Off Limits!

What foods have your doctors told you (or you yourself found through experience) to be off limits? The whole "Eat and you WILL regret it!"

Grasshopper,

You have inquiring mind.  Be patient and you will learn much.

To answer your question anything that is too dry or rubbery.  Like dry baked chicken or a turkey patty heated in microwave.  May lead to case of foamies from getting stuck or outright gastric upheaval.  This dumping syndrome you will want learn more about can go "southbound" as well resulting in E.D. - EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA!!  Happens when food exits pouch too soon after eating, hits small intestine and the intestine so "no, thanks" and ships it out.

Sugar, too much fat, too many carbs may cause you to dump resulting in you having palpitations, nausea, vomiting, asking yourself "what the hell have I done to myself?", making deals with your Maker, barfing and feeling really sleepy.  Depending on the food it can be called a "carb coma".  You may become lactose intolerant post-op as well.

Hate to tell you this but for at least the first six months to a year - STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL!!  You will get buzzed on very little alcohol post-op and besides it is empty calories w/o any protein.  Being cheap to feed and easy drunks is why RNY's are cheap dates!

I had some questioned stored up for a while; hence the influx today.  I sure I 'll slope of real soon.

Just like LOSTTXN, I have found anything dry to be hard to take. I also have problems with barbcue sauce.

My biggest problem has been slowing down my eating. Before surgery I could eat a meal in about 10 minutes, now I am eating much less and they want me to take 30 - 45 minutes to eat.

That is difficult and when I eat to fast I get the foamies and then barf.

I am getting better and haven't been sick for about two weeks now.

While you were shufflin' off to Buffalo, I asked about BBQ sauce.  Nick turned me on to Kraft Lite; I tried it and it's pretty good (considering).  2 grams sugar and (I believe) no fat).

I've been told to stay away from carbonation and soft breads, pastas, rice, etc - things that will expand in the pouch and cause problems.  The strangest food I can't tolerate: field greens.  I love salads made with field greens, but the pouch wasn't too crazy about them.

As others mentioned, dry textures have been tough to take, but by introducing one new food at a time, I've found that I'm pretty tolerant of most foods.  Your mileage may vary, and by the nature of the responses, you'll find that everyone responds differently.  But just about everyone has issues with fats and sugars. 

I haven't tried steak yet... it's been four months now, I may soon...

but like others said, anythign too dry just don't work...

Everyone is different, and eventually you may find nothing is off limits... as long as you limit it. I've talked to a few people, they can say eat two spoon fulls of Ben & Jerry's ice cream... but if they go for that third, they dump.

Yer basically gonna end up trying what you like for yourself to see how it goes... just don't go trying anything too new/unusual when out to dinner or at a friends, save it for when you're at home... just in case.

I was told to stick to a soft diet the first 4 weeks, then eat what I could tolerate, making sure I got protein in first.

Thankfully with the DS, there are no "off limit" foods. I can eat sugar, drink soda,eat foods made of white flour, eat fruits/veggies without any special treatment, I do not have to chew foods to a pulp and best of all, I've maintained a 300 lb weight loss for the last 2 years.

Scott

scott, a bit off subject, but do you know of any docs that do the DS in Texas?

There is a great list on

www.dsfacts.com

Bev (the owner of that site) is very careful who she puts on the list, and she vets out all the surgeons that apply to get on it.

Scott