Question on week 2 diet.....

Did anyone eat sugar free pudding and is it OK?

I've been eating sugar free pudding since I came home from the hospital (I'm on the full liquid diet).  It's been going great...no problems. 

For breakfast I eat:
1/4 c. of cream of wheat (maple & brown sugar flavor or cinnamon swirl)
1/4 c. of light/fat free yogurt

For lunch:
1/4 c. fat free yogurt
1/4 c. sugar free pudding (different flavors like banana cream, lemon, chocolate)

For dinner:
1/4 c. 98% fat free cream soup (like mushroom or chicken)
1/4 c. fat free yogurt

How are things going for you?  How's your pain?

Question Melissa:

Do you drink protein shakes on top of that?  I am on day 4 and am loving your variety.   :) 

I have 2 cups of fat free skim milk broken up in 4 1/2 cup servings throughout the day.  In each 1/2 cup I either mix protein powder or Carnation Instant Breakfast.  And, when I prepare the cream soup I mix it with milk instead of water.  I try to get protein in anyway I can.  Once I get to the pureed stage later next week I plan to have more of the actual protein shakes, but I need to keep to the full liquid diet, so drinking a blended protein shake is not what my docs want right now.  I just take the 1/2 c. of milk & mix in a heaping tbsp. of protein powder.

Hope that helps! 

My full liquid diet indicates that SF pudding is allowed.

Interesting how different everyone's diets are.  For the first three days following hospital release, I was on SF clear liquids only like jello, popsicles, and clear broth (no cream soups, no pudding).  After than I was able to add a protein shake.  Then beginning 10 days post-op I could add simple solid foods like SF pudding, eggs, NF/LF cottage cheese and yogurt, beans, cream of wheat etc.
Janell C.

 Texas Bariatric Specialist diet is strictly liquids for the 1st three weeks post op.   I am am 12 days in & I see the Dietician Wed so I hope that we will introduce something yummy. Anytime I feel hungry I have an EAS carb control protein shake.  Don't like the diet but I am melting away.