Anyone share wat they have been eating/drinking post op??
Hi Heather,
My first fortnight (Weeks 1 and 2) post op was liquid only along the lines of:
-- 250 mls protein shake for breakfast (Wilko "Shape Up" own diet protein/diet shake thing -- Asda and Tesco do similar -- all cheaper and better than SlimFast, LOL!) It has
more grams of protein and
less carbs than Slimfast
-- water (throughout the day)
-- 2 cups of tea
-- 1 or 2 cups of milk
-- 1 x WW or Heinz thin soup (usually cream of chicken with the bits of chicken strained out or blended in using the blender)
Weeks 3 and 4 (according to my hospital's own post sleeve diet advice) were "soft" / mushy and puree food and for me this was:
-- 250 mls protein shake for breakfast (as before)
-- 100 grams cottage cheese
-- 2 Ryvita crackerwheat with Philadelphia light (the crackerwheat are really soft if crunched a lot not like normal hard Ryvita)
-- 2 or 3 slices of very thin, fine corned beef (I found that this was very crumbly and soft)
-- 2 x eggs scrambled
-- 100 grams of baked beans
(I don't cook -- never have and really don't expect miracles at 44 years of age -- so puree'ing food was something I never got into -- I just made my choices from soft food options available.)
Now at 5 weeks post op (now into week 6) I am on "normal" food which has included:
-- 1/4 of a cheese + brocoli quiche (ate the middle bit, not the pastry)
-- Thai green chicken curry (inc a small amount of rice -- no problem if chewed well enough)
-- small squares of cod on a side plate
-- 1/2 of a crab wrap (again ate mostly the middle and left most of the wrap / bread behind)
Oh, and I am
*still* having 250 mls protein shake for my breakfast every morning -- I find it useful to grind / blend all my other meds and vitamin pills into (I bought a pill crusher) as we cannot tolerate whole pills until 3 months post surgery.
x
