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Protein shakes (I used Optifast) Protein Soups, but I doctored them with Worcestershire and soy sauces and made them up with milk and stock instead of just Water. Make sure to dissolve the powder in a small amount of cold water first and don't heat the Soup over 140F to avoid lumpy protein chicken stock with vinegar and hot sauce (like hot&sour) fruit juice Popsicles coffee (I was allowed) Tea

Eggs Cheese Yogurt Cottage cheese Cereal with milk (like Special K or other flakes, soaked in milk) Porridge with protein powder stirred in after it cools a bit Canned soup with extra rotisserie chicken added Beef mince with gravy or Bolognaise or other sauce Canned chicken mixed with Mayo, onion, and gherkin relish (aka chicken salad) Refried beans with cheese Hummus Canned peas Baked beans Custard with protein powder stirred in Sashimi smoked salmon canned tuna

Have my surgery set correctly but I can see the DS forums by default. This doesn't bother me, but there was a little but of seams earlier when a RNY responded to a DS post about vitamins by accident and things got snippy.

lol I didn't mean to sound snarky! Must have been my staples acting up.

This is what I ate in purée, along with yogurt and Protein shakes. http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/251749-how-to-puree-chicken/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/251750-chicken-burrito-puree/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/251752-chicken-casserole-puree/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/251755-spiced-pumpkin-ricotta-puree/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/251754-tuna-casserole-puree/

Gentle reminder that there are other places to talk about nutrition and diet plans. This one is about running! If you like, we can split those last few posts off into a new thread on a forum where they will get more attention and answers. As for running, I ran 6k this morning before it got hot, and I'm feeling great. The day is new and my run is finished. Don't you love that!?

I know. I was only asking because I assumed it was not intentional since all of the other ones have been segregated.

Could be something to do with your vagus nerve. It is a huge nerve that runs along the spine. It controls a lot of things and is near the stomach. It can get irritated. It is why some people get hiccups or sneeze when they get too full post-op and it is why men throw up after being kicked in the testicles. It is also the thing that is actually sore when you get the gas pain in your shoulder. Your vagus nerve can refer pain there. Also you can get quite cold when losing weight rapidly, and the holidays are stressful and emotional. Keep an eye on how you are feeling and contact your surgeon if you feel strange. It's better to be safe than sorry.

Look near the bottom of this thread: http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292105-is-seafood-okay/

I didn't mean to be short. I was at a family dinner. for soft food I ate a lot of: eggs cheese Yogurt Cottage cheese Cereal with milk (like Special K or uncle Toby's flakes) Porridge with Protein powder stirred in after it cools a bit Canned Soup with extra chicken added Beef mince with gravy or bolognaise Canned chicken mixed with Mayo, onion, and gherkin relish (I call this chicken salad) Refried Beans with cheese Hummus Canned peas Baked beans Custard with Protein powder stirred in I actually ate a lot of fish but I've left that out for you. Sashimi, smoked salmon and canned tuna were staples.

Same risk with raw as always. Make sure it's fresh. The best tip for sushi is go when it is very busy!

Heaps of soft food recipes on the Food and Recipe section.

Sushi is soft food but the rice and the nori will be a problem so stick to sashimi and know it is a great source of Protein. Try more tender fish like salmon or tuna and skip the octopus and sea urchin for now.

If you are on purée then you should be fine if you purée it. If you are on soft, just avoid rubbery ones like squid or overlooked shellfish. Chew very well.

Everyone's capacity is different. Men tend to hold more than women. Tall people seem to hold more. It has to do with the length of the stomach. Your surgeon will make your sleeve the right size to accommodate your natural stomach length. There are a few rules of thumb. First, there is nothing that says you need to stuff yourself. Second, if you can hold more volume that means you can fit more veggies! Nobody seems to be able to hold a huge amount of good lean dense protein. Third, don't compare yourself to others.

Fixed Johns Hopkins to account for their new more detailed info.

Pick one of these if you can't ask your surgeon. I'm surprised they didn't give you guidelines. http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/255776-list-of-vsg-post-op-diets-from-surgeons/

Follow your surgical team's plan. Do a search in these forums for "three week stall" and realize that the first month is not about weight loss but about your body healing. If you look at two months out nobody is still stalled and everyone loses significant weight. This is not the time to start changing your diet. This is time to follow the instructions and stop weighing yourself more than once a week.

It is "The End of Overeating." You got a bit mixed up with the title.

You will be able to hold more in the liquid phase. Up to 1/2 cup of liquid in half an hour or 1/3 of a cup of a liquid food like yogurt. When you get to purée, you will start by holding about 1/4 cup and probably get to 1/3 cup by the time you go to soft foods. I'm over 7 months out and can hold about 2/3 of a cup of food at a meal. Everyone is slightly different. The most important thing is don't try to stuff yourself and don't feel like you have to clean your plate. The physical hunger could be acid so it is standard to ask if you are taking a PPI like nexium. But it is also fairly normal during the liquid phase and passes for lots of people when they are on purée.

Your stomach is nowhere near the chair when you are sitting down. The staples are microscopic and the whole staple line is covered on the outside with tight stitches. Your stomach is one of your most well protected organs, especially as you presumably still have lots of padding since you are not far post-op.

I feel like I get hungry like a normal person now. It happens 3 or 4 hours after my last meal, depending on what I ate at that meal. It is easy to satisfy. And it is general hunger, not an unquenchable craving for a specific food. It's easy to sit with the hunger if I need to wait a bit longer to eat. It doesn't tend to lead me into bad choices (but I do sometimes get head hunger, where food "talks to me").

Christmas in Australia is a lot different, because it's in the middle of summer and it's bloody hot! We had Christmas lunch with one side of the family today, and we are having Boxing Day dinner tomorrow with the other (closer) part. Christmas lunch: Lots of chilled Chardonnay and champagne. I didn't drink any because we had afternoon drinkies planned with our neighbors. Boiled, chilled prawns (very traditional, we bring these) Seafood salad Beetroot salad Cold sliced ham Crackers, pate, cheeses, dips, hummus Homemade brioche rolls (my husband makes these, I had about 1/3 of one) Roast turkey, served cold There must have been other stuff but I didn't have it Desserts: trifle (with a tin of white rum in) or mini Christmas puddings. I had about 1/3 cup of trifle. Boxing Day dinner: Baked ham (brought by us) Butternut pumpkin (squash) casserole (baked by me, the sweet kind with nuts and brown sugar on top. I will add an extra egg for Protein -- request of DH's dad) Banana bread (made by DH. Half the bunch of bananas off our tree went ripe at once so we have to do something) Whatever DH's dad's Aussie wife decides to cook. Hopefully some vegetables. Sometimes her cooking is amazing and other times it's shocking. (DH and his dad are Canadian, it is a late-in-life marriage.)

I never regretted it for one moment and I have hardly ever seen people on these forums who regretted it unless they had a complication or they were very new post-op. I have never seen a complication-free 6+ month post-op who regrets the surgery despite having lost a significant mount of weight. I guess they must exist and I'd like to hear from them to understand what their regrets are. The first month is rough. liquids are boring and purée is a pain, you have to sip all the time and everything feels weird. Hormones are surging through your system. You are having to deal with your life without "using" food. It's tough. Even knowing this pre-op isn't enough for some people to be prepared. I will say I had an easy recovery and it never felt like a burden to me. I was able to keep a positive attitude throughout. After all, I really wanted this from the bottom of my heart, and I had no complications and almost no pain. This is when you need support. Get it from BariatricPal, as well as your partner, family, surgeon, psychologist, minister, best friend, whoever. Just get to the soft food stage and not only will you be able to eat more normally, but your risk of complications goes way down at the 6-week mark. By two months, you are most likely on solid foods and you can eat at restaurants again. You are back at work and seeing people every day. You can start exercising. Before you know it, you will be living pretty much normal, dropping weight and gaining health.

Your surgeon will probably remove them at your follow-up. At any rate you can ask at that appointment. Most of us didn't have staples in our incisions.