Starting mushy foods

[michelle68 46]

I am starting post op week 3 today and can start tryig mushy foods. I also had my gallbladder removed when I was sleeved as well.

This morning I made a scrammbled egg in a spray of olive oil cooking spray...

I ate 1/2 of it over a 30 minute period...had a ton of burping and was in the bathroom with a very loose BM 5 minutes after.

Is this normal when you start mushy foods in general?

Does having my gallbladder out make any difference?

When you started muchy foods, did you do 3 meals of it that day or work your way up to it? Or how did you do it?

Sorry for all the questions...my surgeon is fabulous but his staff is not and emailing the nurse is not fun...we tend to "correct" one another.

Thank you!

[Fluffnomore 1,235]

My general advice was try one thing at a time so you can tell if it doesn't agree with you. So I tried different things at different meals. Probably scrambled egg, refried black Beans with cheese, and rotisserie chicken blended into mashed potatoes for the first couple of days. Then as that went well, I'd add in something else. Meatloaf. Unblended chili. Etc.

My gallbladder bit the dust long ago and I don't find there is much rhyme or reason to the BMs these days. The other day after taking Nyquil I was quite "busy" the next morning. I rarely get constipated, but before surgery I never did; I probably had at least one loose stool every morning. So it's hard to say what is related.

[SeaLegs 38]

It's a process, that's for sure. A whole scrambled egg would have been too much for me at first and a little too dense. I found applesauce comfortable to eat. A bite of banana. For me, it is similar to my band...I can really only eat a little in the morning, then larger amounts later on in the day. I had loose stools early on, which resolved. Foods you don't tolerate early on are OK later. Listen to your body...if one or two tablespoons feels like enough, stop. (that's what I had to do, maybe it was swelling?) I think if you want to transition by mixing liquid and mushy in a day, it's fine. I can't tell you anything about the gallbladder...I still have mine.

[4dogcrazy 6]

After having my gallbadder out over 10 years ago I went threw years of having bathroom issues. I could not eat fastfood without having to go to the bathroom within 15 min later. I found that if I ate anything high in fat it triggered it. I saw a doctor and he told me that the gall bladder holds the bile that is released to break down fatty foods so since I did not have a gallbadder anymore it was being released into my small intestine and it was causing me to have bloating and pain and runny BM. It has gotten better and now since being sleeved and still in the pureed stage I have not really eaten any fatty foods to know if it will still happen. To tell you the truth I'm having the other problem of only going every three or four days.