What are your eating habits?

I'm just curious, especially since I still have trouble keeping meat down sometimes. I'd love to hear from everybody! What are your favorite good foods? How much can you eat at a time? Do you have foods you can't tolerate? What are your bad food habits? I eat quite a bit of cheese and nuts and drink No Sugar Added Nestles Quik in milk to up my protein amounts. I do drink lots of water, also. Most days I can eat almost a child's serving, but some days I can't. I don't tolerate plain, dry meat well. Soft breads & pasta don't work. Fast food has not been very good to me either. I snack too much--crackers & sweets in limited quantities. I need to cut them out altogether! Come on, now, you guys can share too! Carla

Carla, What are your favorite good foods? My safe food is Snow Crab Legs - Love them and my pouch LOVES them and I eat them (1/2 pound) every chance I get...which is several times a month. Otherwise just about any type of protein...meat, nuts, cheese etc... How much can you eat at a time? Absolute max is 1/2 cup...most comfortable with 1/3. I can DRINK a whole lot more than that at one time....love my Arizona Diet Green Tea. Do you have foods you can't tolerate? Starches - White rice, Potatoes, Mac & Cheese, Spaghetti, white breads...all make me DUMP!!!! What are your bad food habits? I always have to have something sweet after a meal. A SF popsicle, a SF cookie, a SF piece of candy...something...anthing sweet. I know it's a left over problem from before WLS but I can't seem to change it.... I try hard to make it a "good" choice for a "bad" habit. Happy thoughts, Va 5' 3.5" 232/133/13? -99 pounds -89 inches

Va, Thanks for responding. You look fabulous! I looked at your pics and am so impressed. You must be doing something right. Carla

favorite foods? uhm...seafood mostly tuna steaks, salmon, crab how much can I eat at once? uhm not sure...my dinner tonight was 4oz of salmon and a spoonful of greenbeans(the large "tablespoon") I am basically back to before standards with how much I can drink at one time tho... food I can't tolerate... pasta, more than 1 piece of bread a day...( I take 1/2 sandwich for lunch) that is about it really bad food habits? sweet things and chips! neither of which make me sick at all! BUMMER! Nic 291-169-145

Hi there... Things like chicken and beef and salmon fill me up very quickly. Cottage cheese and the low carb yogurt are very pouch friendly for me. I LOVE my Carb Well Ceral bars, and the protein crunch cookies they advertise on this site. I can eat some bread and pastas but it doesn't really sit well and fills me up so I can't eat the protein, so I stay away (maybe 2 or 3 french fries or a couple of forkfuls of pasta). If baked potato is served I won't eat it at all. Peanut butter has been good for me as well. My pouch and digestive system cannot tolerate sugar alcohol, but everyone is different. I am not a big water drinker, so during the day I hydrate on decaf tea, no milk with one spenda. I cannot drink anything cold in the winter, as it gives me a chill, so there is always a mug in my hand. Shrimp and crab legs have also been user friendly for my pouch. Crackers and pretzels don't upset my pouch but make me feel blah. I always have been a coffee drinker, but I limit it to one in the morning and one mid afternoon. Ate fast food once, Burger King Jr with no bread. Fast food is not something I normally would eat.

Carla, I mostly lurk, read and learn here, but I think it's time I respond so mabye I can get some imput... My Eating Habits are as follows... Favorite foods are shrimp, can eat 6-8 med. crab meat, cottage cheese, pork chops (grilled) , favorite snack Popcorn,(this is my snack for the eve.) I can sometimes eat "out of control", then the next day, I will not eat hardly anything. I sometimes think I over eat, but then again, compared to my past eating habits, it really is nothing to worry about. I can too eat a good childs plate, the more things I eat solid, the less I can eat, if its soft and mushy, I can eat alot more. BEEF...OMG...can not eat any type of beef, gets stuck, no matter how much I chew chew chew... So I gave up along time ago, and now just pass it up. My mind wonders..."Wheres the Beef?"... almost a year since a Big Mac... amazing that I really don't miss it like I thought I would.. but I do eat chicken nuggets, bout 4. I love candy made with splenda...but try and eat it just like once a week. I bought Diet vanilla Pepsi, had my fill of it, then the rest sits around the kitchen gathering dust on the bottles...sometimes I think its a mental thing, and if I know I can have it when I really crave it, I don't want it as much. well, those are my eating habits, thanks for sharing yours... Linda 288/165/??

Carla, I mostly lurk, read and learn here, but I think it's time I respond so mabye I can get some imput... My Eating Habits are as follows... Favorite foods are shrimp, can eat 6-8 med. crab meat, cottage cheese, pork chops (grilled) , favorite snack Popcorn,(this is my snack for the eve.) I can sometimes eat "out of control", then the next day, I will not eat hardly anything. I sometimes think I over eat, but then again, compared to my past eating habits, it really is nothing to worry about. I can too eat a good childs plate, the more things I eat solid, the less I can eat, if its soft and mushy, I can eat alot more. BEEF...OMG...can not eat any type of beef, gets stuck, no matter how much I chew chew chew... So I gave up along time ago, and now just pass it up. My mind wonders..."Wheres the Beef?"... almost a year since a Big Mac... amazing that I really don't miss it like I thought I would.. but I do eat chicken nuggets, bout 4. I love candy made with splenda...but try and eat it just like once a week. I bought Diet vanilla Pepsi, had my fill of it, then the rest sits around the kitchen gathering dust on the bottles...sometimes I think its a mental thing, and if I know I can have it when I really crave it, I don't want it as much. well, those are my eating habits, thanks for sharing yours... Linda 288/165/??

I forgot to tell you, that I almost live off of one piece of ham and one piece of cheese for lunch...I eat NO bread at all, makes me sick... Sorry bout the double reply, you can tell I don't post much, then when I do, I look like a dummy...

Hi Everyone, unfortunately, I can eat just about anything & it does not make me dump, unless I eat too fast. I found that I can also eat sugar which is real scary at times. During the holidays I ate a lot of junk I shouln't have & it did not make me sick. For six months I did not even try sugar then I did & now know its o.k. so sometime i get a little carried away. That scares me to death. My weight loss slowed for awhile, but its moving again as I went back to mostly protien & very little carbs, I have lost 130 lbs without much exercise as well. I really should, but don't seem to find time.(nice excuse) but true. I am back to measuring my food & I try not to snack at all. that is the hard part. I eat chip, but won't do popcorn as my doc says it will stretch your pouch or possibly get stuck because of the kernals.I do miss that, I really like popcorn. I will stop mumbling now. Sorry I got kind of carried away today. I haven't been on board for awhile. Been busy, Marilyn,the Bearlady Bullhead City, AZ