Question:
Exactly what did you eat today or yesterday? (for those on solid or soft foods)
I'd like to hear from some of you what you ate. If you could, I'd like to know how many bites of each thing you ate and your liquids. Also, have you found anyone commenting on your eating? I know it sounds absurd, the amount of food I'll be eating, btu I also know I won't be hungry! Thanks so much! — Toni M. (posted on October 1, 2002)
September 30, 2002
When I came home from the hospital I started on 1 scramble egg or 1/2 small
cottage cheese (breakstone's individual)for breakfast. I would fix a
protein drink around 10am. For lunch I would have 2 or 3 ritz with
underwoods deviled ham, peanut butter or tuna salad on them. For dinner I
would have 1/2 baked chicken breast or anything with protein. I would also
have really good deli meat and cheese rolled up and cut into pinwheels. I
piece was all I could eat early on. Now at 13 months out I eat yogurt with
smart start cereal or 5 pcs bacon for breakfast. I will eat a protein bar
either between breakfast and lunch or in the afternoon. Some days I am
more hungry than others. I go out to eat every day during the week. I
usually get anything I want and eat about 1/2 of it. I take the rest home
for dinner later in the week. I don't eat too much for dinner. Last night
it was chili with a few fritos and cheese on it. I paid dearly with
terrible gas pains all night long. That's what I get for eating fritos! I
do have a sugar free ice cream every night as my treat. Life is good and I
have lost 138 pounds. Good luck to you in yor journey!
— MARSHA D.
September 30, 2002
At first it won't be much but it gets a lot better. I am four months post
op down 92 pounds. Size 24 to 8. This is what I had yesterday. Breakfast
- 1/2 bagel with cream cheese, coffee, Lunch - Breaded chicken breast and a
small baked potato, Dinner - 1 Pork Chop and about 1/4 cup of rice. Snacks
- Real Meals protein shake, 3 hershey kisses, bag of baked lays potato
chips. Drinks - Bottle spring water, diet soda, coffee, milk. I can
pretty much eat anything I want. My tastes have changed a lot so some of
my old favorite foods I now hate and soe of the things I used to hate I
love. I know it doesn't make sense but I have heard it from a lot of other
people too. I eat breakfast and lunch at a Diner everday and no one would
ever be able to notice that I was eating different. The only difference is
now I eat one piece of pizza and I am stuffed instead of half of the pizza.
Or at a picinic I eat one cheeseburger with a small side instead of a
coupole of burgers and a couple of hot dogs. Most of the time I forget I
ever even had the surgery.
— Linda A.
September 30, 2002
If you would like, you can look on my profile to see what I ate at 4 1/2
mos and 9 mos out. I still pretty much eat like 9 mos now that I am 17 mos
out.
— ctyst
October 1, 2002
Toni, I will be 7 wks post-op Thursday and I went back to work yesterday
for the first time. Here is what I ate (ps, no one commented on what I
ate)...BREAKFAST: 1 slice whole whaet bread toasted w/ butter and 1
scrambled egg. LUNCH: 1 small burger patty with a slice of cheddar
cheese. SNACK: a Atkins Advantage Choc Peanut Butter Bar. DINNER: bowl of
cheerios w/ skim milk. I also drank at least 100 oz of water yeaterday.
Good Luck!
— heathercross
October 1, 2002
I'm fairly faithful about keeping track of what I eat on fitday.com... and
my stuff is public.. <a
href=http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html&Owner=PrincessFluff>Here
is the link to it</a>. What you can't tell from there is what I
actually ate together, like combo meals and casseroles.. and what time I
ate something. When I was postop.. for the first month at home, once I
went to soft food, I timed my meals ... and I waited between two and three
minutes between bites. I made 2oz of food last a long time (thank goodness
for a microwave) ... I still have that habit.. and all I need is that
uncomfortable feeling, or the burping to let me know I'm eating too fast or
I'm full. Today, I've had a protein drink so far, and I'm about to drink
my first 32 oz of water. Good luck, feel free to email me if I can help.
Can;t tell if you're post op or pre.. but for SURE you will be amazed at
how little you eat.. I still am... and the hardest part is to leave stuff
on your plate, because its just such a small amount.. but please do leave
it... good luck!
— Lisa C.
October 1, 2002
Breakfast: I had 20G of Liquid Protein and about 1/4 cup of crushed
pineapple;
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Mid-Morning: 20 oz. water
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Lunch: Lipton's Chicken Noodle Cup-a-Soup with some low-fat
cheese/crackers.
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Snack: 1 oz. Deli Turkey
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<mid-afternoon: 12 oz. Minute Maid Light Lemonade and later a 16 oz.
Crystal Light
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Dinner: 2 Shrimp Balls and 1/4 cup Jello Salad.
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Evening: Crystal Light w/15 Grams Liquid Protein and later a 16 oz. Water.
— Cathy S.
October 1, 2002
Breakfast: Myoplex Lite (Cappicinno) Flavor with 12 ounces of fat free
mile
Snack: 1 serving of corn nuts,
Lunch: 3 ounces of Tuna (water packed) 1 tablespoon of lite mayo, and 2
slices of Low carb bread.
Snack: 1 cup honey nut cherrios
Dinner: Marie Calender dinner (Turkey dinner) ate the turkey and stuffing
only,
Snack: 4 peices of cheese.
— tannedtigress
October 1, 2002
Yesterday I had:
breakfast - 20 oz. starbucks non-fat latte
lunch - 2 sections of a chicken cheese quesedilla (about 3"x4" ea
piece)
dinner - 1 cup of shreadded wheat cereal with skim milk
snack - 20-30 seedless red grapes
cheat - I had one miniature peanut butter cup (can't have more than that or
I'll dump).
I so applaud the people on this site that so meticulously track their
eating. I'm not one of them. I find that if I think too much about what I
should or shouldn't eat, I'll want to rebel and cheat. Therefore, I just
know what I can't eat (sat. fat and refined sugar) and stay away from
those. I try to eat protein first, but I'll admit that there are days that
I'll have a meal with no protein. I don't use supplements for protein. I
also often skip meals which isn't the best practice. However, I'm still
losing - as of today, I've lost 100 pounds in 8 months.
— Christine C.
October 1, 2002
— Rosario T.
October 1, 2002
Yesterday, I wasn't hungry in the morning so I just had about 36oz of
water. Lunch was about 3/4 of a small Wendy's chili with cheese and hot
sauce. Dinner was 1/2 of a small chicken breast, one small spoonful of
mashed potatoes with chicken gravy and 2 bites of broccoli, Snack was a
chunk of seedless watermellon. I did get in about 24 oz more of crystal
light pink lemonade. (I did put soy powder in the gravy and in the mashed
potatoes too.)
— Leah H.
October 1, 2002
At almost 8 months post-op, here is my typical menu: Breakfast is usually 1
scrambled egg with 1/2 slice of melted cheese and a tablespoon of veggie
chili on top. Lunch is 1/2 of a meat and cheese sandwich or 1/2 chicken
breast/3 oz of steak over salad (salad has hard boiled egg and kidney beans
in it too for added protein). Afternoon snack is 1/2 protein bar and/or
some cut up fruit. Dinner is 3/4 or so of a Lean Cuisine or a broiled
fish/meat/chicken (3 oz or so) with some steamed vegetable. After dinner
snacks range from popcorn to SF ice cream (small scoop) to SF chocolate to
Wow tortilla chips with bean dip, to mini chocolate chip cookies. I
usually have 2 snacks at night. On weekends if I want to skip a protein at
a meal, I'll have a protein shake to make up for the missed protein.
— Cindy R.
October 1, 2002
I am almost 8 months out. For breakfast - 1 Carb Solutions bar, for mid
morning snack, 1/2 Wendy's BLT salad with about 15% of the dressing and 2
Russell Stovers sugar free peppermint patties, for lunch 1 carb solutions
bar, mid afternoon snack; 4 low fat triscuits, for dinner a Wendy's
Mandarin chicken salad w/ half of the dressing and two Russell Stovers
peanut butter cups. This equals about 1600 calories (too many) and it's
waaaaay too much saturated fat - :-(
— Linda V.
October 1, 2002
I am SOOO glad to have read the other answers. Now I know I'm not eating
too much! I am 1 month out...down about 45lbs..
Breakfast:1/2 cup nonfat cottage cheese with 1/2 a small container of
yogurt.
Lunch:3oz tuna can with 2Tbls Nonfat mayo with 5 nonfat saltines
Dinner: About 1/2 cup Hormel 99%fat free Turkey Chili with 1oz. nonfat
cheddar cheese.
TONS of H2O and NO SNACKS. I end up about 500-700 cals/day
with 50-70 grams of protein...no more protein shakes!!YEA!
— Debby M.
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