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Hi Everyone!

I had my surgery July 2nd and everything is going great. I have lost a total of 35 pounds since the beginning of this adventure and am very grateful for the band. I am preparing to transition from liquids to mushies and am really racking my brain for food I can eat. Can I have some ideas of your favorite things you ate during the mushy stage? So far what I have come up with is: turkey and green Beans - blended together in a blender

chili (mild!!) - blended together in a blender

....any other ideas?

THank you!!

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I had apple sauce, Lipton Noodle Soup (with broth not chicken pieces), instant mashed potatoes with fat free gravy, refried Beans (pulverized some salsa and mix in the beans, nuked in microwave and put fat free cheese on top to melt), sugar/fat free puddings (Jello), creamy egg salad (hb eggs, light mayo, dijon mustard, salt pepper), creamy tuna salad (same recipe but with yellow mustard ala Pinera Bread), Tomato Soup with Kraft fat free slices broken up and melted into soup. I can't think of any others, but hopefully this will help. A lot of the above was on a list the dietician gave me, and I just added things like mustard for flavor (yellow and dijon have little or no calories or fat).

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A few of the things I ate were Dannon light and fit carb and sugar control yogurt, sugar free pudding, low fat cottage cheese, soft scrambled eggs, pinto bean puree (1 can drained and rinsed pinto Beans, 2tsp. olive oil, small diced onion, 2 diced garlic cloves, 1 cup salsa, and 1/2 cup chicken broth.....sautee onion and garlic in olive oil, then place all ingredients except broth into blender and pulse, add broth a little at a time until you get desired consistency. Then heat it on the stove until thickened and bubbly.....my surgeon's office gave me this recipe, it's good!). Oh, and my favorite....sugar free fudsicles.

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I did a lot of what was already mentioned: tuna salad, scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, applesauce. But I also did Soups. Progresso's lentil Soup pureed in a blender was great; lots of Protein and Fiber. Campbells Select soups, they come in a box (John Lithgow does their commercials) are good options too with great flavors like Butternut squash soup and a great Tomato Soup. Already mushy enough to eat. Good luck!:thumbup:

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I started on mushies today, boiled up a packet of low cal Soup in quite a bit of Water then added mash potatoe powder to thicken it. It was so yummy!

Also blending veggies and adding it to veggie stock to make a smooth veggie soup.

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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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      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

        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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