:thumbup: great news!!! today is the best day i have felt since coming home !!! I had my first shake today it went down like a champ !!! Vanilla whey yum lol, better than chicken broth, jello and isopure thats for sure lol. On my surgury date I weighed 259Ibs and I am 5"8, today 4 days later I weigh 245Ibs, thats just crazy i havent been doing much walking I feel pretty sore still, but I think the diet really helped clean out my system, still havent taken the kids to the pool lol if you know what i mean, but i am hopeful that it will happen this week sometime:). So Today I feel pretty good, i woke up fresh at 6am, bright eyed and bushy tailed, no coffee ! no tea ! just me !!!! This is a huge difference, before VSG, I would sleep in late, had nooooo energy what so ever and felt like a dump truck just hit me when i would wake up litteraly draggin ass till about 12 or 1pm, then have 2 huge cups of coffee just to get fire under my butt and then feel very anxious and jittery full of energy with no patients lol, my whol attitidue feels different, i can actually say i feel healthy, refreshed and energized i feel like my insides are all clean and running on top notch fuel, my thoughts are more optomistic and i am not getting stressed out as easy. Its like day and night. What a difference you dont realize it until you change and look back and go geez that was me, that is what fast food really does to you in not only hurts your body, grabs you like and addiction, slaps you around but also makes you mentally blahhhhh, i am having the greatest day and today i will remember even in pain from my wounds, i am very happy i made the decision that i did to have the VSG, i havent been so sure but today was that day where you wake up and say thank you god for getting me through the dark, i am finally seeing the light the brighter life that shines on the world. yeay ! :thumbup:

I love the way you have described how you feel! I can identify with so much of it, though I don't know if I could have expressed it so well.

My high weight was 260 and I am 5'7", so we started from a similar place. I remember how good my first full liquid drink tasted! I tried mashed potatoes in the mushy stage (from KFC because I was traveling) and they were HEAVEN!!! LOL.

I feel the urge to tell you not to get down if your energy still fluctuates. You are still in the early post-op stages.

Thanks again for posting! I love hearing the "high" feelings associated with the successes of this journey! I feel them too!