Looking for other May 2021 folks to share the journey with! I'm scheduled for May 5th and start my liquid diet in just a few days. Anyone else on/around the same time? What kind of pre-op diet do you have? I admit I'm super nervous about how I'm going to manage the next couple of weeks and keep up my energy at work.

15 hours ago, dwells6192 said:

I am hoping I get the clear to move to puree phase tomorrow?. Is the ricotta bake good for the puree phase or is this something I should hold off on till the soft foods? I can have ricotta and sauce but wasn't sure if anyone had experience with it.

Yes I did it for puree stage. I just did 2 eggs mixed with a 15oz container of fat free or reduced fat ricotta, spices as you wish, topped with enough smooth sauce to cover the ricotta and then sprinkled some fat free mozzarella on top. Baked at 400 for about 20-25 minutes I believe. I used a 9x9 baking pan and cut into 9 servings which came out to around 100 calories each 9g protein, 3 carb.

I'm 4 weeks out today and I had a rough day yesterday. I was exhausted when I woke up in the morning. Had no desire to eat or drink and generally felt crappy. At some point in the late afternoon I took two bigger sips of water and then immediately vomited. It burned like heck, my throat was burning for probably 2 hours afterwards even with drinking more and trying to wash it away.

I'm fairly certain I did not drink enough the day before so I woke up feeling crappy and then continued to not drink well for the first half of the day. I focused on fluids over eating in the afternoon and I feel better today. So I do not recommend even slight dehydration, no fun.

16 hours ago, ShoppGirl said:

https://bariatricbits.com/single-serve-baked-ricotta/

This looks fantastic! Thank you for posting looking forward to trying it!

I’m still on 8 more days of full fluids ? (…since my surgery was last day of May) I took steristrips off my 3 upper incisions…they are so small. They all look good. I have a feeling my main incision will not look as good, I’m scared to take the strips off to see… It has only been 9 days, I think they said remove Day 14 if they haven’t come off…

1 minute ago, MistySkye said:

I’m still on 8 more days of full fluids ? (…since my surgery was last day of May) I took steristrips off my 3 upper incisions…they are so small. They all look good. I have a feeling my main incision will not look as good, I’m scared to take the strips off to see… It has only been 9 days, I think they said remove Day 14 if they haven’t come off…

Mine told me to take my steristrips off between 7-10 days so I took them all off on day 9.

3 hours ago, Mommy wants to be able said:

This looks fantastic! Thank you for posting looking forward to trying it!

I left out the basil because I wasn’t sure about it on purée but I love garlic so I added extra garlic powder. Yes. It was delicious. I ate it almost everyday through my purée phase and have even eaten it since I am on regular food.

7 hours ago, dwells6192 said:

Mine told me to take my steristrips off between 7-10 days so I took them all off on day 9.

I did it! As I guessed, the one they take the stomach out was the only bad one I have. It’s healing fine, just spread a bit, I don’t think the nurses put the steristrips on good when she replaced them. (I suspected this after I was able to take the covering bandage off after 72 hours.) My other 4 will barely leave a scar.

2 minutes ago, MistySkye said:

I did it! As I guessed, the one they take the stomach out was the only bad one I have. It’s healing fine, just spread a bit, I don’t think the nurses put the steristrips on good when she replaced them. (I suspected this after I was able to take the covering bandage off after 72 hours.) My other 4 will barely leave a scar.

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Had a setback. Yesterday am got an intense very bad pain across my upper back. Went to ER... they did a CAT scan, found a “new” hiatal hernia. Part of my sleeve surgery was to fix the rather large one I had. They don’t know if the stitches gave out and it came back, or is a small hernia was left by the surgery. Only thing they can do is wait & see. Also I have diverticulitis — an infection in my colon from trapped stool. [emoji52][emoji17][emoji3061][emoji2961]

I am sick.

I'm so sorry to hear that, I hope everything works out!

I had surgery May 5th; have lost 17 pounds. However, for the last week I’ve had diverticulitis. Maybe it’s the antibiotics, but I am so weak. All I want to do is sleep. This isn’t good… I contacted the clinic. They said it’s because I am not getting enough protein and calories. They never told me the number of calories to be consumed each day. I’ve been getting 500. They said I need to double that but only eat 3 meals/day. Food stays a long time in my pouch, and so far I haven’t been able to eat much at a time. With what they want me to eat, along with the tiny portions only three times a day…. it doesn’t make much sense to me how I will get in 1,000. Anyone else run into this?

10 hours ago, SoulGardener said:

I had surgery May 5th; have lost 17 pounds. However, for the last week I’ve had diverticulitis. Maybe it’s the antibiotics, but I am so weak. All I want to do is sleep. This isn’t good… I contacted the clinic. They said it’s because I am not getting enough Protein and calories. They never told me the number of calories to be consumed each day. I’ve been getting 500. They said I need to double that but only eat 3 meals/day. food stays a long time in my pouch, and so far I haven’t been able to eat much at a time. With what they want me to eat, along with the tiny portions only three times a day…. it doesn’t make much sense to me how I will get in 1,000. Anyone else run into this?

My program has us eating 5-6 times per day, about every 2-3 hours and even with that I typically get around 600 calories. 1,000 would definitely be a struggle at this point.

32 minutes ago, JDLane said:

My program has us eating 5-6 times per day, about every 2-3 hours and even with that I typically get around 600 calories. 1,000 would definitely be a struggle at this point.

I had my surgery on May 3rd and same here. 3 meals a day or 5-6 smaller meals and I eat about 500-600 calories max per day. It would be really rough getting to 1000 per day. I know I am not allowed to eat that much right now either.

Had my surgery May 19th but aside from amounts, i.e., like 2 oz or 4 oz being listed for foods, they never mention anything about calories for the day in the puree or soft food stages for me.

My plan does not mention calories until I finally move on to regular foods and then they say I should AVOID consuming over 1000 calories a day for the first year. It also says I should be striving for the following each day:

7 meat/protein servings
1 milk serving
3 starch servings
2 fruit servings
2 non starchy vegetable servings
2 healthy fat servings

Today I start soft foods and it says I should strive for:

5 protein/dairy
2 fruits/veggies
1 starch
1 fat

And again, the amounts and suggestions they have next to each of the different foods listed are for 2 and 4 oz servings during this stage.

I'll learn about the next stages for my program tomorrow. I'm still on Full Fluids, and my calories are on average around 600. (Checked Bariastic, since surgery my avg is 511; but that would be due to some lower days intitally) I know they told me just focus on protein & fluid intake. 60 minimum, but aim for 100 if you can. (My avg is 78, this week has been over 90).

I'm down 15LB from the start of liquid diet 2 days before surgery. Since I am lower BMI, that is already 20% of my EBW.

Hi all, 1 month post surgery today, I've lost 40 lbs overall , 20 since surgery. I've been experiencing the dreaded 3 week stall, its frustrating but not unexpected with all the forums about it out there. I started riding my bike again, I don't like walking and started a at home exercise regime. Doing yard work is my best exercise! I'm trying to get more than 600 calories a day, it's tough when I'm not hungry, I've been focusing on getting protein. I don't miss my Diet Dr. Pepper habit, which i thought would be the hardest part. Food selection hasn't been too bad, I do like the ricotta bake, I add shrimp and mushrooms. Sugar free jello for snacks and tons of yogurt. I can start regular foods next week but I don't expect I'll be getting too adventurous until I get further out. . I've had a few colleagues ask me if I've lost weight as my face they see on Teams calls is much thinner, I've told a few and not ashamed by it. We booked a trip to Nassau, Bahamas next month and I look forward to not being the beached whale. Hope you all the best, John..