To pasta or not to pasta?? That is the question

jensieck76
on 7/8/13 10:30 pm - TX

Ok well I am two months out and according to my guide I can have up to a 1/4 cup of pasta. I am making my tasty spaghetti tonight. Question is which should I use? Whole wheat or regular? I dont get alot of carbs in during the day and I loathe the texture of wheat pasta. What to do, what to do. Advice?

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Diminishing Dawn
on 7/8/13 11:11 pm - Windsor, Canada

RNY on 07/05/06

I'd skip it. A side if anything, not the meal.

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poet_kelly
on 7/8/13 11:17 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Well, whole wheat is healthier, but if you can't stand it, then I'd go with regular. I'd just try a bite or two, though, to see how it goes. A lot of people have trouble tolerating pasta. I can eat about 1/3 cup now, at more than 4.5 years out, but it feels heavy and uncomfortable in my pouch.

Kelly

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jensieck76
on 7/8/13 11:31 pm - TX

See, I think I will end up skipping it. I am a reformed carb junkie and I am afraid lol. I know my plan allows it but I dont know if I can allow it.

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13

CW 190!!! GW Anything under 200 was the icing on the cake...going for 170...lil more icing never hurt anybody!

illinois Gama D.
on 7/8/13 11:43 pm

RNY on 04/15/03

If you can skip it I think I would, this is how those sneaky carbs get back in our lives, this may be gross to some but I like spag sauce over cottage cheese, I know right, weird huh, you are doing great, !!! DEnise

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Dee.spunk
on 7/9/13 12:04 am - Sacramento, CA

RNY on 11/30/11

If you know carbs are your weakness, I'd skip it. Better safe than sorry right?

Height:5'1.5 RNY:11/30/11 HW:307 SW:234 CW:136 GW:140 (LOST 73 Lbs. PRE-OP)

jazzycatz
on 7/9/13 12:03 am - Joppa, MD

RNY on 09/28/10

I have carb addict issues as well. And pasta just didn't sit right after surgery (which for me was lucky) so I have stayed away from it. When we have spaghetti I have sauce in a bowl. I call it "spa-chili". LOL My DH likes to add cannellini beans to the sauce. So technically, if you change that bean to a red and update the spices...it's chili. So that's the way I started looking at it. A new form of chili...spa-chili. Sauce is the best part anyway. I think the pasta is just filler.

I toss a bit of shredded parm on the top and it's quite yummy. Even without the cannellini beans I still refer to it as spa-chili and it the sauce straight up. Or put it over a bit of cottage cheese. It's like lasagna then without the noodles.

Day_dream_believer
on 7/9/13 12:12 am

Serve it over spaghetti squash. It is pretty good.

Tatiana R.
on 7/9/13 12:37 am

RNY on 08/14/12

I use spaghetti squash also. Love it.

65rosesmom
on 7/9/13 1:09 am

I don't bother. I don't like how it sits with me, though I do use the high protein wheat version. I just put my sauce and homemade meatballs over whatever veggie I'm making. Last night it was eggplant, but spaghetti squash or zucchini both work great. I even made lasagna a few weeks ago using thin but wide slices of zucchini. It was delish and I didn't miss the pasta at all.

Heather Mom to 3
Surgery August 9, 2012
HW = 225, SW= 205, CW 135