morganschmidlin

Run a search for stalls on this forum and you'll find two recurrent themes:
1. Almost everyone has experienced this & was very frustrated by it, so youre not alone
2. Almost everyone eventually realizes it's short-term if they stay the course and focus on the big picture
Good Luck ?

I think I was like this too. I'm not sure I was obsessed, but I was real into watching YouTube videos & Googling things. I wanted to watch every person on YouTube's journey, and then I'd go through their videos to see what their month one was like, etc.

My surgery was May 23 - so... 6 weeks ago?? I think the "obsession" with looking at people's journeys & checking in here constantly dropped off 3-4 weeks post op. I'm almost "bored" with it now, if that makes any sense? I feel much more confident in what Im doing & much less concerned with checking here to get opinions.

I had a really rough time with gas as well. I drank lots of peppermint tea-- that really seemed to help break up my gas!

I actually never had gas, but I did a lot of walking at the hospital. Over 15,000 steps that day. I have heard walking helps immensely.

Keep walking if you can. Gasx really helped with the gas pain. I also had pain in my stomach and back. It went away about day 4.

I'm not a vegetarian but I do have some meatless ideas for you. I enjoy a lot of yogurt and cottage cheese. I find Oikos Triple Zero gives you the best high protein/high fiber/low sugar option. My favorite way to prepare cottage cheese is with toasted walnuts and a drizzle of honey. For meals I have a fiesta black bean quinoa salad that my husband and I just love. (I'll post a link for the recipe) I also like to make wraps with hummus and black beans, spinach leaves and red pepper slices.
Egg salad would also be a good idea especially if you are still early in pureed/soft stages. So would lentil soup.
https://www.crunchycreamysweet.com/roasted-sweet-potato-black-bean-quinoa-salad-recipe/
https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/lemony-lentil-soup/

Good luck! I’m one day post op today. You got this!