I'm 4 days postop and have been doing real good! But I'm starting to crave food. I got the call from doc today and can start my protein shakes yay! My husband and kids ordered Chinese food and it smells delish! I know it's mind over matter but I can't wait to start purées! Ahhh just venting!

It's all good. You can tease him later with your new hot body the way he is teasing you with yummy smelling food.

Ask your doctor if you can have low sodium egg drop Soup. It's still broth-like if you remove the egg. You really have to think outside the box when you're on liquids/purees.

Just take it one day at a time. And for the love of god, do NOT watch cooking shows for the first month! HAHA.. that's killer right there!!

Good luck sweetie! and remember, you're on a great path to a healthy life!!

To late dawnie dawn...lol I hv not watched the cooking shows in months .since I sleeved that's all I look at. ..well that n animal planet. ..smfh

Thanks all! It's a good way to test me haha and yesterday I went to the grocery store for the 1st time and it wasn't bad. Just craving food in my mouth since I haven't ate anything solid since last Saturday. Not sure when I get to start on purées but hope soon.

And in regards to food on tv. Lol. One of the 1st commercials I saw in hospital was burger kings new burger that is topped with French fries. Lmao. Looked good but had no desire to eat! I stay away from food network cuz that's just a tease but I think smelling good food is harder. But I'm strong and can do this for me!

What help me a lot was I would take a good smell of the food and it was just like I was eating it and that really help me lol..

What help me a lot was I would take a good smell of the food and it was just like I was eating it and that really help me lol..

If I walk through the kitchen when my husband or grown sons are cooking I inhale deeply. It really does work.

I have gotten back into cooking shows since my sleeve. I can actually watch and NOT be hungry allte time! AND I watch US of Bacon and All You Can Eat and both disgust me that food service attracts us likes moths to a flame. There is a restaurant called Heart Attack Grill or somethig in Vegas where u eat free if you are over 350 pounds and they spank you if you don't finish your food. And their burgers are named Bypass burger like Single double triple and quadruple bypass!!!! Crazy!!!!

Wonton soup broth was divine right after surgery! And I'm now a "smeller." If I smell something I know won't agree with me (i.e. donuts, pastries, breads), it satisfies my craving. Strange, but true!

I get u on the smell of Chinese food! I play poker in a Chinese restaurant every Wed nite and the first 4 week I was on liquids only. The smell about killed me. The 3rd week I was brave enuf to order egg flower soup and ate only the broth (was thick and goopy, like snot - I'm sure thats a great visual! Yum) and it tasted exactly like the chicken broth I was so sick of! Yeah!

Since then (i'm now 7 weeks) I've enjoyed egg foo yung and more recently chicken chow mein (without the noddles, just veggies and chicken) and they were yummy. getting kind of sick of Chinese food, actually. usd to eat it about every 2 mths and now once or twice a week (there's poker there actually twice a week).

Good luck with the smells. And actually, I've gotten into the Food Network just since having surgery. I watch The Travel Channels Man vs Food, which is about a guy (thats not necessarily fat, just a little chubby) who travels the US taking on food challenges. He eats like a 5 lb burger with 3 lbs of fries in an hour. Or 8 lbs of bbq ribs. He usually makes it too. Only once in a while does he not meet the challenge. I watch it and it makes me kinda sick (but of course, not sick enuf to stop watching it!) that someone can eat that much. I'm a waste of money at any buffet, if someone tried to get me to eat a 5 lbs burger? Wow.Now I'm way off topic....

Good luck to you. We've all been there. To want food, to smell it and crave it. Don't give in. It about killed m but I made it thru the 4 weeks of liquids (couldn't do it with my lapband almost 4 yrs ago. Cheated after the first 2 weeks. Now I'm married and I live with the Food Nazi! Watches everything I put in my mouth)

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To late dawnie dawn...lol I hv not watched the cooking shows in months .since I sleeved that's all I look at. ..well that n animal planet. ..smfh

I keep watching CVC. Wishing I could by this and buy that that! I did buy a scarf as a reward. I'm looking forward to a year from now when I can actually buy some clothes. For now , I'm planning wardrobe!

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