0melet question and the plight of food intake

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?

i can only eat 1 egg in a sitting, and tht usually doesnt even happen, i find them very dense....i eat alot of veggies, lean turkey lunch meat, or lean chicken, i think the only starches i eat r rye bread toasted (half a slice) and rice...a small amount. i have a recipe for omletes in my rny instruction package from my hospital, ill message it to u when im home from work, funny gow ppl r different tho...anything tomato bothers my stomach :)

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.

Pasta and rice do not sit well with me either, but egg noodles sit pretty well. I use the egg noodles for stirfry and as a pasta.

Just a idea, but maybe try them. :)

 

Tanya

 

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) 

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

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.

 

I am thru TWH too... and I agree with that statement. Sometimes I have issues. I try to really watch.