I just thought I would share alittle on the diet I had after my LEEP op.
I supposed in western culture, they would resume back to their usual eating habits and lifestyle. In chinese culture, we believe that any invasive operation is "damaging" to the body and we need to aid the healing of the wound to have a smooth recovery.
While I am not a hard core Chinese herbs person but taking advice from my TCM doctor previously, as well as my friend's mum, I formed my own diet.
In general, after any op, we are not supposed to consume any seafood except fish for the inital 2 months. So throughout the first 1 month, I religiously kept to a lean diet. Pro chicken, pro vegetable soup (eg: watercress, carrots, black beans) and lotsa greens & fruits.
Basically, I made chicken carrot soup, with basic chinese herbs primarily with dried scallop so that I can go salt free, Chinese yam (5-6 slice), Honeyed dates, red dates, wolfberries, eucommia bark.
Things I avoided.
1. Seafood : Fresh Crab, prawns, shellfish
2. Milk
3. Sugar (white, brown, refined, raw)
4. Salt. (only very minimal 1- 0.5 teaspoon max is used if I cannot use dried scallops)
5. Package fruit juice.
6. Anything that says "fructose or sucrose or sugar" in ingredient list.
7. Processed ham
8. Bottled Sauce
9. Ice cream/ chocolates / cakes (my only vices when it comes to snackies)
10. Winter Melon (too cooling)
11. NO COLD WATER INTAKE at all times. Only warm.
12. Potato in all forms
13. Pasta
14. Cheese
Things I increased intake
1. Steamed Brocoli.
2. Steamed Asparagus
3. Steamed carrots
4. Mushrooms
5. Chicken soup with red dates and ginger
6. When I needed to fix my sweet craving, I made "Red dates, dried longan with Ginger" tea.
7. Made chicken braised with Apple cider and honey, with garlic slices.
8. Alot of salmon baked, lightly salted with pink salt.
9. Pork rib soup with carrots, cabbage, maize.
10. Apple. Cherries. Strawberries. Grapes. Orange.
11. Avocado.
In Chinese culture, we believe red dates helps to nourish the blood and ginger is "warm" in properties which will aid the body to recover better. Normally the red date tea, the ratio is 15 deseeded red dates, 10 longan and 2 chuck of ginger about 2 cm thick. Fill a 14 inch pot to 3/4 full, boil and add the ingredients and boil at high heat for 15mins, simmer low heat for 15mins and let it sit. For excess, I stick it into the fridge and drink it in the morn after heating it up. It ususally taste sweeter next day so I will add more water to dilute the sugar content. I would eat the red dates too.
Occasionally, I would add lemon to my plain water but I dont think it did much for me.
During my 1st checkup, my doctor was impressed at how quickly I healed and the 2nd checkup, she remarked it was very speedy progress. So I figured changing my diet definitely did help, plus drinking lotsa of water help too. Since I dont take coffee at all, I still have my usual green Japanese tea AFTER my first month. I would interchange it with Chamomile+Peppermint tea, rosehip+wild chrysanthemum tea.
