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Follow-Up Visit - First of all, thanks to you all for the words of encouragement. I had my follow-up visit today and everything looks great! AND, I am on full liquids. YAY! I just had a 1/4 cup crea...

Surgery last Tuesday, tired and guilty for sleepin - I had surgery on the 23rd. I made my 8 oz shake and put it in 3 containers to sip them wait half hour, then sip water until the shakes are done. Will repeat later this afternoon. I...

Home - I stayed in the hospital an extra day because I kept vomiting. I am hime now and trying to sip water. I was given a script for prilosec and an antivomiting capsole. How do I take t...

Ready to spring this joint! - Just an update. Surgery went well, although now it seems i have contracted a cough, had an itchy throat when i got to the hospital yesterday. Want to nip this in the bud now! I wa...

On my way!I am waiting for - Bag backed, CHECK! cpap packed, CHECK! I am waiting for my sister to pick me up for my surgery. A little nervous but just wanting to get on the other sidr and sit on the loser's ...

do you count protein shakes as liquid, eating for - Do you include your protein shakes in your liquid count? How about soup and things like that? I have only been counting water, tea, coffee and broths towards my liquids, and not my...

pureed stsge and stick mixer - I bought a stick mixer today. Will this work well with cutting up the chunks I soups for the pureed stage?

Muscle Gauge Nutrition Whey Protein Isolate - Has anyone tried it? http://www.mgnstore.com/protein/pure-whey-protein-isolate-379.html

Full Liquid and Pureed Stages - My surgery is on Tuesday and I have been pouring over my binder that I got from the NUT. I went shopping last night to try and prepare for my eating stages after surgery. I am good...

Liquid Diet - I thought I would be gnawing at my fingers during this liquid diet, but the truth is, I feel FABULOUS! The first day and a half I had major hunger headaches. But then I started spa...

Motivation to Exercise - So my kids have been out of the nest for a year and I have a couple of spare bedrooms now. I cleared everything out of the smaller one last week and put my stationary bike in there...

Liquid Diet, up all night! - I am up all night peeing on this liquid diet! Is this normal? Probably because I have increased my fluids, duh. But sheesh, this is crazy!

LD, Wedding and Liver Fat - I sm on day 3 of my liquid diet and it is going better than I expected. I journaled my protein shakes, milk, jello and broth and i am actually eating around 1100 calories and 70 gr...

Day 1 Liquid Diet - Just had my morning shake. Hope I can make it to 10 a.m. for my next one without biting someone's head off. Taking tons of sf jello to work with me. On a brighter note, my first s...

Surgery by Robot - I met with my surgeon on Friday to go over my 9/23 surgery. One of the questions he asked was if I wanted my surgery done by him using the da Vinci robotic system. He said it is mi...

Protein Water and Unflavored Protein Powder - I start my preop diet in Monday. I was thinking about picking up some Isopure Zero protein water but it is pretty expensive. Does anyine know of a similar product that is a bit les...

Gastric bypass card - I am reading through the binder that my NUT gave me and color coding the tabs so I can find stuff easily (my sister said I am anal), and I come across a paragraph that says "Always...

Vitamin supplement question - Someone has probably answered this already, but as I am getting closer to my date, I am trying to gather as much info as possible. Do the veterans only take the bariatric multi vi...

Article: Whey ProteingConcentrate vs. Whey Protei - I found this article interesting and informative, about the difference between whey protein concentrate and whey protein isolate. http://www.builtlean.com/2013/05/14/whey-concentr...

Grocery shopping to prepare - My pre-surgery appointment is in 2 weeks and my surgery is exactly a month from today. I jeed to go grocery shopping today. I have a couple large containers of chicken broth in pre...

Pre-op weight loss goal - I went to a family cookout last Saturday and ate some things I shouldn't have (carrot cake, blueberry cake, pasta). The carb monkey was on my back. I was weighung between 212 and 2...

Want to run - I would like to maybe start jogging but I feel like I am too heavy/flabby/jiggly to jog. Is jogging any more calorie-burning than a fast-paced walk? This sounds dumb, but I feel to...

Protein Powder Recipes - I LOVE McDonald's Frappucinos (that is, before I limited my fast food). I made a protein shake that tastes remarkably similar. I froze some strong decaf coffee in ice cube trays an...

The cost of nutrition - I was wondering veterans, if you find that you are spending more or less for food, beverages and vitamins than you did before WLS? I am spending quite a bit more for groceries bec...

Nuts put the carb monkey on my back, - I see now and then in this forum that some people earlt a few nuts as a snack, so I figured I would buy some of this little snack bags and put a single serving of almonds and mixed...