Alcohol and Sweets ??
I have been on the boards since 09/08 and have read quite a few post about post-ops drinking alcohol and eating sweets. How is this possible if you have had RNY? I though sugar made most of us dump. Do people drink and eat sweets and pay the consequences after? I do not drink but I have been wondering about this.
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Some R&Y's never dump. I eat sweets, but in small amounts and only as an occasional treat. If sugar is a trigger food for you, it's best to avoid it.
If you don't drink, my advice to you would be don't start. It creates problems for a lot of post ops who never had drinking issues before. A post op's body does not absorb alcohol the same way as other people. My personal experience with alcohol as a post op is that you get a quick high and then it wears off just as fast as it came on. To keep the buzz going, you drink a little bit more. Then, the next thing you know, you're pissy drunk.
As a pre-op, I would drink maybe one or two drinks socially maybe once every few months. Now I can't hold liquor worth a darn. I don't even try to drink any more. It might not affect everybody that way, but I would caution you to be extremely careful. 
Every now and again I will eat something sweet, but I do watch the sugar content (nothing over 16 grams of sugar, as my surgeon told me). I know it's bad, but it's something that I'm working on.
So far I haven't dumped since I had surgery and that was 11/19/08
I think dumping is a good thing because it teaches us to stay away fom those bad things we use to eat before we had surgery. Everything is a trial and error, until we get use to eating certain foods.
So far I haven't dumped since I had surgery and that was 11/19/08
I think dumping is a good thing because it teaches us to stay away fom those bad things we use to eat before we had surgery. Everything is a trial and error, until we get use to eating certain foods.
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I guess what a person does depends on the Lifestyle changes they ACTUALLY make After WLS. My Surgeon puts all of his pre-ops on The South Beach Diet and as you go through it you understand why>>>Phase 1 is how you will eat after the liquid and soft food stages after WLS, Phase 2 is basically the way we should eat the remainder of our Lives. There are so many sugar free and reduced carb desserts out there, as well as sugar free candies (real sugar is not needed) and liquor is all sugar, beer is mostly carbs...It is really up to the person how they want to live their Life (for me refined and high carbs, sugar, coffee, alcohol, deep fried food are major problems and some are triggers for me. If your Surgeon didn't give you an eating plan, may I suggest The South Beach Diet (original version - Blue Paperback).
I guess what a person does depends on the Lifestyle changes they ACTUALLY make After WLS. My Surgeon puts all of his pre-ops on The South Beach Diet and as you go through it you understand why>>>Phase 1 is how you will eat after the liquid and soft food stages after WLS, Phase 2 is basically the way we should eat the remainder of our Lives. There are so many sugar free and reduced carb desserts out there, as well as sugar free candies (real sugar is not needed) and liquor is all sugar, beer is mostly carbs...It is really up to the person how they want to live their Life (for me refined and high carbs, sugar, coffee, alcohol, deep fried food are major problems and some are triggers for me. If your Surgeon didn't give you an eating plan, may I suggest The South Beach Diet (original version - Blue Paperback).
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I'm a scocial drinker so I've drank a couple of times in the past few weeks and since I don't like being drunk just the act of getting there I won't drink anymore unless its a sip or two because it hits me too fast and leaves just as fast as one poster said. As far as sugar I added some treats back in after 6 weks post op I've been able to do sweets in moderation (takes me 2 months to eat a box of ice cream popsicles, a week to eat a packet of mini chips ahoy cookies) I'eve stayed waway from it that i don't like that much sweets its just don't taste good. But chips are the dayum devil for me. I'll eaet em til they gone. I'm working on it Lawd....
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I think everybody is different. I had RNY and my pouch has very little tollerence for sweets/sugar. So I just don't do it. I dont know if or how you could measure dumping...mine is bad when it is from sugar. Worse than from eating too fast or too much. As far as the drinking goes, I use to didn't drink at all.....for at lest 10 years. Then I went to this Martini party after I left my husband and found out that I could drink and without dumping and that the high doesn't stay with me very long. I kinda watch out for the sugary drinks like daquari and things like that.
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I am now seven months out, when I go to the club with friends I would order a glass of wine and sip when the glass is half full, I turn it over to my BFF who will fini**** off. So I don't get drunk just a tee wee buzz and I know to stop.
As far as sweets I have been craving and eating the flavored jelly beans and dark chocolate covered almonds....as soon as I am done with this (I snack on it at work) I will not buy anymore.
Why!! Because I went to the store and found out I can now fit in a size 12 jeans!!! Who on earth wants to mess that up!! I went from 30 to 12 in seven months and refuse to go backwards...it is just not worth it. I am trying to get sexier not fatter!!
As far as sweets I have been craving and eating the flavored jelly beans and dark chocolate covered almonds....as soon as I am done with this (I snack on it at work) I will not buy anymore.
Why!! Because I went to the store and found out I can now fit in a size 12 jeans!!! Who on earth wants to mess that up!! I went from 30 to 12 in seven months and refuse to go backwards...it is just not worth it.
I am trying to get sexier not fatter!! "IT IS...ABOUT ME"
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