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Congrats Jason! You're doing great.. My husband and I are looking to do it together our date is 4/23/15. I've never had a surgery in all 41 yrs of my life. I'm a little nervous, but more excited right now. Can you share how your recovery was? Also, my job is unaware of my having surgery-- I was hoping to return to work within 4 days-- does that seem practical?

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Congrats Jason! You're doing great.. My husband and I are looking to do it together our date is 4/23/15. I've never had a surgery in all 41 yrs of my life. I'm a little nervous, but more excited right now. Can you share how your recovery was? Also, my job is unaware of my having surgery-- I was hoping to return to work within 4 days-- does that seem practical?

I would say no and I had no problems or pain. I would take at least a week, 2 if you can swing it. I was fine and could have returned back to work after a week, but there's also the eating/drinking part. You have to sip almost constantly those first two days. I also got tired easily so those first few weeks I had to have a mid day nap. If you have issues with gas or anything else, you're really not going to be up to dealing with a job.

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Congrats Jason! You're doing great.. My husband and I are looking to do it together our date is 4/23/15. I've never had a surgery in all 41 yrs of my life. I'm a little nervous, but more excited right now. Can you share how your recovery was? Also, my job is unaware of my having surgery-- I was hoping to return to work within 4 days-- does that seem practical?

I checked in to the hospital early on a Monday. 10 days after, I started working from home. 3 weeks after, I went back in to the office.

I could have started working from home much sooner, but I'm very glad I didn't rush back in to the office. Besides all the physical stuff, learning to eat again, etc., my tolerance for drama was at an all-time low, and there was some out-of-control crazy shit going on back in the office.

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I am two days shy of two months post-op. I'm down 117.2 pounds from my high weight, and 43 since surgery. Another 5 pounds will put me exactly 1/3 of the way to my goal.

After a very frustrating two week stall, I've dropped 11 pounds in the past 5 days. I assume this was Water weight.

I'm getting between 80g and 100g of Protein a day, and just shy of 1000 calories / day. Water is still a struggle.

A few people at work, including the VP, have said it's time to get new clothes, so I did.

I've starting buying a few meals from My Fit Foods. I really like some of their stuff, especially the Protein snack pack with hummus, which is a perfectly sized meal for me. Protein-wise, some of their stuff is really great. Some of it may be nutritious, but is certainly not protein-dense. The meals I get have between 8g and 12g protein for every 100 calories.

I've also started drinking an EAS Myoplex ready-made each morning. This is 300 calories for 40g of protein. I found a 4-pack at CVS once, and now can only find them online. This works really well for me, since I get 1/2 my protein for the day first thing.

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Congratulations Jason!

The EAS Myoplex is one of the few Protein shakes I like, I found them at my local Wal-Mart.

Another of my favorite are the Premier Protein Shakes, I found them at costco and each is 30g of Protein and only 160 calories.

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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.

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