At what week after surgery are we bale to eat salads? I'm 2 weeks post op and feel like I can eat anything, ie, starving all the time, but am afraid lettuce or raw veggies might get stuck. Any help would be great, thanks!

I'm about a month post-op, and for me, it would have been a little too early to eat salad at 2 weeks. But everyone is different. If it is OK with your doctor, give it a try. Just be careful and slow and chew a lot. It is true that raw fruits and vegies do have a tendency to get stuck more than other foods.

One thing I did when I was craving raw fruits and vegies is chew them up and spit out the "roughage." I'm not necessariyl recommending this to you, but it did work for me. It works better with fruits and vegies than it does for, say, steak or Cookies. That's because there is so much juice in fruits and vegies.

Just yesterday I took half a dozen stalks of celery and some carrots, dipped them into some dressing and chewed them up, then spit out the Fiber. It's a little gross but it is quite satisfying. I felt like I had become my own, personal human "Juice Man." And no machinery to clean when you're done!!

I'd just be a little cautious about actually swallowing all that fiber stuff at two weeks post op. But the bottom line is, ask you doc.

Here's how I battle hunger

I have had no fill yet, I eat 5 -6 times per day but small amounts. If I forget I get hungry! but if I stay on track and eat every three hours I don't get hungry.

Eat high protein or good carbohydrate foods, like cottage cheese, pea soup, string cheese, bean soup, low fat yogurt some times I will mix in vanilla protein powder to up my protein. Water them down since you are two weeks post op. anything that is thin enough to pour off your spoon is OK.

In the evening about 8-10pm I have a chocolate protein shake with a 1/2 teaspoon of Adam’s natural peanut butter to go to sleep on.

When I eat, it is no more than 3 oz of food, and hardly anything with high sugar in it. Also make sure you don't drink after you eat or you will wash it through the band, leave the food in there and then you will feel full for hours.

Before eating drink a glass of water or other fluids, Make sure you drink your 64 oz of liquid per day! Crystal light lemonade and ice tea are awesome. I also Make a thermos of hot tea, and bring it to work.

If I stay on this, I feel full and the weight just keeps dropping 4 weeks 33 lbs!!!!!