What are you allowed to eat?

The more I think about this the more it amazes me. It is so funny how different our surgeons views are on what we should or can be eating. I am 5 weeks post op and my surgeon told me I can eat what I want with the exception of breads, raw vegtables, fruit with skin on it and sugar. What are you allowed to eat? Enjoy the rest of your day! KimY

Mine sounds just like yours. However at 4 weeks out I can eat just about anything I can tolerate preferably soft foods. chew chew chew sip sip sip.

Chew*Chew*Chew*Sip*Sip*Sip* that is 2 funny... that's all I do! Why do you think we can't have bread? I would love to put my tuna fish on 1/2 of a 1/2 piece of bread!

Hi! The reason that you can't have bread is that it is a carbohydrate which you are going to limit to the carbs that are found in foods such as in some vegetables (cooked). Bread will take up the space in your pouch that you need for proteins, not empty foods. Instead of a piece of bread, eat your tuna with a little cottage cheese, this will be better for you, and tastes great! Think protein, protein, protein. Protein will help to loose weight, yet retain the muscle that you need! Drink lots of water, get plenty of exercise and watch those pounds and inches melt away! Remember, nothing tastes better than THIN! Best of luck!

It can ball up in your pouch. I know that I can eventually add toasted whole grain very high fiber bread in limited quantities, but I'm not sure if I even want to go there at this point now that I'm off it. I can eat pretty much everything too with the exceptions of sugar and all that you both mentioned. ~ Kim 309/284/130

I tried a piece of toasted wheat bread with butter. Just for old times sake. No problems, but that's just me. I don't eat much to begin with and every smell is killing me. Figure I better it what I can for the time being.

Hi Kim, Bread is a starch, Not only can it ball up and block your stoma, but starches turn to sugar in our systems. We can have melba toast and other things like that. My nutritionist said if it's crisp we can have it, but that dosn't mean we should have i****er first, protein second!!!!! CRISP TEST: If you put it in a glass of water and it dissolves it's crisp. and you can have small amounts of it~ but it's usually empty calories, something we want to avoid. God bless you, Annette

I had the Lap RNY with a silastic band. I was on 2 weeks liquid and am now finishing the first of 4 weeks of pureed foods. Any lean meat, cheese, yogurt, high protein oatmeal, beans or combo theoreof is what I can eat pureed. No veggies. No fruits and No carbs (other than the oatmeal) Next week I can add a very mushy scrambled egg to the mix.

I'm on liquids and proteins. I'll be here for 6 weeks

Im 3 weeks post op and I can eat whatever I can tolerate. Even bread..It has to be wheat and it has to be toasted. Not that I've tried it yet but he said I could if I wanted. A few things have bothered me but nothing has me dump or throw up yet. Well the flinstones vitamins made me dump but thats besides the point. I'm down 25lbs but have been stuck for the past week. Has anyone else started to crave stuff that they couldnt eat?? I was dying for bbq chicken fingers w/ blue cheese earlier. MMMMmmmm