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swizzle    120

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Wowowow! I am feeling wonderful! I've been home for 5 days, had my surgery 7 days ago, and I've already lost almost 15lbs! I just felt like sharing... :)

I'm feeling pretty amazing, to be honest! I didn't have a perfect surgery. I had spleen bleeding, doc had to "shave" my liver for fat, and I had a hernia that I didn't even know about, so she fixed that too! I am beyond shocked that the pain only lasted a few days, and now I'm just managing being a bit tired, and making sure to get all my liquids and protein! (Sunday was the first day I could do this!)

To all of you who are pre-op and were nervous, like me, BREATHE EASY! It gets better!! The first few days are pretty brutal, in full honesty, but life is what you make of it and those days pass and then it's all uphill from there!!

... now if only I could figure out a way to stop craving "real food" like chicken and Beans and veggies and stuff! Oh I cannot WAIT until pureed phase, when I can move from my all sweet Protein Shake and liquids diet!

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I love that topic title. It totally lured me in! :D

Congratulations on doing so well already. I'm glad you're feeling better so soon. If you're like I was, the head hunger will stick around until you start getting 'real' flavors on the puréed diet. Its funny, before surgery I was actually asking my surgeon if the puréed stage was even necessary, or if I could just do full liquids an extra week then go right to soft. The idea of mushy, liquified meats and veggies was just so unappealing. That attitude changed almost immediately after surgery, and 2 weeks later, I had never been so grateful for cat food-looking mush in my life!

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swizzle    120

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Thanks!! :)

And YAS! I am totally excited about pureed phase! I can't wait to not be only drinking sweet things, and to get some "food" flavored things back in! :)

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Wowowow! I am feeling wonderful! I've been home for 5 days, had my surgery 7 days ago, and I've already lost almost 15lbs! I just felt like sharing... :)

I'm feeling pretty amazing, to be honest! I didn't have a perfect surgery. I had spleen bleeding, doc had to "shave" my liver for fat, and I had a hernia that I didn't even know about, so she fixed that too! I am beyond shocked that the pain only lasted a few days, and now I'm just managing being a bit tired, and making sure to get all my liquids and protein! (Sunday was the first day I could do this!)

To all of you who are pre-op and were nervous, like me, BREATHE EASY! It gets better!! The first few days are pretty brutal, in full honesty, but life is what you make of it and those days pass and then it's all uphill from there!!

... now if only I could figure out a way to stop craving "real food" like chicken and Beans and veggies and stuff! Oh I cannot WAIT until pureed phase, when I can move from my all sweet Protein shake and liquids diet!

<3 <3

I had my surgery April 4th 2016. The only thing I slept for a couple of days after surgery. I had one pain my foot cramped real bad one night that's it on my journey

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Love the topic title!!

I'm in the pre-op phase and honestly already sick of Protein shakes. I'm having RNY a week from tomorrow (4/25) and am so thankful for the one meal a day of 3oz chicken, 1c veggies I get. The idea of puréed food grosses me out right now (esp meat), but no doubt I'll be as grateful for that soon as I am for this one tiny meal now.

Fingers crossed for a less eventful and dramatic surgery than yours and also for weight loss as great as yours (and lots of good Netflix to watch during recovery!!)

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@Alphabetize I thought the same thing about pureed meat, but OMG I was the happiest camper ever once I could switch up from the Protein shakes a little bit! And my doc said things like tuna and scrambled eggs and things that are soft are fine once you're in the pureed phase, so it's not as limiting as I thought! Good luck!!! And heck yes, Netflix!

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Hi! It is great to hear such a positive outcome! I am about to have surgery on May 2nd, so I have been on my preop diet for a week and a half now! It has been extremely tough not having any grains at all for me! I did cheat a little last week. I am down 18 lbs since starting the preop diet though. I am getting nervous!!! I just want to get past this surgery!

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