Vertical Sleeve Stomach Operation/ Lost 20 Kg already but...

Thanks again ladies. Abaddon, health factory has a vegeterian option which include some of what you mentioned below and a lot of times I go for the vegeterian option and also most of their meals include peas, quinoa and black beans and .. yes these I can digest without problem. Dubainy, I have seen Right Bite in the past 2 years ago and it wasn't a good experience.. and I contacted them sometime in October last year, but when the saw the form with the operation details, beside that they ignored me for 2 days, when I called to follow up, the receptionist told me that she cannot help because of the operation and the special needed food.. And to be honest, Right Bite is much more tastier than Health factory (based on my old experience) with them and they have a lot of varieties but I dont think they count calories well. DesertRose, thank you. I am taking into consideration all feedbacks and already started to change my daily food intake.. for 2 days when I was feeling this hunger pain I was drinking water instead of rushing to biscuits and I am writing down what I am eating. I will give myself a month at least to see if there are any changes. I will also be dedicated to going on bicyle for 30 mns at least daily, I will make the bicycle ride fun.. I love cats so I am putting some food in the front basket and while riding the bike I look if there is any stray cat or lost cat.. So it is searching for cats in need of help or food, and exercise at the same time ;)

Dal Fry, I chew enough anything that enters my mouth until it is pureed and then I swallow it. If I am chewing it and couldnt make it pureed in my mouth, (sorry) but I spit it out - I dont swallow it. I am going to search on the internet for some home made soup, the kind of pureed soups.. I like mushroom soup, cream of chicken, potato and leak soup but I always run to toilet when in the middle of having the soup :( My stomach is very sensitive.. zzrogedzz, I will email you, thank you :)

I have been told that the hunger pain should stop after few months of surgery but it never stopped. I am joining the support group here in Dubai to see if anyone is experciencing the same problem and at the same time, I will start to drink water when I feel the hunger pain instead of rushing to biscuits. I have healthfactory from Sunday to Thursday so I will check tomorrow of how many grams the lunch consists of, but it is 350 calories for sure and really a small portion.. and it takes me a longtime to finish it and most of the time I dont eat it all. I was told about dumping syndrome after few months of surgery and I consider what I am going through now is still better than before.. at least now I can have few pieces of chicken or fish (from healthfactory) only, sometime back I was not able to eat that at all. Someone suggested soups, maybe I should try to make soup at home, but if I order soup in restaurant, always always it cause me diarrhea, maybe they put full fat butter or whatever ingredient...but it is not good to me too. Last Thursday a piece of watermelon with fetta cheese made me rush to toilet.. and it is getting embarrassing when I am with friends.. I will join the support group and definitely seek some medical help.

Puffinlude, all what you are saying is totally correct, that's why I asked in my 1st thread for someone who has experience with my surgery. Yes, my food intake is decreased BUT not any food I can eat. If I order a grilled chicken piece from any restaurant, one bite of the chicken makes my stomach sick so restaurant food is not suitable at all to me and always I end up with rushing to toilet even if it is 1 or 2 bites. I followed a strict diet given to me by my dietician after the surgery, the 1st 2 weeks consisted of clear soups + tea, jello without sugar.. After 2 weeks, I started eating pureed vegetable food and baby food and chicken broth (not the chicken itself). After 1 and half months I was allowed to add fish but pureed fish and I started with tuna with water, my lunch consisted of 2 to 3 spoon of plain tuna (with some lemon).. breakfast and dinner consisted of 1 piece of toast + 1 sylphide light cheese (and this is still my breakfast until today). I followed everything I was told to eat except that: I was told that with time my stomach will tolerate more food, and I will be able to eat in small quantities pasta, rice, fish, chicken and last thing I should be able to eat is meat. They all hurt me badly and until date, I still feel pain after 2 spoons, so I stop for 10 mns then I take other 2 spoons.. What I can assure you is that I never ate food that contained any kind of fat after the operation, I can't eat it. Any food with little oil, kind of burn my stomach so I don't even think about it. I have done my surgery beginning Feb 2010, I lost 20kgs by June 2010 and that's it. So when all the real food (chicken, tuna, fish) hurted my stomach, that's when I started going to cornflakes but that's was for a very short period of time as my dietician asked me to stop it. I now order from Health factory but I dont complete their food, however it is still better than if I order a salad from anywhere else. I am only on lunch and dinner packages, but if the food contains some tomato sauce I remove it and I eat very slowly and if I complete a meal (and doesnt go to the bin) it takes me 1 to 1 and half hour. - I take nexium 40g in the morning as protection for the stomach, doctor said that I will stop nexium when the hunger pain stops.. - I didn't drink coffee from Feb to Dec 2010 coz I was not able to smell coffee for some reason then. I was back to coffee in Jan this year but if I make 2 mugs everyday, I don't complete any of them because it gets cold before I drink it, and I drink it very slowly. - I cannot drink anything with food including water. So If I am going to eat my lunch at 12.30pm, I can drink water 30 mns before my lunch, and when I finish lunch I must wait another 30 mns until I can drink otherwise the water top up the stomach and it hurts badly. - Anything I eat at home is light, milk, cheese, etc... - sometimes I eat ONE egg for breakfast (in weekends), I use little Elle & Vire 50%fat free butter and it takes me half hour to finish one egg, without toast.. and mostly I eat it cold.. but that's ok. - I am on 6 types of vitamins. - I think my mistake is when I feel the hunger pain, I run to chew a biscuit because it stops the pain and doesnt hurt me. - I dont drink alochol, cokes, juices or any type of fluid at all except the 2 coffees and water. I am going to print the link you provided me and see if the information can help. A lady here already sent me contact details of a Support Group in Dubai and I am going to contact them tomorrow, it is always useful to learn from people who did the same surgery. Sue62, I buy diet meals not because I am dieting but I dont know how to cook, I work for more than 12 hours a day so I need to have some good healthy food instead of buying restaurant food, at least I can eat some of it. I admit that I sneak chocolates sometimes when I am stressed, it is not on a daily basis and not in big quantities but even these little chocolates, I will stop them. I dont want to blame my family with the obesity thing, but the stressful life is what made me over eat and that's when I had the surgery.. the thing is my stressful life didnt change and it is not getting any better.. I thought about counselling few months ago, because I really have 100 things in my head but dont know where to go, and also I dont want people around me (including my bf) to know about it.. and I thought if I will go counselling, where do I start.. I can write a book..

Dentro, Thank you for your valuable reply. I am joining a support group of people who went through the same. Most of the time, even health factory lunch goes to waste because I can't complete it and I always remove whatever sauce they put.. though at least I eat some of their food while if I order a salad from anywhere else, I eat 2 spoons and that's it. I order also health factory because I am trying to eat protein like fish and chicken (no meat) because my body needs it. As I said before, the hunger pain is my main problem but since it might be thirst, I will start drinking water when I feel it and see if it stops.

Thank you for every reply I received on this thread. I am reading your comments and will think about each one. I am going to start exercising seriously with no more excuses. I do lot of things everyday and yes I feel tired but after going through that painful operation and all what I went through, I think my body deserved more attention from my side. As a beginning I will at least do 30 mns on bicycle every night, will eat one bar of chocolate once a week and will completely cut these digestive biscuits. Sorry but people who didnt do this operation won't understand the feeling of pain in the stomach when eating a high protein.. How many times I got a salmon for dinner, grilled it in the oven with little olive oil and lemon and I was able to eat only 2 bites before getting a terrible pain and throwing the full salmon in the garbage.. I am not exagerating when I talk about the pain, biscuits and corn flakes never hurted my stomach that's why sometimes I fall for them.. I know they are not good for me but when I get hungry and protein food hurts I tend to choose biscuits because they don't hurt me and because I want to stop the hunger pain. Guinness, I didn't know AT ALL that I can feel thirsty in my stomach :) I drink water when my mouth is dry and that's when I consider myself thirsty, if that pain in my stomach is thirst and not hunger, that will change a lot in my daily eating habits, so whenever I will feel that pain from now until a week, I will try drinking water and see if the pain stops.. I don't drink at all, alcohol or cokes, I was never a fan of both, never ever.. so the only extra calories I get are from biscuits/ cookies... Apart from that, I drink coffee with 0 fat coffeemate twice a day and one cube of sugar with each cup... dont tell me sweet n low coz I hate the taste :) I will keep a journal and try to be honest more with myself about what I eat and will give myself at least 3 weeks to see if my weight will drop a little.. I eat cheese for breakfast everyday with one piece of toast, I love cheese and it doesnt upset my stomach.. As for Guinness, I will keep that in mind if I didn't find a doggie to walk him in Springs 2, the problem is that I will have to drive to come to Meadows and I am such a lazy woman :D when I lived in sharing before, the owner of the house had a big dog, I took him to walk every evening, it was so much fun (except the fact that he hated all other dogs on the street so I spent most of the walk trying to stop him not to jump on other dogs :))

Cheggers, haven't tried low GI foods but sometime before I do the operation, I tried atkins diet a year before the operation and didn't loose anything!! As for hormone problem, no I am sure I don't have that, I did all tests before and I am ok. What was wrong in my life is the eating habits. I used to come home very tired from work, and chocolates made me happy while eating it.. I used to eat without thinking and couldnt stop myself, I never felt that 7 chocolate bars eaten in 15 mns are too sweet!! I will not be able to eat low GI food only because proteins hurt my stomach but I will google it and see what are the options in the GI food diet and see if it is suits me, thanks for suggesting that. I am not married yet but planning to with my longtime bf, the doctor told me that I am supposed to loose all extra weight from the date of the operation (1st week of Feb 2010) up to 18 months, that's why I am desperate now to loose the extra, I don't have much time left. Also the lady doing this operation is not supposed to get pregnant until after 18 months or 2 yrs from the date of the operation, to make sure that all the extra weight is gone before pregnancy. And even after pregnancy, I am supposed to follow a certain diet that will not affect the baby's health, right now, I am sure that I dont eat enough protein but enough carbohydrates (biscuits...).. No irregular period at all... <em>edited by JS on 25/03/2011</em>