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ShannonRT    1

ShannonRT
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Hi everybody! I'm so glad I found this site. Let me introduce myself.

I am a 34-year-old divorced mom of an 11-year-old girl, 2 cats and a puppy. I have around 100 pounds to lose, give or take a few.

My surgery was almost a week ago, Monday July 30th. All went extremely well. Incisions are healing nicely, but it took about 4 days to get the anesthesia out of my system. I am apparently very sensitive to anesthesia. Spent 1 night in the hospital. Pain has been bearable, but liquid Hydrocodone tastes AWFUL!!! So I'm pretty much off meds now.

I wasn't going to weigh until I went back for my first post-op visit, but I broke down and weighed yesterday morning. I really felt like I needed some encouragement from seeing results. I was shocked...I had lost 11 pounds!!!

But I am REALLY struggling with the liquid diet. My dr. does 2 full weeks of liquids and then 2 weeks of pureed Protein before graduating to "real" food.< /p>

The list they gave me includes: Water, broth, sugar-free Jello, Protein shakes, juice (diluted 50:50), sugar-free popsicles, and any flavoring for water that is sugar and caffeine-free. Also, no carbonation.

I am allowed 60 grams of carbs and 30 grams of fat per day. I am required to consume 60 grams of protein and 64 ounces of Fluid per day. I started drinking Soup at Hands even though it's not on the list. I can't see that there should be a difference as long as I'm within my limits. No chunky stuff of course.

What suggestions and/or comments do you guys have?

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ms925    0

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Hi Shannon, I was banded 7/27. I am on the liquid diet for 4 weeks! I have been taking canned Soup and adding Water to thin... then blend, blend, blend. It is smooth and seems to do the trick. I also get yogurt. Good luck... This is a hard part.

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blahblahblah    4

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Your diet sounds pretty much the way mine has.... for the liquid stage, I ate Dannon Light and Fit yogurt...cream Soups (lowfat) made with skim milk (for extra protein) and strained...I was banded on July 10th and am now on the mushy phase prior to real food on Thursday...

This is the hardest part...The mushy stage has been so much easier...you are done with liquids before you know it...promise!!!

feel good and hang in there..

Rain

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ShannonRT    1

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I wish I could have yogurt. It's not till stage 2 (pureed). Not sure what the difference is between yogurt and sugar-free Jello. I may e-mail the dietician at my drs tomorrow and tell her how I'm struggling. She told us in pre-op diet class to let her know if we are having a hard time. I've already figured out I need my alloted amount of carbs. I get really shaky and yucky feeling like my blood sugar is low.

I don't have very much energy, but the hard part is knowing whether it's because of what I'm eating (or not eating) or just because I'm still recovering from surgery.

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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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      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

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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.

        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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