My surgeon gave my different information than my dietitian on the stages of progressing diet (I.e liquid, full liquid, soft food). I was wondering your timeline was. I am one week post op and still on clear liquids

There are many different plans some with minimal differences others with more. Best advice is to follow your surgeon’s plan so if there is an issue they know where you should be in the process & what you should have been consuming.

Mine was two weeks liquids. Two weeks purée & then two weeks soft.

Every surgeon has different guidelines and it's your own surgeons guidelines that should be followed for optimal success. Each surgeon has a slightly different program that they tweak until they see the most results from their patients. My own surgeon's guidelines was 1 week liquids, 1-2 week puree (depending on how you tolerate moving to soft foods stage), 2-3 weeks soft foods (depending on how you tolerate moving to a modified general diet), modified general diet (there were certain foods we were told to avoid for a set amount of time such as no berries, nuts, or lettuce for 3 months, no beans or potatoes for 6 months. Things like that).

I had no liquid phase. Straight to pureed.

Lots of different programs…with the conflict ling info you are getting, I’d probably listen to my surgeon regarding VOLUME/PROGRESSION of food, while looking to the dietitian for NUTRITION advice. But thats just me.

With that said, my program was:

- Clear fluids: 1 day

- Full fluids: 2 weeks

- Pureed: 1 week (which i skipped and just continued with Full fluids cuz pureed stuff made me gag at the thought.)

- Minced: 1 week

- Soft food: 1 week

- Then cleared for everything.

On 9/22/2021 at 9:13 PM, elp93 said:

My surgeon gave my different information than my dietitian on the stages of progressing diet (I.e liquid, full liquid, soft food). I was wondering your timeline was. I am one week post op and still on Clear Liquids

How are you doing now that you are a few weeks out?