For future rainy days get Leslie Sansome's "Walk Away the Pounds" DVD. You walk in place to music with her. She is great. Also, calm yourself with meditation, prayer, listening to soothing music, crochet, knit, journaling, these are all things I try to do to not eat like I used to. Hugs, Trish

I am 6 weeks out and I use to relieve stress by eating ...but I cant go for a walk today its raining out...I feel sick...frustrated and just want to medicate myself like I use to with food...and ideas?

I am almost 8 weeks out and getting in about 400-500. Somedays it is REALLY hard to do that to! Pretty amazing. I am concentrating more on water and protien and do not really count calories.

Well I use ISOPURE low carb shakes with 2% milk. I had my lap on 14th they had to keep me on Phenergan the whole time thinking it was just the meds but on the 15th same thing. They wheeled me out I told them I did not feel good. My wife drove me home I came home got in bed was feeling real bad then I started throwing up all night long. My doctor was at a different hospital that day he said to come up there in er went they found my old stomach had 3 liters of fluid and was about to burst. they went back in drained old stomach and put in drain tubes they looked for blockage but found none. It was not till like 4 days later I went to xray they injected die into drain tube to find blockage but they were not good xrays after that it started draining on its on.

Hi Reggie, I can't drink shakes either. They hurt! My nutritionist said to leave them alone so I think I'll follow her advice. Also, my surgeon doesn't advocate the use of protien drinks. He wants us to get protein from food. What happened that they had to go back in and change to an open procedure for you? By the way, where is your town in TX? I used to live outside New Braunfels just north of San Antonio. I don't miss the heat. Carol