I was told by the nurse at the hospital that apple sauce and cottage cheese was allowed on the second stage which is 4th day to 14th day. However the nutrionist told me no, those foods were allowed after the 3 rd stage. Little frustration at this point, but other than that very happy that the journey has started. Any tips are welcomed and appreciated! :-)

Did your dr give you something to make reference to?? If the nutritionist is working with bariatric patients and your surgeon I would follow their unstructions. I was surprised how long it took me to get to eat applesauce, it certainly wasn't in the first 2 weeks. I did use cottage cheese in the liquid stage - added to my soups and blenderized, just to give it more protein.

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Both the nurse and nutrionist work for the dr's office. So did you have applesauce on the 2nd or 3rd stage?

I could eat those things in stage 2.

How is your pain? I was banded Monday afternoon. Curious how you are feeling?

Pain Is mild, just feeling very full and finding it very hard to drink the amount of liquids that I was told that I needed to take in. How about your pain? How are you doing overall?

My port site is sore. But I actually have the most pain in my sides I'm guessing from being blown up with the gas. I have 5 incisions. 3 of them I can't even feel. I've been pretty tired though, I think from the pain meds. I'm taking them every 5 hours because I have a 1 year old at home. Not been picking him up, but chasing him around the house.

Personally, I'd listen to the nutritionist. She's the "food expert", the nurse only deals with diet issues as an afterthought.

Congrats girl I was banded Monday 19th today is day 3 and I am on liquids I've tried farina and Greek yogurt but the taste was awful and i was only able to consume two tea spoons of each. I follow the times in my diet for food and shakes. But there is only few items we can consume for 2 weeks. Like is that for real? Or is there more that's just not listed.

For the first 2 weeks I could have yogurt, pudding, soups, smoothies (no seeds), this was the stage I added cottage cheese to some of the cream soups and blenderized it to increase the Protein. On the second week my clinic gave me the okay to go back to Optifast as I was having a hard time with the protein powders and drinks. After that for 7 days I was on blenderized and pureed. No chunks, everything in a blender, plus all the stuff from the first stage. I ate alot of chicken in the blender, it had the consistency of think Peanut Butter but it tasted like chicken and after 4 weeks of liquids, it was good. I believe at that stage I could put chili in the blender too, hummus and soft Pasta were okay too - apple sauce might have come in then. Tuna salad, chicken salad......it wasn't very exciting. Next stage for 10 days I could add bananas and ground meats, introducing them slowely and well cooked veggies.

I think that is about it, my book is in the other room so am going on memory.

Good luck to you.

I had my surgery on Monday and I'm confused as well. The SO2 gas is still making me uncomfortable so I am just trying to stay hydrated.

My back is extremely sore. I am not sure if this is normal or not? If I feel like this on Monday I don't see how I can work. My stomach is not even the problem. It's the rest of my body that hurts.