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.