What do you do about birthdays?

[CherokeeGirl 25]

I'm being sleeved on October 6th and my birthday is October 20th. I spent my last birthday in hte hospital, was taken by ambulance on my birthday. This is a big birthday 60....what do you eat that's good since you can't eat birthday cake and Ice cream?

[IcanMakeit 1,318]

At two weeks out, I was still on a full liquid diet. What does your program call for at two weeks? If you're on liquids, you can have Greek yogurt with artificial sweetener and vanilla. This was a special treat to me at that stage. If you will have advanced to purées by that time, maybe you could make a parfait with Greek yogurt, sugar free Jello and puréed fruit?

[Miss Mac 6,262]

That sounds good now, and I am almost nine months out!.

[WhoKnows 288]

Don't forget, you can also make whipped cream out of coconut milk. Not lowfat, but for a special occasion not a bad source of calories.

[finediva 979]

Don't know what you can eat based on your program, but early happy birthday. At your 61 next year you'll be able to answer this question so much easier, and do so while shopping for that smaller size birthday outfit!

[Vickybli 64]

You CAN have ice cream as long as it's sugar free and sugar free Jello and pop sickles. In a couple of months you will be able to make your own cakes using stevia. Happy birthday.

[LipstickLady 25,682]

Instead if making your special day about food, make it about you and your health! Go pick apples, see a play, go to a concert... Celebrations no longer center around what I'm going to stick in my face and they are much more memorable now.

[AvaFern 3,516]

This might sound silly, but maybe invest in something for yourself that you can use on your next birthday. This time next year you will certainly be down quite a lot of weight and your sleeve will probably be tolerant of just about anything you want to eat, even if it's only a few bites. Is there a really nice place you'd like to go for dinner? Buy a gift certificate this year (make sure they don't lose money in a year- most shouldn't) put it somewhere you know where it is, and really look forward to all of the things you will have to Celebrate next year. Chances are, all the food that you're sad about not getting to eat on this birthday, won't matter as much next year. Even better than a dinner gift card, maybe buy a skydiving pass or a gift card to a designer clothes store you can't shop in now or even a trip to a place where you may not have felt comfortable going before. Save that for your birthday next year and you'll get to look forward to it all this year.

I only eat chocolate for my birthday and Christmas because otherwise I will eat way too much of it. Every year I would look forward to that time and ravenously inhale chocolate. This year, I'm far more looking forward to wearing my new dress to dinner with friends, than I am about the chocolate cake I was craving last year. I'm also not worried about trying new things anymore because I don't feel like everyone is looking at how fat I am. Now I walk into designer stores and I know that most things will fit me and that the salesgirl isn't wondering what I'm doing in her store. Not getting to Celebrate your birthday with food this year just means that you will get to celebrate it with anything else you would like next year!