To have a no chew diet for a year?

[GertrudeBanana]

Name changed out of embarrassment!

I’ve had to have a number of my back molars extracted today a mix between cracking some in labor and a horrendous diet

I have begun saving for dental implants but this will take 12 months. I really don’t have any other way to make this happen sooner.

Am I crazy to think I can have a no chew diet for a year? What will I eat to fuel myself and hopefully lose some of the number of extra stones I am carrying?

AIBU for thinking this is doable, I’m feeling really really down about it all of a sudden.

I'm with butchy. I have tmj problems and had a locked jaw for 9 mounds then surgery then softt for diet for 3 months, so a year of no chew. You can easily guzzle massive amounts of calories on soft foods. It's the speed of eating, your stomach doesn't get the messages from the mouth to say you should be full so you can easily swallow 300 calories in a yogurty drink or milkshake in seconds and still not feel full. Yes, great for your recovery but unlikely you'll lose weight through the no chew alone.

Why can’t you just get a liquidiser and liquidise ordinary meals/

I always thought you could eat fairly ok without teeth. My grandad did anyway, he only put his teeth in for certain foods :D

Yes, the huel keeps me full. I normally buy a bag of the chocolate and a bag of the normal (vanilla) and either have one or the other or mix them 50/50

I like making it with hot water so it's a comforting warm chocolaty drink. I actually really enjoy it, although when I first tried it i remember not being keen. It must grow on you!

I have 70g (300 calories) as my portion.

I always thought you could eat fairly ok without teeth.
Definitely. But you still chew, just with your gums.

My back teeth are awful. I've not a hope in hell's chance of saving for implants.

Generally speaking as long as I'm careful, I havent had to cut out much from my diet at all.

I'm going to have to google Huel. I might need some!

Original huel is the best one. It tastes like readybrek. I rather like it. Make it up with milk or oat milk as its gross with water. Half the strength they suggest.
Also the flavoured ones are gross

I love it with (hot) water! My husband will only have it with milk which is GROSS!

Smoothies, soup, yoghurt, fruit purees, rice pudding, soft boiled eggs...?
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Very low chew (cooked vegetable, fish etc) seems like it might be easier but even no chew seems doable. But I would probably take a supplement.

How old is your baby? Can you not get free dental implants under the maternity exception until your child is 12 months?

I mostly live on Huel as I live on my own and don't enjoy cooking. It is great and gives you all the nutrients you need plus fibre. I don't add too much water and eat it as a porridge consistency because I don't like shake type drinks. I add their own rhubarb and custard flavouring to the vanilla Huel and a bit of truvia as I like it sweeter but don't want to add sugar. You can also add hot chocolate or cocoa or other things to flavour it. I can also give anyone a code for £10 off if you pm me.

www.oakhousefoods.co.uk/all-meals/soft-bitesized.html

Just like normal meals but processed more finely

I wanted to like Huel, but I find it tastes very powdery (even though the texture's fine) and it causes bloating nearly as much as the whey ones do.

roses2 just beat me to it but I'm going to post anyway since it's important. You can get free dental treatment for 1 year after childbirth. Are you still covered by that?

I live purely on Huel after a gastric band. My band is too tight and I vomit if I eat solid food. It's fine. It provides all the fuel you need to live.

It won't do your digestion much good OP to have a soft diet for that long.

A friend did Cambridge for 6 months, and stupidly stopped eating any solid foods. She had horrendous issues when she started trying to eat it again........... your gut needs fibre to work properly.

Sadly my baby is very much not a baby anymore and I’m not in the UK.

Dental work where I am is eye wateringly expensive. Hence why I’m in this state, one of the teeth extracted today had previously had a root canal totally over a grand

I suppose I could just liquidize things but I really wanted to use this as a new learning curve, break old habits and start again. I could really do with losing some of this weight too and kind of thought two birds one (or five!) stone.

I doubt very much you'll be able to get implants on the nhs at about 3000 a time! If anyone has known this to happen do let me know as I'll certainly be up for some after my dentist cracked my tooth with the clamp after trying to perform root canal.

Any meal replacement drink has to have a third of your daily nutitritional requirements, I thought - or at least a minimum amount of vitamins (this is an EC requirement so who knows in the future!).

But your gums will toughen up so I don't think you'll need a soft diet for long, OP. My DD has lentils in tomato sauce and soup pasta when her brace is tightened and it is difficult to eat.

@madcatladyforever wow you live entirely innocent it?? I’ve watched a few YouTube vids since posting and I’m not entirely sold. It seems to cause bloating and gas? Also doesn’t really seem to offer much in the way of weight loss?

Can anyone dispel this for me?

You'll be able to chew with your guns. Have you still got your pre molars to help?

*entirely on it-not innocent

My gums don’t meet though, because of my other teeth. Dentist said trying to eat certain things could cause digestion issues because there will be gaps in the chew if that makes sense?
But it also makes sense that not chewing at all would do the same