Here's how to start filling up

OMG!! Fruit and cereal is a deadly combination for me too!! I would be on the floor in 30 minutes with a crashing blood sugar.  Dangerously crashing!! 

So to summarise from your replies:

This advice is excellent for pre-ops and may help people who do not need to maintain a good level of protein and restrict carbs.  Not quite sure which bariatric surgery that is. 

Thank you Kate for sharing her original comments.  I'm actually shocked.

This is contrary to everything I've heard or read for WLS patients.  Cereal with fruit?  Where's the protein?  More vegetables than protein for lunch or dinner?  That's not what I've been told is a safe, healthy eating behavior for people who've had VSG.

If any new people are reading these comments, please take into consideration that people who purport to have credentials may not be qualified to give advice regarding diet and nutrition to those of us who have had WLS.  Follow your doctor's advice, not someone posting direct contrary suggestions on a OH forum.  

I tried a diet once where I ate nothing but salad for WEEKS. My doctor said if I ever tried something that again where I went without protein, *****especially***** after surgery, he would smack me about the head with his cane and then teach my poodle to whack me with all the squeaky toys in the house. NOOOOOO TATERTOT!!!! :'(

The big stack of paper my doctor gave me says to eat protein protein PROTEIN (in big big letters and he highlighted it in yellow) and this doesn't really agree with what shoutjoy says. I think I'm going to follow my doctor instead, sorry... I don't want to get whacked with the stuffed boa constrictor :'(

Thanks for the tips- they are good ones, especially for maintenance. I like your way of arranging the plate with salads and vegetables- person can still eat protein first, but veggies are very important too, and fill those last crannies up well.

Another thing I do is make sure white carbs and sugars aren't anywhere in my universe if I can possibly help it. Then I have no choice but to eat good things when craving**** I also eyeball measure portions.

I don't feel the advice is good for post-bariatric patients who are in maintenance either, not the small plates and bowls because that's a no-brainer, but about what to eat.  Many of us are recovering diabetics and a breakfast of cereal and fruit is going to send our blood sugar shooting through the roof, only to crash a bit later.   Every surgery patient I know of has been told to eat a "protein forward" diet....FOR LIFE!   

It does worry me when I see generic eating advice like this thrown out on OH, because there is a dearth of information from long-term vets on here about what works and we've got a bunch of newbies (me included!) struggling the best way they know how.   And this kind of advice flies directly in the face of what most doctors offices tell you to do.  

This advice might have worked for me pre-op, but it's also exactly the kind of eating (fruit and cereal for breakfast) that got me to almost 250 lbs.  

Thank you for editing the stupid stuff out of your post - rewriting history is not always a bad thing - EXCEPT when someone has the forethought to quote your original post below    I would suggest that instead of deleting, you consider putting your hands up and admitting you made a mistake!  Gives you more integrity!

If you are going to set yourself up as some sort of expert - please at least have a vague clue of what you are preaching!   I'll enjoy checking out your posts daily now - just in case ...

She posts daily...

You obviously do not have a surgery that involves dumping.  If you had any idea of how sick I would become from a bowl of fruit and cereal, you would not think it was good advise for weight loss surgery patients. 

I see you are a certified group leader.  Does that not include advising people with RNY?  Have you really been educated on the needs of a weight loss surgery patient? I don't want to look at a plate full of vegetables with a little meat because when I eat that meat, there is no room left for the vegetables.

I do not eat fruit, cereal, bread, sugar, rice, potatoes, pasta not only because they will make me sick but because they will make me fat again.

If you are going to post inspirational things on the board, perhaps you should stick to that and not get into food intake unless you educate yourself on what protein forward eating means.

Are you a member of some religious group and getting a tax deduction for this because you claim your computer and internet cost as ministry expenses?

Thank you for removing the dubious advice from your original post.