I am 11 days post op and I had lite cream cheese on a few crackers.. I also had mashed potatoes w gravy. Is that going to do any harm to my band? I am walking 2 1/2 miles daily and drinking my water and everything else I m suppose to be going. I just couldnt stand the broth or jellos anymore.. :faint: I hope I'm not doing anything wrong . I've lost 10 lbs already since 3-21 (surgery date) bmi was 36.

Dawnie,

Please fess up to your doctor for their opinion.

My opinon is you should stick to the program to let you body heal the best from the surgery. Just my opinion.

edie

I was told cream cheese is ok week two. I for one am looking forward to some. Now crackers.. scare me.

The issue is with anything of solid form in the stomach, that needs to be digested. They do not want your stomach working to digest, and pass food. They pulled the lower part of your stomach up, and stitched it over the band, to hold the band in place. As it heals, scar tissue forms, and sets the band in properly. If your eat, and make your stomach move, which it does to digest food, it disrupts this process. Inside you, it is a moist, environment, and it takes a couple of weeks for those stitches to be healed to a point of eating fuller liquids, and possibly some mushies. The risk you take is popping the stitches---or allowing the band to move, then be scarred in, in an improper postition.

I agree, talking to your Dr., would be the best way to guage if you acted too early. The Dr. may tell you not to worry---or he may urge you to follow the plan, and explain why.

As hard as it is, and as monotonous as the broth... jello...broth ....jello cycle gets---it really is just a few short weeks out of the rest of your life!!! We have all dieted before, and we are here, if it gets too hard to resist. Take a walk, or give yourself a manicure---anything to get your mind off of the food situation for a few minutes, and the cravings tend to pass. We are always here to offer moral support.

No one here is perfect----I am not belittling you for eating early!!! Just urging you to be careful---your health and the health of your band is at risk.

Some Dr.'s have much stricter eating plans than others---so check with yours, he may advance you to a mushie diet now---then you can eat without the added stress of worry!

Kat