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I am officially a sleever!!!!!!! I have some pain but its bearable. Thanks for all the support*******

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Woohoo!

What can you drink for your liquid diet? Can you do Protein Shakes? I am lucky that I just have to eat healthy for 2 weeks so doing 2 or 3 Protein shakes a day' date=' plus a healthy meal. Then 3 days pre-op I do liquid diet.

Oh & I was told to stop my multi-vitamins 2 weeks pre-op. You were allowed to continue to take them??[/quote']

Yes I was ; still liquids; I have been eating other stuff but it makes me miserable! Friday I start purée my NUT said to take 2 chewables a day one in the am. One in the pm.

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3 more days til my surgery!!! i cant wait!!!

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May 1st for me. 3 weeks out and I am walking 3 miles 3-4 times a week. All incision pain is gone but hardening scar tissue under the larger incision. Doc says to roll it around to prevent it from dimpling. I no longer am on any high blood pressure medicine. Down 18lbs and haven't had this much energy since high school. I still struggle with taking all the required meds per day. I am slowly starting to incorporate soft foods into the diet such as tuna, eggs, cheese etc...

Oh and never have I have I been so happy to be a LOSER!

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Had my surgery May 15 and it went great. The 21st was my followup appointment and had already lost 10 pounds since surgery, but let's add the 8 pounds I lost the week before for a total of 18 pounds. I am absolutely flabbergasted.

Have had no problems, I thought I was having stomach spasms when stupid me realized that I was rocking while I was drinking. I was suffering from sloshing, not spasms. Since I figured that out I eat in a different location. I went back to work yesterday and was exhausted when I went home last night, but still managed to get all my walking in.

Have ordered an Adult Trike and looking forward to that arriving. I love to ride bike but have no balance, so the trike will take care of that problem. Once the bike comes in I will be riding it to and from work and taking adavantage of some of our walking/bike trails here. Once the doctors give me the okay I will be going to our public pool and joining in the Water aerobics they offer in the evenings.

Life is great!

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Hey a trike is what I need. I bought a bike from a garage sale a few months ago and was practicing and ended up crashing really hilariously in our back alley - my husband and daughter were in hysterics. When I was young I could ride really well - guess I MUST be getting old. I am going to look into that!

Thanks

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my friend said if you go to Walmart or walgreens you can get some kind of scar medicine to put on it so it doesnt harden....she used it after one had and it made it better but the scar is still there

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hey guys, i just got an email from the lady at Twang with nutritional facts about their products...looks like when we can eat food again they will be a great way to enhance flavor on our chicken and fish dishes!!!!!!!!! go to their website and look...i know it says beer salt but....look beyond for veggies and meat too...i have had some of the samples and look forward to getting them when i can eat again....

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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