I'm 5 weeks out & my Dr wanted solids at 4 weeks so I've been working on it, but I'm struggling with what to eat. I've done tuna & other moist fish....sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Ground beef was a nightmare, my first attempt at chicken was last night & went ok. Sort of. Yesterday running around with my kids out of desperation I grabbed q tiny package of hummus with pita chips. I only ate a few of the chips but piled on the hummus for some protein. It went down soooo easily. It has been the easiest thing I've eaten since broth & yogurt. So I ate it again for dinner & snack. I ended up eating a ton of carbs! Yikes! So now I'm stumped. I have no clue where to go from here. I want to maximize my sleeve, but I don't know what to eat!!! I've thrown up multiple times daily since surgery other than a handful of days, so feeling full & not sick felt so good! Any suggestions on where to go from here?? I know the mushies stage was kind of carb heavy, but I don't want to get into any bad habits ..... Help!

I eat yogurt, cottage cheese, low fast string cheese, deli turkey meat is always good, canned chicken with a bit of wing sauce and mozzerella cheese melted on top. Yum!!!

At five weeks out, I liked lowfat cheeses and deli lunch meats about the best for solids. I ate greek yogurt every day for Breakfast and had a Protein Drink at night to get enough Protein in. I also liked turkey chili. In my program, we were not cleared for beef till after 6 weeks. After 6 weeks, I ate the 98% fat free beef chili.

Here's a typical day of what I ate at 5 weeks:

60 grams protein, 480 calories:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup fat free plain greek yogurt

Lunch: 2 oz. 98% fat free ham, 1/3 cup watermelon

Dinner: 1/2 cup lowfat turkey chili

Late Nate: 1 cup soy milk with Protein powder

I ate most meats with some kinds of sauce, such as BBQ sauce, ketchup, or gravy. Some days, I could only eat 1 oz. or 1.5 ounces of protein, even soft protein.

Lynda

I am echoing the ppl above. =) I ate/eat greek yogurt(you can kick it up by adding suger free flavoring syrups and/or sugar free preserves),cottage cheese is soooo yummy and I love to put peaches in it. I steam cauliflower,then smash it up and add a lil "I can't believe it's not butter" and it becomes a healthy version of mashed potatoes! It sounded so nasty to me the first time someone told me to do it,but now,it's one of my favorite meals and I even sometimes add unflavored protein powder to up the protein. =) You can try getting rotisserie(sp?) chicken from somewhere. I have found that meats cooked by restaurants have been easier for me to get in my sleeve. And deli meats too. I guess I just can't cook it tender enough myself but I am learning. Chew chew chew and chew some more when you introduce meats. Scrambled eggs is also a good idea,great source of protein and easy to get down for most ppl.

I also liked turkey chili. In my program, we were not cleared for beef till after 6 weeks. After 6 weeks, I ate the 98% fat free beef chili.

Lynda

I LOVE turkey chili with a lil fat free sour cream on top!

I started off with some slightly sliced deli ham, turkey and chicken. I also ate beans that I chewed really well as they are also high in protein. Cottage cheese and also yogart are a good start.

Cottage cheese, scrambled eggs, light cheese sticks, deli turkey slices with slice of cheese on WASA crackers (low carb). StarKist sandwich Ready albacore tuna in the pouch. 3 1/2 oz. and very tasty. Put on a WASA cracker and half a slice of cheese on top and put in toaster oven for a minute or so, and have a tuna melt! Also turkey chili and rotisserie chicken (darker meat is better than white.) 3 turkey meatballs with some marinara sauce. Laughing cow cheese wedges. Lots of beans!

I've been having 1-2 oz grilled salmon every few days and it is delic. Very small bites and chew it up to mush. Awesome. Also sounds Grose but sometimes I mix in blueberry Greek yogurt with the salmon and it is so good!!!!! The salmon alone is very high in protein but add the greek yogurt in and bam! A good 20-25 gr protein. Baby bel cheese is delic too.

Oh - another good one.... Sugar free chocolate pudding with a scoop of chocolate whey protein powder mixed in and even a tbsp of lowfat creamy peanut butter mixed in. Delicious!!! I tried that cuz I like the s/f pudding but I want protein so it's 'worthwhile'! Not just empty mush.

I'm also 5 weeks out and have been eating lots of soup. Split pea with ham, bean, vegetable, etc. I also loved the hummus! I like turkey slightly pureed with gravy and a T of mashed potatoes. I eat scrambled egg. Soft ham is nice, too. I couldn't eat regular foods at this point. I had an incident with chicken the other night that I didn't chew well enough and I've had to go back on liquid for two days because it hurt my stomach so much. I'm not allowed a full diet until 8 weeks out.