Hey everyone,
Here in just over a month I’m getting my lower 2 wisdom teeth extracted. Unfortunately, one of the two teeth is real close to the jaw bone and nerve endings in my mouth. It can be extracted (needs to be), but it’s going to leave the jaw vulernable to a break for 4-6 weeks, so the oral surgeon is recommending a soft food diet for that time while the jaw completely heals.
Obviously, I don’t want to lose all of my gains I’ve made the past few months, but I don’t want to break my jaw trying to chomp down on a burger, either.
Aside from eating lots of yogurt, cottage cheese and drinking every kind of protein shake I can think of, does anyone else have any good ideas of what I can add to my diet?
Just drink MRPS with lots of fish oil (Carlon’s lemon is what i use; you can buy it cheap online if you look around) and milled flaxseed, peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, etc.
You’ll probably end up being healthier than ever on this diet.
beans, tuna, egg salad, ground beef cooked taco style or as chili…
just be creative.
for the first few days, you’ll be stuck to yogurt, cottage cheese and shakes. you may be sensitive to the cold though, so let them warm a little.
you shouldn’t take weeks and weeks to recover, even with extracted teeth. i had three of mine extracted and was eating solid food in a week in a half, graduating slightly from yogurt to the solid food in the time span.
I recently had all four of my wisdom teeth removed, and I’m not ashamed to admit that it kicked my ass. I feel that I usually have a very high pain threshhold, but that surgery threw me for a loop. My first piece of advice to you is to take the pain medication as soon as you get it; I tried to be a tough guy and hold off, and by the time the initial anesthesia wore off, I was in hell. Also, I spent the first couple of nights vomiting all the blood I swallowed.
As for the food, I only had to be on soft food for about a week, so I can only offer a little help. Yogurt, cottage cheese, milk, all work fine. Oatmeal was too much for me, but since I handle carbs well, I drank plenty of pure fruit juices (no sugar added) and Naked Juices. Protein shakes are a given. Smoothies of many different varieties worked well for me. Also, because I was looking to get as many calories in me, no matter what, just to keep from wasting away, I threw down milkshakes from local restaurants, something I never normally do. Actually, I ended up dropping a little unwanted fat during my experience, so I wasn’t too upset.
Ohh man. I ate so much ice cream after I got my wisdom teeth out. Ill try to find this website I used to use sometimes that had like 200 protein shake recipes.