Question:
Can I eat vegies like sweet potatoes?

I know that refined sugars will (hopefully) cause dumping and that we're supposed to limit sugar intake to 6 grams or less per meal. I was reading the label on my sons baby food and noticed that the 4oz jar of sweet potatoes had 14 grams of sugar. Will things like this cause dumping? I'm just using sweet potatoes as an example, I know we're supposed to concentrate on protein, it just happened to be sweet potatoes that my baby was eating tonight. Even the carrots & squash had more sugar in them than I thought.    — Terry M. (posted on September 9, 2000)

September 9, 2000
Oooh, I just bought a butternut squash yesterday! According to BTC these are the sugars to avoid: brown sugar, corn syrup, raw sugar, maple sugar, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose and molasses. These are the sugars that are GENERALLY TOLERATED (although your actual mileage may vary): Dextrin, fructose (fruit sugar - and likely what you'll find in squash), galactose, invert sugar, lactose (milk sugar), maltose, sorgum, sorbital, turbinado sugar and xylitol. I also confirmed with my nutritionist just last week that the sugar issue is a tolerance thing...14 gms of squash sugar WILL NOT impede your WLS success...try it and if you can handle it, enjoy with confidence!
   — Allie B.

September 9, 2000
Oops...must be the season...stuck on squash...sorry, your sweet potatoes should be fine.
   — Allie B.

September 10, 2000
The source of the sugar won't make much difference in your wt loss or regain. They will ALL sabotage you. Whether you'll dump or not, well, if you do, hooray. If not, then you have to read the labels and avoid anything that might induce wt gain. I use 6g for a guidelines tho it takes a bit more to make me dump. I don't want to dump, but far worse to me is the regain of what I've lost! Scary stuff!
   — vitalady

September 10, 2000
P.S: My assumption is ALWAYS that one will eat protein first, followed by a veggie, and carbs last. Then, if one eats two tablespoons of sweet potatoes (by this time, one probably wouldn't be able to eat more of that anyway!), that only equals 1 oz. Therefore, 14 gms of sugar can be divided by 4 for a total of under 4 gms of tolerable sugar.
   — Allie B.