Question:
I'm scared I will never be able to eat normal foods
can you eat hamburgers? if just a little bit. what about a bite of fried food. I'm 230 and have tried everything but it always comes back. I really want this surgury but I wonder what you can eat. It's worth it to me to lose the weight i just wonder about cravings. — tracey71 (posted on September 8, 2002)
September 8, 2002
You won't be able to eat those things right away. Some people can tolerate
the fatty foods later on and some can't. However, your doctor will probably
not allow fatty fast foods. You'd be better off buying really good quality
lean ground beef and make your own mini burger at home when the time comes
that you are allowed to try beef.
— Darlene P.
September 8, 2002
Hi Tracey, I also had the same fear..I am 9 months out Distal/RNY and have
lost 97lbs so far. I can eat most anything I want, I am not like those who
can "diet" and always avoid certain foods...I make a concious
effort to "limit" those foods that I know will hinder my weight
loss, but key with me is not to say "never" If I think I cannot
ever have a certain food again..I will fail! I enjoy food and now with this
wonderful tool I am learning to eat better, but I do not deny myself, I
just make sure that my food choices on the whole are what is best for me, I
do find that some foods no longer appeal to me, that may happen to you also
and believe me, it will not bother you. I do not know your eating history,
but Like I said I am set up to fail if I say Never...If that is you..don't
say it, but make sure you make protein, veggies and water your main
priority and the occasional fried food or heavy carb meal as an occasional
thing. I admire those that can completely put these things from there diet,
some say they do not eat those things until they make goal...If they have
that kind of control...I think that is great. You must really take a look
at YOUR eating history and decide what is going to help you be successful
short and long term!
I am here if you need to talk...
Patricia Roberts
— Patricia R.
September 8, 2002
I LIVED off of sweets and fried foods pre-op. Never thought I could give
up those two friends. I have been amazed post-op how little that I want of
those 'old loves'. It is still very new to me, craving and enjoying
healthy food. My tastes have changed so much. I don't miss those things,
and if I feel like a few bites of them, I have it, but find that I just
don't enjoy as much as I used to. Hamburgers used to be my fav, my husband
grills the best! Now I can take it or leave it. We still do burgers
regularly b/c it is still one of the familys fav. I do have steak on a
weekly basis, which is something that I thought that I would have to give
up, but still works for me & GREAT protein! Instead of that potato
with butter and sour cream that I loved pre-op, I choose to have steamed
veggies on the side instead, or a fresh crisp salad. When I was a pre-op,
and someone told me how I would be choosing to eat as a post-op, I would
have told them that they have lost their mind!! Don't think that your life
will be ending, in fact it will only be a beginning, to a wonderful new
life!!
— Cheri M.
September 8, 2002
I am 8 months post op and I can eat ANYTHING! I don't know if it's such a
good thing because sugar doesn't bother me at all. I wish it did sometimes.
I have never dumped on anything and the only time I vomited was in the
hospital when they gave me the leak test it made me sick. I started out the
same weight as you and I have lost 70lbs. I probably would have lost more
by now but I don't exercise that much and I still crave sweets. I have to
have twizller bites everyday even if it is just a few. I want to stop
eating them but they just keep calling me. I know everyone is different but
I think you will do just fine. on't worry you'll beable to eat you
hamberger again. Good Luck!!
— Bonnie S.
September 8, 2002
I eat most anything, EXCEPT milk & sugar. I didn't WANt fast food (not
in any form) for 2 yrs. Ewww. But now, I eat it almost daily. Not much,
but that's just how it is when you eat one meal a day in your car. For a
long time, my one hand meal was string cheese & crackers or a h/b egg.
I am still at my goal wt after 8 yrs. Fats are malabsorbed to a degree, but
sugar never is. I do not mourn food, and because I no longer have ulcers
or heartburn, I actually have a wider variety available to me! Yippee!
150# missing, and just milk & sugar. Well worth it. Shoot, before I
was always denying myself EVERYTHING to lose 7# which i'd regain. This is
WAAAAAAAAAAY better!
— vitalady
September 8, 2002
For a while after surgery, you will be on a liquid diet and then the
"mush" diet of soft foods. Then you will graduate to your
permanent diet. Some people become lactost intolerant and most people
cannot handle sugar. If they can it is very little. If you have your gall
bladder out like most people do, fried food may be a little tough in the
beginning, but it should get better. The bottome line is that you will be
able to eat normal foods... it will just take some time. You will not ever
be able to eat the portions you can eat now, but you will be abel to eat
some. Some people can eat a whole cheeseburger from McDonalds. It all
depends on your body and what it can handle. Hope this helps a little.
— sammygirlwpc
September 8, 2002
Let me clarify my answer. I take in 150-180g protein in supplements, and
do 4 feedings, I call 'em, one of which is usually fast food. The others
would be small, normal meals. But #4 is often just some carros or (this
week) garden fresh cukes & tomatoes, or small fruit. Not a real meal.
I do not live on protein supps & burgers alone!
— vitalady
September 8, 2002
I was craving Long John Silvers deep fried shirmp at 8 days post op. Well,
that was a mistake! However at around 6 months post op, I could basically
eat anything I wanted. Anything includes deep fried foods, and anything
high in fat too. I don't eat alot of it but can eat whatever I want. That
includes Burger King burgers of any kind. :) You just need to know that you
"probally will be able to eat anything", but some things we
should not be eating every day. ;)
— Danmark
September 9, 2002
I eat everything that I ate before surgery. However, for the first 3
months that was NOT the case. You have to introduce those types of foods
back into your life slowly. One day you'll be able to eat them and then
the next day you can't. The only foods I have a problem with now (10
months post-op) is chicken and pasta. For the life of me, I just can't eat
that much of them before I start to feel sick.
— Patty H.
Click Here to Return