5 weeks post op

It's been 5 weeks now since surgery. I had my 1 month post op appointment last Friday. The Dr Catania was happy with my progress. I've lost 50 pounds. 24 of that was the pre surgery liquid diet. He says 1 pound a day is normal. I'm having a hard time with getting enough liquids and protein in everyday. I plan on really concentrating on that overthe next few weeks. I can't wait to eliminate more of my meds. I hate crushing them up twice a day. They taste horrible. Sure doesn't seem like it's been 5 weeks.  I've been very fortunate with not having any problems or pain.  I started on regular foods last week and sure enjoy eating. Just need to eat slow and chew, chew, chew. I haven't found any foods I don't tolerate (yet). But then again I haven't pushed the limit of what I'm suppose to eat. I eat a lot of shrimp ****tail, ckicken and refried beans. I tried a pot pie from KFC and it went well (didn't eat the crust). Enough for 2 meals.

Hiya Bill - congrats on the 50 lb! Just keep plugging away at the liquids and protein. Glad you are not having any issues/pain. Take it easy with the foods & keep up the good work. All best....

COngratulations on your weight loss.  YOu are doing great!!!!    It is great to see that you are doing so well and tolerating it well.  I love shrimp ****tail.  Do not know why I never thought that would be something to eat:)  I love seeing such sucess and hope to follow in all of you alls footsteps when my time comes

Congratulations!!!! Bill on those 50 pounds, and the next 50 will come off for you as well just keep pushing those liquids and those vitamins and praying for you to get rid of the other meds I was so happy when I could toss those. Keep up the great job!!!!

WOOHOO!  Great progress so far!

Hooray !  I am so glad things are going well with your weight loss and what you are eating. I think I was 8 weeks out when I decided to stop crushing my pills. What I did was the water test--put a small amount of water in a glass broke the pill in half and waited t see how long it took to disolve. If it dissolved in under 5 minutes then I just took the pill. Mmmm chicken pot pie sounds good this morning.

Yay Bill..sounds like your doing AWESOME...one of these day's I'll get my surgery date and be hot on your tail....:) I went over my grocery list last night and I think Im going to survive ( once I hit that stage ) off of chicken, tuna, beans beans and more beans.....Maybe some cottage cheese or ricotta cheese and hope that my taste buds change ALOT because I really dont like yougart :)

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OMG!  It's been 5 weeks ALREADY???  Seems like last week! Sounds like you are doing AWESOME!  That's GREAT!  Definately work at getting in your water and proteins.  you will alot better when you do.

You are doing great Bill!!! Keep it up!  Just keep working on tha****er & protein.  It can take a few weeks to work your way up to what you are supposed to be doing.