New here, three weeks out

[stephjoysm 16]

Hi everyone, my name is Stephanie. I'm 22 years old and I had my surgery on 7/10/13. So I'm three weeks out. I'm so glad to have found this community and I'm excited to give and receive support and advice from future and past RNY patients.

[nursejb 38]

nice to meet you I haven't had surgery yet but hopefully in a month or so I will be joining you on the losers bench this is a great forum good luck and God bless you!

[stephjoysm 16]

Thank you. Best of luck to you as you start your journey.

[ElleG 394]

Welcome!

[Gel 9]

Welcome, I had my surgery 6/26/13

[karlam29 221]

Welcome and congrats on your desicion! Hopefully ill be joining the losers bench soon if you dont mind me asking to you how has it been for you so far? Has it been hard? Transitioning to this lifestyle just curious my preop testings aredone im clear for surgery im waiting now on my surgeon for my second cosult and i dont know whats next freaking out already!! But soo ready at the same time

[Sparklette 381]

Hello, and welcome, I'm 21 and had my surgery 3 months ago. This is a great community.

[stephjoysm 16]

Welcome and congrats on your desicion! Hopefully ill be joining the losers bench soon if you dont mind me asking to you how has it been for you so far? Has it been hard? Transitioning to this lifestyle just curious my preop testings aredone im clear for surgery im waiting now on my surgeon for my second cosult and i dont know whats next freaking out already!! But soo ready at the same time <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

It's been a little hard so far. My doctors have really strict food phases. I've seen a lot of people say they are two weeks out and are eating normal food already and I'm so jealous. The worst thing has been having to eat the same thing for two weeks. I'm on the soft foods diet so I am only allowed to eat mashed hard boiled eggs (which I hate), cottage cheese (which i hate) oatmeal (which I hate) cream of wheat, refried Beans, plain Greek yogurt ( which I also hate) and mashed potatoes. I'm halfway done with my second week of soft foods and just the thought of having to eat refried Beans or mashed potatoes ever again sickens me. If prefer not to eat at all then to eat mashed potatoes and refried beans. But it's almost over and then I can have salad and ground beef and actual food. ???? So excited.

[Sparklette 381]

It's been a little hard so far. My doctors have really strict food phases. I've seen a lot of people say they are two weeks out and are eating normal food already and I'm so jealous. The worst thing has been having to eat the same thing for two weeks. I'm on the soft foods diet so I am only allowed to eat mashed hard boiled eggs (which I hate), cottage cheese (which i hate) oatmeal (which I hate) cream of wheat, refried Beans, plain Greek yogurt ( which I also hate) and mashed potatoes. I'm halfway done with my second week of soft foods and just the thought of having to eat refried Beans or mashed potatoes ever again sickens me. If prefer not to eat at all then to eat mashed potatoes and refried beans. But it's almost over and then I can have salad and ground beef and actual food. So excited.

Eek, I still shutter when I think about refried beans. But it's a necessary step, you do not want to move any faster, trust me. Jumping in to solid food was hard for me, it felt like a tun of bricks were sitting on my pouch, because I started too early.

[stephjoysm 16]

@karlam29

Oh im more than happy to answer questions. It's been hard but not that bad. The worst thing about post op is having to eat the same thing all the time. For me the clear liquid and full liquid diet went by pretty fast. But my doctor won't let me have Protein shakes which I think is weird because it seems like EVERYONE else on this blog can have them. Anyway I'm down to eating maybe once a day because my soft foods list is so strict. There are only 6 things on it and 4 of them I wouldn't eat if you payed me like cottage cheese and mashed hard boiled eggs. ????Yuck! So all I have left are mashed potatoes and refried Beans. Which now just the idea of having to eat them just repulses me. But it's almost over. On Wednesday I can start eating salads and ground beef and fish. Mmm so excited! ????

[stephjoysm 16]

Whoops. Didn't mean to answer twice.

[OCDanielle 1]

I had surgery 7-10 too. Doing good but struggling to get past tuna. Just putting chicken in my mouth freaks me out and I get this overfilled pressure from one tiny bite. Maybe that's good. Keeps me from eating too much.

[stephjoysm 16]

I'm not allowed to have any of that yet. It's kind of strange though because I go from liquids and soft foods where they stress no chunks to next week where I can have fish and vegetables and meat. I fell like I'm going on a hunger strike because I'd rather not eat than have to eat mashed potatoes again.

[life_after_gastric_bypass 214]

Welcome to the group:) and congrats on your new life change:)

[cynthiakred 8]

Welcome I think you will love this forum! It has helped me so much through my journey and seriously everyone here knows what you are going through. Good luck and enjoy. Ill be 3week 2morrow