What food(s) can you no longer eat after WLS?

Hi all, another newbie question.  I am wondering for all of you that have had your WLS, what food(s) can you no longer eat?  Also, are you still able to have coffee?  I am just gathering as much info as I can and would appreciate hearing from you.  Thanks in advance. 

I've never stopped drinking fully leaded coffee. When I had surgery 8 years ago, it wasn't an issue. I've gone with that. lol I had a major change in my taste for things - everything, and I mean EVERYTHING tasted too sweet. Still does, even milk. Bleah. I used to have a love affair with eggs. We had a bad break-up post-op and it's only in the last couple of years that we've reconciled.

Everyone is different, Dreamy. I generally don't (and didn't AT ALL for over 7 years) eat refined sugar in any form. Other than that, I eat what tastes good and is good for me. :)

Hi Karen thanks for sharing.  I was just wondering if you were able to tolerate coffee right after surgery or if you had to wait a while before resuming being able to have it?  That's interesting about the foods being too sweet - maybe your tastebuds changed? 

Yes, didn't have any issues with coffee or tea. Tea especially was really helpful with digestion and "getting things started" (eating) in the morning. So glad I didn't have to give up coffee, I'm an addict.

Taste buds totally changed. To this day anything even remotely sweet turns my gut. Made it a little difficult to get the protein shakes down at first, but I powered through. lol

I feel like my month-old VSG is treating me pretty well - I fill up with comparably little food to before, but I've had an easy time with getting things down, slightly ahead of schedule. I could have fully scrambled eggs (in the microwave, done softly with some skim milk) at about 3.5 weeks out. I had Wendy's chilli last weekend. I generally have cheese, of the light variety every day, but yesterday I had about 15g of Jarlsberg for the taste, and I was fine with that. I didn't feel I needed more. I'm not having anything naughtier than that - why risk it? I guess VSG are less likely to dump, but for me I want to lose weight just as speedily as is healthily possible, so I'm going to stay away from slider foods.

I haven't had any caffeine yet, but I was never a regular drinker of a morning coffee. 

Oh, and Karen is so right - EVERYTHING tastes sweeter!

I can't have anything liquid sugar. Which is fine, I shouldn't anyway. But I tried a light frappuchino, and real ice cream (and sugar-free ice cream sets me off too) and I dump. Oh well. There's more in life! 

Oh ugh - the NSA ice cream made me puke. A LOT.

Oh, this, definitely!

I'm not a coffee drinker at all (I mean, AT ALL), never was. But had a sip of my husband's cappuccino on vacation and even though I never liked the taste of coffee, it somehow hit me okay, so I got one, and stirred a little bit of sugar into it, not much. (In most of the places we went, no one had sweetener - I don't think it's as popular in certain parts of Europe as it is here.)

Anyhow, even though I don't have a problem having more sugar than that in other things - the occasional bite of dessert from someone else's plate, etc. - and even though there is probably more fat in a meat dish I have no problem with eating - after having a small cup of cappuccino with just a little bit of sugar, I felt quite ill.

It's a good thing, really. Keeps me behaving.  But I was very surprised. And I thought it was probably because it is liquid so it hits fast. So your post confirms my suspicion that this is probably why!

Thanks to all for sharing.  I haven't had refined sugar for a year now and don't miss it but lots of things still taste sweet to me! I think "no sugar" is a good idea and I was glad to hear that someone has stuck to the "no refined sugar" for 7 years now!  I hope to do the same, one day at a time.  Thanks again to all for sharing.

Hi :)

My decision to avoid refined sugar was actually extremely easy. The less you eat, the less you want. Like carbs. Well, I guess it is a carb. I only had refined sugar because my liver specialist told me to "smarten up and eat goddamnit" when I was ill last year and needed to gain weight.

I really don't miss it at all :) Good for you for abstaining.