12 days post op - ate 2oz of grilled chicken

Happy Holiday Monday (Ontario) 

So I'm 12 days out of RNY.  I was transitioned to puréed food last Thursday, but am having a hard time eating, staying full and maintaining enough energy to function. Yesterday I was desperate for protein while we were out - so I got a McDonalds grilled chicken snack wrap ... Only ate the chicken!  It's the best I've felt in weeks.  The clinic told me that we can transition at our own pace to soft foods.  Does anyone else have suggestions or thoughts.  P.S down 40lbs since June 27 - is this good / on track?

GO to your surgeon's Support Grp Meetings for a few months (or longer) - that is the best place to get answers to all the little questions that arise in the first few months.

I did not have a pureed stage - just went from full liquids to well chewed soft foods at 1 week.  Poached flounder, moist chicken. cottage cheese.  Keep track of your grams of protein.   Make sure you are at 60-80 gms per day.

Your low energy is not from lack of food, it's from the major surgery you just had.  It takes a year for all the anesthesia to leave your system. You have enough fat that your body will burn for energy.  Don't make the mistake of feeding yourself unnecessarily. 

Chicken is NOT a soft food!!!!   The nerves in your stomach have been severed and you cannot feel any full sensation.  You can do SERIOUS DAMAGE to your suture line by eating solid foods at this point.  We have seen people die from leaks caused by progressing their food stages too quickly.There is a reason your surgeon has a food progression.  Your stomach needs time to heal.

Chasing the "full sensation" is how we got obese.  If I ate until I felt full, I would over eat at every meal and regain my loss.  Now is the time to change your relationship with food.  You need to follow your program, measure every bite, and then stop eating.  Many of us have used that full feeling as an emotional crutch.  It comforts us.  We have never really allowed ourselves to feel hunger.  We feed ourselves at the first sign of hunger.  It's OK to feel hunger.  It's OK to force yourself to eat only at scheduled mealtimes.  Nothing bad will happen to you.  Hunger is not an emergency that requires immediate action.  We need to relearn how the feed ourselves and that starts with the basics and getting into a routine of eating measured amounts at schedule mealtimes ONLY.  If you are out and there is no appropriate food around, you CAN wait until you get home to eat.  Your health depends on it.  You did not go through the trauma of surgery to fall back into old habits.

As a side note, your stomach will make a lot of noise after surgery.  Don't mistake it for hunger... it's NOT!

You can do this. but getting the head stuff right is more important than anything.

Beautifully put again,Rocky! 

I it more every time I read it. "HUNGER IS NOT AN EMERGENCY". IT is so important for ME to remember. Thank you! 

I have that quote on a note card on my frig right next to my before Picture! Love it!

I'm pre-surgery, waiting for a surgery date and I will keep this post somewhere handy for those difficult times. Thank you

Read everything Rock wrote above. Then read it again, and follow her words of wisdom.

Chicken is not a soft food. Not remotely.

We all got morbidly obese by making our own eating plan, and eating what we wanted, when we wanted, to make ourselves feel better. Stop doing this, now, while you can.

Please stop making your own plan, and follow someone else's for a change.

Salmon is soft food and satisfying 

I'm 8 weeks post op today and I am just recently been able to eat 2 ounces of chicken. I don't have experience with this but think you could seriously hurt yourself. Take care.