Slider Foods

What exactly are slider foods??? I just saw someone else mention them and don't remember being told about them, although I'm sure I was.

I think, now don't quote me, they're food that go easily through your system. ie, cereal with milk, soups (but I'm not sure about that).

Am I supposed to eat them or stay away from them??

they're better to stay away from, because you can't absorb all the nutrients that you'd be able to if you eat them, they'd go too fast out of you. However, soups might not be a slider, because my NUT said that Ican have soup.

Oh... okay. I eat lots of soups. BUT... I also keep lots of proteins around like beef jerkey,light cheeses and turkey breast. I have noticed lately I am getting really bad at allowing myself small bites of pastas and breads. I'm trying to get back to not eating those as much.

Also noticed that I have allowed myself to stop the protein shakes. I haven't had one in about a month. I bought some more the other day and am about to make it a habit to have at least one a day. 

 Per my surgeon and the nuts, a slider food is a food that does not stay in the pouch for long and therefore you get hungry too quickly. They include soups, salads, protein shakes, etc. in that category. They want us to limit/avoid slider food and liquid calories and eat food that will stay in our pouches and provide longer satiety.  If we do eat a food that will leave the pouch quickly we need to be aware of that and not do it too often.

But your doc may have different guidelines.

Slider foods are foods that empty quickly out of your pouch.

While not all slider foods are bad for you, you have to be careful with them because you can easily "eat around" your surgery with them and consume way too many calories. They also don't generally keep you full for long.

Say you don't dump and you have a passion for milkshakes. You could drink six shakes a day and your pouch's restriction wouldn't fdo much to help you. You would gain weight with all of those extra calories.

However, new post-ops eat a lot of slider foods as their pouches are healing. They can have good nutritive value, good protein etc too. So it's about moderation.

Thanks for all of the help. I'll keep that in mind and stop eating so many dang soups!

It's something to be aware of if you find yourself hungry and needing to eat more often.  I myself eat a lot of slider foods, but I don't have a problem with being hungry or find myself overeating. 

Some people find that they are hungry and hour later after eating a yogurt, but I still have no hunger cues so the slider foods don't bother me.  But it is a problem for some and can cause regain. 

Christy
 

Yeah, I have the same kind of relationship with slider foods. I do understand the concept - they are squishy/slippery foods that go right through the pouch and intot he intestine. Our pouches have no pyloric valve, so there's nothing really to hold the food in there. But I personally haven't noticed that I get hungry any sooner with sliders than with more solid types. (And since I do dump, a milkshake is off limits anyway. Thank god. All that liquidy undigested sugar, heading straight into my intestine = a very bad time ahead.)

The good news for me is that soups are totally doable. (Some doctors tell their patients they can't have any liquids for a half hour before eating. If you were given that advice, proceed with caution, and no, I'm not a doctor.) I read here that non-creamy soup is fine, as long as you eat the broth first. It follows the same logic as any liquid before eating. The reason slider foods are theoretically bad is that they're liquid, can't stay in the pouch, so you don't feel full and are more likely to overeat. If that's true, than why can't you drink liquids before eating? It doesn't stay in the pouch, right?
So I enjoy my soups, which is awesome, because many of my favorite foods are soup. I just spoon up all the liquid first, and sure enough, by the time I'm finishing the solids, I'm feeling comfortably full. It took a bit of getting used to, because normally, of course, you take a bit of liquid and a bit of solid together with each spoon, but this way works too, after you adjust, and it's still yum.