At 3 weeks (+ 1 day) I am able to start soft meats. I was allowed to add potatoes at Day 10 along with cheese, Peanut Butter, bananas, some crackers (graham, low fat Ritz), Beans, hummus, oatmeal, cottage cheese, etc. After day 21 I was allowed to add moist meats. I have started with chicken. I haven't eaten red meat in any large quantity in about 20 years but have started to eat tiny bites of it if it is in chili. I prefer ground turkey meat anyway but haven't tried it yet.

This morning I had about 1/3 of a pre-made GNC Protein shake (about 55 calories).

I am including a picture of my (leftovers) dinner tonight before I ate it and after. I had a business meeting today at macaroni Grill and ordered Skinny Chicken (330 calories) with roasted veg: potatoes, tomatoes, mushrooms (300 calories). I wanted to order off of the Kid's Menu as they have grilled chicken and broccoli (which I can't eat yet) because it was more appropriately sized but felt weird doing that during a business meeting. I switched out the Pasta for the veg. I don't think it saved calories but pasta isn't allowed yet. For lunch, I ate about 1/3 of the chicken and about 2 small potatoes and 2 bites of halved grape tomatoes. I ate a little less than 1/3 of the food for dinner tonight. I'm satisfied, not stuffed.

I hope this helps those of you that have recently had plication and for those of you considering it. There's not a lot of information out there so when I was researching it would've been nice to see an example of someone's daily food intake.

take care,

genepha

Thanks Genepha! Your posts have been helpful. It is so nice to hear from someone who has had experience with plication.