Hello my name is Dawn and this is my very first post. I had the sleeve done on January 21, 2010. So this has been a very hard and hectic week or so. I seem to cry every time my family eats foods that I would love to be eating. I know that it will get easier. I go to the doctor for my first visit and i'm scared to death. I really didnt tell many people I did this cause I didnt want to hear all the negativity. But I knew it was either this or the grave. I was never big in school, but after my daughter 13 yrs ago I just let myself go. When I weighed in before surgery I was 237. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make it the 2nd week. I just got off the "Liquid" part and I'm on creamy soups. But all of them at the grocery store are so gross. I am up for any bit of advice.

Thanks for reading my story :smile:

I agree all the creamy soups are gross...I ate only potato soup until week 4...also ate malt o meal and very creamy oatmeal, my Dr. said I could survive 40 days without food, so just to eat what I could without getting sick DRINK DRINK DRINK. Now I'm at week 8 (I think) and eat just about anything I want. So just relax and eat what you feel taste good and you can tolerate--so other people are eating?? so what, eventually you will have your friend (food) back in small adequate size, and you will have a new friend (your waist) back as well. :smile:

Campbell's Tomato Soup rocks. Can of soup, can of milk, heat it up. I even crumbled up 3 or 4 saltines into my little 3-4oz portion size. It was tasty. Randall's also has some really good soups in the produce department. They should have a soup station where you can serve yourself cups of hot soup to eat there in the cafe. Near that soup station there should be a cold display of pints and quarts of thier soups. They are all tasty. I had puree mine for a couple of days to get them creamy, but they still tasted great.

Bill

Congratulations for what I'm confident you will be very happy to have done in a short period of time. Those first couple of weeks are a bit difficult, and I had unmentionable dreams about refried beans...ha! I couldn't wait to get to the mushy stage. I'm afraid I don't have much to offer for the full liquids other than I was also able to add thinned mashed potatoes.

Hi Dawn,

Welcome to VST! You've come to a great forum for information and friendship.

Congratulations on getting your Sleeve done. You're on your way now.

At my pre-op nutrition class yesterday, the NUT recommended the Trader Joe's boxed soups. I particularly love the Organic creamy tomato soup and the butternut squash soup. I hope my taste buds still love them post-op. I like them because they're organic without a lot of the additives of Campell's and other brands, plus they have Low Sodium versions.

I ate Cream of Shrimp and Cream of Asparagus...both pretty tasty. However, I had also frozen small portions of homemade soups in the weeks prior to surgery and I used those.. I just pureed the ones that still had chunks. Watch out for Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal, mashed potatoes etc....they are very VERY high carb items and will sometimes cause you to be starving again in an hour.

Wintertime is tough to be on all fluids because the cold shakes don't seem as appealing. unjury.com has a good tasting chicken broth flavor Protein powder that can be heated up cup by cup like broth. (up to 130 degrees). (I always stir it into cold Water and heat it 30 seconds at a time until it's warm enough). On a cold night I still enjoy this even though I'm 7 weeks out from surgery.