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I am 10 days out. Have had to go to hospital twice because of dehydration. I have been falling and blurred vision. Thank God I have 2 friends who have had the surgery,(1sleeve and 1 bypass). Yesterday I sat down with them yesterday and they helped me sooo much. They cooked a couple of meal to show me how much. They also walked me through recipes. They took me to trader Joe's and walked me through what I needed to do to keep me out of hospital. Thanks Tammy and Maria. This morning I got up and had Breakfast and I am not as weak. Yahoo!

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I am 10 days out. Have had to go to hospital twice because of dehydration. I have been falling and blurred vision. Thank God I have 2 friends who have had the surgery,(1sleeve and 1 bypass). Yesterday I sat down with them yesterday and they helped me sooo much. They cooked a couple of meal to show me how much. They also walked me through recipes. They took me to trader Joe's and walked me through what I needed to do to keep me out of hospital. Thanks Tammy and Maria. This morning I got up and had breakfast and I am not as weak. Yahoo!

WILL YOU PLEASE SHARE SOME OF THE HYDRATION TACTICS THEY SHOWED YOU? ??? THX

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As of this morning I am 30lbs. down. So happy!! I am glad to see (well, not glad) that others are having problems sipping the liquids and getting it all in. I know I am not getting all of my fluids. I am so afraid of gulping and getting sick. Tomorrow, I will be able to fully get in the Water, so can start water aerobics. I am happy for all of us!!

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FINALLY I'm on full liquids and it has been really weird. I had some Soup and I had about three tablespoons and was full. My doctor suggested that since it takes our brain about 2-3 mins to register we are full to wait a min or two after a spoonful or so. I think it helped me figure out when I was done a lil better today. I'm super afraid to stretch out my stomach, Hope everyone is having a great week otherwise!

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I went to my first support group meeting that is hosted at the surgery center where I had my surgery and it was great!! Like sitting in an actual room full of people from this site who are all in different stages of the process and had great feedback. I'm definitely planning to go again as it was similar but different than here. Just super encouraging!! Keep up the good work all us Losers! :-)

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nectar crystal sky sure is helping me! It's not like having the other vanilla chocolate etc, kinda tastes like my blue Powerade zero. Just an fyi. So I think im gonna get the lemonade and I think there may be a watermelon.

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nectar crystal sky sure is helping me! It's not like having the other vanilla chocolate etc, kinda tastes like my blue Powerade zero. Just an fyi. So I think im gonna get the lemonade and I think there may be a watermelon.

downsizingdiva - where do you get the Nectar crystal sky and the other drinks?

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I'm 11 days post op and have lost 32 pounds since my pre op liquid diet. I'm having a stall on the scale, is it normal this soon? Also I'm so paranoid about stretching my new stomach! I'm on a puréed diet and I'm noticing that I don't get full as fast as I used to and it's making me so paranoid!

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I'm feeling the same way...no restriction...and today I even caved and had some pretzels, it wasn't a problem at all

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Today was my first day on pureed food and I was in heaven I had 1/4 of cream of wheat and a soft scrambled egg. I couldn't even eat it all, but it felt good to feel a little normal and not have a shake or smoothie, or soup! dinner was a pureed chicken leg which wasn't bad at all. If I can make it past these two weeks, then I can do anything! Lawd help me!

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downsizingdiva - where do you get the nectar crystal sky and the other drinks?

I order most of my stuff on ebay

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I'm 11 days post op and have lost 32 pounds since my pre op liquid diet. I'm having a stall on the scale, is it normal this soon? Also I'm so paranoid about stretching my new stomach! I'm on a puréed diet and I'm noticing that I don't get full as fast as I used to and it's making me so paranoid!

I'm stalling too, ok this is my theory for myself, since I was on a two week liquid diet, wouldn't that make my first post op week kinda like the the week stall? I hope, cuz i am trying not to get discouraged

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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.

        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.

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

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