I'm released this Friday to regular foods. Just curious how long you waited for foods that I think might be painful. Did you react to them when you did? What foods are difficult, and I should wait on?

Go slow, but it's all up to your body.

I still have a really tough time with salad if it's made with iceberg. I have to eat actual greens or it makes me sick.

Steak took the longest - beef, in general, was the hardest for me to digest for a long time. I could eat it once I was cleared for regular food, but I could only eat a bite or two before feeling very full. Tonight I ate 3 oz. of a good steak, though, with no problem. Of course, if I couldn't do that at two years out I'd be a sad girl.

Bread also took a long time. I still don't eat much of it. Not because I think it's bad or because I can't, but why waste my limited capacity on something that doesn't do much for me? I bake fresh bread and if I slice it thinly I can eat a whole grilled cheese on it, or half a regular sandwich (piled high). Bread, Pasta, tortillas and rice all swell in my tummy and it's very easy to go from feeling great to instant discomfort. So take those foods very slowly and stop after just a few small bites until you know how you'll do.

Good luck!

~Cheri

My dr told me I could eat anything as long as I can tolerate it. So far I have able to tolerate everything. I have not tried bread, Pasta or rice. I love streak and have no problem with it. Salads too

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You should wait until 12 weeks out at least according to my doctor to have bread, rice, or pasta because they all tend to swell.

I had steak from six weeks out. I can't eat much but I have no issues with the little bit I do eat. Tonight we had beautiful eye fillet steak, I had about 2oz, a tablespoon of peas and 4 oven baked sweet potato 'fries'. I am sufficiently replete!

I have arule that since I eat so little, I make sure I eat quality. So I don't mind spending more on getting good quality, grass fed, organic eye fillet beef because overall my grocery bill is less. Tonight's eye fillet was melt in the mouth rare and delicious!

Meant to add that in the mashies stage I had rice pudding with no issues though could only manage two tablespoons! I have had well toasted bread on 3 occasions but find I don't really care for it. Which is odd as i have always loved bread I'm not going to have pasta for another three months given the swell factor. I find myself missing pasta on occasions.

I haven't tried steak as of yet. Chicken sits really heavy with me, so I'm afraid of steak. I've had bread a few times and slimed, so no bread either. No problems with salad or pasta.

I am three weeks out, surgery was 7/24, and I can eat steak. Today was the first time I tried and I had no problems. I went to Applebee's with my team for lunch. I only ate about an ounce, cut it up really small, and chewed it completely - and about a tablespoon of mashed potatoes. I brought the leftovers home and I had another ounce of steak and a tablespoon of mashed potatoes. The hubs ate the rest. (He told me I should go to Applebee's more often!) Not bad for a $10 meal that fed me twice, and the hubs once.

When was your surgery?

My surgery was July 10th 2012

Oh cool. I was on 7-13.

STEAK IS OK..LAMB CHOPS BETTER. CHICKEN TOUGH, MUST CUT UP INTO TINY PIECES. A SALAD MADEOF SPROUTS IS GOOD.

it was really a trial and error kind of thing for me. I would try a little something and then wait and see if I could handle it. you will know really fast if you can. i really didnt have problems with anything, except when I tried to drink anything with food....big NO NO! good luck!