Question:
WHY CAN'T I EAT PEANUT BUTTER ANYMORE??????

I can't eat peanut butter anymore. I WAS ABLE TO EAT PB UP UNTIL THE LAST WEEK OR TWO WITH NO PROBLEMS... BUT LATELY IT SITS SOOOOO HEAVY IN MY POUCH.. AND TAKES THE LONGEST TIME TO PASS THROUGH.I CAN STILL EAT HOME MADE PB COOKIES... JUST NOT PLAIN OLD PB... HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU WITH ANY FOODS    — tracy W. (posted on June 24, 2004)

June 23, 2004
I would think you would want your food to stay in the pouch. This should give you that full feeling longer. Does it cause you pain? It is a good food when just eaten off the spoon and not on bread or crackers or cookies. I'm sure you are using spenda when making them but the flour is the real culprit. In my humble opinion. Marsha
   — MARSHA D.

June 23, 2004
when i make PB cookies i only use PB,splenda and an egg. It doesnt' hurt just uncomfortable. no matter what the amount eaten off the spoon
   — tracy W.

June 23, 2004
Anything with white flour makes me uncomfortable.......feels like a big lump so I just never eat anything with white flour in it.
   — scbabe

June 23, 2004
My guess is the peanut butter is to "dense" in your pouch. I know both bread and chicken about killed me for the first nine months. (Sometimes still do). Peanut butter IS dense. If you still want to eat it off a spoon, but put a tad on your tongue and let your saliva melt it all good. Don't swallow much at a time... perhaps it will work. You might just be better off NOT to eat it for a year. Let your pouch become stronger. There is nothing wrong with you because you can't eat straight peanut butter. Seems we all have foods that give us trouble. Example, I met a woman who had my surgeon. She could eat bread but NOT beef. Me? I could eat Beef but NOT bread. Same surgeon, two different tolerances. Go figure. If peanut butter gives you trouble, lay off it. There are plenty of choices. Once your pouch heals you probally will be able to eat it. I'm not sure, but I think peanut butter has alot of sugar in it? Alot of fat for sure. Personally I'd rather eat beef for my protein. Good luck!
   — Danmark

June 24, 2004
I hope that I do not get bashed for this response but why are you eating cookies? Personally peanut butter can make me dump so I don't eat it but does putting it in a cookie make it a protein cookie? That scares me because I would never stop at one.
   — Carol S.

June 24, 2004
I wish I knew the answer to your question about why, but I can tell you I have the same problem. I always loved peanut butter, but now it feels like a lead balloon in my pouch. The odd thing is that I can eat peanuts, so I know the problem isn't the nuts, and I can eat other other nut butters (almond, soy bean and sunflower seed), so it's not the texture. Go figure. I hoped it would get better with time, but at 15 months out, there's still no peanut butter in my life! But, I do like the sunflower seed butter and soy bean butter quite a lot, so I've adapted.
   — Vespa R.

June 24, 2004
I have gone through phases--and still do at times--when one food "set my pouch off" one day (or a few) then was okay. I am about 18 months out and beef can still be hard to take. Chicken is tough if too dry. Turkey is almost always fine. "Simply Jif" seems to be doing okay right now. I have peanuts or peanut butter almost everyday, sometimes off the spoon, sometimes spread on a graham cracker. I made homemade no sugar PB cookies with Splenda and put PB on top as a treat--only one though. Good luck.
   — Mary Ann B.

June 27, 2004
This is in response to the poster who asked why would they would be eating cookies in the first place. Not all of us get weightloss surgery to be on a diet for the rest of our lives.I personally had it to be able to eat more normally and in my opinion, that means being able to have a cookie or two now and then and being able to stop at that, instead of eating the whole bag.It's not the cookies that got me fat in the first place, it was me not being able to control what I was putting in my mouth and the forced behavior modifications of the surgey,such as dumping, has allowed me to do that.In my opinion if I were to say "ok I'm never going to have a cookie again" that would just be avoiding the problem instead of trying to deal with it.
   — jennifer A.