Julie, after fills the different doctors have their own rules. Dr. Lopes and Dr. Rodriquez said a week of liquids, but Dr. Snow said a couple days of liquids, a couple days of soft and go with the flow. This is all a matter of how it feels to you. If you do well on the liquids, then move on to mush and stay on it as long as you feel like you need to. If you try solids and anything happens , you get a stomach, or vomit, or it just doesn't feel comfortable to you, then stay on mush a few more days. Wean yourself back onto solids. I did not do liquids , I think I had a bowl of soup and it had soft stuff in it, and then that night of the second day I ate soft food. I think I'm still eating soft food. I seem to favor staying on soft food most of the time, but I also don't have any desire to eat between meals and when it comes to a meal that solids are there, I eat those too but if you are able to control your input, and you don't suffer from hunger, then I see nothing
wrong with that, but if you get hungry between meals , you need to eat solid food. It stays with you longer. I grind up chicken breast and eat that with mayo in it. I eat a lot of fish, always fried too. It goes down easily. I drink milk, eat eggs, etc.
I look at the fighting as entertainment myself . It's not very nice to argue in my opinion and I agree with Dan , this is not the place for it, but I am always amazed at human behavior and find it fascinating at what people will say to each other. I don't care to get in the big middle of it as I don't know the subject matter and don't know the two people, or however many there are who are doing the discussion.
I have not exercised yet , but some day I will do it. LOL. When the cows dry up. I agree with exercising but just don't do it. I think it's good for you.
You may pig out a couple times but I think in the back of your head you want to stay on this diet and so you get back on it pretty quick. It's a big waste of your money not to stick with it, but I look at it this way, I don't beat myself up over a little indulgence because I'm on this for the rest of my life. So I'll do the best I can and I'll treat myself along the way. If I have enough fill in my band, I don't have room to do much pigging out, so I think it's very , very important to keep that band as full as is necessary. I am not out to win any races here. I think I stay pretty much on the diet and don't give myself much fun stuff , certainly not every day. But each person has to look at what the fun stuff does to them. I'm losing weight, not gaining , but if I don't lose weight, then I am going to be making some eating changes. That makes sense to me. Like they say, this is not rocket science, it's common sense. Those of us who have common sense will
lose weight because we know what we have to do and we do it. The ones who gain weight have other issues to deal with.
Personally I think you will be able to eat enough at Christmas with restriction that you can enjoy yourself just the same. I'll eat what goes down and not eat what doesn't . At Thanksgiving I threw up after about two bites and didn't eat the rest of the meal. I have learned that if I throw up something that I know what it is, then I may go back and eat the rest of the food on my plate that doesn't make me throw up. Especially if it's soft food. One day I was eating a fish platter, ate a hush puppy, it came up, I went back and finished the rest of the plate of food. But you have to experiment. It is recommended that you give your stomach a rest if you throw up and no continue to put crap down that hole in your face. But see how everything works for you, do what works for you. If you are afraid to irritate your stomach, give it a rest. Again common sense. If I had thrown up again at the same meal , I 'd have quit, but the hush puppy had flour in it and I
thought that was the culprit, didn't eat any more of them and had no problem.
I don't think you will gain enough weight eating on one day to be worth worrying about, like I said you are in this for the long haul, you aren't going to be eating Christmas dinner every day.
I don't have trouble with much, just dry meat, probably will be able to tolerate a small amount of flour product, I ate a little pie crust tonight. I ate a little wedding cake one time, about four bites before it said "stop".I've been able to eat a little bit of flour tortilla, rice did not work for me. Dry meats don't work for me, need a little sauce or gravy. Any corn product goes down fine, Fritos, cornbread. I ate corn dip and it did ok. This stuff was before my second fill, so I will have to relearn what will work and what won't. I don't seem to have morning restriction, I can eat in the mornings ,at noon and at supper time. I guess any old time is good for me so far. But who knows about tomorrow?
Happy holidays!
Martha