Rice and Beans

I wanted to apologize. Post op gives you a whole different perspective on this question. I must have been having a bad day just as most days were bad in preop.

 

 

It's not at all gone forever, or even post-op loss phase depending upon plans (rice and beans were on my doc's immediate post-op soft diet,) and your ability to moderate their intake to within whatever caloric limits you are working with. If you are doing the beans, you should be doing the rice, as well, to complete the protein of the beans (there is a reason why rice and beans evolved together in so many cultural diets!) If you are doing one of the carb restricted diets (fashionable today, but not essential), then the rice and beans, along with most other vegetable protein sources, are basically out as long as you are on that diet, and you can add them back in later during maintenance when you start adding all of the lost nutrition back into your diet and getting more diversity into your protein sources.

 Thank you for your response. Very thorough. Thank you. 

My husband too cause he's Dominican I don't know if I told you that. 
Yeah you will have to say good bye to rice for sure. 
Beans have equal parts carb and protein.  It would probably be too much carb to have it all the time but I think you could on occasion.    They are not considered a dense protein.  But they are definitely healthy so once your sleeve can fit them further out like a year post op you might be able to eat them a little more, you will probably just have to see.    I'm just guessing you know. :-)