How did you eat food so soon after surgery? Didn't your doctor/dietitian give you a diet to follow? I know for many weeks it was liquids only. I didn't have real food for 5-6 weeks after the band. You have to let your stomach heal properly. I lived on shakes and Popsicles after the band. I sipped water, a small amount at a time. I never once did anything that was not on my food list.

Be very careful please, so you don't get hurt.

agree with eye candy, seems very soon to eat after surgery....but if your dr okay's it, then so be it.....to help with hunger, eat more protein...i do not see that...per what you wrote.....

3 days after surgery?? I didn't eat anything solid for weeks.. you need to go back and re-read your post op instructions.. you are still healing and I think eating mac n cheese and cabbage will hinder that....don't hurt yourself...

For 24 hours I was on a liquid diet only. Afterwards, I am on a soft food diet until seen two weeks after surgery. NO fluid in the band until four weeks after surgery. BY NO MEANS DID HE MEAN EAT HOW I FIRST ATE. As you can see I learned from that. Anything I eat now is a very small cup size portion. However I am not allowed to eat solid food outside of fish. NO beef, chicken, pork, no raw veggies --- no solid fruit. All mushy soft foods. After my two week evaluation I will know what else I can eat. But for the main concern, yes I am allowed a soft food diet.

How did you eat food so soon after surgery? Didn't your doctor/dietitian give you a diet to follow? I know for many weeks it was liquids only. I didn't have real food for 5-6 weeks after the band. You have to let your stomach heal properly. I lived on shakes and Popsicles after the band. I sipped water, a small amount at a time. I never once did anything that was not on my food list.

Be very careful please, so you don't get hurt.

3 days after surgery?? I didn't eat anything solid for weeks.. you need to go back and re-read your post op instructions.. you are still healing and I think eating mac n cheese and cabbage will hinder that....don't hurt yourself...

He did not give me a list of soft foods only that they be soft foods only. Cabbage - Very Cooked cabbage. Soupy Cabbage is what I tried. Doesn't work for me.

agree with eye candy, seems very soon to eat after surgery....but if your dr okay's it, then so be it.....to help with hunger, eat more protein...i do not see that...per what you wrote.....

On that I have readded the protein shakes to my diet. Working on other proteins to eat ---- soft food,

I was on liquids for the first week, second week soft diet then third week regular food as tolerated.

I'm not going to lecture you, I'm honestly just fascinated that you WANTED to eat! I cried daily the first week because I was so tired of having to have my shakes/protein drinks every couple of hours and I had absolutely no appetite. It was so depressing to me initially to still be cooking for my husband and missing the food I used to eat but having no desire for it whatsoever...I felt like I had lost a friend! LOL But yeah, like the others said, I wasn't allowed soft foods for about 2 week and even then it was hit or miss; 2.5 years post surgery and I still can't eat some of the foods you tried.

I'm not going to lecture you, I'm honestly just fascinated that you WANTED to eat! I cried daily the first week because I was so tired of having to have my shakes/protein drinks every couple of hours and I had absolutely no appetite. It was so depressing to me initially to still be cooking for my husband and missing the food I used to eat but having no desire for it whatsoever...I felt like I had lost a friend! LOL But yeah, like the others said, I wasn't allowed soft foods for about 2 week and even then it was hit or miss; 2.5 years post surgery and I still can't eat some of the foods you tried.

Well I have had years of stomach pain. I had pain every time I ate. so discomfort while eating is nothing new for me. But trust me as I stated I learned what wasn't going to be acceptable in the food department....very quickly. As to why my doctor allows me to eat soft foods now: I am really not sure. But he stated to do that after 24 hours.