Blondietex

OMG, I watched 2 seasons of Bake-Off as well. Had no desire for food, but was perfect mental speed that first week.

I’m on day 17 and I m still sleeping propped up. I think a lot of it now is due to me being a stomach sleeper.

Glass baby food jars. When you get to pureed stage, it’s great to be able to have jars with just the right portion for a meal. I can write the calories/carbs/fat/protein on the lid and it washes off for next use.

Ok so I got cocky because I’d been doing so well on Day 15. I figured rather that my egg beaters with a little bit of milk and cheese, I’d try an egg bite from Starbucks. I figured same relative ingredients, high protein/low carb and was soft. I ate it slowly and chewed a lot. Stomach was quite no bueno for a bit. Almost puked at work 🙄. Lesson learned. Stick to only things I control the ingredients in making.

I was walking within a few hours of my surgery. I am on Day 13 and I now do about 11k steps throughout the day. I gradually worked up to that. I was working out pretty consistently before surgery so that may have made a difference.

I had a similar problem. Try a protein other than whey and see if that helps.

I acknowledge my craziness. 🙄

Has anyone lost 15+ pounds with no apparent size change? I think my stomach is still bloated. I'm probably just paranoid. I'm actually freaking because I stopped peeing all the time, and now I think I'll lose no more weight. It's so hard to be zen and just follow the process.

I’m only on Day 9 and worked for half a day today for the first time since the surgery, and I was dragging by the end of 4 hours at a desk job.

I wish. I was sleeping in 3 hour increments. I got a sleep aid from the doctor yesterday. I slept like the dead last night (but felt like I’d been on a week long bender) and today I finally feel almost normal.

One of my requirements for discharge was that I was able to consume fluids and proteins myself. Some hospitals (or surgeons) may require this for discharge.

Guess I’m the weird one. I had BM first day out of hospital, but less of a constipation issue than diarrhea at first. Doing less dairy helped some of that. Walking a lot seems to help. I’m going to try some small curd cottage cheese tomorrow (Day8) and see how that goes. I made some protein pudding tonight in case the experiment goes well. No trouble with liquids, but if I add fiber supplement, it takes an hour to finish 8oz. Had my 1week follow-up today with my PCP, and she gave me something to help me sleep through the night because that seems to be one of my major issues right now.

I’m on Day 4, and the hernia repair resulting in stitches to my diaphragm seems to cause the most issues. When I walk, it feels tight when I need to breath deeply, but it is getting better. I’m already sick of all the sweet stuff snd the plain bone broth is not so awesome. So today I tried two different things. I had decaf coffee with a Premier Protein as “creamer”. It took me 3 1/2 hours to finish 1 1/2 large mugs but that was 30g of protein. I also went and got a large egg drop soup for lunch and had 1 cup, chewing the eggs before swallowing. That was awesome. Lastly, supper was a Protein2o drink that took about 45min to finish. I got all my chewable vitamins in. The past two days, I felt a little nauseous in the morning so I took one of my pills, and the rest of the day I felt fine. Sleeping seems to suck. I’ve not yet slept through the night, waking up after 3 hours, probably because I’m a stomach/side sleeper and hate sleeping on my back. Anyone else sleeping propped up? Bad headache today for some reason so I took some of my Tylenol. Otherwise no pain pills since Day 2. I’m crazily watching the Great British Bake Off, but I’m not tempted by the sweet stuff. I want some cheese or meat. This will be a long two weeks at full liquid and I hate the aspartame aftertaste already... I think I may try liquid cream of wheat tomorrow with some unflavored protein as a change of pace. Anyone else have something more creative they are doing for full liquid phase?

I’m only on day 2 and liquids are going down slow but fine as well. I got in 34oz of protein day 1 and 54oz protein yesterday. I may get close to 60 today. If I didn’t see others on this board with this same experience, I’d think mine was not working as well. My surgeon also said I could do my spin bike now (no jogging or hills, just light pedaling) as well as walking. I have a 20# weight restriction. He told me to just gradually ramp up and if it hurts, stop.

Good luck to you all today!