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Today I fixed my family the traditional southern New Years Day meal! Hog jowls, black-eyed peas, greens, and corn bread. I am still on purée so I may blenderize a bit of black eyed peas and collard greens but I am not about to blend up those nasty jowls yuck!

Tomorrow I start with the regular stuff chewed well. Man it has been 7 weeks of no normal food. 5 weeks liquid ( one extra due to surgery being a week later than expected) 2 puréed. To be honest there is not any one food I can't wait to eat. I am just glad to give the blender a rest.

I wanted to eat 3 meals at roughly 20 grams of Protein a day, however I can't eat the volume even in purée that it takes to reach 20 grams each meal. So I guess I will try to get 15 grams per meal and 2 Snacks with about 8 grams. That sure is going to cut on to Fluid time that will be 5 hours I can't drink.

Share with me your eating schedules. I find it hard to believe I am going to eat five times a day I don't really want three.

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I got the go ahead to start most regular foods yesterday, but was told to eat every 3 hrs. to keep my metabolism going, so I downloaded a timer on my phone to go off every 3 hrs. so I can go grab my 1/4c. meal/snack. I'm more worried about getting in my 48-64oz. of Water between all of that though. Good luck and enjoy!

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It will be hard to get the liquid. Everytime we eat we lose an hour. In a 16 hour day if you eat every three hours you loose 5 hours. So I guess that means about 6oz every other hour to get the 64 oz my NUt wants. The good thing is at 5 meals a day you only have to get 12 grams of protien per eating to equal 60.

My metabolism tested slow maybe I should try this.

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I got the go ahead to start most regular foods yesterday' date=' but was told to eat every 3 hrs. to keep my metabolism going, so I downloaded a timer on my phone to go off every 3 hrs. so I can go grab my 1/4c. meal/snack. I'm more worried about getting in my 48-64oz. of Water between all of that though. Good luck and enjoy![/quote']

Tracy I downloaded the timer and started the every three hour eatting and drink enough alternate hours to be over 64 oz a day. I want to report back it worked!!!! The scae dropped from 261/260 to 258.6 Thank you for sharing!

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