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Been a while since your ESG assuming that you went ahead with it. How did the procedure go and how are doing? Did you experiene any pair or nausea? Do you feel restriction?

Would cricket powder be vegan?

I know this isn't your doctor's instructions which you should always follow but it may give you some guidance about soup until you can check with your doctor or nutritionist. http://drjalil.com/post-op-diets/Post-Op_Diet_Phase_II.pdf

Does your post op diet instruction specify clear fluids at this point or just fluids in general?

28lb in the first five weeks is quite a bit. How much did you expect to lose? What was your start weight? Don't forget your body is possibly still carrying some fluid while in recovery mode. There are going to a lot of stalls along the way, you had best get use to them. Stalls are a normal part of weight loss with or without WLS. You keep on doing what you are doing, occasionally things may need shaking up though. It seems typically to have a stall after about three or four weeks if past forum posts are anything to go by.

Do you think your mother may have aleady mentioned it to any of your sisters?

Wonderful to hear things are going well for you!

I don't care, its a forum, people generally do not review what they have written before hitting send or perhaps education levels vary. For the most part we know what people mean. I don't intend on embarrassing anyone by calling them out on misspelling or bad grammar. I have made enough of my own errors and no doubt will contine to do so. Glass houses and all that comes to mind I do cringe though for anything written badly by someone in their paid professional capacity...teachers, newspapers, restaurant menu, company social media etc that contains misspelling, incorrect grammar or just badly written.

I am a sugar freak, I just can't seem to do it in moderation, one taste of sweet its on. Some people can moderate really well but for the most part I have to abstain (edited to add: which I clearly don't do well otherwise I wouldn't be here) https://gretchenrubin.com/2012/10/back-by-popular-demand-are-you-an-abstainer-or-a-moderator/

There are a lot of people still overweight regardless of eating a paleo or vegan diet. Neither of these diets are necessarily for weight loss, I guess they could be considered a lifestyle and/or for the advocates of each diet they would say that their diet has the most health benefits. Both of diets do have wonderful health benefits, but it does come down to longevity. Which diet/lifestyle is the most sustainable for you for the long term. I doubt I could do a vegan diet, paleo too can be hard, both have aspects of inflexibility. Some years ago I looked into the 'primal blueprint' by Mark Sisson. A variation of the paleo diet that was more moderate and flexible. It's wasn't even necessary to buy the book all the info was available on the website. I liked that he had a section for weight loss (he recommended for weight loss that people count calories inconjunction with the primal blueprint, along with ensuring sufficient protein and good fats).

Your stomach is still healing from surgery, why would you risk that? Why not talk to your surgeon, if he/she may offer some insight as to why they have set the post-op phases they have or give you the okay to progress through the phases quicker.

If you are drinking plenty of water, perhaps the dry mouth is due to medical reasons? My dry mouth led to a diagnosis of Sjogren's Syndrome (automimmue issue) after blood tests (negative) and then minor salivary gland biopsy (positive). There are many other medical issues that can cause dry mouth as well.

Did you search the bariatricpal forums yet? I put the word Ortiz in the bariatricpal search field and it returned over 2000 results, there would a lot more for Mexico, I think there is also a Mexico thread on here, lots of info would be found there.

Perhaps it wasn't deliberate but a mistake, if people are using mobile phones it may be difficult to select the emoticon that was intended and they may not have realised with emoticon was selected.

Shame they do not send text message reminders, for my doctors we get a reminder the day before, we have to acknowledge yes via return text message or phone their office to cancel.

How long ago did you have your bypass? Is this the post-op diet phase immediately following the bypass or are you a few months out?

What specifically is she against and why?

Sorry to hear things are not going well for you. Have you spoken to your doctor to check what may be wrong? What foods are you eating and in what quantity?

Are you still getting a good amount of protein with your liquids?

Good articles and not too wordy!

Some doctors just have different routines when compared to other doctors, some doctors have different routines for their individual patients and that may be based on their start weight, health issues, their liver functions (which may indicate a large fatty liver that needs to be smaller for surgery), etc etc. I suspect some doctors do it to get patients into a compliance routine for their post op diet, particularly the first couple of weeks. If a patient can't or won't comply with a two week pre-op diet how will they manage in the first two to three months or so? You don't want to risk surgery being delayed by not following your doctor's orders. If you don't want a liquid diet pre-op find a doctor who doesn't do it, your friend's doctor is a good start. It's two weeks vs the rest of your life...think about it

That's sounds really awful. Hopefully someone will chime in soon with some ideas for you.

Sorry to hear you are suffering with this. I am not an expert but I assume its gas, are you walking lots? Walking helps get rid of the gas. If its not the gas but from the actual surgery itself, were you not given pain killers?

Not sure who this is attributed to but I do like it: Achieving goals takes a backbone not a wishbone. Japanese proverb that translates to something like: fall down seven times, get up eight.

This is not a playground, and for the most part people are quite civil it doesn't do you any justice to act childish, act like the adult you presumably are and people will respond to you as an adult.