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Hello all!!

I am so glad to have stumbled across this website/forum. Sometimes you need to have that "third person" to bounce ideas or suggestions off of. I go in for my first Adjustment 08/11/10.

If anyone has any questions go ahead and ask and I will answer as soon as I can.

Can't wait to meet all the great people here!!

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Hello congrats on getting banded... i have my date for Aug 26th and cant wait. i have been doing so much reading and research on lap band i think i may be going into lap band info overload. but all is good. so how were the first few weeks and just having liquids? are you able to drink a lot or just little bits??? look forward to hearing your story...

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Congratz on getting approved and getting ready.

The first week of Clear Liquids it was a bit rough. There is so much gas in your system from the surgery that every sip you take in requires what feels like 20 minutes of burping to get down lol. It is not really that bad but the first 3 days were kinda interesting. Make sure you run by Walmart and get the Gas X strips. They work awesome!! Just remember to be proactive about it, dont wait until you feel the gas to take them like I did. Start taking them as soon as you get home even if you don't feel the gas as it will keep it from building up.

The first week wasnt bad as I was on the Liver Diet 2 weeks prior to my surgery (and during the 4th of July :rolleyes: ) so I was use to liquids prior to the surgery. My wife made me this fabulous Cream of Broccoli Soup from scratch for my first day of creamy and I about cried lol.

As for the amount you drink, definitely start off on small sips and make sure it is warm, cold stuff that first week hurts. I just left Water bottles out on the counter room temperature, Gatorade at room temp, and in the mornings, get you a packet of Jello mix it with the warm Water and drink it. It allows you to get some calories in so you heal a bit faster and feels good on your stomach because it actually coats it plus it is very warm. Camomile's teas work wonderfully too

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could you get me the "cream of broccoli" recipe for me ;}

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Well it was way high in calories but I still lost weight while eating it, I ate it with a baby spoon and no more than 2-3oz at a time and no more than once a day. We ended up giving away tons of it so cut the below recipe to fit your needs.

2 bags of frozen broc florets

1 container of heavy cream

1 bag of shredded cheese

1 package (quart) of powdered fat free milk (for protein).

1 can of fat free low sodium chicken broth

put cream and cheese in a pot on the stove and put on warm to melt the cheese into the cream. Another pot on the stove put the broc and boil. When done I drain the Water and put the cooled broc in a blender. Add half the can of chicken broth. Puree til it is neon green and no chunks. Fold the broc into the cream mixture, using the rest of the can of broth to thin the Soup to the consistency that you want. Add the bag of powdered milk to get the Protein into the soup.

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When my wife has the surgery I am gonna try to remake it using skim milk and the powdered milk and exclude the heavy cream

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Gonna Zombie this old post with an update. Wife had Surgery in Sept and has already lost 25 lbs. As of Today I go in for my third fill and down 70 since July 1!!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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