I would love to get others opinions.

I was sleeved on Oct. 7th and everything is going great. My only dilemma if you want to call it that is that it seems that eating is more of a chore than pleasure. Maybe it's just me. I sit down wondering ...is this going to upset my stomach? Will it settle? Will I be able to sit here and endure it for 30 minutes?

Don't get me wrong. I get all my Protein in with no problem. Just curious.

Chime in.

What's working a little better for me is chicken in the crockpot or the pressure cooker. It's SO easy to make in the crockpot. If you are also feeding a family, it's good for everyone. I take an onion and slice it, and put it in the bottom of the crockpot. Then I place a whole chicken or some dark meat like thighs with bones and cook it for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low. No Water added! It's so much more moist and edible, like a rotisserie chicken, except better. I use it for all kinds of things through the week.

I have a problem with chicken also. Kinda breaks my heart. I don't get it. I love chicken in any way, shape or form. Almost have issues with red meat also unless it's really, really tender. Ground turkey is fine as is pork. I crave vegetables but I know they are not priority.

I get my Protein in as I should because I can't tolerate the protein drinks or powders. Those alone make me want to hurl and I would rather eat dirt.

the other thing that works for me is to take that chicken and put it into a kitchenaid bowl and shred it like restaurants do. It comes out really fine, and if you mix that with a little mayo, it's finely shredded chicken salad and that goes down a lot easier.

I can't do beef in chunks but ground beef or ground chicken works very well. A little experimenting and creativity in the kitchen helps a lot.

I have all these recipes and more on my blog, and if you are tired of shakes, try the "full liquids" high protein soups. Nice change.

Try rubbing some Basil on the skin and put some in the chest cavity..you get the aroma of a stuffed chicken dinner...

I meant to say put a little basil on the skin of the chicken and sprinkle poultry seasoning in the chest cavity...oops!!! It has been a long day!!!!!!

"I get my Protein in as I should because I can't tolerate the protein drinks or powders. Those alone make me want to hurl and I would rather eat dirt"

Have you tried just using the powder as a base?

Combine in a Magic Bullet:

-Protein Powder (vanilla) -I'm not brave enough to buy banana or cookie dough or anything else that sounds freaky (to me)

-frozen fruit (costco has mango chunks,3 berry etc) or cocoa powder (the kind for baking not hot chocolate drink)

-greek yoghurt (0% fat)

-skim, Water or juice.

At 7 months out, food is enjoyable again, less of a chore. Still cut it into small pieces and chew well but I can eat pretty much anything and that happened almost overnight. I am making lots of pot meals as that makes most meats tender enough for my tummy.

Had my first fillet steak since surgery last weekend, managed half which is better than I hoped - my son was very happy to help me out and eat the other half :-) Had red deer loin yesterday and managed 2/3 of the portion.

I admit I had convinced myself that I couldn't eat meat other than turkey, chicken etc but it's a bit like me trying on my clothes every week to see what still fits - think I need to try new food each week as I think I might be surprised at just how wide my food repertoire is now compared to a couple of. Onths ago. Will stop me getting bored...

...compared to a couple of months ago... Lol!