BeautyQueen218

In my experience, you can have coffee as soon as your stomach tolerates it. If I recall, that was a week or two after surgery for me. Have a sip, wait, see how it goes. If it feels good, have another sip, wait, see how it goes. If at any point it hurts, stop.
Your coffee has 800 calories? My cup of black coffee has 5 calories. Choose well!

Can u use fat free almond milk in your coffee right after surgery?

I have always drunk my coffee black. I drink about 32 ounces of coffee a day. That's to stay functioning. On my post-surgical tray with broth and Jello was coffee. Not Decaf. Leaded. My team and I had discussed it at length. If I feel the need to have a sweet coffee drink, I go with a sugar free, nonfat vanilla latte - iced or skim. Basically, your only calories there are the skim milk (which is 10 or 16 ounces, roughly depending on iced or hot.)
I'm almost 2 years out (23 months) and I pretty much eat and drink what I want, but inadvertently was given a full sugar full fat vanilla latte recently and had dumping issues because I can't handle that amount of sugar.

I do 1 8-12 oz coffee a day, in the morning. No sugar, no sweetener outside of some sugar free non-dairy creamer and a splash of fat free milk to for the caffeine to bind to so it doesn't impact my Calcium intake.

I've seen a few people on here drink coffee with Premier Protein Caramel, which I think would be a good way to replicate your iced caramel macchiato. Or coffee with Farlife milk, and sugar free Syrup, caramel or vanilla. Both would be good ways to get Protein with few calories, and get that sweet coffee fix.

I started drinking Decaf right after surgery. I actually noticed a lot of benefits from being off of the caffeine so I generally stick to decaf and only have the fully loaded version on really bad days. I have it in a variety of ways - most commonly with sugar free Creamer. One thing I did a lot early on was mix it with my Protein. I would do coffee, protein shake/powder, ice and a little milk and then shake it all up or blend it to make it more like a frap. I mixed and matched the flavors of protein to make different combinations but my favorite was chocolate or caramel. I do plain decaf lattes occasionally too - mainly if my tummy is feeling extra cranky (hot drinks are better for me than cold).

I waited 6 months, my plan said I only needed to wait 2 months. I just didn’t really want it at that point. Now I just stick to basic coffee with one sugar. But I let myself have one mocha with skim (220 calories) once a month. I just say pay attention to what all is in your coffee (I wouldn’t do the fancy 800 calories coffees) and but I see no issues with a basic coffee once far enough out from surgery!

Well in the morning I had a very soft scrambled egg and it stayed down. So I'm pretty sure it was most likely the crackers. I'm just not a fan of textures and the pureed stage has been hard for me. I literally just want to stay on liquids to avoid the mushy foods. [emoji23]

Victoria - Do you mean "2.5 weeks pre opt" or post opt.
NOTHING upsets my stomach. I'm adding green Tabasco to my eggs and refried Beans. I'm adding spicy low carb BBQ Sauce to my mashed sweet potatoes. That said, 4 ounces is my limit for anything of substance (it's probably 3 ounces, but I can't bring myself to prepping such a small portion.)
Of course this may change with solid foods!