Hi everyone!! This is my first post & I'm looking for October surgery buddies. I'm very excited about the surgery. I've gotten my psych clearance, scheduled my sleep study, nutrition classes and upper endoscopy. My date is October 14th. Btw, anyone here from Jersey? Look forward to making friends w everyone!

Edited August 21, 201411 yr by Marielbx

Kath, we can share notes on what the nutritionist shares. My appointment is Thursday morning.

Just wanted to thank you guys for your advice and support during the past week. I ended up using the prune juice and it worked really well. Really, really, really well....

Wishing a happy week.

Meant to say wishing everyone a happy week.

@@Vsglady

I hope not too well. Milk of magnesia works too well for me, then I have the opposite problem.

@@shmeyers um yeah toooo well. But at that point it was an on going explosion of happiness. Ok a mess of happiness. Along with a promise to myself to go back to Phase 3 mushiness for a few more days.

Too funny ladies

@@peek yes, let's definitely share notes. I'm 51, I wonder if age may have something to do with slow weight loss. Anyway, we'll figure it out.

@@Vsglady, that literally made me laugh out loud. Glad the prune juice worked.

Kathy, I just turned 50 a week ago! Hopefully age doesn't make too much difference.

Kathy and Peek, what's a typical day of food for you? I can't even imagine how to up calories at this point!

Stephh, my diary should be available on mfp but I typically eat around 800 calories a day. Yogurt or scramble egg with cheese in the morning, a protein drink with skim milk anout 10am. Lunch is usually tuna in oil and 2 triskets, beef jerky for snacl, 1 oz, 4 oz of stewed chicken for dinner. Yikes, I feel like a piggy, lol. My day starts at 430am so its easy to get in my calories.

Just adding in, I average about 900 calories a day at this point but it varies between 800 and 1100. Of course I am 5'8" so my needs are different than more petite ladies! I am generally doing one Protein shake a day and getting the rest from food. I avoid added sugars but I am not going out of my way to do low fat - I figure, fat doesn't make me ill, so as long as I'm meeting goals for Protein and sugars, I'm not going to worry about it. There are only so many things I can count at a time, you know?

I agree that counting everything is a job :-)

@@stephh, I agree, I Don't want to up it, but I have to try something to break the stall. I try a variety of foods, my husband loves to cook. But for the most part. my menu is as follows:

Breakfast: low sugar oatmeal w/1 tbs pb2 OR 1 cottage cheese pancake w/1 breakfast sausage. ( I almost all ways have one of these).

Snack: pepperoni slices(5) w/ string cheese or just string cheese. MOST days I skip the morning snack.

Lunch: Whatever meat we had for dinner (chicken,meatballs,turkey)

w/small amount of veggies

Mid afternoon snack: either protein shake, jerky , almonds or half a quest bar.

Tonight I had talapia (half a filet) a few roasted veggies & a thin slice of Avacado. The last few nights I had stuffed peppers without rice, I substituted refried beans, sounds strange but it was really good w/ ground beef and cheese. I ate that for three days!

Kathy, that looks good :-) making me hungry, lol.

@@Kathy812

Can you give the recipe for the stuffed peppers? Sounds delish!