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Why is it i can eat...

FEDup1981

I WILL look like this!!
half a bag of snack a jacks, but not 1 new potato, and some VERY soft salmon, smothered in parsley sauce, and mashed and chewed to oblivion??? :confused:
 
snack a jacks are probably much easier to get down as they are puffed rice and your saliva makes them very soft and with the chewing no problem
The potato and salmon have much more body and texture and will take more effort to swallow, maybe you need to try smaller pieces fedup?? Anyway good luck

Love Jay xx
 
maybe i am putting too much in, i dunno, everything else seems to be right. Ill take smaller mouthfuls, see if it makes a difference. Thanks x
 
Fedup, loads of people struggle with bite size in the beginning. Shel always says take bites the size of the rubber on the end of a pencil, or the size of the tip of your pinky finger. You will gradually be able to take larger bites but right now only small ones until your swelling goes down in your pouch. Some people find eating with a baby spoon & fork helpful to train yourself to take small bites.

Just takes a bit of practice hun, you'll get the hang of it.;)

Nic:p
 
Its a massive learning curve - your practically re learning how to eat post op and it does take a while to get it right, as PH said try using a small tea spoon and take smaller mouthfuls, in my view its better to eat a small amount of the fish than a load of the snak a jacks ! remember your pouch is the size of a golf ball so literally your belly is bigger than your mouth ;)

As you learn what works and what doesn't you'll start to build up a list of what you can have and exactly how much, almost to the point that you can eat fairly normally again, i'm nine months post op this month and i can eat fairly normally, i can take full normal mouthfuls and i know exactly just how much i can get down and how to control my restriction to gain full benefit from the food i eat - trust me there's no easy way to learn this stuff, other than a lot of trial and error with a bit of chcuking up when you get things wrong ! ;)
 
thanks hun. ill let u know 2moro if it makes a difference x
 
Its a massive learning curve - your practically re learning how to eat post op and it does take a while to get it right, as PH said try using a small tea spoon and take smaller mouthfuls, in my view its better to eat a small amount of the fish than a load of the snak a jacks ! remember your pouch is the size of a golf ball so literally your belly is bigger than your mouth ;)

As you learn what works and what doesn't you'll start to build up a list of what you can have and exactly how much, almost to the point that you can eat fairly normally again, i'm nine months post op this month and i can eat fairly normally, i can take full normal mouthfuls and i know exactly just how much i can get down and how to control my restriction to gain full benefit from the food i eat - trust me there's no easy way to learn this stuff, other than a lot of trial and error with a bit of chcuking up when you get things wrong ! ;)

Thanks. I dont eat snack a jacks all the time!! that was just something i used to compare what i can and cant eat. I suppose i thought because it was soft and chewed well, a normal size mouthful would be ok. How much time should i leave between each mouthful?
 
Thanks. I dont eat snack a jacks all the time!! that was just something i used to compare what i can and cant eat. I suppose i thought because it was soft and chewed well, a normal size mouthful would be ok. How much time should i leave between each mouthful?

Its up to you, though i've never been told you should wait any sort of time between mouthfulls, basically you can only eat the amount your pouch will take before you reach restriction, i woofed my food down like a rabbid dog these days and take full mouthfulls if i know what i'm eating, but if its something i've not had before or i'm not sure about i go slowly and see how things go ! its just trial and error, sounds though liek your doing ok.

Things like crisp and snack a jacks will go down well as once they are chewed they turn to a slurry before they reach the pouch, so you'll find you can eat more of that sort of stuff than more solid foods like the salmon ! ..........longer term you'll start to think about eating more solid foods to make the most of eating a meal, things like soup or slushy foods just pass through the restriction and temprorarilly fill you, but 10 minutes later your hungry again.
 
thanks.
Just ate some prawns at 9pm, and usually i get restrictions, but this time i chewed forever and swallowed small amount each time, and i didnt get any discomfort at all. So looks like that is where ive been going wrong. Ill do the same with my meals 2moro, and see if more chewing, and swallowing smaller amounts is the key.

Thanks everyone! x
 
Fedup, loads of people struggle with bite size in the beginning. Shel always says take bites the size of the rubber on the end of a pencil, or the size of the tip of your pinky finger. You will gradually be able to take larger bites but right now only small ones until your swelling goes down in your pouch. Some people find eating with a baby spoon & fork helpful to train yourself to take small bites.

Just takes a bit of practice hun, you'll get the hang of it.;)

Nic:p

Two Shel soundbites I have adopted that are keeping me in check:

'Bites the size of a rubber pencil'
'Two bites protein to one bite carb'

And Silversurfer's recipe for 'cheese on toast'.... lol! I love it!
 
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