How long was it before you could eat regular food after you were banded?

I had the informational seminar on Wednesday and they gave us the diet layout and I can't start regular food till 11 weeks after surgery! :faint: It seems that that is a lot longer than other people have had. I'm on full liquids from 3 days after surgery to week 3, then on pureed food till week 5 and soft foods (is that what's considered mushies?) week 6-10. I have my first consult with the surgeon on Thursday and will definately be asking about the post-op diet! Just wondering what the average is here.

5 weeks out I was on regular food.

2 weeks Clear Liquids

1 week thicker liquids

1 week mushies

then regular food

Your doc sounds like mine.

I was on liquids until my post-op visit, which was 10 days. Then I went to mushies for a week and regular food after that.

Hey Bug, what you are saying is the exact plan that I followed . I was banded by Dr Cahan in Idaho. It is doing great beause I started real food two days ago. Its an extremely slow process, seek lots of advice from those that have gone before us, they have made the mistakes of eating what they are not supposed to and then listen to the horror stories. This has helped me so much that I have lost -61lbs thus far. I was only banded on April 17th and because of their mistakes my road to success is much simpler.

If you need info as you go through this, there are many grt forums on this web site, but be careful, there are many that are just junk, you know junk in junk out. Good luck and welcome to the Gone for good club.

What is really important is that you follow your own personal physician's orders. You will see, that every doctor seems to have a different pre-op and post-op diet plan. However, you are paying him to take care of you, and he will tell you what is best for you.

I have followed my doctor's orders and have had no problems whatsoever.

I did 3 weeks liquids, 2 weeks mushies.

Susan said it best, it matters not what others had to do or were allowed to do. Your surgeon will have his or her own guidelines based on what they have found works best for their patients. Of course, if you find you really need to change that you are always welcome to go in and talk to them about the possibility of progressing on sooner. I was banded by Dr Cahn too, and after week two I was ready to eat the legs off the diningroom table. I asked if I could progress to mushies and the Dr agreed based upon my progress.

:biggrin1: Hee hee, Susan, your comment about eating the legs off the table reminded me of something that got me laughing. We have 3 dogs, one of them is a long-haired auburn colored doxy that is a bit overweight. I did liquids only for 3 weeks prior to my surgery and 10 days afterwards. On about day 8 post-op I commented to my daughter that I was starting to have hallucinations that his legs were turkey legs and they were looking mighty good. For some reason, after that she felt the need to keep him away from me until I went on real food.

I did liquids for 10days post op and then mushies for a week and then was on normal foods. That's what my doctor told me to do and it worked well with how I was feeling and my hunger progression. But as others have said...that was my doctor and me followig his advice. You should give you doc's plan the best go you can and take it from there. Good luck!