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Hello everyone! It has been a week as of today since I was sleeved and I'm struggling!! I am trying so hard to get my 64oz of Water in as well as my 65g of Protein (in shakes, since I am on a 21 day full liquids only diet). I just can't seem to do it and I'm feeling hunger pangs (or at least I think I am.) Has anyone ran into this or have any suggestions? I have a family too so watching them eat food just makes me feel sad and impotent because I know I'm not getting the fluids or nutrition I need and food looks amazing. Please HELP!!

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Hi... I'm a year out so with that said the first month was very difficult for me to get my fluids in. It's nearly impossible at times. Just continue to make the effort so your energy level doesn't fall. It will take every waking moment to accomplish this and even then you will struggle. Good luck.

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I woke up one morning about 10 days out and took a drink and it went right down. Don't have much longer to wait.

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Do what you can to get most of it and don't sweat it, have some Water siping all times day and night and it adds to enough, eventually it will be easier to reach the full total. Your tummy is still even maybe soar and the walls were swollen leaving at first just a tiny channel this liquid passes through, this inflamation shrinks away as you heal more and more and create better room for this all as chanel opens best to a regular size it should be post surgery.Some people get it worst than others, hunger can occur extra for a while when swollen but also the anti acids help calm this all, it should be correcting itself and you'll soon feel the effects of lowered ghrelin and less hunger.

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I'm 6 weeks post op and my advice to you is don't stress over it..My NUT told me to just do what I can for the first month..It's almost impossible to get it all in, just do the best you can and you will do fine..Just keep sipping regularly so as not to get dehydrated...Every day will get easier, good luck to you..

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Take a deep breath and relax. You are doing fine. Remember your stomach just underwent a major surgery and is pretty swollen and is trying to heal. Great advice from the other posters above. Just remember this too shall pass and every day you will feel better and better. X

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Just trying to get your liquids in is a full time job!

Have you tried Isopure? It's on the Clear Liquids and packs so much Protein. 20 oz bottle has 40 grams of Protein. Sipping on that throughout the day helps on both accounts.

Hang in there, it just gets better every week!

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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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      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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