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Hey Steve, I bought my magic bullet the day I got home from the hospital and have used it continuously since. It really is worth its weight in gold. i've noticed my appetite returning to. I've got one more week of mushies and then onto soft foods. Mushies it okay for me because I just magic bullet what everyone else is eating. It tastes the same. My weight loss has stopped since getting off liquids and that's kind of disconcerting, but I've read enough to know right now is about healing not weight loss. le sigh. Go April Bucks!

So I'm going to have my surgery on April 8th, but I'm going to be in a wedding on June 20th. The tux fitting was today. I told the person assisting us in the fitting about my upcoming surgery and she sd to wait two weeks before the wedding. If you stay on track most of the time how much can you reasonably expect to lose in the first couple of months?

I had that same problem a couple weeks before my surgery. I love food. It really felt like I was ending a love affair I didn't really want to but had to because it was killing me. I was banded on April 8th and it hasn't been so bad so far but I expect some degree of grieving over my ended relationship with food. Like any other bad relationship you have to learn to move on and become a better person for yourself first and the people you love and that love you back second.

So others have deemed April '09 bandsters as April bunnies. A bunny is a rabbit, a male rabbit is a buck. I vte for calling ourselves the April Bucks, anyone else...lol.

I think it's normal to have second thoughts.... WhyamIdoingthisdoesthismakemealoserdoesthismeanimweakdoes ICOULDDIE!isitworththat?!?whatisitworthwhydidispendsomuchmoneywhyamidoingthis....

I put a scoop of body fortress chocolate whey protein and an atkins shake with 3 ice cubes in my magic bullet every morning and drink that for breakfast. It's 42 grams of protein right off the bat. The rest of my food throughout the day more than covers my required amount. BTW, the magic bullet is a wls patients dream machine. I use it several times a day and see doing so for a long time. I got mine at Walmart for around $50.00.

I was one week yesterday too and feel great!

Start looking up soup recipes and get stuff to make homemade soups. They are delicious. So far I had tomato gorgonzola soup, spinach bleu cheese soup, potato cheese soup, carrot ginger soup ect. They were all so good. Another thing is that you really do fill up fast. Like after about 3/4 or a cup I'm stuffed.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

I'm a bib fan of the Atkins shakes. They're small, 20 grams of protein and taste great. The mil chocolate and dark chocolate one do at least. I've not tried the others.

Man, I never felt so sick in my life the day of surgery. I actually got sick three times, and it stayed with me well into the following day. Slowly but surely your appetite will return. Hang in there.

I'm scheduled for the 8th of April and have been having the last meal syndrome as well. It will work itself out I figure.