For any of you who have had surgery with dr. Aceves, do they feed you clear protein while your there after surgery?

Not like Isopure or anything like that. I had tea, juice, water, broth, and Gatorade. Liquids to prevent dehydration are more important than protein the first few days. I couldn't get any protein drinks down until about day six post-op.

Ok thank you, I just wanted to make sure i didnt need to take any with me!

The nurses will bring you anything you need--and the chicken broth is really, really good. Made from scratch.

Sweet! I cant wait!

I can't wait either! My day is this Saturday and I want it to be done!

For any of you who have had surgery with dr. Aceves, do they feed you clear Protein while your there after surgery?

Hi,

I read your post and you might find this helpful. I have posted it before. I went to Dr. Aceves in 2008 and had a sleeve. I lost 105 pounds and have kept it off. So, I have been down this read ahead of you. I am always here to help you or answer any questions that you might have.

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When some of these things started to happen to me, I thought WOW am I the only one that this is going on with. Well, let me tell you NO, I wasn't. So I made this list and try to post it at least once a month for the new people who have just had surgery, about to have WLS,or someone who is just sitting quietly out there reading these posts, trying make up their mind if they want to do this or not.

You have just had surgery and for a lot of you, you have read all the things everyone has posted on Dr. Aceves Web Site. They are helpful and encouraging. I

spent some time with a lovely lady yesterday on the phone because she was sure I would have some of the answers for her. I hope I did and I think these are

things that all of you can hear and use if you have just had weight loss surgery. So I will post this from time to time for all the NEWBIES.

I am sure you have heard me and others say MANY times over "the 1st month is the

most difficult month you will do." You have also heard me say that your brain will work extremely hard at play tricks on you. You read it and think oh sure,

I can deal with that—and some of you are sure that this will never happen to you. It will happen to so many of us and we aren't even aware it is happening.

This person was absolutely positive that she was just starving and was really hungry. She told me what she had been eating. She also said she was weak. I

asked if she had been drinking her Water and her answer was just like mine was that 1st month. "Well, I can't begin to drink all that water"—remember your new stomach will only hold about 2 oz. when you are try

into drink all this water.

And like me she was having a difficult time getting in the amount of protein she should be having 70 grams—no wonder she was feeling weak. After your stomach has healed most new stomachs will hold 6 to 8 oz. of food or water. That is what we wanted permanent restrictions so we can lose weight.

So I will say this again, you MUST SIP on your water all day long when you are awake and the same goes for the protein that you are using—drink what you can and then sip the rest until you get it down. This is like having a job—you have to work at it OK.

You need the protein to help your body recover. Your new stomach has experienced surgery and is swollen and will only hold liquids about the size of your thumb. This is our relearning time, and for most of us we have developed some extremely bad eating habits. Our OLD thinking brain tells us that we need to be eating more food, and we are not used to Clear Liquids for 10 day and creamy liquids for 10 days and then mushy foods

the last 10 days. I want you to tell yourself this is only for 30 days and you can do anything for 30 days. It gets better as time goes one, I promise you.

If you think you are hungry and you are positive that you are having physical symptoms of hunger this is YOUR OLD thinking brain playing those tricks we have

talked about. You now have to start learning to educate this OLD brain into being your NEW thinking brain. Ask yourself do you just "want to eat" or do you

really "need to eat" because it has been 3 or 4 hours since you have eaten anything. It is amazing what our brains can and will do to sabotage our old eating habits. You may be challenged by this OLD brains way of thinking for many years. For me I just have to have some self-talks with myself. We have an addiction and ours happens to beFOOD. There is no way around avoiding food, so we need to find the set of skills that will allow us to change our lifestyle. I eat to live, I NO LONGER live to eat! Food is not my main focus in life.

It does take some time to retain yourself in eating and I know that first month it is such a process just trying to get all the food in that you need to get in because of your new restrictions. In time it does get a lot easier. Some people mourn the loss of food, because you will NEVER EAT the quantity of food that we used to eat---YEAH that is how we are going to lose the fat and maintain that goal weight that we want to have for the rest of our lives.

These are the things that you will deal with in that FIRST MONTH and I am trying to be fair and honest about them.

Hugs

Suzanne

Thank you for that great info, it will help me on my journey!

Hi Everyone,

I just reposted something titled "Question you might have about WLS Vol # 1 & Vol # 2. It has a lot of great information that you will also find helpful.

Suzanne

Thank you for that great info, it will help me on my journey!

Hi,

I just reposted something that I have posted before that you might find helpful. It is titled "Questions you might have about WLS Vol # 1 & Vol # 2. You will find it helpful too.

Hugs

Suzanne