I have lost a Lilith

I had my 1 week post op appointment today. I was weighed first and I
have lost my daughters total weight! Can you believe it? In one week! Then
after you are all excited and happy, they tell you it is time to pull
your drain. It didn't really hurt exactly but I decided to watch. I was
sitting in the chair and the PA asked me to take a deep breath in and
exhale it slowly. He cut the two stitches anchoring it in place then
folded a 4x4 and placed it to the left side of the incision and asked
me to apply some pressure and hold it there, okay that hurt a little.
Then he prompted me to take that breath, I did and he began to pull on
the drain very fast, it kept coming, and coming and coming, then the
clear plastic tubing became large white waffle tubing, and it too kept
coming and coming, (I am surprised that my eyes didn't fall out of my
head at this point as they were so large with disbelief), and just when
I started to feel like I might vomit from the shear site of so much
tubing coming from my abdomen, it stopped. He announced that we were
done and put the 4x4 on it and taped it down. I asked why I wasn't
getting stitches or steristrips or something, and he said that as long
as I kept it clean and dry, (changing the 4x4 everyday), it would be
fine. We then talked about my diet for week 2.
Sample menu for one week post op...
7am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
8am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
9am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
popsicle 2oz
10am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
broth 2oz
NAP
noon
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
crystal light 2oz
1pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
2pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
NAP
4pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
broth 2oz
5pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
6pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
7pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
crystal light 2oz
broth 2oz
This was take from my gastric bypass notebook that all of Dr. Snyders patients receive in the pre op nutrition class. I have to admit that I was very bad and mostly drank just water my first week. I got in my 60 grams of protein in the form of ISOPURE and NAKED protein shakes that (as you can see from the chart above) take hours to drink.
Week 2
7am
yogurt 1oz
water 3oz
decaf tea 2oz
protein shake 2oz
8am
water 5oz
sugar free jello 2oz
egg beaters 1oz
9am
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
10am
water 4oz
broth 2oz
isopure 1oz
NAP
1pm
water 4oz
refried fat free beans 1oz
sugar free jello 2oz
2pm
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
isopure 1oz
3pm
sugar free popsicle 2oz
water 4oz
cottage cheese fat free 1oz
protein shake 2oz
4pm
water 4oz
broth 2oz
sugar free pudding 1oz
5pm
water 4oz
fat free refried beans 1oz
diluted apple juice 2oz
6pm
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 1oz
7pm
sugar free yogurt 2oz
water 4oz
sugar free popsicle 2oz
protein shake 2oz

WEEK 3-4-5
7am
Isopure 6oz
8am
water 8oz
scrambled egg (med)
9am
water 8oz
10am
tuna 1oz
dilute juice 2oz
11am
water 8oz
noon
penut butter 1 1/2 tbsp
bread or cracker 1/4 slice or 1 cracker
water 6 oz
1pm
water 8oz
2pm
Isopure 6.5 oz
3pm
protein bar 1oz
4pm
water 8oz
5pm
chicken 1/2 oz
broccoli/cheese 1/2oz
water 8oz
6pm
water 8 oz
7pm sugar free hot chocolate 8oz
I am only taking one day from each week just to give you an idea. They call the first 6 months post op, your Honeymoon period because during that time you are able to loose more weight than you will ever be able to again. It starts to slow after the 6 month mark but even so most people if they follow the rules and the plan, reach their goal weight in less than 1 year, some even sooner. Some people even have trouble losing too much.