KatieMc

I'm 6 weeks out and went to Olive Garden last week. I had soup and three bites of just lettuce with dressing and had no problems. So now between meals, I have a lettuce and English cucumber (seedless) salad. Well-chewed, of course.

I sweat immediately after eating...all over, like my back, forearms, everywhere. So weird!

I was restricted to ricotta, cream cheese, cottage cheese and BabyBels at first. I was also told not to use condiments other than light mayo...somehow I didn't know that starting out, and discovered that mustard and ketchup kinda hurt, but Cholula hot sauce didn't bother me at all. Also, no black pepper, since it can get caught in your stomach sutures and cause a problem. Yeah, somehow missed that note as well, but I stopped immediately. Apparently I can start using it at 10 weeks...I'm halfway there. Hope this helps!

For someone with "chaos" in her username, you are VERY organized! Lol.

I've been very open about it with everyone - family, extended family, TOPS diet group, friends, strangers. Most are curious and/or supportive. Sadly my sister and best friend disapproved, though my sister came around pretty quickly. I often do unconventional things before they become mainstream (eg a destination wedding years before that term was coined, living and working abroad before internet and Airbnb were invented, etc). People around me know me as smart and fairly well-grounded, so when I do something like having WLS in Tijuana, they figure it can't be as wacky as it first sounds. Strangers...are interesting. They might normally be critical of someone they know doing it, but with a stranger like me, they're just curious. I figure maybe I'm helping others indirectly by opening minds.

I too have been having a fairly easy time of it and asked for calorie guidance. Puree/soft was 400-600/day with the eventual goal of 800-1200/day depending on activity levels. Hope this helps.

So frustrated already. First a 9-day stall, now I'm 5 days into another one. Tuesday marks 4 weeks and I've lost a whopping 12lbs since surgery. My expectations weren't crazy, I really thought I'd be at the -20 mark by now....

I did the Inca Trail for 4 days. You will need carbs, even straight sugar, to deal with the altitude. You'll be offered coca leaf tea and it must have honey or real sugar in it to work. And it really does help. Every morning they boiled big pots of water to purify it for our daily drinking supply. Carbs were the focus because of the altitude (9200-14000 feet), but you'll get plenty of protein at lunch and dinner. My favorite dish was pumpkin and quinoa soup...about 2 years before quinoa got popularized here. It's a grain with a bit of protein. The soup wasn't the whole meal, lol. If I were to do this now, I'd swing a protein shake in the morning and wing it with a few protein bars or jerky just in case there was a meal or 2 you really couldn't work with at all.

Tomatoes are quite acidic, I was told by my clinic not to have that one, but the other cream soups are fine.

I chose to have my surgery done at a bariatric clinic (Pompeii Surgical), not in a hospital, for exactly this reason - hospitals are for sick people, lots of germs and viruses and no doubt MRSA. There was also not even a whisper of the super bug about any of the surgeons that work there. I believe Dr Almanza performs his procedures at Grand View Hospital. Some of these surgeons do too many procedures in a day, and cleaning the OR between patients is rushed to the point where this sort of thing happens. So awful

Just broke a 9-day stall that started just before purees kicked in. Yes I threw a hissy fit or two in that time...sooo not fair when you're eating micro portions, right?! But the week 3 stall is real and you will break it, hopefully tomorrow!

Wow, that seems wayyy low. I mean, 3 protein shakes alone are 400-450 cals, and I was also supposed to drink 1-2 glasses of skim milk, about 180 cals.

So it took me 4 days to lose the surgery weight, then 8 days to lose 9lbs, then things came to a grinding halt for the past 6 days. I started purees 4 days ago, might be related, though calorie consumption is only 600-800. This afternoon I either had a response to the move to purees or my first experience of dumping syndrome. It was 4 hours after my first egg since surgery. It had also been 4 days since my last, um, bathroom event. We'll see what tomorrow holds...

Two weeks out and no complications for me. Amongst the other patients there at the same time, the only "complication" was a woman who already knew she didn't handle general anesthesia well. Oh wait, on one lady they found and fixed a hiaital hernia while in there, not sure if that counts as a complication though.

No problems during or after my first puree today, but I'm with you on what I hope is just a mini-stall...3 days so far +/-.2