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4 Days Post Op
rebeccaburlinparrsih69 replied to LoseItKacy's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Compassion is something some just do not have, I had my surgery on the 28th. it will get easier. Same with me on the yogurt though. I don't know if you like fresh lemon aid but that feels good on my stomach also. As for your family, ignore them you have the will power to do this, you can accomplish it with support from others on here. -
Sharp pain in middle upper abdomen 4 days out
AmberB88 replied to AmberB88's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I was sleeved the 11the also! Ya in going to see if I can get my primary doc to rx some liquid Omeprazole. I've been using the Insides of the capsules but it's so gross I can't tolerate well. If was also in the hospital for two days from vomiting. I can't believe I've read that people are tempted to eat this early. I don't even want go drink! I am trying to make sure I get the liquids and I think your right on the yogurt. I'm gonna just stop that since it seems to be making it worse. Thanks for the advice! -
It sounds like you are off to a great start! You could try things like poached eggs, tofu, seedless yogurt, applesauce. HTH!
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Weighing your food on a food scale
momof3_angels replied to chaibaix's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Disclaimer: I am still pre-op (until Wednesday). I also know that weighing/measuring/and recording foods are going to be my biggest challenge. That said: I do believe from everything I have learned that this will be vital to my success. At least, it will be in the first several months while I retrain my body to eat the right foods in the right portions. In the simplest of explanations: By weighing and measuring your food, you can be sure accurately eat proper portions and nutrient amounts. When we "eyeball" amounts, we tend to serve ourselves more than we are supposed to eat at one time. When we do that, we are overeating. We also are more unsure of what amounts of nutrients we are eating (too many carbs, too little protein). My "small" bowl may only hold 4 ounces of food, your "small" bowl" may hold 6-8 oz of food. That is a huge difference, and can mean the difference in being successful or not with your weight loss. The goal is to get the right portion sizes with the right nutrient amounts. And in keeping portion sizes small, you are reducing the risk of stretching your stomach back. When you do that, you are more hungry and you want to eat more. I hate measuring, so right now I buy individual sized servings of anything I can. 1 serving of tuna or chicken. 1 serving of greek yogurt or v-8 juice. Or whatever foods I have been told to eat. Post-op... I know I will be eating less at each meal for a while. So, I purchased 2oz and 4oz disposable containers. I will use them to put things like my jello and yogurt into until I am up to a full serving. For tracking food, I am learning to use the Bariastic app... but there are other apps you can use. I like this one as it is pretty simple to use, and I can take a picture of UPC codes for my foods. I also bought scales for food not long ago. Another tool I bought was a bariatric portions plate/bowl. Waste of money? Maybe. But I am hoping it's plate bowl sizes and visuals will retrain me to automatically serve myself smaller portions. I have 2 bowls, 2 plates, and some smaller spoons/forks. Eventually I hope to not have to measure everything, but for the first 6 months to a year I will do my best to measure and track EVERYTHING. -
I fortify my Greek Yogurt with GNC unflavored Protein powder. It raises the protein to 30 grams and the calories are under 300. This way I get half my protein in first thing in the morning. Makes my day go much better!
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I don't normally like Greek yogurt (too sour creamy to me) but I know it's packed with lots o Protein so I've tried to like it. Just about 5 days ago, I bought 6 different brands/flavors to give them all a fair shake. The best so far? Trader Joes Vanilla strawberry Open Nature Honey I HATE Chobani, Oikos, and Yoplait. Fage is good, just not fantastic. I also bought a Dannon Light and Fit (cappucino flavor) just haven't tried it yet. It's got the smallest amt of calories. I think it's 80. I don't really look at the carbs - just calories and protein. The TJ's has hefty calories (180) for a tub of yogurt (it's 8 oz vs the normal 6). Good luck in finding a good one. I Luv luv luv the 90 cal Fat Free Yoplait fruit blends but there's barely any protein in them. Still fairly healthy in my mind. Better than a Snickers bar! I consider anything healthy thats better than a Snickers bar! Sad, I know...
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I don't think any yogurt has zero sugar. I've been eating dannon light and fit Greek yogurt in vanilla. I have been able to tolerate it since week two. It's a life savor for me. 12 grams of protein and 80 calories.
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I am 5 weeks out from surgery and can eat pretty much anything now. I haven't tried certain things (like lettuce or fruit) but so far everything has been OK. the thing is, i'm running out of things to eat. this was my problem before surgery and its my problem now - i'm a picky eater! and i get sick of things easily. i can only get down 2-3oz of food comfortably and that is great, except that obviously will not give me enough Protein and it takes me an hour (sometimes more!) to eat. i've been having a Protein shake in the AM, a Protein Bar for lunch (it was cheese last week), and then meat for dinner. usually i have to throw in some protein hot chocolate as well. i know i should be eating regular foods but i don't have the damn time and i am out of foods to eat. would i like a hard boiled egg? yes, i would but i would only be able to eat 1 and that is like 6g of protein - big whoop. i'd rather just suffer through a protein shake and get 20g in the AM. i am sick of tuna fish and chicken salad. i bought store brand deli chicken and low fat low sodium cheese and tried to do roll ups. well they just tasted disgusting. i tried making tilapia but it didn't taste great (i think it was frozen too long). i have been living off of meatballs for the past week. i'm going to try chicken tonight. next week i'll make chicken burgers. i do love dairy (hate greek yogurt though) but its got so much fat. how do you find a balance between eating and getting enough protein and using supplements? i just feel overwhelmed and never know what to eat. what am i supposed to bring for lunch? if i don't bring lunch, what the hell am i supposed to eat out? how am i supposed to get all of my protein in? I should add that it is just me - i don't cook for a husband or family. I'm also 23 so my cooking isn't that great. LOL HELP!
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Good luck for that 3-day stretch dogmom! I know you'll do fine though. I had a BM today too!! So my record so far is 4 days. Seems so weird. Was hubby's bday today and went out to dinner with him and daughter. I just picked at what they had. I ate 2 shrimp, a bite of cod, and a couple bites of potato. Was just enough and tasted yummy. Stopped at grocery store and stocked up on protein - shrimp, tilapia, tuna, beef strips, and chicken. As well as some greek yogurt.
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I'm supposed to get 70 gm/protein and 64 oz fluid. Wow that's a lot of protein in your yogurt. I'll have to check out OIKOS. Don't know that I've ever paid attention and seen it. What flavors do they have?
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Joni...Notime...I was getting worried about you, sooo glad you both checked in and very thankful we are all doing okay. Wow, Joni...I am only allowed liquid protein right now, I can't go onto yogurt or mashed potatoes until day 8...then I am really looking forward to a scrambled egg...lol I was also up on my weight when I got home but understand it to be from the saline that I was filled with. My surgeon does the leak test before he completes the surgery..they fill you up with saline and look for bubbles, then the body needs to absorb all that extra fluid which is why my weight was up. Showered today and took off the bandages...damn, I look beaten up, but other than gas pains I am feeling pretty good. You know I forgot to ask my surgeon how many staples are inside of me...anyone know?
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How much Fluid and Protein does your doctor require? My doctor says 64 ozs liquids and 60 grams protein. It is tough getting there, but now I can do it. I'm not drinking protein drinks, other than my one fallback of lime or orange Jello mixed with pina colada flavored Protein Powder. I get a lot of my protein from my Greek yogurt, which has 23 grams per cup. It also counts as a liquid. For a few days, I was not getting the full 64 ozs of fluid and developed the signs of dehydration. Stepped up the fluids and I'm good to go now.
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4 Weeks Out just arrived in ONEderland!
anonynurse replied to time-4-change's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Good for you! That is awesome. I likely will have bits of: mashed avocado homemade hummus (I'll try mixing Protein powder into it to try to boost the protein content). Greek nonfat yogurt scrambled eggs blended Soups such as split pea with ham and lentil Soup (also with attempt to add protein powder) Protein Powder ice cream juicy roasted chicken blended with gravy to a soft consistency (or beef or any other meat my family is eating, my portion doctored so I can eat with them) Campbell's Soup At Hand, tuna salad butter chicken, pureed to baby food consistency mashed banana blended with Peanut Butter Roasted garlic polenta grits with a bit of butter or reduced fat cream cheese mixed in with pepper pumpkin pie innards Mashed sweet potato Low fat cottage cheese Baked pureed skinless apple with cinnamon Baked potato soup, blended (homemade of course) Cream of mushroom soup, blended (also homemade) Chilled cucumber soup with garlic and mint Mushroom risotto with parmesan Fresh fruit sorbet, homemade with whatever is in season (peaches, strawberry, etc) And probably tons of more stuff. Let me know if you want recipes -
I was banded 9-28 I have lost 14 lbs. and I am happy. I haven't been perfect but when I cheat I do frozen yogurt. I had my first real food on Thursday an egg and two small pieces of ham lunch meat. I ate it at 12:30 and at 6:30 I was still just stuffed. It was only about 100 calories. IT WAS SO WEIRD. It is hard because sometimes I want to keep eating but I am afraid I might hurt my self so I stop. My first fill is in Nov. on the 16th, it is going to be 500.00 for the first one! The next ones will be about 259.00. When you get to your sweet spot do you just stay there? Guess I've rambled enough, thanks for "listening" Cleone
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Most Protein drinks are horrible but not all. Really, the best thing to do is to find what you do tolerate. Something like Body Fortress, Matrix, those drinks in a tube. smoothies are loaded with calories and that is the very thing you are trying to avoid. Too many smoothies and you'll be working around your band. The better you make your smoothies taste the more calories they will have. But I do have one that I used to make. Keep in mind, if you are on Clear liquids after surgery a smoothie is not workable. 5 large frozen strawberries 1 large handful of mix frozen berries (blue, red, and blackberries) 1 container Dannon Lite Yogurt (strawberry or plain) 1-2 oz Water Make sure the fruit is frozen, put all in a blender and this tastes like Jamba Juice' berry Fulfilling.
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What is/was your pre-op diet?
mannybear replied to momnear40's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
seems like every surgeon has their own pre-op requirements. mine (surgery is wednesday) was two-weeks long. four protein shakes a day; six servings of any of the following: SF pudding, plain cream of wheat, 1% cottage cheese, 8 oz nonfat yogurt, plain oatmeal, vegetable juice; and unlimited broth, SF jello, popsicles and beverages. definitely not the best two weeks of my life, but certainly two of the most challenging/rewarding. i feel so strong mentally. good luck with your pre-op and surgery! -
Hungry Or Not????
mommykristie replied to mommykristie's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
If you had asked me a month or two ago, if I had a sweet tooth, I would have said yes!! However, I have noticed that since the preop diet, I haven't had any "cravings" for sweets like before. Before, I could think about a sweet and just have to go get it. I even noticed that when I went out to eat with the family this week, one child ate ice cream and the other ate a piece of cheesecake, I didn't even desire them. Talk about a shock because these are two of my FAVORITE desserts! Having said that, for my Protein shakes on the liquid diet, I did choose the chocolate flavor and now that I am on mushies, my yogurt is key lime pie flavor. So I guess I am getting my sweet fix flavor without the calories of the real thing. -
How can I slow myself down from eating too fast?
NovaLuna replied to ChattyKathie's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Probably the only reason I don't have that issue is because I have EOS (it's an autoimmune disorder that causes narrowing in the throat and can cause choking) and because of that for the past few years I've eaten really, really, really slowly because choking freaks me out and after wayyyy too many ER visits with food stuck in my throat I finally got a clue. 😓 My advice, take smaller bites and chew your food to MUSH before swallowing. If you are eating foods that you don't need to chew (yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.) then just take a small bite and then set the food aside for 30 seconds to a minute before taking another bite. Still keep with the small bites. -
Stage 2 -One solid meal replacement. (Question)
shawnak911 replied to crivera's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I'm on day two post surgery. I have one more day of clear liquids. Then I have ten days of soft foods. Yogurt, pudding etc. Then I go to real food. So that's two weeks out. Just start small. -
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Stage 2 -One solid meal replacement. (Question)
Dashofpixiedust8 replied to crivera's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
It is odd that each surgeon has different diets after surgery. At 2 weeks after surgery I was JUST starting pureed diet. If you are concerned I suggest you eat something soft like eggs, refried Beans, greek yogurt, fish, or making chicken and pureeing it with some broth, sauce, or milk. If you don't feel comfortable then don't eat something so solid. It is suggested to follow your surgeons plan but but I feel like thats more the rule for when you want to move faster than their plan, if you want to move slower that is up to you! -
I had the Gastric Sleeve procedure done almost a month ago. I've had no issues with the Full Liquid Diet stage, but when it came to transitioning to purees, it felt as though my stomach wasn't happy. It was suggested that it could have been the foods I was eating (too acidic, diary, etc) or that they weren't pureed enough. Other suggestions were that I wasn't eating slow enough. But sometimes, as soon as I took one bite my stomach would immediately start gurgling or I'd get the instant pain of acid reflux/heartburn. I am supposed to start "Soft Solids" on Saturday, but I fear with the trouble I faced with the purees...that I might need an extra week. I've had no issues with eating yogurt, jello, pudding, or soup (which is what I've tried to stick with since I know how my body will react). But with anything else I've tried, it is either the immediate gurgling or acid reflux/heartburn feeling. Is this something commonly experienced or something I should inform my doctor about? Kay_G_B
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I was very happy w/the experience. My mom who is also a nurse was also pleasantly surprised at how well-organized everything was. every person involved was informative & willing to listen, the nutritionist took her time explaining everything clearly. PLEASE Take the nasty-tasing pain medecine they give you. I put it off and regretted it later. For the flight back carry your liquid antibiotic in your ziploc baggie and the script you get in the surgeon's office so as airport personel are rummaging through your carry-on luggage they don't force you to leave it behind because of these liquid restrictions we have now. The guy who checked my bag even let me carry in my yogurt drink that was 6 ounces and not in a baggie when I told him I had surgery w/strict dietary restrictions and could not consume any of the Snacks given to me in the flight. I've been told I was very lucky with that one. Enjoy, sight see but not too much, like I did, you'll pay for it later.
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Pre-Opt diet messing with blood sugar?????
Jodi_620 replied to LundyLane's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Yes, I am on day 5 of an all liquid Protein diet. I can have Protein shakes, Jello, broth, crystal light & yogurt smothies. The first couple of days I did alright except for a bad headache which I attributed to stopping my beloved Diet Pepsi cold turkey. :thumbup: I am not diabetic but I do have Insulin Resistance. At day 5 my headaches aren't so bad but none of the allowable liquids are stopping the hunger pangs. Yesterday afternoon I went out to Lowes with hubby and had to sit down...I suddenly felt so dizzy, nauseous, clammy and my brain stayed pretty fuzzy until I went to bed. And as the day wears on I get so tired of the hunger pains that I am irritable. I have ten more days to go pre-op then I will be on about the same diet for another 14 days post-op, hopefully after surgery things will be a little easier. -
Try adding or cooking your chicken in something with a creamy or fatty base with oil. You need the lubrication with chicken BC it can dries out even when its wet. Try cooking your chicken in the crock Pot with a can if cream Soup...it keeps it really moist. Make chicken salad with greek yogurt. Just an idea.
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Anyone else with me on hating fat free dairy? Other than Greek yogurt I just can't get behind the idea. The cheese doesn't melt, the texture is usually weird. My question is why do we use this junk anyway? I know we want to watch our cals and fat but with eating so little I am much fonder of having the real stuff (or at least reduced fat)!! So what do y'all think? Any decent ff products that hold up to their fattier counterparts? Specific recipes where you can't tell the difference if ff or not? Sleevers far out or in maintenance who use the fattier versions?
