What to Eat the First Week After Lap-Band Surgery
by Larry
What would you recommend eating the first week after Lap-Band surgery (liquid diet)? In the first stage after weight loss surgery, you'll drink/eat only liquids. Good Choices for Clear Liquids include: Water Ice chips (try using a snow cone machine!) Ice cubes Sugar free, non-carbonated beverages (ex:Crystal Light®, Diet Snapple®, Sugar free Kool-Aid®, Diet Gatorade® etc.) Herbal or decaf tea: hot or cold Broth or boullion (vegetable, chicken or beef) Sugar free Popsicles Sugar free gelatin (may or may not be recommended by your surgeon at this stage) Protein bullets Nectar (fruit juice flavored protein powder) Cytosport* Good Choices for Clear Liquids include: Protein shakes Skim milk/fat free milk Soymilk, Almond milk, Rice milk Lactaid® milk Lowfat/lite yogurt Sugar free pudding Cream of wheat or cream of rice cereal Reduced fat cream soups Blenderized bean soups (such as lentil or split pea) Don't forget you can blog on this website. Keep an online daily journal of your experience!! As far as multivitamins go, I'd skip it the first week (unless you use a liquid form) and when you are back to eating regular foods, I'd add Vitaband, a multivitamin formulated specifically for Lap-Band patients.
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