I am 3 weeks post surgery today and officially on the pureed foods. I find moving onto pureed foods extremely difficult and eating this consistency makes me feel sick. I am also convincing myself that I can have solids and when I do I just throw up. I’m not sure what to do or eat and I just really needs some motivation?

I was told if I had any issues progressing through the stages to go back to the prior step for a while. If you just feel sick at the idea of purée foods maybe you should stick with the liquids until it’s safe for you to move to solids. I couldn’t eat things that were not usually purée consistency either. I ate the ricotta bake and refried beans or mashed potatoes during that whole stage.

Edited September 17, 20223 yr by ShoppGirl

Yeah, that’s your body telling you to stick with the purées until you can officially start soft foods. While it’s fine to go back a stage, it’s never okay to move forward a stage without your surgeon’s go ahead. We all need time to heal.

Try thinning out the purées a little more & see if that helps. Personally I found a lot of things I puréed pretty awful to eat but it was more taste than texture. Thank goodness for milky instant rolled oats, cream soups, thin scrambled eggs & yoghurt. I even ate baby food a couple of times for variety. A friend told me she loved puréeing poached chicken in lots of chicken gravy though she told me after I finished purées - lol!

I couldn't eat puree's either, just looking at it brought on instant nausea. I went back a stage to yogurts, soups and milk shakes

Puree was a no go for me. I ate a lot of hummus, avocado, scrambled eggs, refried beans, string cheese (watch the fat content in them, some cheese is higher than others), etc... I followed more soft foods than puree.

I made milk for cream of chicken soup with dry powdered milk to get in more.protein.

On 9/18/2022 at 1:18 PM, SleeveDiva2022 said:

Puree was a no go for me. I ate a lot of hummus, avocado, scrambled eggs, refried Beans, string cheese (watch the fat content in them, some cheese is higher than others), etc... I followed more soft foods than puree.

I did do the puree either. I was told by my medical team to begin soft foods 15 days post op. I started the soft foods on Dec 13th. So far so good, have had eggs, spinach, salmon, chicken, carrots, and today i made a ground beef vegetable soup so far tolerated everything well.