Crackers?

I've never heard of the 4 oz of cheese per week rule either.  I frequently eat cheese (Cabot block cheese as I have coupons with a $4 value which basically means it's free) with reduced fat Ritz Crackers.  I've not had any problem with them.  I have NOT gained weight as a result.  I am wondering for those who do NOT eat white carbs, particularly cereal, what do you eat instead.  I had the LAP-Band surgery and am unable to handle eggs.  I do NOT eat pasta, rice, potatoes, or even toasted bread.  I do sometimes have oatmeal but do NOT feel I can eat that all the time.  In the mornings yogurt does not give me a sense of fullness nor does fruits.

It's hard for me to not see crackers as anything but snack food.  Kind of like chips.  I will have crackers once in a great while when I'm at a party and they have them out as an appetizer.  But as a dinner I usually go for something less calories and less carbs, more protein. Lately I have been eating salads with my meat on top. 

I will state I am not RNYer.

After reading about them here, I discovered 34 degrees crackers.  They are like wafers - very thin.  You can have 8 of them for 44 calories, 9.8 carbs and 1.8 proteins.  They are really good with a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese - which is 35 calories, 1 carb and 2 proteins.  They come in several flavors.  I'm loving the cracked black pepper.  They are in the deli section of the grocery store. 

I LOVE  the rosemary ones!

34 degrees crackers are great. Target sells them now too. I use them instead of bread for things like tuna salad, but I have never had a problem with crackers. If they were a trigger food for me, I would stay away. Bread on the other hand is not a good choice for me.

Ditto what Grim said.  There is no good reason to eat crackers on any kind of regular basis (a very occasional snack is one thing, but while trying to llose, even that isn't a very good idea)!  Crackers have no nutritional value... Just carbs that may make you crave more carbs!

If cheese and crackers is a meal for you, and you only eat three times per day (which is how I interpret your comment about no snacking), it also isn't a very good choice for a meal... Even with just the cheese, it likely has more fat and carbs than protein.  the biggest oart of this journey is learning to make good food choices, and unfortunately some surgeons give meal plans that are not very good. 

Also, there isn't anything wrong with eating cheese, but 4 ounces of cheese is a LOT... Certainly TOO MUCH at one time. Compare the nutrirional stats in one ounce of cheddar cheese vs one ounce of chicken: cheese has about 115 calories, 7 g of protein, and 9-10g of fat (exact numbers depend a lot on the type of cheese) but roasted chicken has only 50 calories (less than half!), 8 g of protein, and only 1g of fat (one tenth of the amount of the cheese)!  If you multiply that by 4, that is more than 250 extra calories and 36 extra grams of fat! Even if you are eating 1000 calories a day, that is 25% of your daily "allotment" in extra calories just from choosing 4 ounces of cheese instead of 4 ounces of chicken.

Stick to an ounce of cheese at a time. I am 8 years about and I frequently eat cheese (LOVE it), but I eat one ounce if I eat something else (e.g., a few nuts or a small amount of fruit) with it, and only two ounces if I eat nothing but cheese!

I definitely occasionally ate things that weren't the best choices before I got to my goal weight -- including a few crackers here and there -- but it is really important to take advantage of the time you have right now to learn to make good food choices. There's food choices are the only thing that will stand between you and regain down the road.

It's natural that your weight-loss is going to slow down after six months -- and it will continue to slow the further out you get-- but I would suggest tracking your food for a while if you are not already doing so. In the vast majority of cases where people find that their weight isn't doing what they want it to do, it is because of what, or how much, they are eating, and if you use an online food tracker, usually the problem  (if there is one) becomes evident pretty quickly. 

If your surgeon's plan has crackers on it, then I would also suggest that you take a critical look at the otehr kinds of things that you're eating that as on your plan, because there may be other things that are on your list that aren't good choices. Surgeons are cutters not nutritional specialists.

If you post a couple of sample daily menus, people here are more than willing to suggest ways that you can make improvements. We have all struggled, to one extent or another, with learning -- or relearning -- how to eat in order to control our weight.

Lora

at 6 months post op I ate crackers. At 7 years post op - I don't. I eat pork rinds... 

Crackers are a simple carb - very little nutritional value and made of ingredients that your body turns to sugar.  I don't see any problem at all with the cheese.

I use cucumbers as my "crackers" or chip replacement: http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/2011/07/cucum ber-crackers.html

You get the crunch effect, calories are minimal, full of water.

I like cucumber slices with hummus