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That is why I like my program. It is presented as this is what we recommend, here is why we recommend it and it's up to you to make your own choices. By no means is it presented as you must follow all our rules or the surgery won't work. I'm an oncology nurse who works for 2 surgeons and a rad med doctor in an office with 47 different physicians and before that I was a surgical nurse in this same large university hospital that is heavy on research. So I do know that if you take 2 surgeons of the same specialty, performing the same surgery, they will sometimes have some different ideas on how things are to be done and they will have research to back up both of their different opinions. It pretty apparent from all the posts on here that plans widely vary. Where I live, I went to the seminars for both programs that are available. The one I didn't choose had a much more "flexible" eating rec than the one I chose so that was pretty obvious before I had the surgery that different programs will say different things. However, in my case, if I say I am not permitted to eat something until this time , it's because I've chosen to put my trust into this provider and this program and, at this point, I've chosen to follow their recs. It's all about choices. This surgery and what you do afterwards is definitely not a cookie cutter program like, say, ear tubes. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

So at my program we can't have fruits or vegetables until week 8 and then the veg has to cooked only for a couple of weeks and we have a list of which fruits we can start out with. Our NUT has told us as well that, when we start fresh veg to avoid lettuce as it has little nutritional value (especially for the amount you can eat) and that it can cause gas, bloating and diarrhea in a lot of people. As for lettuce expanding, lettuce has a gas producing starch called raffinose that some people lack the enzyme to process, making their stomachs feel stretched and bloated. That surgeon may find I it easier to just say it expands than explain all that. I hate it on here when people make fun of other people's programs (such as saying your surgeon needs to take a chill pill) simply because their program is different. The first thing I've found on this site is how different programs can be and that is because there is research out there that will support almost any opinion that a med professional out there can have. My opinion is that you chose your provider for a reason, so listen to them and adhere to their guidelines as much as possible, but as our NUT stresses to us, it is ultimately your choice as to what you choose to take away from it and your choice as to what you decide to follow. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App