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just wondering how long until everyone started eating red meat? is it just really hard to digest or something , i'm trying to figure out why they say to wait months before eating it...i want to be safe and was just wondering what everyone else

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I'm two months out and I've been eating ground meat for about two weeks. I make sure that is ground very fine and I chew the heck out of it. I just couldn't take the chicken, it was too dry.

Of course, follow your doc's orders. I live overseas and the docs here don't give much advice lol

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I'm on purees (weeks 2-4) and as long as I grind it up, I can eat any meats.< /p>

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I've heard it's really hard to digest, and have been told the same, no beef or read meat until so many months out, I can't remember if it was 6 or 8 months. I would love to have a steak, but I don't mess with it, Red meat has always been hard on my digestive system.

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I wasn't told not to eat red meat so I started when I was cleared for food. Granted I started slow with ground meat. It fills you up really fast! So eat slowly. I think I tried steak at three months. Happy eating!

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I was trying out beef by the end of the first month - tritip, pot roast, ground beef; pot roast sat the heaviest on my stomach, and still does a year and half later. My wife had problems with ground beef for quite a while when she went through this a few years ago and the surgeon suggested that filet is often better tolerated than ground beef, so we still follow his advice and get his "prescription" filled regularly. This is one of the big time YMMV things.

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I've had no problem with ground beef or bison since I was told I could have it at a week out. It has to be at least 96% lean though. I have a butcher near me that does lean ground pork and lamb as well and those have also been part of my diet. I haven't tried anything not ground yet and I'm at 6 weeks out now.

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