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So disappointed, today marks one month since I had the surgery. I still can't eat anything without it getting stuck or vommiting besides Protein Shakes and I only lost 23 pounds. I think this is the slowest in history. I'm just feeling good enough to excerise so I will start today. This really makes me sad.

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WoW !!! I dont know about anyone else but 23 pounds in 1 month is amazing! I wouldnt count that as a slow looser! I think you are doing excellent, Keep up the good work!!

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Truly, that's not a slow loss, your loss is excellentZ. I was told to expect 2-4 lbs a week and you are well above that at just shy of 6 pounds a week. I don't understand why you're having so much difficulty eating, that concerns me and absolutely needs to be discussed with your surgeon!!!! Good luck and stop being so hard on yourself!!!

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I was one month out last Wednesday . I had lost 18. I feel that is really slow but the way I look at it is I would have never lost 18 pounds in a month without this surgery.

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23 is great! I lost about 20-22 pounds then about 2-3 per week after that. About 10 per month. Also, I agree. You should be having an easier time with food by now. Give your Dr. a call. :-)

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Truly' date=' that's not a slow loss, your loss is excellentZ. I was told to expect 2-4 lbs a week and you are well above that at just shy of 6 pounds a week. I don't understand why you're having so much difficulty eating, that concerns me and absolutely needs to be discussed with your surgeon!!!! Good luck and stop being so hard on yourself!!![/quote']

Thank you for the encouragement. You are so uplifting!! I don't know why eatting is so hard. Is that unusual to still be having difficulties after a month. I can tolerate eggs mixed with a spoon of watery grits , Soup and refried Beans with no problem. Everything else gets stuck. If this is not normal I will def call my Dr.

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23 is great! I lost about 20-22 pounds then about 2-3 per week after that. About 10 per month. Also' date=' I agree. You should be having an easier time with food by now. Give your Dr. a call. :-)[/quote']

I love this site!!! You guys are so wonderful. I really appreciate you listening to me whine. Thank you for giving me different insight. I was really feeling bad until I read your post.

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I love this site!!! You guys are so wonderful. I really appreciate you listening to me whine. Thank you for giving me different insight. I was really feeling bad until I read your post.

Most us are very supportive and can relate but there are some that still judge and post ugly comments! Wish we could delete those people

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Thank you for the encouragement. You are so uplifting!! I don't know why eatting is so hard. Is that unusual to still be having difficulties after a month. I can tolerate eggs mixed with a spoon of watery grits ' date=' Soup and refried Beans with no problem. Everything else gets stuck. If this is not normal I will def call my Dr.[/quote']

I had a Protein bar for Breakfast with no issues, Sunday I had corned beef an cabbage ()sliced thin, tiny bites, and chewed well) but no problems. Yeah I would expect things to be easier for you at this point. Keep your chin up! You've lost a 2 year old! :P

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I had a very difficult time eating for the 1st six week, zofran (anti-nausea) was my best friend. I would wake up nauseated before I ate anything too. Concentrate on what you can eat and keep down and eat those items - don't go for too much variety. If you are worried, call your Dr and ask, but with the massive rearrangment of our insides it is normal to have a difficult time, some are able to bounce back quickly, some take a little more time. When I had the full - kind of sick feeling a hot bath (even in the middle of the summer when it was 100 degrees) was very soothing. Best of luck.

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I had a very difficult time eating for the 1st six week' date=' zofran (anti-nausea) was my best friend. I would wake up nauseated before I ate anything too. Concentrate on what you can eat and keep down and eat those items - don't go for too much variety. If you are worried, call your Dr and ask, but with the massive rearrangment of our insides it is normal to have a difficult time, some are able to bounce back quickly, some take a little more time. When I had the full - kind of sick feeling a hot bath (even in the middle of the summer when it was 100 degrees) was very soothing. Best of luck.[/quote']

A heating pad works wonders too....at least for me it did. Silly thing was my comfort for a month, I've put it back in a drawer and find I want to pull it out and snuggle cuz it's soothing :D

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 226.6

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      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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