One week out

[MariaS40 1]

Hey everyone, i am one week post op and down 17lbs since starting it all .. any tricks

[tabula 54]

That's awesome, congrats on the great start. I'm a little over 5 weeks out and I don't know any tricks but as I'm sure you hear/read stick to your surgeons plan. Seems like a lot of trial and error on foods you can eat comfortably. Small bites and chew chew chew is legit, my stomach tells me right away when I don't do that.

I really like cottage cheese with canned no sugar added peaches. To get Water, i have a bottle with 64oz in it, so I know I have to drink that before the day is over. I use MyFitnessPal to log everything and focus on the amount of grams of Protein, Carbs and Fat and don't pay attention to the calories.

One thing I've found is there is a delay in how full your stomach gets so go very slow, I ate a kids applesauce pouch while working and just sucked it down in 5 minutes with ~3 ounces and I though for sure it was going to come back up and was painful. Takes time for your stomach to tell you it's full.

Not sure that helps but good luck!

[MSinger 348]

1 hour ago, tabula said:

One thing I've found is there is a delay in how full your stomach gets so go very slow, I ate a kids applesauce pouch while working and just sucked it down in 5 minutes with ~3 ounces and I though for sure it was going to come back up and was painful. Takes time for your stomach to tell you it's full.

So much this! Learned my lesson last night. Just because you don't feel any pain or fullness after three bites doesn't mean to keep going. Take some pauses to make sure you aren't overdoing it. I didn't feel like vomiting, but I had terrible abdominal pain. Proceed with caution!

[starfishwish 129]

I'm one week out also. Between the pre op diet and this week, I'm down
12 pounds. I'm still having a lot of gas and nausea, but I'm getting my Protein and Water in. My protocol is liquids 2 weeks post op

[MariaS40 1]

Thanks for all the kind works and advice. it feels great to be on a good path of weight loss, i have been banded before and went down to 162.. then after 6yrs it flipped and it had to come out. the weight along with hypothyroidism just came back on in a matter of a year. I agree with you all on one thing, tummy does get fuller quick considering it is the size of a banana maybe lol. My first wk they had me on all fluids, now second wk they want me to be all full liquids including Soups. The gas is not fun at all.

[starfishwish 129]

I'm one week out also. Between the pre op diet and this week, I'm down
12 pounds. I'm still having a lot of gas and nausea, but I'm getting my Protein and Water in. My protocol is liquids 2 weeks post op