Rogue eating update:
Well, I did take the sound advice offered for safely integrating foods. I started with just yogurt, as
@southernlady suggested and after eating that, I felt incredibly better--I had energy, the blood sugar issue seemed to improve greatly, and my stress level dropped significantly. When that stayed down with no problems and no pain, I waited a few hours and tried some cottage cheese. Both times all I ate was about a tablespoonful and I took at least 30 minutes to eat that amount. Later that day I ate about a teaspoonful of tuna with lots of full fat mayo, again taking a long time to eat that. Everything stayed down fine and I experienced no pain at all. I was on my 6th day post op (Sunday). Monday morning I had my first "normal" BM and had no issues with that (thankful!)
Yesterday, I started to slowly incorporated those same three foods in slightly larger amounts, always eating super slowly, taking my time and listening to my body. I have had zero ill-effects and, in fact, started recovering even quicker from the surgery than I already was. Color returned to my face, the dark circles around my eyes lightened quick substantially. Of course, some of this is because I am finally getting more calories. I was tracking at about 250-300 calories a day on the full liquids. Like
@Clematis, I was starving on that. I've been able to get those numbers up to around the 550 calorie mark with just the small inclusions of those foods. This also upped my protein and fat intake enough to give my body some energy (I believe so, anyway). Another "normal" BM this morning. It's amazing when eating food results in BMs, or maybe that is just for us newbie DSers, but believe me, I am celebrating the "normal" morning BMs :-D
Today, I am 8 days post op and I tried a tiny amount of mashed banana with my cottage cheese this morning. I know banana isn't going to be on the menu as a regular item, but since it is on some of the pureed lists for DS patients, I figured it couldn't hurt and it has a small amount of potassium that I guess can't hurt. No issues so far.
I just tried a small amount (about a tablespoonful) of scrambled egg a few minutes ago. Egg is one of those items that has me a little skeptical because everyone seems to have widely different reactions to them. I'll let you know if it does cause some kind of issue or gastric upset.
Here's the thing: I belong to several groups where I know DSers who had surgery on my same date from different surgeons and some of them are not doing as well as I am. They are following their prescribed liquid diets. They're starving and easily exhausted, etc.
Since my energy has been improving every day while experimenting with "rogue eating," I am going to call this experiment a success, at least for me myself. I can't tell you all how much I appreciate your advice and chiming in on this because I was feeling so badly before I started rogue eating that it was actually scaring me.