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tran    18

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Hello everyone! This is my first time posting on a forum of any kind. I want to make sure I am doing things right, and looking for help and support. I have done a lot of things on my own, without success; now I want to give myself the best chance of success by reaching out to others.

My two-week pre-op diet ends on Sunday. It has been a real struggle, mostly smelling the foods others are preparing and eating. I also had to help prep for a birthday party, I even had to bake the cupcakes! It was torture the entire time. I really had a tough time taming my urge to eat.

The first week of my pre-op I was allowed to eat 4 Oz of lean meat. I tried to teach myself to chew my food more thoroughly than is my tendency. Anyone have any good advice on how to make sure you do this? I know I have a while before I will even be able to consume solids, but this will be one of my bigger issues since I have always been more of a "mash, mash, swallow" type.

Another big issue of mine is that I am not very good at prepping. I have a tendency to go for convenience. Any convenient food items you can purchase and stick in your car or purse?

That's it for now, wish me luck on Monday!

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TommieT    30

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Good luck to you both @@tran and @sherelle28441. But I was told to cut my food up the size of an eraser head of a pencil in the beginning and that did help. Because I'm a month post-op bypass today and I eat slow anyway but I did have 1 incident when I was able to eat hot Cereal and I chose grits and I only ate like 2-3 spoons in 15 min(it should've taken like 30min -an hr) and it got logged in my chest and I couldn't breathe!???? I ended up having to throw up(not a good feeling)! Take your time! And good Luck again????

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littlemomma0831    10

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Using baby/toddler utensils for everything helps as well! Even starting in your clear liquid phase. It slows you down dramatically and only lets you put a tiny bit of food in!

You quickly become acclimated in order to avoid the pain.

Surgery date- 11/8/16, Height- 5'6", HW- 249, SW- 235, GW- 160

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macon_me    68

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The fear of complications was enough to get me in line.

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tran    18

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Using baby/toddler utensils for everything helps as well! Even starting in your clear liquid phase. It slows you down dramatically and only lets you put a tiny bit of food in!

You quickly become acclimated in order to avoid the pain.

Surgery date- 11/8/16, Height- 5'6", HW- 249, SW- 235, GW- 160

Smart advice, thanks!

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Syaniya    319

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I've heard to chew each bit about 20 times, pretty much getting it as mushed as can be.

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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
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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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        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.

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