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So glad you are feeling better. Take baby steps, girl, you will make it!

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Hi, I was sleeved on Monday, August 12, 2013. I have lost 20 lbs pre-op and 10 lbs post-op. Finally feeling good enough to get out of the house today. I am finding that I am sensitive to smells, especially like sweet smelling candles. Has anyone else experienced this? Will it get better?

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Hi' date=' I was sleeved on Monday, August 12, 2013. I have lost 20 lbs pre-op and 10 lbs post-op. Finally feeling good enough to get out of the house today. I am finding that I am sensitive to smells, especially like sweet smelling candles. Has anyone else experienced this? Will it get better?[/quote']

Hi! Congrats!!! When I was sensitive to smells, I was getting dehydrated. So get your drinking in. Sip sip sip and sip more. A cup is always in my hand or right next to me. Keep doing it! Blessings! ~ Melody

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Hey Chanvita; Honestly I've been drinking the EAS Advantage Carb Control RTD shakes and Muscle Milk Light chocolate Peanut Butter. Really good - the only time I have trouble is if I let the Muscle Milk shakes sit too long and they get too watery. Then it's a bit of an effort to get them down but that's easily rememdied - just drink them faster. If the coldness is bothering you - try letting the RTD shakes sit out to room temp or mix the shakes with lukewarm Water. Cold things bothered me a little bit the 1st couple of days but I've gotten over it - sugar free popsicles are my best friend!

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You pretty much just never stop sipping! Protein, Water, protein, more water! And just keep doing as much as you can!

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Side note - I naturally have a very sluggish digestive tract. Of course, even more since my surgery. I just got and tried samples of Metamucil's new multiHealth Fiber orange flavor drink mix. It worked for me! And the taste is pretty good. At least it isn't any worse than what we are already used to! I only post this bc it ACTUALLY WORKED FOR ME!! And I know that is a common post op issue and wanted to help my peeps on here. Miralax, dulcolax, and other things didn't work for me.

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Can't help you with this one, Chanvita - I'm on full liquids till the 28th......

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Ok they said as of thurs I I can move to soft foods. What type of soft food did some of you do?

Cream Soups, sf puddings, yogurt, thin mashed potatoes or grits...

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Beachbum what kind of liquids r u doing. I only can do Water sf Popsicles and Jello, chicken broth. Im tired ofvthst already

Diet V8 Splash, flavored water stuff, teas...

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Broccoli and cheese Soup, cream of potato soup, sf Jello pudding, sf yogurt, made "soupy" cheese grits (yum), cream of wheat with cinnamon, soupy mashed potatoes, drinking lots of Decaf tea, Mio and switch it up for low cal G2 gatorade every once in a while. And of course, my 2 Protein Shakes everyday...

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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.

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        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.

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