Question:
I am 3 wks post op and I made a mistake last night. We are only human

right? So I decided to post a question here about mistakes we have made and that we will never do again. I was sleeping last night and at about 5 am I woke up thirsty. I went into the kitchen to get a drink and spotted the apple bran muffin I had left over from breakfast. I took two bites of it and then quickly took a drink of cold milk! I don't know why I forgot the rules! I guess I was groggy. Anyway, my pouch quickly reminded me who was in charge. I felt terrible pain for a few minutes. I had to take pain meds to go back to sleep. Has anybody else made mistakes and regretted it immediately? I will never do that again!    — Marilyn C. (posted on November 8, 2001)

November 8, 2001
The biggest mistake I ever made was to try and swallow a big pill without cutting it up first. I thought I was literally going to die. It took nearly an hour for the pain to pass. I'll never do that again!
   — Terissa R.

November 8, 2001
Oh yes I have done that myself. The small pouch will remind you quickly, as well as the pain. Don't beat yourself up about it. It is hard to break old habits.
   — sherri W.

November 8, 2001
Oh yeah! About two months after my surgery, I went out to dinner with some work friends. I did just fine with the meal. I had my fish and my veggies. But I forgot about waiting 30 minutes to drink. There was a glass of ice cold water at my side...I was talking to my friends....and just like in my pre-surg days....I drank half the glass in one gulp. Big mistake! It came right up like a geyser!!!! Just like old faithful!!!! A stream of water spewed all over the table!!! I was shocked...then horrified....then I couldn't stop laughing. My friends were simply horrified.........
   — margaret N.

November 8, 2001
I'm going to post this anonymously because I'm so ashamed of myself. But I want to talk about it. Just last week they had a pot luck fund raiser thing at work and one of the guys mother who is a caterer make a peach cobbler. I was resisting all temptation until one of the girls at my table kept urging me to try this peach cobbler. It was the best she's ever had she said. I tried a bite about the size of the tip of my pinky finger. I automatically knew my son would love it and thought I would sneak it into his lunch pail as a surprise. So I washed out my little 1/4 cup serving dish and put some in it to take home. Okay, I forgot to put it in his lunch so I saved it for the next day. The next day when I woke up there was the empty container. Spoon still sticking out of it. No peach cobbler in site. I thought, poor thing he found it and ate it after I went to sleep. WRONG - I found it and ate it after I went to sleep. I still don't have a real recolection of it, but I asked me if he ate it, and he said No, but I'm going to. As if I wasn't feeling guilty enough. I ate my babies peach cobbler and cheated on my diet too. I didn't get sick from the sugar. But I am still sick from knowing what I did during my sleep. Anyone else have problems with sleep eating?
   — [Anonymous]

November 8, 2001
I did the same thing in the middle of the night. I was only 4 weeks along and needed a pain pill to help with sleep. So I thought I better get something on my tummy so the pain pill won't upset it. So I took two fork fulls of spagettti(not thinking) and with in 1 minute later I though I was gonna die. It felt like a 100 pound weight was droped on my chest and I couldn't breath. I broke out in sweats and had to lay down right away. I was horrible.
   — Heidi L.

November 8, 2001
I made my mistake just last week. I made a dinner with some chicken and veggies and it was wonderful. I invited my sister over who brought a loaf of fresh baked french bread. I saw here dipping her warm bread in the cheese sauce from the veggies, I immedeatly went to the other room. I finished my dinner and went back to the kitchen to do the dishes. The french bread was jumping up and down screaming "eat me" the cheese sauce and veggies was screaming "dont waste me". I gave in. I took a huge piece of the soft french bread and drowned it in the cheese sauce, it tasted so good that I took 2 huge pieces and covered it in the cheese sauce. I went back to living room and wasn't feeling to bad until I sat down - OUCH! My mouth started watering and my chest was hurting and what went down was on it's way back up. You get the picture. Anyway, I felt bad but I guarantee one thing I will not ever make the mistake again. I beat myself up for about 2 days and then decided that we will live and learn. Beating yourself up will do no good. We have to learn from our mistakes.
   — Staci P.

November 8, 2001
Since we are confessing... I am going to be spending Thanksgiving with my husbands family so I wanted to make a turkey roll to see how I did with turkey. Kind of a test run. Made lots of fat free gravy and it wasnt a problem... very moist and good with the gravy. However, later on... I was getting ready to go to bed and grabbed a chunk of cold turkey from the bag in the fridge and gobbled it quickly. Within 10 minutes I was dying... and it started coming up. The problem was it was not coming up fast... just a little at a time. I was so sick all night long and my throat hurt the next day from all that throwing up. What did I learn? No sneaking a quick COLD snack of cold turkey. Hot is fine but cold wont go down. Makes me sick thinking about it. It is tough to break old habits... but now I know better!
   — SusanMaria

November 8, 2001
I've been making booboo's all week. My kids Halloween candy is still lurking around and I have been eating it. I was only eating a few pieces of chocolate, and was fine, but tonight i sucked on a jolly rancher for about 10 minutes, and I have never dumped so bad in my life. I swear I thought I was going into a coma. I was sweating, heart was racing and I could not move. I was like a slug on the couch. It was the worst thing I have ever been though, well except labor LOL. Never ever ever am I going to do that again!
   — [Anonymous]