Wisdom Teeth Out - how to eat to stay fit?

[MomOnBike]

It's been many years, but I don't remember doing anything special when I had mine out. Of course, I waited so long, and they were so impacted, that I was already on a pretty soft diet before they got yanked. (Try living in the Southwest, and not being able to open you mouth wide enough to eat a taco. Man, I was frustrated.)

You'll be fine. Think of any time off as a recovery break from training. All the cool kids do that, you know.

[Zen]

You're 24
You won't atrophy and look like Mr. Burns in a week

[ny biker]

You're 24
You won't atrophy and look like Mr. Burns in a week

True. I'm 45 and I don't worry about losing fitness if I have to take a week off from exercise. It comes back soon enough.

[snapdragen]

I had no down time when I had my 4 wisdom teeth extracted, but I think I'm a freak of nature. I think everyone is different, you may be up and around faster than you think.

One of my standby smoothies when I couldn't chew was ice cream, orange juice, some wheat germ, whirled up in a blender. You could probably replace the ice cream with a low fat frozen yogurt. I also used to throw a raw egg in, but I guess that would kind of be frowned upon these days. Don't want to add salmonella to the mix!

Good luck!

[pumpkinpony]

Another way to minimize down time is have the teeth removed with a local, not the laughing gas stuff. That's what I did and was back at work the next day with no problems. One of mine was 'impacted' into my sinus or something and required stitches. I took one codeine pill the day of, then Tylenol for the next few days. It really wasn't as bad as the horror stories people like to tell you.

[polly4711]

+1000000 on the no straw... or sucking in your cheeks or any kind. If you do, you will be out for much longer. Make sure that you keep them clean... it does make a difference!

I had carnation instant breakfast, mashed potatoes, and other things of that sort. Try to stay away from salads or other hard foods so that you don't pop your stitches! You'll be fine!

[Biciclista]

I had to have soups only for 1 day. next day, soft foods, how will this hurt your fitness?