31 Year Old Mom Sleeved Across the Border - Mexico

I wasn't always overweight. Growing up I was a very competitive athlete, playing basketball 10-12 months out of the year from the time I was in fourth grade through high school. Then comes then a bunch of grief and trauma along with quitting all sports. I ended up finding myself spending time with a self-proclaimed bulimic/over eater and learned a lot of unhealthy eating habits for the first time. Then comes college and since then I just have never been able to truly get this weight off. Within a matter of one year I gained about 80 pounds and then proceeded to fluctuate between being 80 pounds overweight up to even 125 pounds overweight. I am tall at six feet and with my athletic frame my healthy weight was approximately 175. Throughout the years I struggled with many different pills and diets and I would get down 20-40 lbs for a while. At one point I completely changed about three years ago my eating habits. I began cooking and eating very healthy meals daily that were under 500 cal and yet I still couldn't drop my weight pass a certain point. It seemed I became hypersensitive to anything that went into my body and if I wasn't careful I would just shoot right back up to where I was feeling discouraged, frustrated, and just overall in happy with who I was.
I had friends who had bariatric surgery and had wonderful results and at times people encouraged me and asked me if I thought about it. Of course it was one of those things that you think about but you don't tell anybody that you're thinking about it because you have to shame over the fact that you are this size in the first place. Then I had another coworker who had went through a lap band procedure down in Tijuana, Mexico. Overall she was happy with the surgery but was expressing that she was wanting to go back down and have a revision surgery done to convert her lap band into the sleeve. I was sick of how I looked and felt so I just made a decision spontaneously at Thanksgiving and said I was going to do it. That day I called made an appointment and placed my deposit (day after Thanksgiving) and started slowly weaning myself off of caffeine and changing my diet the beginning of December. I trained my body by cutting back as much as I could throughout December and then starting on January 1 I went on the pre-op diet for a full two weeks. So from January 1 on I was very strict with my pre-op diet and lost a total of 20 pounds prior to my surgery. I flew down to Mexico by way of San Diego on January 16 and had my gastric sleeve that day.

I am now 8 days post op and since beginning my pre-op diet have lost 25 lbs. My incision points are healing nicely and I have minimal bruising.
My friend had went through International Patient Facilitators so that was the surgery consulting company I went through and she set me up with Dr. Sergio Verboonen at the Obesity Goodbye Center in Tijuana, Mexico.

I think I got a little overconfident because I was feeling so good. I have been drinking chicken broth and tomato soup and added a few crackers. I've also tried mashed potatoes and gravy, really moist tuna fish w/ mayo, and an egg white omelet with cheese. I felt like I handled it all well and honestly could only get down several small bites but I guess I got a little skid shy. A friend who is a RN and has a lap band scolded me saying that my incisions haven't healed and I could cause a leakage.
So today I vowed to regress and made some homemade smoothies with my protein powder and picked up some more drinkable soups and liquid yogurt. Ugh, that food was amazing, especially those mashed potatoes. Unfortunately I have received three different diet plans and they all vary greatly. One of the plans from my doctor said that I could start potatoes my second week...any thoughts?

Just a quick update! It's now been two weeks since my surgery and I've lost another 5 lbs so I am sitting at 30 lbs lost since 1/1/15...just 30 days. My incisions are all healing up beautifully and I feel like the swelling is about gone! I've also slowed down with incorporating foods this week. I've had a few cases of killer heart burn and boy it sure is easy to feel like something got stuck (food) if I'm not caseful and boy that hurts like a beast in my chest!