sugar sugar and more sugar

I am one of those people who has not had any trouble with consuming sugar post op, I am wondering if there are others? Sugar is my biggest craving and I allow myself to have some when I want these days as I am doing well with my weight loss and almost to my goal....but I feel like a big fink? anyone else able to eat the dreaded white stuff and still do okay? Lisa

Lisa, I too can eat sugar with little difficulty. This weekend was a real struggle. I have some reduced fat graham crackers and they seem to do the trick and stay low on the calories. I eat one rectangular piece which is about 60 calories. The holidays were really tough on me in regard to this too. I did eat some chocolate but really tried to lay off as much as I could. You still have to remember to say no. While the surgery is the greatest tool, it is still a tool that has to be used, not abused. Hope you feel great. Good Luck. Sherri

Dear Lisa, Oh yeah! I have that very same "problem". It makes me so mad! I have eaten fudge, cookies, candy, you name it-anything with sugar in it, I have eaten! It DOES make me dump, but it is so minor that it is not enough to stop me. But now that Christmas is over, I am not really having that much trouble leaving it alone. But I feel like a big fink too, so I know exactly what you mean. I'm just glad that Christmas only comes once a year!

Me too, me too -- I just don't dump. At Christmas I ate a whole piece of praline cheesecake (regular, not sf), including the yummy chocolate sauce drizzled over the plate. No dump, no bad reaction at all. Fortunately, I don't crave anything anymore (and I used to be a real chocoholic). I think one thing that really helps is I use the Viactiv chews as my calcium supplement. 20 calories each, 3x a day -- so I'm getting my little sweet tooth goodies that way.

I didn't have any problems before New Years Day but I never really pushed it either. Well, long story short, I didn't get the lo-carb sugar free ice cream I ordered but the real deal. It was too good to be that lo-card crap but I lied to myself and said it was fine. In about an hour or so, I was in SO MUCH pain and bloated. Gas like I have never experienced - ever (and as a post-op you can kind of guess what that could be like!) This went on for over 10 hours until 7:00 AM when I 'got rid' of everything.