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With attitude and committment like yours, I think you should do very well. sounds like you're doing it right.
You have so many more changes coming... and much more improvement coming as well (I'm stage 3 too, and pretty much did everything you did). But it's so slow in coming... can be very depressing. I saw major improvements in eating, volume, sleeping, pooping, you name it... even from 12 to 24 months post-op. Just accept nothing as the new normal... my view was I wanted to be like I always was... in terms of what I ate before EC came calling. And since most everything hurt my new stomaphagus and caused me intestinal issues... I thought what the hell am I going to cut out of my diet?! Everything?! So instead, I changed nothing... dairy, sweets, carbs, proteins... I just kept shoveling it in until my body re-wired itself to get the job of digestion done once again. Took a good bit... but I'm there now. And I'm shocked how much I can eat now... in one sitting. Just a weird journey. Hang tough... but your attitude is great!
Gary