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Thank you everyone for your encouragement. I started this morning with a Protein Shake which I am still working on 2 hours later...lol. I am aware that I need to get the fluids and Protein in. It is just really really hard for me right now. Anything with a significant amount of sugar makes me feel horrible, I have been trying grilled chicken which is the meat that my tummy tolerates best but still hurts. I just don't feel good after I eat. Whether it is just a few bites or I try to squeeze in several ounces. I get to where I gag and heave and I feel light headed... I crave fluids but it hurts when I drink them. My tummy tolerates gatorade much better than Water but I don't want to stay on gatorade because of the calories...

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It didn't stop becoming a chore for me until my 7 month. I am probably an extreme case.

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Thank you everyone for your encouragement. I started this morning with a Protein shake which I am still working on 2 hours later...lol. I am aware that I need to get the fluids and Protein in. It is just really really hard for me right now. Anything with a significant amount of sugar makes me feel horrible, I have been trying grilled chicken which is the meat that my tummy tolerates best but still hurts. I just don't feel good after I eat. Whether it is just a few bites or I try to squeeze in several ounces. I get to where I gag and heave and I feel light headed... I crave fluids but it hurts when I drink them. My tummy tolerates gatorade much better than Water but I don't want to stay on gatorade because of the calories...

Have you tried G2? No cals or sugar!

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Have you tried G2? No cals or sugar!

Yes. I have tried the G2 but it isn't as good as the regular gatorade. It has that artificially sweet taste I hate. I grew up playing fastpitch softball through college and have always been a gatorade addict... It's all I would drink if I could fall in love with the G2....lol

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It feels like a huge chore for me. One main reason is just about anything I eat makes me nauseous. I could care less to eat again. Ideas a band to sleeve revision. I drink with no problem but the doctors say it sounds like I Am experiencing dumping. Anyone else have problem at the beginning? I need hope... Will it get better??

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Thank you all for the feedback and support! :)

On another note, it was probably bad, but I ate a pickle today....it was AWESOME! Tasted so good and my sleeve apparently loved it. For lunch I had cream of chicken Soup......my sleeve didn't love that so much. I'm just stoked about pickles, I know a lot of sodium, but in moderation those should be ok at 3 weeks shouldn't they?

Oooohhh I know those pickles are delicious!! I was not allowed something that solid at three weeks. I'm hitting 7 weeks on Monday, and I just had pickles in this last week or so. I'd try not to eat the skin if I were you. That's the part that would be bad I think. I don't know what rules you've been given though. I was VERY excited about the pickles!! :lol:

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Yes it is a chore, for years I been shoveling food in not caring about nutrition. I too get sick from things I can eat one day and not the next. Water can make me nauseaed as well. food was my best friend and that relationship was unhealthy time to move on.

I hated Beans and fish before surgery now I love those items. I too experience the eat it one day it's great next it is not. I also experience the I can eat 1/2 Protein bar today next day can only eat a bite. Everyday things get better and I am soo excited to be healthy my whole life.

With Easter coming my husband made a comment about not having easter dinner bc I can't eat anything. This hurt me bc I still have kids to Celebrate with, I love to cook. If I can't have holidays I will feel lost. He doesn't understand what I go through emotionally everyday. When I go out to eat w friends I order the smallest healthiest thing and hope I don't get sick.

We went to a fundraiser and I was totally braced for it. I ate half Protein Bar before w left. I got a pate went through line got buffalo chicken dip and potatoes. I filled the rest of my plate for everyone elese at our table. Everyone wa drinking and of course juice was not included in free well drinks. I bought a drink and you would have thought I committed a sin, why buy when other things are free. I can't have pop or beer, is my health and happiness not worth $6? He even offers me a bite of his mini chocolate cake. I tell him are you trying to make me sick. I am almost 7 weeks he should understand by now.

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I am 3-months post-op. I can tell you from my experience it is a chore to eat. I always try to get a protien shake in for the morning to get at least 1/2 my protien in for the day. Then I have some cheese cubes about 5, some tuna or chicken salad with 5-crackers for lunch. dinner, well, I don't cook anymore so it's either some protien or a salad with some cheese, bacon bits, and fat free dressing.

I guess the worst part is remembering to eat for me. Sometime I don't remember and it's my sleeve that reminds me.

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Crystal I was also sleeved 3/1 and because I can't eat much I've lost 43 lbs already. No way I can get in 65 grams of Protein yet. I have just started experimenting solid foods and it's not easy. Drinking the required amt of Water is also still difficult.

Btw 17 of the 43 lbs was from preliquid diet

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