did you eat a specific diet after surgery?
It is important to eat well looong before surgery.
The surgery is a tremendous insult.
Since my RNY 22 months ago, I have remained supplemented and hydrated.
I am an absolute fanatic.
(it is the nurse in me.)
I log every bite in Sparkpeople and review my numbers.
I never go to bed with less than 100 gms of protein.
So, after surgery (almost 3 weeks ago) I was so queasy and puny, I didn't panic.
But I choked down drinks and bars.
After a week or so, my appetite returned and I am holding fast at 100-125 grams a day.
The biggest gift we can give ourselves in this journey is to prepare our bodies.
Because after...our bodies become hypermetabolic just trying to "right" themselves after the surgery, anesthesia, blood loss...the whole bit.
Revised from Band to Bypass 10/26/09
High Wt 355/ Surgery Wt 343 (BMI 61) / Current Wt 190 on 3/17/12
TT/Fleur De Lis 8/22/11
Mastopexy and Brachioplasty 12/14/11
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
My first 2 meals were protie drinks, I would add a high fiber cereal to my drinks, as you tend to become constipated with the narcotics. You do not want to be straining bearing down. I had a bowel movement 3 days after surgery. I usually aim and tend to eat 25 grams of fiber a day.
Also colase for a stool softener 3x a day until BMs are normal
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Carmen
Nov 10,2009 I reached GOALL BYE BYE 130 POUNDS! It wasn't about the FOOD, it was about what was eating at YOU! Time for a Head adjustment! **July 2011 Plastic Surgery Lower Body Lift
Exercise 
is not a LUXURY!
Exercise is a 
NECESSITY
But boy, when I got home from the surgery I couldn't even hold down a sip of broth. I was vomiting up absolutely everything. My brother microwaved some pasta and the smell alone made me heave. I figured out it was the percocet that was making me so sick, and switched to a different pain med which helped me stop throwing up. But right now I'm at the point where I don't even care what I'm eating, as long as it stays in my stomach. I can handle ritz crackers, toast, and creamed corn. That's it. I figure it's more important to just get calories, any calories, than to try to choke down things that will just make me throw up again. And yes, I'm taking zofran, a very powerful anti-nausea drug. Tomorrow I'm going to get back on the wagon with protein. But right now my primary concern is to keep from throwing up, and eat some calories.
5'9 HW: 297 GW: 160 CW: 161
Chris
HW/225 - 5'1" ~ SW/205/after surgery 215 ~ CW/145~ BMI-25.8~Normal BMI 132 ~DS Dr Rabkin 4/17/08
Plastics in Monterrey - See Group on OH Dr Sauceda Jan 13, 2011
LBL, BL, small thigh lift, arms & a full facelift on 1/17/11 UBL 1/21/13
Love my Body by Sauceda
No, I didn't gain any weight before surgery. I was adding in protein drinks (eggwhite protein), can't do whey shakes.
Chris
HW/225 - 5'1" ~ SW/205/after surgery 215 ~ CW/145~ BMI-25.8~Normal BMI 132 ~DS Dr Rabkin 4/17/08
Plastics in Monterrey - See Group on OH Dr Sauceda Jan 13, 2011
LBL, BL, small thigh lift, arms & a full facelift on 1/17/11 UBL 1/21/13
Love my Body by Sauceda
