Cheetos Cheese Puffs!

1 g of sugar? All carbs are the problem, not just sugar. Not to mention all the salt. You have this surgery to evade things like hypertension and heart disease, not the other way around.
In fact, if you spike your blood sugar from this, and insulin is called for, your liver gets the bright idea to produce cholesterol. Don't have to worry about trans fats or saturated fats or any other kind. That cholesterol can go straight to your arteries. (This is another reason to limit fruit--the insulin thing.)
Besides, that tastes awful compared to Dan Dee'cheese puffs.
Baked Lays just as bad. Calories almost the same as regular.

Bottom line? No, not really. It's not just about sugar. Those things are total crap. People don't just dump on sugar.

Are you capable of regulating your eating? Really and truly? Meh, then have a couple. But be aware that eating crap makes you crave crap.

Since you don't seem to know much background about why your diet instructions are what they are, I suggest avoiding that kind of thing and learning more about nutrition so that you can look at these choices with more knowledge under your belt. There is more to this than avoiding sugar lest you dump. A LOT more.

Good for you for not eating them!  I tell my fam if they are going to bring chips
and such home, EAT them or throw the rest away.  I know I am responsible
for making good choices, but who needs the temptation in your face?  I
think once you go down that path and figure out if you can eat chips or sugar
or other junk food, it's a door that's never again closed....a slippery slope
for sure. 

I read my post to my husband and he rolled his eyes, he couldn't believe I shared this with you guys but this is what Obesity help is all about, sharing your experiences, goals, fears, etc.

I told him that he could have bought a individual bag of cheese puffs instead of a $2.oo bag of them because even though I don't like cheese puffs....if I was determined to snack on something that bag would have been opened.  But I made the smart choice of not even touching them.

Two days out of the hospital, my family showed up with Pizza Hut, Ruffles and pop for themselves.  Of course I was mad because they didn't think at all about what they did! So now if they come over to visit they either eat before coming over or eat after they leave.  I let them know how I didn't appreciate that at all.  Even though I was in pain at the time, I wasn't even thinking about eating pizza or chips.  But I do have some self-control when it comes to food now....I ended up making me a peach protein shake instead last night and he can have his old cheese puffs!

I'm only a week post-op so the thought of even licking a cheeto makes me want to gag (I think I just did).  Good for you for turning it down!  If you ever do decide to try "one" - don't beat yourself up over it, but also don't go eat the whole bag.  I think this is a lifesyle change for all of us.  I'm not going to judge someone for having one cheeto nor someone else by saying nay.  It is your life you are changing and your choice to make.

I say this as a prior bandster - that I did decide to have the one cheeto, or one dorito (slider foods for those banded).  When your band doesn't work you eat what you can and I made the wrong decisions on my sliders (soup would have been a better choice - but I wanted to chew).  That one lead to a dozen and a dozen to half the bag - then I was back to my old eating habits.  Just saying - be careful about the decisions you make...they can come back to bite you if you allow it.

And that's the first thing I thought of when I read the food label, that my decision to eat a few of them could turn out bad for me.  Again, making a smart decision, is the best decision!

I would never judge anyone who had the surgery if they ate something they shouldn't have or thought they would be OK with eating.  This is a learning experience and we all are going to do something we regret now and probably in the future till we can get it in our heads and downpack that we have decided to travel this journey to better health and better eating, so foods we loved and foods we can no longer have are mere memories.

I agree with Kelly... I can eat anything I can tolerate within reason.

My concern with your post though is WHY are you forbidding someone who HAS NOT had the surgery what they can eat.  When I see posts like that if baffles my mind.  YOU had the surgery NOT hubby so if he wanted to eat a whole pizza in front of you, it's up to you to say no not him to not bring it in the house.

My concern with your post though is WHY are you forbidding someone who HAS NOT had the surgery what they can eat.  When I see posts like that if baffles my mind.  YOU had the surgery NOT hubby so if he wanted to eat a whole pizza in front of you, it's up to you to say no not him to not bring it in the house.

To answer your response to my post, where on here did I say I forbid him to eat anything? I said I told him he should have gotten a individual bag of cheese puffs to eat and not a $2.00 bag! I never said anything about he couldn't have it!  No he haven't had the surgery, but he is going to have it soon.  But none of the less, he can eat whatever he wants, he is not my child! If anything I want him to enjoy what he likes to eat because after the surgery he won't be able to eat it for a long time!

good luck to the both of yall...

Obviously Cheetos of any kind are not a healthy choice (and not because of the tiny 1g of sugar... no one dumps on 1g of sugar, BTW... but because they are carbs (and high fat) with no redeeming nutritional value), and in a weight-loss Utopia no one would eat them.  We live in the real world, though, and eventually you (the universal "you", not you specifically!) will need to decide how you will approach snacks.  It is simply not realistic to think that people who have WLS are never going to snack. It is equally unrealistic to think that people who have WLS are only going to ever eat only healthy snacks.  We all have to figure out how we are going to incorporate snacks and less-than-ideal non-snack foods into our eating.  Let me be clear so people don't get all upset... I am NOT advocating anyone who is less than a year out eating any kind of snack.  It si crucial to use that first year to break the old bad eating habits and develop healthy new ones.

In the long-run, however, it is about figuring out what will work for you. Some people know themselves well enough to know that they HAVE to have lists of "forbidden" foods because they cannot exercise moderation.  Others of us know ourselves well enough to know that having any completely forbidden foods will simply make us want those foods more (and probably eat MORE of it when we DO break down and eat it).  Sometimes it is a matter of knowing how you can or cannot handle certain foods.  I can have small amount of chocolate (e.g., 6 M&Ms or a single dark chocolate hershey's kiss) and be very satisfied.  I have no self control when it comes to cookies, however, so I don't ever bring them into the house.  ****ep my Girl Scout cookies in my mom's freezer so I can only have a couple (or bring a couple home) when I am over there.)

Yes, in the 4 years since my surgery I have eaten Puffed Cheetos since surgery.  Occasionally I buy one of the small indiviudal bags and eat only half of the bag.  I have also eaten small amounts of regular potato chips (baked Lays make me a little bit queasy for some reason), pizza, pasta with alfredo sauce, full fat ice cream, etc.  They key here though, is that I ate NONE of these things during my first year, ate them only very rarely until I got to goal, and now eat them only in small amounts and very occasionally... and the things that I cannot eat in moderation I don't have in the house.

Lora