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I am just curious. I was banded on June 28th and the food list i have from my nutritionist says that I cant have ground beef until 8 weeks after surgery. I am just curious how soon after surgery some of you other people were able to eat ground beef.

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My Dr. says ground turkey and ground beef at 3 weeks.

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I was able to have it when I was moved to "mushy" foods... 3 weeks post op I think?

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One of my worst stuck episodes was on ground beef. It can have pieces of gristle in it that can get painfully stuck. Since it's ground, we don't tend to chew it well, just swallow it down. I didn't have any specific restriction against it, but I've found it to be a food that I tend to have problems with.

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I had surgery a month ago, and I have not been cleared for it. I was told 6 weeks. Haven't tried it yet.

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I had surgery 1 month ago today - I was allowed ground beef at 3 weeks - I have not had any problems with it - I make sure and use ketchup and small bites CHEW CHEW CHEW

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I believe my papers say that once I get three week past and start into my week 4 plan I can have it. Not sure how I'll do yet since I'm only 10 days post-op. :)

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I had surgery on 6/6/11 and met with my surgeon on 7/7/11. He wants me on all "real" foods. He said to eat what i would normally eat, but hopefully with the band, smaller quantities. He will not give me a fill until six weeks or 2mos post op.

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I had surgery on 6/6/11 and met with my surgeon on 7/7/11. He wants me on all "real" foods. He said to eat what i would normally eat, but hopefully with the band, smaller quantities. He will not give me a fill until six weeks or 2mos post op.

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I was able to have it when I was moved to "mushy" foods... 3 weeks post op I think?

same here

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6 weeks for me.....;)

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My surgeon generally has his band patients back on regular foods by two weeks.

I buy the 90/10 or 93/7 lean grnd beef or grnd turkey. Very little gristle if any in that.

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I had hamburger week 6. But I have found hamburger alone does not agree with me. I am able to add it to pinto Beans or have chili and it does good.

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I was about 18 months postOp before I hazarded even trying ground beef. To me it resembled more ground cardboard, and I was obsessed with removing all the gristle and unidentifiable other stuff that my chewing could not reduce to a paste. A normal grilled patty would end up with a golf-ball sized wad that I simply could not bring myself to even try to swallow. Perhaps I was over zealous. In any case, it was a couple years before I actually ~enjoyed~ ground beef. Ground turkey I was ok. Higher grade ground beef I was better that the econo stuff as there was more roughage than I expected to find. I used a food processor a lot to puree suspicious meats, as the dread I had of another major 'stuck' episode weighed on me. Again I was perhaps over zealous there too.

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I am Post-op 9 days and I can have ground beef (they prefer ground turkey) at the mushy stage. So around three weeks after surgery.

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