I was banded on 5/14/09 and have not had any digestive problems with anything, whatsoever. Other than the hunger, I feel the same as before. I was sooo hungry that I started eating soft foods (eggs, cottage cheese, and yogurt) last week. While I have not had any pain or nausea from this, could I still be doing harm to myself and just not know it by eating more solid foods earlier than my surgeon advised? I need advice from all of you more experienced bandsters!

I was done on the 12th last month and honestly, I'm 3 weeks out and I think I could just start soft food now. I was on clear fluids day 1-2 then free fluids there after until day 14, then pureed and mushie food until day 28 and then soft food/normal food after that. Before surgery I ate for boredom, I ate because if it was lunch time I'd eat, and my portion sizes where ridiculous. Now I'm hardly ever hungry, my stomach has rumbled at me maybe 3 times and the last time that happened was yesterday, woke up and had a drink then had my yoghurt at around 11am, then just drank for the rest and wasn't hungry til 4pm so I had a popsicle and just drank until 6 when I had some dinner. You could always ring your surgeon and see if you could trial some things, like mix and match, have soft food for breakfast, soft for lunch and then something different for dinner. Having something too early on in the recovery stage may cause problems down the track but if you watch what you eat now that might not happen (not saying it won't because slippage/erosion sometimes happens for no reason)