Did you stick to the liquid/food guidelines post-op?

I'm 9 days post-op and doing fine with the thicker liquid foods in phase 1, is there any reason I can't move on to the the soft foods phase? I'm starting to think that all the guidelines we're given are not rules but are there as "guidelines". 

 

** I forgot to say that I had RNY

I think it is important to take it slow.  Don't be in a rush to start shoving stuff in.

I kept to the pre-op and post-op diets to the letter. However, when I noticed that I was outrageously hunger in each stage, I called my doc to ask if I could advance. I went about 5 days per stage.

Doctors differ a lot in what they recommend. If you ask yours, s/he may say you can move ahead faster than your plan. But my own view is that if you trust a doctor enough to allow him to render you unconscious, stick knives into you and rearrange your insides, it isn't a big leap to trust him enough to believe that he knows the effect of food on your alimentary tract in the early post-op stages. Without trying to appear saintly, I can honestly say that it never occurred to me to deviate at all from my post-op plan - probably more through fear of the consequences than anything else. 

Call him and ask! Don't ask us!

good advice!

I followed my plan and never deviated. I did not test my pouch's limit, test to see if I dumped, nor did I advance my food stages early. 

I honestly believe the most successful post-ops follow their food plan very, very closely. 

If you feel you must advance stages earlier than your plan states, please call your nut or dietician to talk to them about it. 

Going off plan, especially so early out, can wreak havoc later on. I know that if I had given myself permission to advance early, or test my pouch in any way, it would have snowballed out of control eventually and would have led to me to not losing as much as I have, or to stop losing all together. I'm 13 months out, and am still losing. My loss has slowed a bit, but it's still happening. 

Thank you ladies.... Sometimes I just need to be reminded to stay the course, that there is a reason. I will not deviate and will stick out the remainder of my thick liquid phase. I guess that's why this forum is so wonderful. I'm able to get strength through others like you just when I think I have no more. 

You will do great...... 

I'd suggest calling your surgeon and asking if there is any reason you should stick to his guidelines.

But yes, I followed mine.

I followed my plan completely.