Ladybug 3

Hi there :w00t: I'm 7 days post op and feeling pretty good. The first 4 days were tough. I was constantly feeling so icky. But then one of my friends told me that I need to eat more substancial soups. (I was living on cup-of-soup, and yogurt). Right when I started to make my own home made soups I started to feel much better. (Even before I got the band, if I was really hungry I would feel very sick, so it's normal for me) I have been out to eat and had soup as my meal. I really enjoyed myself. Getting out of the house made me feel much better. I'm back to my normal routine and feeling great. I am having some strange aches all around my rib cage (front and back). Not sure what that's all about. I also had my gall bladder and many many stones removed during the same surgery 7 days ago so it could be something to do with that too. Or the anesthesia. I have my post op tomorrow so I will ask the doctor. I'm eating pureed food now and so far doing ok with that. I just puree the meal I cook for the family and eat it. (But a tiny amount of course; approx 60ml) I feel satified for a while. When I feel hungry again I have some yogurt until the next meal. Works for me I'm having lots of cravings. Like salad! I love salad and I can't wait to eat it again! I'm going to miss steak! Unless I'm lucky and have no problem eating it. Anyway, I really feel great and I'm looking forward to 6 weeks post op when I can eat normal food again :thumbup: I love this website and I have learned alot from it. Thanks for those that commented on my blog that I just started. You made me feel great! Ladybug

I'm feeling great today :wink2: I'm 8 days post op and I woke up this morning suddenly feeling a little jump in my step. I must be pretty well healed up now. Today is my post op appt with my doctor in Dubai. I'm looking forward to asking him some questions including why I have such achiness around the front and back of my ribcage area. I have learned that I have to eat something right when I wake up so I don't feel so sluggish and icky in the morning. I was never like that before but it's necessary now. I just have some yogurt first thing. I found yoplait has a "baby" yogurt so I found that is nice a light and makes me feel better in the morning. Later I will go to "breakfast" with friends. I'll just have some soup. Thank goodness I have always been a soup freak! It makes this pureed diet thing not such a hard thing to handle :wink: I have a friend that has done the same surgery (6 years ago) and she has been wonderful. Thank God for her and her advice! Take care everyone and have a nice day :cool2:

I'm feeling great today I'm 8 days post op and I woke up this morning suddenly feeling a little jump in my step. I must be pretty well healed up now. Today is my post op appt with my doctor in Dubai. I'm looking forward to asking him some questions including why I have such achiness around the front and back of my ribcage area. I have learned that I have to eat something right when I wake up so I don't feel so sluggish and icky in the morning. I was never like that before but it's necessary now. I just have some yogurt first thing. I found yoplait has a "baby" yogurt so I found that is nice a light and makes me feel better in the morning. Later I will go to "breakfast" with friends. I'll just have some soup. Thank goodness I have always been a soup freak! It makes this pureed diet thing not such a hard thing to handle :thumbup: I have a friend that has done the same surgery (6 years ago) and she has been wonderful. Thank God for her and her advice! Take care everyone and have a nice day

Thanks Olivia

That's what I'm going to have to do. Focus on the goal. I just didn't realize how much I think of food. Because it's seems so final I guess. Not the same as a diet. Actually whenever I dieted I would never call it a diet. It was my lifestyle change. I have to make this my new lifestyle change. One day it's going to stick! Thanks for your advice! And good luck to you too!

Hello :frown: I am 2 days post op and have a mixture of emotions. I am excited, nervous, a tiny depressed and can't stop thinking about food. I'm trying to think about what I am going to center my life around besides food. I never realized my life was centered around it until now. Well, maybe I did whenever I tried to loose weight but I would quickly "un"realize it whenever i stopped. I have a family that keeps me busy but food is all around. When meeting with friends, we eat, when going out on a date with my husband, it's food, etc. etc. I am struggling with what I am to do with myself next. I want to call friends to talk but I don't want to burden them. My husband is naturally thin so he doesn't really understand although he does try bless his heart. At the same time I don't want to become obsessed with the weight lose. I just want to sit back and let it happen and have other things on my mind beside my next cup-of-soup :confused:

Hello I am 2 days post op and have a mixture of emotions. I am excited, nervous, a tiny depressed and can't stop thinking about food. I'm trying to think about what I am going to center my life around besides food. I never realized my life was centered around it until now. Well, maybe I did whenever I tried to loose weight but I would quickly "un"realize it whenever i stopped. I have a family that keeps me busy but food is all around. When meeting with friends, we eat, when going out on a date with my husband, it's food, etc. etc. I am struggling with what I am to do with myself next. I want to call friends to talk but I don't want to burden them. My husband is naturally thin so he doesn't really understand although he does try bless his heart. At the same time I don't want to become obsessed with the weight lose. I just want to sit back and let it happen and have other things on my mind beside my next cup-of-soup