What is your best pouch happy food?

I had surgery 10 days before you. I am not sure if you eat canned chicken or not, but it does seperate into tiny pieces easy to chew. I mix it with some light Miracle whip and eat it often. 2 days ago I made some soup.....canned lowfat chicken broth, 4 oz shredded canned chicken, vegetarian fat free refried beans and 3-4 oz salsa( put in blender first.) This comes out thick and creamy and is delicious. 3 oz of this and I really feel like I had a great meal. Even my husband loved it, although he ate his with tortilla chips!

In what amounts are you all eating? At this point I am still eating 1 oz at a time and it seems hardly worth going to all of that trouble for 1 oz.?

Sherr, I am only getting in 1-2 ozs at a time. I am very overwhelmed with trying to eat. It seems I get full so quickly... literally after a couple of bites. For some reason, the beans go down better and I can eat 3 ozs. of those in one sitting. It's weird!

Little dices of cheese.....smaller than your baby finger nail cottage cheese and yogurt mixed together. It seems to soothe my pouch. I mix a cup every night for my evening meal or I won't eat an evening meal. I was told you would stall if you didn't get in enough calories a day. Never thought I would be worrying about I didn't eat enough.

No kidding! I never thought I would worry about eating enough either, but I definitely do! The other day I only managed to get in 175 calories and I felt like I tried so hard! I want to lose fat, not muscle, so I that is why I am trying to get suggestions on pouch friendly food that I might be able to eat!

For some reason I agree shrimp works great! Fish really of any kind, grilled not fried. I am also having trouble in the soft solid stage. I have struggled with thinking I could eat certain things as soon as I got to this date and was surprised to see that some of those things didn't sit well. Bread must be toasted, portions must be limited. I did well eating about 1 to 1/2 cups of food on pureed, now on soft solids I can only eat 1/2 to 1 cup. It surprised me a great deal that the pouch has such control in this stage. But that's a good thing 'cause I continue to lose and the more I lose the easier it is to exercise. I'm doing a mile a day on the treadmill at 2.5-3.0. I'm winded afterward, but don't collapse. I'm determined to incorporate exercise for a faster and healthier weight loss. I encourage everyone to do the same. It becomes addicting when the weight comes off. If your in a stall stage exercise more. Keep up the good work honey! Write anytime! Holli

Hi Holli, I am loving my treadmill too! It is WAY too cold to walk outside! Right now I am doing 3/4 a mile at 2.5, longer or faster than that seems to get my incisions hurting for some reason. Right now my food portions are too small and I can't eat enough. That is making me weak and it is hard to exercise. It is a downhill spiral! My dietician told me to add another protein supp. so I hope that helps and I can start doing a mile or more at a time.

Hi Jennine, My favorite is whole oats microwaved with cinnamon and water, then I add milk and splenda and protein powder(unflavored). Cream of wheat is also good but I feel like I'm eating something that is whole grain and good for cholesterol. I also do well with pureed chicken or turkey and mayo, and have even added pureed romaine or red leaf lettuce to it and it goes down well. I still have trouble vomitting if I try regular food. I guess I don't eat it slow enough or I don't chew it enough and it stays in my esophagus. I prefer to eat pureed food primarily for now.

Finally hit a food pouchy doesn't like - moist, tender, juicy chicken breast. Went down so far and no further - painful. I was determined not to upchuck so stuck it out til it went down but will wait quite a while before trying it again. One bite was a huge lesson. Finished dinner with my perfectly safe cream of wheat and unjury.

Gotta admit-I love sugar free/fat free pudding made with skim milk-a little ff cool whip and my belly says, YUM.