Hey everyone...

Im having a hard time finding food to eat in stage 4. My surgery was 6 weeks ago. Im allowed pita bread and wraps now. Ground turkey and ground chicken. A lot of pureed foods. I also teach so i cant take time and eat i feel rushed...then i chew and chew and then i feel like it get stuck. Im bored of what i am eating. I need to spice it up and i know its possible. I need some advice and a pep talk. Ive lost 60 lbs but its been rough. I feel like i not eating enough. I start the maintenance stage in 3 weeks and im worried i wont be able to eat any of that food.

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I had major problems with all bread foods. It felt like a rock in my gut for hours and often made me feel yucky. I liked to take deli slices of ham, mozzarella string cheese and split the cheese into halves or quads then roll them up in the deli ham. I would put them in a sandwhich bag and could eat them one or two every few hours . I also put hard boiled eggs in a baggie, cut it in quarters and added a few drops of Tabasco. It would mix pretty well by the time I got around to eating it. I also made cottage cheese with a tablespoon of pineapple in it , but mostly I just made tiny quick snack type items and grazed through my day by eating a little something every few hours. Tuna mixed with cottage cheese and a few diced pieces of tomato was a favorite, also some sugar free puddings or Jello. I found that my desires had changed when it came to food, I was no longer living to eat but instead I was eating to live. For the first time in my life food was taking a back seat to my life.