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I know there's a lot of recipes online for Protein pancakes, but I'm not a big fan of cooking and even less of a fan of grocery shopping, so I thought I'd wing it with what I had in the house this morning. I made 1/2 batch of Bob's Red Mill Buttermilk pancakes with 1% milk and added 2 instead of 1 egg and a scoop of unjury Protein powder. It made 8 pancakes...I ate one and froze the other 7 for future "grab and go" microwave breakfasts. I had no syrup in the house so I topped it with a little bit of butter and a pinch of sugar (yes, REAL sugar) with a side of 1/2 sausage link. YUMMY!!! For those of you who count calories and stuff, I did some calculations as I was mixing. I normally don't track anything, but don't worry, I got all "A's" in math.... Turns out each pancake (without the butter and sugar) has about 3.5g carb, 5g protein, and 54 calories. Sorry, didn't look at the fat numbers. Anyways, it was a nice change from all the eggs and oatmeal and yogurt and shakes I've been having for Breakfast, and I'm stuffed!

Have seen this list before, but it's worth posting again it's so useful if you are getting ready for surgery! :thumbup: NON-food ITEMS: Heating pad (12inx24in) - for shoulder pain if you have any Flexible ice pack (hot/cold 12inx16in) - for shoulder pain if you have any A few books or movies Squishy pillow for car ride for seatbelt (shoulder pad) Make sure you have a good blender Pedometer(depending on the one you get – don’t forget to adjust to your stride) PHARMACEUTICALS: liquid Tylenol/Motrin (Check early in case pharmacy needs to order in advance) & check with your doc before using Chewable or liquid gas-x, or strips Wet Wipes Pill crusher Chewable Vitamins Hospital Medicine cups (I got 3oz/88ml cups – 100ct) Cough Drops Stool Softener - check with your doc first Moist and nice tasting Lip Balm FOOD ITEMS: Protein shakes Protein Water (K2O) Plenty of water broth or stuff to make broth sugar free popsicles Sugar free Jello Sugar free breath mints (chewable) Crystal Light "On the GO" assorted flavors Bouillon Cream of Wheat Creamy Soups Applesauce FAT FREE yogurt Soup-at-Hand - soups - for creamy stage pudding cups (SF/FF) - helps w/ taking meds(got instant, more flavors, price per box) Sugar free hot cocoa Decaf tea CLOTHES POST-OP: Loose fitting, easily removable Button down shirts Thong shoes/slip-on so no bending and tying Sports Bra! Sutures will be hurt by under wires LADIES – tip for surgery day, wear a button down shirt, and no bra..it’s much more comfortable!!:smile:

Hi Finally discharged today. Doing much better. Started clears last night and progressed nicely. I am having lukewarm tea for gas and I cannot drink anymore, too much. I weighed in this afternoon before I left hospital and am down 13 pounds. Woohooooo. I will continue phase II on Monday is liquids, protein drinks, sugar-free pops, sugar free yogurt, skim milk, broth. For the rest of the weekend. just phase I which is strictly liquids. I go for my first visit with surgeon on Friday. Looking forward to more exciting news once I get on the scale. Good luck to all the new bandsters. Lydia

I have tried it and it doesn't bother me. I put it in yogurt. Some people say it does have a weird taste, but I don't think it does.

I love this thread and intend to keep it active...c'mon everyone...we all need to share our meal ideas! yesterday....(not sleeved yet) Breakfast: hot cocoa, hot tea, Aldi's no sugar added Probiotics yogurt lunch: lowfat seasoned cream cheese stuffed into two celery stalks rotisserie chicken salad Kroger's Carbmaster yogurt supper: spaghetti squash with low-fat, low-sugar pasta meat sauce topped with low fat italian cheese dessert: 2 sugar free fudgesicles, smooshed in a bowl with a tablespoon of Cool Whip Free and a Tablespoon of no-sugar added peanut butter (from Trader Joes...incredible!) Breakfast today (Sunday) Swiss Miss diet cocoa (25 cal), with a splash of gingerbread spice creamer. 1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese with some splenda and cinnamon mixed in. (this helps with that craving for a Cinnabon 5000000 calorie roll) snack...sugar free jello with Cool Whip Free late lunch....stuffed flounder (with crab meat) and edamame (about 2/3 cup) snack....4 squares sugar free chocolate...1.25 net carbs in this portion Supper......Broiled swai (vietnamese catfish)....and either spaghetti squash or edamame I'm doing my preop diet a little earlier because I will be traveling immediately prior and may not be able to be real diligent with my food choices. (Dog shows are not known for the availability of healthy food choices :mad0:)

I am on a full liquid diet. I can have Gatorade 2, sugar free popsicles, sugar free jello, protein shakes, broth and crystal light. I could also have milk, yogurt and cottage cheese but I don't like any of those things. I just started my liquid diet today. 9 days left to go!

Day 1 - Was not nervous at all before surgery. Once they came to wheel me back I don't remember much after that. When they woke me up to remove the breathing tube I felt all clogged and couldn't breathe. Ended up having to have a breathing treatment. The surgical pain wasnt all that bad with all the drugs but the gas pain in the shoulders was pretty bad. Felt like somebody was standing on my shoulders and someone else was standing on my stomach. Once they wheeled me back to my final room for waking up and vitals, it all started to hit me what had happened. My nurse brought me some apple juice and I was apple to sip that down. That seemed like the best tasting thing I've ever had. Juice went down without any problems. When it was time for me leave and they brought me the wheelchair I had some sharp pain getting out of the bed but getting dressed wasnt too bad. The car ride home wasnt bad at all. I arrived at the hospital at 9:30 and was home at 4:30. Slept most the car ride home but bumps in the road would make my stomach bounce and that would momentarily wake me up. Got home and went straight to bed. My wife went and got my meds while I was sleeping. When she got back I awoke and took one Lortab pill and a Gasx pill. The gas pain in the shoulders and in the abdomen seemed to the dominant form of pain. After sipping some more water I started to have some PB's that made things start to feel much better. I ended up falling back asleep and found that laying down not flat but not on my side felt the best. A few times I even laid flat in my back with my legs up like I was frog felt really good to relieve the tension on my stitches. I was up and out of bed around 8 for about two hours. Did some walking, drank some broth, had a few small bites of yogurt and had two Popsicles. No issues with any of that at all. Took another pain pill at 10 and went back to bed. This time lying down was a bit more painful from being up so long but finally found a comfortable position and drifted off. Woke up at 4 to go the bathroom and take another pill. Crawled back into bed and went right back to sleep. Getting out of bed is the most painful. Everything else isn't too bad at all.

Hi Everyone, it's been awhile since I've checked in. So few of us still following up. Where did everyone go??? Glad to hear everyone posting is doing well. I had my first fill of 3cc's 2 weeks ago. My weight is bouncing around and when I lose, i have not been able to keep it off, I'm -4, +4. Lowest I've been is 209. Maybe I should just stay off the scale for a while. I've started Zumba and love it. I would go everyday if I found classes daily. So much fun. Do go if classes are offered near you! I notice my clothes fit differently, so, maybe, I'm toning. I've had a funny stomach ache the last few days, so I've been drinking protein shakes and sticking to mostly soft foods like greek yogurt. Not sure if it's a bug, or just the new fill adjustment settling in. Stuck gas? It's just not really going away. I read that some people have a delayed response to fills. I thought it sounded wierd, but now I'm reconsidering. I'm avoiding sodium and I don't do carbonation either. I have not had any problems specifically with any sort of food, not bread, not anything which I am thankful for since it's asparagus season here in VT. My next fill isn't till june 10th and (although usually i'm inpatient) I'm glad it gives me some more time to figure out how my body is responding. Be well everyone!

I eat yogurt, cottage cheese, low calorie protein bars at times, nuts, grilled chicken, beans etc. etc

Hey, well during my losing phase my goals were 6-800 cals, 80 grams Protein 60-80 non flour non potato carbs. And shot for 80 oz Fluid I ate a lot of greek yogurt (still do) and beef Jerky. As far as work outs I started walking and jogging worked up too 3 miles 3x's a week. As I continued to lose i began to run more often and longer runs as well.

Yea Fiddleman, one of my late funeral food things was only yogurt covered raisons and not chocolate covered cherries. I hope you enjoy those Miss Grandmother.

Not sad, but from about week 7 to week 12, I was pretty pissy. That was when I was cleared to eat normal food, yet couldn't eat very much at all. It made me mad! :tt2: But at around 12 weeks, I opened up to the point where I could eat enough to feel mentally satisfied as well as physically. It took a lot less food than pre-op too. And now I can eat even more. I suspect over the next 7 months, I'll be able to eat even more and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm not sure if she ever will be able to eat a WHOLE sandwich. It is going to depend on a lot of factors. But I believe some day I will be able to eat half a sandwich. And maybe even a bit of fruit or salad with it. That's what my roommate who was a size 2 and 1 inch taller than me used to eat on a regular basis. So that seems normal to me as what a really short person with a tiny frame should be eating. I have another friend who is an amateur athlete. He works out 10-20 hours a day in his sport at a high level. He's also 5'11". But if he eats over 1500 calories a day, he gains weight. I think about these two when I try to re-calibrate my sense of normal eating. I think our portion size and our ideas of what is a reasonable quantity of food is just so far off from what it should be given our largely sedentary lifestyles. Our food labels are based on 2000 calories a day. For most of us, that's way too many calories, yet we are told that is "average". Which makes it seem normal. Well maybe the DS is the answer then. It has the best stats. See how I got back on topic, like that. :smile: It's not that hard. More people end up 10 lb. higher than they want to be than end up too small and struggling to keep weight on. With all the surgeries except the band, you go from being really tight to looser so, over time, you are just naturally eating more than at first and that helps to slow the weight loss. So does losing weight because now it takes less calories to run your body. For some, that's enough. We start out at 400-600 calories a day on liquids and end up around 1000-1200 just by the sleeve or pouch opening up and that's all a lot of the formerly MO need per day so the weight loss stops. If someone needs more calories, they can replace their fat free yogurt snack with regular yogurt. They can cook with butter instead of PAM. Put some avocado on their scrambled eggs instead of salsa. Maybe have a high calorie treat once in a while. If they need even more, they can add in another snack or two. (Most of us are told to eat 3 meals or 3 meals and a snack so there is room to eat 1-3 more times a day.) And, if all that doesn't work, instead of drinking Water in between meals, you can add in a Protein shake here and there like some of my triathlon friends do. There are people with sleeves -- mostly really athletic guys -- who consume 2000 calories a day. They do have to work a bit harder to do that -- pay more attention to their eating. But it's entirely possible. If I keep up the triathlons, I can see myself needing about 1500 calories a day. It's more likely that I'll slow down the training in the off season and will only need about 1200. Which I could do now without even breaking a sweat and with still having to watch what I eat and not be able to eat a lot of junk. So I'm not *too* worried. :thumbup:

I started preparing for the days after surgery by cleaning house and finding products that are good tasting and on the diet plan. I found a Pacific Turkey Bone Broth with rosemary, thyme and sage. It comes in a small paper container with a twist off cap. 35 calories 9g protein 0 sugars 0 carbs. This does taste good and has saved me when I wanted something that reminds me of real food flavor. Also a Campbell's creamy chicken soup on the go. It has bits of chicken but I strain them out and eat half like a meal. Calories 65, sugar 0.5g, protein 3g and carbs 4g. This is also good. Each day I drink 2 unjury or Jay Robb whey chocolate protein shakes with skim milk and ice - makes it like slushy. I meet my 60g plus of protein. SF pudding & light yoplait yogurt (no fruit pieces) are my other snacks. It took a while but I found options and this has helped me so much.

Cereal can be soft. A question to ask yourself is whether cereal is the best choice. It has quite a few calories, but almost no protein. Protein foods include yogurt, cottage cheese, eggs, beans, and soft meats like tuna salad or soft white fish. If you are getting plenty of protein and need calories, then cereal IS a good idea. It all depends on how your eating day unfolds.

Are any/all of you on acid reflux medication? A lot of veterans swear that this hunger is actually acid reflux and you need meds/ different meds/ increase in meds. Restriction happens with dense protein, if it is always eaten first and no more than 4oz at a time, then vegetables, then whatever else is allowed. Soup, yogurt, tuna are all soft or semi-liquid and will not feel restricted. I feel restriction with chicken thigh meat and grilled salmon - that is the only thing I have consumed so far that is fairly dense. I feel no restriction with refried beans or soups or tuna - unless I were to eat an actual tuna steak maybe.

Today is 4 weeks post RNY surgery for me. - Down 16.8 lbs. I've had a couple of times where my weight has stayed stable for more than 5 days in that 4 weeks (including now). Still watching to see if a pattern emerges and trying to take it in stride (not always successfully). - No issues with liquids at all (yay!). I have been getting between 80 and 100 most days. - Eating up to 4 oz at a time. I haven't tried for more except with greek yogurt (I eat the whole container of the Oikos triple zero which is just over 5 oz). - On soft foods for the last 2 weeks and so far I've tolerated everything I've tried (eggs, Tuna, Ricotta bake, lunchmeat, etc...). I had chicken for the first time today (canned and made into chicken salad) and that went down well. - I can get my protein in but only if I do a couple of shakes (or max a premier out by adding some collagen). - Walking daily up to 1 mile. I go back to work on Thursday (I was VERY fortunate to take a full month off). I also plan on starting back with my rowing machine in addition to the walking. All in all I am extremely happy with how I've healed so far. I'm looking forward to continuing the journey. I have a lot of work ahead of me to get to a healthy weight but I am hopeful.

Well u r lucky to only have 5days of liquids. My doc put us on 3 weeks of liquids and some minor food like oatmeal, yogurt, chicken, fish and salad. So this will be very difficult for me. But its a means to and end.

my local health food store makes great peanut butter protein shakes. so now i just make my own at home with protein powder, ff vanilla frozen yogurt, banana and some peanut butter (also maybe some ice cubes). my band is pretty tight & i'm quite restricted so i don't mind the extra calories and it's sooo good. highly recommend

I have an issue with sweet stuff too- and of course most of the Protein drinks taste sickly sweet to me! I bought a 2lb tub of Jarrow's Unflavored whey Protein (at Amazon) in order to blend it with Soups like tomato, creamy chicken, plain yogurt, etc. So far I've used it in creamy chicken Cup 'O Soup and it only made the soup creamier- it didn't have any taste that I could detect whatsoever! Today I'll be having a scoop of it (18g protein) in a can of tomato soup. I hope that works as well. I chose Jarrow's because the reviews said it blended really well with hot and cold foods, and it does. I will say though, you have to mix it like you were making gravy or a roux- start with a small amount of the hot liquid, then whisk in (I'm at work so I used a plastic fork and it worked fine) the powder until smooth, then add in the rest of the hot liquid slowly as you stir. If you don't do it this way you will end up with chunky bits floating on top- so gross!

I was banded July 29th and feel lucky that I haven't had much pain or discomfort. Even right after surgery in recovery I felt pretty good and only agreed to pain medicine when they moved me to the outpatient recovery area and for the 1 hr ride home. The worse part for me that I have no energy. I took the dog for a walk around the block and then needed a 2 hr nap to recover. Like most of you I'm also getting pretty tired of just liquids, but have been glad that I can also have yogurt (without any chunks). I just want something to chew - I try to trick myself by using a spoon for just about everything except juice. It also helps me to take smaller portions at a time, because I tend to gulp instead of sip when drinking.

The liquid diet is no fun, but thank goodness it's temporary. Generally speaking, Protein shakes keep you going longer than other liquids (because of the protein), so you're less likely to feel light headed, but will probably still have to deal with hunger. I missed chewing so I ate a lot of SF popsicles. Other liquids you could try: bean or other veggy Soup pureed and thinned with enough broth to make it able to pass through a straw (even though you shouldn't use a straw) (add some FF dried milk to increase the protein content) reduced-sodium cream of chicken soup (or other "cream" of soups), made with FF milk, pureed unjury makes a great chicken soup flavor Protein powder. It's good on its own or mixed in with soup. You can only get it online (unjury.com). Their customer service is excellent. Fruit smoothies (add FF Greek yogurt to increase the protein content)

Hi all I was not able to eat yogurt until a month later? I guess everyone is different but I was told it should only take you 20 -30 minutes to eat one meal then you should walk away from it.. or wait until lunch.. that's what I was told good luck!

So nice to hear from other July sleevers. I had my surgery on July 1. I have only lost 6 pounds since then and am feeling frightened. But on the other hand I have lost 25 since the first of June. I am having trouble getting my protein shakes down and have switched to premade ones and find them easier. I am still so worried to start " real food". I am and emotional eater and need to deal with the reasons I over eat. I move on to puree on Wednesday and bought baby food and yogurt. Anyone have any other suggestions? Congratulations to all of you have started this brave new journey.

I was, but I was allowed to have sf jello, strained cream soup and low fat sugar free yogurt too! The fourth day was the most difficult. I did my diet for two weeks and it was over my birthday and the Fourth of July, which I did all the BBQing... I ate a bowl of pudding with extra protein powder while everyone was eating BBQ!!! Definitely not fun but I did not want any complications. I lost 22lbs on that liquid diet and my surgeon told me after the surgery how nice my liver looked. You can do it. It also prepares you for after. I have to eat the same after surgery until my follow up appointment which is on the 30th. I had my surgery on the 14th. I am definitely looking forward to some real food but I will say I'm not really that hungry and right after surgery everything even water tasted horrible.

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