Liked then unliked cos...well what's to like about being fffing freezing (typed jitterily fully clothed and under a fleecy blanket in a house I'm assured is 21°C)

I'm so sorry you have that to cope with too [emoji853]

Thank you for that heads up. I don't see my team until 7th March so may well call. No signs of DVT. Went home with 30 days of self injections of thinners, but very carefully to look out for any symptoms (OH has a clotting disorder diagnosed after 2 saddle PEs, so we're hyper vigilant anyway).

You really need to call your surgeon and/or your doctor if the pain doesn't pass or if it comes with a temperature.

Thank you for that! The silver lining sounds like bliss after years of balancing the bingo wings Vs boiling alive equation for work every heat wave. If it's 3-4 weeks of teeth gritting then binning that trauma as trade off I'll be fine :-)

Sleeved 21st Jan, approx 7kg down. On soft foods, getting 650-820ish calories on board. Hitting av. 68g protein and 1.75litres fluid a day. Walking almost every day (missed one). But of an afternoon/evening I just cannot get warm. Sat here with OH and kids in T-Shirts and I'm in a ski jacket with legs cold in jeans, feet cold in socks, and nose/fingers really cold. Do I need to worry? What should I do differently? If 'No' and 'nothing', will this go away?

Thank you for the solidarity. I felt like I was being a wuss, but I've always been very sensitive to texture with food. I've survived since doing similar to what you proposed. Had the family recipe Pasta Sauce whizzed up with veg, but very very finely chopped very soft chicken breast and had a few bits of grated cheese with. Did the same with some salmon and a low low fat soft cheese with teeny tiny bits of chopped up Cucumber in it. Then chicken and gravy. All total mush when chewed a couple of times and no stomach complaints. I know that's kinda cheating Vs just blitzing the heck out of it all, but did reckon Drs try to protect those who perhaps aren't cooks or can't afford the great tender cuts of meat and fish fillets I'm lucky enough to be able to.

Smoked Salmon Salad Light, fresh, and with a much needed crunch. 50g Any smoked salmon chopped fine. 30g Cucumber peeled deseeded and chopped small 1 Cherry tomato deseeded and chopped fine Salt Pepper Tiny touch crushed garlic 2 Tsp Lemon juice (fresh best, but meh) 2 - 3 Tsp Lightest cream cheese (I use Philadelphia Lightest. 3g fat per 100) Get half this quantity down right now, but save for later. Could pair with crispbread or crackers if on solids, or whizz, like me, for purees.

I've been big since I was a child. 7st 7yr old 10st 10 year old, but lived life in spite of it. Was never inactive by any stretch of imagination, but puberty coincided with starting judo (10yrs), and playing club hockey. Slimmed to 10.5st 5'2" 15yr old. Always got called or treated like I was fat sometimes. Crushed me when someone that mattered did it or was done in front of someone like that, but mainly ploughed through and became very good at jobs while still avoiding teambuilding paintball, golf or clubbing type stuff. Generally didn't do party clothes and parties. Actually had benefits. I was the curiously confident big woman who knew her technical stuff, could write incredibly well, and inflienc decision makers. I got judged, more generously (ironically), than traditionally shaped attractive women in my overwhelmingly male dominated field BECAUSE I was an anomaly. Felt attractive when confident and fat when not. Did the shocked at unmatched image in Windows thing, and inability to fit through gaps in restaurants despite head telling me I was narrow enough, but all within bounds of considering myself 'big'...because I had never been anything else. Big ramp up to morbid obesity since DD2 9yrs ago and working from home more (blessing and curse). Hit me fully and destroyed ability to put on the game face when I became constantly mortified at overlapping train and airline seats, hearing grumbles when folks had to sit next to me. I also couldn't attend or speak at industry events without getting red and flop sweating (part unfitness, part heat at all such events, part spiralling anxiety at sweating, knowing how bad a visual fat woman sweating is, then sweating more). When I became a virtual recluse and depression/anxiety threated my livelihood and arthritis started in knees cos of both weight and apparent early menopause (42), enough was enough.

Planning to eBay my way through spring/summer on a kind of rotating buy/sell cycle :-) Don't expect to break even, but you never know.

Just had a clear out of clothes. Only 3 weeks post op, but this was overdue. Was at the stage of having to empty overfull draws every time I wanted to find the desired black item among other black items, delving past stuff I hadn't worn for ages. OH helped do the Keep/Bin/Donate routine. Then part way through I began to cry. He's put up so kindly with enough waterworks these last couple of weeks and was concerned, but I explained it was happy tears. I was keeping smaller clothes with the very real expectation I would be able to wear them, binning ragged old faithfuls that were beginning to get loose, and donating huge misguided attempts to fill holes in my work or social wardrobe that never got returned. Very necessary. So glad it's been done. First time in my life the hope has truly begun to creep in. Very fragile hope, but stronger every day I put the work in :-)

Posted that I was a tearful mess at the exact same point as you. Sleeved 21st Jan and had my meltdown couple of days ago so you're right on schedule for the come down off all the drama and hormonal rollercoaster. Be kind to yourself and hope things steady soon. I have evened out today, but not relying on it. Folk here really helped.

This seems incredibly low. I'm not a medic, but I'm aware of calorie intake recommended for patients on complete bed rest. It's much higher than even the 800kcal pre-op diet too. Also thinking of the range of physiologies this covers if it's standard. Fascinated to see other opinions.

I've just joined a gym for the first time since my 20s and feeling exactly the same so have really appreciated this thread. Thank you and congrats on getting it done!

[emoji6]. It's an incredible change. You look amazing. Betting the beard bit is mainly blokes. Shamelessly stereotyping, but in my long anecdotal experience it holds true.

Slightly gutted. Your ideas all sound fab on paper and will keep.an eye on the thread, but I'm ruled by texture and whizzed up lunch has me mentally done before I begin. Never say never though! Started purees today (10 days post sleeve) with porridge cos I loved it. Puree 'safe space'. Fine milled porridge with lots milk powder added to 1%. Had idea I was meant to eat until I'm 'full', or for 20 minutes. Whichever is sooner. Though my stomach didn't totally rebel, eating was really unpleasant. Didn't like texture. Stopped when it ticked to more like nausea...10-15 TSP and approx 5g protein in. Huge win that it stayed down and I got that far, but sad the easy end of the puree scale was so tough. Usual 'Am I normal/am I doing it wrong?' questions

Oh bless your heart. I am one of two sisters too and my sister has dieted on and off all her life succeeding periodically in hitting what they call healthy BMI, though she merrily swims a mile at a time whether overweight or creeping to obese. Her OH is terrified of the idea of unecessarily surgery and anaesthesia, so this is not an option for her and I felt me doing this might upset her. Make her feel bad about her yo-yoing. She, like your sister, has been an utter sweetheart and a rock. I she'd a year for you as you, like me, obviously love your sis and feel overwhelmed by having that support when you didn't expect it. So pleased for you. I liken readiness for this (I took 2 years from first consultation to committing, including cancelling one op), to readiness to quit smoking (did that Jan last year too). If all the intellectual arguments made sense we'd just do it, but you have to catch the right wave. Sounds like this is yours xxx

I read all the literature that said average 50-60% excess weight loss, about 30kg for me. Aiming for that. Wondering if I'm likely to go further. Trying to do the right things to make that a possibility.

Thank you :-)

Cheers lovely people. So helps to know a cause and not feel alone I made the man take me for walkies, which here, unlike most of the country, involved blue skies, bright sunshine, and frost. More of an amble as took some snaps cos it was the golden few minutes between the sunlight hitting frosty foliage and it melting (see below). Cheered me up. Will be expecting the short fuse though. So glad I'm not at work yet.

BTW no period for 3 yrs (45, but no-one would investigate as I'm fat...you know the drill)

I'm 9 days post sleeve and not coping remotely with things going wrong. This feels like PMT on coke. I feel like I'm messing everything up, I can't think straight, I'm making my fella angry by being useless and overreacting, and I'm generally a waste of space. I ditched exercise yesterday because I couldn't find one of two things that fit I can be seen in public in, I then realised I needed to drink some protein, which I can't do on the go, if I did I would then be out of time to go out as school pick up time, but if I didn't go out I would probably find an excuse another time, then I sobbed, then ai couldn't go because I was a sodden mess. He was actually very kind in the end. Have probably been due for this, but need it to bloody go away.

Hi there, my OH used Lose It! to dump 3st the old fashioned way and I've found it worked for me pre and now for one week post sleeve. It has configurable macronutrient goals and you can add bespoke goals. Not checked if fluids are a configurable goal, but I just add mine as X ml of whatever as snacks whenever I finish a bottle/cup and tot up myself. I'm a bit of a privacy paranoid so would never link Google fit app or say Fitbit, but you can, and when all's said and done if we're on Google controlled Android well... :-)