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Don’t know about normal, but when my band malfinctioned and was emptied, I gained back 2/3 of my lost weight. The band helped me lose weight and was great - but once it wasn’t doing its job, the old me habits were just there waiting to emerge! I just had mine removed, revision to a bypass. Best of luck on YOUR journey...

Hi All, I think changing my type of food will be easy but regulating my (usually front end loader style) eating speed is likely to be a challenge. 5 days post op, ate 3 tspns of yoghurt today over 40 minutes. Wow. I’d love to hear how fast others eat, and how you learned to regulate it? Thanks team!

Oh man, I slow-ate 3 teaspoons of pesto-flavoured low-fat cottage cheese today. An hour of joy! Thanks for all your help - most grateful

Fantastic!

Ooh ohh, I found one more thing - you can add 1/4 scoop of plain whey isolate to the beaten yolks - gives the rolls a more breads texture, and doubles the protein. Revolution Rolls or Oopsie rolls x some great variations by googling...

I am one week post-op today, bypass with open (not laparoscopic)] surgery. Been out of hospital two days and it is going well. Struggled with drinking too fast at first - sharp tummy pains after - but now I have slowed right down I am on track. Still only at 40oz water, but that is picking up. 40g protein yesterday - not enough hours in a day to get trough! Each day, less pain and I feel better. Don’t weigh myself until I get home on 26th but my jeans are a little looser!

Thank you, thank you. These comments are so helpful. Given I can drink a protein shake in 15 minutes (which feels painfully slow!] and only suffer the sharp pains later, I’m going to have to use rules! The stopwatch idea is great! Yesterday I took it slow-slow all day, and - no pains last night, a great sleep, and I feel really good this morning. Sincere thanks.

Yep - the all important lines about how to cook them has been cut from the recipe!!! found it elsewhere - divide the mix into 6 mounds on tray with baking paper, and flatten a bit. Bake for 30 mins. Big key - folding the two parts gently together so not to lose the air bubbles in the egg white part...

So give me a guide - how long to eat a protein bar?

Thanks to you all. I am only 5 days post op, but I am finding it hard to ‘read’ my new stomach message. I had my first protein shake yesterday - - thought I was slow by taking 15 mins to drink the 6 ozthink it was too fast. All went down fine, but about an hour later I had sharp tummy pains - nothing chronic but I thought it felt like a complaint. The surgeon said I would feel a knot in my chest if I ate too much or fast, but it didn’t happen. So, I am now having today’s protein shake, but 6 oz over an hour. I’ll let you know in a couple of hours if that did the trick!

Hi all I had my broken gastric band out and revision to RNY on Thursday 16th (4 days ago). Due out of hospital on 23rd, but I am being discharged today as it has gone so well! Why so long? My surgeon only does this by open surgery. Compared to the band, it has been a breeze! Good pain management, and I have had no nausea at all. Lots of sleeping, 1/2 watching tv. Day 2 (Friday) ice chips Day 3 Water, 30ml an hour, and clear broth for dinner Day 4 Water, 60ml an hour in the morning, Apple juice 90ml afternoon. Day 5 1tspn yoghurt for Breakfast, two tsp puréed fish for lunch. Once I go, it is back to liquids for a week, but we all know the purée passes through fine. I feel mighty! (Oh yes - thanks to whoever warned me - once you start passing wind, you are not good to know! Hope that stink subsides quickly, or I will suffocate alone in my wee hotel room!) so now the journey begins...

I am in New Zealand, and my instructions were more vague than the ones I see posted here. Here we do almost no gastric surgery in public hospitals (most healthcare is free, public) so people pay to do it privately (here private hospitals, and insurance, is for things that are non essential, or where you don’t want to be on a wait list eg for a new hip for months). My private insurance paid 25% - they had no pre surgery requirements - decide to do it, op within a month. I paid 75% My post op plan is clear about the need to transition from clear liquid - liquids - purée - Mash - soft food, but the timetable is all up to me. And it isn’t as clear as it could be about the pace of eating/drinking, I think. So I have lifted a set from this forum, and am happily sticking to those. My surgeon was ok with it, but also ok with setting my own timetable. I am happier being directed - after all, making good food choices isn’t exactly my thing, right? 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks. This is a great help. I drank my first protein shake yesterday - 8oz probably over 15 mins. I had no trouble, but was sort of expecting to feel resistance like with the gastric band I had - nothing. But this morning I had a bit of a sharp tummy ache. The first pain I have had with this! Settling now. Slow right down - heck, that will probably be my big challenge! Thanks. Glad to hear your surgery went so well too. Aren’t we brave!

Hi there I am 5 days post op. I notice I can’t sort of read any “feedback loop” from my tummy on how much or fast to drink. My doctor’s instructions are very vague. Can you tell me, how long should you be taking to drink a glass of fluid?

Hi Big Vern 619 I am 5 days post bypass surgery and am comfortably up and about - my worry was by far the worst bit! Think on all those things that are going to make us feel great as time goes by, and hold on to that vision of a new healthier you. You got this... xxx

Can I ask you who are in the know, should I already be at 60grams or protein today? Today I am at about 45g but it has been a mission to eat that much! I am 5 days post op.

Thinking of you today Samp the Champ...

Thanks, All! Hard times because my partner’s lovely dad died Saturday, so I have not been there supporting the family, but instead have been lying in hospital recovering alone! Now in the hotel, I had a cup of coffee (decaf) to start my day, hoping I am up to being at the funeral Friday...

Hi SampTheChamp I am only four days post surgery. The night before I wanted to cancel. But I didn’t - and it turns out the surgery wasn’t so hard. My experience was that the worry was way worse than the surgery. So now it is done, and when you are done, we just become people who rise to each new challenge - can’t eat THAT, so I’ll try this instead. Can’t eat that much? Ok, so now I do smaller portions. Here in New Zealand they transition you to food much quicker than I see in the US. I had puréed fish for lunch. 2 teaspoons of it. Heaven. As they say here, Kia kaha, SampTheChamp, Kia kaha. Be strong, SampTheChamp, you are strong.

Yep, good luck to you all. I am on day four, and I reckon I didn’t need to be nearly so scared!

Hiya I am three days post op and they have just moved me to 1/4 strength Apple juice, which feels like a huge step! So yummy! Glad you are home - guess that means you are keeping the water down?

Thanks All. I am now 3 days post op and have very happily moved from water (with a drop of “water drops” flavouring) on to 1/4 strength Clear Apple juice. Best thing I have drunk for years!!!

Surgery in a month. One thing that worries me - I really really hate water. I can happily drink it fizzy, but flat water make me want to throw up! Any ideas? Will I be allowed fizzy?

Thanks! 48 hours after op, and just sipped 30ml water - it all went down, which is a good sign. Pain pretty much gone- up doing little walks every 3 hours. Way easier than I 8magined!

No, this surgeon does them open only, esp when his is taking the band out too. He hand sews, not staples, and feels he gets a better result. No real pain from incision at this point, and a scar no-one but me and mine will see, so I was ok with that.