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Hi Deb, Must be the tomato, I had some canned spag last night and it did the same to me. i have lost 41 kg now, cant remember my password to update my ticker. In no time at all you will be plummeting towards that 70 kg. Isn't it exciting?

Hey Deb, How did it go? Hope you are feeling well and looking forward to the exciting part - watching the weight fall off. Let us know how you are doing.

Hi all, Update from me too - nearly a year - 26 April is my bandday - and 35 kgs gone forever. Fantastic - I am so stoked. I don't think I really believed that it would work, but there is no denying it now. Size 16 jeans WOOHOO!! My ticker (if it is still there) is wrong but i cant remember how to update it. Cheers

I am on day 13 and last night just could not do liquids for dinner when the family were have roast chick so I mashed up veges and a little soft meat (cut up fine) with gravy. It was fantastic, but what I wonder about is that I didnt feel any restriction or have any problem swallowing it. I didnt feel full or bloated after like i expected to. I wasnt hungry to start and havent felt hungry since the op. How much should I have eaten? I had around 3/4 of a cup.

Woohoo Magii you are under 100kg - fantastic! You must feel great.

Hi Kiwis, Yay a Kiwi thread! Amazing what you can find if you look! LOL I am day 8 and feeling great. Looking forward to mushies, but managing on liquids thanks to the magic bullet. Beautiful day here today, am going to go for a walk. Thats a huge turn around for me, I didnt do much at all prior to surgery and now I feel like a new person. Even at this early stage I think that this is the best thing I have ever done. Would love to hear how you are all doing.

I have to do liquids, anything that will go up a straw, so no clear soups thankfully. Then its 2 weeks of mushies. Not even excited about the mushies, am not at all interested in eating!! LOL what an about face that is!!

1. Was your procedure outpatient or did you stay overnight? Overnight 2. Did you have complications related to surgery? None 3. What you were given for at home pain? How many days did you take it? Paracetemol which is a standard headache type med 4. Pain after surgery for how many days? None at all - if it wasnt for the incisions I would wonder if it had been done!! 5. Degree of pain...10 being your arm was cut off and 1 being a paper cut? 0 6. Doctor and state where surgery was done? Rob Fris Auckland New Zealand

Hi Bensmum, what an awful time you are having. If anyone asks me why I am not eating I just say that I have a rumbling gallbladder and I am trying to nurse it along because I dont have time to have an op. Maybe that will work in your situation. Good luck.

Hi Day 3 post op for me and I am feeling fantastic. Have been really lucky and havent had a moments pain. Am taking 4 hrly paracetemol so perhaps that is why but it is a million times better than what i was expecting.

Hi all, I am home now and have had a good sleep last night. Luckily I have had no pain and other than feeling uncomfortable if I bend, I feel great. Glad to hear that nobody has had any problems.

Hi 26thers,<br /> The big day is fast approaching, only one more sleep. I am amazed at how far away it seemed in the beginning and how quickly the time has passed, even the last 14 liquidy days.<br /> Because I am at the bottom of the world I will be first up, cant wait. Will be thinking of you all and looking forward to being on the other side and hearing lots of super successful surgery stories. Hugs

Hi I am being banded this Thursday, would love to join your group. NZ is a state of Aust nearly isn't it? LOL.