New Beginings w/ adjustments

[Apryl1957 9]

I am now, as of today, three weeks post op. I have to say that pre-op and even surgery, other than the wake up after surgery and feeling like a truck hit me, has not been bad. Pain if any was truly minimal and I am happy with that.

Adjusting to eating however is a challenge. I was counting down the weeks and days to finally be able to eat something solid and once I was clear nothing solid stays down. I seem to be on a mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, ice cream (not good for you), applesauce, cream of wheat and Soup diet now.

Yesterday I filled my plate (haha) with three baby white potatoes that had been baked and three Swedish meatballs. Two bites of the potatoes and -nope, stop, that did not work. They came back!!!! So, I waited about 15 minutes and mashed those little guys and cut each meatball in to four little bits and was able to finally get one potatoe and two meatballs down. that is the first meat that agrees with me. chicken so far is out of the question and I dare not try anything I can't mash.

Is anyone else running into these problems? My doctor did an ultrasound three days after surgery so everything inside is fine but I have nightmares that this is not normal. According to my diet I should be able to eat boiled chicken now- Nope!

I am not losing much at all, and had a WOW wake up call last night. I realized as I was eating cream of wheat for dinner that I was eating wheat (which my husband and I gave up Oct of 2013). That is probably adding to my loss of weight lost too. So no more COW for me. I had hope to be weighing a lot less now but it is slow.

I am hanging in there, no choice and I do have faith this will work, it is just pulling on my nerves trying to expand my diet and find the norm again as to variety.

[lisacaron 5,075]

@@Apryl1957 You are only 3 weeks out of surgery, and your body still is swollen inside and adjusting to having the band. Your doc is aggressive with the food choices. I was on a liquid diet of Protein shakes for 2 weeks after surgery and then mushy/blended foods for 2 weeks then soft foods for 2 weeks and finally solid food.

Give yourself a chance to heal and choose foods that are mushy to soft. I also want to tell you that the choices you are making as stated above are not conducive to weight loss. Try to make some high Protein choices and steer clear of the potatoes and ice cream. They are high in carbohydrates sugar and fat.

Go for some Soups, or chili. You can put them in the blender for a quick spin to make them even thinner. If you can tolerate soft foods and your doctor is OK with that, try some eggs, or flaky fish. Meatballs are great but mush them up and go easy on the sauces and gravy. Try some Greek or other yogurt. sugar free low fat pudding you make at home with non fat milk.

It will take some time but you will get the hang of it.