I had a really bad day yesterday. Crying. I could not stop. Very emotional with the liquild diet. Did not get enough protein. It hurt everytime I sipped. Finally fiqured out I quit taking pain med too early. Every time I toook the pain med I just fell asleep. I Discovered need to take a little pain med to tolerate food.

New goals today. Walk more, drink more water and get my protein in at least 60 gms. Nutrional told me about greek yogurt has 23 gms protein. will try smoothie today with it. Did sleep better last night. Fell like a new women today.

Worried about the new philsophy of lean and mean. So far just mean. I'm leaving a wake of dead people in my path. If you want to know where, I at just look for the dead or dispondant. I'm always the fun one, no one needs to be around me right now. My children are looking at me as if i grew two horns and a tail. My husbands looks like he wants to cry everytime he looks at me.He has been very supportive. You really need support thru this process.

Stay ahead on your pain meds (only taper off when you know you're absolutely fine without them) and know that it WILL get better. I think everyone here either pre or post-op got to the emotional point where they asked themselves what am I/did I do? Just know this is a normal part of this.

I like the Fage greek yogurt the best, but the Oikos is OK too. Don't worry as much about the protein right now as just getting in the full amount of water/liquids so you don't get dehydrated. When you get to soft foods, I love the yogurt with SF preserves ontop (they're surprisingly low calorie). You'll be turning the corner soon, and I promise and all this will just be a blur. You've got a great support system in place and you will be successful! Hang in there. -BG

I too fell asleep everytime I took the prescribed pain medicine so on day 3 postop I switched to liquid tylenol and I found that it worked much better for the pain plus I was able to function. Hang in there it gets much better.