0melet question and the plight of food intake
on 12/28/13 10:48 pm
This question is directed to those who eat omelets:
How many eggs do you use? if you use more than one, are you able to eat the whole omelet in one sitting?
I made an old cheddar (1 tbsp shredded) and tomatoes (1/2 medium tomato) omelet with 2 large eggs. Only ate half of it. Extremely satisfying. Cooked it until slightly moist. The tomato added nice liquid so it wasn't too hard on the tummy.
I feel like I have sort of hit a wall when it comes to my eating. Either things are too hard/heavy or things are not filling/satisfying. Only 2 months out.
Do things get any easier?
on 12/28/13 11:04 pm, edited 12/29/13 12:13 am
Hey --
thanks for the response. I would totally appreciate that recipie. Please do send it out to me.
The last time I tried egg was poached at about the 3 week point. I gagged. The omelet thing just came to mind this morning and it really sits well. I am just worried that if I eat it too often I am going to get turned off of it - then I will be back to having no satisfying food options.
I made a rice dish yesterday (sort of like a Jambalaya). It was soo delicious ... but each rice grain felt like a stone sitting in my stomach. So sad really. I know pasta and rice don't sit with me well anymore -- but i am having difficulty finding decent alternatives as i now go beyond broth and greek yoghurt for my main meals.
on 12/29/13 12:23 am
hey tanya! thanks so much for the heads up on egg noodles. funny you mentioned it -- my dad just suggested it yesterday for me and promised to give me a bag of it today for me to try with chicken thighs (the only type of chicken i can tolerate).
2 weeks ago i was taken to a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch. i ordered one of their vermicelli vegetable soups. it was sooo delicious ... but i was terrified to eat the noodles in case it made me feel odd. i did have a few strands and they went down sooo easy. i was surprised. but i think those were rice noodles?
i remember at my 1 month group follow up at TWH, there was a woman there who vented at how sick she was of eating. how she would sit in front of a meal -- all excited to enjoy it - only to be able to eat a couple of spoons before she was full or felt sick. she said she was fed up with eating. i totally understood how she felt then ... and, sadly, i still do. the mental angst that goes in to preparing food only to not be able to eat it b/c it doesn't sit well or makes me want to gag is rather frustrating. i am finding it mentally exhausting.
my taste buds and scent detectors are ****** up -- nothing tastes or smells right. i tried peanut butter on melba 2 days ago and it was disgusting. i'm just tired right now.
i have gotten over the slow weightloss phenomena as i know it is classically indicative of a VSG -- and I am actually quite ok with this -- but i seem to be getting *NO* satisfaction in eating anymore.
it is so true that after this surgery i have only been eating to live ... certainly not living to eat. ce la vie!?
I can often only eat one egg, depending on what else I am having. I hAte poached eggs. Never ate them before my RNY but thought I would try them after... GRROSSS!
Also, you can make egg bites! They can be frozen and you can make them with whatever you like!! They are mini crustless quiches. Michelle, a fellow WLS gal has a blog you should check out ;) http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.ca/ .. she has many great recipes!
Also, check this site out... another fellow WLS gal, Katherine ( I know her personally, great person!) http://geokatgirl.wordpress.com/ She makes soooo many yummy things!
Aaaand, check out Elina's blog! I browsed thru her blog the other day and I will be making some things in preperation for my PS.... http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/elina_7/blog_page,7/
On Tracey's signature, she has a recipe site ... http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/ontario_recipes/welcome/ join here, it's many of the members from the Ontario forum ;) Awesome recipes!!
As for rice and pasta... it's not even worth it for me to make it anymore. When I eat rice, I can only eat one or two spoonfuls and I am FULL! I find, for me, that chicken fried rice from a chinese restaurant, sits better in my tummy. As for noodles.. in small amounts, chicken lo mein sits the best, for me.
(My bro-in-law made spaghetti for our christmas dinner. Needless to say, I was not very happy about it cuz I generally don't eat that stuff. I had 2 forks of noodles and felt ill. My hubby ended up eating my dinner)
BELOW GOAL Happily maintaining 4.5 years out!! Life is GREAT!!! Had my plastic surgery!
on 12/29/13 6:16 am
this is great, leanne - thank you so much for the links. i will join tracey's site .... i really need the recipies. i had looked up on indigo.ca and found an ebook specifically for baritrtic patients. everything was measured out into portions just for us -- which is TOTALLY AMAZING. alas, one needs an ebook to get it and it is not available as a hard copy. i am actually tempted in buying a kobo tomorrow just to gain access. silly, i know.
you're welcome :)
A kobo may come in handy, if you like to read alot and whatnot.
Other then pasta and rice and stuff... I just make everything then portion it out. I have LOTS of cookbooks and google different recpies.. another site I like is allrecipes.com. It has many low carb ideas as well
BELOW GOAL Happily maintaining 4.5 years out!! Life is GREAT!!! Had my plastic surgery!
on 12/29/13 7:36 am
so funny you mention portioning things out ... i did this (and still do this) but was given a warning at my 1 month TWH session: leftovers can be very hard on our stomachs. The heating up process dehydrates the food -- making it more difficult for us to process. damnit -- but so true! so tonight, i had quinoa and chicken breast pieces. i had to heat up the chicken in the micro. when it is cold, it is soft and moist and yummy. after heating it up, it turned tough and i really wasn't able to eat the portion i was hoping to digest. this is exactly what the dietician told us.
boxing day i defrosted and mircoed a homemade chicken soup i stored in the freezer -- it came out tasting as fresh as the day i made it. yesterday i heated up turkey pieces in gravy on the stove top and that kept the meat from drying out ... but not everything i will want to eat can be heated with a sauce.
unless people have tips on how to heat stuff up w/o drying it out -- i'd love to hear that.