what can i eat

Im just banded day 2 and I need some advice of what I can eat. My book dont explain it very clear. Can ya'll give me some advice. I no it is liquids but is it clear or just liquids.

I didn't have the band or Dr. Wellborn - so can't say what HIS plan directs.  However, my mother (who just had RNY on Monday) was already on her liquid diet during her hospital stay.  (Since I can't imagine it being MORE strict for the band, I'd imagine you're on FULL liquid as opposed to just clear liquid.  But that's obviously just my best guess since I am not familiar with your DRs plan.)

On full liquids you are generally allowed ANYTHING that is liquid at room temperature.  This includes (but is not limited to):
milk
strained cream of fill-in-the-blank-here soups
popsicles
ice cream
some yogurts
blended/strained grits/outmeal are allowed on SOME full liquid diets
protein drinks
diluted fruit juices
vegetable juice

Obviously it is best to choose low fat or fat free options on all of the above - but remember that SOME fat is NECESSARY, so I wouldn't cut it out all together.  It's also best obviously to go with sugar free to go ahead and purge those bad carbs from your system so you don't keep craving them. 

I know this wasn't very helpful - but it really does depend on what YOUR surgeon's plan allows. 

Good luck! 

Hi! Basically, as long as it is thin and able to go through a straw, then you can have it! I basically spent the first two weeks after surgery living on the following things:

jello
popsicles
gatorade
ice cream adn frozen yogurt
cream of chicken soup (put in a blender until completely smooth....I even added a little water to thin it more)
cream of potato soup (fixed the same way as the other soup)
pudding(i think I waited until the second week for this)

Basically, I just ate to survive. I usually had three spoons of soup per meal. I was not hungry at all. I wanted it in my mind but did not eat it!

Hope this helps you out some! Are you still doing ok?

  Karen

It is getting better everyday I even went to the dollar store with wife today she has been great through this I feel like a king the way she is waiting on me I couldnt ask for nothing more from her. I have been eating alot of broth and jello. I no it will get better I just cant wait.

If all else fails, call your surgeons office and ask them to explain it better.  Right before I left the hospital, I asked all kinds of questions.  I had my post-op book with how my eating schedule would be, plus my surgeon had some papers that had more information and also had the dates filled in when I would start each phase of eating.  But I had a notebook and asked questions, and made sure I understood everything. 

If I had any questions, I came here first, because there were several here who were either newly post-op or had their surgeries by the same surgeon within a few months before mine.  So that helped.  Wendy_Fou had hers a few days after mine. 

But yeah, definitely call and talk to the nutritionist at your surgeon's office, that is what they are there for, and when you go to your first post-op appt bring a notebook and pen.  Better yet, get a notebook and pen now, and everytime you think of something you want to ask or talk about with your surgeons office, write it down.  I know for me, I will have all kinds of questions, but by the time I'm in the Dr's office, I can't remember half of them, and then I get home and I'm like, dangit I forgot to ask this or talk about that.  So keep a notebook and bring it with you.  Plus you can look through your notebook if you want to remember something.  You can use your notebook as a journal as well, keep a list of what you eat, what you weighed, little goals and such. 

I have a few notebooks myself :)