At 6 Wks be going home for Christmas. They don't know! What can I eat to blend in?

[itstimealready 180]

At 6 weeks post surgery I'll be going home for Christmas. They don't know! I haven't told anyone. What can I eat to blend in?

They are used to me being on some crazy diet program off and on for all of my life so it won't be that strange although I know they find it annoying when I'm picky about eating. Oddly not the times when I'm eating every scrap in the house and costing them a fortune...anyway I digress. I am planning on being all liquid for four weeks and so it'll only be a couple weeks of starting to eat some puréed foods and things so it's going to be really a challenge.

Any foods and tricks you guys can suggest? thanks so much!

[WLSResources/ClothingExch 3,443]

There isn't much you can do to disguise purees, especially since others will see you at the blender or food processor often.

Because your family has witnessed you doing some cockamamie diets, let them think that the Princess Puree Plan is the latest. If they've never heard of it (imagine that!), tell them it's new, devised by someone you work or go to school with, so word hasn't gotten out yet. Be sure to eat ve-e-ry slowly so that, when they notice your minute consumption, you can say that eating slowly lets your stomach and brain communicate and send a signal telling you that you feel sated by the small portions.

Your starting weight isn't so great that the amount you lose in the next six weeks won't be noticeable. Do some fancy, verbal tap-dancing to keep them confused. It works every time. Family members who like each other believe each other or at least want to believe each other.

Then, again, unless your family is particularly dopey, you won't get away with it. They may not guess surgery, but they'll know something is afoot. They will grill you within an inch of your sanity.

I'm having fun with you, but do understand your wish for privacy. In truth, the puree stage makes it tricky to pull off the deception. Does a sibling or old friend live nearby? If it's someone you can trust to tell or at least not to pry, stay there so that your parents see less of the peculiar post-surgical protocol.

(Maybe Princess Puree Plan isn't so preposterous. Real diets have had names far more stupid. And there is truth to the keep-'em-confused technique.)

Promise to report back after Christmas. I'd love to know how you work it out.

Edited November 2, 2015 by WLSResources/ClothingExch

[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

Have Soup. If you have to suck it up and eat mashed potatoes. I'd dodge Christmas and use work as an excuse or something.

[del112 62]

At 6 weeks you should be able to have a very small meal. A mini- meal.

You will manage. Good thing about Christmas is that there are always several choices of foods.

Enjoy, you will be just fine.

[perforce 243]

Fake a stomach complaint? Say you've seen a doc and he said you should eat XYZ for a week or two to clear it? That way you've already been the doc so they won't push you to go to one.

[_Kate_ 2,224]

@@perforce good plan although it wouldn't be faked complaint. The whole point is your plan is good, as its the truth.

@@itstimealready Just keep it to the bare minimum, don't elaborate and good luck!!

[perforce 243]

Alternatively, you could just tell them the truth? It doesn't sound like you live with them regularly, so you wouldn't have to deal with it for long. Obviously your reasons are your own for not telling them, but it would probably be easier in the long run.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

What's on you eating plan? At 6 weeks I was allowed all foods as tolerated so I probably could have picked at tiny portions of everything.

[Babbs 14,680]

No worries! A little mushed up turkey with gravy, a little potatoes and well cooked green Beans...aaand that's all you're going to have room for.

I concur with some of the others....say you have an upset tummy and you're just not very hungry. Don't make a big deal out of it, and nobody else will. That's what I learned early out. Nobody really cared what or how much I was eating.

[itstimealready 180]

Thanks so much guys! The Princess Plan - my family would TOTALLY buy that! So would I in the old days - just no peas in the bed haha (princess and the pea?) keep 'em coming. It really helps get my head in the right place too.

[WLSResources/ClothingExch 3,443]

@@itstimealready -- are you saying that your family really is dopey? In that case, you're living a charmed life watched over by a fairy godmother..

[LipstickLady 25,682]

I simply tell family I'm not hungry if asked.

Mostly, I make a plate with small spoonfuls of everything spread far apart as I don't like anything touching. Then I just kind of push things around and take a nibble of something soft or saucy occasionally.

The less you make of it, the less they notice.

[jobillandjosh 53]

This is what I do for people I really don't want to explain my WLS to. I've run into this a few times already in small settings like a group of 6 where it can be noticeable. If we're having pizza, then I put a slice on my plate, cut it up here and there and and then I also get like a yogurt with Protein powder or something and eat that while the pizza sits there. No one asks why I haven't taken a slice and they see me eating. I'm usually able to throw my plate away. No one noticed or at least no one said anything. No one pushes food on me. A win I can live with.

[JapGirl 229]

Mashed potatoes, dressing (depending on how mushy) and maybe some cranberry sauce? The deviled part of deviled eggs would be okay too I'd think.

Not really sure where you'll be at but those may work?

[ttdish 315]

Fake a stomach complaint? Say you've seen a doc and he said you should eat XYZ for a week or two to clear it? That way you've already been the doc so they won't push you to go to one.

I really like this idea! Or, you could go back to just Protein shakes for a few days, and tell everyone you are on a Protein shake diet to keep the holiday weight away. If they are used to you being on wild diets, this wouldn't sound so far fetched.

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