Hello Forum!

Before I go any further I just want to say how much this place has helped me post surgery

Now I would like some insight on moving through the food stages. It's been over 21 days post op and I can now move into the pureed food stage. However prior to this stage I just had cravings for something NOT liquid. I would eat half a cup of cereal with milk for example. Stomach appeared to handle it well. So my question is this....how many others have advanced their food stages? Is there harm in doing so even if your not experiencing problems?

Can be , Might be, depends (not those depends)

This has so much individual variability. everyone heals from surgery at a different pace and since your surgeon cant know how you will heal in advance his plan is designed to "do no harm".

It can be a tough few weeks but it is really a very small amount of time in the rest of your life.

just stay to plan and "do no harm"

I am a stickler for following the rules especially with a surgery like this. I go by my booklet i was given with the phases and list of foods I'm allowed. It tells me what weeks i can moved on if I'm comfortable. I have no interest in pushing the limits and figure I'll let my body do it's thing and just heal.

3 hours ago, Sara Bear said:

Hello Forum!

Before I go any further I just want to say how much this place has helped me post surgery

Now I would like some insight on moving through the food stages. It's been over 21 days post op and I can now move into the pureed food stage. However prior to this stage I just had cravings for something NOT liquid. I would eat half a cup of Cereal with milk for example. Stomach appeared to handle it well. So my question is this....how many others have advanced their food stages? Is there harm in doing so even if your not experiencing problems?

Although I won't advocate going against your doctor's orders... I remember I went into my pureed stage a day early, and into soft foods 2 days early. For example, the pureed stage I ate soup, which was pretty much the same consistency of the full liquids I had already been eating. The "no-no" is the types of foods that are approved to be pureed. Then I ate an egg going into soft foods.

If you must skip ahead, I'd advice to go very very very slow. Like bariatric slow, but slower! And I would avoid anything too fibrous.