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18 days post op.... Had to attend a large picnic-BBQ today. This was 1st time since post-op that I have been around huge quantities of food.... It was not easy - the vegetable & fruit platters were my sore spot. No one knows I had RNY, though most know I am on a strict diet plan, but one friend brought a veggie platter just for me and kept reminding me it was there Another friend brought a shrimp platter (also in part for me). Then there was all the Hotdogs/hamburgers/ribs/and chicken OK - I did eat a very small portion of a chicken thigh and CHEWED the heck out of it, and a spoon full of chicken-wing-dip. Then came the large cake and all the Cookies. Whew, I am home....... and I got through it. Have another one in 2 weeks but hope to be able to eat a few more items by then (I'll be 30 days post op for that event).

I have a pic of pureed chili in my gallery pics I pureed mine then strained it and it was sooooo good - had it on day 14 post op. Also eating mashed potatoes

Well I truely believe when you love someone and choose to marry them, these are some of the things one SHOULD DO. I am glad you have him. Not TMI really - it's great info for this forum. RNY, other surgeies, and just poor health in general, do a lot to the human body. When I was thin once, I was in a terrible accident and had many dilemmas when I got home that I've never talked about EVER - they were kept between my husband and I; so I admire you for talking about that here. But I can tell you that I'd do the same for him. :wub:

Just did a search on "eggs and gas" and found this. Prior to RNY I had a stomach like a tank and Never got gas really - could eat anything. I am almost 3 wks post. Haven't really had any problems. However, this morning I woke up in left shoulder pain and pain all high abdomen (basically under my breast area). It's not unbearable, but nothing I have had before - although this shoulder pain is exactly the same that I had from the gass of the surgery. Well yesterday, I had my first soft scrambled egg (basically pureed). I just took some Gas x and am hoping that is the problem. I have never had gas cramps in my life so I dont know what they feel like. I also have eaten eggs almost every day of my life pre-op. I hope this is just gas and that the gas x works. Today I am going all liquid protien again to be on the safe side.

19 days post op and feel that way daily. I have NO appetite. I am eating some soft foods, but have no desire for them. I have now gone 4 days without all of my protien....... I also have only lost FIVE pounds in 19 days, and have been in a stall for 7 days. I dont have a loss of energy, nor do I feel sick.... I just have NO appetite.

What is that? Sorry, never heard this term.

I haven't found them for less than $2.61 and that's if you have the GNC membership. Last week our GNC ran a special, buy 3 get 1 free so I bought a few.

in a year from now, I better be skinny!!! And in 6 months from now, I better have at least lost 30 lbs!!! I dont think that's too much to ask for RNY

yeah I meant that I can't see losing 15 lbs in the next 12 days I'd be happy to have lost 15 lbs by 1 month no less 30. I have always seen a trend though in heavier people losing more "pounds" in the beginning and I wonder if a lot of that is Fluid ORRR is it that a lot of heavy people are addicted to carbs and sweets, thus when you remove those carbs & sweets, the pounds come of quickly. I still had expected to be down at least 15 lbs in 30 days...... But I really had wanted to hit -20 by the day of my trip. It's frustrating because I have always been able to lose weight (and lots of it) without medical intervention. The problem for me was the Yo-Yo'ing and my diabetes. I had hoped the RNY was going to help me put an end to that. I wonder if insulin resistence still remains???

Sorry but did you misread what I wrote maybe or perhaps I'm not getting the vernacular? I lost 5 lbs in 14 days. I had hoped to have lost 20 lbs in 24 days or even have come close to it. But 5 lbs in 24 days after RNY seems hopeless for a MAJOR surgery. My trip comes 24 days after my RNY. Today I am 14 days post op with a 5 lb loss.

Day 6 of my stall - and I am reading all you guys are writing, especially with staying off the scale. Here is another frustration; just prior to surgery I had dropped 40 lbs in 10 wks with no stalls. Typical of Yo-Yo'ers, I almost backed out of surgery thinking "I'm good, I can do this on my own" because once again, I did terriffic on my weight loss. Today I am 2 wks post op.... my post op weight loss has been slower than my pre-op weight loss, and that is AGGRAVATING. Really? Yes, I suppose this MUST be true, but I'm not feeling it today..... I worked with my Dr to be able to have the surgery done, recover somewhat, and be able to return home 500 miles away. I leave on my trip home in 12 days and I had prayed to have dropped 20 lbs! I have dropped 5. (15 lbs in 12 days.....??? uggg)

HUH? This comment doesn't make sense to me.

I never was much for sweets - and I am insulin resistant with type II diabetes. I am praying that the RNY helps these things and that in the long term I can have a bite of something sweet and NOT gain 3 pounds from it.

I'm 12 days post-op. I am having a really hard time with the protien. I was doing great the first week with Unjury chicken broth, but I just can't do it anymore for some reason. Plus I literally have NO appetite.

I'll be honest with you that no matter what I knew and what support I received, nothing helped me like seeing the nutritianist. Yes, I probably knew more about my own body and helth than she did - but something about seeing her HELPED and I dropped 40 lbs after her meal plan and support, despite all that I knew. Are you able to go see a WLS-specific Nutritianist? Can your surgeon recommend one?

Just a disclaimer that this is how I feel this morning, and I am in no way saying anyone else should feel this way: I am 9 days post op. I am doing amazing! I think I am a rare RARE case and perhaps should share my recovery: I have had NO pain (a tiny tiny bit at 2 incisions sites), NO complications, NO delays in anything, NO hair loss, and NO problems getting my liquid and protien in. I also did all of this on my own with NO help. I had a friend drive me to and pick me up from the hospital - that has been my only aid. So far, I would consider me the fairytale surgery to the point that in my follow up today, I am going to jokingly accuse my surgeon of not even doing the RNY. My steri-strips have all come off and I have "less-than" cat scratches that will be gone in a month. To date, I have lost 8 lbs although I really lost 12 because 4 of it was IV fluids that weighed on my after I was released. It's been too good to be true and I just try to wipe the thought from my mind that the other shoe is going to drop somewhere....somehow. So here is why I am upset: I stood in the shower today feeling no hunger and no loss of anything (food related). I do not miss one food. Yes, I have a small craving for a bite of pizza, but overall I miss nothing. But I felt weak in the shower and realized that my energy was lower then pre-RNY (to be expected of course). I couldn't help think about how the RNY starves my body; the malnurishment of it all. I am Hungarian and my maternal relatives were all killed in the camps and I grew up hearing about the Holocaust on a daily basis. The images haunt me.... and yet here I am starving my body basically to be thin (and yes, healthy). I am not experiencing any side effects of starvation probably because I am doing well with my Vitamins, protien, and Fluid, and I have body fat to spare. But it made me feel horrible today to think that I am purposefully depriving my living breathing body and yet my body is not even really reacting! I think of the biology of it all and how at the moment, I am not getting sugar or carbs and I wonder how hard my kidneys are working too. And although this isn't some huge epiphany, it just weirded me out this morning and trumped any desire I have to wear some cute little dress to an important function this summer, or fit my calfs back into my riding boots, or even wear a pair of jeans without a hoodie 2x too big. I just felt like crap about it all. Is this the sadness/depression we were warned about?

THANK YOU - AMAZING WORDS I think you hit some of it on the head. Sad story about your friend who lost her baby to SIDS, but thank you for sharing; some of my feelings are similar. I guess you nailed it when you said you thought to yourself "what have I done?" And I suppose that was a part of it too; such a radical option to allow me to be back in control. And also to add; I am not mourning food nor a relationship with it. Unlike so many, I was/am not a food addict. I am a yo-yo-er who could care less about food for months, then binge and eat 3 slices of pizza rather than see the last one get wrapped and put in the fridge. Food has never been the focus of my day, although now in some ways it is simply because I must do this all right. My sorrow has had nothing to do with the change of eating nor the loss of 'a food relationship'. Anyhow, it's passed.

My hospital stay was 3 days. I came home weighing 4 more lbs than when I went in. I stayed OFF the scale for the next 4 days. On the 5th day, I had lost those 4 lbs plus 3 more. I am post op 10 days and have lost 8lbs (plus the 4 of fluid). I refuse to get on the scale each day though. That's torture.

I'm 10 days post op.... I just did this and it was AMAZING. I saw stars it was soooo good! It took some work but so worth it. I put a can of low fat chili in my processor and pureed it. I then strained it. I then measured it to the proper portion, then put in micro and NOM NOM NOM. It did take some work and a bunch of clean up, but was worth it. Here is a pic if I can get it to load

I'll be honest - the chewable cherry Gas X tastes amazing!! Almost like candy, thus I had no objection to taking it (this coming from a person who has NEVER taken a gas remedy ever). I ate them religiously for nearly a week 4 a day.

HW 237, pre-op 199, surgery date 04/17/13, current weight 192, goal weight 127 so today I am about 10 days post op