I was banded on May 22 I am cheating and having a lil cream of wheat...has anyone cheated with mushies only 2 days in?

My instructions include cream of wheat in liquid stage

Thanks for sharing, I dont feel as bad now. My doc has me on clears for a week, not supposed to start cream of wheat until 2nd week!

If you cannot follow your doctor's instructions 2 days after surgery, you are going to have a hard time with the band. Even though diffferent surgeons have different rules, there are rules for a reason. The first being proper healing.

LB I agree, I am going to stay clear for the renainder of the week! But I must admit the cream of wheat did make me very full, and also stopped my cravings for solids. Not to sound gross, but it also helped break my 5 days of constipation.

While I agree with LB re following instructions, it is also very confusing when we read on here that different surgeons have different rules for different stages of this process. I am not perfect and since being banded over a year ago, I have certainly eaten foods that I no longer want to eat or that my surgeon has said I should not eat. That's because I am human and prone to temptation. I have lost 61kg so consider that the band has been successful for me.

However, I was not brave enough to break the rules of my surgeon pre or post-op nor post-fill. I see these as the most vulnerable points in the whole process and therefore the most important times to be following YOUR surgeon's instructions.

I can eat cream of wheat until the mushy stage. You don't want your stomach to be doing much work at this stage. Be careful.

I was banded on May 22 I am cheating and having a lil cream of wheat...has anyone cheated with mushies only 2 days in?

I'm allowed to eat cream of wheat pretty early on (I'm being banded in 4 days)

I couldn't stand it last night - I was sooo hungry that I had to have something. I felt if I had another instant pudding with Protein (actually pretty good) I'd barf so I had a little cream of wheat too. It was extremely satisfying but I realize that I'm on liquids only to give my stomach a break. I had a small amount and waited to see if there would be any bad reaction. None, so I had more. I'll be good till I can get to the mushies but I don't see any point in beating myself up over it. BOB052212, thanks for opening up on this. Continued good luck with this.

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I was allowed to have Cream of Wheat at day 3. You will be fine. I ate other things ahead of time because I was starving. When I told the doc at my post op appt she said its probably because I healed a lot faster and my swelling was down. I hardly believe that this will ruin my success with the lapband. I'm not encouraging anyone to disregard doctors orders.

I stuck exactly to my diet the doctor gave me and in 5 weeks time I dropped 30 lbs. Plus it helped my hunger pangs doing just what I was supposed to do. All my cravings are gone for bad foods. Good Luck!

I have no cravings. I have stuck exactly to what the doctor said. I paid for this operation so, to me, too much money not to do it right.

My pre-op and post-op included cream, grits, and tomato soup.

EACH surgeon has their guidelines....you picked your surgeon for the reasons. Listen to and follow his suggestions. Good Luck.

I start my second week this Wednesday but I went ahead and had cream of wheat yesterday and I was fine.... I was so sick of broth