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What does your schedule of food stages look like after surgery? This is mine.

While in hospital - Clear liquids

7-10 days - full liquid

2-4 weeks purée

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day 1 - Clear Liquids

weeks 1 - 4 full liquids

weeks 5 - 8 purees

month 2 - month 6 soft foods

Plus lots more rules about exactly what foods are allowed, how much to eat, how many meals, etc. -- the food texture part of my plan was a relatively small part of it.

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What does your schedule of food stages look like after surgery? This is mine.

While in hospital - clear liquids

7-10 days - full liquid

2-4 weeks purée

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Mine was:

1 week clear liquids (with a couple of exceptions)

1 week full liquids

1 week soft

1 week soft mechanical

1 week solid

Etc.

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step 1 : strict liquid = 3 days post op

step 2 : Semi liquid = days 4

step 3 : purée-soft for 7 days (scrambled eggs, purée meat, purée veggies, PB.)

step 4: soft food and puree 14 days ( omelet, soft cheese, lentils, non puree minced meet, tofu)

I'm starting semi liquid with mushy Cereal, cream Soup (with Protein powder, apple sauce, yogurt)

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Week 1 & 2: Protein shakes and clear liquids

Week 3 & 4: puréed food and Protein Shakes (plus drink my water)...no eggs allowed

Week 5: add in fish, Peanut Butter, Beans (mashed), and canned meat products (yum?). Can add toast and crackers as well.

Weeks 6, 7, 8: can do quite a few things but can't do beef or pork yet.

After that, eat sensibly.

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2 weeks high Protein pre op

2 weeks liquids pre op

Then I slowly reintroduce foods.

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Mine is -

Weeks 1 & 2 Post-op: Modified Full Liquids (Duke does not allow sugar free Jello on this stage)

Weeks 3 & 4 Post-op: Stage 1 Soft Foods

  • Dark meat chicken (no white meat until stage 2), thinly sliced deli meat, white fish, imitation crab, fat free cheese, Beans, tuna, scrambled or poached eggs, greek yogurt.
  • Soft cooked vegetables, unsweetened applesauce, mashed banana, mashed sweet or white potato, oatmeal, cream of wheat, grits.

Weeks 5 – 10 Post-op: Stage 2 Soft Foods

  • All chicken (yippee), ground beef or turkey, hard boiled eggs, small shrimp, heartier fish like salmon, crab.
  • TOAST. Fresh fruit without the peel.

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Two weeks prior to surgery: 1200 calorie diet

Two days prior to surgery: full liquids

Day 1 Post op: clear liquids

Day 2 post op to 2 weeks post op: full liquids

Weeks 2-4: purée

Weeks 4-6: soft foods

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Wow why is my diet getting food back in so fast when I compare to everyone?

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Wow why is my diet getting food back in so fast when I compare to everyone?

All these different doctors so many different ways when I was staving for 2 weeks before surgery and I was getting mad reading when people said they could have vegetables if I could have had I would have been fine lol I wish all doctors follow the same guidelines it would make it easer to talk to other.

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Wow why is my diet getting food back in so fast when I compare to everyone?

Mine was fast too thank god!

liquid for 3 days at hospital (if cleared) we did:

Week 1 & 2 pureed foods

Week 3 & 4 soft foods

Week 5 onwards solids

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Mine is -

Weeks 1 & 2 Post-op: Modified Full liquids (Duke does not allow sugar free Jello on this stage)

Weeks 3 & 4 Post-op: Stage 1 Soft Foods

  • Dark meat chicken (no white meat until stage 2), thinly sliced deli meat, white fish, imitation crab, fat free cheese, Beans, tuna, scrambled or poached eggs, greek yogurt.
  • Soft cooked vegetables, unsweetened applesauce, mashed banana, mashed sweet or white potato, oatmeal, cream of wheat, grits.

Weeks 5 – 10 Post-op: Stage 2 Soft Foods

  • All chicken (yippee), ground beef or turkey, hard boiled eggs, small shrimp, heartier fish like salmon, crab.
  • TOAST. Fresh fruit without the peel.

Toast? Wow!

Yeah everyone's is so different

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Mine is -

Weeks 1 & 2 Post-op: Modified Full liquids (Duke does not allow sugar free Jello on this stage)

Weeks 3 & 4 Post-op: Stage 1 Soft Foods

  • Dark meat chicken (no white meat until stage 2), thinly sliced deli meat, white fish, imitation crab, fat free cheese, Beans, tuna, scrambled or poached eggs, greek yogurt.
  • Soft cooked vegetables, unsweetened applesauce, mashed banana, mashed sweet or white potato, oatmeal, cream of wheat, grits.

Weeks 5 – 10 Post-op: Stage 2 Soft Foods

  • All chicken (yippee), ground beef or turkey, hard boiled eggs, small shrimp, heartier fish like salmon, crab.
  • TOAST. Fresh fruit without the peel.

Toast? Wow!

Yeah everyone's is so different

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Yeah. Only a quarter piece, but toast! No regular bread though. Regular bread is too soft and doughy - that's why it has to be toasted.

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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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