I am 22 days post-op and some days I have to remind myself that I had major surgery. This journey has been easy so far. The hardest part of the journey has been the psychological battle that I have re: food. Trying to figure out what is physical hunger vs psychological hunger has been difficult at time. Here is what I discovered:

1) Watching TV can trigger psychological hunger. I never realized how many commercials are about food.
2) I can feel hungry around "meal"

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Well, I am 3 weeks post-op and doing great. I went back to work on week 2. Incisions healed and on to pureed foods. I am drinking 64 oz fluid and getting 60 + protein/day. I have been eating cottage cheese, scrambled eggs, protein shakes with skim milk, ground turkey and chicken. Tolerating everything but I am noticing that I am not losing any more weight. I lost 20 lbs and staying there for 5 days. When I eat food I am eating 1/4 cup or less of anything. Is this normal? I am getting discouraged.

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I am 11 days post-surgery and doing well, so I think. I am drinking and eating jello with no problems. I can swallow pills. I have had no nausea or pain. I am going back to work this week as I do not have a job that requires any heavy lifting.

My apprehension is this. I am getting hungry or at least craving more than protein and jello. I was told not to advance to the next stage until day 14. Is there any harm and doing it now? The next stage is to be pudding and pureed fruit/vegs.

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Yeah, I had my long awaited surgery (gastric sleeve) and I am thrilled with the outcome. I lost 10 lbs on the pre-op liquid diet (which was torture because I was hungry all of the time). I also took laxatives 2 days before surgery so I was cleaned out. That way I knew exactly what was in me and I was not starting out post-operatively with a full bowel.

I began the day of surgery with my shower and abdominal scrub. I arrived at the hospital 1 1/2 hrs before surgery. I had no wait time

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