Apparently my hunger pains were real and not totally in my head. I talked to one of the nurses at my surgeons office about my issue and was informed that i could eat more than Clear liquids only, which is what I thought I was supposed to be doing.Mashed potatoes, Soup, fruit juice and more. I felt so much better after i Heard that. I ran out of the office and up to the Chinese place wanting soup. My first choice was egg flower but they only had wonton soup and it was yummy. Honestly i had one little wonton and trashed the rest, the soup settled great in my tummy and I was happy.

After work, my roommate and I hit mothers market. So many fruit samples, my favorite was red grapefruit, I think I had four samples.when I

got home I was looking forward to soup and fruit for dinner, my body completely disagreed with my selection. I started feeling not so great and was kicking myself for my choices. I was having sharp chest pains and my food wasn't staying all the way down. I think it was a combination of eating too much too fast. The watermelon I was eating wasn't sitting well at all. There's no easy way to say it but I threw up and felt so much better. I was in bed the rest of the night and felt crappy enough this morning that I stayed home. I've always been the last one to leave the dinner table because I eat so darn slow and in this case still, not slow enough.

For everyone... take your time eating and drinking and think what you are doing to your body. When you treat your body like crap for so long it's going to take a bit for your brain to relearn what's best for it.

Watermelon is one of the fruits that will give you dumping.

I agree...it takes a while to learn to eat slow! I just ate cheddar cheese too fast as a snack at work, and I M dumping as we speak. It's terrible. I feel so sick. I know better, and still make this mistake over and over.

I have problems with watermelon to just doesn't sit well, I don't think it's dumping though for me.