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I was sleeved on 4/11. My children and grandchildren live in another state. I have had my 3 eight year old grandsons visiting all week. I never realized how hard it is to stay on schedule with Vitamins & Protein with others to tend to. These very active boys eat constantly & it is mostly junk. In the past I would have eaten every time they did. I have managed to eat my healthy portions of healthy food but I admit it has been hard!! I am in awe of those of you with families to cook for & shop for. I dont know how you do it on a daily basis.

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I just posted something about that on a reply that I made on another blog. I am on wk 2 post-op and it has been sooo hard b/c I have a husband and a 13 yr old daughter and grandchildren that visit regularly. I make dinner every night. My family eats ice cream every night. and I'm on full liquid diet this week. I know this will pass but dang it's hard :wacko:

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I know what u mean! I have a husband, four kids, and a dog...soooo glad I am not working right now or I don't think I would've been able to do this!

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I have three small kids ages 6, almost 4 and 2.5. My husband is gone during the week for work and I just had my surgery last Monday. Luckily, I've had energy to at least mostly care for them all...

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I have been giving my kids white meat nuggets, all natural fish sticks, things like that with cut up fruits and veggies on the side: no junk food, no chips. I give them whole grain goldfish once in a while. My hubby decided to start a juice fast for the two weeks that I'm on my liquid diet and then he's going to break it while I'm in the hospital with a salad. I am so blessed.

As for cooking for my kids, it bothered me the first few days that I was on pre-op but these last days have been fine. I'm looking forward to when I can eat what they eat and cook them some REAL (healthy) food!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      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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