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Tommorow will be my second week of being banded my doctor instruction says for me to continue on kinda of a liquid diet???? yogurts,oatmeal,pudding ,shakes ,thick Soups???

But I have been reading post and for others second week is the mushie stage? really confused any suggestions im scarreed that if i do mushie food like mashed potatoes i will make a mistake

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Every dr is different so you should follow your DR. advice. Mine said 2nd week was just thicker liquids like shakes and yogurt etc

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I'm on my 2nd week, I'm on puree, I've been having oatmeal, chili, tuna, egg salad, nothing has made me sick. I wouldn't try anything not mushy though...

If you can have oatmeal I'd imagine you could do like chili or something? Think easy to chew if you have to at all, and will digest easily

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What type of chili do you do?

I'm on my 2nd week, I'm on puree, I've been having oatmeal, chili, tuna, egg salad, nothing has made me sick. I wouldn't try anything not mushy though...

If you can have oatmeal I'd imagine you could do like chili or something? Think easy to chew if you have to at all, and will digest easily

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Yea I'm too scared to try something crunchy or more solid like a chicken breast or cracker

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Tomorrow I start week two and I'll be having oatmeal! Gosh, I want food so bad but I too will stick with very soft foods for at least two more weeks.

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I was told to not do anything crunchy until after my first fill. I'm on purees after 1 week of general liquids. I've had tuna and I pureed some lentil Soup and put some chicken breasts in it, it was really good.

I ate about a 1/2 cup (maybe 3/4 of a cup) of the Soup, a pudding cup and about 1/2 a cup and peas and I tell you I feel like I ate a full Thanksgiving meal, I feel guilty like I cheated, but I didn't. Who knew that little bit of food could do so much.

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I was banded on 12/15 and the first thing I ate after my 7 days of liquids was mashed potatoes. I didn't get sick or anything. In fact, it tasted like the best meal of my life! Lol!

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I would call and ask. The paper doesnt list every single food ya know?

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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