I cheated

[harrisonb 2]

I ate one of my sons grilled chicken nuggets after having the sleeve done on 2-3-17 but i was hungry...my mom started freaking out and crying talking about spit it out...but me im like its grilled it was small and im chewing it alot..n im hungry...is this a sign of challanges to come or was it a minor fraction...idk..i dont feel guilty, scared because this will be harder than i thought and bad my mom was that upset but I dont feel guilty..idk..it was grilled n in my future diet...OPIONIONS??

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[deleted 0]

I haven't had my operation - I'm at the beginning of this journey. But in my mind I am going to have to change every single eating habit I currently have, including popping food into my mouth - I can't just mindlessly eat. Perhaps that's what was worrying your mom? Maybe it looked to her like you were just mindlessly stuffing food, even though it was small and grilled. She just saw you go through a huge surgery and she (I imagine) wants you to succeed.

[blizair09 3,250]

The thing about the early days and weeks post-op is that your stomach is healing. And since we can't see inside of our body, we really don't know the condition of the stomach like we would an external injury like a cut or a scrape.

You didn't cheat; you made a choice. This isn't a diet; it is a prescription from the doctor for a patient with a healing stomach. What you have done is very, very dangerous, and, in fact, could be deadly. You are 3 days post-op. I can't imagine that you are off liquids yet, maybe not even Clear Liquids. Physical danger aside, if you can't follow your food stages for 3 days, how are you going to make the good decisions required to be successful on this journey long term? I'm not trying to be unkind, but you don't want to put yourself through all of this to lose minimal weight, or to lose while you can lose with minimal effort only to gain it all back and more.

You have to change your relationship with food to be successful, which, in part, means not letting it have such control over you. I'd recommend that you talk to your surgeon about what you have done, and I also recommend that you get in touch with a psychologist with bariatric experience to work through your issues with food.

Good luck, and please take care of yourself and your stomach.

[BigViffer 3,544]

You didn't cheat, you endangered yourself. The liquid diet is not just a diet, it's a prescription. You risked a bleed, or popped suture, or food particulate getting stuck in a healing stomach causing infection that can lead to sepsis... for what? A chicken nugget?

We are all human and we make mistakes, but this is one I hope you learn from. Don't think of it as cheating, think of it as taking the wrong medicine because that is a better analogy.

[clc9 644]

In the early days, this is incredibly dangerous. Your staple line has hardly begun to heal and food particles can get stuck in it and cause an abscess which can lead to a leak or sepsis. Literally it could kill you.

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[BigViffer 3,544]

@@blizair09 beat me to it!