what to expect, liquids phase over
Let's see thinking way back, you'll probably get full much easier on soft foods than liquids. From what I remember that's what happened to me. Then a couple weeks later, I was having trouble staying full for very long on soft foods.
I'm about 16 months out and because I don't have a lot of faith in my new digestive system being about to digest solid protein, in addition to 2-3 protein shakes a day, I eat about a half pound of chicken meat, a little every three hours throughout the day. My wife puts veggies in it for me (live in Japan - wife does all cooking) and I get full much more easily than I would with just pureed chicken.
Solid foods are the ones that will almost always make you full. So if the soft foods don't, just hang on...fullness is on the way!
Dave
Full liquids seem to never give a feeling of "Fullness." Soft-foods tend to. Do take it easy as you try out new things. One tip from my doc was to add only One new food a day. That way, if you feel nauseated or sick, you won’t Have to doubt 8 new foods you tried that day. The "culprit" will be easy to find. Yes? As far as Dumping? Avoid high fat content, And foods where "Sugar" or "High-fructose Corn Syrup"
appears in the first 3 or 4 ingredients on the label. Ingredient labels list the ingredients from highest % of overall content, to lowest. If it lists grams of sugars staying under 5 gms at one time is also a fairly safe bet. There are more incidents of nausea associated with the Transitions from one phase of foods to the next. Just e careful, But also don’t retreat into "Food-Fear" or Semi-Anorexic Food issues. Some people will get sick from eating a food And even if the only problem was too much too fast, They may avoid that particular food much later just from the Aversion psychological connection of that food to Nausea. Work toward eating the way you want to eat for the rest of your life. Healthy, and Normal. "Normal" for someone who is at Normal BMI range Not "Normal" per the McDonald’s Commercials. Work toward a balanced, nutritionally complete dietary intake. It does keep getting much easier. Best Wishes- Dx
Capricious; Impulsive, Semi-Predictable
Team,
My compliments on surviving the liquid phase. My wish for you, that you can dump but never have the experience. It isn't throwing up or taking a dump or 3. It is a really ill, sick woozy feeling that lasta about an hour or so then passes. The weird part is it hits 20-30 mnutes after you eat whatever it is you shouldn't have. Just about enough time to give you a false sense of "I got away with eating something that was clearly pushing the envelope".
Back to topic,...at the soft food, phase II of my recovery food plan, I successfully did:
1. lowfat yugurt with protein powder
2. banana with or without peanut butter (but go slow as the ft content of bananas was harder to deal with early on but got better as time passed)
3. SF pudding with or without protein powder
4. Canned salmon with cream of mushroom soup mixed
5. Try as I may, chicken, white fish, and tuna still don't go down too good. I had better luck with imitation crab, deviled crab, and boiled shrimp.
6. Wendy's Chili
7. Taco
For soft foods and beyond,...just follow the menu and don't worry about the fullness right now. With the swelling going down and the new pouch learning to digest, your body is doing as much adjusting as you and your head are; relearning and adjusting.
With soft foods, you will encounter fullness but it is now a different experience than before surgery (WLS). For me it is a high pain or like a bubble in the top of my stomach or throat just above the new pouch. You very much need to stop when you get there and not try to force down that remaining amount of food; that last bite or two or three,… or you will just suffer and probably throw it back-up anyways. And the throwing-up isn't violent vomiting. It is more like burping and reverse swallowing, but it comes back none-the-less. Unpleasant at best and not attractive to onlookers,...so you'll learn to just not go there.
That satisfied full feeling that got us obese is history. And at least for those of us that are RNYers,...hunger isn't what it was before, ...eating isn't what it was before,....feeling satisfied isn't what it was before. I have had it once in 9 months and it wasn't any big deal. It is not a goal.
My goal is protein first and stopping with out being sick, whenever that signal comes and it varies depending on what I eat; i.e., meat versus a smoothie, protein bar verses mashed potatoes, chili verses fish or chicken.
It is a different life on this side of surgery and there are many benefits. Following the program helps adjust the mindset to the new lifestyle. If you hold on too much to the past dependence on pleasures derived from eating, you could also develop or shall I say, maintain bad habits that caused us obesity problems we are trying to replace.
I came to realize, like going out to eat was no longer about me and my buddy; food, which it was clearly more about than who I was with before WLS. But I didn't realize that until I couldn't eat more than a couple of bites and I was full.
Stressers need to be relearned on how to be dealt with, like with a cold drink of water, a walk, talking to someone, etc. etc, and as strange as it seems, that is a good thing.
So in short, we learn to let go of that need to feel full and feel the satisfaction of successfully following the program and find new adventures in the additional time we use to spend eating. Go forth and succeed. That is what being a loser is really all about. Keep being successful. May the FARTS be wih you!