My RNY was 12/9/08.  At this point, I am living on: cottage cheese, string cheese, cheddar cheese slices, Carb Control yogurt, Quaker Oats Weight control oatmeal every a.m. for breakfast, Stew Leonards chicken chili, tunafish mashed with Hellmans lowfat mayo, and pureed chicken nuked with melted cheese. I supplement with SF popsicles, SF jello and SF chocolate pudding. I never go hungry and I hit my 75g of protein just fine.  If I am off target, I drink a Muscle Milk.
Hope this helps.

I have been receiving a lot of good thoughts and comforting words and wanted to give a little update. (I’m posting this on my usual boards ) I will probably not be on very often because I am still so tired…lol.  I came home last night, but the last few days were rough.  Surgery went fine until they found I had internal bleeding and couldn’t get it to stop.  I ended up getting five units of blood and medication for clotting.  My husband Brett was there with me the entire time, and I have a whole new outlook on him as a person.  I have always known that he is a good man…but I really had no idea what he was capable of, and I can’t imagine my life without him in it. And on a side note, I have never in my entire life FELT so much love surrounding me…that alone was an amazing experience.     As far as pain, I felt like I had done about 1000 crunches, but that it as far as the surgery itself.  The worse pain is the trapped Gas that floats around inside trying to get out.  Walking helps, but it seems that only time solves this problem. And to be honest, it’s the only reason I’m taking pain medication. That pain SUCKS!  I can drink as much as I did before, and have only eaten Jell-O which goes down and stays down fine.   I am already on Iron and B12, and the idea of getting the iron transfusion has been floated around, but I will know more next week.   I DO NOT regret this decision and I am still so excited to start living life like I want instead of imagine because of this excess baggage.  I will write more when I can…but thank all of you so much for your support, thoughts, prayers and vibes.

Congrats on moving to the loser's bench. The gas does go away but it does hurt quite a bit while it is there.

Hey everyone...24/f/maine here...I had Rny on dec 22 and was home one christmas eve...Everything went good with the surgery except for my gas pains.....They were un believable immediately when waking up from surgery..I flew up and demanded to walk since thats the only thing to get rid of them...lol..With my gallbladder surgery they had to expand my abdonmen with gas as well...same story..I was miserable...so yeah I walked a lot around that floor for 2 days...still in pain but nothing un bearable...I called my doctor today and she thinks I needed an acid reducer...so now im on prevacid..so far so good...as far as BM....I wanted one sooo bad sonce suregery and no luck and I just had one today with the lovely help of Milk of Mag...NASTY tasting!...so to all of you recent  people...how much are you guys actually getting down?  today is the first day i have been able to get down more than 2 sips of anything in an hour time frame....Today all that i had was 3 oz of No added sugar carnation instant breakfast, maybe 8 oz of water throughout the day, 3 teaspoons of tomato soup.....3 oz of sugar free hot ****o and 2 tsp of yogurt...what have you guys been able to do??

10 lbs in 4 days is AWESOME! Congrats!