Surgery date 2/2/04

Can I have cottage cheese? I kind of feel sickly from no food. I really don't feel hungry yet I feel light headed, dizzy and a little nauscious. I am having a little craving for cottage cheese but I know I shouldn't yet it is soft enough. Not a whole lot different than the yogurt or jello? Or is it. HELP

Hi Teri -

Sorry you are feeling sickly. This probably won't help, but what you're feeling is most likely psychological, and not physical.

I do not know what your doc has on the list for you to eat at this time, but yoghurt is very smooth, while cottage cheese is chunky (even though it is soft), so in my opinion they are not the same. If you're on yoghurt, then you should be able to do strained cream soups - I bet that will take away the sick feeling. Tomato soup would be okay, too.

If cottage cheese is what you're dying to have, you should call and ask the doc if it's okay.

Good luck, and hang in there!

I agree that cottage cheese seems too heavy for so soon afterwards. I'd suggest milk or protein shakes instead. For the first 2 weeks I drank protein shakes mixed with milk almost all the time.

Just put the cottage cheese into a blender or food processor.

I'm 4 days out (banded 2/3) and I'm beginning to get kind of hungry myself. Do you think some soft-serve low fat frozen yogurt would be ok, or am I kidding myself and it's just a slippery slope?

Thanks,
Sheila

Well, Sheila, I would say that frozen yogurt is okay as long as you think you'll be able to stop once you go on to solid foods.
I ate frozen sorbet in the early days. Even had a few milkshakes. Now that I'm on solid foods those are no longer things I eat, but while I was healing from the surgery, I didn't worry about calories.