Just checking in to say I have three days left, and I cannot be reading this thread, LoL. I read posts #279 and #280 (where I last left off), and realized this is not the thread for me right now. Ha! I may be back to it with a vengeance in the future, however. It all sounds REALLY good! :)
In my ALERTS I saw HiddeninHim replied to ..( this thread) and my first thought was Why is he torturing himself :)
I don't not realize that we were at day 37 yet.
And NO you cannot eat anything that is on this thread yet...we don't want to you ending up in hospital with a busted gut.
Do DO post in three days and tell us about your food...and how you slowly break you digestive system back in again...we will find that very interesting.
You will probably get some tummy ache. So, tiny , tiny steps.
I has surgery on my esophagus in 2015
It had closed and wouldn't open, even water was hard to swallow ..long story...so I hadn't eaten more the soup from end of March until July 8th
They started me with apple sauce and baby cereals. They slid down okay..
but my poor tummy had shrunk to about the size of a plum...and anything more than half a cup of anything , doubled me up...
It wasn't until mid September when I could eat as much as a cup and a half of anything.
Weight wise I had lost a lot...they warned me that when we mess with the digestive system and are in 'starvation mode' the body will suck in all kinds of calories and store it once we start eating again. Plus, the natural calorie burn level will have been changed. And it will take far less calories to put on weight than our previous calorie burn. This is true , I was so glad that I had been pre-warned, so I watched my calorie burn.
This oesophagus problem is called Acalasia , a rare thing, my surgeon told me he only does about one a year...and not every surgeon knows how to do it.
( So he was all excited to have another one to do Ha!)
But on the Acalasia forum the majority of those who had had the surgery complained about the rapid weight gain...I guess they were not warned about that 'starvation mode' over a period of time, changes permanently the natural calorie burn.
This would affect you too. Be on your guard.
Well, that is the end of my "mother hen" clucking.
