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Omg, your the same as I was. I kept a big ol cup of my favorite drink, peach tea with me all the time and would gulp it down, and never felt like I could get enough (prior to surgery). I guess in a way this does prove that things gradually improve and you can drink and eat more as time goes on, because I already can do a near gulp of my drink. The same urge to eat for me is the same for a drink, I truly have to make myself drink. It's no where the same as before, I have to remember to drink or else I won't get enough in, but its changed drastically from prior to surgery. Drinking fills me up, but more temporarily then food. Right after surgery was super scary for me because you can fill your drink fill up your tummy and it scared me. I am definitely drinking more than I was right after surgery, and I guess the same as food. My food for today included a yogurt cup that I ate for Breakfast and lunch because I definitely can't finish it in one sitting, and for dinner I had fish and the fillet was very small, like no longer than my finger, and I didn't even finish all of that. I will have to look back for her user name, but someone had commented that they can eat quite a bit at 6 months and how they'd wish they only had the desire for the small amount still, so I've tried to convince myself to appreciate that and the fact that I am getting a lot of weight off quick because of it. It's like a constant battle with your mind though that's for sure.

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