I was really struggling on puree stage (not getting enough protein in, having trouble with texture etc), so one week early I have been slowly introducing soft foods which is the next stage. I have been feeling much better since doing this.
Today is the fifth day since doing this - some of the proteins I have been eating:
- Lean minced meats (chicken, pork, beef) - have had them cooked in a cauliflower shepherd's pie with peas, corn, zucchini and carrot, bolognaise sauce eaten on it's own, in mexican spices with tomato, cheese and avocado.
- Yoghurt - I bought the foil pouched chobani yoghurt in mixed flavours. Very yummy and it isn't wasted when I can't eat much. I am also making frozen yoghurt ice blocks with protein powder and fruit to have yoghurt a different way.
- Cheese - I have been having either one slice of singles cheese a day or sometimes grate parmesan or tasty cheese on my meat.
- Eggs - haven't had them everyday but I have one egg at a time either scrambled, hard boiled or poached.
- Beans - have had baked beans and red kidney beans - I have mixed beans, lentils and white beans but im not sure how im going to eat them yet.
- I have stopped all optifast products... mostly because I cant swallow them anymore... taste has changed and they make me gag a little.
- Milk - skim milk only, added to eggs, cereals, vegetables when cooking and drank on its own.
- Cereal - have mostly had porridge but also weet bix is good.
Other foods and drinks are custard, two fruits, lemon lime and bitters with water, icy poles, honey, light sour cream, diet jelly, pineapple juice.
I have found if it is too sweet or too heavy, I feel really sick. So healthy small amounts, still only having 1/4 to 1/2 a cup each meal and less for snack, slow eating slow drinking.
I am taking my bariatric multivitamins twice a day and also taking swisse hair, skin and nail vitamin once a day. My hair is already thinning out so trying to help hold onto it.
My tummy bruises from my injections were replaced with a rash after I had an allergic reaction to them (showed up at the end of taking them all) so I had liquid medicine for this but the itching has stopped and it is slowly going away.
The only pain I am having is occasionally on my right side incision, that's the biggest cut and it just aches every now and then as it is still healing.
My breath is starting to get better - not sure if I mentioned the horrific breath while my body was in ketosis. It is getting better slowly - lots if chewing gum.
My clothes are literally falling off me. As I'm not really working at the moment I have been spending most of my time in exercise clothes cause it is comfortable. Put on jeans and a top this morning and have gone down a size and a half. Had to pull out smaller clothes - wonderful feeling.
Not sure what else.... any questions please ask!
Very happy so far. No regrets. Looking forward to seeing the scale continue to go down and the clothes continue to fall off.
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