One thing my Nutritionist impressed upon me pre-surgery is that the sleeve is a tool. The sleeve will help with portion control, but that you are still responsible for what goes in your mouth.
What = You. How much = Sleeve (and you, to a degree).
I am on the 'Home Soft Foods" diet. One thing you'll learn if you research WLS is that there is no one standard protocol. Every Surgeon has a different plan from initial meeting through surgery onto post-surgical nutrition. Some people are on full liquids for a month (bless their hearts) and some like me are moved to purees while still in the Hospital.
Soft Foods are basically purees that you were able to have before plus things like scrambled eggs, flaked moist fish, tuna fish, egg salad, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. I have been following this but quickly grew grossed out by blenderized meat. Since I need to prioritize getting my protein in first I had to develop a plan.
I made myself some turkey meatballs (1 oz each) and baked/steamed them so they didn't get brown and crunchy. I often will have this with some low-sugar tomato sauce and a little bit of skim mozzarella, melted. Breakfast is normally 1/4c. rolled oats cooked with skim milk and cinnamon and sugar-free maple syrup (just a drizzle). I have eggs everyday for some meal. I've been eating this pretty much for two weeks, give or take. One day I had some of my Husband's left over turkey taco meat.
Today I just needed a change. I opened the fridge and saw we had turkey hot dogs. Into the pan it went, a little bit of melted low-fat cheese and....HEAVEN. I have no idea if this is officially 'allowed' at this stage but it is soft and I chew everything (even oatmeal!) like a million times so that makes it a puree, right?
All I know is that it was really good to have a different taste. I'm about half-way through (blogging while I eat helps me sloooooow my pace!) and I'm not sure I'll finish it. We'll see.
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