cullychick

I'm there! I hit 198 this morning and I am so excited! My birthday is Tuesday so this is a pretty nice birthday gift!!

Looks like one flavor has 10 carbs and 5 protein and the other has 10 carbs and the other has 10 carbs and 6 protein.

I don't know? That's why I was wondering if anyone uses it. I will have to look more into it!

Has anyone tried Ripped Cream? Its a protein packed coffee creamer. I haven't had coffee in forever because I put waaay too much creamer in and there wasnt really nutritional value to it. BUT if it has protein...that's another story! Thoughts??

I appreciate the words of advice. I mean...that is why we're all here! I know that 22lbs is a great success for just being banded 5 weeks and 1 day ago! I'm not by any means saying I'm not proud of that I couldn't be happier! I am looking forward to getting some restriction and seeing how that goes. Thanks for everyone's input!!! Jenny- I haven't experienced a fill yet. Something I am looking forward too. Good luck on your journey! You can do it! dearlh- Nice to hear from you as well! Glad things are going good for you too! Yes, I am looking forward to a fill.

Now I'm at a stand still. I was banded on 3/12. Also, I've noticed at night I'll eat dinner and be hungry like 1 1/2-2 hours after. I wasn't like that before. I was suppose to get a fill today but I had to change my appointment because I got a new position at work and was out of town today as well as next week. So Im frustrated!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you ALL so much! Trust me...every single one of your words mean so much! It really is nice to come "talk" to those who have been through it!! I am having a protein shake and reminding myself it won't be long before pureed! I know I'll be happy when the lbs keep dropping! Thanks again!!

I went back to work this week. My surgery was 3/12. It went very good and I had been doing very well at home. This week was awful. I had only told a select amount of people about the surgery for obvious reasons. Well, I am a float nurse and I float throughout our specialty offices. This week I went to a new area to orient. My manager figured being post op this would be easier on me. Well, it was "duty wise" but "food wise"..ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! WORST WEEK EVER! I am still on full liquids so that makes it hard. The first day there someone had brought in some type of chips and dip (it smelled amazing) of course I didn't eat it, next day they were ordering lunch from Jimmy Johns...Today was the icing on the cake. LITERALLY or cupcake should I say. They had ordered Chinese for lunch, then had chocolate chip Cookies and then someone had brought over chocolate cupcakes with white icing. I did not eat any of it...one of the girls said "What are you on a diet or something??" I just said Yeah. I am so hungry right now because I am tired of my "full liquid diet" that I sometimes just don't have anything to eat. I know that's not the right thing to do but I'm tired of all the sweet liquids chocolate/vanilla Protein shakes, Jello, pudding, popsicles, crystal light. The only thing "savory" is my strained Soup and I'm only supposed to have that once a day. I have cried like 3-4 times this week. That sounds ridiculous typing it out but it's just hard. Sorry had to vent somewhere...I'm sure my parents and my boyfriend are tired of me venting and crying

Trust me I've been moving because I knew from the get go that would be the thing to help!! I'll have to have my boyfriend work on the shoulder rub lol Thanks!

I definitely agree with NOT scrubbing incisions or steri strips and just letting the Water run over them. Also, and you may know this, I would not use like "fancy shower gels" on that area either. Just a heads up, sometimes I think people don't think about that. You will feel SO much better!!

I am post op day 5 and my shoulder pains just started getting worse these last two days. It's frustrating! GasX does not help mine.

Hey Everyone! I'm post op day 5 and in the full liquids for 2 weeks stage. I am getting sick of cream of chicken strained. I know I will get through this. I am doing two shakes a day also. This sounds like a stupid question but what other soups can I do? I could do anything as long as it's low in cals/fat and strained right?? I'm also getting crabby hahaha WATCH OUT!

How exciting!!

Hahaha this is a great post!