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aBetterRay    17

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Correction. Can not tolerate liquid yogurt. Makes me ache. Might be the small amount of sugar. Silk is good, as is applesauce, oatmeal, and cream of wheat. Tomato Basil Soup is a go, and I will delve into Split Pea soup for dinner. Still enjoying the Popsicles, pineapple-orange-strawberry Dole juice is my taste buds new friend. Soft foods to start Wednesday, and my mantra will be Mashed Potatos! Mashed Potatos! Mashed Potatos! (hopefully)

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Ellie_Grace    271

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Try mashed cauliflower I hear it's awesome and better for you than potatoes! I Have a recipe god it

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Ellie_Grace    271

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For it and it tastes similar to potatoes according to others who have tried it

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Tammy483    162

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I heard cauliflower, broccoli and the likes give you bad gas.. I'd be careful if I was suffering from gas anyway..

You guys are doing so well.. I still have trouble finding foods to eat

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Ellie_Grace    271

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I'm still on clear liquids- only 5 days post-op soon I go to full liquids and that is at least one week before I go to puréed foods

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aBetterRay    17

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Sounds very much as my diet schedule. I move to puréed foods on Wednesday. I just made an appointment with my cardiologist for June 25th to reevaluate my blood pressure meds. I hope your initial liquid regamine has gone well. I'm going to take advantage of the gym here in San Luis Obispo to do a little cardio, treadmill, elliptical, bike. My clothes are getting very loose... Hurrah!!!

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Correction. Can not tolerate liquid yogurt. Makes me ache. Might be the small amount of sugar. Silk is good' date=' as is applesauce, oatmeal, and cream of wheat. Tomato Basil Soup is a go, and I will delve into Split Pea soup for dinner. Still enjoying the Popsicles, pineapple-orange-strawberry Dole juice is my taste buds new friend. Soft foods to start Wednesday, and my mantra will be Mashed Potatos! Mashed Potatos! Mashed Potatos! (hopefully)[/quote']

I lovemash potatoes. Looking forward to soft food. I can survive on Water snapple and mash potatoes yummy

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aBetterRay    17

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First day of soft food diet. What a wonderful day. I got re-aquatinted with 2/3 of a hard boiled egg at Breakfast, 1/4 cup cottage cheese at lunch, and 1/3 cup delicious mashed potatoes for dinner. No rejections, all accepted with my tiny new pouch. Plus, I put 1-3/4 miles on the treadmill this evening, and I'm tired, but feel good about it. Small steps, big changed, positive results. It's all good...

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Ellie_Grace    271

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Good job ray! I started full liquids today so runny cream of wheat for me- yummy

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aBetterRay    17

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At this level, the soft and puréed meals, it was recommended by my doctor that I consume 3 meals per day, each meal fitting withing 1/3 of a cup maximum. This is allowing my digestive system to acclimate to the re-introduced foods, while minimizing the stretching of my new pouch, as well as training me to get accustomed to eating smaller portions. I thought it would be impossible to get used to eating such small amounts over the course of about 30 minutes per meal. Thankfully I am getting used to the new regamine, this from a person,who just a month ago, would consume an entire family size meat-lovers pizza in a 30 minute sitting, chasing it down with 2 liters of Pepsi. No one is more amazed than I.

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aBetterRay    17

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Good job ray! I started full liquids today so runny cream of wheat for me- yummy

Congratulations! I'm so excited for you. Just a note: steer clear of the SpongeBob Square Pants chocolate Lagoon Cream-of-Wheat. I really enjoyed the fruit flavored packets of oatmeal, the first batches I puréed further in my Magic Bullet. I was sad when I didn't respond well to the liquid Yogurt, but when we return to Fresno, I'm honing to give it another try. It's just so yummy. My Pregresso Tomato Basil Soup became my instant pizza-flavor replacement during the full-liquid stage. I've got 2 weeks on the soft & Puréed foods, and I'm at a very satisfied level.

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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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        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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