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You know Jayne...I"m the first to say "follow your docs rules to the letter" but geeze woman...I was allowed yogurt at day two with one doc and day five with the other (both listed it as a full liquid phase item). While the first doc didn't thrill me in the end, the second is with a top notch hospital and he's amazing. He's conservative, but ummm there is a diff between conservative an anal Cottage cheese was also on my full liquids program, but I was told to chew well. eggs were on the soft food stage (week three with one and two with the other doc). Softly scrambled (use Water to whip them up, not milk and you get a fluffier egg). They are a diet staple for me. As is the cottage cheese because the 1% or 2% fat is so high in Protein. I wouldn't suggest you have a steak at this point...but sheesh...did I mention anal? LOL Eggs sit really nicely with me...actually though, everything but a Protein Bar has been great for me, but I eat a tiny bit (never more than half a cup and at 3 weeks it was more like a 1/4 cup). I'd chew til you are a moist pulp in your mouth and eat the above. For the eggs early on, I found either ketchup or salsa with sour cream made the eggs even moister when I was eating them and they went down really easily.

I have to deal with getting a kiddo to school so I have 8oz of coffee in 8oz of fat free milk with some vanilla syrup (sugar free). My home latte. Then after I take him to school I come home and either soft scramble an egg and have it with ketchup (I know that's rude but I like it lol) or with salsa, cheese and sour cream if I'm hungry, or I have a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese (1%).

I was on a two week, modified atkins type program. All I had to do was keep under 40 carbs, which was super easy. I enjoyed wine and cheese and steak the entire time LOL I lost ten pounds, but was not required to lose anything. Many do the preop just to get your liver in better shape. It has nothing to do with weight loss with some docs.

Go to Virginia mason! They saved my life.

I make mine with butter...don't tell

The only time I haven't weighed daily is when I was overweight and not doing anything about it. When I was thin (about 7 years ago) and single, I weighed myself daily. One pound didn't set me off in a panic, but if I had consistent gains for several days verses the normal up and down a pound or two you should see, I would deal with it with more exercise. I found love, got busy, and gained weight, not weighing myself daily. Daily or weekly, even healthy thin people should have some regularity to their scale. That's not unhealthy unless you let it be.

Think about what muscle is in your body...your heart is muscle. You need it to regain stregnth, to keep your muscles, including your heart, healthy, and if you do that, your healthy body will burn fat instead of trying to survive off of it.

I forgot one other thing I had one night that was so good. Roasted garlic, roasted until it was super soft, like spreading butter. I had it on top of a slice of mozzarella cheese (very thin).

LOL not very internet like huh? I should have been utterly offended and called crickie three bad names But that's so DONE TO DEATH lol

No no not at all dear. I'm just saying that sometimes people don't understand the surgery so when you toss it out, they panic, not out of lack of support...but out of caring!

You're rocking it baby

So the fat naked man with a snake wrapped around him is out? And I've never had a masusse who didn't have a tat so I think it's preferred there. I will also admit...most masusses I've known are far more fun than staid old banker dudes LOL And...I can't spell masuse? massuse? no, can't do it....

Ok but if she does not hush...keep the latte in mind LMAO

Most leaks develop within the first two weeks so at one week she's right in the window. Many are developed during the surgery...but so small they aren't discovered until later, and that's normally within the first couple of weeks. The poison flowing into your body causes symptoms which many ignore for a week or more as "typical gas" or whatever. Severe weakness and shortness of breath are symptoms that the leak is causing damage in the body. If there is a leak of course. But it's not something to screw around with. My problems were greatly exacerbated by the medical people dismissing them as symptoms of a blood loss in surgery. A leak found early has a much much much higher chance of repair, but every hour, every day you go with that poison leaking into you, makes it more likely they won't be able to repair it and your other organs will be damaged. When are you out of the woods? Typically it takes a few months to fully heal, but a leak after six weeks is very rare. They are normally caused by activities that aren't recommended in the first six months, high contact sports, extreme lifting, trauma from other uncontrollable sources (ie a car accident). After three or so months of a healthy surgery with no complications your staple line is likely mostly covered with tissue which will continue to form into a hard line which closes the stomach permanently, staples or not When to quit worrying....I will be given the all clear at six weeks after the second surgery. Unless you have been experiencing symptoms of flu, low fevers, etc and dismissing them during the six week period, you're probably safe to say you are out of the woods at that point, then just act like a lady for the next six (OK i'm not good at that heh heh)

You are two weeks late? (making you 30 days into a pregnancy) or its been two weeks since unprotected sex? At a month into a 40 week pregnancy you aren't normally producing enough HCG to be sick...but some people are really early producers. If this is about morning sickness, there are cures for that (they have a pill you can take that makes it go away...it's often given to sleevers while in the hospital and it's safe for a fetus). But I would sense that this is about more than just morning sickness....

She was sleeved six months ago, she hasn't said how far along she is, but I assumed due to the comments on self aborting she was just recently pregnant...at least I hope so. At six months such an action would be murder...I''m sure she didn't mean that!

Walk, treadmill, and ask your doctor, not us

You know what darling...she's a horrible human being and as such, karma will eventually get her. She obviously has "issues" if she would say something like that to anyone. You however have had "issues" which you dealt with by having this surgery. Issues of the body, verses issues of the brain. I'd rather be fat than mean myself...and I'll bet you are the same! No one says "what a horrible human being" when reading about you. I said that first off when reading this post.

Make her a latte and add exlax. She won't be able to leave the house to blab...oh if you have a cell phone, make sure its not in the bathroom Don't kill her...just slow her down a bit

Shortness of breath can be an indication of a leak higher up in your stomach which caused Fluid to collect in the esophagus causing the plural sac to be inflated and your lung to be crushed by the fluid inflating it (the plural sac is the bag your spongy lung is encased in). Because it almost killed me I'm a fan of taking action. The weakness isn't normally at a week out (I had it as well) for just basic walking. I would advise that if you can't raise a doc on the emergency call line (they have one right?) that you consider going to the ER and having a chest xray to ensure your lungs look ok. This is not an uncommon complication outcome and it can be fatal if left untreated. When admitted they asked if I wanted to see a Chaplin....don't wait like I did please! If you are fine, than I'm thrilled, but that level of energy loss and the combination of shortness of breath is something to take seriously and most leaks occur at this time in your recovery.