Woot! Woot! Surgery date set for May 5th, 2015! I've worked rather hard and I'm super excited to finally begin this journey. Apparently I've lost 30lbs since I started. That alone is awesome! I'm shopping for the surgery... I would love suggestions on vitamins, things you wish you had, just about anything you think would be helpful??

My advice is to not over-prepare. I bought a lot of things pre-op that I never ended up using post-op, like different flavors of Protein powder I ended up not liking. You can be out and shopping within a couple of days after surgery, so there's really no need to stock up on a ton of stuff pre-op. A couple things that I DID get a lot of use out of are my food scale and small storage containers. It helped to pre-measure my food once I got to the pureed and soft food stage so I didn't overeat.

I bought these little 2 oz. plastic containers and used the a TON (still do use them for some things actually):

http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Blocks-Freezer-Storage-Containers/dp/B004QZBEFK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429125556&sr=8-2&keywords=oxo+2+oz.+container

Edit: Oh! another good thing to have in the early days is some sort of strainer so you can strain the chunks out of Soups. In my full liquids stage I bought pretty much every creamy Soup my grocery store sold and strained out the chunks. Even with the chunks strained out, the variety of flavors kept me from getting bored.