Solid Foods!

[raven8888 86]

Yay! Finally, I can start the next chapter to my new and improved "good habits". So I tried my first solids which was a little pork tenderloin I made for the family as usual. But tonight, I did not have to blend it into a pate. I took little itty bitty bites, chewed well. The texture, the taste was so wonderful in my mouth. Felt great going down, no pain, no stuck feeling. I was full after 6 tiny tiny bites. My mind wanted to keep eating, but as I have learned over the past few weeks, trust that full feeling, or else you will be very sorry. So I stopped like a good little sleever. I feel full and satisfied. Only complaint, I'm sitting here and my stomach is making the loudest sounds, like the creeking floor boards of a haunted house. I hope this doesn't always happen, its pretty loud! Lol! Anyway, for all you pre and post opers that are waiting for solids again....it happens faster than you think, and it's an "interesting" journey with food to say the least. It is nice to feel a little more normal, but different if that makes sense. Its hard after surgery adjusting to the small amounts, the restrictions, but at this stage I'm really coming to place of acceptance and contentment with the way I view food. It's nice to finish a meal feeling full and not having that guilt of...."did I really just polished off 3/4 a bag of soft batch Cookies? ". And for once, I'm actually seeing results and loss that I know is never going to come back on. Yay! Today has been a good day.

[raven8888 86]

iPod autocorrect, sorry bout the typos.

[karenb4729 309]

Wow - that's awesome! I don't get solids until I'm 4 months out. That's probably a good thing since I'm having some trouble with my pureed. Tried a new food today (only 1oz) and thought everything went well..... until 2 hrs later when I had horrible cramps, gas, vomiting and diarreah. Just shows you really have to go slow.

[MKambalimath 92]

Good for you! I still get those weird sounds in my stomach after 8 weeks. My husband laughs at me because even an hour or more after I eat if we're sitting reading or something, you can hear it across the room, LOL.

[MinaT 669]

Congrats on the solid, Karen, I'm so sorry about the problem with the pureed. What did you try?

[lsereno 2,525]

Oh those sounds. Finally don't have that problem anymore. At a little over a year out, the only thing like that I have left is I do burp more than I used to.

Lynda