I have been reading the post also to take up some time and to satisfy my curiosity about how people are doing after surgery. I am on the liquid diet and it in my opinion is hard. I have read several people post on how hard it is after surgery, that confuses me because they are or should be used to not eating anything prior to surgery. I did have the lap band and it shifted up so never really lost any weight, had to have it removed so have decided the sleeve is for me.