8 days post op and feeling good but....

(I posted this in the Sept banded forum but I wanted your take on it also.)
But I am not adhering to the liquids diet thing. I could barely move (because of lack of energy) when I was only drinking broth, jello and water. So I started on cream soup 3 days after the surgery and I actually had energy. I am a single mom of two boys 12 and 10 who are very active in school so I need my energy. Now I eat very little but i do eat Today I have had an egg (scrambled), A cracker (cause my stomach get very very hungry and it hurts), 1/4 of a backed potato with sour cram and backed potato. I have no ill effects from what I am eating, and I am losing weight.

See right now it is 2:36, it is two hours since my last meal and I am hungry to point of it hurting.

Maybe I am wrong but I don't see us hurting ( as in allowing ourselves to starve as being healthy). I am a mental health counselor so i am trying to see all this from a healthy stand point. My skinny friends eat when they are hungry and don't when they don't, so i am hungry I feel like I should eat. Isn't that the whole point----- Food is to nourish our bodies not to be an emotional bandage.

Does this make sense to anyone? My dr may get made that I am eating harder foods now but............

i would still stick with the soups and jellos....tougher foods will cause increased inflammation around your band...  eat more frequently, sure.  especially if you are hungry....but i wouldn't necessarily go on to harsher (harder to digest) foods.   good luck.  hope you feel better soon.  i remember how weak i felt on liquids...and i had to do clears for a week post-op, then full liquids for another two, so it was over a month (pre-and post-diet combined) that i was on liquids.  it sucked.  but it got better.  hope you get better soon! mary

Are you drinking your protein shakes?  That's what gives me more energy than anything, even now.  I can tell if I haven't had enough protein.  Broth and jello don't have much food value. Good luck,

Pam