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07-13-2006, 03:47 AM
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| Super Moderator  |  Hi tammy, how far out are you now? Keep us posted on how you are doing, too, we're waiting to hear from you. Now, about this chewing and spitting...you'll have to be very careful about this even though immediately post op you won't be able to actually stomach the food. If you let yourself get into the habit of doing this everytime you want to eat, you are in danger of sabotaging yourself by allowing your old brain to rule your eating habits. You are experiencing that something called "head hunger". It would be best not to succumb to the temptation of putting solid food in any form in your mouth while you are still instructed to stay with liquids. In the meanwhile, try to "purge" yourself and your palate of the taste of the kind of food that got you into trouble. The whole point of this surgery is for you to learn new and healthy eating habits and food choices, while your body loses weight from the stress of major surgery. Once you have lost the weight, and your body has healed, the only thing that guarantees that you will be able to maintain the weight is the new and healthy lifestyle you have acheived while recovering from your surgery. Don't beat yourself up if you happen to get off track, but make sure you get back on track as quickly as you can, and try to avoid habits that can make you go off track easily. ((((((HUGS))))))) DocSanae
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07-13-2006, 09:13 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,756
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass     | SORRY you were having such a rough time.... I didnt do that 2 days post op but i do recall doing that when i was on puree very near regular foods. BE careful remember you had MAJOR surgery and your healing!!!!!! THERe are reasons we can only put liquids down that early out. GOD forbid something sneaks in. YOU DONT WANT TO TEAR OPEN THE HEALING STAPLE LINE IN YOUR POUCH! becareful plz if your in the stage now! hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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07-13-2006, 11:21 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, USA
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Height: | I did that too. You are not alone in it. Don't stress it is my advice. Be careful and it really isn't the best to do, but I understand why you did it. Janae |
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07-13-2006, 12:52 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2006
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5' 6" Height: | I didn't do it, but I sure thought about food a lot!!! I would drink some protein and it just took a little till I was full. I understand, though. I was having food thoughts before I was out of the hospital. Now is not nearly as bad...were a lot worse for me then. I still have them though. You are not alone. Good luck on your recovery. Straight and narrow is the way. Kat |
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07-26-2006, 07:35 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,756
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Tammygarrigan. YOUR getting over the loss of food! GLAD your doing it less and keep us posted of your progress! If you would like to see what people eat we have a thread in coffee talk called WHAT DID YOU EAT TODAY... we daily posts our days foods. HUGS but be careful your not getting dehydrated if you havent kept things down in 4 days. I hope u have let your surgeon know...perhaps you need to be checked for a stricture perhaps.
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07-26-2006, 11:05 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: May 2006
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5' 6" Height: | Hi Tammy, Cream of wheat and LF ricotta is still one of my favorites. I put H2o in a cereal bowl, add 3 T. dry COW. I nuke for 1 min., stir well to avoid lumps, nuke another minute, stir out lumps and make a hole in the center. I then put 1/4 c. LF ricotta in center, and cover it with some COW, being careful not to mix. I nuke for another 40 secs. or so. I sprinkle on 1/2 pkg of equat around the edges and across the top and take little tiny bites, making it last for a half hour. It agrees with me and the heat makes my pouch feel good. Hope this helps. Kat |
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07-27-2006, 09:19 AM
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| Big Loser | my first week at home i couldnt eat anything! the smell of anything would make me hurl! after a few days my wife talked me into sipping on some wonton soup broth.........is was so wonderfull! about as nice as the first night after the doc took my j-drain out when i could lay in my own bed and sleep!!!!
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