Hate learning things the hard way. Happy Birthday. Hope the rest of your day goes better!

Oh, I am sorry you had that experience.

I don't know what your nut recommends for your first steps into the GBS lifestyle. I had to do liquids only for the first two weeks PO, followed by one to two weeks on soft foods only. After that, I could introduce ONE new solid food a day, very well chewed, to see how it sat with my new pouch.

I recommend that you go VERY slowing in introducing foods, and try to avoid recipes that have a lot of ingredients. Very simple will work best for you for the first couple of months.

I think I was at almost six months before I ate two things together--like a slice of turkey breast and a slice of cheese.

I remember that I dumped once (including vomiting). It was not fun.

:)

Happy Birthday!! We all have gone through that. No fun for sure but especially on your birthday =(

Happy birthday! Yes, Farmgirl is right about keeping it simple. I did not eat mixed foods or recipe foods for a while either. I remember not being able to eat melted cheese but I could have cheese cubes, curds and slices. I did like she did and introduced single foods to see what settled. Most of the time one thing is enough to fill you up anyway. Multi course meals just aren't necessary any more.

Amen to all the above comments. Every time I hear what you are eating I am amazed. I spent 2 weeks liquid, 3 weeks pureed, 3 weeks soft food and on January 5 yesterday could start regular food carefully. If it doesn't work yet I go back to soft food. I know we get anxious to eat again like we did before. That is never going to happen, we are in a brand new mode. Happy Happy Birthday to you. Keep plugging along, don't make it too hard, it is only for awhile and worth it. TTFN

Happy Birthday! I am sorry that that happened to you. You sound like me on Monday I ate more than one food at a time and I spent my whole lunch hour you know where!! =( I am 3 weeks out and I just know that it was to fast for me to try and did it anyway so I went back to pureed food.

Happy Birthday. I hate you had that experience on your day though.

Thank you for the good wishes, everyone. I have been on what I'm guessing is the standard post-op diet--liquids for two weeks, then pureed foods for a week, then carefully chosen foods in their normal state, as long as they are moist and I don't react badly.

I've been making a LOT of soups lately because they're easy to put veggies and protein powder in and, since I like my soups on the thick side anyway, easy to puree. (Side note--my DH got me a Vitamix for Christmas so I've been having fun using that to puree my soups.) I've been having a lot of fun exploring new foods and so far the only bad reaction was yesterday with the cheese.

On the good side, though, I experienced two NSV's this week. See a separate post about those. :-)

Happy Birthday and Happy Days to you Diva!