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Was banded 4 days ago and just ate 2 grilled chicken fingers and 1/4 cup of green Beans and it went great!

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I was scolded by other peeps about this already for taking some small bites of things I should have not. B careful ask your doc or nutritionist bout a post op diet. I had to do 1 week of liquid, 1 week of blended n 1 week of soft, all post op oh ya n pre op was 2 weeks of liquid. I started my week 4 post op on Wed. And was just approved for reg food.< /p>

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Careful you don't tear your stitches around the band. If you do with the weight of SIDS your band can slip or flip!

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I smell a troll.

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My doc said it was fine. I was on a 14 day pre op diet and he said 4 days post op I could eat grilled chicken and green Beans. Maybe tomorriw I'll eat mushy food just to be safe.

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My doc said it was fine. I was on a 14 day pre op diet and he said 4 days post op I could eat grilled chicken and green Beans. Maybe tomorriw I'll eat mushy food just to be safe.

well if that is what your dr said

guess that is what matters

mine didnt say for me to eat chicken 4 days out..if he did, id be too scared and also couldnt have ate that much anyhow..oh well, amazing how different dr's and people following (instructions) are

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Four days out, no way I could have eaten solids, was still too swollen and had no appetite for food till a good few weeks. I wasn't allowed to start solids till my third week and going by others on the forum that was much earlier than their instructions but I was still extremely careful and didn't really have solids till closer to four weeks.

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Four days out' date=' no way I could have eaten solids, was still too swollen and had no appetite for food till a good few weeks. I wasn't allowed to start solids till my third week and going by others on the forum that was much earlier than their instructions but I was still extremely careful and didn't really have solids till closer to four weeks.[/quote']

We all have to bear in mind everyone is different, all I read on here pre my surgery was how the pain was hardly anything at all and that it took weeks to feel hungry for me the pain was incredibly intense and by day 8 post op I was talking to my clinics dietitian about moving to pureed foods and based on what I read here I felt guilty and like something must be wrong with my band that I was handling pureed foods so well so early, as long as u get the advice from ur dr or dietitian don't take into account other people's experiences as it only makes u feel as though u are doing something wrong and the fact is we all recover differently

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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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