eating solid food

[libratgrgirl]

Hi - I just had my surgery Thursday morning and this afternoon I was able to have albondigas soup if I mashed the meatballs into mush. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How do you know when you are feeling mental hunger versus actual hunger. I have spent so long just eating because that now I am worried I will continue that bad pattern. Is this normal?

[cutieKel]

Hi - I just had my surgery Thursday morning and this afternoon I was able to have albondigas soup if I mashed the meatballs into mush. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How do you know when you are feeling mental hunger versus actual hunger. I have spent so long just eating because that now I am worried I will continue that bad pattern. Is this normal?

Libratgrgirl, I had surgery on 4/13 and I know exactly what you are talking about. Knowing the difference between mental hunger and physical hunger is something that we all have to learn. I know that I was not really hungry for the first 5 to 6 days. Don't get me wrong, food sounded good but if I had some gatorade the feeling would go away. The one thing I noticed the first week, was that I don't think I had ever really been hungry so it was difficult to determine what that meant. I would reccomend to you that you follow your doctors orders. If you are allowed to have mushed up food then do. As for me, Dr. Ortiz's nutritionist only allowed clear fluids for the first 7 days and then added yogurt and protien drinks and soup with no chunks after that. Keep up the good work and a little hunger now will only be temporary.

Kellli

[JennaR]

Just because you CAN eat, doesn't mean you SHOULD. The first 6 weeks are difficult for us all. Try and stick to the diet that was recommended. That does NOT include the mashed meatballs.

[chrissysdolphin]

there is a site wwwlitenfree.com that has a good place for learning options for eating and a actual breakdown of what to eat and how to prepare it

Hi - I just had my surgery Thursday morning and this afternoon I was able to have albondigas soup if I mashed the meatballs into mush. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How do you know when you are feeling mental hunger versus actual hunger. I have spent so long just eating because that now I am worried I will continue that bad pattern. Is this normal?

[ATX]

Hi - I just had my surgery Thursday morning and this afternoon I was able to have albondigas soup if I mashed the meatballs into mush. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How do you know when you are feeling mental hunger versus actual hunger. I have spent so long just eating because that now I am worried I will continue that bad pattern. Is this normal?

Hi

I am having surgery May 12th. I will be starting my post op diet soon. I dont know what i would have done with out this message board. I have learned so much and so many of my questions have been answered.

Anyone having surgery this day???

Monica

[Dreamer]

Hi

I am having surgery May 12th. I will be starting my post op diet soon. I dont know what i would have done with out this message board. I have learned so much and so many of my questions have been answered.

Anyone having surgery this day???

Monica

Hello Monica,

Guess you are now on the pre-op portion of this procedure! I want to encourage you to follow it through, it will make it easier on you and the Dr who does your surgery.

Good luck and let us know how you are doing! I was banded April 18, and would do it again in a heartbeat!

Dreamer

[nomorefatfaye]

you have to follow your drs. order to a tee......stop eating till he says go

[dakota]

Hello Monica,

Guess you are now on the pre-op portion of this procedure! I want to encourage you to follow it through, it will make it easier on you and the Dr who does your surgery.

Good luck and let us know how you are doing! I was banded April 18, and would do it again in a heartbeat!

Dreamer

Hi Dreamer,

Are you the one from Oklahoma? Me too - Tulsa. I am planning to have this surgery the first of August. Where in Ok are you? How much weight have you lost? I am very excited.

Dakota

[Vicki]

Hi - I just had my surgery Thursday morning and this afternoon I was able to have albondigas soup if I mashed the meatballs into mush. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How do you know when you are feeling mental hunger versus actual hunger. I have spent so long just eating because that now I am worried I will continue that bad pattern. Is this normal?

Hi, I had my surgery on the 12th. I had no nausea and was able to immediately drink a half of glass of tea with no regrets. I know that you are supposed to have clear liquids for a week, then full liquids the following week, but I have been able to eat ice cream, puddings. Tonight I ate a piece of pork and corn on the cob because I did not want the people I was with to know my secret. Are we going to expand the pouch to much by eating to soon?

[CHITO]

Hi, I had my surgery on the 12th. I had no nausea and was able to immediately drink a half of glass of tea with no regrets. I know that you are supposed to have clear liquids for a week, then full liquids the following week, but I have been able to eat ice cream, puddings. Tonight I ate a piece of pork and corn on the cob because I did not want the people I was with to know my secret. Are we going to expand the pouch to much by eating to soon?

Vicki sorry to be so blunt but the reason you ate was because you didn't want your friends to know your secret? simple you just make up some lie like your on a liquid diet or my stomach hasn't been feeling to well those are the excuses I use. Plus I'm going trough the same problems with my sister we both had our sugeries done on May 31, 2006 by Dr. Ortiz & Dr. Martinez wonderful Men and their staff is great my sister has been eating regular food she says "As long as I smush it or chew it very very well it's ok it goes trough fine and it's not bad" Sweetie just cause food goes trough and it doesn't get stuck doesn't mean its ok to eat it. The doctors gave us a special diet for a reason your stomach is still swollen from surgery and your band hasn't properly adjusted. You might think your not doing wrong because nothing happened when you ate the solids but it doesn't work that way by eating solids sooner than you are suppose to you run higher risk of having complications later on. You know that some of the risk are slippage or erosion right? Well, think about it this way right now your not hungry you ate cause you wanted to keep your surgery a secret. Whats going to happen when you get your first fill and then you eat because you dont want others to know? are you gonna start eating like you use to just cause you can? Like I said I dont want to sound all blunt and rude about it but it just worries me when I hear this sort of stuff because that just shows that some of us that get banded just jump into it without thinking about how your life just drastically changes all over night. Some of us are not mentaly ready for this surgery and that worries me as well because then when something bad happens they never realize that they were the cause for not doing what your suppose to. If I were you I would just go back to the diet the Dr. & Nutritionist gave you is for your own good I know you'll start or probably already feel hungry but remeber on the 8th day add low fat yougurt with no fruit pieces and on day 10 start drinking your protein shakes it works trust me. I personaly feel full with just the broths and liquids and sometime the yogurt feels like it get stuck and I haven't even started the solid phase yet. But I dont get hungry at all trough out the day but I eat and drink because I'm suppose to and remember just because you can eat doesn't mean you should. Think about your health and the consequences there may be later on in your life if you dont fallow the diet like you are suppose to right now. Good luck with everything and please take care of yourself I dont know you but your health still worries me.

[nomorefatfaye]

Hi, I had my surgery on the 12th. I had no nausea and was able to immediately drink a half of glass of tea with no regrets. I know that you are supposed to have clear liquids for a week, then full liquids the following week, but I have been able to eat ice cream, puddings. Tonight I ate a piece of pork and corn on the cob because I did not want the people I was with to know my secret. Are we going to expand the pouch to much by eating to soon?

i was starving almost right after surgery and my clear/full diet lasted about ten days...then i started on soft foods..now i am on reg. foods almost six weeks later..today first fill and i am feeling fine. I am eating less at each meal but maybe eating too often. After my fill you will have to adjust YOUR MIND to your new stomach..and STOP eating once your full otherwise you will stretch out your new stomach. I dont even feel like anything in my body has changed just yet. I hope this "fill" will help me feel like my stomach is smaller. Anyone else experience ...NOTHING? until your first fill up?

thanks for any advise...

[Darrin S.]

Vicki,

I hear everybody use the line about starting solid foods "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should". This should be the First Golden Rule of Lap Band Surgery. As a matter of fact, I think I'll do that right now! We can all refere to this comment as the First Golden Rule of Lap Band Sugery (this will allow other great words of wisdom to be added).

The biggest threat to eating solids before 3 -4 weeks post op is what everyone is concerned about: Band Slippage. In his book - he explains how eating can push the band lower creating a bigger pouch. All in all, this can prevent the weight loss that you went through the procedure to assist with in the first place.

Follow your doctor's instructions! (Oopps, that sounds like a good Second Golden Rule for Lap Band Surgery). And if you have questions, ask your doctor.

It's great we have such a great support system right here... but everyone is different. What works for me, may not work for you and vice versa.

Darrin

San Diego, CA

To be Banded - June 22nd

3 days and counting DOWN!!!!!

[CHITO]

Vicki,

I hear everybody use the line about starting solid foods "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should". This should be the First Golden Rule of Lap Band Surgery. As a matter of fact, I think I'll do that right now! We can all refere to this comment as the First Golden Rule of Lap Band Sugery (this will allow other great words of wisdom to be added).

The biggest threat to eating solids before 3 -4 weeks post op is what everyone is concerned about: Band Slippage. In his book - he explains how eating can push the band lower creating a bigger pouch. All in all, this can prevent the weight loss that you went through the procedure to assist with in the first place.

Follow your doctor's instructions! (Oopps, that sounds like a good Second Golden Rule for Lap Band Surgery). And if you have questions, ask your doctor.

It's great we have such a great support system right here... but everyone is different. What works for me, may not work for you and vice versa.

Darrin

San Diego, CA

To be Banded - June 22nd

3 days and counting DOWN!!!!!

Darrin I agree with you the day you go into surgery is the day that I'm suppose to start eating solids. I'm still on mostly liquids and yogurt and even now I feel the yogurt get kinda stuck and I haven't had a fill. People eat because it's put on paper that this is the day you start solids which I myself took as this is the day you can try it if you are feeling up to it.

Theres also something very important I would like to say many of you will probably disagree and be some what or plenty upset at me and I accept that. But, I have been reading some of the post on here and it seems to me that some or most are going into this surgey and not being Mentaly Prepared for it.