eating more........

Hi All, I have been on a liquid pureed diet and have been sooooo hungry I was ready to eat the walls. I did start on some of my own stuff today, sf pudding, sf, lf yougert, small amounts of course..but everything i eat tastes just terrible. I have this tinny taste in my mouth. MY daughter says it's the meds that i was on from the wls. I am on the Lovenox and so fatigued....mentally i want to do things, but physcially i am wiped out. Tomororow i promised myself to put some clothes on, and walk around the common area of my condo unit. I called Dr. H's office for a 2 week appt and also spoke to helen about my wanting to eat more because everything was going thru me. She told me I could eat the rice in a can of soup and veggies too cuz they are soft, I also nuked a sweet potatoe and took a quarter of one, inside only and ate that. But 4 hr later i was sooooo hungry again. Which i guess is good, I am not dumping or nausaous. I had a laughing cow light cheese wedge and ate that very slowly. OH so good. I even had 6 huge blue berries and peeled the skin off and chewed the inside...also very tasty. I just had to eat something that was normal..So far so good, all went down very well. I could eat something else but i dont want to pu**** HOw are you girls doing (Teri, and Kris) on your food? carol

Carol, That's really weird. I wasn't hungry at all in the beginning. I'm still not very hungry...I still have to make myself eat. You're lucky you're not dumping. Just eat very slow. My problem is when i eat i eat too fast and I puke all the time if i eat too fast. I'm on soft foods still and i can only eat about 1/4 cup of food. I find that in the morning I can have my protein shake and that's about it...then around 11 i'll have either an egg or maybe a little chicken salad and that will take me through until dinner....I eat sf fudgecicles or and ice pop and sf jello or something but that's about it.... are you feeling better and better every day? I have tons of energy during the day but by about 10pm i'm out for the o**** Teri

hi there. i wasn't hungry at all for the first 3 weeks.. on occasion i'd feel like i needed to put something in my mouth, but most of the time it was just boredom. i'm technically still on the pureed diet. but i've been trying new foods here and there, so long as they're very soft/moist. i have not thrown up once since that awful night in the hospital. i've never been a fast eater, so i think i do really well there. it takes about 20 minutes for me to eat my whole meal. i had 3 scallops, 1 broccoli floret and 1 cauliflower floret for dinner last night. i've been eating scallops likethere's no tomorrow. lol i have tried eating chicken 3 times now. and i can't do it. the first 2 times was canned chicken, once with mayo, the other pureed with some gravy. this last time i tried to eat the thigh meat on one of those rotissiere chickens.. every single time i try chicken it just balls up in my pouch and HURTS. so i'm not going there for awhile. i've had some beef stew that my mom made int he crock pot. i just took 2 pieces of meat, a couple carrots and a ton of the juice. couldn't fini**** but it tasted great!! i'm doing really well with eating. it's getting my protein shakes down that i have the most issue with. they make me gag. not pleasant. so that's my story!