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jmarie    71

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2weeks post op. How long was it before y'all got to start eating again?

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BlessedBeyondMeasure2012    296

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I got to start on soft foods (Mostly eggs, cheese and refried beans) when I was two weeks out. I gradually added more and more every two weeks. My doc has a slow advancement of foods. I still have instructions on when to add certain foods out to 12 weeks. Most people are released to eat a "normal" diet at 6 weeks post op. It all depends on your doc/NUT. What do they have to say?

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Ms.AntiBand    2,984

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What does your dr require? Mine was

1st week Clear Liquids

2nd week liquids

3rd week purée

4th week mushies

5th week smushies

6th week wean into solid low carb

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HatheryOnHerWay    603

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Wow, smushies! That's a new stage I haven't heard before!

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I'm gonna guess that mushies would be things that are a little firmer than purées, and smushies a little harder than that? I'd like to know which foods fit into the mushy/smushy categories, though!

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Wags    549

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I got to start on soft foods (Mostly eggs' date=' cheese and refried beans) when I was two weeks out. I gradually added more and more every two weeks. My doc has a slow advancement of foods. I still have instructions on when to add certain foods out to 12 weeks. Most people are released to eat a "normal" diet at 6 weeks post op. It all depends on your doc/NUT. What do they have to say?[/quote']

Could you share that info with us please? I think the order of adding things back into your diet would be really important!

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JessicaAnn    564

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My doctor isn't too conservative. He has us starting with purée 2 days after surgery for 4 weeks, then regular food.< /p>

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No game    14,437

No game
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What does your dr require? Mine was

1st week clear liquids

2nd week liquids

3rd week purée

4th week mushies

5th week smushies

6th week wean into solid low carb

You had mushy smushy after purée??

:P

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I'm counting down the days to soft foods too. I can't wait just to have some eggs & cheese.< /p>

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LouiseC    1,031

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My doctor isn't too conservative. He has us starting with purée 2 days after surgery for 4 weeks' date=' then regular food.[/quote']

Mine was the same, pretty much.

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Ms.AntiBand    2,984

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You had mushy smushy after purée??

:P

LOL... It was anything I could smush with my fork.

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No game    14,437

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LOL... It was anything I could smush with my fork.

Yum :) I love smushing cake and ice cream together! :D

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Ms.AntiBand    2,984

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Yum :) I love smushing cake and ice cream together! :D

Anything reasonable as I progressed into low cal/carbs solid foods :P LOL

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belladona    153

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My doctor isn't too conservative. He has us starting with purée 2 days after surgery for 4 weeks, then regular food.< /p>

Mine will be like this as well, I went to a what to expect class yesterday , I get cream of wheat first day after surgery after I can keep fluids down. After these liquids I cant wait.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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