Real Food?
My wife and I were both sleeved on September 1 and we get to start real food today!
Any suggestions on what to start with? We haven't had anything that resembled real food in just over a month (seems like such a looooong time ago).
Are there some foods that go down easier than others? I'm thinking fish and chicken for a while with steamed veggies?
Just be sure to take it slow introducing food. This will give you a good idea of what you can tolerate right now. Also remember the small bites chewed to a pulp.
HW: 478+ Consult: 478 Pre Op: 453 SW: 438 CW: 293 (7-20-15) GW: 225 LBS Gone: 185
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Probably best to keep it at eggs, fish and (well) steamed veggies for a bit. You're still healing even if cleared for solids and all of those will go down easily.
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Yogurt and cottage cheese are always a great place to start. I actually found chicken a little harder to digest than other things. I started with a scrambled egg, and ate about half. I also did cold cuts like turkey and ham early out. I'd wrap them around a stick of low fat cheese. I'd make taco meat with ground turkey. That was pretty digestible.
Just go slow. Be careful to under-eat and chew, chew and chew. Overeating is painful and happens fast. Plus you can get a lot of mucus if you over-fill your tummy. Its not fun.
Best of luck,
Carol
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My surgery was 8/13 and my first go-to "real food" was pastina cooked in chicken stock with silken tofu and a little protein powder mixed after it was cooked. Or add an egg towards the end of cooking and it will be silky. I agree with others that you should definitely take it slow. Good Luck and congrats on both of you doing it together. I'm sure it makes things a little easier.
Here's what we've been eating on the mushy food stage: poached eggs, soft scrambled eggs, a lot of low fat cottage cheese, a lot of tuna and chicken salad that I puree'd, and canned green beans that I cooked down till they were very soft.
I'm hoping we can tolerate some baked chicken and salmon with some steamed broccoli and cauliflower. And maybe a little squash and zucchini.
