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I can tolerate flavours because I have too like the chocolate orange one if you do it cold enough and don’t leave it to sit is fine if you leave it then the orange gets a bit tangy in the back of your throat. The chocolate cookie one I use hazelnut milk so its got more earthy tones going on there. I also only ever use 150mls of milk and 1 and half scoops I make them thick and less liquid but still high Protein 35g per shake for my brand in that amount. I ordered sample packs of the Syntrax nectar not been able to drink one yet super super super sweet. I did order the juice phd ready to drinks they are these http://www.dolphinfi...ro-rtd-12/28810 They taste ok not sweet at all actually to me have a slight yogurt taste to them I liked orange best so I got a case so I can drink them when I am out or don’t want a heavy shake and would rather a ice filled juice drink and they are 40g of protein per bottle I sip half of one over ice then a few hours later the other half to break it up and not waste the protein as you can only absorb a certain amount at a time. If you’re in the us they have way more juice ready to drink options than the uk. Just sample pack or single bottle anything you find look on ebay or stores or online websites for samples or e-mail them for single serving sample packs beats the heck out of paying for a massive thing and first sip your spitting out because they will not take it back!

Thankfully fruit is good for me and right now its nectarines all the way I eat one a day while they are in season and taste good lol Does throw me off when I am cooking though where I never used to over salt anything (that’s what I was sensitive too salt and pepper) I have to mind I am not heavy handed because of the sweetness. also I noticed spicy stuff isn’t so spicy I was really heavy handed when making chilli twice and to me it was still nothing special when I ate some but my family were like blimey that’s got kick! lol

Yeah PHD brand natural is grosssssssssss its kinda creamy tasting and sweet but not nice like drinking sweet creamy milk – I actually hate milk hate full fat milk even worse so to try this creamy thick sweet stuff was nasty did try and put it in things it just overtook everything but ready brek lol i give it away and stick to chocolate orange and chocolate cookie flavour

For the constipation I personally just drink prune juice I would rather drink a more natural reliever than use medication!

I use hazelnut milk which is pretty much made from water and hazelnuts because I am lactose intolerant I use that for some of my shake flavours to give it more interesting flavour. Never liked the almond milk it was too watery. I have eaten some almonds though I had no food by me and had that empty thing going on and they were there unsalted plain almonds so I ate a few chewed up really really well! Oh I have eaten hazelnuts in my muesli when I have had it. but i didn;t eat the nuts till well intot he solid food stage

Its kinda gross not a sweet tooth anyway so to have this sweetness in everything is yucky lol Had to give away 2 massive pouches of Protein shake because I couldn’t handle how suddenly sweet it was not like them things are cheap either lol and ruined my trial size packs which I did before I bought the massive ones but nope tastes change wasted money!

That your taste buds change! I was never told that after the op everythingggggggggggg will taste extra extra extra sweet!

Drink some prune juice every day or every other day you don’t always go but it sure helps keep things moving!

Bread dreams!! The carb nightmares lol Not dreamed about food but I do look at and smell the fresh bakery loaf mum buys on a Saturday and think mmmm so wish I could even just a hot slice of buttery marmite toast would be nice butttttt nope!

Not a morning person either never was so this is crap I did try to eat when I got up pukesville so now I just wake up and have my decafe cup of tea allow that to settle my tummy down take my vits my liquid calcium then after about 2 hours eat some cheerio’s no its not protein but its what I know I can eat to start the food off in my belly without puking or pain. Never been a day person really I could go all day till like 5pm without eating pre sleeve it just never entered my mind I work all night anyway so I was always kinda back to front on eat lol oh yeah just to add i have to drink a hot cup of tea i tried other drinks cold ones its a no go has to be hot and tea

Having a fridge or freezer would help you can defrost and keep 1-3 days worth of food pots or pouches in the fridge part while the rest is in the freezer if you have one with a freezer compartment. It might be worthwhile if you go to the same places and have made friends with store or café etc owners/staff that you could maybe work out on your route that you will be passing this or that place and they let you mix up or blend up x amount of days food to restock the freezer part. You could get some hand weights so you can use them at stops, maybe even the ones your wrap around your wrists and ankles for added weight and resistance for walking/jogging the lot or up and down an open road. 5 weeks out is a long time you are gonna need to really plan your food out maybe do one day in a motel self catering where you can go and buy a bunch of stuff and restock. You could always post what area you are in see if anyone on here or any other place you speak to people are along the route to allow you to use the kitchen to make stuff. There is a lot of stuff you can snack on like deli meats cheese soup etc its just you working out how many days or weeks you can fully cover hassle free at a time and plan ahead how you will restock once its done. This link may help http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/fitness/exercises/tone-your-thighs-and-butt-while-sitting-down.html

The only new thing I have bought is 2 bras lol Ok so yes some pants do fall down when I am going up and down the stairs and that’s no joke lol But I refuse to buy clothes! Thankfully I had a range of sizes from before anyway uk 26-38 so I am covered by a bunch of stuff I refused to get rid of when I outgrew them! I also thank god for draw strings lol when I am just slobbing about I just wear lounge pants with draw strings and just pull the waist tighter lol

They gave me some to put on some paper things that didn’t go past my hips so I had nothing on lol I asked if I could wear my own they said no it’s a sterile room and they don’t allow it they even give me foam throw away slippers to wear while walking down there that were removed and binned.

Thanks I didn’t know who the coal rakers were and wasn’t going to speculate on it either! Just make it clear that wasn’t MY intention with my post even if i was a poster who thought they were not in the wrong.

Speaking for myself I wasn’t raking anyone over coals or being mean, more realist and asking if she thought about it not in a annoyed or bitter mood as she posted she was in if they had eaten salad would she react the same, if they have always eaten at desks and its not anyone’s choice or fault that we have the op or anyone for that matter is on a diet etc Also to simply say it’s going to be worse after the op and will she get upset at everyone eating around her. It was a stop and think about it post not a how dare you post.

Yes I am gonna say this lol That really would be some big beef curtains lol

Half way through reading this thread my browser crashed lol

i have one more to add hehe it’s a little mean! I confess that I can’t wait for my mean mean nasty sister to see me smaller! I have always been big my whole life and she bullied me (only person ever too) I mean name calling kicking me hitting me very very nasty mean human being. She was always super skinny in the past 2 years she piled on weight and is a uk 20/22. She has no idea I had the op never will (she doesn;t get told anything about my life by me or anyone in my family) she hardly comes by or to family things but when I do eventually see her which could be a year from now I know I am gonna be smaller and wayyyyyyy smaller than she has ever seen me and half my family can’t wait to see the look on her face when I am no longer the fat whale she used to call me and i am smaller than her. I said it was mean but its also true and makes me meanly snicker at the thought lol

I don’t think you should be upset at other people or expect people to leave a room and not eat in front of you because you can’t have it or it might tempt you. I bet you all always eat at your desk? Can I ask if you would have asked them to still leave the room if all of them had been eating chicken salads that had no tempting smells, or was it just this time because it was burgers and fries? A person’s personal work area is theirs if they eat at it and have done for months or even years you really have no right to be sensitive or ask them to not do it anymore, or not to do it when its something not considered healthy because you’re on a diet. You could have still got on with your work at your own desk regardless, them eating isn’t interrupting you if you got on with your work. What are you going to do after the op when every single person around you is eating food you can’t eat? Tell them all to leave the room because you can’t have it? I may sound a little heartless but this is how it is and how it will be after the op other people are not going to change how and what they do or eat because we had the sleeve. they didn’t make us do this they didn’t have the op as well, so imposing what we want on them to make our lives easier and do that whole “out of sight and smell is out of mind and temptation” to help us not break a pre op or post op diet isn;t fair. It isn’t fair to do that to people just because we had this op.

I’m a week infront of you may 15th I was sleeved I too can’t eat 4oz at a time 3 times a day plus snack! No where near that! I can eat 1oz at a time and it takes about a hour, if its soft and easy like fish if its denser like turkey mince 1oz takes longer to eat. I don’t do rice pasta potatoes at all so I pick what I am going to eat like right this 1oz will be fish then in a couple of hours I will eat 1oz of veg I don’t mae all my meals protein only I need some veg. I try to eat 3 times a day but its about 1oz at a time and on top of the food I eat a nectarine that’s about my food intake. Typical eating day for me is cheerios, then fish, then some veg and I will eat a nectarine. If its not fish its half a can of baked beans and cheese or some turkey chilli if I do chilli I will finely dice mushrooms peppers and onion like really really tiny so I will bypass the veg 1oz meal slot and have 2 lots of chilli. For me when I brought this up last month to the doctor because I was being sick so much and not pushing portion sizes or anything and even fluid was making me puke like soup and stuff, she told me end of this month I would be scanned and checked for scare tissues in my esophagus which could be why food is harder to eat and get more solid food past as it’s a smaller opening acting kinda like a band that the food has to slip past. The reason I had to wait is because scare tissue doesn’t build up enough to see till a certain amount of time post op so maybe you want to ask for the scan to check.

My main reason was being pretty much housebound. Even in my house I couldn’t stand to cook or clean and I couldn’t walk from the top to bottom in one go I had to rest between floors it’s a 3 story house. This year I hadn’t left my house unless in a car, I also cancelled going to my nephews christening because I couldn’t sit in the car for 3 hours to drive there without my back being in extreme pain, I couldn’t stand or walk for as much as I needed too once there and finding a outfit. I did get a size 38 pair of pants but no top or shoes I could wear it depressed me more than anything else. I have other reasons but they are personal to me. I was on the waiting list to be approved for 2 years but the main reason for me is that I was pretty much a shut in because of my back and knees. Middle of last year I tried to go ikea with my mum she drove I by passed most of the store and went straight to the bottom level which is pictures kitchen stuff rugs etc sat on a bench while she did all the looking around. She met me we got half way in the ground floor I started locking up and shaking with pain I sat on the floor, when I felt better I started to go again had to walk through the warehouse bit I got down one isle so locked up and in so much pain I just started crying and forced myself to walk to some stairs near by to sit on and just cried while my mum tried to find the quickest way for me to get out. Took me over an hour to get out because I would walk for 5mins be in so much pain I had to stop and wait and rest then go again and over and over. Was the most humiliating experience ever just being stared at like I was insane and the staff constantly passing by asking if I was ok, am I sure and giving me odd looks. The weight on my body was too much for me and nothing they did helped my back, the bigger I got the less I did the more pain I was in and round and round it went. I think that’s why I was cleared suddenly this year instead of end of next year like it originally said. I still have major issues with my back and right knee, still haven’t gone anywhere on my own not in a car but when I do instead of porters taking me in a wheelchair around the hospital I walk. So that’s my straw that broke my back lol

I have been sick a lot so lets seeeeeeeeee! One way for me I will suddenly get like a heat rush and break out in a bit of a cold sweat and a odd feeling in like stomach diaphragm area and my mouth waters, I know I am gonna puke so I go bathroom this does happen in a matter of second the signs. Another was that’s not happened in a while was when I was first on solids and trying meats there would be heavy pain in the same area and my mouth would start to Water like pre op when your gonna puke and it floods with spit so you know oh some time in the next 20 seconds your gonna be puking so you go to the bathroom. The tried to eat to much and didn’t realize puking is more instant I find like I was eating a pear once and another time a nectarine not at the same time different days both of them were pretty instant thankfully I had a empty plastic jug on the side grabbed it and just puked it all back up in the jug. I find I puke 2 different ways I can be silent not much effort its just like gagging and its coming up the other is deep heaving painful hardcore retching, but neither have acid or smell like puke! Its pretty strange to puke a pear up and its just pear and smells like pear lol That’s me and how I puke dunno if its exactly the same for other people but they are my signs of a ut-oh

This I didn’t mind had a lot of stuff I outgrew and dropped past fast so now too big sold a bunch to a couple of plus size friends made so far close to £400

I confess that I wish I could have eaten Mexican or Chinese take away badly today! I confess that I wish I could drink my coke zero like I used to because I drank more then and just get annoyed with trying to get my fluids in. I confess I still haven’t left my house on my own I only leave when someone will drive me to my destination. I confess I have eaten chips (us kind not uk kind crisps to us) not whole bags like 3 pringles, but I did get a packet of cheese curls ate 4 and sucked all the cheese flavour off the rest and tossed the soggy mush in the bin (time of the month I was always a starchy person its still the same!) I confess I am sad my bust is disappearing at a very fast rate and I kinda hate them right now.

I was in pjs soon as they took me form recovery to the ward still all groggy I wanted my clothes on and that’s what I did lol I also don’t; have tight pjs I like them loose so mine never hurt me by digging or anything