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Hi all. Am doing well overall, but have a question to those farther along with this.

I am on soft foods now. From day to day, I go from eating with no problem, to having a feeling like a few bites is too many. Even with the same foods! Yesterday some string cheese went down wonderfully; today, it felt stuck and I felt like I was going to slime. Scrambled eggs (even a hard boiled one as a mid afternoon snack) went down easily earlier in the week, but not this morning. It is so weird.

Is this normal? Is it something I am doing or not doing? Makes me wonder, day to day, what to plan for food.< /span>

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Hi Bob!

Congratulations on your weight loss so far. I am just a couple days away from solids foods. I have similar food issues. Like Vegas, I have trouble getting anything down in the morning. I start every day with a nectar Fuzzy Navel w/ Crystal Light. Gets my fluids in and a jump start on the Protein. Like you, sometimes I can eat what I think is "a lot" and other times just a few bites and I am stuffed for hours. I haven't found any particular foods that don't sit well except one. I can no longer eat eggs, period. Every time I eat them (or foods rich in eggs) I get horrible stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting.

I'm not sure if you are doing things right or wrong. However, you're not alone. I'm right there too.

Hopefully we are both not messing things up.

Linda

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Bob....This is completly normal.... and things that you "loved" prior to WLS... you might hate now... and visa versa...

I hadn't vomited in a month... then just the other day.. ate something... and BAM.... running to the bathroom.... but in that case I ate too fast!!! I still struggle with that. I find if I go to a restraurnt I do fine, but at home in my own surroundings... I eat too fast and end up hurting or in this case running to the bathroom.

Enjoy this time and take advantage of the "honeymoon" I wish I was back there! I'm at a standstill.... not getting discourage... but struggleing a bit more now.

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slime is when you mouth fills up with saliva and lots of it to where you have to keep spitting it out. Sometimes you throw up a big thick gob of it. It's the bodies way to try to get rid of whatever is bothering it. If I eat too fast or take a big bite and not chew well enough, this is what happens. It hadn't

to me in a long time but then the other day I was late to a meeting and tried to eat too fast and then I was in trouble. The sliming can go on and on and on until the food either comes up or finally gets digested.

Maybe someone else can describe it better.

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Man, I have never had that problem when I eat too fast, but by golly I have suffered a lot of a pain and diarrhea if I eat to fast - my body cramps down and I have to head to the toilet pronto!

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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
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