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starryskies    3

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Hey, I had my band inserted on Monday and was wondering about smoothies. My Bariatric nurse says very thin milky smoothies are ok but what about seeds from fruits?

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jenhanna87    3

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Hi starryskies! Newbie here also!

I am just coming to the end of my 2 week liquid stage. I have been able to have relatively thick Protein Shakes and can swallow my tablet medication ok. I would think the seeds in your smoothies would be fine as long as you blend blend blend!

All the best with your journey 😊

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starryskies    3

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Hi, thanks for getting in touch, how have you found it so far? I haven’t managed to sort into meal times yet, I’m just having small amounts of Soup or milk/slimfast three or four times a day with tea in between.


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jenhanna87    3

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Yeah overall I have been good, although today I think was the first day that I properly felt like reality hit and had a bit of a cry but I feel better now for getting it off my chest! How have you been feeling I know it’s still very early days for you!

I haven’t got a set meal time either, especially with being off work and pretty tired! But it’s been along the lines of Protein Shake, Soup, yoghurt at this point so I can’t wait to move on to the soft foods on Friday!

Where are you from?

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starryskies    3

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I bet you are looking forward to soft foods! I’m doing ok, not really hungry but worried I won’t get the right nutrition.

I’m in England


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jenhanna87    3

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Yeah I pretty much ate nothing for the first couple of days to be honest. It’s weird I lost like 11lb on the pre op diet but have only lost 5lb since my surgery. I expected a bigger loss but I’m putting it down to my body adjusting after the op!

Once you can start to stomach thicker liquids you could try the sugar free jelly or low fat custards to change things up a bit.

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starryskies    3

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Sounds good, after the milk only diet I did before hand, a chocolate slimfast is a real treat :D

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jenhanna87    3

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Jeez milk only, that must have been brutal!!

Have you had much pain, been able to get up and about?

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starryskies    3

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I’ve been able to potter about the house a bit but not much, any time I squeeze or stretch my abdomen too much I know about it


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