Question:
Help! Starting Fulltime job and not sure how to adjust diet...
I had my rny Jan 31, 2008. I am a little confused about the no drinking and eating within a certain time period. How does that apply to soups and should I cut them out of my diet? I am about to start a full time job, does anyone know what quick healthy lunches I can do? All opinions are welcome! Tracy — heartsablaze (posted on May 6, 2008)
May 6, 2008
Soups contain high sodium. I gained weight when I tried eating soups. I
don't dare eat them now. Turkey, chicken anything like that without bread.
— nascar_angel_3_2003
May 6, 2008
Soups are good if they are high protein or low cal, low fat and used as a
snack to curb hunger. (you can add protein to broths too!) But they are a
slider food and don't keep you full for long. Thicker protein filled soups
like split pea and ham or lentil soups are thicker and full of protein and
stay with you much longer. You still wait 30 min before and after to drink
water. Water will wash all your food out of your pouch and leave you hungry
much faster. Dense proteins stay with you the longest...so something like
those tuna or chicken lunch cans with a few crackers are awesome for
lunch...or a lunchmeat or chicken wrap...(A wrap is like eating one slice
of bread rather than the two you need for a sandwich)...LF chili, bean
burritos, salads with grilled chicken and lite dressings...These are all
things you can find while at work usually. Get a veggie or turkey burger at
some places. If not bring some boiled eggs, cottage cheese, yogurts, tuna,
lunch meat and cheese wrapped around a large pickle...crock pot meats,
stews, shrimp cocktail, boiled or dried edamame (soy beans)...Textured
vegetable protein (TVP) is AWESOME!!!! You can use it as you would in any
ground beef recipe...(Sloppy Joes, chili with or without beans, hamberger
helper- type meals....Or use it dry on yogurt or SF pudding for a little
flavorless protein crunchies.... bring almonds or nuts and berries as
snacks. Dry protein cereals to munch on...soy crisps, jerky...SF jellies
with peanutbutter on apples, celery or whole grain crackers...Low carb
protein bars...Protein shakes...There are many things you can bring or
buy...Just try to stay away from breads, rice, potatoes and sugars...Eat
proteins and complex carbs and you stay fuller...At restaurants ask for
your drink in a "to-go" cup with lid and drink afterwards. I
never get my drink in a regular cup with my meal or I am tempted to sip it!
You get used to it after a while. You learn what things are good
choices...This is forever...I've been doing this for 4 years...so I already
learned the ropes...but I still get board and love new ideas..I'm always
searching for creative foods that are good, easy to find and available most
places. I try to live a normal life and enjoy food, only in a healthier
way...
Good luck back at work!
— .Anita R.
May 6, 2008
Soups are good if they are high protein or low cal, low fat and used as a
snack to curb hunger. (you can add protein to broths too!) But they are a
slider food and don't keep you full for long. Thicker protein filled soups
like split pea and ham or lentil soups are thicker and full of protein and
stay with you much longer. You still wait 30 min before and after to drink
water. Water will wash all your food out of your pouch and leave you hungry
much faster. Dense proteins stay with you the longest...so something like
those tuna or chicken lunch cans with a few crackers are awesome for
lunch...or a lunchmeat or chicken wrap...(A wrap is like eating one slice
of bread rather than the two you need for a sandwich)...LF chili, bean
burritos, salads with grilled chicken and lite dressings...These are all
things you can find while at work usually. Get a veggie or turkey burger at
some places. If not bring some boiled eggs, cottage cheese, yogurts, tuna,
lunch meat and cheese wrapped around a large pickle...crock pot meats,
stews, shrimp cocktail, boiled or dried edamame (soy beans)...Textured
vegetable protein (TVP) is AWESOME!!!! You can use it as you would in any
ground beef recipe...(Sloppy Joes, chili with or without beans, hamberger
helper- type meals....Or use it dry on yogurt or SF pudding for a little
flavorless protein crunchies.... bring almonds or nuts and berries as
snacks. Dry protein cereals to munch on...soy crisps, jerky...SF jellies
with peanutbutter on apples, celery or whole grain crackers...Low carb
protein bars...Protein shakes...There are many things you can bring or
buy...Just try to stay away from breads, rice, potatoes and sugars...Eat
proteins and complex carbs and you stay fuller...At restaurants ask for
your drink in a "to-go" cup with lid and drink afterwards. I
never get my drink in a regular cup with my meal or I am tempted to sip it!
You get used to it after a while. You learn what things are good
choices...This is forever...I've been doing this for 4 years...so I already
learned the ropes...but I still get board and love new ideas..I'm always
searching for creative foods that are good, easy to find and available most
places. I try to live a normal life and enjoy food, only in a healthier
way...
Good luck back at work!
— .Anita R.
May 6, 2008
whoops...sorry for the double post...was trying to fix a typo and hit the
wrong button..twice! Still have the typos too! TWICE! :( arggh
— .Anita R.
May 6, 2008
I make my own soup with just organic chicken, vegatable or beef broth. I
eat the soup first, as it is a slider food. It slips past the pouch. Then
I mich eat a solid food if I have the hunger. I cound the liquid in my
soup as water, but now I can do 150 oz. a day rather than fight for the 100
oz that I was told I had to take. Lunch at work. No fast foods, so if you
go out, have a talk in the slack (not meal time) hours with the owner and
/or manager to see if they can assist you with a small meal of what you
need to eat. Ruby Tuesday and Mimi Cafe both make me a small meal and it
is what I can eat. I tell them what day I plan to eat luch there, and when
I go in they have me ask for just one or two waiteress' or watiers'. These
people know about my special meal, so I ask for the half meal of some item
I can eat on the menu and then tell them no rolls, rice, or pasta but sub
fresh vegatables of "X". The usually will steam fresh vegatables
for me, and I have Ice Tea without sugar and use splenda. I dirnk my tea
befoire the meal is servrowed, and when it is served, I ask that my tea
glass and water glass be removed. I never order any deserts. For
breakfast most places will do two eggs on the side, and some times I get
some fruit or just V8 Juice before the eggs. When I brown bag it, I take
cottage cheese, 1% low fat cheese. I often take gound meat that I
precooked wih some beans, like Lima or pinto's so I have the protein. For
desert, which I eat first, I take Del Monte "No Sugar Added"
peaches or Pears. They come in 4 oz cans and are slider food, so it them
first, as they slip right into your gut out of the pouch. I have gone to
burger kink and ordered a whopper, and took of the bun and ate the
vegatables and the beef, when a bunch of guy did not want to spend a lot
for lunch. Go to a office party and there is pizza, so take a peice and
just eat the topping and toss the crust. Going to a covered dish, bring a
good dish that you can eat, and don't mention that it is made the healthy
way. Do want to cook, then get the store to make up a vegatable tray and
you can grase on it.
Best of sucess to you.
Bill
— William (Bill) wmil
May 6, 2008
My favorite and one I eat at least three times a week is a pouch of salmon
(96 cents at Walmart) mixed with 2 oz of Newman's Own Mango Salsa. Warm it
up and yum! The key to being successful with work meals is to PLAN. I
always have several pouches of salmon or tuna and some sliced turkey
(sometimes I have that with some lowfat turkey gravy) kicking around so I'm
never caught without something to eat that's within my mealplan. Good
Luck!
— Shirley D.
May 6, 2008
There is a company called Smartforme that makes a high protein chicken
noodle soup. Look on their website for all kinds of great drinks and
snacks etc... I'm a fan of their protein shakes (vanilla only) but just
got a free sample in the mail of one of their smoothies :)
-Danielle-
— Danielle T.
May 7, 2008
I agree with Anita. Soups will not keep you full long at all and they are
full of sodium and not much protein! When I first started back to work and
was on solids, I took "rollups" for the longest time (ie- Deli
meat rolled up with low fat cheese slices, and yes added dill pickles
often). I got sick on tuna once and wasn't able to eat tuna for a long
while. BUT I work in a WLS center and my RN coordinator eats tuna right out
of the can, and now so do I, at least 2-3 times a week for lunch. I use
the StarKist Gourmet Choice Solid Tuna in Olive Oil. The taste is quite
different from that of Tuna in water. One can has 2.5 servings, and each
serving has 14 grams of protein! That's 35 grams of protein if you can eat
the whole can (5.5 ozs)! Plus this is a great source of Omega-3. I
noticed where someone had recommended you to take a veggie tray and graze
on it throughout the day. Please don't do that! There is not enough
protein in veggies to get your daily allottment for RNY, most RNY patients
can't tolerate raw veggies this soon anyway, and grazing will only get you
into trouble, like snacking & will eventually get you to snacking on
the wrong stuff! Best of luck to you and feel free to contact me for any
other information. Next week will be my one year anniversary from my RNY.
Happy Losing!
— pam2007
May 7, 2008
I came back to work at 6 weeks. I pretty much live on Activia yogurt and
refried beans (w/ cheese and sour cream). Try finding things that have
protein to keep you full. And yes, the 30/30/30 rules applies to soups.
Consult your nutritionist/surgeon to see what foods are OK at this point in
your post-op journey. There are lots of different recipes on eggface's
blog. See the message board to get the link.
— gonnadoit
May 7, 2008
My doctor and nutritionist told me no soup at all. As far as lung goes I
normallly grill chicken tenders on my George Foreman and get my veggies at
work. You can mix a 2 oz countainer of tune, add 1 tablespoon of fat free
mayo and also Mt. Olive has some sugar free reflish that makes a wonderful
tuna salad.
— flclark
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