Diet Question
Ladies & Gents,
Does anyone know where to go online where they have a good listing of Post Op dieting? I've been blingo'ing and haven't had much success for 9 month's post op. They have lots of info on the first few months. Basically I would like to see what the recommend oz intake in one meal is. I'm always worried that I'm eating too much in one setting. I'd just like a guide to Post Op dieting at 9 months. I read somewhere that it said that if you eat over 1 1/2 cups in a setting that eventually your stomach will stretch out, what are your thoughts on that?
I need to get back to measuring again. I haven't used my cups in a while!
Amber
Amber-
I'm not aware of a "diet" other than the Plateau Busters Diet. But, I can tell you what I have been doing since about 6 months out. It's pretty basic, but keeps me in line.
630- Protein Drink - My newest favorite is Chocolate w/ 1/2 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of water and about 6 frozen cherries. Blend w/ crushed ice to a milkshake.
715- Green Tea
830 - Breakfast - Usually 3 oz Cottage Cheese w/ 1 - 2 tablespoon fruit (if berries, 1, if pineapple or something big and chunky 2). My newest addiction is 3 oz cottage cheese w/ 1/2 tsp Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter and about 7 thin slices of Banana.
1000(ish) - Snack - 1 oz Beef Jerky, or 1 oz Cinnamunch, or 1 oz of cheese
1200(ish) - Lunch - 3 oz of meat (leftovers from the night before) and about 2 tbsp of veggies
300(ish) Snack - See snacks from above for ideas
530(ish) Dinner - 3 oz meat, 2 Tbsp veggies OR Salad w/ Meat, Cheese and veggies
800(ish) Protein Drink
Depending on if I have a drink or a shake will depend on whether I have a snack in the evening. Sometimes it will be a handful of grapes, a sugar free jello cup, 1/2 of a skinny cow.
Sometimes, snacks will be 8 peices of Turkey Pepperoni, or 4 pieces of Turkey Pepperoni w/ 1 oz of cheese. Sometimes I will have a handful of popcorn if the boys are eating popcorn.
But....my meals are always the same....3 oz of protein and 2 tablespoons of fruit or veggies (unless sald - that's about 1 cup)
My biggest problem is grazing and I can do alot of damage here at work with the mindless nibbleing, so I watch that very closely. If I take in any carbs that day, it is usually with pretzels here at work or granola (my crack habit).
Also, some days I may add 1 tablespoon of brown rice (if we are having rice that day) or sweet potatoe (I do well with those), but that's not very often. Also, some mornings (1 about every 2 weeks) I will have a Weight Control Oatmeal. I can eat almost the entire pack, but it does take me a while and it has to be really moist - not dry.
I also drink 1 16.9 ounce bottle of water before breakfast (starts with my tea), 1 before lunch and 1 before I leave work. Then, I take one home with me to drink on the way home (I commute 45 minutes) and fini**** after I get home. I drink 1 while working out. My protein drink in the evening is usually the last drink I have for the night.
Not sure about the 1 1/2 cups of food in a sitting. That seems like alot of food. But, maybe you can without stretching your stomach.
I hope this helps you.....
Jill
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Thanks, Jill. I started your diet thingy this morning. I've already drank 12 oz coffee, 16.9 oz of green tea and half through 16 more oz of Crystal Light, that's a lot for more. I had yogurt for breakfast, 3oz Spicy Thai Tuna as a snack, 1 slice of deli turkey & 3 oz of cottage cheese for lunch, a SF Popsicle for after lunch snack, and I'm not sure what I"m going to do for dinner. I'll do 3 oz of some type of meat and green beans probably. I'll end the night with another popsicle. Hopefully this will work!
While at the store I bought a few oz's of ready to eat smoked salmon, turkey dogs, and ready to eat shrimp to eat for lunch at work this week. I noticed peanut butter was on the list, but what the heck do you eat with it? You can't have crackers or celery or anything, hehe! I thought about making peanut butter protein balls, but it calls for SF Honey and I can't have that!
I hope I don't eat more than 1 1/2 cups of food in a sitting, I just saw that fact on the net that if you did, it would stretch your stomach out eventually. I wish I could get my stomach measured, hehe, then that fear would go away! I just really want to know how much I should be eating on one setting. Like 3 oz or 4 oz, etc... I'm gonna call my NUT!
Thanks, Jill!
Amber
There is a way to measure your stomach. I'll send it to you when I get home. it involves eating cottage cheese from a new container during a specified time limit and filling up the container with water and then measuring the water.
I eat celery. I just chew it up really well so it isn't all stringy. I also eat peanut butter right outof the jar. Yep 1/2 of a tsp and I'm good (I can't eat alot of peanut butter at one time or I feel sick).
Also, how about tuna salad on cucumber rounds (instead of crackers). That's another fav of nice. That and steamed shrimp (I can eat about 7 w/ veggies or 12 without veggies or anything else). But, sometimes, I will have steamed shrimp and a piece of corn on the cob.
Smoked salmon, spread cream cheese and chives and wrap - YUM O!
can't tell you anything about the turkey dogs, because I don't eat those.
Just stick with it. It helped me,a nd if I recall, it helped Dana at one point, too.
OH! Also....parmesean cheese crackers. These are GREAT with tuna salad as it acts like a cracker.
Take shredded parmesean cheese and put it on parchment paper in a small pile (I do about 1 tablespoon size piles - spread out a little). Bake in 375 degree oven. Watch, because they will cook quickly.
Coo****il brown and melted. Remove from oven and cool. They will be crisy when they cool.
You can do these in bigger piles and place over a bowl to cool - it will form it into a bowl after it has been cooled and you can fill the bowl with salad - looks cool.
It gives you that "crunch" that we sometimes look for.
Oh! Store in a sealed container.
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