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According to my surgeon, mushy food were anything pureed or soft fork mashed foods. I ate scrambled eggs, hummus, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, ricotta cheese, yogurt, and thick creamy soups when I was on mushy foods. I am just starting the regular foods now.

I don't know about damage, everyone is different and it depends on whether or not your band went in with fluid already inside it or if you are completely open. The best thing I can say is call your surgeon or nutritionist and tell them what happened.

Tell them you ate normal food before you were supposed to and now you are worried and feel guilty - they will be able to give you the info you need.

If you ate too much you would feel pain and nausea from your pouch stretching, but chances are you have no restriction and so food doesn't sit in the pouch yet. I had my first experience with this over the weekend bcs I ate breakfast too fast.

The reason most surgeons have their patients progress from liquids to mushies and then on is to a) allow the stomach time to heal and :hurray: teach us how to eat slower and im smaller bites.

As far as calories go, different surgeons/nutritionists say different things about how many cals to eat to lose weight but I think its safe to say that someone eating between 800-1500 calories a day would lose weight. Again though, I would ask your surgeon/nutritionist.