My surgery was 6days ago... and feel I aint following my food schedules... and I feel terrible.

I was never the type of person to count calories.. take vitamins.. or even read nutrition labels.

Sometimes I ate until I got home.. which was like at 6pm ... this is driving me crazy...

How ... do I start ... ?

At only 6 days out you're probably not going to be able to comply completely with your post-op diet. It takes a while. I'm in my 7th week out and have only met all the guidelines in my schedule once or twice. Capacity-wise I just still can't do it yet. WHen you say you're eating until 6pm, do you mean that you're eating ALL DAY (grazing?), or that you're not eating UNTIL 6, or that you're supposed to stop eating sooner, or what?

Irritable is normal. Lots of wacky hormonal things going in with your body right now, and for a few more weeks at least - but they should start tapering off in the next week or two.

Just do it!. I was the same way but once you get into the routine then it becomes a habit and you will do fine.

I don't know if this applies to you, but it got SOO much easier for me when I went back to work. When I was off, I didn't have much routine. Well I did, but it wasn't a good one. I'd get up at my normal time, help DH get kiddo ready and while he was managing clothes & teeth brushings I'd pack lunches, get chis coffee ready, etc. But then I'd go back to bed for 2 hrs or so. Sometimes it would be 9:30 before I'd even really get out of bed for the day, and maybe as late as noon before I was ready to do much of anything. Now by noon, I normally have at least half my protein in.

Thank you !!!..and yeah I go back to work tomorrow... so hopefully that was it..lol

but I am also printing out some sample schedule diet plan.. hope that works too.

To track calories I would try my fitness pal.

One of the key things is to make sure you eat properly throughout the day. Remember that if we skip meals we cannot "make them up" like before. I'm infamous for skipping meals so I started to set the alarm on my phone to remind me to eat. It has helped a bunch.

I use my fitness pal also. It's a big help. I take a carnation instant breakfast (sugar free) to work with me & sip on it all morning. That helps get in the protein & I like it.

There's a thread where we've consolidated quite a few myfitnesspal.com usernames from members here. I'd suggest joining, then adding some of the people from here - perhaps at various post-op stages. Assuming they're sharing the info, that will allow you to see what people are eating on a daily basis. I like to browse and look for higher protein sources than what I've found so far.

Thank you thank you