Question:
I want to eat somthing a lil solid what should i do?
I am almost a week into my surgey but I am hungry should i try to start with things like oat meal? — Tawanda29 (posted on June 19, 2006)
June 19, 2006
I wouldn't go with oat meal yet. I'm in the same boat...surgery was June
14. I use sugar free popscicles, fudgescicles and dreamscicles if I want
something that I don't have to drink. They're just liquid in a different
form. Another suggestion that someone gave me before surgery was to get a
snow cone maker or ice shaver and use to make snow cones with some of the
sweeter protein drinks. It hslps a little with the taste and gives you
something that has some substance to it.
— cburky911
June 19, 2006
Oatmeal still might be a bit heavy. Try applesauce and very wet scrambled
eggs if you absolutely cannot wait. I just couldn't go several weeks
without something semi-solid either, but try to be responsible about being
irresponsible. ;) You could try a bit of banana and just chew the HECK
out of it. -- Jennifer
— j_coulter
June 19, 2006
do EXACTLY what your surgeon told you to do. It is hard, I actually sucked
on barbecued sunflower seeds and spit them out, but the doctors are the
experts... listen to them. They are the reason we are given this chance.
— septembergirl73
June 19, 2006
Continue to follow your doctor's orders until otherwise instructed. You
don't want to jump the gun too soon and place your system in distress.
It's going to be a few weeks yet before you can do the oatmeal thing.
— the7thdean
June 19, 2006
Hi..I tried a spoonful of yogurt here and there. Also some really creamy
cottage cheese. Couldn't eat much of it. Just a bite or two and that's
it. Some others had Farina and it worked fine for them. I actually still
have the box that I never even opened. :) Good luck
— KellyL
June 20, 2006
you can have sugar free jell-o.
— Ulises Robles
June 20, 2006
I came home after surgery- on Mushy foods. Stayed with muchy foods for a
month. So do the s/f jello- it will only be 2/3 bites max.
Scrambled eggs with cheese/ applesauce/ I waited on bananas..
chicken broth with saltine crackers..dry thin crackers are good. Even cup
of soup like lipton chicken- was good- wth the tiny O's .but Im sure you
will do better DRINKING.. here is a suggestion for that: get some Mango
Peach Isopure liquid- mix it wth Propel Peach water- and you will get some
awesome protein in. ALSO try unflavored Protein- from GNC- one scoop=21gms.
Mix that with PROPEL or even jello or even yogurt- and you will do
splendid. Dont matter if it takes you all day to get your water &
protein in- just dont be like me- and figuring this out at 10mos postop!
:-) But I am -115lbs..but someone should hae told me to keep it simple-
water or drinks & even soup with this unflavored protein- it just
works! I wish I had discovered it sooner! Good Luck! Donna
— nybabe
June 20, 2006
I wasnt allowed any thing like oatmeal until I was 4 weeks out and then it
had to be runny. YOU should do whatever your doctor set up for you. Didnt
you get an eating plan to go by? Please follow the doctors instructions.
— LisaSpi
June 20, 2006
Follow your surgeon's orders. that is what you are paying him or her for!
Your pouch and insides need time to heal fully before you eat solid food.
— Novashannon
June 20, 2006
YO SHOULD ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR DR'S ORDERS...
One thing you need to realize this is a tool...Head hunger is a tool you
have to addapt to.
I can understand what you are going through...
Food is a strong Hold on us obses minded people!
Find and serch for your journey...Go chace it!!!
Celeste
from 327 to 125... Yes I found a way to get to my goal...
— shakeyourweight
June 20, 2006
Nope...stay on the ice pops...water...etc...It is hard I was hungry all the
time and it was not just in my head. I also tried doing other
things...hobbies...reading...going for a walk...moving around helped alot!
— KarenDykes
June 20, 2006
If you have to have something solid I would suggest chinese egg drop soup
as this early stage in your recovery. It is actually not so much a solid
but it has the texture that you are craving. I had that once my first week
out and then I was ok until my dr advised I could advance to soft foods.
Good luck on your journey
Kendra
— k24k.lady
June 21, 2006
My Dr. let us have cream reduced fat soup run through a blender. Also
Oatmeal, cream of wheat -run through a blender first. I mixed it with fat
free milk and some dry carnation nonfat milk, to up the protien. I ate baby
food strained first step into my second week, for some variety, my dr got
mad, but it didn't seem to hurt me, and it kept me from hurting some one
lol peggy
— sunbrat
June 21, 2006
Try a few bites of cream of chicken soup. or mashed potatoes, see how it
goes
— Jenny_B
June 21, 2006
Hey there! I was told that I could have oatmeal during the first part of
my recovery, only I had to put it in a blender! So what I did was put the
dry oatmeal into the coffee grinder and got it really fine. I added water
and nuked it and added more water and milk (with some Splenda) until it was
a fairly thin consistency. It wasn't wonderful but it was a change. I
also cheated with some chicken soup! (Which wasn't really cheating -
because I was off the all-liquid phase as soon as I was released from the
hospital). Good luck to you!
— Pambylah
June 21, 2006
You can make Knox Blox from SF Jello . . . extra stiff Jello. Something to
chew, but counts as a liquid.
— rayehawk
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