Pre-NF shopping list suggestions??

Your list looks good. I'll keep thinking of other things for your list. I recommend smooth move tea. It has senna as a laxative. I got sick of the protein drinks pretty quick. Not everyone seems to tolerate the dairy products like I do, but being on a liquid diet longer than others, I found myself drinking a lot of milkshakes and heating up Vitamin D milk, and adding some chocolate syrup in an attempt to get more calories. If you don't tolerate the dairy, almond milk works out pretty well. Although I wasn't able to get a lot of that down in the first week. I'm about to try adding coconut oil to my warm milk too. We honestly need the calories and fats, which can be hard to get on a liquid diet sometimes.

I've also found that not everyone ends up being on a liquid diet for two weeks like me either. I'd be curious to find out what your surgeon tells you about your diet. I know people on here that have begun eating soft foods pretty quickly. I know that two weeks out, I'm still not quite ready for the mushy foods yet. I see my surgeon this Wednesday, I may start introducing mushy foods, but I don't know yet.

Post Edited (Diaas2) : 11/14/2013 11:46:10 PM (GMT-7)

Your birthday was on my wrap day! Happy late birthday.

I'm feeling pretty good. No pain at all anywhere. I can sleep in any position I want comfortably. Mobility is not an issue at all, as long as I'm not doing something ridiculous that I wouldn't do otherwise anyways. If I didn't have the issue with eating, I'd be feeling better then I ever have probably in my entire life. Virtually no reflux at all. No coughing fits in the morning, little to no need to clear my throat like I always did in the past. My voice feels so much better, I don't have any acidic taste in my mouth. I didn't even realize how much cleaner my mouth would feel afterwards, after being used to living life like that. I'm pretty sure my swelling is very slowly going down, every day is an improvement.

I wish my surgeon went through the same effort of guiding me through my diet and what to expect. All mine told me was, oh, if want to eat an apple, put it in the blender, if you want to eat such and such, put it in the blender. I found that that wasn't good enough for me, as the pulp left behind would keep getting stuck every time I'd take a sip. Also the blender wouldn't extract the actual juice, just cut everything into really tiny pieces.

There are a lot of people that warn that eating fruits and vegetables can cause them to get really gassy, and uncomfortable after the surgery. I would be especially careful about that, and let your body tell you if these things are okay for you or not. So far, with my new juicer, I haven't had any gas problems drinking my juices at all. Combined with a hand strainer to get the rest of the pulp out, that's been working out pretty good.

It sounds like you are getting some pretty good direction from your surgeon. Keep asking questions so I can help out, thanks for your wishes for my recovery. I know you will do great too!

I'll share this link on the top 10 inflammation fighting foods, one of the reasons I chose the pineapple juice I made, in my diet this morning. From what I understand, inflammation is a big reason why food has trouble getting past the wrap. All the swelling happening at the surgery site. They say that pineapple is one of the foods that is quite potent in reducing inflammation in the body, while reducing pain thereby expediting recovery. I'd keep that GasX handy just in case if you plan on trying it, until you know how your body reacts to these things.


http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/top-10-anti-inflammatory-foods.html

Post Edited (Diaas2) : 11/15/2013 12:58:27 PM (GMT-7)

I have the kale in my fridge, I plan on juicing that pretty soon. Since I literally just got the juicer, I've had a lot to experiment with. I'll let you know how that goes!

The juicer I got was the Hurom Slow Juicer HU-100SB. I bought it off of costco's website. This one has a cap at the spout that ejects the actual juice, which makes for easier cleaning and allows for mixing several juices at once in the machine, and probably benefits the process of making almond milk when putting almonds in the machine to help moisten the almonds more before they are juiced out. Some of the recipes included in the recipe book have fruit and milk to be put in the machine, then the almonds.

Here is the link to the juicer..

http://www.costco.com/Hurom-Slow-Juicer-HU-100SB.product.100053842.html?catalogId=10701&keyword=hurom&langId=-1&storeId=10301

High speed juicers introduce a lot of air to the extracted juices, causing oxidation, that damages all the good nutrients from the food. Hurom's juicer runs at a much lower speed, and presses all the juice out, so the juice you get lasts longer (72 hours rather than 24 hours with high speed juicers), is healthier and tastes better than the juice you'd get from other juicers.

Here is a really good video to watch about the juicer, and also helps to explain some of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hCGOviSKN9s

Also a link to a comparison guide to other juicers, which includes a link to a review of the Hurom.

http://bestjuicerreviewsguide.com/

Pina coladas sound good! I've found that cold beverages actually help with the inflammation and swelling at the wrap site.

I am interested in the chia seeds, I've not tried them before. You caught my interest about the story behind how you found out about them, because I enjoy running quite a bit.

At one point I was training for a half marathon, I ended up getting some stress fractures in the metatarsal bones in my feet. Twice actually. I've found that the acid reducing medications would block the absorption of calcium carbonate, the kind of calcium you'd find in most foods. I believe that was a huge factor in getting those. One of the benefits of having this surgery is not needing to take those meds anymore. The chia must be some pretty good stuff if they could use it like that! I'll take a look and figure out where I can get it.

Post Edited (Diaas2) : 11/15/2013 6:58:35 PM (GMT-7)