On Monday, I will be 8 weeks out and I officially graduate from mushies to solids. Unfortunately, I do not meet with my NUT until Friday, so my questions to all you sleevers is what were your favorite first solid foods? What was harder to eat and so I should wait till later? I assume that I will be putting off steak, nuts, seeds, corn, asparagus, celery a bit longer. But wondering if I can actually try a salad? I haven't had salad since before my pre-op diet. I'm already taking pills instead of crushing everything and those are going down fine.

I have already been eating slow roasted fork shredded chicken, various cheeses, mashed potatoes, ground beef (in spaghetti sauce). I guess I'm wondering things like - even though I still think its too early to bite down on a celery stick, because it might be too fibrous, I'm wondering if I can start putting chopped celery in my tuna salad. Things like that.

So please let me know what worked well and what didn't.

@@Babbs I had no idea that high protein foods would keep you fuller longer. What about the black bean pasta? Had you heard of that? I looked it up. Its expensive. You mentioned beans but the are full of carbs too.

@@Whitney, have you ever thought about trying to substitute pasta with zucchini or spaghetti squash?? They've worked for me...I'm still pre op, but I've used that in my previous diets and did well when I really wanted some spaghetti or lasagna or even chicken alfredo...

Dub - Why are posting pictures of food from the internet? If I wanted to make myself hunrgy, I could google them myself.

At 6 weeks out my doc gave me the go ahead to eat what I wanted with the understanding that Steak, chicken and Bread might be an issue. (Hard to digest, etc...) I took things very carefully but found out I can eat whatever I want. I have had pork chops, shrimp, steak, chicken, rice, roast beef, turkey, eggs, cheese, really almost anything with no issue/complications.

Obviously when he said eat what I wanted he meant "healthy" - just to clairify. I did have a french fry the other day because it looked so good. It didn't taste good at all. I mainly stick to the Protein because that is what I crave and it fills me up. pizza was good except I ate one tiny slice and only a tiny bit of crust. I scraped off the toppings.

It's all trial an error for people. Just make sure to take it slow, measure EVERYTHING, and chew chew chew. You will find out what works and what doesn't.

@@Dub

!!!! Unless you're comin' to cook for me - stop it!! lol the grilled artichokes looked awesome - I'll have to try that sometime...

I can't wait til I join y'all on the other side of surgery - I'm just waiting now to get approved and then my surgery will hopefully be in January

@@Dub, please stop! I can't take any more. I think I just drooled all over my phone.

Can you come grill for me?

I was literally salivating lol

Dub - Why are posting pictures of food from the internet? If I wanted to make myself hunrgy, I could google them myself.

The internet ?

I assure you that those pics came from my backyard grill or my kitchen. I enjoy grilling, cooking and such. The only problem is that I usually had loud music playing and beer close at hand when doing this. No mysteries where the weight came from on me. I only posted the healthiest stuff I cooked. Typically, I'd do unhealthy stuff.......

@@Dub

!!!! Unless you're comin' to cook for me - stop it!! lol the grilled artichokes looked awesome - I'll have to try that sometime...

I can't wait til I join y'all on the other side of surgery - I'm just waiting now to get approved and then my surgery will hopefully be in January

The key to the artichokes is to boil them a minute or two prior to grilling. Brush on some olive oil and stuff with your favorite cheese.

Dub - Why are posting pictures of food from the internet? If I wanted to make myself hunrgy, I could google them myself.

The internet ? I assure you that those pics came from my backyard grill or my kitchen. I enjoy grilling, cooking and such. The only problem is that I usually had loud music playing and beer close at hand when doing this. No mysteries where the weight came from on me. I only posted the healthiest stuff I cooked. Typically, I'd do unhealthy stuff.......

Have you never heard of reverse image search? It will tell you every site that you visited to "borrow" these images.

Edited October 13, 201510 yr by PayItForward

Big no on the salad. Really, what did I like most? I about lost my crap over happiness for chicken breast. I am also this week all about turkey bacon, cooked until really crisp, so that when I chew it, it becomes a sort of bacony powder in my mouth. Nom nom nom.

The food that Dub was posting looked so effing amazing!!! Wowsers, come to BC Canada and be my chef?

Puhleeeeeeeaaase!

I had my first real solid food yesterday actually.... TURKEY!!! It was our Thanksgiving day yesterday.

(Turkey, sweet potato, cooked carrot, stuffing, dot of gravy, dot of cranberry jelly.)

Everyone was laughing at my teeny tiny mini meal but damn it was good!

It was so awesome!

Dub - Why are posting pictures of food from the internet? If I wanted to make myself hunrgy, I could google them myself.

The internet ? I assure you that those pics came from my backyard grill or my kitchen. I enjoy grilling, cooking and such. The only problem is that I usually had loud music playing and beer close at hand when doing this. No mysteries where the weight came from on me. I only posted the healthiest stuff I cooked. Typically, I'd do unhealthy stuff.......

Have you never heard of reverse image search? It will tell you every site that you visited to "borrow" these images.

Before you state something so absolutely immature and false... you should do your own research. Which I did - all of those pictures were uploaded to another site that is an UPLOAD site just like dropbox or photowhatever it was called, and they are able to be googled/used/and abused by anyone - However, Dub, is more than likely the original uploader of the files since he has given no reason to believe otherwise, and has already made a statement saying so. I'm a full believer in believing what people say until proven otherwise, and your trolling tactics don't prove a thing, except to get me riled up because you think your all that just because your on the 'internet'. This is coming from a gamer of 15+ years, and having been on the internet since probably before you were out of diapers.

And yes, I'm done feeding the troll - go back to your cave

Even if he is the one that posted them on other sites before this one, they don't belong in this thread. This thread was very useful before it was derailed. Thanks for everyone that posted good suggestions.

Edited October 13, 201510 yr by PayItForward

I'm sorry... I've gotta feed into this -

@@PayItForward

Did you become a moderator and we didn't know it? that you have this need to bash someone for sharing their favorite foods, which was what this post was about. Now, I know you're going to want to be technical about it and say it was favorite first solid foods - and it was topic as such - however, if anything the derailment happened when YOU started bashing him for posting those yummy looking pictures. Which gave some of us something to look forward to trying out when we are on the otherside of the bench - even if it is in vastly smaller quantities. At least his pictures were about the food topic, and not someone trying to pick a fight over the internet because they didn't like all the pictures they had to scroll through to get to other posts. Childish and immature - don't like it - scroll past and read something else.

and of course I helped with the derailment by again feeding the troll.

Edited October 13, 201510 yr by Raenh

@@Dub you are killing me....I just ate, but you are making me think about stretching my sleeve

I want a basil, tomato and balsamic pizza on cauliflower crust. Probably with some skim mozzarella. Mmmmmmm

@@Dub thanks for the pics. They look amazing! So I guess you'll be eating meat meat and some wings????