Soup, anyone?
on 11/19/14 9:22 pm
What is the thinking about soups on the sleeve diet? Sleevers aren't supposed to have liquids during their meals, only before and after. How would you eat (drink?) the broth? Or wouldn't you? Maybe eat the vegetables first, and then sip broth until full? I'm talking soups like vegetable soup, not pureed soups.
I love soup and would like to continue eating it after my sleeve surgery (tentatively scheduled for January), but I'm wondering if it's something to be avoided.
Any thoughts, advice? Thanks.
My program doesn't allow soup because of this issue. We can strain it and drink the broth as a liquid, and/or eat the solids (once we are cleared for solids), but we would have to either drink the broth and then eat the solids, or eat the solids and then wait for 30 minutes to drink the broth.
We can eat really thick soup/stew type things such as thick chili.
I am not much of a soup fan anyway so I haven't bothered with soup since getting sleeved, except once in a restaurant I ordered some creamy (no chunks) soup.
I'm 18 months out and soup/stew/chili still presents a problem for me. I absolutely can't do liquid with my meal so I end up not being able to eat very much soup at all unless it's pure broth or something with very little bulk to it (like broccoli cheddar soup)...which means very little protein. Most soups don't provide the nutritional "bang for the buck" so I just avoid them.
With stew and chili, I eat the solids and leave the broth.
I also drink soup. However, you have to drink the broth first and then the veggies after. If you eat the veggies first you have to wait 30 minutes before you can drink the broth or else it will all come back up.
I have soup, but its the meal, but I like the thick creamy soups with lots of stuff in it. I see your point about a clear soup, but you probably will not be able to eat a meal right after the soup anyway. I find even the sliders take some time to pass through.
As a new sleever still in soft foods, I resolved to skip the soup on Thanksgiving and stick with the turkey and maybe a little stuffing.