10 days post op. Don't feel any restrictions with liquid. Confused?

Thank you so much! I should try and keep my carbs low when I start re introducing them, right? If I wanna keep in the ketosis stage.

Stick really close to your sugeon's diet plan. You have already taken the really hard step of going through with the surgery. If you just follow the plan, it will work its magic. You will have stalls in your weight loss, and you will feel depressed sometimes BUT you will also have the thrill of huge victories like falling weight, wearing clothes you never thought you could, and doing things you thought were closed to you forever. It's all worth it - keep the faith!

If you can - join you sugeon's support group, and go to meetings. Great info there!

You're doing so much better than I was at this stage, I was eating too many calories. I didn't feel any constriction with fluids until about 3 months out. Like others said, it takes awhile for the healing and nerves to reconnect... Now I feel the constriction if I take more than three swallows at a time. But if I sip sip sip like we are supposed to do I can get a lot down over an hour :)

Thanks so much for your reply :) That's interesting and really helpful. So could I ask if you lost weight in those first 3 months? And how many calories were you having a day roughly? Thank you again :)

I lost 20lbs the first month, then it dropped off (look in my signature for monthly losses) I was eating around 1000 calories a day because I was literally following the doctors orders. Everyone here on OH was horrified, most said that they couldn't have done that if they tried. I was eating soft, protein dense foods like cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, canned tuna, and at that point I was still trying to eat "whole foods" rather than protein powders. Soft foods slide right thru your pouch so you need to watch out when you eat them. Limit your portion, eat no more than half a cup that first month or two.

One of the problems I had was that surgery and recovery were a breeze! I had a really sharp burning pain in one spot, but otherwise I felt perfectly fine within a week. At six weeks out I started a 5k training program, and twelve weeks out I was commuting to work a couple days each week by bike. I felt well and was eating six small meals a day and thought I was being a good patient. Now I still break a few of the rules here on OH, but for the most part I'd reigned in my calories big time and cut back even further on my carbs.

I'm sixteen weeks out and tonightI swam for 20 minutes then ran 3 miles (so slowly that I was passed by a walker four or five times!!!) I'm telling you this to try to justify my relatively high calorie levels (700-800/day) and to also rationalize my slow weight loss (cause in building muscle!)

Let me be a horrible warning, follow the advice for the veterans!

I'm 9 days post-op and also lost 6 lbs. I don't have much/any physical hunger, but having psychological "hunger" I try to eat 3 TBSP of whatever I'm having. Everything is so unappealing right now...blah!

To help with my protein intake I bought Syntrax Nectar at add to water. They're not bad but I can taste the protein after-taste sometimes.