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I keep hearing the word 'tolerate' when talking about foods. When I use the word, as in "I can't tolerate Protein shots", it means I hate them, and they are disgusting, and I'd rather eat dirt. But what does it mean in the sense everyone else here is using it?

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I mean it to use an adverse physical reaction, not just that I don't like something. So something like foamies, vomiting, or choking. Luckily for me I have tolerated all food since being sleeved, but I can't say I have liked everything! Though Isopure made me teeter on the line of my version of tolerate and your version :P

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I'm with Buffle...No foods have made me physically ill, unless I have ate too much/too fast. But there is plenty I don't like! LOL

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Same for me, foods I can't tolerate induce some sort of unpleasant physical reaction. I can't tolerate foods with cinnamon oil or sour candies. It causes burning in my sleeve that is painful.

When my sleeve was new, I couldn't tolerate raw fruit or vegetables. For example, I tried a few sliced strawberries and within 30 minutes had explosive diarrhea.

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It has been hard to eat slow enough to realize I'm at my limit. It only takes one extra bite to send me to vomit mode. I'm getting better at it. When they say eat slow they mean EAT SLOW!!!

Mind you when I say I have eaten too much I'm talking half of one scrambled egg!!!

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Bacon, pork chops & Ham use to be like my FAV food GROUP! NOW I can't tolerate anything from a PIG - it physically makes me vomit. also I can't tolerate sweets either... it makes me ill... not that i dont love them - my taste buds & new tummy do not like them... my taste buds have really been wacked out since surgery... my dr said its unexplained and happens to a handfull of people... Oh and i cant toerate the YOKE of an egg... CRAZY!!!! :blink:

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It has been hard to eat slow enough to realize I'm at my limit. It only takes one extra bite to send me to vomit mode. I'm getting better at it. When they say eat slow they mean EAT SLOW!!! Mind you when I say I have eaten too much I'm talking half of one scrambled egg!!!

Oh my. When did you have surgery?

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So how fast will this intolerance typically occur?

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So how fast will this intolerance typically occur?

anywhere from 30 seconds to 25 minutes.

this is different from my husband who has wheat and corn food intolerances. his reactions are some sort of food allergy... a systemic reactipn. mine is one rhat was caused by my surgery. sometimes these go away. sometimes not. bananas still do not sit right, but i can eat cooked cauliflower, which made me pretty uncomfortable much closer to surgery.

It has been hard to eat slow enough to realize I'm at my limit. It only takes one extra bite to send me to vomit mode. I'm getting better at it. When they say eat slow they mean EAT SLOW!!!

Mind you when I say I have eaten too much I'm talking half of one scrambled egg!!!

yup.

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I'm 3 weeks out. I actually just landed in Las Vegas. I packed several of my shakes. Hope they didn't explode in my suitcase! I wish I had some cottage cheese, but I'm not paying $30 dollars at a buffet for a few bites of cottage cheese!!!

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I'm 3 weeks out. I actually just landed in Las Vegas. I packed several of my shakes. Hope they didn't explode in my suitcase! I wish I had some cottage cheese, but I'm not paying $30 dollars at a buffet for a few bites of cottage cheese!!!

Maybe you can go to one of the ABC stores or Walgreens on the strip. They have some staple groceries and you may luck out.

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for the rest of your life you will need to eat slow.

Eating slow won't be much of a problem for me, or at least I don't think so anyway. I'm always the last one finished at the dinner table. I just couldn't believe she can only eat half if a scrambled egg. Glad to know she is only 3 weeks out though!

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Eating slow won't be much of a problem for me, or at least I don't think so anyway. I'm always the last one finished at the dinner table. I just couldn't believe she can only eat half if a scrambled egg. Glad to know she is only 3 weeks out though!

lol, that spunds about right. even at nine months post op i can only eat 1.5 eggs!

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