Can We Not Eat Rice (After RNY)???

There's a post down below about Chinese food and a couple people said they avoid the rice. I'm wondering...

After RNY, is rice one of those foods we avoid? (I'm still pre-op but hopefully not for long!)

I think I've read/heard that it absorbs moisture and expands in your pouch? Is that true??

Barbara

Yep. My dad had it and rice and pasta make him sick. They call it dumping syndrome. Fun name huh.

I can eat rice and pasta in small amounts. Not a big rice eater, but I love pasta!

I eat rice just fine. If it's cooked properly, it should not expand in your pouch, that's one point of cooking it. I had some last night actually. I eat sushi like crazy!

Everyone is different. Some people can't tolerate it and some can. Even those who can, can't all the time.

Rice is one food I would NOT rush into trying though, nor would I eat too much of it. Carbs are carbs in a sense, and rice isn't the best one to have :-)

Frankly, I think the rumor about rice expanding in your pouch dates from old-wives-tales about feeding birds uncooked rice, which then causes them to explode and die.  C'mon: once rice has been cooked, it doesn't expand significantly.

The reason to avoid large amounts of rice is that it's a refined carbohydrate with few other nutrients.  By eating it, you're adding a large number of carbs and little else to your diet.  This is not a good idea while you're still trying to lose weight.

/Steve

I can handle small amounts of rice, but pasta and I are not friends! :)

Properly cooked rice is not going to expand a great deal in your pouch.  However, if you don't tolerate it well, you're in for a whole new experience in pain when you try to throw it up.  It doesn't come back up easily, and this puts some folks off it forever.

I eat rice with no trouble, but it is ALWAYS moist.  I love rice and beans, which I make with onions and other veggies and lots of liquid.  I can eat rice; others have lots of trouble.  I do NOT eat much WHITE rice; I prefer natural brown, red and wild rice.

Pasta -- forget it.  I get really sick and then can't throw it up without a lot of trouble.

There's no way to know how you'll tolerate foods until you try them.  As with anything post-op, follow your own surgeon's recommendations and take it very slowly, tiny amounts at a time.  You may have no troubles at all.

 Would it be possible for you to give me a recipe for the brown rice and bean dish that you make?  it sounds wonderful.
Lucy

I barf rice and pasta.

You can eat almost anything after RNY, at least at some point. So it's more a choice to keepyour carbs/calories in check than anything.  It is true that rice, as well as pasta, bread and many other things can feel like a lead balloon in your pouch in the early months--or even loner. Rice expanding in your pouch is not entirely a myth.  Most rice, when cooked to the proper texture, isn't mushy yet.  But leave that rice in the ho****er and watch what happens--it does continue to absorb water.  However, if you chew the rice well, it should not be more of a problem than any other food--but chewing rice well is harder than you think.  Consider brown rice and wild rice (not really a rice at all, but very delicious and nutritious) if you have to have rice at all.

Again, remember, most of what you may hear you "can't" eat after RNY is based mostly on getting us to make good nutritional choices.

Ann