Hi guys,
I got sleeved November 16th at around 14h, in the Netherlands.
The pre-op and post-op process is quite different than what I've seen from other countries in YT and forums.
Since my BMI was above 50 I didn't need to do the 6 months dietician program, but im the clinic they put you in a 10 people group, with 6 weekly sessions with dieticians, phycologists, fitness trainer and a doctor. You get tips, and prepared.
There is not pre-op diet other than beginning with the vitamins 14 days before surgery and avoiding excess of sweet and fried food to avoid a fatty liver, the explanation is that if you begin starving your body of food days before the surgery this might have a negative effect on the weight loss.
The same goes for the post-op diet, this is based of 14 days of liquids including all kind of skinny milk and milk products and filled soups blended/mashed. And after that you should try eating solid again, the rule is 6 eating times a day, mostly protein based, it should be like 3 main and 3 snakcs.
The thing is, I was really scared, my first surgery, the first in our group got sleeved the day before and she said it was though and painful.
They refused to give me anything to calm down before the surgery, I was afraid I'd wake up in a panic, as far as I've been told, my first words were me saying out loud "Holy s##t, is that it? Did I get from the OP bed to my bed all by myself? Did it really happened already?" While the poor nurse was trying to get me calmed down... I complained about wanting to throw up and pain (although I don't remember how great that pain was) and they injected me with something to knock me out.
By midnight I was walking throughout the hospital, the next day on the morning I took a shower and did almost one hour to get 200ml of yogurt down, the feeling of the gas was (and still is annoying).
I drank 1L of water and in the afternoon of the 17th I got released.
Since Saturday the 18th things went much better with drinking and walking, I walked 1,2km and drank almost 2 liters, between water, soy milk and broth, in the morning I had some protein quark and I cooked chicken with vegetables and rice and blended it, it went well.
At night I had a protein shake.
Today, Sunday the 19th I had a quark again, but it went much better since the gas is going away, I walked again the same distanced, and when I got home I tried some scrambled eggs, are 1/2 of it.
This time I cooked chicken with vegetables again, but with more liquid and instead of blending it, I mashed it, it was still very liquid, and it was better than the blended soup yesterday, and I ate 1/3 of a mashed banana, I also blended some cashew and peanuts, because snaking just milk protein is quite boring.
Their planning is like doing a 2-in-1 so they recommend 750ml of skinny milk a day because this counts as protein and as water... To this they add soups, other thicker milk products and some water of course, but I prefer to drink my water as is and getting enough proteins from other sources, no-one can drink almost 1L of milk a day.
I eat really slowly and chew a lot, even on soups, the thing is that my miraculously recovery seams to be some kind of abnormal thing? We all got sleeved between the 15th and the 17th of November, and even those who were one day before me, are still on clear liquids because it either hurts or they don't dare to go one step further. The same with walking, most are walking in doors only, for a few minutes.
Am I pushing too hard? I don't feel anything, and I listen to my body, during my walks I stop and sit to breath if I feel tired, and I'm constantly trying to identify if I'm feeling my stomach reject something or if it's just gasses.
I ask it because when I share what I've eaten for example the reaction from the group is surprise and clearly pouting out that they have still problems with even drinking liquids, while I'm in mashed food and fruits.
I'd love to hear if somebody else also had a similar experience.
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