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You're 3 weeks out and you can have a banana? Drool. Who's your surgeon? Mine won't even allow veggies (canned only) or any fruit. I've been doing treadmill (3 minutes the first week) and wimming since week two. Also doing 12 pd bar curls....and I need a huge nap after my workouts. But am noticing I can do more now (almost 5 wks out) and don't nap as long any more. I say hang in.

Sunshine, I was sleeved 12/5 and have the same pblm with hunger. Its not acid reflux and if I hear that again, I might scream. I know first hand what relux feels like and this ain't it. I find that I can not eat forever or I have to eat over the top. 2oz is no longer adequate. Period. I'm betting my sleeve is an utter failure. I don't think the doc made it tight enough or it already stretched out. All I do know is if I say anything to the (military like0 nurse I will be prosecuted with cries of "You are in noncompliance this early out and that means you won't be successful". So I'm not saying boo. I'm just trying my hardest to control what I eat (and another scream is coming to anyone who says weigh and measure...cuz I have everything I can eat in small dishes or baggies already measured or weighed!) And if I could really control my eating I wouldn't have needed a f&^%(}g operation. Oh yes, one more person to say "life style change" ...that rates violent responses. I've had it up to here. I think the sleeve is a load of hooey...a definite get rich quick scheme for hospitals and absolute failure for me. There. I said it.

My pcp decided to do blood panel because I'm cold and because I'm losing my hair...he wants to be sure its not due to my thyroid meds being out of whack. So I will have a bt in feb

That's why we have horse races, Bionic. "This guy says the horse shows class." <grin> I just finished the 1 and 3/4 oz of egg I left over this a.m. color me 'learning' the ropes.

Hey,don't knock it til uve tried it. Had it with my eggs this a.m. instead of salsa and it was scrumptious.

I have the same problem and am convinced it stems from eating too fast. Started when I began chicken. Last nite I had turkey and then had some canned zucchini. Up it came...didn't really get a chance to go down. That makes two nites in a row that I've upchucked. I doubt its bulemia. But I have a tough time eating slowly and a tougher time underfilling the sleeve. I do fine in a.m. with a cheese omlet 2 eggs and a slice of vegetable pepperjack cheese (30 cal. 3/4 oz) and that goesdown well and stays. But then I skip lunch, usually, or I will make my main meal at noontime and after that I start burping all over. The vomiting helps me feel more comfortable but then I'm not getting all the protein I need. Today marks my 4th week out from surgery. I'm 35 # down and on the 15th I start to ramp up my protein intake. I think I need to re calculate what I'm eating: instead of 2 oz turkey...just an ounce of that and an ounce of veggie. Maybe that will help. Also, I notice that even tho I'm not hungry, I have a habit of starting to eat in the car after shopping. So I started in on the turkey while I was driving home. It made me feel like "everything is back to normal" until I upchucked.

growl. i'm trying to stuff my new sleeve. i am having a fit limiting myself to 6 oz of food per day. the new 3d week diet adds cottage cheese (i hate it but will eat the whole box) yoghurt (i bought plain and hate that, too, but will eat the whole box) canned veggies and egg. I do not know when I have had enough. I put the food in a dish and i put the boxes and stuff away and I still want more. I'm not finished. And right now, I am salivating thinking about eating lunch. Now, if someone could tell me how to change this 'habit' it would help a good deal. But if no one can, then what the heck is the use of the sleeve???? I was ok on the liquid only and made it thru 2 weeks and lost 20 lbs. Now with limited food, i am going crazy. i have felt hunger, too. grrrrrrrrrrr

I've been taking nexium 40 since day one. But thanx anyhow. I find I can't eat after the second meal tho I might want to...

Dear New, Possibly the doc thinks u know what to do from ur previous experience...what a lack of support. Id let them know u didn't appreciate it. My doc hd m on clear liquid for 2 weeks.the clear liquid included 6 oz of ensure plus low sodium broth, non caf tea/coffee, Water and crystal lite if I wanted. Last week gave me yogurt, thin Cereal, nonfat milk, cottage cheese (1%) and baked potato. This week added fish and eliminated potato and cereal. Next week get chicken/turkey and 4th week get red meat. Jan 15, I start eating a certain number of Proteins (54????). I'm not sure what happens with the 6oz rule on the 15th. My contact at the surgeons office is off this week, as well. I'm upset for u that they didn't give u clearer guidelines. Good luck!

I'm not able to feel hunger either nor can I determine fulness. Last nite I was still licking a sf pop when everything started to come up and I didn't even know it would happen. I messed all over my shirt, pants and the floor! That's the second time it happened. I was shopping and decided that I was going to buy food at this store becse I always bought Cookies or nuts or Jerky there before sleeve (12/5). So I bought a 2.6 oz bag of tuna in Water and sf Jello and sobe water. I fell into the tuna in the car and ate it with my fingers while driving. Also scarfed down a full box of jello. When I got in, was still hungry. Had the sf pop finished off another jello and the tuna bag, drank the sobe water and started to lick another pop when everything just came up on its own. No feelings at all. Maybe one or two burps. I'd bang my head on the wall, but that would be just to feel better when I stop. What the heck is going on? I don't call it head hunger. I call it mouth hunger. I actually salivate during these "attacks of the mindless belly" Comments? Suggestions? Please! I'm 28.2# since 12/5 so not exactly not working the sleeve but there must be something I can learn to stop this.

As a relative newbie I am wondering @ how much people are actually consuming who are more advanced than the first few weeks. There seems to be a real disconnect between my mouth and my stomach. I feel something in my stomach and cannot identify it as "full" but just let's say 'xxx' and yet, my mouth will want to have more and more shoveled in. I had the grocer cut up prepared grilled salmon into 2 oz chunks. I ate one yesterday (even tho I wasn't supposed to start til today) and then followed that with almost 3/4 can artichoke hearts (canned veggies permitted) and an ice pop. I couldn't finish the pop. It started coming back on me. But my mouth wanted more. I kept thinking I will feel better if I swallow this or that. As it turnedout, I couldn't even take my meds last nite...no room. I am still looking for a shrink for support and still breaking off with the old one who is ill and still astounded that I could go thru all the abuse of surgery and not be able to disciplin myself better. I'm not even sure what I feel.... Do wish there was a databank of shrinks who specalize in bariatrics...

Yes! I bought LibbyLs taster desert footed bowls holds 2 oz and small taster forks and spoons. That helps, but I think there is a disconnect between my mouth and my stomach because I can feel something and still think if I swallow this, I will feel better...but I don't. Need to learn the signal but it eludes me each evening. I did better today during the day, tho. Well, tomorow I get to try again.

2 oz per meal. 6 oz per day. Yes, I am a wimp in the face of 6 oz food. That's why. Easier to fast than eat a little bit

Whooooooo. Had my first land workout with pers trainer today. 5 min on handbike and 5 on treadmill. Then 12lb bar with bicep curls and 6lb ball and bench marching and cross hand to knee. Yeow. Breathing hurts. Back in pool tomorrow. But ow ow ow ow ow! But not hungry any more Hear me? I'm not hungry any more.

When I saw doc at 2 weeks I was 19 lbs down when I started mush I went up one lb but then started down again. So now in 3d week total 24.6 down. My docs always told me not to worry about one lb up OR down so its really the weekly measure that counts. Still I watch the scale like a hawk. And after exercise today, I bet its down again.

On my 3d week I have eggs, yoghurt, thin cereal and mashed potato and canned vegetables. Starting tomorrow I get fish for that week. Then I get chicken and turkey. The last week, I get meat (but I don't eat red meats) so that's my plan til the 15th. Then I have to start 50g of protein per day. I get only 6 0z food all day. That drives me batty.

Black... Am biting my nails waiting to hear how u are. Hope you didn't hurt anything and you'll bounce back from this.

Feed your eye: That's a pretty drastic statement. I trust you can back it up???

I am so trying to find a counselor its crazy. The one I had been working with is not well herself and unable to help me. I was so counting on her support and am angry and upset that she is unable to help and was unwilling to say as much sooner. I sensed this was happening when I was being discharged from the hosp and didn't want to come home! Today was a disaster. I will try harder tomorrow and I hope I don't put another thing in my mouth til then. I can't do a little food. All or none. Yes, I have ajn eating disorder and I need to find a shrink asap. If anyone from ct hartford area is reading this and has a connection to share, please do! Thanks for explaning. I hope I didn't blow it totally.

ps; cc I can't have any more protein shakes at this time. I'm limited to the foods I outlined and the clear liquids from the last 2 weeks. After this week, I gotta drop the potato, too. Fooey. That's the one thing that sets me off real bad. Icrave the potato. I'm drooling as I type

I dunno if my rep went thru so trying again Box is 1lb of cottage cheese. Yoghurt is plain but I put walden farms calorie free dip in it. If u haven't seen these, u gotta check 'em out because they have 0 zip nada value but they make drek taste petty good! Anyway how do u bite and chew any of the above? Next week, at least, I get fish hoo hah but this mush is driving me insane. I want to find a shrink for bariatric surgery. Is there such an animal? I'm gonna call the hosp to find out now. My old shrink isn't helping much. Thanks for the encouragement and no,I've lost weight but I don't care cuz this is too hard for me. I want food. I can't find a substitute and I can't think about banything else. And yes, I am exercising!

i lost 22 lbs and I'm 2 weeks out from surgery (12/5) but am now struggling with the newest diet (they added cottage cheese, eggs, canned veggies and thin Cereal (which i hate) and yoghurt. I cannot control my eating. i sit down to eat and i want to eat the whole box of cottage cheese...yes, i feel uncomfortable but no, i still want to continue eating. NO. I would NOT do this again. If someone can teach me how to not want to overstuff myself, fine, why couldn't it have been taught before the sleeve? If noone can help me, what the heck use is the sleeve?

Sgraff Only 5 lbs? I've lost 19 in 2 weeks. I started with an egg this afternoon and some yoghurt this evening. Think I'll bake a potato for breakfast <grin>. I'm glad I didn't experiment. Does anyone know who makes no sugar non fat yoghurt? I couldn't find any...

Hugs mimi, I'm totally pooped. Lost 19 lbs. 'Infection' is a bruise lowered by gravity from incision site off antibiotics. Strange new diet. Ate a hardboiled egg before. Are u feeling any better? My friend is out shopping for me now. I didn't have anything palatable in fridge...most had to be tossed. We went from doc office to a veg restaurant and then since they couldn't make a potato for me, we walked a block to 10,000 villages and shopped. We just came in and I lit the chanuka candles and said a prayer for you ...walked more than I ever dreamed I could. I hope you will have some miracles this season Xoxo

Deigh and all The first 2 weeks of as much liquid and as many ice pops (boy they are cheap to give away ice in th winter. I'm frozen here) are strange because except for the 2oz ensure 3x a day, there is no limits. Does the second 2 weeks come with limits as to how much yoghurt or soup we can have? I wonder if imposing limits or portion sizes is going to be a struggle. I went to the crafts store this afternoon and there was food there, too. I also salivated when I drove down routes with restaurants id eaten in or places id bought food to cook. When the heck does that stop? I need to keep a mop and bucket in the car! Hope everyone had a good weekend. I was just remembering that 2 weeks ago my friend arrived to drive us to the hotel across from the hospital for monday's surgery around this time. Wow. 2 weeks. Holy cow.