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I just got back from walking the neighborhood. It's a small neighborhood so I was only gone about 15 minutes but it was great to get outside.

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Wow!!! This exact time last week I was being wheeled into theatre!! 1 week post op already! I get to drive again today (yay) and have my appointment at my nut soon! I should be able to start purée today I hope! :) will let you all know how I go! Oh my....I actually have to go and get out of my pj's today and get dressed!!! Lol

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feeling a lil bit better barely any pain still on clear liquid until 0714 and hard to get my Water goals met yet also a lot of burping with almost every sip i cooked for my family today the smells were ok no cravings but omg! my nose is like a dog!! lol! I smell the craziest things and question anyone with a breath smell? not that is horrible but I can taste a metally weird kinda taste does it makes sense??

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Karlam-

Me too!! Super sensitive nose and often have a metallic taste in my mouth. I'm one week post-op bypass today.

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I have an extra sensitive nose and funky taste too. Today makes 1 week sleeved. I thought i was doing pretty well but i spent 30 mins at the park with kids yesterday. Came home exhausted and nauseous.

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sleeved July 1, tired of liquids don't think I'm getting in enough Protein. I have no energy. Gas subsiding,no pain just tired of these foods.

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Sounds like we are all in the same boat. My pain and nausea are minimal but I have no energy. Feeling weak and wobbly which makes me nervous to go too far from home. I haven't been out anywhere besides walking down my street because I'm afraid of feeling faint in public.

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I'm a July 1 sleever. I am feeling like I am recovering well, although I'm alternating between sleeping on the recliner and in a guest room. Having a hard time with that. A little sore, especially in the belly button area (hernia repaired there). Gas is subsiding now. Had to take a laxative on Saturday (per instructions at leaving the hospital) and that worked easily. Today, I have been to the bathroom 5 times, hmmm. I can't drink Water yet, it just hurts! I'm supposed to go into pureed foods on Friday ... we'll see where that gets me. Had to speak with the surgeon on Saturday, he told me to take Lasix to try to bring down all the swelling in my legs and feet. By the time I left the hospital on the 3rd, I was up 10.2 pounds. As of today, I'm just .1 shy of losing 1 pound (since weighing in on 7/1 before surgery).

Buyers remorse? Not sure, just feeling awfully skeptical about the entire process.

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Karlam-

Me too!! Super sensitive nose and often have a metallic taste in my mouth. I'm one week post-op bypass today.

Thanks jessica i thought im the only one!! I was goin crazzzy!! ;)

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Karlam-

Me too!! Super sensitive nose and often have a metallic taste in my mouth. I'm one week post-op bypass today.

Thanks jessica i thought im the only one!! I was goin crazzzy!! ;)[/quoteI had a metallic taste with all 3 of my pregnancies. They told me it was a fluctuation of hormone levels. Hope it goes away soon. I was always miserable with it. :/

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Sorry, I don't know why my last comment ^^^ came out like that.

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So I over estimated how good I was feeling. I walked longer than ever this morning but when I ran out to the bank and then did some grocery shopping this afternoon I came home feeling exhausted. I am also alternating between sleeping in the comfy chair with the ottoman and trying to sleep in my bed. It seems like it really hurts to sleep flat but I'm getting soooo tired of the chair. I have 3 more weeks of liquid only. I never thought I'd envy someone when they said they got to eat pureed food next week but I do.I'm still struggling with removing the buyers remorse from my thoughts. It's done now so I need to view this positively but it's still hard.

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I overdid yesterday and am sore and testy today. Totally my fault! No more bending over either as it hurts and I just kept working through it. Hello, listen to the body!

However, Milagro the Mexican Wonder Tummy is now noshing on a Bariatric Advantage Calcium Chew (caramel) and while loud, isn't too upset. This is the first solid thing he's had in 3 weeks!!!!

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Does anyone have a garmin vivofit?? I bought one today even though it's not tracking much activity from me at the moment! lol but it sure will be come the next few weeks! Just wondering so maybe we can buddy up and track each other's progress etc! It also pairs up with my fitness pal!

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I switched from liquid to purée today. Never have a scrambled egg for Breakfast and puréed chicken for lunch tasted so good!

How is everyone doing?

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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. LeighaTR

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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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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