Stage Four
          Minced Diet for Days 11-14
  • Minced chicken, turkey, fish                                       
  • Junior baby meats                                                       
  • Minced, soft cooked, scrambled, or poached eggs    
  • Cottage cheese, small curd and fat free or 1%         
  • Plain, fat free, sugar free yogurt
  • Soft, minced cooked vegetables
  • Minced canned fruit, sugar free
  • Junior baby fruit, no sugar added
  • Ripe, mashed banana
  • Cooked cereals (no lumps, no sugar)
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Reduced fat mayonnaise or salad dressing to moisten food

   Stage Five
          Soft Diet for Week 3
  • Soft, diced moist chicken, turkey, and fish 
  • Meat salad such as tuna or chicken with small amount of lowfat or fat free mayonnaise 
  • Eggs 
  • Tofu 
  • Soft, fat free or lowfat cheese

  • Soft, cooked vegetables (no corn)

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  • Canned fruit, sugar free

  • Soft, peeled, ripe fresh fruit (no seeds or skin)

  • Cooked cereals

  • Potatoes (all types except fried, no skin)

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  • Fat free gravies and sauces

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  • Small amounts of the lowfat versions of the following fats may be used: 

  • vegetable oil, margarine, mayonnaise, sour cream, peanut butter, and cream cheese

  
Stage Six - Regular Diet
    
                    

Once you have had placement of a gastric band, you will need to follow an eating plan in order to be successful. 

Keep in mind that Lap-Band placement is only a "tool to transform" and more importantly, YOU are the real key to your success. 


Exercise

While you are losing weight, you want to take advantage of some simple exercises you can do to tone up your body.  Using hand weights, leg weights and resistance bands; you can easily begin to tone your body just by walking in your living room.  You do not need to spend extra money to get a great work-out.  Walk in place for a minimum of 30 minutes at least 3 times a week (stick to it) and you will see the difference after just a few weeks.  Don't give up!  Play some music while you work-out and it won't even feel like exercise.  Give it a try!

                            The basic rules of eating after surgery include:

 --Eat three meals a day with 1-2 protein shakes between meals (avoid snacking!). 
--Each meal should be 4 ounces which is equivalent to 1/2 cup. 
--CHEW! CHEW! CHEW! your food a minimum of 20 times before swallowing. 
--Be sure to take one chewable multivitamin and 2 calcium tablets every day. 
--Stay well hydrated by sipping on water throughout the day, about 64 oz. 
--Do not drink any liquids 30 minutes prior to or after a meal. 
--Stop eating when you feel full or 20 minutes have passed.

        
                         

                                 

                      Eating after Surgery  
                             
                    
         

  Stage One
 
       Clear Liquids for First 3 Days 
  • Water                                                                    
  • Fat Free Broth
  • Sugar Free Jello                                                    
  • Decaf Tea
  • Sugar Free Popsicles                                            
  • Sugar Free Crystal Light                                     
  • Sugar Free Kool Aid
  •  Protein Drink  - no less than 60g of protein daily.

  Stage Two
 
       Full Liquids for Days 4-7
  • Nonfat milk or nonfat Lactaid milk, Lowfat/light soy milk                     
  • Cream of Wheat or Farina, thinned out                 
  • Low fat strained cream soups
  • Sugar free pudding
  • Protein shakes (use whey protein, about 20g protein per scoop)

   Stage Three
        Pureed Diet for days 8-10
  • Pureed lean meat or poultry           
  • Scrambled eggs or EggBeaters
  • Low fat cottage and ricotta cheese
  • Yogurt, nonfat and sugar free (no fruit chunks please)
  • Lowfat blended cream soup
  • Pureed vegetables
  • Mashed beans
  • Baby food
  • Unsweetened applesauce
  • Unsweetened pureed fruit