Heyyyyyyyy Jesi So good to see you girlfriend! Don't know why I don't hang out here more. Things are going good, Katie is a freshman this year. She detassled corn this summer. I'm going to start line dancing on Wednesday night. Am so looking forward to doing this. Quit the bar & went to work at Pronto. LIke it so much better. AND they are soooooooo good to me! I've gained some back to around 15 lbs. BUT I have started walking with a friend, every morning we are at it at 6 a.m., helps when you HAVE to get up & going with a partner. To easy to put it off when you go by yourself. I've emailed the plastic surgeon this morning, with any luck would like to get tummy tuck done in January. Gives me time to quit smoking & get my deposit saved back. You take care & keep in touch. Hugs & loves Carolyn

Ok.  What do I do? I am so mad at myself for doing this surgery.  I love food and hate all this crap I am eating or not eating I should say.  Is this normal? I am 12 days out and feel I have made a big mistake.  Please help me.   Chris

You can make scrambled eggs with cottage cheese and it's actually pretty good! Recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/17118

I didn't throw up until 6 weeks post op, but I was pretty conservative.  I did have the beans from taco bell, they had cheese and sauce in them.  Granted a few bites was all I needed to get full.  But I tolerated them well.  Still do!  YUM!  string cheese?  Um my answer to you would be follow the book.......but in reality its hard to do.  All you can do is try it, but you don't want to push your new pouch over the edge.  If you choose to try it, chew chew chew.  Liquify it in you mouth.  On the line of cottage cheese, I hated that stuff preop.  The look the smell the taste just the idea was nasty!  Now I eat it all the time.  The only thing I do is add some splenda to it.  Satisfies my sweet tooth, plus get protein/calcium and it is filling for me. 

Hey Chris.......add some powdered milk to your skim milk for added protein or even to your cottage cheese.  I think just getting started to introducing food back to your new pouch will be enough to worry about let alone how much protein you are getting.  You will adapt to a style that you will learn to measure and adjust so you know how much protein you are getting in.  Use the website they gave you, as much as it suck for everything else, it has a great food journal to keep track of everything.  I still use mine daily and faithfully at that.  Follow your binder is the only advise I have. As far as eggs go, that early out the only way I could eat them was poached.  Any other way was too painful.  Shot me a msg if you wish.  You know how to find me.  Hang in there, from what I hear you are doing FABULOUS!