Yep, what everyone else has said. I had RNY on May 2nd and still cannot eat salmon without yakking. Also, sometimes certain meats will randomly not sit well. For me, it's a small price to pay. One thing is to be SURE you do not eat one more bite past when you feel satisfied. Sometimes I do not get 3-4 ounces in because I get a cue (sigh or hiccup) that I'm done. If I eat even one more bite, sometimes I will throw up.

I'm almost a year out and sometimes chicken still bothers me. I can eat all kinds of other meat without a problem, but chicken just seems to stick unless I make it very wet (like with a gravy/sauce of some sort) or shredded (like pulled barbeque meat) or grind it like babyfood (I'll make chicken salad this way). So, no rush at all. I'm also still drinking a protein shake every afternoon. Even my surgeon drinks the protein shakes and told me to stick with it to keep my protein as high as possible.

I still drink a protein shake every day at almost 16 months out.  I almost have to because I malabsorb protein and need to get at least 100 grams a day, but even if I didn't, I'd still have them occasionally for the convenience - like a breakfast-on-the-go if I have to race out the door early.

some meats took me awhile, too.  It seems I did things like chili and yogurt for protein for quite awhile.

Hey Cathy,

Good for you for being adventurous and trying good proteins.  I know that its a trial and error process and its hard in the beginning. Be kind to yourself and your new insides.  

Chicken & steak and roast beef I didn't try any of that until I was at least 6 months post op.  I ate a lot of canned tuna, baked salmon and chilli (a lot of chilli) and cottage cheese and yogurt.  I had heard horror stories of people that had surgery around the same time as me that had a lot of problems with chicken and I was so scared to try chicken!  I finally did and I weighed out my 2 oz, cut it up into small pieces the size of my baby finger nail, had cooked it in sauce and chewed until it was liquid in my mouth, no problems!   

What bothers one person may not bother everyone.  At 3 years post op I still can't eat a hamburger with out it sitting like a brick, but I can eat chilli for days. Go figure.

I find that just because your plan says you can advance to xx food by xx weeks does not mean your insides are ready for that. You tried it, it didn't work so you move on to something else and try roast beef in a few weeks or another month.

As for protein shakes, my centre also did not want us using them past a certain point, I just ignored them. I had a protein shake for breakfast I think close to up to a year post op.  Then I switched to "real" food.  Its really hard in the beginning to get 60-80 grams of protein by real food if you can only eat 1 or 2 oz so having a protein shake ensures you get your protein numbers in.  But please do what feels right for you.  I personally disagree on his statement that at 6 weeks you should not be living on yogurt & cheese, a lot of people that are years and years post op eat yogurt & cheese daily, so not sure what he is expecting you to eat if you can't have shakes, yogurt & cheese and yet dense protein is not working out yet. Such a dichotomy.  Also wanted to say that if you weight out 2 oz and you can only eat 1 oz that is okay, you don't have to clean your plate at every meal.

Good luck, go slow and take it easy on that pouch!

This!

I'm 4 months out, today. I woke up at 2:30, sick from the chicken I ate for dinner... yup, it came back up (At least I think it was the chicken, could have been something else, but whatever it was, my pouch said Hell to the No).

I'm barely able to eat 2 ounces of dense protein. white chicken meat, some beef, and PORK are not my besties just yet. I can do a nice cut of steak, cooked Med Rare though, so go figure... but not any kind of roasts. Bacon is always good to me. Ah, bacon 

I drink 1-2 protein drinks a day, and my protein levels were low at my last check up (thus the 1-2 drinks a day now, I had tried to cut them out).

NUTS are good, as in they have some great ideas at times, but I promise you, the VETS on this board truly know what's going on as far as diets and ways to eat. They've all been there. Seems a huge portion of the NUTS are very young, very cute, very thin, and have never had WLS. They know what's good for a college student to lose the Freshman 20, but they don't always know about us WLS patients!

They ARE! Everyone who works in that office is gorgeous an young. I think it's required. 

It is too soon for you. I didn't try meat until I was 8 weeks out. I only had deli ham for the first couple of weeks, because it was the most moist and tender 

You'll get there, but you clearly aren't yet. Give it time.

Could it be the amount you are eating?

I am not saying you are over eating, what I am saying is "the prescribed amount" maybe too much for you right now.

What happens if you have just a bite and then stop?  Like you could do a protein shake wait a bit, and have a bit of meat. What happens?

Maybe you got to train your stomach to meats again.

Fortunately, meats can be refrigerated.

Yesterday I did get a few bites in ok.