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I'm actually one week out today and all of this stuff I bought is a waste to my new stomach. I'm taking the shakes back to SAMs!!! I have to get some Protein in so I can get some energy! I'm on purée foods so maybe I can get some in that way. But I got to do something :(

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Our tastes do change dramatically after surgery. I kept my Protein Shakes and powders and they did taste good a few months out, but I couldn't stand sweet stuff for months after surgery. BTW, I love your name! :)

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Already feeling my tastes changing ! A shake I lived before sx I now can't tolerate .

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Same.

Lissa, what did you do? I can't stand the unjury Protein. Everything is sweet, Gatorade, Vitamin Water, chewable antacids, Iron, glucose tabs. I have to choke everything down. :(

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Amytug, I drank chicken and beef broth. Lots and lots of broth. Buy low sodium, but I could not stand sweet anything for about six months post op. I've never really gotten into the whole Protein Shake thing..and I've tried. I have a couple of IRL sleeve friends who still do shakes at 2 years plus post-op, along with regular meals, but I cannot really get into them. I'll have a shake once or twice a month. I much prefer Protein Bars and have found that Premier Protein bars (30g of Protein per) make a great Breakfast for me. Protein bars are much more portable and don't have the aftertaste I get from shakes. If you're still on liquids/purees, Unjury makes a chicken Soup protein that I didn't mind. I just didn't want to buy a bunch of it for my liquid/puree stage because I'd already bought the others. I'm slowly using my Protein Powder up as additions to things like protein ice cream and Creamer for my coffee. In 18 months, I've bought 2 cases of the ready made Pure Protein Shakes from Sam's. Those are about the only prepared shakes I like. Everyone's taste is different and what works for me may not work for someone else, but this is why the veterans always say don't overbuy before surgery. :) Good luck.

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I'm actually one week out today and all of this stuff I bought is a waste to my new stomach. I'm taking the shakes back to SAMs!!! I have to get some Protein in so I can get some energy! I'm on purée foods so maybe I can get some in that way. But I got to do something :(

I'm 10 days out and I feel exactly the way u do. I wasted so much money on shakes and Soups ,etc. I'm trying to get my Protein from pureeing chicken with a little mayo, or scramble egg with cheese, making real soupy oatmeal. I just eat very very slowly and take verv small bites. I do however get my Water in with the addition of using popcycles.

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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

        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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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

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