Hello All: I thought I'd share some things at 11 days post-op:

• Since day of surgery - lost 9lbs
  
• Very hard for me to get enough protein in at this point still. I had a really hard time with liquid pre-op shakes and now shakes in general make me gag.
  
• I'm able to eat creamed soups and some yogurt and pudding at this point. Although I started this phase too early and it hurt to eat, but I started it anyway because I felt so weak at times
  
• I return to work tomorrow (this will be good and bad)
  
• First visit with NUT on Wed - can't wait to hear what she has to say
  
• Trying to understand the difference between head hunger and real hunger. Most of the time it is head hunger. It doesn't help that I had my surgery at this time of year!
  
• I am able to take two of the four vitamins I'm supposed to every day. Two is better than none.
  
• Steri strips are still covering my healing incisions (I'm supposed to let them fall off naturally) but I want to remove them and scratch that area so bad.
  
• I bought two new pairs of work pants yesterday. The size 18 pants I was wearing pre-op are really big (Yea). I actually shopped in the "normal" section of TJMaxx
  
• Still not feeling myself and I wonder if I ever will again. I wonder a lot of things actually - like how will all of this work out.
  
• I have three holiday parties coming up in two weeks and I'm a little bit stressed about them as most people do not know I had this done.
  
• Hoping I will get back to "loving" my am coffee again - this is a real bummer for me as my coffee making was an art form in and of itself and I miss not wanting it anymore.
  
• Blood pressure is already down!
  
• Thanks for reading
  

Thanks for sharing your experience thus far and congrats on your progress. As a pre-op, it helps to hear lots of experiences.

As far as the holiday parties, are you worried about what people will say to you or about being around lots of food or something other?

I'm mostly worried about being around all that food and everyone asking me to try this or that.