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Both my nutritionist and my surgeon have explicitly stated that gummies are not acceptable, so check with them if you haven't.

Monday I was up a pound, yesterday I'd lost most of that, today I'm down a half pound. Today is also three weeks to the day since my surgery. I guess we'll see if the stall has started when I step on the scale tomorrow morning!

I could drive as soon as I stopped taking pain meds, but I don't think I drove for the first time until about day 10 or so.

I've thought about re-joining WW and going to meetings since a) my employer will reimburse me for it if I go to X meetings in Y months (don't recall the specifics) and I like it when people applaud my weight loss, but it seems like I'd have an unfair advantage over other members. I also think that, particularly in the early months after WLS, you're losing weight at a rate that's much higher than what WW recommends, and may get you flagged in their system.

I've been taking mine for a week and still get a little nauseated. This morning I tried chewing the calcium citrate tablet 30 times like I'm supposed to with some food and that helped a little. Tonight I'm going to try taking the calcium citrate tablet 2 hours before the Flintstones chewables, taking all 3 at once was making me really sick.

Yes, that is sashimi.

You can still lose eating anything once in a while, surgery or no surgery. A few years ago, I lost weight while eating prime rib and In-N-Out Burger once in a while. You just need to make sure it’s actually once in a while.

You didn’t miss out by not gorging yourself at a buffet, IMO. No need to remind yourself later of what you can’t do anymore. I had one night after being approved by insurance, but before the pre-surgery diet, where I ate a 20-piece order of boneless wings by myself (and I don’t think it was a gym day, either) and just regretted it later.

Yeah, I had a few bites of Stove Top stuffing during the liquid phase and it did not go well. A month on liquids is a long time!

10 days out, I ate a donut dipped in coffee and threw it back up. During the liquid phase, a few times I put crumbled-up saltines at the bottom of the cup when I was eating strained cream soups so they'd soak well before I ate them. I didn't tolerate those very well. I started pureed/very soft foods almost a week ago and have found that I can tolerate almost anything if it's tiny portions eaten a miniscule bite at a time and each bite is chewed 25 times. Saturday I had a few bites of toast with my scrambled egg, stopped eating it when I didn't feel well. Sunday was 2 or 3 Bugles. Yesterday was two hush puppies from Long John Silver's.

Pre-surgery, I would use the Fitbit app. Post-surgery, I drink most of my water at work and know when I've drank 2 500-ml bottles' worth.

Yeah, that's what pissed me off when I gained almost a pound one day - it wasn't like I ate a dozen wings and an entire pizza for dinner the night before!

My surgeon said my starting BMI wasn't high enough for DS, so I never looked into it, sorry. In general I'd say the less complicated the surgery, the better; that's why I chose VSG over gastric bypass.

Just do the best you can re fluids. Today is the first day I'm going to get 64 oz of water in since my surgery.

I have the nasal pillows and have found they're very easy to wear when I have a cold. My wife has the full mask and can't wear it at all when she has a cold.

For this week and the first half of next week it'll be: 5:45 am - protein shake (made with 1 c 1% milk) 9 am - 5 oz Greek yogurt 12 noon - 3/4 c pureed vegetable lentil soup 3 pm - string cheese 7 pm - baby food meat (chicken or turkey), 1 c 1% milk That's 78 grams of protein, and my goal is 60-76 per day. We'll see what soft foods brings when I start that a week from tomorrow.

Fortunately mine only makes noises at night. The surgeon said it's temporary, though.

Sad to say that, so far, I haven't found a food I loved before surgery and hate now. At least, I haven't smelled a food I used to love before surgery and been revolted by it. On the other hand, I've fallen in love with applesauce, so there's that.

I should add that my last meal was a) solid food and well before midnight, and the surgery went off without a hitch. I meant to ask if I could have solid foods the day before surgery, since my pre-surgery Diet was shakes and all the raw vegetables I wanted, but never did.

That’s my plan once I’m on a general diet - if I don’t tolerate it then, try again in a month.

Oh I had Portillo’s a few days before surgery. Beef and sausage combo, dipped, no peppers, a cheese dog, and a small fry. I’m hoping to have one again when our son is born in July (there’s a Portillo’s across the street from the hospital).

My program only required two months of supervised medical weight loss, and that required two visits to a nutritionist and two to my primary. I was able to complete the checklist of items that needed to be done for insurance approval within two months after the initial surgical consultation, but a lot of the items on the list were unnecessary (I didn't need a sleep study because I already knew I had OSA, I didn't need to get my A1C below 7 because it already was, etc.).

I had two, one "last meal" before the pre-surgery diet and one "last meal" before the surgery. First "last meal" was boneless wings with blue cheese dressing, breadsticks, and a Diet 7-Up. Second "last meal" was bone-in wings with blue cheese, a kids' grilled cheese meal, some of my wife's poutine, and a Diet Coke. Side note: My God, the portions of kids' meals can be enormous. My wife and I went out for breakfast on Saturday for the first time since surgery and I had the kids' meal. It was one scrambled egg, a strip of bacon (which went to my wife), hash browns, and two regular sized pieces of toast (the latter two went back to the kitchen). It would have been a filling meal for me even pre-surgery. Have they gotten bigger now that more adults are ordering off the kids' meal?

I really think that "you can transition to X foods on [date]" is a best case scenario and it's never going to be a smooth transition. I didn't do well with fat-free yogurt during the full liquid phase (though it's fine now) and baby food was difficult the first day I could eat it. I really need to not get so excited about soft foods starting on 1/17 since it won't be easy, I'm sure.

Yeah, nothing tastes different to me either. I had a value-sized soft serve from Sonic on Saturday (which was day 18) and it went down fine, I just ate it slowly. What would probably seriously mess you up would be ice cream with a filling, like cookies and cream or one with peanut butter cups in it.