Food Glorious Food

Today I start real food, after 3 weeks of liquids I was ready. I was not hungry on liquids but am happy to be chewing again. For breakfast I had farina(2 tbls) and a slice of cheese. It was wonderful and filling. I went shopping today for the foods I need and got everything. I go to see the surgeon on Tuesday and can't wait to see my new weight. How has everyone else doing with eating? I know with the lapband we are on a different menu than rny. Joy

Hi there Joy grats on getting to eat solids. I get to start soft foods on Wednesday and I will be on that till I am 2 months out. Then I can eat most anything my pouch will allow. I can't wait to eat something othe than liquids on Wednesday. I too am not hungry but just want more variety. Anna

It is so interesting how surgeons approach this so differently. I was on soft foods starting on my 2nd day in the hospital and "regular" solids at day 10 (usually our surgeon suggests waiting until day 15 for that but he gave me the go ahead for some reason) I am to eat this way the rest of my life. Seems kind of fast to me but it is what my surgeon instructed. He just told me to "go easy and really listen to my body" so far so good. No vomiting but appear to have an intollerance to ground beef at this point. I didn't eat it much pre-surgery so no big loss to me. This really changes the way we eat. Even if the diets are different (I had RNY) we are much more aware of what we eat since nutritional foods are a must and we only have so much room to hold food. Have fun finding out your weight loss form 3 weeks. Get ready to be WOWed!! Darla