what CANT you eat?

Valerie - I don't like clabbered milk, er cottage cheese either.  But I do like a jello salad with SF jello and crushed pineapple added to the cottage cheese.  It's the only way I can eat it and I do, because I know it's good for me.  It's one of the things I plan to eat  when I'm on mushies, but I'll have to leave out the pineapple because its fibrous. I'm thinking about finely chopping up peaches instead of pineapple.

It is a RNY back to basics diet to cleanse the system of carbs, you don't have to eat cottage cheese on it, it is just one of the choices.  Sometimes the cottage cheese test gets thrown in as part of the 5 day test and it is not required.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/300l245515708514/

The cottage cheese test was developed in an attempt to find a simple way to measure functional pouch volume and to better understand the fate of the tiny proximal pouch following the gastric bypass procedure. Methods: Our patients were asked to eat cottage cheese in a structured fashion before their return visits from 3 months to 2 years postoperatively. Results: We found there was a step-wise progression of increase in functional pouch volume with statistical significance between each time interval. Also, we compared the patients' excess weight loss at 1, 2, and 3 years postoperatively to their pouch size at 1 year postoperatively. Although there is a wide range (2.5-9.0 oz) of pouch sizes at 1 year, there is no significant difference in excess weight loss between the smaller and larger pouches. Conclusions: The pouches enlarge by the orderly process of hyperplasia. Within the 2.5-9 oz volume variation, the pouch volume alone is not a predictor of weight loss. Rather, how the patient uses the pouch/tool, in addition to the other behavior modifications, determines the degree of weight loss. This data strongly suggests that the surgeon's understanding of and teaching of the optimal use of the pouch/tool may be more important than previously thought.

It is hard to say how well a cottage cheese test would work on a VSG, since we have no stoma the stomach might not react to cottage cheese as a dense enough food to close off the pylorus, for us it is probably somewhat of a slider food.

 I tried Chicken fingers, at Chili's.......Not such a good choice. I also tried a cup of corn chowder at Mimi's cafe, again not so good. I do try to smell the fries when I go by Wendys......I dream of what they must taste like with ketchup and Mayo mixed together.  Then I look at myself and go Nahhhhh. It's not worth it.

That's been about it, again I have not been experimenting to much Larry. I am back to doing 2 protein shakes a day and feeling like a girl should...Confident, happy and loving my sleeve! 

P.S.
I am 11 pounds away from hitting 199 :)

Maggie

I'm just a little of 2 weeks and the only thing I can not tolerate is Muscle Milk Light, It goes down okay, BUT it causes me to shart.

I can't do the Protein shakes and I just learned yesterday I can't tolerate those little fruit snacks....ain't that a blip!

There is nothing I can't eat. Milk however gives me gas and diarrhea. I can eat ice cream but not a lot.
One scoop and I am fine. Two scoops and I am in the bathroom for hours. I can eat cheese and yogurt though.

Wow, my tummy is a lot more tolerant that I thought.  I can do the rice, and raw veggies.

Can't eat...

Two bariatric chewable vitamins at once (my daughter says the bottle says one twice a day duh)
soft untoasted breads
cheap ice cream a chicken wing and a pizza topping(one time birthday event I regret)
steakum
fast food burgers ( no bun) don't taste good and sit like a rock
drinking before stomach is empty
Soft pizza crust

I was reading the other day on how someone (not VSG) could polish off a large slice of cheese cake and a coffee if they took an hour to it.  I could probably polish off a pint of starbucks ice cream in an hour as well but this surgery makes it much easier to dish out a quarter a cup and eat it in ten minutes and find something else to do like run two miles.

If it take you an hour to eat your food then your really eating two meals.

Exactly!  My NUT told me 30 minutes max to eat my portion of food.  If I don't get it down, I'm done. 

At just over three weeks out, I haven't tried a food that just totally does a number on me, but I'm avoiding all bread, pasta, rice.  I have to say that potatoes did not sit well when I tried mashed potato during the early full liquid phase, but I'm not a big potato person anyway.  I tried Foster turkey meatballs twice this week.  Both times I was full WAY, WAY fast.  I think I'm not quite ready for the denser meat yet.  Crabmeat does fine.

LOL on Stea****being a Philly girl cheesesteaks are a staple around here, lol...but those stea**** are fairly devoid of nutrition...  I did find a freshly sliced and frozen cheeseteak in ShopRite (store branded)...rather than the 100 cals and 5 protein in the Stea**** there are 90 calories and  12 protein.  And they taste better...might be an option to try if you are inclined!

I have been to both Pat's and Gino's in my travels, spent several weeks at Temple Univ and a short stint at Drexel.

That Pat's takes the cash and orders at two separate windows for sandwiches and drinks/fries was the dumbest thing I ever experienced.  The guys at Gino's were much friendlier to tourists.

I was kind of disappointed because the cheese steaks I have had here at John & Mary's in Buffalo were better.  Sitting here typing this I have no emotion or hunger for cheese steak.  A year ago I would have been itching to jump in the car and get one just talking about it.

I don't even think they were real stea**** I tried, it was a generic store brand and the greasiness was more than I could handle.  Subway is really good about "extra meat" only.  I had their cheese steak early out and it was not so bad.  I have also done their tuna salad and sweet onion teriaki chicken.