So, I'm one week postop and I have been very good for the most part when it comes to not eating anything but Jell-O or chicken broth. Today I got to start cream type soups – cream and mushroom, Cream of chicken – that sort of thing. I forgot until now that I was also allowed to go back on my protein checks. I don't know if I'm going to pay for this but, I hoping that I won't. I don't know if any of you live around Central to South Texas but there's a restaurant here called Bill Miller's – people typically like their fried chicken or brisket or things of that nature. I couldn't obviously get any of that but when my father got some chicken, -where would I… I got a couple of small slices of roasted turkey. I didn't anticipate eating both slices but, I made sure that I cut them up small and shoot them about 1 million times before swallowing. I did eat 2 tablespoons of mushroom soup to go along with it just in case but, I really felt like I needed protein. For the past week or so I felt dizzy and sometimes I had to catch myself to avoid falling. I understand the importance of following the diet and being strict about it but, I feel like I tried to make a good choice for the situation. Any thoughts?

Almond Snickers are the BOMB DIGGITY.

I wonder how one of those would fit into my itty bitty tummy....

Hey hey hey!! Don't judge!

I didn't get this surgery to be on a diet for the rest of my life!

Start off with some popcorn and wash it down with an icy cold soda and it should be fine.

Start off with some popcorn and wash it down with an icy cold soda and it should be fine.

Girl, you just helped my decide what I'm doing for dinner!

So, I'm one week postop and I have been very good for the most part when it comes to not eating anything but Jell-O or chicken broth. Today I got to start cream type Soups – cream and mushroom, Cream of chicken – that sort of thing. I forgot until now that I was also allowed to go back on my Protein checks. I don't know if I'm going to pay for this but, I hoping that I won't. I don't know if any of you live around Central to South Texas but there's a restaurant here called Bill Miller's – people typically like their fried chicken or brisket or things of that nature. I couldn't obviously get any of that but when my father got some chicken, -where would I… I got a couple of small slices of roasted turkey. I didn't anticipate eating both slices but, I made sure that I cut them up small and shoot them about 1 million times before swallowing. I did eat 2 tablespoons of mushroom Soup to go along with it just in case but, I really felt like I needed protein. For the past week or so I felt dizzy and sometimes I had to catch myself to avoid falling. I understand the importance of following the diet and being strict about it but, I feel like I tried to make a good choice for the situation. Any thoughts?

Talk to your doctor about your inability to comply with your program. If you cannot do it now, at a time when compliance reduces your chances of a life threatening complication, you are going to have a very hard road ahead of you. If you can get with your team's surgeon and psych, you can get yourself on a healthy path. liquids are only 2-4 weeks. It's doable.

Hi I've been following your thread all day. I'm in Austin and I was sleeved on 9/10 2013. Today is my first day of week 3. I had a lot of dizziness the first week, was better the second week and it's gone now and I have a ton of energy now. I'm eating Campbells cream Soups & tomato Soup added to my broth. But there's no way you're going to get the Protein that you need with the food we are allowed to eat right now. I highly recommend getting a Protein powder to add to your soup. I use unjury chicken soup flavor because the first two weeks it was only Clear liquids and that one counts for clear. I add at about 4 tsps of tomato soup or cream of chicken soup to 8 ounces of Water and it takes me about an hour to get it down plus my protein powder. But it has 21 grams of protein! and in the morning I do a premier Protein shake vanilla or chocolate. You can get them at Sams or costco. 30 grams of protein 1g sugar... and so tasty! Dannon makes a yogurt called light and fit vanilla flavor with extra protein I've been having one of these a day its 12 grams of protein and 9 carbs.

I'm also a recovering pain pill addict. I have two years and 9 months sober from pills and all other recreational drugs and alcohol. Let me know if you'd like to talk more about this.

I think the main thing is that every person is different every medical history is different in every doctor is different. So there can't be just one plan for everyone.

I am in Austin too, surgery scheduled for November 18th. Really scared

I am in Austin too, surgery scheduled for November 18th. Really scared

Cool! You'll do great! Dr. Ganta is awesome and so is his staff. Do you have plans to meet up with John Archibeque? He's really awesome too. There is a monthly meeting at NAMC (the hospital) and I am going to try and go this month. I think its Oct 9th?! I understand the fear...I think we all do! But his track record is awesome, he has a lot of experience and this really is going to change your life!

Cool! You'll do great! Dr. Ganta is awesome and so is his staff. Do you have plans to meet up with John Archibeque? He's really awesome too. There is a monthly meeting at NAMC (the hospital) and I am going to try and go this month. I think its Oct 9th?! I understand the fear...I think we all do! But his track record is awesome, he has a lot of experience and this really is going to change your life!

No I haven't attend any of those, yea staff is great. Surgery is scheduled but I am still in my 6 month supervised diet required by my insurance before submitting it to insurance for approval. Last appointment is Nov 8th. Yea I started going to him because 5 coworkers who have had the sleeve and bypass by him.

No I haven't attend any of those, yea staff is great. Surgery is scheduled but I am still in my 6 month supervised diet required by my insurance before submitting it to insurance for approval. Last appointment is Nov 8th. Yea I started going to him because 5 coworkers who have had the sleeve and bypass by him.

Oh cool - me too...two of my co-workers just had the sleeve done by him also - and whats funny is we work for Allergan, the company that sells the lapband!

I'm glad you mentioned gum because i was wondering if that would be an issue. Sugarfree of course, but I was wondering if after surgery the gum would increase gas in the stomach or not and if it is ok to chew gum while on your liquid diet.

My doctor outlawed all gum, it's actually in my pre-op paperwork - IF you swallow it, it could lead to troubles.

We have all fallen off the wagon, heck I have fallen off the wagon, had to chase the wagon d-o-w-n to get back on! Its naturally part of any process of change.

Hi I've been following your thread all day. I'm in Austin and I was sleeved on 9/10 2013. Today is my first day of week 3. I had a lot of dizziness the first week' date=' was better the second week and it's gone now and I have a ton of energy now. I'm eating Campbells cream soups & tomato soup added to my broth. But there's no way you're going to get the Protein that you need with the food we are allowed to eat right now. I highly recommend getting a protein powder to add to your soup. I use unjury chicken soup flavor because the first two weeks it was only clear liquids and that one counts for clear. I add at about 4 tsps of tomato soup or cream of chicken soup to 8 ounces of Water and it takes me about an hour to get it down plus my protein powder. But it has 21 grams of protein! and in the morning I do a Premier Protein shake vanilla or chocolate. You can get them at Sams or costco. 30 grams of protein 1g sugar... and so tasty! Dannon makes a yogurt called light and fit vanilla flavor with extra protein I've been having one of these a day its 12 grams of protein and 9 carbs. I'm also a recovering pain pill addict. I have two years and 9 months sober from pills and all other recreational drugs and alcohol. Let me know if you'd like to talk more about this. I think the main thing is that every person is different every medical history is different in every doctor is different. So there can't be just one plan for everyone.[/quote']

See that's the crazy thing – I'm not even hungry. I don't crave anything and I don't want to eat. But, I do what I have to do to try to take care of myself. The liquid diet honestly doesn't really bother me – I was just in a place where I couldn't get anything back from my doctors and it was out-of-control. Luckily I saw my surgeon yesterday and things are in a better place. I was very worried about having the surgery because of all my health stuff and I wanted to make sure everything was in place and the plan would be followed through especially when it came to all of my chronic pain issues – that stuff has to be controlled and you can't just dump everybody into a dime a dozen barrel.

I couldn't of said it any better myself here "I think the main thing is that every person is different every medical history is different in every doctor is different. So there can't be just one plan for everyone."

By the way congrats on overcome your addiction. I know that it's not easy. I tried to be extremely careful about my pain meds – I don't take as much as I can but unfortunately it takes a lot of pain meds for my body – I have a really high tolerance The meds. But regardless I take only enough to make the pain tolerable. I used to refuse pain meds altogether but I had to come to the realization that I was doing more damage to my body being a uncontrollable pain 24/7. I didn't want to just take a pill and put a Band-Aid on it – I wanted to fix the problem but years later and we find out that there's multiple problems they can't be fixed and I just do the best I can with it as I know we all do :-) congratulations again though really – it's something to be very proud of.

Hi I've been following your thread all day. I'm in Austin and I was sleeved on 9/10 2013. Today is my first day of week 3. I had a lot of dizziness the first week' date=' was better the second week and it's gone now and I have a ton of energy now. I'm eating Campbells cream soups & tomato soup added to my broth. But there's no way you're going to get the Protein that you need with the food we are allowed to eat right now. I highly recommend getting a protein powder to add to your soup. I use unjury chicken soup flavor because the first two weeks it was only clear liquids and that one counts for clear. I add at about 4 tsps of tomato soup or cream of chicken soup to 8 ounces of Water and it takes me about an hour to get it down plus my protein powder. But it has 21 grams of protein! and in the morning I do a Premier Protein shake vanilla or chocolate. You can get them at Sams or costco. 30 grams of protein 1g sugar... and so tasty! Dannon makes a yogurt called light and fit vanilla flavor with extra protein I've been having one of these a day its 12 grams of protein and 9 carbs. I'm also a recovering pain pill addict. I have two years and 9 months sober from pills and all other recreational drugs and alcohol. Let me know if you'd like to talk more about this. I think the main thing is that every person is different every medical history is different in every doctor is different. So there can't be just one plan for everyone.[/quote']

By the way – I just saw that you and all the and it looks like were pretty close in surgery dates… Let me know if you like to talk more since were close – also, thanks for the meal ideas. I don't know about everybody else but extracts are great thing for the Protein shakes :-) the doctors office that I could add putting powder too but I didn't like it. It's so interesting how many different policies different doctors have. I was reading someone's post about milk – my doctors don't allow any sort of milk – on Monday, sorry, skim, powder – nothing like that it's only water and the protein powder… Then extract of course but it's interesting that there's so many different ways people do things. I guess I'm kind of weird that I wish it was more uniform.

Can you get a canned lentil soup and purée it it? Add some milk or Greek yogurt. Amazing and high in Protein. Also' date=' my surgeons office also has medically supervised diet foods. Everything has a ton of protein. See if you can find an office near you that sells medically supervised diet foods. My broth has 15 grams of protein. They sell protein Jello, puddings, shakes, etc...all with added protein. Also, if you are allowed, costco and Sam's Club sell ready to drink Protein drinks called Premier Protein, 30 grams of protein. You can dress them up with sugar free Torani syrup, instant decaf coffee, etc...[/quote']

I got protein powders for my doctors office they had other stuff as well as far as broths but I just did plain old Swanson chicken broth. I tried some others but my palate is totally changed and I don't seem to like certain flavorings that I used to like. As far as the canned soup – I was told no purée but that was my doctor…

Natalie' date=' u r precious, I love your honesty & the courage it takes to reach out. Hug yourself for that. There will b lots of opportunities for turkey etc when your diet stage dictates. I guess we cld ask ourselves this... Is eating this xxxx worth causing a leak or other medical issue? I had a conversation inside my head not too long ago b4 starting this journey. Someone brought a box of sees candy to work I had lost 40 pounds and was on a sugar free streak. The box of candy knew my name, it beckoned me to the break room, we were all alone. I walked out and made it a point to avoid the break room the rest of the day. Once I start I act like I am never going to get another piece of candy in my life, like there's going to be a candy shortage. I literally gave myself a pep talk and said... Is eating all that candy going to help me get to my goal? Will there be another time and place that I may enjoy a piece of candy down the road? For that day, that instant it helped. Alcoholics, drug addicts can avoid encounters with those items, as food addicts( I use this term loosely) we must face food ever single day. We are confronted 24/7. Being able to rewire our thinking and behavior is where it's at. Small steps.....falling down, reaching out.....small steps. Hope this helps. Remind me of this when I am struggling k?[/quote']

We all struggle … That's a positive thing about this forum is that we can share and get through it. I'm really proud of myself with the fact that I used to eat ice cream a lot – I have always had a lot of nausea and vomiting problems and take medicine for it but sometimes ice cream would help settle my stomach – I tried milk and other derivatives but it didn't make a difference… I would always pick the "healthiest" ice cream – as healthy as you can get of course. that would help at times with my nausea and vomiting. Medication always didn't work. But, I haven't even thought about ice cream and luckily I haven't needed it. I still get nauseous but maybe it had something to do with cutting off a portion of my stomach – seems more controlled now LOL.

By the way, you're in California aren't you? I haven't heard that name sees candy in years LOL

Natalie' date=' please don't leave this forum or stop posting. While I'm not a doctor, I will say you probably did not harm your sleeve and are just .... Protein deficient. When I went home from the hospital, I was told to be sure to continue to drink my Protein shakes every day. I always have one in the morning with my pills. Yesterday I started taking my pills with Water and felt a little ill. I immediately went and got a Protein shake to take the rest and instantly felt better. I guess I needed to have that stomach coating for all those pills. Maybe that would help you. I always drink two a day even though I am on mushy foods and do have Soup n eggs n stuff like that. Congratulations on the water though. I really have to work to get that in now that I'm eating and having to wait before and after eating. Sometimes I have to stay up just to finish drinking my 64 oz. How do u drink so much?[/quote']

I'm actually having to crush my pills – I don't know if that would help you? That of course be careful because you can't crush some of them. I should be taking more pills that I am but for right now, I'm just taking what I absolutely necessarily have to have. It sounds like coating your stomach helped you :-) there are times I have to just stop and it'll take my breath away and I'll try to slowly breathe I'll turn the AC Apraw high and better hope control the cleanliness and it takes a few minutes but I start to feel little better.

I don't know what it is about water – I never really drink sodas too much but, if you're not a water lover, try lemon in it? I used to have lemon and my water all the time and it seemed a lot easier to drink it. My stomach can't tolerate the lemon right now but I haven't lost my thirst LOL. The easiest way for me to drink a lot of water is to get a very large container – I have a Rubbermaid carafe that is 2 quarts and I just refill it with ice water all through the day. About it at the grocery store – I actually have several and I just use them, wash, then reuse them again. It's a lot easier to drink it that way for me then to refill small glasses over and over.