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

Peekboo. I am in the San Francisco East Bay….where are you located?

Cant wait to get out of the stall. I am in the middle of week three. Never thought Id look forward to having a scrambled egg!

Peekboo I am in Hayward.

@@chellede, you are so inspirational! So soon after your surgery you've set this goal for yourself and you know what? I know you'll reach it! good luck!

Team Chellede!!!!

@@chellede

Wow. That is so exciting. I want to do that but I have to make sure I can run first.

Fairfield CA is my hom but I'm in VA now.

So 1.5wks out and I'm bored with yogurt and cottage cheese. I'm not supposed to have Protein shakes and the Un.jury I purchased doesn't sit well with me postop anyhow. That will be going back to the factory. I'm not a fan of eggs in the least bit but the deviled eggs are really starting to sound good. I'm out of Protein food options! I'm a picky eater and it pretty much sucks! I'm looking forward to being able to eat chicken and steak again for protein. I was eating salmon but I'm tired of that too and I don't really care for fish to begin with. I keep up with my Water and 2 glasses of milk every day (which gives me 18g or protein). Idk what else to try right now... It's frustrating...

On a positive note: I'm down in weight and was goofing off and checked some of my measurements and saw I lost a few inches as well. Yippee!! Lol

@@Jen - a work in progress - how else are you supposed to get your Protein? And why doesn't he want you on Protein drinks? I find this odd !!! And what else can you eat? Are you on liquids? Soups? nothing? Ugh!!!! Call your DR in the morning !! Just talk to him

@@Kathy812 - awww thanks Kathy !! Awww I have a Team Chelle ! .. my name is Michelle and most call me Chelle de is the start of my last name

I think we all got this !!!

@@Jen - a work in progress - how else are you supposed to get your Protein? And why doesn't he want you on protein drinks? I find this odd !!! And what else can you eat? Are you on liquids? Soups? nothing? Ugh!!!! Call your DR in the morning !! Just talk to him

@@Kathy812 - awww thanks Kathy !! Awww I have a Team Chelle ! .. my name is Michelle and most call me Chelle de is the start of my last name

I think we all got this !!!

He's against protein shakes altogether. They want me to get me protein from food sources, but also don't expect me to hit 60g right away. I get 18g from the milk. I get about 12g from the Greek yogurt for Breakfast and 7g from the cottage cheese at lunch. I was trying to eat salmon for dinner which gave me about 14g. That totals 51g. If I just stuck with 2 Greek yogurts for 24g + milk 18g + meat for dinner 14, I'd be pretty darn close to 60g. I'm just sick of yogurt now. My foods are supposed to be pureed for the first 2 weeks and I can't eat pureed meat, I just can't lol. After the 10th I can go to fork mashable foods, which may help. I just get bored with food and then don't want to eat. I'd call but I kinda already know what they're going to tell me.

@@Jen - a work in progress what yogurt are you eating? I'm on Fage 0% total and I don't get that much Protein from mine and I'm kinda low even though I'm eating protein (seafood) for 2 meals a day!

@@Jen - a work in progress what yogurt are you eating? I'm on Fage 0% total and I don't get that much protein from mine and I'm kinda low even though I'm eating protein (seafood) for 2 meals a day!

various kinds but mostly Yoplait Greek 100 vanilla which has 13g per container or Dannon Oikos but those tend to be higher in sugar (although I can tolerate them without any symptoms). It takes me about 45 mins to eat one, but I can finally eat a whole one. The first few days I was lucky to eat lol. I was sipping on soups, but they don't have any protein worth counting so I stopped. They were basically fillers. I'm tempted to add another cup of milk in with my waters for an extra 9g of protein.

I had no choice but to be a Cowboys fan and it's okay win or lose, I support them!!! I love Texas!!!

Jen..... the unprofessional part wants me to tell you to just go have a Protein shake ! I mean really... against Protein shakes.. WTH. I don't get that !!!! What about some soft flaky fish? cheese sticks are soft. I was cleared for those and puree foods. Shredded cheese? maybe some soft tuna... just chew chew chew !!!

Today I had 1.5 ounces of meatloaf. I'm happy with that amount. It's right on the edge of being too much !

damn jen.. I can't get over that.. no protein shakes..

Jen..... the unprofessional part wants me to tell you to just go have a Protein shake ! I mean really... against protein shakes.. WTH. I don't get that !!!! What about some soft flaky fish? cheese sticks are soft. I was cleared for those and puree foods. Shredded cheese? maybe some soft tuna... just chew chew chew !!!

Today I had 1.5 ounces of meatloaf. I'm happy with that amount. It's right on the edge of being too much !

damn jen.. I can't get over that.. no protein shakes..

I think the biggest issue is me being so picky. I tried tuna, but I really don't like tuna and threw it out. I've never been a fan of seafood with the exception of crab legs and shrimp and I'm not sure if those are allowed yet because of the texture. I only recently started eating salmon, and it's ok in small amounts but after 4 days straight, my taste buds were done with salmon.

I started out trying to use protein shakes against his wishes (I'm a bit of a rebel lol), but they don't sit well with me and made me feel like throwing up, so I stopped using them. They seemed to be too foamy or something. I'd let them settle for a few minutes before drinking them but that didn't help either.

I'll try picking up some string cheese. I was eating sliced cheese and cheese curds (I swear that it reformed into a giant cheese curd in my intestines and I felt it working it's way all the way thru... TMI). Maybe string cheese will go down smoother.

I'm making my kids some chicken legs tonight for dinner and will pull the meat off of some for myself. It won't be pureed, but I'll chew chew chew amd then chew chew chew some more lol.

I guess I kinda looked at my meal options like this... I can have some malt-o-meal and get maybe 2g of protein or a yogurt and get 12g = yogurt won. Same with cottage cheese for 7g or a yogurt for 12g. I'm going to buy more eggs today and whip up a batch of deviled eggs. I'll make enough for the kids and then save some on my "Mom's only" shelf in the fridge (my kids would clean me out if I didn't have one lol).

I'll attach my meal plans and options they gave me.

Here are my stage 1 meal plans. I did just notice that I can have Carb Solutions (21g/cup) or Hood's Carb Countdown (15g/cup) in place of milk. Never heard of them before but apparently they are found in the dairy cases.

They say fortify the milk with powdered milk and add powdered egg whites to foods for extra Protein. I fortified my milk once, took a few sips and poured the rest out. It was gross! And I have a love-hate with eggs so I'm not even gonna go there.

Stage 2

Edited November 3, 201411 yr by Jen - a work in progress