SlieveMishAmy

Hi there, feeling FANTASTIC after 12th sept sleeve. I have particular vitamins that I want to take which are powder in capsule, any tips how to take them? I mixed them in cottage cheese one day, wasn't particularly nice. Any tips on how to down them? Maybe just add to my daily protein smoothie? I love pulse-in whey mixed with a raw coconut milk from "rebel kitchen" here in the UK. All advice welcome.

i've taken to opening the capsule and mixing the contents with water. i hate it, but i'm sure it won't be long before i can just swallow the vitamin pal. thanks everyone for your replies.

Hi Everyone. I'm on the puree stage and have tolerated most foods well. I am craving some bolognese / ragu - did anyone else introduce beef this early? How did you get on?

aha.

what does SMO mean?

Fresh crab mashed into avocado OR sweet potato with a bit of squeezed lemon is becoming a fave. Just got a sudden craving for crab, don't know where that came from.

I'm so glad this thread has started as all the "official" bariatric advice seems to be low cal, zero fat etc., and so much has changed in nutrition since the day of the fat free "calorie" obsessed diets. I do recognise that my way of eating wasn't healthy before, for me it was all obsessively healthy OR "off the wagon" days eating industrial amounts of sugar. For me, I'm going to give up sugar entirely now that I've had this done. But healthy fats are essential. Luckily I consult my own nutritionist that I trust otherwise I would have been lost. I'm going to check out Primal Kitchen mayo top tip thanks - looks like I can get it here in the UK.

no, not really necessary. it's soft enough and you can chew lots if you are worried.

Mayo is full of rubbish though. Fats that any body has difficulty processing.

Yes, me. Tolerating it fine and refuse to eat fake food like 0% crap. It's old science to think that fat free products are the way. Although I'm sure some people will have tolerance problems. I AM going to give up sugar though.

I'm 10 days out so scared to swallow it. Will try at 2 weeks. Did the cottage cheese thing again just now it's horrible!! @XmeghannstarX

Typo there @MissT_SR morphine thing....I meant to say

Would be good to ask someone to be there. I found it a real comfort just to know someone was in the house @MissT_SR also mention your morohine thing. Surgeon told me to mention in future that I don't do well on opiates - there are alternatives. Good Luck!!

http://www.laparoscopic.md/bariatric-surgery-diet/puree-diet-after-bariatric-surgery Also found this website really useful for ideas. I'll shut up now.

p.s bone broth / stock is absolutely fantastic for Collagen which we need for healing post surgery. i took advice from a nutritionist before I went into this and her recommendations have been fantastic. she told me about a broth here in the UK from Osius which is made from all of the chicken including feet and is therefore collagen to the max. i don't know if there is an equivalent in the States but that got me through Phase 1. it was delicious! you could literally serve it at a dinner party.

@newlifebegins2017 http://www.thelittlekitchen.net/whole-chicken-in-a-slow-cooker/ Cannot recommend this highly enough. I always set it for 6 hours no matter the size of chicken. You can tone down the spice rub if you want, but it's actually very slight. I don't bother grilling it at the end to crisp the skin. (Right now we're not going to be using the skin anyway). I make it regularly and added the broth and veg and chicken to a small bowl of brown rice or similar. But made it today on Day 3 of Purees, pulled a tiny bit of chicken (it's so soft and tearable done this way), one chunk of carrot and the juices and pureed them and it was the first time I actually wanted more of anything since my op. Whoever made this recipe up is a genuis. At the moment I'm not eating the other veg - onion & celery - as I don't want to take chances. Of course once you have picked the chicken you can chuck the bones back in and get a superb stock. And THIS is my fave recipe for that http://www.theyummylife.com/Slow_Cooker_Chicken_Broth My Mum had Gastric Bypass almost a year ago and when I made the Chicken in Slow Cooker for her she got so much wellness out of it. Good luck!! I wonder what other peoples faves are.

Sleeved on 12th and feeling very back to normal now but somehow better I'm so proud that I've done this for myself and now can drive again and walk the dogs again and have such clarity about how my life should be instead of constantly being solid citizen, want more trips away, more nights out, and making life work for me not just my teen and ex-husband.

I am going to be very open in the hope that it helps others. My surgeon had operated on THREE people I knew with great results. And if I hadn't observed them I might never have researched it. I hate when people say "you didn't need to do that" and I tell them that once you have gone over a certain BMI you only have a 1 or 2 % chance of losing the weight and keeping it off. It's very new science and I'm delighted to talk about it.

I ended up staying 3 nights as I had such reaction to the morphine 24 hours after the op. So they switched me to paracetamol which I can handle no nausea etc., and I got out after 3 nights. HOWEVER it was so nice at home in comparison....I was pretty desperate to go home. And as I was self-funding, I paid an extra £1025 for the 3rd night dammit! This stay was unusual, 1 really should be fine.

Well done you are beautiful!! Such an inspiration XOXOXO

I'm loving 1 scrambled egg with a tiny pat of butter, cotttage cheese, really good chicken broth for collagen, protein shake made with great quality whey protein and coconut water. Hummus didn't go down well for me. The BEST has been a slow cooked chicken puréed with a chunk of carrot and the juices - absolute heaven. If you have a slow cooker I can give you the recipe.

I'm one week out and starting puréed food tomorrow can't wait. My mind has craved a thick bread cheese sandwich even though I don't think I EVER ate that. Gas has been painful so I've learned to stay ahead of that with pain meds. Only started to stop regretting half way through the last week. Worry about work a lot as my mental acuity / application isn't there, as someone else has shared. Have been so encouraged by assistance I've had from surprising quarters. Wish my daughter could have been kinder / more thoughtful but she's 13 it goes with the territory.

So everything going well after my surgery, I'm one week out have my checkup tomorrow. Learned that I "don't do well" on opiates so the pain relief was the worst aspect of the experience, but I was switched to paracetamol and haven't needed to take any anyway since I got home. But the pain between neck and shoulder is really painful and although I've read a bit about it on other forums I just had to put the question out there. What is up with this pain?? Is it referred pain or to do with bedrest or to do with intubation during surgery. I've applied heat to it but it just seems to get worse and worse. I'm about to down two paracetamol. Would love to hear what others know / have experienced. Ow!!

@ALotLessMe i'm having sleeve on 12th in London. my mum had bypass last November and is doing great although has rather a cavalier attitude to sticking to the rules and regulations (she's 75 maybe that's part of why). i'm looking forward to it all, worried about mixing work with recovery as i'm not going to take much time off - i have my own business. but it is relatively quiet at the moment so should be okay.

@ALotLessMe i love that after everything you have been through it is TEENAGERS that gets the CAPS LOCK. i only have one 13 year old but I hear you!! best of luck. when are you up?