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I think you're pretty safe with protein powders and bars. You may not be comfortable with this, but I wouldn't declare it. That way you'd have to get pulled for a random customs inspection, and the inspector would have to disallow the whey. So the risk would be almost nil. I've never been on a tour, but I assume you get some free time in the evenings? You could pop into a grocery store then. Or if not, then I assume you might make some convenience store restroom stops, there is guaranteed to be at least nuts available. I won't be there for Tattoo. I will be there for the Edinburgh Fringe. But we only have 1 night in Edinburgh, so not going to be able to experience much of it. Where all does your tour go?

and..... most importantly - even after I read everything I could get my hands on, I knew not to get upset with the liquid diet, the emotional changes, or how hard it was in the beginning. I warned my guy that I might have remorse or be a bit off. lol But it still happened. I still was mad at myself for going through something so drastic and having lack of self control to get to that point where surgery was even an option. So expect that going in - it's hard, it's emotional - but it's so worth it!! Good luck to you! Stay the course!

So I am scheduled for July 8 and my surgeon tells me he does not require a preop diet, just normal surgery fast before. For those who did not preop, was it hard post op to be on such a limited diet? I am already starting to use protein shakes for breakfast and being kind to my liver so that I heal well. Anyone not need to diet before surgery?

Vitamins, sweeteners, jello and protein oh my! What I have so far. http://youtu.be/rnwhGQwxy8s

I am also two weeks out. I experienced this once I moved to full liquids. I just moved to soft foods and it has gotten a little better. I have found that my protein drinks send me to the bathroom.

I am 11 days post op. This wked we were invited out to breakfast which we did not go.. we came up w. A an excuse but of course l felt guilty.. I am not really eating at this point yet. Starting to introduce mushy food. Focusing on my fluids and protein shakes.. I have another two wks I believe when I will be able to start eating more foods.. I am starting to feel bad for my husband. I told him we can go out .. we will just go somewhere where I can order a soup or a meal w. My son who is 3 and feed him and have like mashed potatoes or something.. So when did u all have your first dining out experience after surgery??

It's completely doable, but it's a shock to your eating habits. Protein shakes, sugar-free jello, sugar-free pudding, sugar-free popsicles, chicken broth, beef broth.

BOY OH BOY!!! I am one happy girl!!! Did you know that Chobani tastes league's different than ANY other brand of Greek yogurt??? I don't hate greek yogurt anymore!!! This is great news considering I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find high Protein food (low cal of course) that didn't make me want to gag. Also.... I am almost done with my 2 week food journal and I am all so excited. I have lost 8 pounds since starting to food journal again and I haven't even started to exercise much yet. Wow I can't wait until the surgery. I am completely ready to make this a permanant life style!!! The only problem is that I have had a head ache for TWO weeks now. It is usually a dull head ache starting in my neck or right behind my right eye. Anyone have any clues as to what could be causing this? At first I thought it was dehydration but now I have no idea. I wasn't a huge caffeine drinker before but I had a Diet coke a day (sometimes 2). COuld it be a caffeine headache??? Any ideas, please let me know!!! Kim

@Aijan Well you stated: My diet is crap. The only stuff that seems to stay down is starchy carbs. bread, potatoes, rice...stuff like that. eggs usually stay down. I don't eat meat (which is fine because it comes up ridiculously quick.) So.....it seems you have tried meat which made me question perhaps trying fish. Pardon me for not having the whole story. So go with TVP, tempeh and tofu products, bread is def not advised, neither is rice and potatoes. And it's a cop out to not show how much protein you are currently ingesting. I call bs. You want someone to tell you you should be eating 60-80 grams of protein a day and keep carbs to never more than 100, but better at under 50, as you will see on these forums by successful vets. So there it is.....

Bariatric Advantage has an unflavored protein shake. It is not cheap at $60 for a large container.

6 weeks, you're eating regular food, are you taking a PPI? It could be acid causing you to feel hungry or dehydration. Or that dreaded thing called head hunger. Eat some Protein or have a Protein shake to see if it goes away. If it doesn't than it's most likely not true hunger. My stomach sounds like fireworks sometimes but I know it's not hungry. It's been loud enough to startle my dog lol Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I have been researching Protein drinks and found Muscle Milk Low Carb. I have bought a couple of flavours but was wondering about the carb to protein ratio. Is the following okay as I am thinking about having this pre op and post op when I can too? 500 mls 43g protein 14.7 carbs 237 K calories If i had two a day (pre op) and broth for the last meal would this be enough? Kate

B-8:30am: Protein drink w/12 oz 2% milk & ½ banana L-12:30pm: 1 sl wheat bread w/butter & American Chz (grilled chz), 2 sl apple and 5 grapes. I just can’t wait for the kids to go back to school so they will have something to do all day long. My oldest each and every morning asks “Mom what are we going to do today? Can we go anywhere?” I went to support group last night and I’m becoming more familiar with everyone now that I talk to. Joan had the two books “Living & Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery” & “Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery”. She said that I could keep them till next month’s meeting. I am doing ok on the water but still not like I was. I need to get back on track w/that. I'm still not sure if I want to get a fill. I like my feedom of drinking more then a sip at a time or eating just a bit more. I quess I'm also afraid and what I've been reading about getting stuck or not going through or vomiting. I know that if I get a fill that I will limit myself some more and I want that--just not the scary stuff that might happen. I need to get into the gym. I keep telling myself that I can just wait one more month and the kids will be in school and I'll have all the time in the world. But I need to start more then the walking that DH and I are doing, or trying to do 3 times a week.

1. Eat 3 small meals a day? yes but I also ate 2 snacks. I worked out twice and had to drink juice twice to bring my blood sugar up. 2. Eat slowly and thoroughly Yes 3. Stop eating as soon as you feel full. yes 4.do not drink while you are eating. 30 minutes before and 1 hour after. Check I did well with this one. 5. Do not eat between meals. Not so good since I ate snacks. 6. Eat only good quality food Yes 7. Avoid fiber? Yea 8. 64 ounces a day yes wanted more but only did 64. 9.drink only low calorie beverages yes 10.exercise 30 minutes. Exercised 90 minutes. Am and pm. I thought over all today was a good day. I'm trying to follow the band rules everyday so I can be successful. I will be blogging everyday how I did. I think I should add that I made my protein goal as well. The rules I need to work on are three meals and no snacking we will see how tomorrow goes. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Melanie Vigil <mmv671@gmail.com> wrote:

Today was a good eating day. It is now close to 9 pm. I'm done eating and I'm at 962 calories and 88 protein. I feel good. I know it's only one day but I'm proud of myself. Tomorrow is another day and I'm going to try to stay under 1000 calories again.

I wasn't really hungry at all the first two weeks. But now, on week three I'm more hungry, and food goes down rather easily. I'm on the mushy food phase now. I'm finding that if I eat Protein first I don't get as hungry. I'm thinking of making some egg salad today, or perhaps some turkey pate (turkey and a little mayo and spices blended), since I have so much of it. I'm also steering clear of caloric liquids. I'm really into sugar free tang right now. I like iced tea also, and splenda goes very well into tea. I won't get a fill til the end of January (which seems like for freakin' ever!) because my doc is so booked with fills. So I have to devise some kind of eating method to get me over the long haul til then. I'm here with ya!!! Linda Dr. Bonanni banded 11/14/03 260/243/150

Someone recommended chike protein powder, and it's honestly the best I have ever tasted. No gritty, no aftertaste, very good

Yep - it has been a lifesaver!! I really dislike most protein powder drinks - way too sweet or the whey flavour, of me, overpowers the food flavour. I mix two vanilla protein powders 50/50 - one is too sweet, the other has no sweetness at all, so the mix is pretty well right. The coffee masks any protein powder taste, and wakes me up! And I use 7 ice cubes - trial and error to get the righ number so it is icy but drinkable. Today - dinner is mango and chicken tacos, with chipotle slaw...

I have progressed nicely since my last post. I'm no longer having spasms (thank someone!) I've had regular BM's lol I've had great sex! lolol My incisions look good. I'm able to burp without pain. My hunger has returned. I feel almost "normal" and it's pretty interesting. Every day I feel a little better as far as my incision soreness goes. I'm able to walk at a normal speed, etc. I had my post op on Thursday. I got neat ass pictures of them placing the band and fixing the hernia. I really dig this stuff and watch all the medical shows. This is stuff you would never see otherwise in your life....I think it's pretty cool. I was told my liver had shrunk nicely and looked pretty good (even though I had cheated a couple of times). I had lost 13lbs since my preop which was only 5 days prior to surgery. My ticker is going by my pre preop liquids diet weight. I was 287 before I started liquids on June 23. I weighed 269 on 7/16. My highest weight ever was 297. I had spent the last few months prior to preop liquids having many last meals and probably gained 15lbs! I start puress next Tuesday, but did experiment today. My first puree was fries and ketchup! LMAO I had MAYBE a tablespoon. I'm still too gun shy about putting stuff in there AND I wanna wait until I'm officially released to have mushies. OMG was it delish!!!! Ahhhhhh. I'm now planning a mushie celebration for Tuesday. I'm getting the chopped steak from Fuddrucker's, loading it up with spicy mustard and mayo and puttin' that baby in for processing! I'm sooooooooooooooooo excited. Yeah, I know it'll be loaded with fat and yucky, but my tastebuds are screaming for it. I will move on to my healthier options and be happy, but for some reason, I think I need it for now. I'm not obsessed with my weight right now. I'm more focused on healing. If I lose weight, great, but I'm not gonna kill myself if I don't. I will continue on a very low carb, high protien diet and hope for the best until I'm released to start fully exercising again. I just have a feeling that I'm gonna be kickin' ass and taking names 4 weeks from now. As long as my band does what it's supposed to do (and not malfunction in ANY WAY), I'll be doing what I'm supposed to do. I'm glad I sucked it up and toughed it out with the spasms, that was the worst of it all for me so far. I'm now excited about what's to come. :thumbup:

I once again wrote a frickin' book and can't find it now. I don't know where on this website it goes but Robert came in so I showed him what blogging was like and now I can't find the blog I was writing in the first place, it is probably a good thing because I just went on and on about how much I love him and how much we are in love and crap like that. I also told you about how I gained the 2 lbs that I had lost putting me back at 228 instead of 226 where I need to be before tomorrow's weigh in and fill. Not good but that is the way it is. I'll do my exercising today and watch what I eat. I have northern style ribs from PF Changs for lunch and will have my protein shake for breakfast. Depending on how that lasts me I'll have a protein bar for break. The shake sometimes lasts me and then other times I am so hungry I can't stand it. I should have an easy day today at work and then I'm off tomorrow. I want to go look at a Nissan Altima...that is the car of my dreams, I'm not sorry I bought a new Subaru but the Altima is what I wanted and should have gotten but I thought it was too expensive for me. I am throwing around the idea that maybe I just need to get a grip on having a slow car and putting tint on the windows and I already have the Sirius system in it and everything I could ask for like power windows and A/C. This is the first brand new car I have ever had. The ones I have had in the past are either hand me downs or given to me by a boyfriend. I guess getting a Porsche and Corvette weren't too bad of gifts. But I gave them back when we broke up so I miss the Porsche, the Corvette had too long of nose for me and I didn't like driving it too much. But it got me alot of attention and was fun. Now I have a Subaru Impreza, it was something that was practical and had what I needed and I have since put in a $700 Sirius system and want an amplifier now. So that should cost me another $500 with the new speakers and getting it installed but it will be so worth it when it is done. I want to get the windows tinted on it next so I think after we get back from vacation and I renew my plates I will have that done. My husband keeps every business card that has been handed to him and a tinting company that he used is one of them so that is who I will call. I also want to get my credit card paid off. I went on a shopping binge and spent $600 on Mac make up. An easy thing to do but since then I have expanded my collection to include Urban Decay, Sephora, and Lancome. All that I love just wish I could change make up 2-3 times a day depending on what mood I was in. I think every woman needs to have a big collection of make up to help make her feel pretty. Some women are just beautiful without the use of make up, I on the other hand am not one of these women. I have to have at least eye make up and lipstick to feel complete in the morning. That is how I end getting ready for my day is by putting on my make up before I do my hair. It really gives me the extra boost in self-esteem that I need. My husband turned our loft area into my make up station. I have a big desk, with lighted mirror, and computer chair to roll around in while doing my daily ritual. It's like being a little girl playing dress up. My husband had a hard time sleeping the night before and that keeps me awake because if I wake up and he is not in bed I can't sleep so it was good that I was off yesterday. Made for a long day getting up at 3:30 a.m. and getting him to come back to bed. I did make it to the gym and swam until someone asked if they could swim in my lane once I was done...that made me feel like I had to hurry. Well it is 8:00 a.m. and that means time to getting for my day at work. I will be back tomorrow morning to tell you about how my day was and what else is on my mind. Happy losing

Yep that is what I weighed in at this morning. I know I told you I wasn't going to weigh in until Tuesday but I was so excited, I had to do it today. I ate so good yesterday and I knew food wouldn't be an issue for me since all I had was a cup of olives, 7 hot wings, and 2 crackers with spread ( it was so good). I can't believe I am under 226. It has taken me a month to get under 226. I am so happy. I just know this month I will be able to get under 220 by the time I go to the doctor for my next fill on July 13th. Ha ha I know I can do it. I am taking a piece of eggplant parm for lunch and I'll have s/f oatmeal for breakfast. I'm going to try and have something to eat for breakfast instead of just a protein shake hoping that will make a difference. We also went swimming at the gym yesterday and I swam for 40 min so that helped. We are going to go tonight. I'll come home from work and walk the dogs and then go swim. It is nice because it gives me a chance to relax and take time to let everything go from the day. I really can't wait to go to work today. I just want this week to be over fast and hopefully we will be slow. Today is the end of the sales goals period and then tomorrow we start another month and new goals. I hit all mine this period so I'm not worried about getting a write up or a coaching so that takes a load off my mind. My husband is just wonderful, we spent yesterday together and did some shopping, went by the bank, got gas, and then to the gym. To end the day we went to Sonic where I got a diet cherry limeaid...my favorite. It keeps me so full and takes me a while to drink it. Oh and we also went by the book store to get Shrink Yourself about emotional eating and it has some good information in it. Like being powerless when it comes to eating and that is why we can't say no. It is something that I will finish and tell you about. Hoping that it will help me not gorge my self at night. That is the worse time for me. I have to cook some Chicken Pot Pie on my Cafe World in 10 minutes. I love Cafe World and I like the way my cafe looks. At first I had everything in pink and then change to the pyramid theme. It gives me something to do in the mornings. Instead of eating I sit here and listen to Sirius and do my cafe and write on here. Next month I have to start looking for shows to go see in Vegas. I want to go to a topless show because I have never been to one but my husband doesn't want to go. He says he has seen enough boobs in his life so he doesn't need to spend money seeing more. I can appreciate that but I have never been to one so I wanted to go so maybe I will go alone. I don't know what it is about seeing medically enhanced boobs but I just have never been to a show where there is dancing and singing with the fancy costumes before. Maybe he will come around. If not I love him for not wanting to go. It probably will just make me feel inadequate. I do want to get a boob job after I lose the weight because I had a breast reduction in 1999 and went from a DD to a large B and now they are C's. I want to go back to having perky tits like when I was 14. I have never had perky tits since then because they grew too big too fast and just hung down. I can remember how big they got when I had my daughter, boy they were big. And then they went back to being DD's. Robert says mine are perky now but I want them to be full and stand out but he says mine are perfect. I'm trying to grow my hair long because I have never had really long hair, just to my shoulders and I want to be able to pull it into a ponytail for vacation since it will be hot out there. I have 10 weeks to lose 25 lbs. It is doable but will take extra hard attention to my eating and exercise routine to get enough calories burned to lose the weight. That's 2.5 lbs a week. It will be hard but I know I can atleast lose 15 lbs if anything. I want to get to 223 by next Monday so I will work hard to reach this goal. I don't think it is out of my reach so I know I can do it. I'll keep you updated on my progress. Take care and have a good day.

My first Thanksgiving started by drinking my protein shake then off to do errands. After my runing around back home and started getting ready. Make potatoe salad with low fat mayonnaise, then salami, cheese and olives roll up, (MY KIDS LIKE THAT) I did good only ate 3 very hard but i did. My sister maded the turkey and rice and beans. My daughter macaroni salad and corn bread also jello with fruit and dont let me forget jello shots. My other sister did macaroni and cheese and lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad. Well you get the idea lots of food. Then for dessert pumpkin, apple, sweet potatoe pie. Well here comes the time to sit and eat and hope I didn't started choking. I am happy to say I did good small spoon of rice and beans, small pieces of turkey (did not want to choke:cursing:) small spoon of potatoe salad and then my cranberry juice not bad. Then later on very small piece of pumpkin pie. I am very proud to say nothing came back up and no choking :cool2:. So see you can eat just in small amounts and very slow. We see what Christmas brings. LOL Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter

I'm 15 days out and started purees on Saturday. Lentils and eggs and Shelly ricotta bake all ok (like 2-3 oz max) but hummus killed me. In pain for an hour. Since I can't physically eat too much I make sure to have 2 Protein Shakes (50-60g protein) plus anything I eat is bonus. and drink drink drinking between. When I can tolerated more food and denser Proteins I will reduce the shakes but for now I don't stress about it. I know I have my whole life to eat solids, just moving into it as slow as I can mange. Even if I am craving chicken like crazy. My rule, add one new thing per day. I think you maybe rushing into the solids too quickly, regardless if ur NUT says you can, maybe ur sleeve is still sensitive. My diet kinda goes like this: Breakfast: Protein Shake made with ice and high Protein milk, nurse it for an hour+, take my omeprazole Water, tea lunch I split into 2 meals bc here is where I focus on food like Soup then lentils 2 hrs later. Water dinner is another shake made with water, take my supplements (not multivitamin) Snack is anything I'm craving like pudding, Jello if I need sweet or 3 bites of lentils, or an egg if I crave savory. water rest of night, making sure my urine is pale by the time I go to sleep. Chewable Multivitamin before bed (mine has iron). Hope this helps!

I also had a fill on Thursday and I can eat a very small amount and keep it down, protein shakes are the best! They fill me up and stay down. If you can only keep down a little bit of water that isn't good. Your body needs food and water! I was thinking of getting a little fill taken out over this past weekend becuase I was really getting everything stuck then today I realized old habits die hard and I wasn't chewing my food very, very good and I was taking big bites. Good luck!!

Hi! I strongly recommend that you make an appoitment with a Pain management doctor. Make sure you check the credentials & other peoples experiences before you go. A good pain doctor will actually have a team so that someone is avaible 24/7. There are MANY options for pain, you just need to work with a doctor to find what works for you. Good luck!