Week 5 Update

Hey everyone it's been a while since I have been on !! I am on week 5 pre-op and doing great !! I am down 30lbs !! Hope everyone is well !

What a wonderful weight loss!! CONGRATS!

Lauren,
WOW! That is awesome!
How are you feeling? I haven't been on in awhile either. I'll have to check your utubes out. Do you have a recent one so I can see where those 30lbs went?? I have to get my before pics up! I am down 35 lbs! It isen't it a great feeling??
hope all is well,
Lisa

Hi guys.. good to see you are all doing well.  I also had my 4 week anniversay and have gone down 30 lbs.!! I am so happy..I still feel I am not eating enough, I just hope my bloodwork comes back ok with no deficiencies!

Keep up the good work !!

Yoly

Yoly,
I wasen't eating anything for a few weeks. Just this past Friday i started to feel like eating. I was nauseaus before. Nothing sounded good or was appealing to me. I tried to drink alot though. One day I would have like a tbsp of egg salad and another day I would have a rice cake with melted cheddar cheese. I felt crummy and developed a UTI. Then just last Friday I was in the mood for some food. I have made chix parm and chicken pot pie. I haven't ahd any trouble with foods yet and am not concentrating on low fat or low carbs yet. Since I am eating so little(like 1-2 tbsp still) I jus****ch my sugar(I am afraid of dumping). Doc said to just try foods to see what your pouch likes and not worry about numbers yet. I see him on 2/24 so we will see. So far I am down 36lbs in 5 weeks.
I have to say that I feel 100% better then I did last week though!
Lisa

Hi Lisa,

Glad you are feeling better.  I am glad I am not the only one not eating.. I really dont eat much at all, I do drink alot of water liquids, but food wise still not so much..my doc said the same thing try everything and see what you can tolerate..

hang in there I am sure it will get easier for us!!

talk soon

Yoly

Hi fellow January surgi sisters,

It's been a great month and glad to hear you are all doing so well.  Keep up the great work, we're on our way now.

Hugs,
Barb

Lauren, that is wonderful.  Keep up the good work!!!

Hi All,
Glad to hear that everyone is hanging in there.  I've been tolerating some foods fine...kind of "hit and miss".  I put my liquid protein in my tea and that's been working pretty well so far.  But I've been having more problems with indigestion...like that gassy, reflux feeling.  I take reflux medication but it gets worse if I wait too long to eat.  Has anyone else been having this problem? 

Definitely! Food has become an enemy to me. I eat so little now it's scary but when I do eat it makes me nauseous and gassy. Burping gas mainly because the other kind hasn't been a problem since before surgery. I also seem to have a lot of bile. When I eat, sometimes it comes up like to food I just ate dropped in and pushed it up. It's not pretty. Doc says just eat whatever I can to get the calories in because I can't do the "conventional methods" that seem to work for everyone else. This all is a bit scary to me now so I'm just hanging in there. Going for blood work tomorrow to check my levels and see where I am with that. Hopefully things aren't too bad!