Peanut Butter?!?

My surgeon allows 1T at a time once on puréed foods (a few days after surgery).  I haven't had any though (3 weeks out) as there are plenty of other things I can have 2 ozs of which are way lower in calories.

I'm 5 months out.  Ever since I was 3 months out if I wanted peanut butter I would/will mix up a serving of PB2 and put it on celery sticks

 I highly recommend PB2. It is basically peanut flour that you reconstitute with water.  It has a good peanut taste and it saves a lot of calories.   I use it to make a spicy peanut sauce that I serve with chicken or cauliflower. I think I posted the recipe on the recipe forum as "chicken in spicy peanut sauce."  Its a great way to get that peanut flavor without the calorie hit of whole peanut butter.

I think I started eating peanut butter as soon as I was on solids again.

Best wishes,

Carol

i dont know what i am going to do without peanut butter..

There are a LOT of foods that we don't think we can go without. But we do!

I treat myself about once a month to a little single serving of Jif To Go Natural Peanut Butter when a craving hits.  Yes, the nutritional value isn't that great, but one little cup satisfies my craving.  I don't eat it every day, but it's a nice treat every now and again.  Everything in moderation!

• Serving Size 1 - 1.5 oz cup (43g)
• Amount per Serving
• Calories 250
  Calories from Fat 170
• Total Fat 20g
• • Saturated Fat 3.5g
  • Trans Fat
    
• Cholesterol 0mg
• Sodium 105mg
• Total Carbohydrate 11g
• • Dietary Fiber 3g
  • Sugars 4g
• Protein 9g

I'm glad I read this because there are like 3 jars of pb in my pantry that aren't mine and they have been screaming my name. I almost gave into getting a tiny spoonful but now I better wait a bit longer. I am struggling with temptation big time because my step sis and her daughter are big time junk foodies. It's not easy but I am choosing to be the healthy one in the house.

I played with some peanut butter, usually on a couple of saltine crackers, during the first couple of weeks, when probing my sleeve for its' tolerance for soft and semi-solid foods, as it is easily digestible and usually well tolerated. But I rarely had much of it after that due to its low nutritional density (nutrition relative to calories). Additionally, as is common with plant based protein sources, it is an incomplete protein, so you don't really get the benefit of the protein on the label without consuming it with a complementary protein such as whole grain bread or crackers (not the best thing for those playing the low carb game.) This also applies to PB2 and other processed derivatives. This usually isn't a big deal as most here OD on protein so this isn't usually a critical point, but if one is depending upon it to meet minimal protein levels, it can be.

These days I do have an occasional PB sandwich (chunky, on whole grain bread) as part of my road trip care package, but at 2000 calorie or so maintenance level, protein density is not a real big priority.

Most people in maintenance do 1000 - 1200 calories per day. Protein density is ALWAYS a priority.

Maintenance levels are all over the map, though given the predominant WLS demographic (average to below average height women) and variable degrees of metabolic damage experienced, the average maintenance level is probably within that 1000-1200 calorie range. But the wide variation in maintenance needs - from a few outliers who maintain in the 6-800 calorie range up though those who maintain in the 2000-3000 range means that quite different eating styles need to be adopted to accommodate those differences given that most of our sleeves will mature into the same general size range. At the 2000 or so range that I maintain at, my diet only needs to be about 20% protein, so protein density is not at all a big priority; indeed, the bigger challenge is moving an appropriate amount of fruits and vegetables through the small sleeve to provide suitable nutrition. Someone maintaining at 1200 calories would need more of a 30-40% protein diet and would need to eat somewhat differently.