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At my appointment today I found out good news and bad news.

The good is that I lost 16lbs this week for a total of a whopping 41lbs lost since surgery 16 days ago (406 to 365)

The bad is that my belly button incision was not healing fast enough so the Fluid behind my incision needed to be drained and pack. It has to be changed every day. YUCK. very uncomfortable feeling and it will be 2+ weeks for this to heal.

I was scolded for low Protein intake and not moving enough. I am doing my best now to get as much Protein as possible - I am not tolerating the sweetness of shakes so I am going to try powdered skim milk mixed in skim milk (aka "double milk") and hope that will get me closer to my goal of 70g of protein a day. Isn't that crazy! I have no clue how I will get there it seems like such a high goal when I am only on full liquids.

I have a follow up in seven days for them to check on the incision and see my progress regarding increase in protein intake and exercising levels.

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If you can't stand the shakes - try some Isopure it's a clear flavored liquid with 40 g of Protein I had it delivered from GNC

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At my appointment today I found out good news and bad news.

The good is that I lost 16lbs this week for a total of a whopping 41lbs lost since surgery 16 days ago (406 to 365)

The bad is that my belly button incision was not healing fast enough so the Fluid behind my incision needed to be drained and pack. It has to be changed every day. YUCK. very uncomfortable feeling and it will be 2+ weeks for this to heal.

I was scolded for low Protein intake and not moving enough. I am doing my best now to get as much Protein as possible - I am not tolerating the sweetness of shakes so I am going to try powdered skim milk mixed in skim milk (aka "double milk") and hope that will get me closer to my goal of 70g of protein a day. Isn't that crazy! I have no clue how I will get there it seems like such a high goal when I am only on full liquids.< /p>

I have a follow up in seven days for them to check on the incision and see my progress regarding increase in protein intake and exercising levels.

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Do you have any unflavored protein or the chicken Soup protein from powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury? They also have cheese sauce. The Soup flavored is pretty yummy and breaks up all the sweet and the unflavored can be added to many things..good luck!

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Do you have any unflavored Protein or the chicken Soup Protein from unjury? They also have cheese sauce. The soup flavored is pretty yummy and breaks up all the sweet and the unflavored can be added to many things..good luck!

I do have unflavored protein, so I plan to add that to any cream soup I may have. I am a vegetarian so in addition to being unable to tolerate sweets, I am unable to tolerate anything with an animal flavor so the chicken soup is out. I flew over to the site to order the cheese sauce because that is something I would eat absolutely and it's out of season and out of stock. I am so desperate that I emailed them begging for the opportunity to purchase it now because I simply can not wait until October!

Thanks for your suggestions!

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I do have unflavored protein' date=' so I plan to add that to any cream Soup I may have. I am a vegetarian so in addition to being unable to tolerate sweets, I am unable to tolerate anything with an animal flavor so the chicken soup is out. I flew over to the site to order the cheese sauce because that is something I would eat absolutely and it's out of season and out of stock. I am so desperate that I emailed them begging for the opportunity to purchase it now because I simply can not wait until October!

Thanks for your suggestions!

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Well that sucks about the cheese sauce, they did bogo last month so I got 2 its pretty good, I add some to Tomato Soup. But im still pre op so trying to save it.

We went to our local natural food store the other day and got some packets of Protein to try...its all plant based Protein and they had some green ones that didnt look so sweet, unfortunately I am on the road and cant remember the name :(

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