Has anyone skipped purée stage or cut it short? I’m ready to move to soft foods and regular food that I can chew throughly.

Yo-Yo Girl from New York City

I would only do what your team tells you to do; transition when they say so.

You have instructions for a reason, best follow them. Why do something contra to instructions? You may be mentally ready but are you physically? You may do some damage.

Talk to your surgeon or dietician before doing something rash.

Yes, take it up with your doctor, as if anything bad happens, you get the blame if you were going against advice. That said, I never pureed anything, but that was within program instructions that had us on liquids, purees/mushes and soft foods as tolerated from the hospital on out. The thought of pureeing anything after being served pureed lettuce (eeewww...) in the hospital was rather stomach turning.

Let your doctor know and let him advance you if he is comfortable with it - I have seen a couple guys come through here reporting that their surgeon advanced them ahead of their published schedule saying that they have found patients cheating on the schedule and not suffering from it, so they changed the schedule. Most docs don't really know how quickly or slowly we can advance without feedback, so let them know. Also, your doc may make is sleeves differently than my doc or someone else's that requires a slower progression than others - there are few standards with this procedure.

I do not think it is necessary to have a puree stage. The instructions I received at my facility had only three stages. Liquids... Soft foods... Then regular foods. It could be based on the length of the stages.. As mine was 2 weeks of liquids then 2 weeks or longer of soft foods only.

4 hours ago, qweenla said:

I do not think it is necessary to have a puree stage. The instructions I received at my facility had only three stages. Liquids... Soft foods... Then regular foods. It could be based on the length of the stages.. As mine was 2 weeks of liquids then 2 weeks or longer of soft foods only.

Mine was similar. Post op, they had us on 3 week liquids and then transition to soft. They said they don’t do purée stage because they don’t want us to get use to slider foods (soups, yogurts etc.)

My surgeon let me transition to soft foods at two weeks after surgery, and I never had to do pureed food. It was the SURGEON's decision to let me transition; I wouldn't have without permission.

My nut said I can prolong full liquids and skip puree.

Mine had me on liquids for 14. I started purée a couple days ago and will be on it for 20 days (very limited selection of items allowed). I can then begin introducing normal foods back into my life very slowly. If this is what my team feels is best, I’m all in!
I use a Babyfood maker to make my puréed foods so they are healthier than store bought baby foods.

On 6/2/2018 at 8:54 AM, Yo-yo girl said:

Has anyone skipped purée stage or cut it short? I’m ready to move to soft foods and regular food that I can chew throughly.

Yo-Yo Girl from New York City

Best advice is to stick with what you were given for instructions.

That said, I strayed from puree's here and there. I found creative ways around things, a month on puree's sucks. Do your best to stick to the plan, if something goes wrong, you'll get some finger wags and stern looks. But if you do stray, be smart about it.