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SweetSaso    92

SweetSaso
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Good Morning everyone!

I am 16 days out, and havent weighed myself for a week now because i was told to PUT THE scale AWAY, lmao ( not weighing myself has made me less depressed more positive)... Anyhow, yesterday i cooked some meat&pasta with Tomato sauce/broth for my husband and i wanted to test how my body reacts to food now. I ate about a 1/4 a cup of Pasta with the broth (only about two strings of pasta with some meat) and ate using a baby spoon chewing as much as i can.. well i expected some discomfort but nothing more than a bit of gas/burping that i have been experiencing since post surgery after i put anything in my mouth... (Anyone else has experiences something like this too?).

I am proud i can tolerate real food but on the downside i only eat once a day, and sometimes i remember to eat 2 times, but when i eat twice a day i feel guilty and i feel like i ate more than i should and i fall into depression ( I want to lose weight... working on that :) )

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Vidalia    122

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I am 2 weeks post-op today. Yesterday for lunch I ate turkey, dressing, squash casserole, green Beans, sweet potatoes, jellied cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes with gravy. I had mostly about 1 oz of turkey and about 1 or 2 tiny bites of the others out of my toddler fork. Then I ate 1 bite of pumpkin pie filling for dessert. It was all delicious and I was full but not sick. I repeated this meal for supper. I have not tried any Pasta or beef yet.

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Barisaxylady    154

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Good Morning everyone!

I am 16 days out' date=' and havent weighed myself for a week now because i was told to PUT THE scale AWAY, lmao ( not weighing myself has made me less depressed more positive)... Anyhow, yesterday i cooked some meat&pasta with Tomato sauce/broth for my husband and i wanted to test how my body reacts to food now. I ate about a 1/4 a cup of Pasta with the broth (only about two strings of Pasta with some meat) and ate using a baby spoon chewing as much as i can.. well i expected some discomfort but nothing more than a bit of gas/burping that i have been experiencing since post surgery after i put anything in my mouth... (Anyone else has experiences something like this too?).

I am proud i can tolerate real food but on the downside i only eat once a day, and sometimes i remember to eat 2 times, but when i eat twice a day i feel guilty and i feel like i ate more than i should and i fall into depression ( I want to lose weight... working on that :) )[/quote']

You need to eat! You are only going to sabotage yourself eating so little. Do you drink any Protein shakes? You really need to put more into your body.

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*Dean*    1,594

*Dean*
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Hey - we had surgery on the same day. Congratulations!

I think you need to try and eat more frequently. We're hammering our metabolism already, no need to make it slower by infrequent eating.

Today I had

Breakfast - 1 egg scrambled

Mid morn - Cappucino with 90mls of milk

lunch - 70g savoury mince and a few slices of carrot well cooked

Mid afternoon - Protien shake

dinner - Same as lunch!

I'm sure you'll be really happy on weigh day.

All the best,

Dean

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SweetSaso    92

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You need to eat! You are only going to sabotage yourself eating so little. Do you drink any Protein shakes? You really need to put more into your body.

I know i should but this guilt i have after every bite of something is killing me, hopefully ill do better with time, still new at this! As for Protein Shakes my doctor and nut didnt even mention them! i went looking for some here (am currently overseas temporarily) but cant seen to find any of those! Will keep looking.

Thank u for the advice and good luck!!

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SweetSaso    92

SweetSaso
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Hey - we had surgery on the same day. Congratulations!

I think you need to try and eat more frequently. We're hammering our metabolism already' date=' no need to make it slower by infrequent eating.

Today I had

Breakfast - 1 egg scrambled

Mid morn - Cappucino with 90mls of milk

lunch - 70g savoury mince and a few slices of carrot well cooked

Mid afternoon - Protien shake

dinner - Same as lunch!

I'm sure you'll be really happy on weigh day.

All the best,

Dean[/quote']

Oh how wonderful, i hope you are doing much better so far and pleased by ur weight loss... Your menu for the day seems to be very healthy and way more that what i eat, ugh ill have to make myself eat more and on a timely manner!!

Good luck to you and have a great ride to thinnerville! I keep hoping things get better with time for everyone. ^_^

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*Dean*    1,594

*Dean*
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Oh how wonderful, i hope you are doing much better so far and pleased by ur weight loss... Your menu for the day seems to be very healthy and way more that what i eat, ugh ill have to make myself eat more and on a timely manner!!

Good luck to you and have a great ride to thinnerville! I keep hoping things get better with time for everyone. ^_^

I think we all get better at this day by day - good luck to all of us! :)

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chris54    106

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CAUTION Pps follow your docs meal plan. During healing it is imparative to follow the plan some folks have gotten food caught between incistions fr eating certain foods to early Pps b careful whatever u are wanting is not worth a trip to hospital. Sometimes even if your stomach tolarates it it Cb bad Thor you

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SweetSaso    92

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CAUTION Pps follow your docs meal plan. During healing it is imparative to follow the plan some folks have gotten food caught between incistions fr eating certain foods to early Pps b careful whatever u are wanting is not worth a trip to hospital. Sometimes even if your stomach tolarates it it Cb bad Thor you

Thank you for the advice but my according to my doctor's plan iam allowed to start introducing new foods to my diet two weeks post op! :)

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Barisaxylady    154

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I know i should but this guilt i have after every bite of something is killing me' date=' hopefully ill do better with time, still new at this! As for Protein shakes my doctor and nut didnt even mention them! i went looking for some here (am currently overseas temporarily) but cant seen to find any of those! Will keep looking.

Thank u for the advice and good luck!![/quote']

I'm surprised they didn't suggest Protein Shakes. Mine wants me to have 1-2 a day to make sure I get enough Protein. Good luck on your search.

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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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      1. LeighaTR

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    • Alisa_S

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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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      1. summerseeker

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        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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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