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Loving the mushies!

gingerbug

By gingerbug, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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gingerbug    3

gingerbug
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I had a soft scrambled egg today and i almost fell to the floor and wept with joy. Between the pre-op and the post-op it has been about a month since I ate much of anything. I was full from 1 egg for about 4 hours. Go figure. Breakfast used to a huge bowl of Cereal and toast. It was so nice to just TASTE something that I had to chew.

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travelgirl    3

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LOL, I felt the same way about my first creamy Soup after banding (almost a year ago)! I'll never forget that experience... No creamy soup has ever tasted better!

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Megmarie21    0

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OH MY GOSH ME TOO!!! I just made thinned out mashed potatoes with garlic and some butter and a little bit of Parmesan cheese! It was soooo good!

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Megmarie21    0

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I still have to figure out to cook fish besides deep frying it and baking it with brown sugar/butter/garlic (really good on salmon by the way.

Do you just put in the oven?

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Chrisann    0

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I sauteed a piece of really well chopped onion in Pam. Then added a can of Tomato sauce. Let that cook a little while and then placed the tilapia in the pan and covered it for 10 minutes, flipped the fish and cooked it covered for 10 more. You can use that for just about any type of white fish. It stayed moist. This recipe is courtesy of my mom. My sister in law uses the onion/tomato sauce for chicken too.

Tomato sauce and onion are no fat, using the Pam, no fat, fish no fat. Fish had about 50 calories,( about 4 oz) tomato sauce 20, onion and Pam 0.

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kiah12    0

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I am sooooooooo jelous of you ladies! My dr requires 3 weeks of full liquids before mushies. I love fish, but for now I will live vicariously throgh you all lol.

please take a bite for me!!

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Chrisann    0

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Between the pre opt phase and the 2 weeks after surgery liquid, I spent 4 weeks on liquid with it more restrictive after the surgery. It was so nice to go to mushies. :)

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NukeChik    1

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I went to O'Charleys last night and had some of their potato Soup. I'm sure that it wasn't very good in the calories dept, but I only had about 8 tablespoons. I thought I was going to have to change my draws!!!:)

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    • Alisa_S

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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