12 days post-op

Hello everyone. I am new to this web site but heard a great deal about it. Finally I have decided to check it out. Its amazing to read everyone's own personal experience. I have to say I feel great! I have to give thumbs up to my surgeon and his office, they are great. The only thing I am having a hard time with is my impatience in eating semi-normal again. I am so sick of cottage cheese and scrambled eggs. I am not too creative with my menu. On Monday I get to add meat to my diet. I find it hard to see my friends and family eating all the foods I used to love to eat. But, I just remind myself that I made this choice and commitment and think of just how good I will feel when I start shedding the pounds. Went in at 340 and already down to 320. Congratulations to everyone who had the surgery and good luck to everyone awaiting thier date.

Tara, Welcome to our site and to this board. I am so glad to hear your doing so good. As far as getting bored with the cottage cheese and scrambled eggs, I so feel you on that one. I got tired of scrambled and started doing hard boiled. It is actually easier for me to eat. I also added a little fat free dressing of my choice to my cottage cheese. That made the taste much better. I just saw my surgeon Thursday and my dietician on Friday and I was told by both of them that I can now add some pureed foods. I am a little nervous about weather I am going to like it or puree it enough or gain weight because I am starting "food". Once I get my first week over with and see that I am still losing I will feel much better. I hope you stick around and post more. Congrats on the 20 pounds weight loss. You are doing great. Shannon

Be glad for the scrambled eggs and cottage cheese!!!!! My doctors program calls for 2 full weeks of clear liquids!!! I am 10 days out and 16 pounds down. I can't WAIT til Thursday when i can move to the next level of my diet. Food of any kind will be WONDERFUL! Congrats on losing 20 pounds already. Keep up the good work

YIKES!!! Two weeks of clear liquids would be really, really hard.....Good luck with it Monica! At least you are really getting a big jump start on the weight loss!! I came home from the hospital on purees, and should go to soft foods this week (4 weeks out) when I see my doc. I must confess to already being there, lol. I find I can chew food enough to make it "pureed" in my mouth if I chew long enough..............and it is so BORING to eat mush.. I am still losing weight, albeit a bit more slowly, and not having any problems, so I guess it is going fine.

Thank you to every one for all your support and responses. Monday it was officially two weeks from my date of surgery. so I got to add on my regularly cooked meat. I find for me that I do the best with chicken. Just cut it up real small and eat real slow and I'm good to go! I don't feel as frustrated now with the diet because I feel like I am eating more like a normal person. In no time soon I will be on a regular every day diet. It is so wierd because I feel so good. Every body that I talk to asks me how I feel and I say I feel great, you would never even know I had surgery unless I told you. But what is even more wierd is that you don't feel the smallness of your stomach until you sit down to eat a meal and you take a few bites and it like WOW. It is so different from how I used to eat and then I sit there and imagine what it would be like if even tried to eat that way now. Oh The pain I would feel. And then I remember how good I feel since not eating that way, the commitment to my new lifestyle and just how good I will look this time next year. It's time to clean out my closet and get rid of all my summer clothes and I was telling my friend who also had the surgery, that I was afraid to discard all of this years clothes. And she said "Tara get rid of them because your not gonna need them." So maybe tomarrow I will go through the closet asnd get rid of them. It's times like these when I can understand why they make you go through a psych evaluation because I find sometimes I really need to talk myself through things. And I am lucky to have the support from this web site. I appreciate all your input so let me know how you feel and if you have any suggestions on anything that we go through. I look forward to hearing from you all. Thank you, Tara