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Well I get my braces on monday! Yay!!! I'm really excited but yet pretty nervous too. I'm silly I know!! Like all week I have been eating pizza and steak ohhh and the salad I heard you can't eat anymore!! I'm gonna miss my cesar salad! I just wanted to eat all the things I love and can't eat while in braces. I think you can still eat pizza but only if you cut it up into small pieces right? Anyway I hope my nerves settle down for Monday. And I really hope that I don't gag while I get my expander put in! I'm ready to start my braces journey!!!

Hi britt and welcome.

I can understand that you're sweating the weekend in anticipation, but never fear, it's not anywhere near as bad as you think it will be. In fact, mostly the journey is not bad at all.

While I don't want to stop you eating all those so-called "tricky" foods before Monday, rest assured that you will be able to eat all of them with braces.

Hi and welcome to you britt

i felt exactly the same as you before i got braced (im 14months in now) so dont worry its completely normal to be excited and anxious.

Also your be back to eating normally before you know it, sure your teeth will be sore for a few days. I can eat whatever i want, including salad and pizza, without having to cut it up! Tho i havent got an expander so cant comment on that part, but im sure it will be fine.

Good luck for monday

Louise

I eat what ever my heart desires lol, nothin stops me....accet after adjusments:) Then its a

Thanks everyone!!! My anxiousness is building. Tomorrow is the "big day"!
I'm happy to know that i will still be able to eat my favorite foods!! YaY!!!
Wish me luck tomorrow

I also thought I could not eat many things after getting braced, but I think the information all docs give mean more like "be careful" instead of don't eat. At least I havent found anything that I cant eat anymore, just some hard stuff that I need to be a bit careful with or cut small (Pizza popped a bracket twice, nuts were never a problem thu )

I was way more careful in the beginning than I am now, you get to know the limitations of your braces (of which they're aren't many) and you eat like you did before. I don't eat popcorn because of the pain of cleaning kernels out afterwards and I can't bite into a whole apple - the brackets just slip over the surface! But I've tackled corn on the cob, hard candy (carefully), crusty sandwiches, nuts, salads... everything.

It's all very intense and exciting in the beginning, but then one day you find yourself very used to your braces and even ho-hum. It goes by fast!