Hey!

So I just started my 10 day pre op diet. So far so good. I prepared myself by cutting out Snacks already and having a few trial days of all liquid.

My question is this...are there any other vegetarians out there that went through the full liquid, pureed and mushy stages? I am the first at my clinic and they really didn't have much in the way for ideas for me. I also don't drink milk and my clinic is big on pushing Milk at the begining(in between "meals")...nasty!

I tried to do a search on here for previous posts of this nature but I feel like it's looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes.

Thank you!

~A

I'm not vegetarian but I made stuff like lentil and vegetable Soup and pureed it up, use vegetable stock as your liquid. You can puree anything with a bit of stock or a can of tomatoes once you're on mushies too. liquids might be a bit hard without milk - do you substitute soy milk or anything?

My favourite salad during mushies was a can of 4 bean mix, lettuce, skinned tomatoes and cucumber chopped small, an avocado and some chick peas - with salad sprinkles (seeds and tiny bits of nuts basically). Yummy.

I'm here to tell the tale that you can surivive without 400 grams of Protein a day and that you can in fact even survive the post op liquids without drinking a single Protein shake. And I have all my hair and I lost weight and I even have muscles.

Truly as a vegetarian I think you'll have a very very healthy diet with your band. You'll get the fibre, Vitamins and minerals that everyone who focusses on Protein shakes and chicken is often missing out on because they cant fit them in.

Im vegetarian and dont drink milk .. well i guess thats not entirely true anymore cos i will drink whey based Protein powders but only mixed with soymilk or Water, no normal milk.

Its not hard, you can substitue soymilk for milk and there are plenty of soy protein shakes available if you want to go down that route.