In the hospital right now, question??

Nope. I knew you had an actual malabsorption issue.

I just couldn't miss an opportunity to return with a snarky, albeit passive-aggressive opportunity to retort to an "online expert's" attempt at a dig above. Until his post, I never knew that a DX of diabetes was a "fad" diet!

:D

A DX for diabetes is a good and valid reason for doing a diabetic diet; a non-diabetic doing a diabetic diet simply because they see someone else is doing it, or from a celebrity endorsement, or because that is what the "in" crowd is doing at the moment, turns it into a fad diet. Much the same as when low fat/cholesterol diets were being touted as the one size fits all solution for everybody.

This all depends upon whose post-op eating plans you are talking about - yours, or the patient's surgical practice. Plans vary all over the map, and some do indeed include some semi-solid foods early on. We had much of the typical puree and soft diet phases available early on, including in the hospital - scrambled eggs, yogurt, pureed regular foods, etc. along with the usual liquids. We were told quite specifically to reject anything that was not within the specified diet guidelines, as the hospitals can screw up sometimes, but beyond that we could have whatever was on the plan that we could tolerate at that time.

Obviously we all know that plans are dependent upon specific surgical practices.

So, is eating until you throw up in order to determine "fullness" part of your surgical practice's non-fad eating advice?

Just curious, since you're immune to being an online expert.

No, though it was somewhat non-specific and experimental as to volume, as that can vary widely from patient to patient and with progress; a universal measure such as a quarter or half cup isn't all that helpful beyond a rough guideline as such may be too much for one and not enough for another, and will vary depending upon the composition of the food - some things are more sliderish than others. My wife was much more restricted, even on thicker liquids like protein shakes than I was, even though here stomach was nominally twice the size of mine. It's a big YMMV thing.

Okay, first of all, let me address this issue: All of the snarky advice is not helpful, but rather harmful to the patient.

When I was in the hospital, the nurse reinforced that the trays brought to us were "universal" liquid diet trays and that we should be careful about what we consumed. If in question, ASK THE RN on the floor. They will know what you can and can't have. If you are NOT starting as diabetic, a little apple juice certainly will not hurt you (sugarwise). And, what I was told about juice was any juice that was "No sugar added" was okay, if I could stomach it.

Go by what your bariatric program tells you.