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Six weeks on only-liquid diet, 2 weeks on mushie and will be on mushie for the next 2 weeks!<br /> surprisingly I am still alive!<img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/grin.gif" border="0" alt="" title="" smilieid="57" class="inlineimg" /><br /> Now beat that! <img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><br /> <br /> No seriously, is this normal? <img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/depressed.gif" border="0" alt="" title="cry" smilieid="49" class="inlineimg" /><br /> It's not like I miss food or something (who am i kidding). I am just wondering! I forgot how to eat solid food <img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/faint.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Faint" smilieid="236" class="inlineimg" /><br /> <br /> But I am losing weight, well I haven't gotten on scale since fist fill, I dont wanna know ;/ But I feel I am losing slowly<br /> Why the rush?<img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)" smilieid="8" class="inlineimg" /><br /> <br /> miss you guyzzzzzzzzzzzzz xx0ox0x0x<br /> <br /> Blooooooo<br />

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Well, I haven't done it yet -- just the first week -- but my doctor's schedule is:

2 weeks -- Clear Liquids

4 weeks -- full/blended liquids

3-1/2 months -- soft foods

After 5 months, THEN I can have solid foods!

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Mine is 2 weeks of fluids, 2 weeks of mushies and in the last phase of mushies was told that normal food would be introduced. Just started my second week of fluids. Was told can have thicker fluids in this phase.

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Mine was 2 weeks liquids, 2 weeks mushies, 1 week soft foodand then regular food. All of this on top of a month long liquid diet that I put myself on. Boy am I glad that is over. Now I have Soup cravings....Go figure LOL

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Well, I haven't done it yet -- just the first week -- but my doctor's schedule is:

2 weeks -- clear liquids

4 weeks -- full/blended liquids

3-1/2 months -- soft foods

After 5 months, THEN I can have solid foods!

Wow, I think you've got Bloo beat. I would go absolutely nuts having to wait 5 months to eat solids. Good Luck!

Mine was:

1 week - clear liquids

2 weeks- full liquids

3 weeks- mushy and soft food

At 6 weeks post-op I started solids

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I did 3 weeks of fluids, two of mushies. I found it easy, honestly, I was one of the lucky ones that didnt have bandster hell, I lost tons and tons of weight in that time and didnt miss solid food one bit.

Dont ask me about a pre op diet though, lol. I didnt have to do one but thought I'd try anyway, and I lasted 2 days.

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I did 3 weeks of fluids, two of mushies. I found it easy, honestly, I was one of the lucky ones that didnt have bandster hell, I lost tons and tons of weight in that time and didnt miss solid food one bit.

Dont ask me about a pre op diet though, lol. I didnt have to do one but thought I'd try anyway, and I lasted 2 days.

I had two days, clear liquids, a week liquids, 3 weeks mushies. I really didn't have any problem either. The nurse was even shocked that I had stuck to it as religiously as I had. Solids kindof snuck up on me before I knew it!

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Well, I haven't done it yet -- just the first week -- but my doctor's schedule is:

2 weeks -- clear liquids

4 weeks -- full/blended liquids

3-1/2 months -- soft foods

After 5 months, THEN I can have solid foods!

Good Lord:eek:! That is hell! Hang in there!

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Good Lord:eek:! That is hell! Hang in there!

Yes, it's pretty severe. He's convinced that his patients have fewer problems with adjusting to foods and will lose the majority of their weight during this period.

I realize that there are different views on this subject and people have done fine on faster schedules but I'm going to follow his plan as best I can. I chose him partly for his conservative approach because I'm not in a hurry and would like to have as few complications as possible. I almost got scared off in the beginning reading all of the stories of being too tight, PBing, sliming, getting stuck, etc. I was beginning to think the way the band worked was through aversion therapy! :P

But I realized that perhaps there is an over-representation of the negatives on a message board and both he and the psychologist assured me that this is true. I guess time will tell for me.

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    • Alisa_S

      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

        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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