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I had my surgery on May 28th. I am down 13lbs and in general feeling pretty good. I am struggling to get my Protein on this liquid diet. I am sitting around 30 grams a day. I am also having trouble keeping my Multivitamin down. Any suggestions?

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I was sleeved on the 23rd and have been good on Protein b/c I drink at least two shakes a day. Each has 25 grams of Protein from the powder and skim milk adds another 8 grams so I reach 60 easily.

Vitamin wise I use the Bariatic fusion chewable. I hated them in the beginning but I knew how important they were so I kept pushing. Now I'm a pro at it. I crush them (the nasty taste just stuck in my teeth if I actually chewed them) and take the powder like a shot and quickly swallow it down with a sip of apple juice. The apple juice helps with the taste and it all goes down easily. I can now down two crushed pills at once with no stomach ache. I do this once in the morning and once at night and all my Vitamin needs are met.

Good luck, and my the pounds shed quickly :)

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I'm drinking two shakes a day, sipping them so I don't go over the 4 oz per meal. I add a meal of Lite cream Soup with unflavored Protein to make my meal seem more substantial. The key to that is not adding the protein to anything over 135 degrees. There are also flavored Splenda coffe syrups that can be added to shakes to make them more flavorful.

The only problem I have is the heartburn. I need to know if this is normal and will it stop? Cruching my regular medicines is a pain, but I'm hoping that as my weight goes down, I will be ablem to take a lower dose of blood pressure medicine and therefore it won't be so hard to take.

Good luck to everyone. When I had my postop June 5, I was already down 17 #s from my preop May 22. I hope to lose at least 75 more pounds.

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