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Do the Protein Drinks keep you feeling full? I was under the impression that liquids slide through the band....I need your expertise, please!

The truth is for me that you are correct liquid don't stick to you even if they are Protein drinks - the ones that are like milkshake do last a little longer cuz they are thicker than clear protien - but this is jmho - If I eat meat/fish it stick with you but the liquied doesn't - but when you are pre-op and post-op ya gotta drink them or add the protien powder to your Soups. Fact of life - I will tell you all pre-banders you will be hungry at times while on the pre-op and post op - but I found that homemade soups - creamy were the most satisfing - homemade broth better than the canned stuff - I lived on creamed soups (low fat) while on post op diet - I and you gotte experiment with your cooking

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hey travel, my date is also the 19th and I can't wait. getting restless for the day to get here.

good luck

Lynn

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Hi Lynn:

I met with the dietician today. Everything she told me I have learned from this forum. I have to order the Protein Shakes Unic;;;;;sp something like that. I guess they get their cut from the company but I'll go along with it. I plan to do what the doc says.

Cindy

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Hi Lynn:

I met with the dietician today. Everything she told me I have learned from this forum. I have to order the Protein Shakes Unic;;;;;sp something like that. I guess they get their cut from the company but I'll go along with it. I plan to do what the doc says.

Cindy

Unjury? ??? it's ok - but I like the egg white one better - it doesn't have an after taste - but I don't think you can add the egg white ones to warm foods - with Unjury the food has to be less that 130 degrees or it will curdel... I would put the unflavored on in my coffee in the morning - but made the mistake of adding it while coffee was hot - Ugh!!!

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Unjury has small packets for travel that will let you try them before you buy a big container. I like unjury so it is a personal thing and you just have to try untl you find the right one.

Nance

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I also like Unjury. I do like the indiviudal packaging that is available, i can take it too work and add to almost anything, and having an unflavored one, means you can add it to anything.

I added the unflavored to diet ocean spray cran-grape. It was ok, but looked a bit funny.

For just getting Water in I like crystal light or any non brand name equivilant

good louck to all upcoming banders..:smile:

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Janet, I work out with my trainer twice a week. Believe me, it's very easy for a man to make us feel like we are in high school again. I don't let myself go there, because I know he is married.

You are right on about the drinks not keeping us full. Post op, I did a lot better with creamed Soups too. At least I felt like I had a meal instead of drinking one of those shakes and wanting something else

right away. It took me a couple of weeks before I started being really hungry, and still had 2 more weeks of liquids before I could progress to mushy.

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Yea, my surgery is tomorrow, I'm so excited and so nervous! Thanks for all the advise, help, PM's and good thoughts and wishes.

I'll be posting as in a couple of days!

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where do you get the Unjury? ?

brenda

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where do you get the Unjury? ?

brenda

You can order it online - just type in unjury and there website should come up

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Lynne,

You don't even have to go to Edit Signature - just double click on your Ticker right from this thread and it will open so you can change it. Hopefully you remember your pin number. I forgot mine once and had to start over with a new one though. Since then I bought myself a little password book that I just love. I have soooooooooo many passwords and can't possibly remember them.

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GOOD LUCK LYNNE731 Keep us posted on how you are doing. I had surgery on January 15, 2008 and I feel great and down 29 pounds so far. I feel better all over!!!

bren

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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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        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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