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Oh my gosh...I am SO HUNGRY. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I'm only on day 6 of my post-op diet. I have to be on all liquids for another whole week and I am about to lose it.

How do you guys do it? I'm so hungry. I got banded on the 18 and I dont have any restriction. I'm hungry and ready to eat some REAL food. I am so sick of Protein Shakes and Jello. :smile2:

Any advice for food to eat on an all liquid diet?

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I felt the same way. I had surgery on the 17th and I am hungry. On the full liquid phase, you have more to chose from. I have been buying any kind of campbells Soups and putting them in the blender to liquify and drinking that. soo good. I also have sugar-free chocolate pudding, yogurt, popsicles, sugar-free fudgesicles. Try some new stuff and maybe you won't feel deprived. I also wasn't getting enough Protein and Water and I think that is why I was feeling so hungry.

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I was banded on 7/15/08 and on the full liquids. I'm 9 days post opt. I cannot wait to get to some decent food. I just can't eat more than one serving of popcycles, yougurt, or sugar free pudding. I'm concentrating on Protein Shakes to keep my hunger at bay.

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I was banded on July 21. I keep telling myself to stay focused on the goal. Yes, I'm a little hungry. When I am I just drink more Clear Liquids and it helps. Everyone said this wasn't going to be a cure all. I guess they were right (lol)!

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4 weeks post op here and I woke up from surgery starving. Was starving for days and felt kind of out of my mind with hunger. I was furious about it too = it was all very ugly. Well - the time passed pretty fast and at 12 days I couldn't take it anymore and dove head first into some cottage cheese, pudding, cream Soups, etc (2 days early) I admit - I broke the rules and maybe damaged my band and all the money I spent - but I did it and thats the truth. It did go by real fast though. Just nap as often as possible......

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Hey! Sorry, I remember that feeling. Try some cream of chicken Soup. Add a can of skim milk instead of Water when you heat. Also add a little garlic powder and sage. The taste is more satisfying this way. My 16 yr old liked it so much she took it to work for lunch the day I made it. I am sorry for your discomfort. My dr, fortunately, allowed me to move on to mushies after day 8, but each surgeon is different. Hang in there, it will be better!

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I am on liquids for 2 weeks and can have creamy Soups and cream of wheat (watered down) can you have those items??? I was banded the same day but you sound like you are starving to death over there.:)

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      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.

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