Hi guys. Just remember with the bypass there is a physical reason why we are sick in the early stages it may seem like it is all the time. It certainly was for me - probably six to nine months before I stopped being sick regularly. It is because we cannot get any quantity of anything down and certainly not at anything like the speed we used either. It takes a while for us to adjust to accepting what the tiny limit is - for example, we can never guzzle a drink again (I can't and I am 2.5yrs bypassed), and anything fizzy will just come straight back up unless we let it go flat - drinking from bottles and cans will not be possible, in my experience anyway. Fluids in the first weeks need to be sipped in tiny mouthful in order for them to stay down, and then foods in teaspoons (you will only manage a few). Once you feel full, the leftover food needs to be discarded as revisiting it once we have space is not what this is about!! Mine goes straight into the bin if I am at home, and if I am out then I empty the salt pot over what I have not eaten to ensure I do not continue to pick. Obviously if there is a surgical issue identified through tests which needs correcting then this will add additional problems. The limits are not rules, they are hard physical facts. Food and drink in any quantity is a thing of the past, but the consequent rewards are worth the goodbye! Come the late Spring/early Summer each and everyone of you will be considerably thinner and looking (and feeling) awesome, that it will all make sense. I am here in a supportive way, as someone who knows exactly how it feels to seemingly no longer we able to eat and therefore feel terribly weak and generally 'unwell'. And I found the transit back to solid food hugely distressing and challenging, it seemed to be without end - everything I ate I regurgitated. It was ghastly! But I got through - I can now eat everything more or less, but in tiny quantities, so job done for me. The head stuff over the 2.5years has been the biggest surprise and challenge, and I continue to learn day to day - I think that probably all the long-termers on here would agree. We have been given an amazing tool to use as we see fit - we can crave our old life-style and needlessly and foolishly (sorry, but we would be fools!) gradually get back to stuffing ourselves into an early grave blaming the WLS for not working for us (??!!) or we can jump onboard this amazing gift of a journey and see where it takes us. I can honestly say that I do not regret my decision to have 3hrs of surgery in July 13, but by heck to regret not doing it sooner. You are all doing brilliantly. Don't panic and try not to get too freaked by it - chill! Happy new year and new you, everyone xxxxxx
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