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kulita    243

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What do you mean by "slightly bigger"?

In the hospital I could take in about 1-2 oz in 30 minutes, 2 weeks later I can get in 4-6 oz. Are you asking about 12 oz or larger?

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Sassygirl06    962

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Yes.it gets much easier the further out you get. I can drink a normal 8 to 16 ounces like a regular person now. I can even gulp Water when I need to really quench my thirst. :)

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jaxmama23    6

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I guess I should've made that more clear. I was curious about both but more interested in the size of the drink you take. At first I could hardly take small drinks without getting an air bubble and belching. However now that I am three weeks post op I am finding its easier to take a bigger drink without belching.

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kulita    243

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Sometimes when I am getting close to "full" I start belching. When I am full I start sneezing. It feels weird to look at a bottle of Water and get full off of 1 in from the top of the cap right now. I look forward to being bale to quench my thirst. Sassygirl06 looks like she is 9 months out. I wonder if that is when she noticed she could do that.

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Nicolanz    1,484

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Drinking too much used to cause a horrible pain in my chest. Now I'm 6 months out and can drink like I did before surgery.

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jaxmama23    6

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It may sound funny but not beig able to drink as I did before surgery was one of the things I was nervous about, and bummed about to be honest. Especially on those hot summer days I was bummed to think I may not be able to quench my thirst. Hopefully I will be as lucky as you are and be able to drink as I did before surgery.

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girlrfriday    71

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It may sound funny but not beig able to drink as I did before surgery was one of the things I was nervous about, and bummed about to be honest. Especially on those hot summer days I was bummed to think I may not be able to quench my thirst. Hopefully I will be as lucky as you are and be able to drink as I did before surgery.

Doesn't sound funny at all... I wasn't prepared for that restriction and it is making it really difficult for me to get my Water in. I have always been a chugger so it was easy to get in lots of Water in a day...learning to sip is hard for me..I'm still only getting in about 32 oz on a good day... so I'm hoping it gets better soon!!!

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mariamitani    405

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I can drink 20 ounces in 30 minutes. I cannot take big sips though or gulp with out getting pain in my chest and throat. If I take small sips I can drink allot more than the first 2 weeks. I'm almost 5 months out.

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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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        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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