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browneyedgirl1981    32

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I am on my way to Golden Corral for a family birthday celebration. I don't typically like the restaurant except for a good salad, but it's still going to be hard to sit and just watch everyone eat.

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browneyedgirl1981    32

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Yeah I plan on sipping the juice out of the chicken noodle Soup. It's more of a mind thing to me.

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mommyjamie    83

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I feel you! My family had burgers and hot dogs while I sipped Soup.

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ziggypbang    272

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AYCE/Buffet type restaurants truly suck, don't they? Just designed for failure and over-indulgence, with everyone around you stuffing themselves. I have avoided them for the most part since surgery, but I did end up at a Chinese buffet with family a few weeks ago, and was happy just to enjoy the company and drink some Protein. I don't know if I could have done that happily at only one week out, though! Maybe you can take comfort in the fact that most of the food there is tasteless, reheated crap that has probably been coughed on, sneezed in and is crawling with human hair. :)

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browneyedgirl1981    32

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The coughed on sneezed on made me feel much better. Haha. However I just saw fruit and a chocolate fountain and almost cried. Lol!

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Kelly Gonzalez    52

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It won't be that hard, as you will only want with. Good luck your eyes. If you go with your husband, kids. I would tell them to get you sup, it's not worth paying for a whole meal, and you will be lucky to get a couple of sips.If there are people there you don't want to know, just say you have a bit of a upset stomach. Good luck to you!

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SportCub    28

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I feel your pain! Since my surgery on 4/8 I have been through my Dad's birthday dinner at a Mexican restaurant, a friends birthday BBQ and Easter dinner.

Just remember the liquid food phases are temporary and soon you will have other food options.

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browneyedgirl1981    32

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I can't wait to have real food! Just a cheese cube would be fabulous!

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mommyjamie    83

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I can't wait to have real food! Just a cheese cube would be fabulous!

A cube of cheese would be most welcome to my tastebuds! There is a member on here that has a blog w recipes and she has one for a cheese soufflé. I think the website is www.twosleevers.com. I am making that tomorrow. Got busy today but def. trying it tomorrow.

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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.

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