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Hopefully you will heal quickly and all will be well. With a bit of luck and care they may not need to go back in and add a staple. But if they do, at least you know it will be closed. Hang in there! It's my hunny's birthday....and I have to go bake a cake. So weird. Won't even be able to eat a piece of it. Totally awesome. A couple bites will do me!!!

I had a little teriyaki chicken today...2 TBS, and about the same amount of rice. Then I went to the bathroom and threw 90% of it all up. Bright side: apparently I am chewing my food really well. Downside: my stomach is sore now, and I'm afraid to eat anything else. Not that I'm even remotely hungry. Think I'll just drink some juice or something. Maybe some saltines later.

Check your Protein levels...how much are you getting each day? AND your Fluid....almost more important than the protein. Also, and not to share too much tmi....could it be your TOM? And it could just be that something you ate, just did not sit well inside of you and caused you to bloat. Water, water, water. Try to not eat too many processed things. Just because you don't know exactly what is in it unless you cook it yourself. I'm just trying to give you different ideas to help. May just be something with you. You may still be bloated from surgery. I am also 4 weeks out from surgery and there are days I feel more "puffed" out than usual. Honestly for me, those are days when I haven't had enough water. And my body is holding on to what it has and not giving it up. Hang in there:)

Make a smoothie with milk, greek yogurt, vanilla protein powder and frozen fruit or a banana (frozen banana is awesome)....stick it all in the blender and you have a massive protein punch and it's NOT a regular shake.

You totally ROCK!!!

1200 CALORIES???!!! Really? Your NUTs told you that? Mine didn't even give me a calorie suggestion. That's a lot of calories...hard to get in. hehehehehe....I had toast today. Yum.

You can use this same recipe without the mio, add frozen fruit, put it in a blender....add a packet of truvia if necessary and yum!

Went to see my NUT yesterday. Not the original lady, but a different one....liked this one better. The other was kinda cranky. At any rate, apparently I'm not getting enough carbohydrates in. Okay, give me a freaking break! Kind of hard to get in carbs when you're eating pureed stuff. Then she pulls out the booklet that they gave me (her copy) and was going over the sample menus in it (like I'm an idiot and can't read) and starts adding up the carbs in the menus.....HA! Hardly any there either. So I'm not the idiot she thought I was. I'm sitting there thinking how in the world do you expect me in the last couple of weeks to get in between 90-120 carbohydrates EVERY DAY? I don't know how to do that NOW. Now that I'm on the "forever" diet with no more restrictions. Are you kidding me? I've still got the Atkins, low carb way of eating, rolling around in my brain. And now the NUT wants me to eat that many carbs every day? I'm freaking out. I'm worried that my blood glucose will just go crazy. I'm worried that I will gain weight. And I've been focusing on Protein and Fluid, and now I have to count carbs too. Oh joy. Seriously, may have to take this carb thing slowly. I'm skeptical. I was before I even started this wls stuff. That is alot of carbs when you're used to eating hardly any. I told the NUT that I was eating about 20 per day before the surgery. She just about had a heart attack. I'm thinking: "Hey, genius, you guys are the ones who told me to do this so that it would shrink my liver for the surgery!" Carbs have always been the enemy. And it's not like with the new "tiny tum" I can eat 90 carbs of veggies. Not in one day. Maybe in a week. Gonna have to think about this. Any thoughts from the rest of you on this topic?

Sorry for your loss of your Dad. Sometimes that still gets harder as time goes on cause you really realize not just how much you miss them, but how much they've missed. It's good to know that we will be able to see them again someday. As for your weightloss, or slow weight loss, I honestly think you're not losing as much because you aren't getting enough fluid in. My doc told me while I was still in the hospital that the fluid was way more important than the protein. Lower protein wasn't going to kill me, but lack of fluid would. Get that water, shakes, soups, whatever liquid you can in....IN! You will feel much better when you do. And the weight loss will pick up. And more than a 100 pounds to lose? Oh honey, you're NOT the only one. I'm right there with you girl:)

Hey, if you're hungry, you're hungry. And it's not like you went out and had a cookie, you ate some protein...perfect...and then went back to bed. Good for you. I have heard that a protein snack before bed helps you sleep better.

. I make myself drink one 20 oz bottle by noon. Not allowed lunch until it's gone. And then another in the afternoon. I'm shooting for 3 but right now, I'm good at just 2 20 oz bottles. Plus if I drink a protein shake, that's another 16 oz. And I take gummy one a day vites....2 of them actually. And an iron pill and 4 D3's and 2 sublingual B12's. And I'm working at getting in my chewable calcium. I feel better when I take my vitamins.

4 weeks today! 20 post-surgical pounds gone! 40 total! I'm cool with that. Justine: totally agree....eating IS a chore. Can't eat much. I honestly think I expend more energy/calories making my food than the amount I'm taking it after I make it! But my one-egg egg salad was awesome yesterday. And tonight I'm going to be doing the cooking for the first time alone. The hubby has really stepped up his game and made it super easy for me over the last month. Now it's my turn. Toyboo: You're home from the hospital? And doing better? GREAT!!!

Anyone else having issues with slumping? Like I have to have good posture almost all the time or it hurts? Because if I slump it feels like it smushes my sleeve and it feels sore after a minute. I know it's weird, I was just wondering.

Yep, met too. Burp all the time. I think it's just we take in air when we eat, like everyone, but our tiny tums are just so tiny that there isn't room for air and food, and the air's got to go. Burping all the time....feel like Shrek! Okay, went to Busch Gardens Williamsburg on Saturday.....cried a little cause I'm not far enough out from surgery to ride rides (only three weeks). And most of the rides would not be friendly to recent surgerized folks like me...too many forces pulling and stuff. I did get to go on a few. I love the teacups. But the rest of my family had fun. Okay, the worst part, I got too hungry. We sat down to eat lunch and I think I ate too fast (not much) or didn't chew enough, or whatever, but luckily we were right next to the restrooms, because I had to go in there and vomit.....twice. And hard. I felt so stupid. I should know better by now. And I also think there are things I just can't eat yet. And of course you aren't allowed to bring food into amusement parks. And let's be honest, who wants to bring a cooler, leave it in the car and then hike the 5000 miles back to the car just so you can eat something? But hey, the funnel cake with warm apples, carmel sauce, ice cream and whipped cream seemed to go down and stay down well.....at least the three bites I had of it. Sorry to those of you having reflux/heartburn issues. Not fun. Talk to your doc again. Could it be you're eating to close to bedtime? Or does it help to prop yourself up higher in bed? Wish I had the answer for you all. Hang in there.

Alright, just threw up. Too much. Gotta learn faster. Okay, WEIRD QUESTION: Any of you found that your teeth get fuzzier more often? I find myself brushing my teeth a lot! Like 5 or so times a day. I'm wondering if it's just that I'm not drinking as much water as I was before the surgery.

So sorry to hear about your heartburn. Yeah, I couldn't take the chewable vitamins either. I went and got the gummy vites by 1 a day...I can do those. Have to take an iron though, I'm cool with that. I have had that middle of the night heartburn...not since surgery, but have had it. Feels like you're drowning in fire. Salivating? Probably your body's response to try and help you get rid of it. Hope you get better soon:)

Just over 3 weeks out from surgery. Keep forgetting to make my follow up with my surgeon...working too much and brain too fried. But as of this morning....and I waited 7 whole days before doing so (hard)....stepped on the scale and I've lost about 18 pounds since surgery. At least on my scale. I can live with that. That's 18 more pounds than I've lost in the entire year before I even started this process...so, GO ME! Still want to eat steak. Still haven't had any. Depending on what I'm eating I can get in between 1/2-3/4 of a cup of food. Soup, I can get in about a cup as long as I do it slowly. Refried beans, with ground beef and cheese...only about 1/2 a cup. So cool that I can only eat that much and be full. Of course I get hungry earlier than I normally would, about every 2 hours after I finish eating. And I have had a few fig newtons. I know, not everyone's cup of tea. But I love them. And I'm not eating a whole package, or half a package. At most I can eat four. So cool. I don't really have a craving for sweets like I used to. And I have the mother of all sweet tooths. Maybe it's all that "sweet" protein and sf jello, etc. that was all I could eat for so long. Who knows? Whatever the reason, I'm good. I'm throwing up less as I learn better what I can, or rather how much I should put in me before I get to that point. I'm learning. Still have days where I have more pain than others. Usually when I do too much and it's always on the side the doc did most of her work on. Not enough to need anymore drugs. But enough to tell me to STOP and REST. Getting more freaked out as Christmas draws closer. Because my mother says she's coming here for that holiday. And she doesn't know. And I don't want to tell the judgemental-have-to-tell-everyone-I-know-your-business the full details of what I had done. I've told her just enough, I think, to cover my butt....or the loss thereof. Maybe she won't be able to find a good price on a plane ticket. I know, I'm awful. But if she does come, I'll figure it out. Or I'll break that commandment and just lie like best rug I can find! Or I might tell her. Ehh, probably not. Glad to hear that more and more of you seem to be doing better. Toyboo: hope you are doing way better. Let's all get better and work this new lifestyle of ours!!!

too much cottage cheese...i want to throw up. Or I ate it too fast. Still sometimes forget to eat slowly.

And I thought that I was the only one who was "licking" things!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hear! Hear! Well said!!!

You know, Ladies, I think we need to come up with a new version of NORMAL. Because we are all saying we want to be normal again. I have to keep reminding myself that even my incision scars aren't completely healed yet, so how is it even remotely possible for my stapled "tiny tim" to be even remotely healed either? And all my "normal" got me before was a tenth of a point under the cutoff for the statement "you have diabetes". And I'm not taking the meds for that anymore. I never was on insulin and now, I never will be. I'm good with that. No, I cannot eat like I used to. Not even really the food my family eats yet. And it's regular healthy food. But I'm not ready for it. AND I'm still figuring out how much "tiny tim" holds, so I can eat enough to not starve and not so much that I puke. AND I have to relearn how to chew my food. Never thought that would be the hard part. Most of us are just a few weeks out from surgery. We're still healing from major abdominal surgery. I'm 3 weeks out tomorrow. I don't count today. I wasn't awake for most of the day of my surgery anyway. (sleeved on Sept. 10th). I hear myself saying all this, and yet we're taking the family to Hallowscream at Busch Gardens Williamsburg this Saturday. I'm just out of my mind. I can walk, just slowly. And more slowly there. I think we need to cut ourselves a break. Give ourselves time to heal. Realize that eventually we will be able to "eat" again. Not the amount we did. Hopefully we'll make healthier choices in the long run and we will continue to shrink down to where we feel comfortable in our own skin. It is doable. And if today is the day you need to cry, then go ahead and cry. That's okay too. I honestly think that to some degree all of us will have to go through the stages of grief because we did go and completely change a huge thing in our life. This is a MAJOR change. And all change has its own set of challenges. We can do this Ladies, we can. After all, we did this so we could be healthier, so we could be around for our families longer. At least, that's why I did it. I don't want to go in the ground before my time. I want to do whatever is in my power to be healthy. Buck-up, campers, we'll get through this:D

Probably because you are NOT getting in your liquid is why you aren't seeing any weight loss. That's what my doc pushed as even more important than the protein for the first month. If you don't get fluids in, your body will try to retain all it can, and hence, you will hold on to weight. Start getting in that liquid, preferrably nice cold Water, and go from there. Also, probably why you are so tired. Get those fluids in. You will feel better. You can do this.

Yeah, I'm trying to worry more about fluids/water than much else. Are you taking your Vitamins? I take two gummies vites, an Iron, 4 d3's, and 2 b12 sublinguals...everyday. Oh and I take a 5mg melatonin every night. They have this one that is a melt in your mouth one, comes in a purple bottle. I sleep like the nearly dead. LOVE IT!

I feel bad. I've been terrible at doing my pureed foods. There's just practically zero protein and they don't stick with me. By the time I finish that stinking jar of baby food chicken and gravy (with some spices added mind you....ewwww) 30 minutes later, I'm hungry. I feel ridiculous. And I don't want to be hungry all the stinking time. I was hardly ever hungry before I got sleeved. Not that that stopped me apparently. I don't want to STUFF myself. I just want to eat a little something and then be full for a couple of hours. And I get that way when I eat soup, even the kinds with bits of stuff in it. Which of course, I mash to oblivion in my mouth before I swallow. The baby foods just seem to feel like the water does, goes through fast. I want something with a bit more sticking power. I'm not supposed to start soft foods for two more days. But last night I ate 1 egg and a thin slice of cooked sausage. Perfect. FIlled up my "tiny tim" as my daughter calls my new tummy. And I was good for a couple of hours and then had a soup snack before bed. I didn't vomit this time. I didn't feel like stuff was stuck. I did take tiny bites and chew them overly well. Still on the learning curve, I guess. TOYABOO: thinking about you this rainy North Carolina morning and hoping that you are doing better. And that your docs will get things under control for you soon so you can go home and be well.

Sincerest condonlences on your family pain and your own. Hang in there and let the docs and nurses take care of you. Soon you'll be home feeling more like you again. Thoughts and prayers are with you:)