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Topic: RE: Anyone Struggling
Traci,
I'm 16 days Post Op and am down 22 lbs. I have a hard time too with my H2O and Protein. I have now incorperated as my Dr allows, I drink up until I start eating. If I have a water based food, ex: broth, egg drop soup, etc.. I will drink 30-45mins after. I will wait the full hour if I "eat" a thicker food like low fat yogurt or s/f pudding in 1 oz cups though. I am eating 2 to 3x a day since my DR said now only eat when hungry along with 1 protein shake (Hank's Protein shake) a day. I just order (New Whey Protein viuals) which have 25 grams of protein in 2.9 oz's. They are super sweet though! Pureed boiled eggs are yummy, too! Protein is in that as well as in my egg drop soup. Yummy, Yummy! I look for protein in everything! LOL Today, I ate 2 TS of reduced fat peanut butter with 8 grams of protein. Of course, each WLS DR is different and has a different set of rules. I also am walking and being more active EVERYDAY and again following the rules from my DR. Adding my 2 chewable vit's, 2 chewable calcm's, 1 biotin losenge and 2 chewable B-12's. Boy, all this is a full time job and I'm glad I'm not working for another 4 wks to get all this down. 
I wish you all the best and keep trying; you'll get it! 
Here's some of my favorite websites to help with our protein:
http://www.vitalady.com/products-protein.htm
http://www.healthfitnesschannel.com/index22.html
http://www.unjury.com/index.shtml
http://store.bariatriceating.com/conewwhlipr.html
I hope this help!
Your WLS sister,
Carrie
I wish you all the best and keep trying; you'll get it!
Here's some of my favorite websites to help with our protein:
http://www.vitalady.com/products-protein.htm
http://www.healthfitnesschannel.com/index22.html
http://www.unjury.com/index.shtml
http://store.bariatriceating.com/conewwhlipr.html
I hope this help!
Your WLS sister,
Carrie 
Topic: RE: sad
thanks guys i was wondering if it was just me ...and its nice to know im not the only one
Topic: RE: sad
I went through the exact thing. I lost 25lbs my first 2 weeks then nothing for nearly 2 weeks. I have lost another 11 since then, so do not be discouraged, the scale will move again. I agree once I got my fluids down it got better, I think my body was retaining whatever I was taking in.
Topic: RE: Stuck Food
That happened to me the other day. I tried walking too, that is what my surgeons office recommended. I ended up vomiting but not intentionally. Yesterday I was drinking water and drank too much too fast and I thought I was going to die, I was at work and it just came up. I could not breath, it came up just high enough to sit there. I kept trying to burp hoping it would go down and I brought up a bit of it and eventually it gradually went down.
Note to self: eat and drink more slowly!
Topic: RE: WORK?
That is wonderful!!!
Excellent benefit. I can have up to 12 weeks off with the last 8 weeks at 80% salary. I am going back at 5 weeks.....don't want to use all my time just in case I need it for something else....family or myself.
Hugs,
Traci
Topic: RE: I am home and constipated...
The liquids are hard to get down, for sure. I love drinking the water, but I am afraid to drink it too fast, and how are you supposed to get down 64 ounces per day when you are allowed to drink 4 ounces an hour? Do the math, it doesn't work. I can't lose sleep to be drinking water! If I drink too fast or too much I get nauseaus.
Sweethoney-that is what happened to me with my bowel movements. I FELT a huge piece of poop blocking the exit! Little stuff would come around it, but it felt like a brick was blocking the exit... gross, but the best way I can describe it. Glycerin suppositories did it for me in about 10 minutes, miracle stuff I tell ya!
Love to all of us August Babies
Michelle Brennan
Michelle Brennan 
Topic: RE: sad
Yes, Yes, and yes.
I was so afraid when I stalled but it has started moving again. Don't let it freak you out just get all the protein and water you are supposed to.
Betz
Topic: RE: I am home and constipated...
Hello, Surgery Sister,
Sorry that it took so long for me to post, but I didn't have my computer
Okay, I too am constipated, I just used the glycerin suppositories, and I am only passing little pieces, but I feel that there is more that needs to come out, I think that I will call my surgeon today, other than that I have found it extremely hard to get all of my liquids down, water just makes me 
oh well, hopefully this will pass. I hope all is going well on your end
Okay, I too am constipated, I just used the glycerin suppositories, and I am only passing little pieces, but I feel that there is more that needs to come out, I think that I will call my surgeon today, other than that I have found it extremely hard to get all of my liquids down, water just makes me oh well, hopefully this will pass. I hope all is going well on your end 
Topic: RE: Motivtion to exercise
You may want to try the Leslie Sansone "Walk Away the Pounds" tapes to build yourself up a little until you can walk for longer periods. There are three tapes and a stretchie band in the set. Tape 1 is a 15-min, 1-mile walk; Tape 2 30-min; and Tape 3 is an hour. The band is used for arm exercises. It doesn't take much floor space to do the tapes. I got my tapes at Wal Mart for about $20.
My doctor wants me to join a gym, so I'm trying to psych myself up to do that.
Pam
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