What do you eat part two...

Cindy's post got me thinking.  What do people like me (RNY, about 9mos to 1.5 years out or more) eat?  Here's an example (not saying it's perfect or even all that good, just me) of what I eat:

Breakfast (6:30am)-Coffee with spenda and skim milk
Breakfast II (8 am)-1 slice wheat toast with natural peanut butter (yum)
Lumch (12 or so)-Small Hamburger with half bun (I throw the top part of the bun away), a few french fries or other side dish, unsweetened iced tea (30-45 minutes after meal)
Snack (2pm)-Protien bar
Supper (6 or 7pm)-half small grilled chicken breast (about the size of business card 1.5 inch thick), green beans, couple bites of potatoes, unsweetened iced tea (30-45 minutes after meal)
Snack-(8pm or later**** cream about half a cup or a little more, yeah, I know it's BAD.  It's not a everynight thing for me, just once or twice a week.  I need to cut it out. 
Late night-(11pm-12am)-Coffee with splenda, only after working late.  Coffee helps me sleep, go figure!  LOL

I'd love to hear other examples.  I hope everyone else is a little more disicplined than me.  Over the past few days, you can add a peice or two of fudge in there between meals :(  This WILL stop,however, as of today. 

Thanks

Hi Jason..  You know that it does get a bit scary the farther you get out from surgery becuase you can eat more.   I have never been one to over analyze what I eat and how much.  I just try to choose wisely and not overdo it.  :)  

I was thinking today at lunch that at almost 18 months out it would be really really really easy to push my limits and eat more & more & more.  I can certainly see how people have RNY only to gain weight back again. 

My outlook on eating has been to try and choose healthy, but also try to not be the "freak" at the table in every dining out situation.  I choose more grilled lean meats, salad and such.  I am a stickler for not drinking when I eat and I follow the 30 before/after rule.  

In a typical day I will eat some things that are not particularly healthy, but my days typically look like this:


Breakfast:  egg/cheese sandwich
Snack:  Might not even get there.  I teach high school and I MIGHT get to grab some peanut butter and a few crackers
Lunch:  Salad or Soup
Supper:  Lean Meat and some type of veggie

I look more at the quantity I eat..  Before RNY I was eating about 1000 calories in one meal at times and now I know that I am only getting about 1500 to 2000 per day.  BIG DIFFERENCE!

Hi Jason,

Like Jennifer, I have tried to make some better choices in general when I order/eat, but I don't do so all the time. As a matter of a fact, I was just sharing at the last support group meeting that while I felt to thin for comfort before and feel better than I've gained a few pounds, Im not to happy with how I did it ... I was 'indulging' in comfort eating while under stress. I've banished the trigger food of choice and am trying to get back on track because while I'm actually comfortable with my current weight, I don't really know if I want to keep gaining so I know that I have to keep working on making better choices and to eat 'mindfully'.

Here's what I had yesterday:

Breakfast: Cottage Cheese pancakes

Snack: Decaf Cafe au Lait w/Skim milk

Lunch: Chicken wrap and cup of chili

Snack: Cheese cubes

Dinner: Roast pork, green beans, carrots, bite of mashed potato

Snack: Peanut butter and crackers

I can't cheat with sugar because I do dump, but if I have a hankering for a snack I go with something like a protein bar or peanut butter crackers, sugar-free or no-sugar-added ice cream, sugar-free popsicles.  There are a few fudge shops around here, but they offer sugar-free fudge and/or chocolates, so I'll stop in occasionally and buy one piece and that satisfies my "sweet tooth".  And if there's a peanut butter option then I go with that since it's a little extra protein, too.  

Jason
Your food choices sound a lot like mine.. except more candy LOL Right now Im not eating much since Im in pain BUT my daily foods are very simple... I drink a protein shake every morning for breakfast... after that I basically eat every few hours. I hardly ever sit down to a *meal*..its more like grazing since a full meal is just way to much food for me. Here are my staples lol

Cheese...I love cheese
Crackers *Ritz bitz* with peanut butter
peanut butter right out of the jar
Yogurt
SF pudding
Scooby snacks fruit chews
SF smoothies
Soup
any kind of potato
Tortilla with cheese melted on it and sour cream.
Can of chicken with mayo no bread my pouch hates bread
Wendys jr cheeseburger with bun thrown off.

Thats basically what I eat. Very boring and not very good at times. I cannot have candy sitting around or I will eat it.

I'm about 8.5 months out...  Here's my day.  Today was a bit heavier than most (around 1450 cals, 138 grams protein)

Breakfast: (350 cals)
1 serving breakfast casserole made with egg beaters and turkey sausage
1 slice lite natures own whole wheat toast with 1 slice of fat free cheese

Morning snack: (30 cals)
1 cup decaf coffee with splenda and splash of skim
1 small cup of sugar free winky jello

Lunch: (260 cals)
1 can of Progresso light chicken noodle soup (yes I ate the whole can).  I really have to watch my soup intake.  I can eat 2 cups like nothing.
Added 2 servings of canned chicken to bump up the protein

Afternoon snack: (175 cals)
1 oz reduced fat cheese
10 shrimp with reduced cal ****tail sauce
green tea w/ splenda

Dinner: (425 cals)
3 tbs brown rice
1 cup chicken / turkey sausage gumbo with 1 chicken leg (no skin)
1 bite of mustard based potato salad

Evening snack: (150 cals)
1 small serving (about 1/2 cup) sugar free homemade raising bread pudding with skim milk based sugar free rum sauce
1 cup decaf coffee with splenda and splash of milk

Probably another 50-75 cals here and there (small amounts of grazing)... I have to watch this.  Slippery slope.

Hello...  Just my 2 cents....  I'm a little over 6 years Post Op and have gained 25lbs back (I've taken 5 of them back off - yeah me.. lol)... anyway, as others have said, it is easy to push and push what you can eat.  But just as the saying goes "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".  I have gone back to the basics, eat protein first, then veggies and then if I have room just a little bit of carbs.  I'm still working on not drinking right before, during or right after eating - that however has been my downfall... it's very hard to do!  Anyway, I do "fall off the wagon" and try not to beat myself up for it, I just try to get back on track and do better next time.  Christmas is the worst time of year for me, all those goodies around... ugh! 

Best wishes to you and I hope you have a great Christmas!!!

I am TRYING to get more food in because I work out (hard) daily. I've gotten my protein up through extra shakes (found some I LOVE), which means fiber needs to jump, which means carbs need to jump... ahhhh vicious cycle. My goal is 1500 cals but I can't quite get there (1300 has been my highest).

Wake up: Shake (nectar lemonade or twisted cherry lately) - made with water btw
then coffee
on the way to work: fiber one bar (mmm fiber)

snack: another fiber one bar or a power crunch bar, depending on how the pooper is doin

lunch: usually a few chicken fingers, "naked" (no tortilla) burrito with habanero salsa, or some chicken & broccoli or something

snack: another shake

pre workout: depends on what i had for the snack above, generally its the opposite (carb fuel lol)

post workout: another shake or 16oz milk (does a body good!)

dinner: generally about 5 oz of meat (chicken, shrimp, steak, whatever) and some kinda veggie, occasionally some potatoes, now and then some rice.

I'm normally around 1100 cals and 130g protein and 120oz or more of liquids (not counting the coffee) between straigh****er and the shakes. Even yesterday when dinner was tombstone pizza I did ok :)

Generally I don't tell myself no to anything, just no quantity wise. If I wanted a christmas cookie, I'd eat one. I've surprised myself by even if I was "bad", logging my intake to see I was well within my limits that day.
 

Hello all -- I'm new here so I'm going to throw in my two cents and then go introduce myself.

I am six years out and maintained the weight loss consistently. I have recently revised my goal weight  because I will be competing in a triathlon. I try and make healthy choices but I don't dump, unless I have been really light on the protein that day ,so it is really easy from me to get lazy.

Breakfast - coffee with skim milk and a boiled egg. 
On Gym days - rice cake with Naturally More (peanut butter with flax + 10g protein)

Lunch - If out I go to Mc D's I get a happy meal - take off 1/2 the bun after a bite of the whole burger. For the complete taste. Its weird I know. I do that a lot. One bite and then disassemble. Why happy meals? LOVE THEM! Home - Lean Cuisine, lean meat/cheese. Protein first.

Dinner - Grilled/baked meat some nice way, some veggies and a side dish. I eat in order of importance and portion sizes are on my plate in sizes that are in order of importance. I get to eat everything, just differently. I still have to remind my husband that he is feeding me as I am now - not as I was. Even 6 years later. We will often have a dessert and I will enjoy some just in little portions.
 
In between meals I snack on whole Almonds - which are the best thing ever. I just love them!!! I also love plain yogurt mixed with a spoonful of sugarfree jam. Strawberry is my fav. Yummy and better for you then the already packaged.

Bread is my weakness me and I am a picker. I have to take  food I haven't from the table at home. I have to get up from the table and tidy the kitchen. It seems rude but if I don't I will pic****il I eat too much. I know myself well enough to avoid it. If I don't the consequences are an overfull stomach that feels too tight ,not only that night but into the next day. That can only mean a pouch stretching and I have come to far to allow that to happen

This was how I ate prior to training. Its a bit different now - but really not too much. More snacks and protein shakes - which I hate. I think they are gross and have always hated them. YUCK.