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Food and Nutrition

This forum is for questions about food and nutrition before and after all types of weight loss surgeries. Check out the sub-forums to see if there is a more specific place for your post, to help people find information more easily.

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  1. Pre-op Diets and Questions

    This forum is for questions about the pre-op diets before all weight loss surgery types. This is not for recipes. Use the Recipe Sharing forum and sub-forums instead.

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  2. Post-op Diets and Questions

    This forum is for questions about your post-op weight loss surgery diet. The post-op guidelines may vary by surgery and by surgeon. This is not for recipes. Use the Recipe Sharing forum and sub-forums instead.

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  3. Protein, Vitamins, and Supplements

    This forum is for questions about protein shakes and powders, vitamins, and other supplements for weight loss surgery patients.

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  4. Vegetarian or Vegan Eating

    This is a place where the emphasis is on supporting vegetarian and/or vegan styles of eating in terms of bariatric surgery and nutrients. No meat vs. non meat bashing, trash talk or the like are allowed. All are welcome in support of getting in your healthy veggies and fruit. Please feel free to ask questions.

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  5. Recipe Sharing

    The sub-forums here are for sharing recipes. There are two different main sections: diet phase and special diet needs. Note that in most cases, a higher diet phase allows foods from lower phases (you can have a full liquid even if you are on solids), so put the recipe in the minimum phase where it can be eaten.

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  2. What Is Everybody Having For Lunch?

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  3. This Is My Food Journal For July (What Could I Change If Anything)?

    By CoolBreeze,
    • 3 replies
    • 634 views

  4. Popcorn

    By deb_fox,
    • 8 replies
    • 936 views

  5. Carbonated Drinks

    By Mommydearest74,
    • 2 replies
    • 658 views

  6. Pre-Op Cheating Worry...am I Going To Be Ok?

    By Angelmom,
    • 8 replies
    • 783 views

  7. Pureed/cream Soup Ideas

    By Curvy Girl,
    • 1 reply
    • 570 views

  8. Different Protein Shakes?

    By tinfoil_heroine,
    • 2 replies
    • 661 views

  9. Anyone Experience Reflux?

    By Amandazee13,
    • 18 replies
    • 1,251 views

  10. Pain After Eating

    By Jeniluv1978,
    • 7 replies
    • 621 views

  11. Gluten Free

    By jenneliza,
    • 5 replies
    • 680 views

  12. Post Op Fluids

    By weight_no_longer,
    • 10 replies
    • 841 views

  13. Purred Diet

    By vondb,
    • 2 replies
    • 563 views

  14. Has Anyone Had Ambassador Weiners Or Corn On The Cob?

    By NewMan,
    • 2 replies
    • 801 views

  15. Pickles

    By Kimberly82,
    • 3 replies
    • 802 views

  16. Yes To Pasta. No To Pasta

    By CoolBreeze,
    • 14 replies
    • 1,181 views

  17. Extream Post Op Diet ?

    By Kimberly82,
    • 17 replies
    • 1,836 views

  18. Liquid Diet?

    By Truth85,
    • 3 replies
    • 573 views

  19. Ads On This Website!

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  20. Splenda Nectresse Sweetener

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  21. Day 5 Post Opp

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    • 5 replies
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  22. When Can We Drink?

    By SusieB29,
    • 8 replies
    • 787 views

  23. Protein Bars

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    • 16 replies
    • 1,598 views

  24. Weight Loss For Dummies Cookbook

    By nish,
    • 3 replies
    • 471 views

  25. Hard Candy

    By revangela78,
    • 3 replies
    • 850 views

  26. Eating In Front Of Others

    By neener,
    • 3 replies
    • 666 views

  27. The Difference Between Cheating Before Sleeve Vs. After: Why I Don't Feel Terrible

    By COsleeveDude,
    • 2 replies
    • 552 views

  28. How Long Before I Can Drink A Soda Or A Zipp Fizz?

    By mosher62,
    • 33 replies
    • 5,189 views

  29. Decaf Coffee Ok?

    By kmbrlycool,
    • 2 replies
    • 701 views

  30. Cauliflower Crust Pizza

    By JTmoas,
    • 8 replies
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  31. Protein

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  32. Concerned

    By aNuMe,
    • 1 reply
    • 362 views

  33. Who's Become A "nut-Ie"?

    By sil222,
    • 5 replies
    • 880 views

  34. Straws?

    By JenC,
    • 3 replies
    • 711 views

  35. Sugar Abd Carbohydrate Daily Intake

    By jadeharper,
    • 1 reply
    • 409 views

  36. My Suffering After Vsg, Worried, And Scared.

    By NyanBunny56,
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  37. For Real

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  38. Tropical Smoothie

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  39. Pizza!

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    • 3 replies
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  40. Vegetarian, What Is It? And Who?

    By CoolBreeze,
    • 5 replies
    • 736 views

  41. I'm Not Hungry, I Don't Want To Eat

    By CoolBreeze,
    • 2 replies
    • 866 views

  42. Popcorn?

    By bekki03,
    • 9 replies
    • 928 views

  43. Slider Foods

    By elisa,
    • 20 replies
    • 3,252 views

  44. 3 Week Post Op Diet

    By dithdith26,
    • 3 replies
    • 1,022 views

  45. Scale

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    • 3 replies
    • 381 views

  46. Tomatoes And Cucumbers

    By CoolBreeze,
    • 14 replies
    • 1,411 views

  47. I Miss You Coke!

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    • 26 replies
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  49. Mindless Eating And Mindfull Solutions!

    By DLCoggin,
    • 18 replies
    • 1,881 views

  50. Isopure

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    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
      · 1 reply
      1. summerseeker

        summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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      Officially here for a long time, not just a good time💪
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    • KimBaxleyWilson

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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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